House of Frankenstein (1944)

Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

 

Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty and investigate the characters living there.

Typical for Werner Herzog, this exploration of a forbiddingly uninhabitable and strange continent is idiosyncratic and intense and offers insights no other director would achieve.

On re-watching: Always a fascinating watch, among Herzog's best documentaries.

Maltin***1/2: "This right-brain travelogue feeds the mind, the eye, and the mind's eye. Wryly, sometimes impatiently, narrated by the director, who dedicates the film to Roger Ebert."

 

Anna Karina

New acquisition: Film Noir

 

Quentin Tarantino

Bio:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino

Kuroi ame (1989)

 

The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.

Touching and haunting story details the impact the Hiroshima bombing had on one family's lives, caught in exquisite black and white imagery.

Halliwell*: "Intermittently moving, despite its uncertainties of tone."

Maltin***: "Somber, restrained, and very moving story...A quietly observant character study with a number of haunting black and white images."

Motel Hell (1980)

 

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Animus Magazine

National Velvet (1944)

 

Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror (2021)

 

This series documents the 9/11 terrorist attacks, from Al Qaeda's roots in the 1980s to America's forceful response, both at home and abroad.

Comprehensive and informative documentary takes its time to bring in detail the  9/11 attacks and the history that lead to them and goes further to analyze their impact on the history thereafter.