#Farmhand!Crowley

[loveapologist]

The Cowboy AU keeps expanding and I think farmhand!Crowley found a partner with whom to share a ride!

The Smut Wars are still ragging on, and to take a bigger sneak peak you may want to head to r/GoodOmensAfterDark, run by @goodomensafterdark.

Or you can check out my Patreon for the full, uncensored drawing 🔥

#good omens #good omens fanart #crowley #aziracrow #my art #aziraphale #art #ineffable husbands #fanart #cowboyau #Cowboy!Aziraphale #Farmhand!Crowley

[bildad-the-shuhite-official]

Autumn-themed fic recs! (good omens)

Blueberry Muffins by Ina_Sirena G, 883 words, fluff, baking, cuddling, blueberry muffins, south downs cottage Aziraphale and Crowley spend a cozy autumn afternoon in their cottage and enjoy some blueberry muffins.

Books and Trees by Lunasong365, sous_le_saule G, 1.5k, cozy, autumn, forest walks, reading together, ponds, discussion of a shared future, bookverse In short, this is a humble declaration of love to trees, that sometimes in their second lives are lucky enough to become pages in books that tell stories as good as Good Omens.

An Ineffable Halloween by The_Space_Pirate T, 1.6k, halloween, fluff, bookshop, movies, pumpkins, pumpkin carving It's Halloween and the Ineffable Husbands are carving pumpkins and watching movies in a fic so self indulgent you'd think someone else wrote it.

stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz by unwholesome_gay T, 1.9k, cozy evening, fluff, recreational drug use, weed, domestic fluff Crowley has a gift of sorts for Aziraphale. They spend a cozy evening together in the bookshop.

Gold in the Air by nutmeag83 G, 2.3k, autumn festival, pumpkins, cider, popcorn, pre-slash, fluff Aziraphale coos all over autumn and Crowley tries to pretend he doesn't find it adorable.

Autumn Leaves by VennVidici G, 2.7k, ineffable wives, autumn, walks, vibes, character study In a breezy autumn day Aziraphale finally learns why autumn is loved by humans despite it being a fleeting moment in time.

The Pumpkin Patch by AppleSeeds T, 6.5k, meet-cute, autumn, pumpkin carving, farmer!crowley, fluff, its toothrotting, terrible pick up lines, (terrible) flirting, implied sexual content, kissing Aziraphale visits a pumpkin patch and meets Crowley, a farmer with a fondness for cheesy seasonal pick-up lines. After a while, he starts to get the impression that Crowley might actually be flirting with him, and tries to work up the courage to reciprocate.

Anthony of Arcadia by Azira_Amane E, 19k, 19th century, human AU, farmer!Crowley, scholar!Aziraphale, tadfield, kidfic, disability, chronic pain, autumn, harvest Anthony Crowley is a farm owner with an old injury, a prickly temper, and a young new farmhand to raise alongside his flock. Ezra Fell is a former Oxford scholar who retired far sooner than he would have liked, finding himself in the idyllic village of Taddesfild. After a tense first meeting, they soon discover they are more alike than different. An English countryside AU, set very loosely somewhere around the 1800s.

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Hey guys! Autumn is here (at least in continental Europe) so I decided to share a bunch of autumn-themed fics I enjoyed/written hehe. I may post another part since I am really deep in this rabbit hole.

#good omens #neil gaiman #ineffable husbands #good omens fic recs #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #bildad's fic recs

[specialagentlokitty]

Thomas Barrow x reader - I’ll help you, you help me

You need more Thomas Barrow Ideas? Well could we have one where Reader becomes pregnant (and the father bailed out on her once she told him) and Thomas proposed to her and tells her this will help them both out (since she knew he was gay and this will keep people's tongues from wagging) - Anon💜

You had no clue what to do with yourself now, as soon as Lord Grantham caught wind, or anyone from the family in fact caught wind of what happened and what was going on you would no doubt be out of job and home.

You had made the mistake of thinking someone had loved you, and in your love drunk state of mind, you allowed things to go further, and now you found out you were pregnant.

And you were alone.

The farmhand you had been seeing wanted nothing to do with you or the baby, he didn’t want to be known as someone who had relations outside of marriage.

So he left without, telling you never to speak a word of this.

And of course you wouldn’t, because you didn’t want to bring any attention to the Crowley family, you didn’t want people to know their housemaid was pregnant.

It wouldn’t be right.

You had seen the looks some other woman received, and you couldn’t bare for people to look at you like that.

Thankfully it was your day off, and that’s why you went to see the doctor, and now you were hidden away outside, sitting on some steps around the side of the building as you cried into your hands.

You wanted to be happy, you always thought being pregnant, having a child would be a happy occasion, but it turns out for you, right now, it wasn’t.

“Do you have nothing else to do with your day off but sit there and cry?”

You quickly looked up, wiping your tears as you looked at the footman in the entrance way to the little alley.

“I’m in no mood for your attitude Thomas, if you are going to be rude then just leave me, please.”

Thomas turned around to look at you, blowing some smoke from his cigarette.

“What’s troubling you?” He asked.

“I can’t tell you…”

“And why ever not?”

You sighed, shaking your head as you looked down at your hands.

Thomas sighed, walking over he sat next to you, taking another drag of his cigarette.

“Because you’ll tell Mrs Hughes… or Mr Carson… they’ll have me thrown out…” you sobbed quietly.

“Do you really think so lowly of me (Y/N)? If I remember correctly you found out about me you swore you would keep my secret and you have. Let me keep yours.”

Thomas looked at you.

“Tell me what’s bothering you, surely if you do not tell me someone else will ask, and you will have to tell them.”

You looked at him.

“I’m pregnant….” You sobbed.

He dropped his cigarette in shock and fully turned to look at you.

“Have you told the father? I assume the farm boy you were telling me about?”

You nodded your head and sniffled.

“He wants nothing to do with me or the baby… he knows what people think about this… he wants to save his reputation..”

“And what about yours?!” Thomas snapped.

You shook your head, wiping your eyes with the backs of your hands.

“I.. I will work until I start showing them I will hand in my resignation and go… so no one will ever know..”

“Where will you go?”

You sniffled again, shrugging your shoulders a little bit.

“I’m not sure yet… but I’ll figure it out…”

Thomas stood up and you looked up at him.

“I’ll teach him a lesson.”

You quickly rushed up and grabbed Thomas’ arm, making him stop.

“Please don’t, I don’t this to reflect badly on the family. I will leave quietly, no one need to know.”

“That’s not a plan, how will you live? How will you raise a baby on your own and work?” He asked.

You shook your head, letting go of his arm.

“I.. I don’t know yet..”

Thomas turned around, and he looked at you.

You had always been so good to him, you patched him up after he got into fights, fixed his clothes for him, covered for him when he was doing things he knew he shouldn’t be doing.

He wanted to help you.

“Marry me.” He said.

You snapped your head up in shock.

“What?”

“Marry me, we.. we’ll get married as soon as possible! We’ll figure out where to live, and then you won’t have to work, you won’t have to worry about anyone’s reputation.”

“Thomas I cannot marry you, you do not love women. Won’t this make you uncomfortable?”

“No, no it won’t. In fact it will help us both.”

Thomas reached out and took your arms on his hands.

“You can tell people you are pregnant with my child, and it will stop people from talking about me and speculating and spreading rumours. I know it is only a matter of time until this gets out, about both of us. This will save us both the hassle, don’t you agree?”

You looked at him.

You knew he was right, it would help you both out immensely.

“You would really marry me just to do this for the both of us?”

“Yes, would you? It would not just be helping you, but it would be helping me, I dread to think what people will do if it ever gets out about me. If they see I am married, they won’t question it, and they would not question you being with child either.”

Thomas looked at you and took a small breath.

“That is.. as long as you do not mind I am different.. I know you kept my secret but you never told me how you felt about it.”

You smiled at him.

“Thomas I am perfectly okay with it, I do not think there is anything wrong with it. In fact, I think it is more normal than people like the believe.”

Thomas smiled.

“So you’ll marry me?”

You laughed, throwing your arms around him.

“Yes! Thank you!”

“I should be thanking you.” He laughed.

He hugged you tightly and you both sat down.

“What will we do about a place to live?”

“I.. I have my parents inheritance, I sold their house last year. Perhaps we can talk to Lord Grantham about purchasing a house here, you can still work as a footman, stay at Downton if needed and come stay on days off.”

“Yes that would work perfect. When should we tell people?” He asked.

You looked up at him.

“Today. I do not know how long I can hide I’m pregnant.”

“Right, right. Of course.”

He stood up and he looked at you, holding his hand out and you took it, letting him pull you into his side.

You both looked at one another and nodded your heads, making your way inside where people immediately stopped and began to whisper and stare.

And after a long day of explain to everyone possible the story of how you and Thomas were lovers and were going to marry you both finally made your way back outside.

He sat next to you, lighting a cigarette after draping his jacket over your shoulders.

“Are you sure you are okay with this? You do not think of me as disgusting or twisted?”

“Of course not Thomas, okay? Stop thinking that because you’re not. And I mean it when I say Thank you so much, really. I hope one day you can live as who you really are, but as of now, we will both hide one another’s secrets together, okay?”

Thomas nodded his head.

“Yeah, together.”

Thomas looked down at you.

“You better not fall in love with me.”

You laughed, playfully slapping his arm and he grinned down at you.

“Trust me it won’t be that hard. You’re a real piece of work you know that?”

“Oh is that how you are going to speak to your husband to be is it?”

“Get used to it.”

He chuckled, smiling softly.

You looked up at him, and you smiled gently, reaching out you took his free hand in yours.

“Thomas, I hope one day you can find your peace. You can find a man who will make you happy, and who loves you and will cherish you.”

Thomas squeezed your hand.

“Thank you, and I hope the same for you. When the time comes to it, when you find this man all you should need to do is ask for a divorce, I will give you it with no trouble.”

“Thank you Thomas. You are a good man, despite what everyone else may think.”

“I could care less about what they think, their opinions do not matter to me.”

You nodded your head.

“What about with the war coming? Will you have to leave?”

Thomas nodded his head.

“Most likely yes.”

“You will be safe, right? You’re my friend Thomas, and it would pain me to know I’ve lost you.”

“Let’s not think about that for now. Let’s just focused on the wedding, and finding a nice home for us okay?”

You smiled and nodded your head.

It wasn’t an ideal situation for either of you, but at the same time it was the best one. You were friends, you got along. So all you had to do was play husband and wife in front of people, and you knew this would be the best for you both.

Thomas entrusted you with his secret about being gay, and you had entrusted him with yours about being pregnant.

It was a harsh world that you would both be judged without question if people found out, so now you were here to cover one another and make sure neither of your secrets got out

#Downton abbey #downton abbey x reader #Downton abbey x you #Downton abbey imagine #Thomas Barrow #Thomas Barrow x reader #Thomas Barrow x you #Thomas Barrow imagine

[holycatsandrabbits]

Part 20 of Giant Post of Completed Good Omens Human AU’s: November 2022

Thank you to all the creators who bring us so much joy AND to the readers who support the creators! <3

Also! A searchable list of all of my Good Omens human AU recs.

You can use it to find fics where Aziraphale is a librarian, or fics with Ineffable Wives, etc.

More of my Completed Good Omens Human AU Recs on Tumblr

More Good Omens recs from me here: Dannye's fic recs and Dannye's artist recs

And here's me: Ao3 ~ DannyeChase.com ~ Linktree ~ Upcoming releases  ~ Serial romance ~ Weird Wednesday writing prompts blog

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Series: (not all of these series are complete)

ASMR by AppleSeeds, and IneffableToreshi Rated T-E (C & A are ASMR therapists)

Bi M' Aingael & Mèinn Aingeal Milis by IneffableToreshi Rated T-E (Musician C & audience member A)

Not Lavender, But Roses by @cassieoh and @liquidlyrium (Ao3 Liquid_Lyrium) Rated T (Mechanic C & fighter pilot A during WWII)

Rocker Crowley by @madrabbitsociety (Ao3 madrabbitgirl) Unrated. (Rock star C & bookseller A)

The Garden of Delights by @zehwulf Rated E (C & A are members of a sex club)

Single Fics:

24. Sugar Baby/Prostitution by @samara-lillllly (Ao3Samara Lilly (Amber_Rose)) 1760 words, Rated E (Sex worker C and bookshop owner A)

A Little Outside Push by @sapphosewrites (Ao3 Sapphose) 2994 words, Rated G (C & A work for rival theater companies)

All's Fair in Love, War, and Show Business by @sapphosewrites (Ao3 Sapphose) 44,139 words, Rated T (C & A are actors)

Almost Heaven by pilatesandpinot 56,503 words, Rated E (C & A are neighbors)

Blindness by @janara7 (Ao3 LCwrites) 1524 words, Rated M (Criminal C & Detective A)

Dare To Be Brave by @mimsynims 28,803 words, Rated E (Author C & bookshop owner A meet at puppy obedience class)

Day 4: Teacher/Student by @samara-lillllly (Ao3Samara Lilly (Amber_Rose)) 1886 words, Rated E (Teacher C and student A)

Day 13: Medical by @samara-lillllly (Ao3Samara Lilly (Amber_Rose)) 1879 words, Rated T (Nurse C & emergency room patient A)

Doorway to Paradise by @tawnyontumblr (Ao3 TawnyOwl95) 5714 words, Rated E (C & A are neighbors)

Endless Night by AppleSeeds 31, 843 words, Rated T (C & A are college students and housemates)

Fringe Benefits by @sapphosewrites (Ao3 Sapphose) 1596 words, Rated T (Actor C & theater patron C)

Ghost by AppleSeeds 5410 words, Rated T (CEO C and ghost A)

Gigantic by @bouncygin (Ao3 PeturbingPrism) 1941 words, Rated T (Ineffable wives: rock star C and pop star A)

Growing Pains by OceanLace 77,309 words, Rated E (Single dad C & nanny A)

Hay Fever by @ineffableomenshusbands (Ao3 Dashicra1) 499 words, Rated M (Preacher's son C and farmhand A)

Hit me with your ledger by KissMyAsthma 1926 words, Rated G (C & A are coworkers)

Honeysuckle & Heat Waves by pilatesandpinot 44,772 words, Rated E (Male gardener C and female bed & breakfast owner A)

It's a Date by @melayneseahawk 6004 words, Rated E (A meets C after being stood up on a date)

It Takes Two by @saretton 12,187 words, Rated E (Single mother C & single father A)

Jack-o'-Crowley [High School AU] by @ineffableimpression (Ao3 alex232227) 1446 words, Rated G (C & A are high school students)

Last Crossing by @holycatsandrabbits (Dannye Chase) self-rec! 7052 words, Rated M (Ship's steward A & passenger C)

Losing Your Head by @tawnyontumblr (Ao3 TawnyOwl95) 1944 words, Rated E (Lady Azirabelle and male rescuer C in a Bastille fic)

Never Been Better by @anxietycheesecake 1118 words, Rated E (C & A are both trans, and are lovers)

On the Ethics of Asking Your Professor on a Date by @melayneseahawk 7433 words, Rated T (Professor C & student A)

Parallel by AppleSeeds 9168 words, Rated T (C & A are graduate students)

Pigeon by Lilian 10,685 words, Rated T (Orphan C & his teacher A are friends in a gen fic)

Search and Rescue by snae_b 18,854 words, Rated E (Search and rescue crew member C & embedded cameraman A)

Space Girl by pilatesandpinot 45,626 words, Rated E (Ineffable wives: C & A are college students)

Spelling Errors by @caedmonfaith (Ao3 Caedmon) 585 words, Rated G (Barista C & customer A)

Star Light, Star Bright by @sapphosewrites (Ao3 Sapphose) 1177 words, Rated G (C & A work at a theater)

Take a Bow by @ack-emma (Ao3 ack_emma) 1061 words, Rated G (C & A are equestrians-- horse riders)

Take Me Up The Avon by Santillatron 6964 words, Rated T (Pirate C & Harbourmaster A)

Temple of the Muses by @ajconstantine (Ao3 AJ_Constantine) 240,764 words, Rated E (Sex worker C & Lord A in the Victorian era)

That's the ticket by by @hasturswig (Ao3 HolRose) 500 words, Rated G (A & C meet at an orchestra concert)

The One that Got Away by @madrabbitsociety (Ao3 madrabbitgirl) 2666 words, Unrated (C & A are old friends reunited)

the point is probably moot by @summerofspock 5957 words, Rated E (A is C's friend's boyfriend)

The Prince's Consort by IneffableToreshi 143,089 words, Rated E (Sex worker C & Prince A)

The Pumpkin Patch by AppleSeeds 6582 words, Rated T (Farmer C & visitor A)

The Scent of Desire by IneffableToreshi 87,699 words, Rated E (Omega florist C and alpha bookshop owner A)

The Wilde and The Serpent by KissMyAsthma 7634 words, Rated T (Tattoo artist C & customer A)

Tinder Dates Gone Wrong by OceanLace 2856 words, Rated E (C & A are roommates)

To Be With You by @caedmonfaith (Ao3 Caedmon) 800 words, Rated E (C & A are lovers)

Too Busy Being Yours by @cheeriosandwine (Ao3 cheerios_and_wine) 2690 words, Rated E (C & A are best friends)

What Men Know of Heaven by @sapphosewrites (Ao3 Sapphose) 8446 words, Rated T (Sex worker C & charity shop manager A)

What's Left of Me by @arielavader 1408 words, Rated E (C & A are married)

When We Meet Again by AppleSeeds 4005 words, Rated T (C & A are friends of friends)

You Can Stay At My Place (And We Can Fall in Love) by IneffableToreshi 51,799 words, Rated E (C & A are roommates)

#Dannye’s GO Human AU rec lists #GOHAU #Good Omens #Ineffable Husbands #Ineffable wives #Aziraphale #Crowley #Good Omens human AU #Good Omens fanfic

[ao3feed-ineffablehusbandz]

Hay Fever

Hay Fever

by Anonymous

Crowley and Aziraphale sneak some alone time in the hayloft, and sexy surprises ensue.

Words: 499, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Good Omens (TV)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Human, Established Relationship, Secret Relationship, background mention of church, Crowley is a preacher’s son, Aziraphale is a farmhand, implied closeted characters, this context is vague but it’s there if you squint, hanky-panky in the hayloft, no it probably isn’t that comfortable but these two will take what they can get, also it’s fanfic, the tiniest bit of angst/feels if you cross your eyes and stand upside-down, Fluff, Fluff and Smut, Minor dirty talk, Crowley wears sexy panties, Hopeful Ending, inspired by hay-harvesting season, Soft Omens Snuggle House Guess The Author Challenge, Sorry about the title guys but I couldn’t help myself lol

From https://ift.tt/3XgGk7R https://archiveofourown.org/works/41905029

#ao3feed ineffablehusbandz #ineffable husbands #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #anthonyjcrowl

[aziraphales-library]

First I just want to say thank you! Just by answering other people's requests you have helped me to find great fics to read. Now, I'm wondering if you could recommend some good AU-human fics focusing on a relationship gradually forming between Beelzebub/Gabriel? Thank you!

Hello, dear! Hopefully some of these will be to your liking.

Stitch Me Up by Get_Wrexed [WIP, rated E, 246k words thus far]

Dr. Aziraphale Fell is newly appointed as the Chief of the A&E (ER) at Celestial Harmonies Hospital in Lambeth, London. The crowd is a much different one than the patients that gathered at his previous place of work in the South Downs- and his coworkers are perhaps the oddest of all. Emergency physician Gabriel Winger seems to think Dr. Fell has robbed him of a position that was rightfully his. Beatrix Bealz, the trauma surgeon on call, doesn't look or act like a surgeon at all. And then there's that strange Head Nurse Crowley. So stand-offish with his coworkers. So sweet with the patients. A mystery, all together. Aziraphale can't help but want to solve that mystery- what physician can resist one?

Smooth As Tennessee Whisky by KiaraMGrey [WIP, Rated E, 41k words thus far]

The year is 1965. After fleeing a bad home life, Crowley has traveled to the U.S. to find work as a farmhand. He thinks that if he just keeps his head down and does his work, nobody will notice him. When he arrives at Fell farm however, his life gets tossed a curve ball. He never could have predicted Aziraphale, the soft spoken farmers son. Together, they find that family doesn't mean just one thing, and love comes in all forms.

Finders, Keepers by CynSyn [Rated E, one more chapter to go, 154k words]

Anthony J. Crowley, the self-made force behind Ophidian Orchards, is a sleek, no-nonsense businessman to the outside world. His clients pay him well for his services at obtaining difficult to find items. People assume that because he has had to fight his whole life to get to where he is, he wants to take the lead. He is often taken advantage of for his generosity. Aziraphale is a business owner of a bit more nonsense than that. He treats his inventory as he does his own collection, and is reluctant to part with it for just anyone. People assume that because of his outward gentle nature, he is naive and needs someone to look after him. He is often taken for granted for his kindness.

Crowley is fascinated by the brilliant and capable hidden bastard behind the bright smile with his best interests at heart. Aziraphale sees past the hard, sharp exterior to find someone soft and gentle who wants to be cared for.

They're perfect for each other, and everyone knows it but them.

Perhaps some of our readers might have some more to suggest?

-Mod AB

#Good Omens #Good Omens fanfic #Good Omens fic recs #Beelzebub/Gabriel #human AU #Mod AB

[a-wanderersdiary]

Diary of a Wanderer-Jana III

Well, things seem to be looking up! Red’s hardly coughed all day, they had a fit of it after waking up but nothing since. They seem to be in brighter spirits too. Maybe it’s the weather? I know it’s doing me good. Cold, sure. But bright and clear. The sky was never this blue before. Not worth all we lost, of course, but well. You have to find the beauty where you can, surely?

As much as some part of me worries who might hear us, I must admit having the radio is a comfort too. The music must just be on a loop, not heard a word from any host or DJ. Only been able to pick up the one station too, most of it’s still all static.

For the way we were Was the way we learned to live We couldn’t give the things We never had to give But when we fall we may ascend And begin again...

I remember that one, remember the band from before. I doubt they’re still around. I doubt any of the artists and singers are. Yet in a way they’re still with us. Their voices, their words. 

A man is not dead whilst his name is still spoken,

We’ll be hitting familiar country soon, familiar for me anyway. The Rhineland’s growth has been stable for a while now, but even still the marshes get a little further north each year. Still, Mama and Papa wont have to worry about me chasing frogs all winter anymore.

It’ll be a hard one, that storm was no joke but we’ll get through, Kurt and Alfred should be home before me. The western roads are easier, always have been but still, we might need some more help to see everything through til spring.

Farmhands are always in short supply. Most people just want to wall up at The Dam or Fort Crowley and ride it out. But Mama didn’t leave the farm for the war and Papa always says a little ice wont make him up sticks and move. Stubborn as mules,

Like someone else I know.

Red and I shared a bottle of moonshine over dinner tonight. The stuff makes my eyes water but well, it’s just been...nice to have the company. The road can be long and lonely sometimes. 

-Jana

#apocalyptic #post apocalyptic #diary #epistolary #ongoing #original story #original character #queer characters #queer writers #writers on tumblr #fiction #worldbuilding

[fetch-d-popcorn]

𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐚: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞

Anybody who knows the extremely famous Disney show will in a split second comprehend HANNAH MONTANA: THE MOVIE. Miley Cyrus stars as Miley Stewart, a "normal" teen who likewise turns out to be a world-well-known pop sensation, Hannah Montana. Without the bleach light hairpiece and architect outfits, Hannah is "just Miley," yet when her marketing expert, Vita (Vanessa Williams), begins offering Hannah more freedoms, Miley fails to remember her needs. Later Miley ruins her dearest companion Lilly's (Emily Osment) sweet 16 and passes up on her opportunity to bid farewell to her school destined sibling Jackson (Jason Earles), baffled father Robby Ray (Billy Ray Cyrus) hauls her back to Crowley Meadows, the little Tennessee town they used to call home. While remaining in her grandmother Ruby's (Margo Martindale) farmhouse, Miley rediscovers Travis (Lucas Till), a close buddy who's adult into a charming farmhand. Out of nowhere modest community life begins to have impressive charms for Miley ... however, Hannah ultimately reemerges and compromises the newly discovered nation's peacefulness.

Hannah Montana: The Movie should leave tween fans feeling like they've outwitted, all things considered, the two universes. Because of a cast of veteran supporting entertainers like Williams, Martindale, and Melora Hardin (The Office) as Robby Ray's potential love interest, Lorelai, the Cyruses and their TV team are following in some admirable people's footsteps on the big screen. The core of the story is Miley reattaching to her underlying foundations, developing nearer to her grandmother, succumbing to Travis, and acknowledging how much her dad has forfeited (counting sentiment) to stay quiet about her twofold personality. There's very little of Oliver (Mitchel Musso) and Rico (Moises Arias), yet no-nonsense Hannah fans shouldn't worry, in light of the fact that the film has a lot of gags - - and opportunities for Cyrus to shake out as her adjust self-image.

Talking about the soundtrack, it's shockingly all around associated with the story and upgrades - - rather than diverts from - - the plot. It does not just incorporate infectious Hannah and Miley tunes (the show-halting single "The Climb" and the accolade for her dad, "Butterfly Fly Away," are especially sweet) yet in addition commitments from the senior Cyrus, Rascal Flatts (the excellent "Favor the Broken Road"), and Miley's dear companion Taylor Swift ("Crazier"). With a CD of new melodies, a cast brimming with amiable characters, and an infatuation sentiment at its center, it's certain to please fans.

PS: This is my most favorite movie when I was a kid and this is where I saw Taylor Swift for the first time which then became my idol and I love her so much till now.

written by: HANNAH AGIR

#HannahMontana #MileyCyrus #TaylorSwift

[kaesaaurelia]

the devil’s own luck

For @whumptober2020 day 20: “Toto, I Have a Feeling We’re Not in Kansas Anymore” (for "lost," “field medicine,” and "medieval")

Continues on from day one, wherein Ligur and Crowley were captured by Michael, and a very nervous Aziraphale was sent off to interrogate Crowley, day three, wherein Michael interrogated Ligur in a somewhat unconventional manner, day seven, wherein Aziraphale healed some of Crowley’s wounds and interrogated Crowley in a similarly unconventional manner, and day seventeen, wherein Crowley and Ligur got sent back to Hell, and Ligur captured and framed Crowley for giving Heaven information.

Aziraphale/Crowley, content warning for allusion to sexual activity.

Crowley didn't really know where he was going to come up on Earth -- he'd just taken the first way up.  He definitely hadn't planned to pop out of the ground right in front of Aziraphale, he certainly hadn't meant to do it in front of three astonished farmhands, in the middle of some crops Aziraphale was meant to be blessing, and he absolutely had not intended to keel over from exhaustion right there.  It was all rather mortifying, actually, especially when he came to, and found himself in an uncomfortably lumpy bed, Aziraphale hovering over him worriedly.  "You're awake!" said Aziraphale, as if this was news Crowley would be glad to hear.

"Nhgnh," said Crowley, rubbing his eyes.  "How long was I out for?" he asked.  Aziraphale seemed to have taken his armor off, but left his clothes.  Which was... considerate?  Disappointing?  Both?

"Only a few minutes," said Aziraphale.  "I, ah.  I had to do some very quick thinking to get you out of the humans' way.  What happened, Crowley?  You're bleeding in several more places than you were last time I saw you.  Was the fall that terrible?  Oh, it must have been dreadful."

"Not the fall, angel," said Crowley.  "It was... Ligur found me after I got back to land and held me in a cage for a week.  It looks worse than it is," he added, "they caught me in the middle of a shed."

"A shed?" Aziraphale asked.  "What were you doing in a shed?"

"Shedding my skin, angel," Crowley reminded him.  "I'm a sssnake, remember?"

"How could I forget?" Aziraphale said.  "That does make a bit more sense, though.  You look awful."

"Thanks," said Crowley, rolling his eyes.  "What did you tell the humans?"

"Ah, well.  I didn't exactly... tell them anything?  I might have, maybe, ah... suggested to them that I came here with you in the first place, and also perhaps that you had been wounded heroically fighting for King Harold, and, ah, they've offered to hide us both in this cottage until you're better."

Crowley frowned.  There was something wrong with that.  "I'm fairly sure I killed Harold?" he finally remembered.  "Shot him in the eye anyway."

"Well, they weren't there, they didn't know that," said Aziraphale.  "Did you really?"

Crowley tried to shrug, but it was very painful so he stopped that immediately.  "Far as I can remember, although... everything gets a bit blurry when an archangel's kicked you in the head recently.  Why?"

"It's just that... we were supposed to be on the side of the Normans," said Aziraphale.

"What?  Really?" Crowley asked, because he'd thought siding with a conqueror called "the Bastard" had seemed like an awfully safe bet for the side of evil.  "Why?"

Aziraphale sighed.  "Well, officially... something about how things have to be, and history, and the ineffable plan..."

"Unofficially?" Crowley pressed.

"Heaven likes to be on the winning side," said Aziraphale, and Crowley could read between the lines there easily enough.  "Listen, Michael's definitely not coming back to Earth for a few centuries if she can help it, I can heal you for real if you'd like," he said.

Crowley looked up into Aziraphale's hopeful eyes.  He thought about Aziraphale's gentle hands on his skin, and about Aziraphale pretending to torture him while he stroked Crowley's cock and brought him blissfully to climax.  "I," he said, his throat dry.  "I, well."

"Or if you'd rather not..."  Aziraphale looked away from him.  "But you do look dreadful.  You really ought to get healed up, Crowley, they'll think you're a leper."

Crowley laughed, startling Aziraphale a bit.  "Well.  When you put it like that... yeah, okay, why not?"

[next part]

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[ao3feed-goodomens]

Smooth As Tennessee Whisky

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/356CXdS

by KiaraMGrey

The year is 1965. After fleeing a bad home life, Crowley has traveled to the U.S. to find work as a farmhand. He thinks that if he just keeps his head down and does his work, nobody will notice him. When he arrives at Fell farm however, his life gets tossed a curve ball. He never could have predicted Aziraphale, the soft spoken farmers son. Together, they find that family doesn't mean just one thing, and love comes in all forms.

Words: 3079, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of In Every Universe, In Every Time, I Will Find You

Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Anathema Device, Beelzebub (Good Omens), Gabriel (Good Omens), Hastur (Good Omens), Ligur (Good Omens), Sergeant Shadwell (Good Omens), Madame Tracy (Good Omens)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Beelzebub/Gabriel (Good Omens)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Human, Alternate Universe - 1960s, Falling In Love, First Meetings, Pining, Mutual Pining, First Kiss, Found Family, Fluff, Angst, Period-Typical Homophobia, But I'm keeping it light, Crowley falls hard and fast, Protective Crowley, Protective Aziraphale (Good Omens), First Time, Eventual Smut, Romance, Crowley is a farm hand, Aziraphale is the farmers son, We all know how this goes, They are completely gone for each other, Slow Burn, Friends to Lovers

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/356CXdS

#ao3feed #fanfic #Good Omens

[loveapologist]

Cowboy!AU but make Crowley a rowdy farmhand in a ranch, his skin golden and freckled!

[Not responsible for Hay Bales lost or misplaced]

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[bildad-the-shuhite-official]

Ineffable Husbands Human AU- Fic recommendations

The Art of Human Nature by IneffableDoll T, 6k, human au, ineffable wives, meet-cute, artist!crowley Crowley is a painter who has only ever had an eye for nature. That is, until a client named Aziraphale commissions her for a painting to boost her self-confidence, and Crowley discovers that her client is as beautiful as the Earth itself. Then she goes and catches feelings, because she’s a disaster.

Raspberry Ripple by FeralTuxedo T, 9k, human au, meet-cute, university, professor crowley, ice cream man aziraphale, first date, fluff Every afternoon, a man in a velvet waistcoat sits on the bench by the stone fountain and eats ice cream. Every afternoon, Crowley watches him from his office window. One day, he’ll pluck up the courage to talk to him.

Everything I've Had by AppleSeeds M, 12k, human AU, chronic illness, chronic pain, hurt/comfort, bathing/washing, domestic fluff, childhood friends to lovers After developing a chronic illness that leaves him unable to live alone, Crowley moves back home to London where he reunites with his childhood best friend Aziraphale. Aziraphale helps to take care of Crowley and keeps him company while he's in bed, bringing them closer together and reigniting old feelings.

Easy by mozbee M, 18k, human au, snowed in, one night stand, insecure aziraphale, minor injuries, minor fatshaming While driving to his father's funeral, Aziraphale stops for the night at an inn, indulges in a rather whirlwind sexual encounter, and plans to take his leave very early the next morning. And then the snowstorm hits.And then the snowstorm hits.

How My Light is Spent by Azira_Amane E, 19k, blind!crowley, disability, coffee shop au, happy ending, hook ups, fluff, body worship, chubby aziraphale Navigating the dating world when you can't see it can be tricky. For Crowley, that was never a problem; he's usually too busy to contemplate a relationship. The same goes for Aziraphale, though he doesn't have Crowley's excuse - he just isn't really all that much into people as a whole. One chance meeting on Crowley's usual route home changes all that.

Anthony of Arcadia by Azira_Amane E, 19k, 19th century, human AU, farmer!Crowley, scholar!Aziraphale, tadfield, kidfic, disability, chronic pain Anthony Crowley is a farm owner with an old injury, a prickly temper, and a young new farmhand to raise alongside his flock. Ezra Fell is a former Oxford scholar who retired far sooner than he would have liked, finding himself in the idyllic village of Taddesfild. After a tense first meeting, they soon discover they are more alike than different. An English countryside AU, set very loosely somewhere around the 1800s.

Along the Changing Tide by NaroMoreau E, 53k, Human AU, summer romance, a hell lot of smut, fluff, night walks Aziraphale and Crowley meet at Anathema's beach house as guests for the summer. Neither of them think they're ready for a relationship but when they find themselves sharing a room, things will get complicated. A getting together, summer romance.

#good omens #ineffable husbands #ineffable wives #aziraphale #aziracrow #crowley #good omens fanfiction #good omens fic recs

[ao3feed-destiel]

Like a Storybook Story

Read it on AO3 here!https://ift.tt/2U70ism

by Gnb_rules

Dean had only a few hobbies - hunting monsters, riding Baby - his beloved horse, and teasing the former angel and current farmhand, Castiel. Yup, we’re doing a Princess Bride AU!

Words: 1263, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Castiel, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Chuck Shurley, Benny Lafitte, Crowley (Supernatural), Jack Kline

Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Additional Tags: The Princess Bride AU, Romance, Humor, Fun, No Smut, nothing graphic at all, inspiration from both The Princess Bride novel and movie, just for fun, large cast of characters - Freeform

Link: https://ift.tt/2U70ism

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[ao3feed-ineffablehusbandz]

Smooth As Tennessee Whisky

by KiaraMGrey

The year is 1965. After fleeing a bad home life, Crowley has traveled to the U.S. to find work as a farmhand. He thinks that if he just keeps his head down and does his work, nobody will notice him. When he arrives at Fell farm however, his life gets tossed a curve ball. He never could have predicted Aziraphale, the soft spoken farmers son. Together, they find that family doesn't mean just one thing, and love comes in all forms.

Words: 3079, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 2 of In Every Universe, In Every Time, I Will Find You

Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Aziraphale (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens), Anathema Device, Beelzebub (Good Omens), Gabriel (Good Omens), Hastur (Good Omens), Ligur (Good Omens), Sergeant Shadwell (Good Omens), Madame Tracy (Good Omens)

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Beelzebub/Gabriel (Good Omens)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Human, Alternate Universe - 1960s, Falling In Love, First Meetings, Pining, Mutual Pining, First Kiss, Found Family, Fluff, Angst, Period-Typical Homophobia, But I'm keeping it light, Crowley falls hard and fast, Protective Crowley, Protective Aziraphale (Good Omens), First Time, Eventual Smut, Romance, Crowley is a farm hand, Aziraphale is the farmers son, We all know how this goes, They are completely gone for each other, Slow Burn, Friends to Lovers

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/23837278

#ao3feed ineffablehusbandz #ineffable husbands #good omens #aziraphale #crowley #anthonyjcrowl

[ao3feed--destiel]

by Gnb_rules

Dean had only a few hobbies - hunting monsters, riding Baby - his beloved horse, and teasing the former angel and current farmhand, Castiel. Yup, we’re doing a Princess Bride AU!

Words: 524, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Castiel, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Chuck Shurley, Benny Lafitte, Crowley (Supernatural), Jack Kline

Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Additional Tags: The Princess Bride AU, Romance, Humor, Fun, No Smut, nothing graphic at all, inspiration from both The Princess Bride novel and movie, just for fun, large cast of characters - Freeform

via AO3 works tagged 'Castiel/Dean Winchester'

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[learningrendezvous]

Cinema Studies

AROUND INDIA WITH A MOVIE CAMERA

By Sandhyu Suri

Award-winning filmmaker Sandhya Suri (I for India) skillfully weaves together archival footage - including hand colored sequences - with a new score by composer Soumik Datta to create an emotionally resonant story about life across India from 1899 to 1947.

Drawn exclusively from the BFI National Archive, Around India features some of the earliest surviving film from India as well as gorgeous travelogues, intimate home movies and newsreels from British, French and Indian filmmakers. Taking in Maharajas and Viceroys, fakirs and farmhands and personalities such as Sabu and Gandhi, the film explores not only the people and places of over 70 years ago, but asks us to engage with broader themes of a shared history, shifting perspectives in the lead up to Indian independence and the ghosts of the past.

DVD (Color, Black and White, Closed Captioned) / 2018 / 72 minutes

GRAY STATE, A

Director: Erik Nelson

In 2010 David Crowley, an Iraq veteran, aspiring filmmaker and charismatic up-and-coming voice in fringe politics, began production on his film Gray State. Set in a dystopian near-future where civil liberties are trampled by an unrestrained federal government, the film's crowd-funded trailer was enthusiastically received by the burgeoning online community of libertarians, Tea Party activists and members of the nascent alt-right.

In January 2015, Crowley was found dead with his family in their suburban Minnesota home. Their shocking deaths quickly become a cause celebre for conspiracy theorists who speculate that Crowley was assassinated by a shadowy government concerned about a film and filmmaker that was getting too close to the truth about their aims.

A Gray State combs through Crowley's archive of 13,000 photographs, hundreds of hours of home video, and exhaustive behind-the-scenes footage of Crowley's work in progress to reveal what happens when a paranoid view of the government turns inward - blurring the lines of what is real and what people want to believe.

DVD / 2017 / 93 minutes

JEAN ROUCH, THE ADVENTUROUS FILMMAKER

By Laurent Vedrine

Jean Rouch first went to Niger in 1941 as a 24-year-old civil engineer, building roads in the French colony. But unlike other colonists, he came to see Nigeriens as equals, spending much of the next 60 years in West Africa.

Much has been written about how Rouch's films, blending fiction and documentary, road movie and ethnography, influenced the French Nouvelle Vague and the cinema verite movement. But JEAN ROUCH, THE ADVENTUROUS FILMMAKER is unique in its exploration of the less well-known role Rouch and his films played in developing cinema in Niger, from working with local crews, to featuring Nigeriens on camera, to a fascination with telling Nigerien stories that continue to resonate.

It was a meeting with 18-year-old fisherman Damoure Zika that would set Rouch on his future path. With Zika as intermediary, Rouch was allowed to film a ceremony with his grandmother, the conduit for a spirit that would possess her. This sparked his interest in ethnography, a practice he approached with openness and lack of judgment. In contrast with filmmakers of the era who set themselves apart from the "others" they were filming, Rouch collaborated with locals such as Zika - who both co-directs and appears in many films - and screened cuts with his subjects, encouraging them to offer input and make changes.

During the course of his career, Rouch made over 120 films. The excerpts in this documentary capture their astounding range - from the comedy of COCORICO! MONSIEUR POULET to the striking MOI, UN NOIR, which launched the career of great Nigerien director Oumarou Ganda, to the shocking and controversial THE MAD MASTERS, which captured a violent possession ritual that Rouch saw as offering an outlet for the traumas of colonialism. Rouch's work was not without controversy, especially when it comes to his shaping the realities he films, and the accusation that he sometimes sensationalizes through his outsider's gaze, concerns that are addressed here.

JEAN ROUCH, THE ADVENTUROUS FILMMAKER features archival interviews with Rouch, a wealth of excerpts from his films, and interviews with an array of West African commentators: Rouch's longtime collaborator and sound engineer Moussa Hamidou, filmmakers Sani Magori, Aicha Maky, and Abdoulaye Boka, ethnologist and filmmaker Mariama Hima, teacher and researcher Antoinette Tidjani Alou, and author and illustrator Sani Djibo.

DVD (French, Color, Black and White, With English Subtitles) / 2017 / 55 minutes

CINEMA NOVO

By Eryk Rocha

CINEMA NOVO is a film essay that poetically investigates the eponymous Brazilian film movement, the most prominent in Latin America in the past century, through the analysis of its main auteurs: Nelson Pereira do Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leon Hirszman, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, Ruy Guerra, Caca Diegue, Walter Lima Jr, Paulo Cesar Saraceni, among others.

DVD (Color) / 2016 / 90 minutes

SANDY DING - PSYCHOECHO

By Sandy Ding

Sandy Ding is an experimental filmmaker who lives and works in Beijing, China. He graduated from CalArts Film School USA in 2007 and started teaching in China Central Academy of Fine Arts since 2008. He produced several psycho-active films with the idea of combining ritual process in projection and sound. His work is energy patterns, telling mysteries with abstractions or powerful symbolic elements. He is equally interested in live performance of theater projections, untypical gallery projections, installations and live noise music to extend the idea of experimental film.

FILMS Mancoon 10 min, 16mm, silent, color, 2007 Water Spell 42min, 16mm, color, 2006-2007 Prisms 20 min, 16mm, color, 2012 Dream Enclosure 18 min, 16mm/Digital, b/w, 2011-2014 The Radio Wave Beneath the Dirt Ice and Flowers 10 min, 35mm, silent, b/w, 2006

BONUS River in the Castle 4 min, 16mm, silent, b/w, 2016 Original noise music: "Peacock and Ocean Erosion" by Liquid Palace 28 min, 2016.

DVD / 2016 / 132 minutes

STUDIO EEN: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS FROM THE LOWLANDS

a collection of 12 films from the Dutch film cooperative Studio Een

In 1990, as a student, Karel Doing decided to create Studio een. Many artistic, avant-garde, underground movements and counterculture movements seemed to be over. The rise of video and its academic use began to compete with Super8. To work against the decline of the Super 8 format and techniques, Karel Doing and two of his friends (Saskia Fransen and Djana Mileta) from the art school in Arnham, started to think about creating a new space and promoting the invention of DIY techniques for filming and processing Super8 films.

In this particular context, Studio een was launched. Conceived as a actual workspace, Karel Doing, Djana Mileta and Saskia Fransen, began by establishing it within a large network of festivals, galleries and other workspaces. They bought optical printers from a professional laboratory that was set to shut down and started to learn by themselves, out of necessity, how to process film. It wasn't long before Studio een became well-known in DIY film circles and began to host various artists who come to meet each other, not only to exchange ideas and work together on the use of Super8 or 16mm, but also to experiment with diverse narrative and sound forms. Some members, Joost Rekveld for example, chose to pursue a career as a musician as well as a filmmaker.

After 7 years in Arnhem, Studio een moved to Rotterdam where it continued to thrive. It became a model for many artists in creating their own laboratories, research centers and studios dedicated to experimental cinema.

Studio een no longer exists, but the laboratory itself continues in Rotterdam under the name of Filmwerkplaats by being involved in new experimentations in filmic creation while promoting the works of members and invited artists.

This DVD edition includes works of various Dutch artists who had a main role in the early years of Studio een, from 1992 to 1996.

DVD / 2016 / 114 minutes

DYING OF THE LIGHT, THE

Director: Peter Flynn

The Dying of the Light explores the history and craft of motion picture presentation through the lives and stories of the last generation of career projectionists. By turns humorous and melancholic, their candid reflections on life in the booth reveal a world that has largely gone unnoticed and is now at an end. The result is a loving tribute to the art and romance of the movies - and to the unseen people who brought the light to our screens.

DVD / 2015 / 94 minutes

I DON'T BELONG ANYWHERE: THE CINEMA OF CHANTAL AKERMAN

By Marianne Lambert

I DON'T BELONG ANYWHERE: THE CINEMA OF CHANTAL AKERMAN explores some of the Belgian filmmaker's 40 plus films, and from Brussels to Tel Aviv, from Paris to New York, it charts the sites of her peregrinations.

An experimental filmmaker, a nomad, Chantal Akerman shared with Marianne Lambert her cinematic trajectory, one that never ceased to interrogate the meaning of her existence. And with her editor and long-time collaborator, Claire Atherton, she examines the origins of her film language, and aesthetic stance.

I DON'T BELONG ANYWHERE includes excerpts from many films made throughout Akerman's career, including JEANNE DIELMAN, 23, QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES (1975), NEWS FROM HOME (1976), THE RENDEZ-VOUS OF ANNA, JE, TU, IL, ELLE (1974), SOUTH (1998), FROM THE EAST (1993), FROM THE OTHER SIDE (2002), LA-BAS (2006), and, what would be Chantal Akerman's last film, NO HOME MOVIE (2015).

DVD (Color) / 2015 / 67 minutes

MY SEVEN PLACES

By Boris Lehman

My Seven places' starts at the moment I was evicted from several places which are dear to me. They served me well as homes, both as place for living and working. This was the start of my urban wandering, which would take me ten years - a journey of 300.000 kilometers - before returning just about to my starting point. The adventure was both physical and metaphysical. Fragments of documentary films, a personal diary, bedside-table notes, piece of fiction, 'My Seven places' is an essay about passing time, embellished by a jumble of reflections both light and serious; finally, it is an attempt to simply exist. The fourth episode of my autobiographical fiction, which started in 1983

2 DVDs (French, With English Subtitles) / 2015 / 323 minutes

SEASONS IN QUINCY, THE: FOUR PORTRAITS OF JOHN BERGER

With Tilda Swinton

Directed by Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth & Tilda Swinton

Prolific artist, philosopher, writer, storyteller and "radical humanist" John Berger is the focus of this vivid four-part cinematic portrait. In 1973, he moved from urban London to the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. THE SEASONS IN QUINCY: FOUR PORTRAITS OF JOHN BERGER examines different aspects of Berger's life in this remote village in the Alps. In four seasonal chapters, the film combines ideas and motifs from his work with the texture and history of his mountain home.

"Ways of Listening" (Directed by Colin MacCabe, 26 minutes) Tilda Swinton, a longtime friend and collaborator, joins Berger for a frank and revealing conversation.

"Spring" (Directed by Christopher Roth, 19 minutes) Berger's seminal writing on animals is illuminated by local farming practice and set alongside other philosophical approaches to animal consciousness. Directed by Christopher Roth.

"A Song for Politics" (Directed by Bartek Dziadosz and Colin MacCabe, 20 minutes) Berger is joined by writers Ben Lerner and Akshi Singh along with Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth for a lively political discussion of our present moment and its relationship to the past.

"Harvest" (Directed by Tilda Swinton, 25 minutes) Berger's son and Swinton's children join their parents for a visually rich journey to Quincy from the Scottish highlands, seeing the countryside anew.

United by their central vision and an original score by by Simon Fisher Turner, the four short works that comprise THE SEASONS IN QUINCY beautifully combine to make a feature film.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2015 / 90 minutes

BEYOND ZERO: 1914-1918

By Bill Morrison Music composed by Aleksandra Vrebalov and performed by Kronos Quartet

Given up as lost for generations, footage from World War I never before seen by modern audiences comes to thrilling new life in BEYOND ZERO: 1914-1918. Auteur director Bill Morrison scoured film archives for rare 35mm nitrate footage shot during the Great War. Now, viewers can see an actual glimpse of a war fought in fields, in trenches, and in the air emerges for the first time.

Through a veil of physical degradation, unstable chemical elements and the bleeding of original film dye, viewers can see soldiers performing training exercises, parades and troop movements. While some of the battle footage was re-enacted for cameras, some is documentary footage of the war itself. All the footage was originally shot on film at the time of the conflict.

A prismatic and cinematic a message in a bottle from a century ago and accompanied by a magnificent score by Aleksandra Vrebalov performed by the Kronos Quartet, BEYOND ZERO: 1914-1918 is a powerful record of wartime past. Out on the same fields with the soldiers 100 years ago, the film is itself both collaborator and survivor.

DVD (Color) / 2014 / 40 minutes

MY CONVERSATIONS ON FILM: CHAPTERS 1-3

The film talks about movies, naturally, but mostly explores how the cinema of Boris Lehman builds and unfolds before our eyes. It is a raw and spontaneous work, seemingly a kind of first draft, because nothing is prepared, but rather, presents chance encounters and opportunities to film. Therefore, there are many hesitations, repetitions, moments that may appear boring, but which I did not wish to remove or "clean up", as they say in the jargon of cinema, because such moments are part of the work. The film is, as Patrick Leboutte once said, a thought in the middle of being formed.

Ultimately, this film is about the art of being together. It is a gallery of portraits interwoven with the watermark of the self-portrait.

My Conversations on Film are composed of three chapters. The first, from 1995, includes fifteen interviews and is accompanied with six movie clips. The second is composed of seventeen interviews conducted between 1995 and 1998 (+ seven extracts). The third covers from 1998 to 2010 and contains thirteen interviews (+ five extracts).

3 DVDs (French, English, With French, English, German Subtitles) / 2014 / 404 minutes

THANHOUSER STUDIO AND THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN CINEMA

The Thanhouser Company was a trail-blazing studio based in New Rochelle, New York. From 1910 to 1917 it released over 1,000 films that were seen by audiences around the globe.

This 53-minute documentary reconstructs the relatively unknown story of the studio and its founders, technicians, and stars as they entered the nascent motion picture industry to compete with Thomas Edison and the companies aligned with his Motion Pictures Patents Corporation (MPPC).

Ned Thanhouser, grandson of studio founders Edwin and Gertrude Thanhouser, narrates this compelling tale, recounting a saga of bold entrepreneurship, financial successes, cinematic innovations, tragic events, the launching of Hollywood careers, and the transition of the movie industry from the East Coast to the West and Hollywood.

DVD / 2014 / 53 minutes

BILL MORRISON: COLLECTED WORKS (1996 - 2013)

16 films by Bill Morrison

This five-disc set comprises 16 works by filmmaker and multimedia artist Bill Morrison, called "one of the most adventurous American filmmakers" by Variety. Morrison's work is characterized by his sensitive approach to found, often decaying film footage, and his close collaboration with contemporary conmposers, including Vijay Iyer, Johann Johannsson and Bill Frisell. Among other shorts and features, this set includes his acclaimed DECASIA (2002), "the most widely acclaimed American avant-garde film of the fin-de-siecle." (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice).

DISC 1: Blu-Ray (75 minutes) Decasia 67 minutes, 2002 Light is Calling 8 minutes, 2004

DISC 2: DVD (107 minutes) City Walk 6 minutes, 1999 Porch 8 minutes, 2005 Highwater Trilogy 31 minutes, 2006 Who by Water 18 minutes, 2007 Just Ancient Loops 26 minutes, 2012 Re-Awakenings 18 minutes, 2013

DISC 3: DVD (107 minutes) The Mesmerist 16 minutes, 2003 Ghost Trip 23 minutes, 2000 Spark of Being 68 minutes, 2010

DISC 4: DVD (86 minutes) The Miner's Hymns 52 minutes, 2011 Release 13 minutes, 2010 Outerborough 9 minutes, 2005 The Film of Her 12 minutes, 1996

DISC 5: DVD (80 minutes) The Great Flood 80 minutes, 2013

5 DVDs (Color, Black & White) / 2013 / 455 minutes

TO CHRIS MARKER, AN UNSENT LETTER

By Emiko Omori

TO CHRIS MARKER, AN UNSENT LETTER is a cinematic love letter to Chris Marker, the notoriously private filmmaker and artist--director of LA JETeE, SANS SOLEIL, LE JOLI MAI and many other films, and self-described "best known author of unknown works".

Directed by Emmy-award winning cinematographer and filmmaker Emiko Omori, whose credits include Marker's THE OWL'S LEGACY, the film is a contemplative essay whose form is inspired by Marker's signature style.

Alongside Omori's thoughts and recollections of the filmmaker, and her examinations of some of his key works, the film incorporates interviews with Marker associates and admirers including film critic David Thomson, film programmers Tom Luddy and Peter Scarlet, filmmakers Marina Goldovskaya and Michael H. Shamberg, 12 MOKNEYS screenwriters Janet and David Peoples, computer scientist Dirk Kuhlmann, and many others.

Their warm reflections join Omori's to examine the legacy of a filmmaker as beloved as he was enigmatic.

DVD (Color, Closed Captioned) / 2013 / 78 minutes

CUBAN ANIMATIONS FROM THE YOUNG DIRECTORS FILM FESTIVAL

These eight short animations have been screened at the Muestra Joven (Young Directors) Film Festival in Havana, Cuba. The Festival began in 2001 and is recognized as the most important showcase for young cinematic talent in Cuba.

Cuban animation is world renown and even though many of these young animators don't have access to the latest technology they are still able to produce interesting, provocative and aesthetically beautiful works.

8 Formas de Enfermar / 8 Ways to Get Sick (Leandro de la Rosa), 4 min., 2009

Como Desaparecer completamente /How to Completely Disappear (Harold Rensoli), 3 min., 2009

El Traje / The Suit (Abdel and Adrian de la Campa), 5 min., 2010

La Revancha / The Revenge (Ivette Avila), 3 min, 2009

Tic Tac / Tick Tock (Alien Ma Alfonso), 6 min., 2008

Ninos imaginarios / Imaginary Boys (Alien Ma Alfonso), 4 min., 2010

La Costurera / The Seamstress (Ivette Avila), 6 min., 2010

Comunidades Modernas/Modern Communities (Lester Harbert Noguel), 3 min., 2008

DVD (Color) / 2012 / 35 minutes

FEMALE DIRECTORS (NU DAOYAN)

By Yang Mingming

Ah-Ming and Yueyue are two out-of-work film school grads living in Beijing who decide to turn the camera on each other and make a film about their lives.

On the surface, FEMALE DIRECTORS is the ultimate documentary for the age of oversharing. Two young women love the camera and record the minutiae of their lives: meals, nasty fights, phone calls. Soon after the camera starts rolling, they discover that both are seeing the same sugar daddy. Recriminations and profane accusations follow. Eventually, the pair, make up, break up with the man they call "short stuff" and go traveling together.

But there is much more to this film. Is it a documentary, mockumentary, or a sly piece of drama? Ah-Ming herself is a fiction-the on-screen persona of Yang Ming Ming, the film's actual director. Deliberately unpolished, FEMALE DIRECTORS highlights rather than obscures the presence of the the camera, as it is dropped on a bed, Ah-Ming and Yueyue jostle over it, or as one or the other implores her counterpart to turn it off.

While it purports to be the true story of two women filming themselves, FEMALE DIRECTORS constantly reminds us of the process that has gone into making it. It is a genre-bending, self-aware piece of experimental filmmaking that bears repeated viewing.

DVD (Color, Chinese with English subtitles) / 2012 / 43 minutes

JOURNAL DE FRANCE

By Raymond Depardon and Claudine Nougaret

Travelling alone, internationally acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Raymond Depardon spent six years capturing his home country with a large format camera. This long, solitary road trip provided fertile ground for the creation, with his long-time partner and collaborator Claudine Nougaret, of a remarkable travel journal.

The journey returned Depardon to important places from his past as a reporter - Chad, Venice, Cannes - and to a wealth of previously unseen footage from his archive: an interview with Jean-Bedel Bokassa, film of Jean-Luc Godard, extraordinary glimpses of private and public life.

Intimate, compelling, revelatory, JOURNAL DE FRANCE offers a unique portrait of a country and its landscapes, an overview of a truly illustrious career and a fascinating resume of the development of the photographic art over the past half-century.

DVD (French With English Subtitles, Color) / 2012 / 100 minutes

BOATLOAD OF WILD IRISHMEN, A

Directed by Mac Dara O Curraidhin Written by Brian Winston

Robert Flaherty (1884-1951) was the man credited with being the father of the modern documentary film after he produced and directed "Nanook of the North" in 1922. Flaherty is one of the great name directors in the history of cinema and to this day films such as "Nanook of the North", "Moana", "Man of Aran" and "Louisiana Story" are widely regarded as classics and still regularly screened.

Flaherty is also a controversial figure in that he was also the first to show that filming the everyday life of real people could be molded into dramatic, entertaining narratives. The minute he chose to stage scenes in order to make a better film out of his seminal Inuit project "Nanook of the North", he was opening documentary's Pandora's Box. And with his later work in Samoa, the Aran Islands and Louisiana first raised such enduring topics of documentary ethics as ethnographic falsification, exploitation of one's subjects and the perils of corporate sponsorship.

But this entertaining portrait of Flaherty shrewdly looks beyond standard polemical positions to present a complex view of the man and his work (shown in vivid excerpts).

A BOATLOAD OF WILD IRISHMEN includes testimony from Flaherty himself as well as contributions from amongst others, Richard Leacock - cameraman on "Louisiana Story" (1948) and father of the contemporary hand-held documentary style, Martha Flaherty - Flaherty's Inuit granddaughter, George Stoney - documentary filmmaker and professor at New York University, Sean Crosson - film scholar at the Huston School of Film, Jay Ruby - anthropologist and film scholar at Temple University, and Deirdre Ni Chonghaile - musician and folklorist from arainn, as well as telling interviews with the people whose parents and grandparents Flaherty put onto the cinema screens of the world: Inuit, Samoans and, of obvious personal interest to the Irish filmmakers, the 'wild men' of Aran

DVD (Color) / 2011 / 84 minutes

GOLDEN SLUMBERS

By Davy Chou

Between the early 1960s and 1975, Cambodia was home to a vibrant film industry that produced more than 400 features. When the Khmer Rouge seized control of the country, they halted production, demolishing the industry along most of the rest of the country's cultural life. Cinemas were closed, prints destroyed, and the filmmakers, actors, and screenwriters who were not able to flee the country were slaughtered.

Davy Chou's GOLDEN SLUMBERS resurrects this cinema's heyday. Though very few of the films from this period have remained intact, Chou uses the soundtracks, advertisements, posters and lobby cards to recreate his subjects' shared memories of a golden era.

The film contains interviews with the era's surviving artists, including directors Ly Bun Yim, Ly You Sreang, and Yvon Hem, and actor Dy Saveth. Two dedicated cinephiles-one of whom says he can remember the faces of film stars better than those of his brothers and sisters-recall plotlines and trade film trivia. Chou also takes us inside Phnom Penh's shuttered movie palaces, now transformed into karaoke bars, restaurants, and squats.

These reminiscences and recreations testify that while the most of the films of this era have vanished, their memory endures for an entire generation of Cambodians, leaving a complex legacy for today's youth to inherit.

DVD (Color, Black & White ) / 2011 / 96 minutes

WALKING DEAD GIRLS, THE

An intriguing rarity for those seeking to study and understand a sub-genre of horror filmmaking, The Walking Dead Girls! is a behind the scenes look into zombie culture in the United States and the obsession with sexy female zombies. What is it about zombie bimbos, or "zimbies", that are starting to gain the world's interest? Why are zombies now in mainstream culture and seen in advertising from JCPenney to Sears?

With interviews with zombie master maker George Romero, cult filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman, scream queen Linnea Quigley and cult movie star Bruce Campbell.

Includes a rare look into the making of a zombie pinup calendar and behind the scenes of "Stripperland", The Walking Dead Girls! is a look into the zombie phenomenon created by Romero that is 40 years in the making.

DVD / 2011 / 90 minutes

CHANTAL AKERMAN, FROM HERE

By Gustavo Beck & Leonardo Luiz Ferreira

In CHANTAL AKERMAN, FROM HERE, the renowned Belgian filmmaker sits down for an hour-long conversation about her entire body of work.

Throughout, the camera holds steady from outside an open door. The long, unbroken shot, and the frame-within-a-frame pay homage to Akerman's own unmistakable style ("I need a corridor. I need doors. Otherwise, I can't work", she says). But by shooting her in profile, the filmmakers provide a contrast to the signature frontality of her compositions (one of the many subjects covered in the wide-ranging interview) - an acknowledgement of this portrait's contingency also underlined by the title.

Akerman describes her first experiences with avant-garde film in New York, and, in particular, the lessons she took from the work of Michael Snow. She answers questions about her approach to fiction, documentary, and literary adaptation, covering everything from the early short LA CHAMBRE (1972) to the recent feature LA-BAS (2006). She explains her preference for small budgets and small crews, and the paramount importance of instinct and improvisation in her directorial process.

She is nothing if not forthcoming, candidly assessing her successes and failures, including an aborted attempt at writing at Hollywood screenplay. An image emerges of a filmmaker as assured and idiosyncratic as the work suggests. We see that behind Akerman's cinematic innovations there is not only a remarkable intellectual clarity, but an ethical commitment to making films in which the viewer can "feel the time passing-by in your own body", because, she says, "that is the only thing you have: time."

DVD (Color) / 2010 / 62 minutes

ART OF FILMMAKING, THE

This box set features the following 5 documentaries about the art of filmmaking:

Tales From the Script Screenwriters ranging from newcomers to living legends share their triumphs and hardships in this probing, insightful, and often hilarious odyssey through the world of movie storytelling. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in Hollywood.

FEATURING: Shane Black (Lethal Weapon), John Carpenter (Halloween), Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption), William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), David Hayter (X-Men), Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost), Paul Schrader (Raging Bull & Taxi Driver), Ron Shelton (Bull Durham), David S. Ward (The Sting) and many more.

Directors: Life Behind the Camera Made in cooperation with the American Film Institute, this 4 hour interactive film features thirty-three legendary directors who reveal intimate and in-depth knowledge about the art of filmmaking and, as well, their own career in the movies.

FEATURING: Robert Altman, Robert Benton, Tim Burton, James Cameron, Chris Columbus, Wes Craven, Cameron Crowe, Frank Darabont, Jonathan Demme, Richard Donner, Clint Eastwood, Nora Ephron, William Friedkin, Terry Gilliam, Ron Howard, Lawrence Kasdan, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson, George Lucas, David Lynch, Adrian Lyne, Garry Marshall, Penny Marshall, Sydney Pollack, Rob Reiner, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Bryan Singer, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Robert Zemeckis & David Zucker.

Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary From cinema-verite pioneer Albert Maysles to mavericks like Errol Morris and Werner Herzog, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre in this comprehensive film. Including interviews with 38 directors and film clips from classics such as Grey Gardens and The Thin Blue Line, this one-of-a-kind film explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films.

FEATURING: Nick Broomfield, Joan Churchill, Patricio Guzman, Werner Herzog, Scott Hicks, Heddy Honigmann, Kim Longinotto, Kevin Macdonald, Albert Maysles, Errol Morris, Laura Poitras, and many more.

Light Keeps Me Company Twice an Oscar Winner and considered one of the foremost cinematographers of all time, Sven Nykvist shot some of the most important films in the history of cinema. Lovingly directed by his son, included are clips from his work, rare home movies, family photographs, behind-the-scenes footage, and interviews with the legends who worked with him.

FEATURING: Woody Allen, Richard Attenborough, Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon, Stellan Skarsgard, Vittorio Storaro, Liv Ullmann, Vilmos Zsigmond, and others.

Lavender Limelight: Lesbians in Film From Go Fish to Paris is Burning, this festival favorite goes behind the scenes to reveal seven successful lesbian directors. These talented movie-makers enlighten and entertain as they discuss topics including how they got their start, inspirations, filmmaking techniques, Hollywood vs. Indie, and breaking out of the "gay ghetto."

FEATURING: Cheryl Dunye, Su Friedrich, Jennie Livingston, Heather MacDonald, Maria Maggenti, Monika Treut, and Rose Troche.

6 DVDs / 2009 / 574 minutes

CAPTURING REALITY: THE ART OF DOCUMENTARY

Director: Pepita Ferrari

From cinema-verite pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick moviemakers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre in this comprehensive and eye-opening two-disc box set.

Featuring interviews with 38 directors and 163 film clips from classics such as Grey Gardens and The Thin Blue Line, as well as recent work like Darwin's Nightmare and Touching the Void, Capturing Reality explores the complex creative process that goes into making non-fiction films. Deftly charting the documentarian's journey, it poses the question: can film capture reality?

DVD-R / 2009 / 98 minutes

FILMS OF MICHAEL SPORN, THE

Director: Michael Sporn

This Collector's Edition Box Set includes 12 films on 6 discs from the award-winning animator Michael Sporn, including: Whitewash; The Talking Eggs ; Champagne; The Hunting of the Snark; The Marzipan Pig; Jazztime Tale; Abel's Island; The Dancing Frog; The Red Shoes; The Little Match Girl ; The Emperor's New Clothes; Nightingale.

Based on stories from such acclaimed writers as William Steig (author of Shrek), Russell Hoban, Hans Christian Andersen, and Lewis Carroll, these widely acclaimed films feature a stunning array of voice talent, including James Earl Jones, Tim Curry, Danny Glover, Ruby Dee, Regis Philbin, and Linda Lavin.

When it's "time for a break from Disney" (Chicago Parent Magazine), put a Michael Sporn DVD on and enter the imaginative world of this "poet of animation" (Oscar-winning Animator John Canemaker).

DVD / 2008 / 360 minutes

OPERATION FILMMAKER

By Nina Davenport

In 2004, American actor Liev Schreiber saw an MTV segment on Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed, whose dreams of becoming a filmmaker had been thwarted by the bombing of his university during "Operation Iraqi Freedom." Schreiber, then preparing to film his directorial debut, Everything is Illuminated, in Prague, invited Muthana to work as a production assistant on the film.

Nina Davenport was hired to document Muthana's experience as an intern on the Hollywood movie. But Schreiber's well-intentioned gesture doesn't result in the inspiring story everyone had hoped for, as differing expectations and agendas clash. In particular, Muthana begrudgingly performs or shirks responsibility for the tasks assigned to him, repeatedly squandering a golden opportunity.

For OPERATION FILMMAKER, Davenport chronicled Muthana's story over a two-year period, from his work in Prague as a P.A. on Schreiber's Holocaust drama and later on Doom, a sci-fi film starring "The Rock," to a stint at a London film school, periodically contrasting his experiences abroad with scenes of Muthana's family and friends in wartorn Baghdad.

While documenting Muthana's relationships with the producers, crews and stars of both films-characterized by a psychologically fascinating stew of good intentions, bad faith, liberal guilt, and opportunism. Davenport herself eventually becomes embroiled in the young man's perennial financial difficulties and visa problems. In its continuing but futile search for a "happy ending," OPERATION FILMMAKER exposes the often mutually manipulative relationships between filmmakers and their subjects.

DVD (Color) / 2007 / 92 minutes

KUXA KANEMA: THE BIRTH OF CINEMA

By Margarida Cardoso

The first cultural act of the nascent Mozambique Government after independence in 1975 was to create the National Institute of Cinema (INC). The new president Samora Machel had a strong awareness of the power of the image, and understood he needed to use this power to build a socialist nation. INC's goal was to film the people, and to deliver these images back to the people.

Reflecting the country's commitment to independence and socialism, the history of the INC and the films it produced cannot be disassociated from the movement embodied by Samora Machel and FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front). Footage from the films - found by filmmaker Margarida Cardoso in an abandoned, burnt out building - show Mozambique's trajectory from great hope to great disillusionment. Weaving these images together with interviews of the people who produced them, KUXA KANEMA constructs a history of the birth and death of local cinema, and the birth and death of an ideology.

Directors, screenwriters, technicians return to the INC to view the footage, and discuss their industry as a unique testimonial to the country, its struggles and wars.

Today, the People's Republic of Mozambique is simply the Republic of Mozambique. Samora Machel's death marked the end of Mozambique's cinema (the current government prefers television). There is nothing left of the INC. The forgotten images that captured the first eleven years of independency - the years of the socialist revolution - are rotting, taking with them both the history of a period, and the history of hope.

DVD (Color / Black & White) / 2003 / 52 minutes

GAO RANG (GRILLED RICE)

By Claude Grunspan

The war in Vietnam was the most filmed conflict in world history. But, unlike the thousands of Western journalists, a small band of North Vietnamese and NLF cameramen has largely been forgotten, though they founded Vietnamese cinema.

GAO RANG (meaning grilled or burnt rice) tells the story of these cameramen/soldiers. In their own words, they describe their experiences filming in combat, first against the French and later the Americans.

Mai Loc and Khoung Me, two veterans from the French war, tell of acquiring the first cameras and instruction manuals. Mr. Xuong, a traveling projectionist during both wars, recalls projecting films along the 17th Parallel, and remembers how the public reacted to the films.

Tran Van Thuy (director of HOW TO BEHAVE) and Le Man Thich (Director at the Studio for Documentary Films in Hanoi) screen some of the material that they shot. They describe the hardship and fear they faced in combat and during American bombings. For all of them, "to make propaganda was obvious." But they also discuss their regrets. Thuy says "If we had had a more critical historical awareness, we could have left much better images." Their films give the impression that everything was easy. They didn't film enough of the hard daily life, and regret the many "heroic deaths that were not filmed." It would have been "useless," the footage would not have been used.

Today, much of the footage these cameramen and their comrades shot is disappearing. The cost of preserving and storing the film is too expensive. Their history (and part of ours) is being "recycled" for a few bits of silver.

DVD (Color / Black & White) / 2000 / 52 minutes

LEVEL FIVE

By Chris Marker With Catherine Belkhodja

A woman (Laura), a computer, an invisible interlocutor: such is the setup on which LEVEL FIVE is built. She "inherits" a task: to finish writing a video game centered on the Battle of Okinawa - a tragedy practically unknown in the West, but whose development played a decisive role in the way World War II ended, as well as in postwar times and even our present.

A strange game, in fact. Contrary to classical strategy games whose purpose is to turn back the tide of history, this one seems willing only to reproduce history as it happened. While working on Okinawa and meeting through a rather unusual network - parallel to Internet - informants and even eye-witnesses to the battle (including film director Nagisa Oshima), Laura gathers pieces of the tragedy, until they start to interfere with her own life.

As in any self-respecting video game, this one proceeds by "levels". Laura and her interlocutor, intoxicated by their enterprise, use this as a metaphor for life itself, and gladly attribute levels to everything around them. Will she attain LEVEL FIVE?

DVD (French With English Subtitles, Color) / 1996 / 106 minutes

FAR FROM VIETNAM

By Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, and Alain Resnais

Initiated and edited by Chris Marker, FAR FROM VIETNAM is an epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch and Alain Resnais in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam--made, per Marker's narration, "to affirm, by the exercise of their craft, their solidarity with the Vietnamese people in struggle against aggression."

A truly collaborative effort, the film brings together an array of stylistically disparate contributions, none individually credited, under a unified editorial vision. The elements span documentary footage shot in North and South Vietnam and at anti-war demonstrations in the United States; a fictional vignette and a monologue that dramatize the self-interrogation of European intellectuals; interviews with Fidel Castro and Anne Morrison, widow of Norman Morrison, the Quaker pacifist who burned himself alive in front of the Pentagon in 1965; an historical overview of the conflict; reflections from French journalist Michele Ray; and a range of repurposed media material.

Passionately critical and self-critical, and as bold in form as it is in rhetoric, FAR FROM VIETNAM is a milestone in political documentary and in the French cinema.

DVD (English, French With English Subtitles, Color) / 1967 / 115 minutes

LE JOLI MAI: THE LOVELY MONTH OF MAY

By Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme Music: Michel Legrand Narration: Simone Signoret

"A far-reaching meditation on the relationship between individual and society" (Film Comment), LE JOLI MAI is a portrait of Paris and Parisians shot during May 1962.

It is a film with several thousand actors including a poet, a student, an owl, a housewife, a stockbroker, a competitive dancer, two lovers, General de Gaulle and several cats.

Filmed just after the March ceasefire between France and Algeria, LE JOLI MAI documents Paris during a turning point in French history: the first time since 1939 that France was not involved in any war.

Part I, "A Prayer from the Eiffel Tower," documents personal attitudes and feelings around Paris. A salesman feels free only when he is driving his car, and then only if there is not too much traffic. A working-class mother of eight has just gotten the larger apartment that she had been wanting for years. The space capsule of American astronaut John Glenn is examined by a group of admiring children. Two investors talk about their careers and adventures. A couple in love since their teens discuss the possibility of eternal happiness. At a middle class wedding banquet, the guests are raucous while the bride is quiet, dignified and reserved.

Part II, "The Return of Fantomas," is an investigation of the political and social life of the city. Marker and Lhomme alternate between public events and private discussions: the former focusing on the Algerian situation, such as a funeral for people killed in Paris street demonstrations after the Algerian settlement. Meanwhile, the latter includes a conversation with two girls about the state of France; a meeting with a pair of engineers who describe the potential of the current technological revolution; a n African student who discusses his own response to the French and the Parisians' reaction to his skin color; a worker-priest forced to choose between the Church and his fellow workers; and an Algerian worker describing conflict he has experienced with native Frenchmen.

The film ends with sweeping views of Paris, the facades of its prisons, and the faces of its people as they struggle to make sense of their moment in history.

DVD (English, French With English Subtitles, Black and White) / 1963 / 145 minutes

TRAVELS IN THE CONGO: VOYAGE AU CONGO

A report by Andre Gide and Marc Allegret A film by Marc Allegret With a new score by Mauro Coceano

In 1925, Marc Allegret accompanied Andre Gide on a journey to French Equatorial Africa, the Congo, as his secretary, and novice filmmaker. Filming throughout their 11-month travels, and only three years after Nanook of the North, Allegret's goal was to immerse viewers "as we ourselves had been, in the atmosphere of this mysterious country."

Unusual for its time Travels in the Congo (Voyage au Congo) is a largely observational documentary (with one dramatized sequence) showing aspects of the lives, culture, and built environments of diverse groups in the region, amongst them the Baya, Sara and Fula peoples, and without trying to shoehorn them into a dramatic narrative.

Travels in the Congo does, of course, retain a certain colonial gaze; in writing about the film, Allegret referred to its subjects as "a humanity without history." But overall it remains steadfast in its approach, presenting its subjects on their own terms.

After Travels in the Congo, Marc Allegret had a long career as a filmmaker and photographer. Andre Gide wrote two books about their time in Africa, Travels in the Congo and Return from Chad, and went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Allegret and Gide carried out most of their journey on foot. Porters carried the film's negatives for months, through extreme heat and humidity. But the nitrate footage survived. In 2018, Travels in the Congo was restored and digitized by Les Films du Pantheon in collaboration with Les Films du Jeudi, with the support of CNC and the Cinematheque francaise, and the help of the British Film Institute. This restored version also includes a newly commissioned instrumental soundtrack.

DVD (French, With English Subtitles, Black and White) / 1927 / 117 minutes

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