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1) Oh, Olive!
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"Presenting Olive Chen! The most magnificent and brilliant artist in the whole wide world! Her parents are also artists--serious artists--who paint prim, proper, perfect shapes. They know Olive has the talent to follow in their footsteps. But Olive likes to smear, splatter, splash, and even lick. With a brush in each hand, Olive cascades through town with her friends in tow, painting what she wants to, what she feels--until she reaches her parents'...
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Filmed at Sydney's Carriageworks, the Australian Chamber Orchestra take us on an exquisitely beautiful and moving journey. Vox amoris, written for Richard Tognetti in 2009 by Latvian composer Peteris Vasks, the violin sings a song to the glory of love through emotional highs and lows. Such balancing of melancholy and light also underpins the moral complexity in Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, but the resolution finds love as a redeemer. Even Bach’s...
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Narrated by iconic director John Carpenter, THE RISE OF THE SYNTHS traverses nine countries, interviewing the scene’s biggest stars and original trailblazers. The film explores the roots of the now breakout Synthwave scene, charting its humble online and underground beginnings to its impact on today’s pop culture.
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Meet an eclectic group of people who have dedicated their lives to answering the question: what should books become in the digital age? From the esoteric world of book artists to the digital libraries of the Internet Archive, the film spins a tale of the enduring vitality of the book. This engaging documentary captures the painstaking but pleasurable process of creating hand-crafted books, in a diverse range of styles and mediums. The film travels...
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Depicts the remarkable story of 93-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry. A living monument to the Golden Era of Jazz, having played in both the Duke Ellington and Count Basie bands. He broke racial barriers on American television and mentored the likes of Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin Kauflin, a 23-year old blind piano prodigy. Justin, fighting a debilitating case of stage fright, is invited to compete in...
8) Naked
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We’ve all had the dream. You’re going about your normal day and suddenly you’re naked. But nudity doesn’t have to be embarrassing; it can also be liberating. Three life models, one man and two women, discuss their work posing in the nude. From the nerves of modelling for the first time, to nudity's power to inspire creativity and liberate the model, this insightful doc looks at what it really means to bare yourself to the world.
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Immerse yourself in printmaking artist Brian’s world at his home and workshop on the coast of Maine — his model airplanes and trains, wall-to-wall books and curling wooden staircase up to his studio, the vintage MG in his garage which shares space with a printing press — and above all, Brian’s work: the copper plates and engraving tools, mixing ink and wiping plates, working on his plates and printing from them, his hands and what it means...
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Discover the life and music of jazz luminary Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history. Featuring original concert footage and candid interviews with jazz legends such as Herbie Hancock, Sonny Rollins and Jon Batiste, Finding the Right Notes is a vibrant portrait of one of America's great musical trailblazers.
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Gianni Berengo Gardin, since the 1950s, has devoted himself to reportage, social investigation, and architectural photography of environmental description. With his friends Josef Koudelka, Sebastiao Salgado, Eliott Erwitt, Ferdinando Scianna, Renzo Piano, and Gabriele Basilico, in this film Berengo Gardin retraces his life as an "artisan of photography," always convinced that "it doesn't matter how you photograph but what you photograph."
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They are the voices behind the greatest Rock, Pop and R&B hits of all time, but no one knows their names. Now in this award-winning documentary, director Morgan Neville shines the spotlight on the untold stories of such legendary background singers as Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Claudia Lennear, Judith Hill and more. These are the triumphs and heartbreaks of music’s greatest unsung talents, featuring rare behind-the-scenes footage,...
14) Radical Dreamer
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Documentary filmmaker Thomas von Steinaecker spoke to people who have worked with Herzog over his long career. We also hear from Herzog himself, with extraordinary anecdotes about film locations and shoots, his admiration for Lotte Eisner, and his eternal search for beauty.
15) Godard Cinema
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Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era’s progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist...
16) Hey, Boo
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An exploration into the relationship between Scout’s fictional experiences and Harper Lee’s life, including her relationship with her father, with Truman Capote and others on whom the characters in the fictional Macomb, Alabama were based.
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At last, the long-lost film inspired by Australia's first rock festival - The Pilgrimage For Pop Festival - at Ourimbah, near Sydney in 1970. Starring: Billy Thorpe and The Aztecs, Jeff St John and the Copperwine, Chain, Tully, Wendy Saddington and Company Caine, Leo de Castro, Hans Poulsen, Max Merritt and the Meteors and featuring Allan Moaryawaalla Barker.
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When a house has been left for dead, the ZOMBIE HOUSE FLIPPERS bring it back to life. Operating in Orlando, Florida, Justin Stamper, Ashlee Casserly, and Keith Ori have made a name for themselves flipping rotting, abandoned properties – “zombie houses” – into beautifully remade homes for top dollar. Hour-long episodes show the inner workings of this high-stakes world full of unexpected disasters, hidden costs, and quirky personalities that...
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Learn about how The Graduate redefined an era. This new co-production from 3DD & Sky Arts, goes in search of the cinematically sublime. Those films that have transcended their era to enter the pantheon of greats. In this episode, devoted to The Graduate, its story will be told with detail, affection, looking for the truth behind the myth, all the trials and triumphs that went into forging a classic. But this isn’t simply history, the standard making...
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