James Benning’s first film called The United States of America was a 1975 trip across the country, capturing its scenery through a car windshield. This second one also crisscrosses the nation, but without a car, carving it up instead into a series of static shots of just under two minutes, one for each state, presented alphabetically, from Heron Bay, Alabama to Kelly, Wyoming. The names of the places are nondescript, but the images attached to them are anything but, immaculately composed shots of landscape, cityscape and the spaces in between. As we move from A to Z, the images coalesce into a portrait of today’s USA, tracing out its fault lines almost in passing: fenced-off facilities, a river bed running dry, factories and refineries, run-down streets and gas stations, a camp under a bridge. The past is there too, seeping up through the songs and speeches that sporadically pierce the background noise or the motifs that evoke a whole career the clouds, trains and cabins are stand-ins for films, not just states. As always, there’s time for more abstract thoughts too: each image may stand for a state, but representativity is slippery. Which state is more cinematic than the rest?
The Polish doco for the BFI’s Century of Cinema distinguishes itself from all the others in the series by being the only one not to have any film critics, academics, directors, etc providing a commentary. Instead it takes the refreshing route of having ordinary people of all ages talking about what’s special to them about movies – so we get some old folks describing their first trip to the cinema when a lot of people didn’t even know what a film was, memories of what it was like to go to the movies as children, teenagers, and adults before, during, and after WWII, and especially the key scenes from films that have made lasting impressions upon them (not unexpectedly, Wajda’s KANAL strikes a nerve), which are shown in accompaniment, so that it becomes the interviewees who ultimately decide what’s shown in the doco. This kind of stuff is what the ‘100 Years of Cinema’ celebration is really about.
漫游火星(Roving Mars)是由迪斯尼和Sassoon Film Design共同合作推出的作品，内容就是纪录2004年美国太空总署『精神号』(Spirit)以及『机会号』(Opportunity)两辆人造探测车在火星上的种种发现。当初『精神号』和『机会号』是在2004年1月上旬和下旬先后登陆火星，分别在星表面的两端登陆，两辆探测车登陆后立刻在火星的表面展开漫游探勘，并将所发现的图片传回地球。借着这次全球瞩目的火星任务，太空学家希望能揭开火星神秘的面纱，深入探讨火星的奥妙，以及引起众人揣测的火星上生命之谜。
在这部扣人心弦的足球系列纪录片中，国际巨星携手当地足球明星驰骋赛场，彻底改变了联赛的2023-2024赛季
英国唯一一只雌性北极熊维多利亚产下幼崽。从饲养员的不懈努力到幼崽第一次从熊窝中现身，影片详实记录了维多利亚两年多的产子之路。影片以独特的视角深入探究北极熊的生理机能，并探讨了圈养繁殖在这个神奇物种的繁殖过程中扮演者怎样的角色。
实地探访以色列和巴勒斯坦地区。
An iconic artist at an iconic location. This concert film captures several mesmerizing live performances from the renowned German composer and producer Nils Frahm at the legendary Funkhaus Berlin. Expect soaring ambient and neo-classical piano from one of the greatest contemporary musicians around.
