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In this impressive horror-fantasy film by director F.W. Murnau, Mephisto tempts the devout alchemist Faust with promises of youth, love and power. The price? Faust's eternal soul. Emil Jannings is magnificent as Mephisto, the devil who is always lurking, promising wonderful things that are never quite what they should be, all extracted for a terrible price.
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"Soon it became evident that the camera was almost totally uninhibited by the usual complications that come with changing position in the midst of shooting." - Richard Leacock, Cahiers du Cinema 1959
Master filmmaker Richard Leacock delighted and challenged audiences when he received the Cinequest Maverick Spirit Award in 2001. Director Jane Weiner has spent almost four decades celebrating Leacock?s work through film.
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Cinequest 22 culminates with the latest work from one of contemporary cinema's most extraordinary masters. The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Davies' adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play, joins his astonishing body of work that includes Distant Voices, Still Lives, The House of Mirth, The Neon Bible, and Of Time and the City. Once again Davies dives deep into the human psyche, revisiting his themes of desire, hope, fear, loss and the effect of memory on our fragile sense of being.
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Very few directors have run the gamut of crafting beautiful and haunting dramas (The Big Blue), magical family fantasies (Arthur and the Invisibles) and edgy, action-packed thrillers (The Professional, The Fifth Element). But Luc Besson effectively accomplishes each with a serious passion for the cinematic art form.
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Nine surgeries and endless rehab won't keep Rick Finkelstein back from the slopes.
Former Cinequest Maverick Spirit Award recipient Kurt Miller brings an event that will uplift and inspire us all. Miller, most known for continuing and even heightening the legacy of Warren Miller extreme sports movies, now brings us stories of courage surpassing that of extreme athletes. Miller's stories of the renegade disabled, show those fortunate enough to walk, see, and live, the passion to pursue life to its fullest.
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In the mountains by the Black Sea, winter wears on, but "where there is life, there is hope."
Hasan, is twelve years old, his childhood lost to necessity like a cherished book swept away in a river. Forced by circumstance to help provide for his siblings, he must trudge miles through the mountains to sell ayran, the yoghurt drink, to passing travelers.
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?Until you lose your fear of death, you cannot truly begin to live your life.?
Pro-skater Danny Way has a profound connection with his skateboard. As a child, given a handmade board from his step-father, Danny never looked back on his dream of turning pro. But growing up in an unstable family structure in Vista, California, Danny always felt like he had something to prove to his friends, family, and himself.
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There's a man with binoculars at the window, watching the people across the street. And he's definitely not James Stewart.
Oliver, an air-traffic controller by day, is emotionally cut off, a man who actively shuns human contact. As a Czech living in Slovakia his isolation is even more complete. Though part of him demands this solitude, another yearns for something more. Now, home alone with his high-powered binoculars and his imagination, he watches a seemingly perfect family in the high-rise apartment building across the street. And watches. And watches.