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Althusser, an Intellectual Adventure
Directed by Bruno Oliviero • Documentary • 2016 • 55 minutes
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Documentary based partially on the only filmed interview given by Louis Althusser, a French philosopher who died in October 1990. The encounter took place in 1980 in Rome. Althusser had made a name for hims...
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El Sicario, Room 164
Directed by Gianfranco Rosi and Charles Bowden • Documentary • 2011 • 84 minutes
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The term sicario goes back to Roman Palestine, where a Jewish sect, the Sicarii, used concealed daggers (sicae) in their murders of Romans and their supporters. In modern language, a sic...
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Stray Dog (Debra Granik)
Directed by Debra Granik • Documentary • 2016 • 102 minutes
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From Debra Granik, director of the Oscar-nominated 'Winter's Bone', comes this portrait of a motorcycle-riding, freedom-loving, Vietnam veteran cast in the mold of an outlaw biker. But there's much more to b...