Glamor From Above: The Simple Majesty of Dietrich Lighting
Lights, camera, Marlene Deitrich.
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The Queue your daily distraction of curated video content sourced from across the web. Today, we’re watching a video essay on the lighting system attributed to Marlene Dietrich, known as Dietrich Lighting.
There’s an excellent 1999 documentary by Werner Herzog called
My Best Fiend that charts the director’s tumultuous working relationship with the volatile actor Klaus Kinski. In one segment, Herzog recalls a dispute the pair had during the shoot of 1972’s
Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Kinski was incensed that Herzog wanted to shoot the staggering peaks of Machu Picchu from a distance. Meanwhile, according to Kinski, the only landscape worth photographing was the human face.
Free Streaming Service for Documentary Lovers Launches
Documentary+ offers access to feature-length and short documentary films.
A new free streaming TV service has launched for those who love to watch documentaries.
Documentary+ offers access to feature-length and short documentary films. You can stream the service on platforms such as Apple TV, Amazon, Roku and mobile devices.
The service promises everything from “Academy Award-winners to festival darlings.”
According to a company announcement:
“The library includes classics like
The Imposter,
One Man and His Shoes), Christian Dior (
Dior and I), Evel Knievel (
Being Evel), Janis Joplin (
Hype!) alongside important political and historical figures like Cory Booker (
Nonfiction Streaming Platform Documentary+ Launches
New Global Platform Houses the Best Collection of Feature Documentaries, Cult Classics and Shorts
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/
Documentary+, a global nonfiction streaming platform, launched today to serve as the preeminent home for feature-length and short documentary films. With a large curated collection, the Documentary+ film library ranges from Academy Award-winners to festival darlings and is available to audiences for a premium viewing experience on any device. Documentary+ is a joint venture between nonfiction studio
XTR and the late Tony Hsieh.
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Documentary+ launches with a highly curated selection of critically-acclaimed films and features award-winning and nominated filmmakers including Spike Jonze, Kathryn Bigelow, Terrence Malick, Brett Morgen, Andrea Nevins, Roger Ross Williams, Zana Briski, Davis Guggenheim, a
Linas Phillips walks 1,200 miles from Seattle to the Los Angeles home of director Werner Herzog in the documentary Walking to Werner.
The free spirit Werner Herzog, whose Rescue Dawn is now a considerable success, likes to walk. He has inspired at least two would-be filmmakers to follow in his footsteps. Faithful readers will know that I value Herzog s films beyond all measure, and never tire of telling the famous story of the time he learned his dear friend, the film historian Lotte Eisner, was dying in Paris. Thereupon he set off to walk from Munich to Paris, convinced she would not die before his arrival, and he was quite right.