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Insomnia (1997)
1h 39m | Crime
Norwegian thriller film about a police detective investigating a murder in a town located above the Arctic Circle. The investigation goes horribly wrong when he mistakenly shoots his partner and subsequently attempts to cover it up. The title of the film refers to his inability to sleep, the result of his guilt .....
"The film has been widely praised as a psychological study and "semi-noir".[1]
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times compared it to the Fyodor Dostoyevsky novel Crime and Punishment.[2]
For the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised the principal performance by Skarsgård and added that "Mr. Skjoldbjærg's understated, elliptical direction keeps the material dangerous and volatile,...."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomnia_(1997_film)
Director
Erik Skjoldbjµrg
Cast
Stellan Skarsgård, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Bjørn Fl...
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The Johnstown Flood (1926)
American silent epic drama film directed by Irving Cummings, that addresses the Great Flood of 1889 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
The film stars George O'Brien, Florence Gilbert, and Janet Gaynor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Johns ... 1926_film)
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Annie Laurie (1927)
1h 40m | Silent | TV-PG
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017632/
Director
John S. Robertson
Cast
Lillian Gish, Norman Kerry, Creighton Hale
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Film: The Living Record of Our Memory (2021)
TV-PG
highlights the unique challenges of maintaining film, the cultural and political barriers to preservation, and the surprising risks of digital preservation. This work is critical because, as the film explains, so much of this heritage has already been lost forever.
https://filmthelivingrecordofourmemory.com/
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Director
Inés Toharia Terán