I ask no favors for my sex… All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.
—Sarah Moore Grimké, activist for women’s suffrage, 1837
As the United States Supreme Court leans increasingly to the right, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s vigorous dissenting opinions and ferocious 20-push-up workouts have earned this tiny, soft-spoken, intellectual giant the status of rock star and the title “Notorious RBG.” What many don’t know is Ginsburg’s strategic, trailblazing role in defining gender-discrimination law. Intent on systematically releasing women from second-class status, she argued six pivotal gender-bias cases in the 1970s before an all-male Supreme Court blind to sexism.
Now 84, and still inspired by the lawyers who defended free speech during the Red Scare, Ginsburg refuses to relinquish her passionate duty, steadily fighting for equal rights for all citizens under the law. Through intimate interviews and unprecedented access to Ginsburg’s life outside the court, RBG tells the electric story of Ginsburg’s consuming love affairs with both the Constitution and her beloved husband Marty—and of a life’s work that led her to become an icon of justice in the highest court in the land.

这是对后殖民时代“乌托邦”古巴的一次身临其境的隐喻性描绘。1898年，缅因号在古巴的爆炸至今历历在目，这场大爆炸结束了西班牙在美洲的殖民统治，开启了美利坚帝国时代。与此同时，一个强大的征服工具诞生了：电影宣传。在这部纪录片中，导演索珀与哈瓦那非凡的人民——尤其是被他称为“年轻先知”的哈瓦那儿童——一起探索百年以来电影是如何制造神话并以此进行国际干预，并对时间、帝国主义和电影本体进行了质询。

2020 film directed by Jeff Orlowski

Our World tells the story of life under lockdown. It is a film which takes you from the deserted streets to the homes of those battling the virus. How do you survive when daily life gets shut down?

“我不是多怕死，我只是不想这么活”——柴静
2014年初从央视辞职的记者柴静，在2015年2月28日，推出了她自费拍摄的雾霾深度调查《穹顶之下》，这也是柴静辞职后首度公开亮相。纪录片中，柴静披露了自己离开央视的原因，她称在自己怀孕期间，女儿被诊断有良性肿瘤，出生后便要接受手术，而她自己辞职后用了一段时间专程陪伴照顾女儿。 在照顾孩子的过程中，柴静对雾霾的感受却越来越强烈，“生活在一年竟有175天污染的北京，害怕女儿有一天会问我‘什么是蓝天’‘为什么老把我关在家里’，加上全社会对空气污染问题也越来越关心，职业训练和母亲本能都让她觉得应该回答这些问题：雾霾是什么？从哪儿来？该怎么办？”因此，柴静开始了这个调查。

The Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing is one of the most famous bridges in China. It is also the most popular place in the world to commit suicide. For the past 11 years Chen Si has been patrolling this bridge, looking to provide aid for those who've gone there to end their lives. Incredibly, he has saved over 300 people since he began - nearly one every two weeks.
南京长江大桥是中国最著名的桥梁之一，同时也是世界上自杀最高发的地点。11年以来陈思一直巡逻于大桥之上，以救助那些准备轻生的人们。难以置信的是，他从开始到如今拯救过的人数已在300以上 - 几乎是每两个礼拜救一人。

2018 documentary about fashion designer Alexander McQueen

Digging through the vast collection of his father's home videos, a young man reconstructs the unthinkable story of his boyhood and exposes vile abuse passed through generations.

李小龙未满周岁便亮相银幕的《金门女》，导演伍锦霞是 三藩市华侨，三、四十年代在香港和美国执导过九部粤 语片，不乏民族意识及女权色彩。既是第一位执导港片 的海外华人女导演，更是独立特行、超越时代的奇女子， 毕生短髮男装打扮，人皆以「霞哥」相称，于纽约经营 的中餐馆更成了传奇地标。影片在资料蒐集与追访亲友 之馀，不忘拿同样大志未竟的两位同期的影坛先锋作映 照，华裔荷裡活女星黄柳霜及当时唯一的荷裡活女导演 Dorothy Arzner，皆被时代遗忘多时，今日重获肯定。

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Henri Storck and Joris Ivens’ landmark of social documentary, blending staged scenes with locals and on-the-spot reportage to depict the 1932 miners’ strike in Belgium’s Borinage—evictions, hunger, and police repression—transforming outrage into a call for solidarity.

2015 film by Patricio Guzmán

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them on film.

The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Japanese. Civilian refugees walk, stumble, crawl to escape the destruction of their cities... While in the China of tradition, water buffalo still work the paddies and camels cross the desert, modern China is now a republic founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with modern schools, heavy industry, large engineering projects... The government of Chiang Kai-shek resists the Japanese invasion from the coast. Madame Chiang receives a cheque from the U.S.A. for war relief. War production continues in distant villages safe from the grasp of the Japanese. With modern weapons the Chinese are pursuing their struggle behind enemy lines. And still their opponent persists in his reprisal bombings of civilian targets. "Will these people win?"

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

桥，纪录短片

In 1962 Joris Ivens was invited to Chile for teaching and filmmaking. Together with students he made …A Valparaíso, one of his most poetic films. Contrasting the prestigious history of the seaport with the present the film sketches a portrait of the city, built on 42 hills, with its wealth and poverty, its daily life on the streets, the stairs, the rack railways and in the bars. Although the port has lost its importance, the rich past is still present in the impoverished city. The film echoes this ambiguous situation in its dialectical poetic style, interweaving the daily life reality (of 1963) with the history of the city and changing from black and white to colour, finally leaving us with hopeful perspective for the children who are playing on the stairs and hills of this beautiful town.

《塞纳河畔》（La Seine a rencontré Paris，尤里斯·伊文思，1958年|31分钟|35毫米|黑白|有声）以浓厚的诗情画意和温暖的人道情怀描绘了巴黎风情。影片开始，摄影机宛如轻盈的小船航行在塞纳河上，划过充满乡野气息的城郊，缓缓进入巴黎市区。接着，摄影机在塞纳河两岸驻足，展现岸边的生活场景：一个男人正在给自己补鞋，成群的市民漫无目的地闲逛，几个小痞子目不转睛地盯视在岸边拍照的女模特，恋人们旁若无人地沉溺在甜蜜的二人世界。一阵急雨袭来，人们迅速跑开。本片的创意源自法国电影史学家乔治·萨杜尔，试图在塞纳河与巴黎相逢的地方表现巴黎的风土人情（本片原名《塞纳河与巴黎相逢》。本片并非描写塞纳河和巴黎景色的风光片，而是一首充满温暖和煦的柔情、宽容慈悲的人道情怀以及洞察世事的幽默感的诗篇。本片拍摄完成不久就曾在中国放映，而且是导演亲自带来的拷贝。那时，他应中国政府文化部邀请访问中国，并应邀担任中央新闻纪录电影制片厂艺术顾问。本片导演尤里斯·伊文思（Joris Ivens，1898—1989）生于荷兰，年轻时代曾到许多国家拍片，后半生主要生活在法国巴黎。伊文思与中国的关系十分密切，从1938年拍摄《四万万人民》到文革时期拍摄《愚公移山》再到新时期拍摄《风的故事》，他多次来到中国并用摄影机记录下了中国不同时期的社会变迁。

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“历史学家的任务是什么？是把历史上没有发生过的事件明确地记录下来。” 在这一章里，戈达尔与电影评论家塞尔吉达内就历史和电影历史展开了激烈的讨论。“电影是二十世纪的产物吗？不，是十九世纪的；‘新浪潮’之后的人们看电影的次数是不是增加了？没有，从电影史来看有没有10部都是疑问。但是只有电影是唯一的可以完全讲述历史的艺术。只有通过电影，可以将自身投入未来。”《狩猎人的夜晚》，如里得尔皮看到的波多雷尔的《旅行》，克雷姆特的绘画。戈达尔将我们带进梦幻般的电影世界。

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宿命的，致命的美，就是致命的瞬间。
性与死，这是电影诞生后还处在“幼年时期”时，就开始探索的两大命题了。“人类的爱情故事的深处是乳母的历史”。从片中如此的论述就可以看出，这是《电影史》里最隐晦的一章。似乎性与死这两大命题是永远也讲述不清的人类命运。“如果电影即不是艺术又不是技术，那么它到底是什么？是神秘么？”。片中戈达尔向我们推荐了两部杰作:赫尔曼布罗霍的《威尔吉利乌斯之死》和威尔斯的《伟大的安巴逊的一家》。