Nun kann man ihn zusammen mit dem koreanischen Video-Essayisten Kogonada auf der Berlinale erleben. In Reference to: Visual essays  heißt die Veranstaltung, auf der beide ihre Arbeit vorstellen und diskutieren wollen:

„Recent years have seen the increased popularity of short online videos that explore films or the œuvre of a director by reworking and commenting on shots and scenes to reveal new insights. These visual essays – produced by everybody from fans to film critics and academics – quote, remix, pay homage and draw references between movies, film history, journalism and pop culture. Both hailed internationally as kings of the video essay, Kevin B. Lee (vimeo.com/kevinblee) and kogonada (kogonada.com) come to Berlin to discuss their aesthetic and practical approaches to an exciting means of expression, which they have developed into an independent variety of cinematic art.“ (Berlinale)

„Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Jan. 5 announced updates to their current multiyear deal, making Netflix the global home — outside of China — to a number of new original series from the studio. The deal also covers streaming rights to the DreamWorks Animation feature film library…

The expanded agreement with Netflix comes as DWA continues to restructure internally — a strategy that saw layoffs and the sale of capital infrastructure in 2015. The studio reported a narrowed loss of $3.5 million (from $11.9 million year-over-year) in its most-recent fiscal period.

Indeed, some Wall Street analysts contend DWA is overly dependent upon Netflix to remain afloat financially.“ (Home Media Magazine)

The Act of Killing

(2013) 122 minutes.  Drafthouse Films.  Available from http://drafthousefilms.com and various distributors.

Death squad leaders of the 1965 Indonesian massacres reflect on their crimes and reenact them in the style of Hollywood movies.

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After Tiller

(2013) 88 minutes.  Oscilloscope Laboratories.  Available from http://www.oscilloscope.net/films/ and various distributors.

The few remaining doctors performing late term abortions in the United States discuss their chosen profession and look ahead to an uncertain future for reproductive rights.

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Anita: Speaking Truth to Power

(2013) 77 minutes.  First Run Features.  Available from https://firstrunfeatures.com and various distributors.

Anita Hill finds her voice as an advocate for women’s rights and gender issues after her testimony at the 1991 confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas.

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Dirty Wars

(2013) 86 minutes.  IFC Films.  Available from various distributors.

Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations Command, a U.S. covert fighting force, which conducts civilian torture and killings across the globe.

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Five Broken Cameras

(2011) 90 minutes.  Kino Lorber.  Available from http://www.kinolorber.com and various distributors.

Palestinian filmmaker Emad Burnat documents the damage done to each of his five video cameras during nonviolent protests against Israeli settlements.

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 Gideon’s Army

(2013) 95 minutes.  Third World Newsreel.  Available from http://twn.org

(Kontakt zur Produktionsfirma)

Three dedicated Southern public defenders with staggering caseloads represent indigent clients within a problematic legal system.

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Harvest of Empire

(2012) 90 minutes.  Third World Newsreel.  Available from http://twn.org

A comprehensive geopolitical picture of the economic and historical realities that have guided waves of Latin American migration to the U.S.

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Inequality for All

(2013) 90 minutes.  Anchor Bay Entertainment.  Available from various distributors.

Former U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Robert Reich explains the growing chasm between rich and poor and its consequences for American society.

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Internet’s Own Boy

(2014) 105 minutes.  Ro*co Films Educational.  Available from http://www.rocoeducational.com and various distributors.

This portrait of Aaron Schwartz, programmer and Internet activist, highlights the many contributions and ideas he left behind after his suicide in 2013.

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Let the Fire Burn

(2013) 95 minutes.  Zeitgeist Films.  Available from https://zeitgeistfilms.com and various distributors.

An account of the events leading up to the explosive confrontation which decimated the Philadelphia MOVE community, told exclusively through archival news footage.

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Los Angeles Plays Itself

(2014) 169 minutes.  Cinema Guild.  Available from http://cinemaguild.com and various distributors.

Los Angeles’ imprint upon the American imagination is examined in this video essay of the city as character and subject in motion pictures.

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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

(2012) 107 minutes.  Docurama.  Available from various distributors.

The serial sexual abuse of hundreds of deaf students by a Milwaukee priest exposes patterns of secrecy and denial within the Catholic church hierarchy.

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Particle Fever

(2012) 99 minutes.  Ro*co Films Educational.  Available from http://www.rocoeducational.com and various distributors.

An international team of physicists work to complete the Large Hadron Collider to prove the existence of the Higgs boson particle.

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Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People

(2013) 92 minutes.  First Run Features.  Available from https://firstrunfeatures.com and various distributors.

Expands the history of photographic arts by exploring African American personal identity and representation through family portraits and albums.

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Who is Dayani Cristal?

(2013) 85 minutes.  Kino Lorber.  Available from http://www.kinolorber.com and various distributors.

Mexican actor and activist Gael Garcia Bernal traces the tragic journey of an illegal immigrant from his Central American village to the Arizona desert.

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„Flaherty war überzeugt, dass das Publikum den Film besser verstünde, wenn er einen adäquaten Soundtrack mit polynesischer Musik hätte.

Rund 50 Jahre später setzte Flahertys Tochter Monica diese Idee um. Da sie als Kind selbst bei den Dreharbeiten dabei war und die Sprache beherrschte, führte sie in den 70er Jahren auf Samoa Tonaufnahmen mit den zum Teil noch lebenden Mitwirkenden von „Moana“ durch: Pe’a und der Hauptdarsteller Ta’avale (Moana) lebten noch in Safune, Fa’angase (Dorfmädchen) lebte inzwischen auf Hawaii. 1975 sammelte sie, unterstützt vom Dokumentarfilmpionier Richard Leacock, auf Samoa umfangreiches Tonmaterial und legte diese Aufnahmen authentischer Volkslieder, atmosphärischer O-Töne und rekonstruierter Dialoge an den Film an.“ (Arte TV)

Hier die Geschichte der Dreharbeiten und der Tonfassung

Die spannende Geschichte der Restaurierung des Films durch Bruce Posner und Sami van Ingen in Zusammenarbeit mit Thomas Bakels von Alpha Omega Digital in München

Beide Featurettes sind auch auf der Blu-ray und der DVD enthalten, neben einem gefilmten Kommentar der beiden Filmhistoriker Enrico Camporesi und Bruce Posner, Flaherty’s Kurzfilm Twenty-Four-Dollar Island von 1927 und einem Interviewausschnitt mit seiner Frau Frances Flaherty von 1960 „Flaherty and Film: Moana„.

„I can easily understand why some of Abel Ferrara’s biggest fans have certain reservations about his Pasolini (2014), available now on a splendid Region 2 Blu-ray from the BFI…

… most disconcertingly, it’s a responsible, apparently well-researched treatment of one of the most irresponsible of film artists, made by another film artist generally cherished for his own irresponsibility…“

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„… in the BFI’s Otto Preminger Film Noir Collection, a “limited edition” Blu-ray box set that includes Fallen Angel (1945), Whirlpool (1950), and Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), although I’m happy to report that the cinephiliac strain predominates, especially in the inclusion of expert audio commentaries by Adrian Martin provided on all three features (the first two recorded for Australian Madman DVD releases in 2009, and the latter recently produced by and for the BFI). There’s also a lively 80-minute audio interview with Preminger conducted by Joan Bakewell in 1972 on the Fallen Angel disc, accompanied by stills…“

Anmerkung: Hier eine ausführliche Diskussion der verschiedenen US- und UK-Fassungen und -Ausgaben aus dem Criterion-Forum.

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„… the BFI’s dual-format edition of Ousmane Sembène’s first two films, Borom Sarret (1963) and La noire de…/Black Girl (1966), both restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, is nearly irreproachable…  I’m immensely grateful that this edition includes the alternate version of Black Girl, with a brief sequence in colour depicting the heroine’s first glimpses of the Côte d’Azur (which is lamentably ignored and left out of the New Yorker DVD), as well as two separate documentaries about Sembène (Manthia Diawara and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s 1964  Sembène: The Making of African Cinema and D. Sentilhes and B. Josse’s 2003 Sembène: A Portrait) and a 14-minute 2005 interview with Black Girl’s lead actress M’Bissine Thérèse Diop.“

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„I’ve already written at some length (www.jonathanrosenbaum.net/2011/04/the-displacements-of-the-fortgotten-space-tk/) about Allan Sekula (1951–2013) and Noël Burch’s The Forgotten Space (2010), released on DVD by Icarus Films, so I hope I can be allowed to quote my opening paragraph:

“I’m sure that I learned a lot more from The Forgotten Space—an essay film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch about sea cargo in the contemporary global economy—than I did from any other feature that I saw last year, fiction or non-fiction…“

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„…the beautifully produced DVD edition of Kon Ichikawa’s 37-minute Kyoto (1968), available from www.martygrossfilms.com—which comes with a lovely 14-page foldout booklet, a choice between narrations in English, Italian, and Japanese (the English one is delivered by Michael Redgrave), and a 17-minute documentary about the opening-night screenings in Tokyo and Kyoto… Kyoto has a floating and shifting focus that proceeds from rock gardens to Zen Buddhism and beyond, but it has a documentary and cultural value as an educational, touristic art film on every topic it addresses.“

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„I have a lot of catching up to do with the films of Benoît Jacquot, but the two-disc Blu-ray set from the Cohen Film Collection, comprising The Disenchanted (1990), A Single Girl (1995), and Keep it Quiet (1999)—only the second of which I’d previously seen—seems to give me a healthy start. All three are accompanied by amiable discussions between Jacquot and Kent Jones, mainly in subtitled French (with an irrelevant and distracting giant Oscar lurking behind them), and by able audio commentaries by critics Wade Major and Tim Cogshell (which appear to have benefitted from the Jacquot-Jones dialogues, making for some repetitions of information, though many of the more relevant facts are worth stressing)…“

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„At the age of 16 in 1959, I was dumb enough—or at least sufficiently “of the period”—to take Stanley Kramer’s On the Beach seriously, and I was far from alone in this attitude.  So it was largely an impulse to reassess both myself and 1959 (not Kramer) that led me to shell out $13.64 for a Korean import DVD from Amazon. Why is it that the extinction of humanity from a nuclear holocaust was a live and vital subject back then and not just a post-apocalyptic trope, as it’s more apt to be today?…“

Anmerkung: Über den  Film und die Romanvorlage von Neville Shute gibt es einen Dokumentarfilm von 2013: Fallout von Lawrence Johnston (siehe Senses of Cinema).

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„It’s virtually impossible to think of a major contemporary French filmmaker who has been more independent, hence more consistently marginalized, than Marcel Hanoun (1929–2012)… This situation makes last year’s release of Hanoun’s 1966 L’authentique procès de Carl-Emmanuel Jung on a PAL DVD with English subtitles from the invaluable Re:Voir label a major event, especially for those like me who have never been able to follow such a text-heavy film without some textual support. Inspired and prompted by the Adolf Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961 (as well as a subsequent Nazi war-crime trial carried out in Frankfurt), Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, and the documentation techniques of Peter Weiss (among others), Hanoun’s imaginary “authentic trial” of a cultivated Nazi war criminal who plays Bach and Gluck on the piano (Maurice Poullenot) unfolds in a dark and deliberately artificial studio space where the sound is both asynchronous and characterized by other discontinuities, all of which reflect the difficulties of ordinary viewers in assimilating the Eichmann trial as it was being broadcast.“

________________________________________________________________“… Stillman’s first and third features are both available on well-appointed Criterion Blu-rays, while Barcelona (1994), the second, and Damsels in Distress (2011), the fourth (and the one Stillman told me he was most satisfied with), can be had from Warners and Sony, respectively—the former only on DVD, the latter on Blu-ray with many extras for only $8.26 from Amazon,… It was encouraging to discover during our interview that Stillman is both a passionate Frank Tashlin fan and a victim, as Tashlin himself was, of the sort of critical typecasting that limits the potential scope of his own projects.“

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„My only quibbles about the Blu-ray of Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s The Honey Pot (1967) from Kino Lorber and the DVD of Samuel Fuller’s Run of the Arrow (1957) in the Warner Archive Collection are their absence of extras, but this is small potatoes …

Although I’m not quite ready to call the Mankiewicz masterpiece the writer-director’s most essential work, it may have Mankiewicz’s cleverest script (in spite of all the changes he had to make in its original conception), and I’m delighted that the late, great German critic Frieda Grafe included it among her own favourites.

As for Run of the Arrow, it arguably features the most cantankerous hero of any Fuller feature…

And I have no quibbles at all about the Twentieth-Century Fox DVD of John Berry’s exquisite 1974 comedy about ghetto life and welfare, Claudine, audio commentaries and all, which has been available for the past dozen years and was purchased by me nine years ago, but which I only got around to watching recently…“

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Douglas Kellner schreibt in Jump Cut über die gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Hintergründe des New Taiwan Cinema bis zu seinem internationalen Durchbruch in den Neunzigern.

Die Blu-ray-Edition Taiwan New Wave Cinema mit 3 Blu-rays erscheint am 25.12.2015 und ist in Taiwan hier bestellbar.

Central Pictures Corporation restauriert seit 2010 seine Film Library und hat seitdem schon mehrere frühe Filme des New Taiwan Cinema publiziert. Im Westen sind die Filme dieser Zeit wenig bekannt. Geläufig sind uns eher die späteren, internationalen Erfolge u. a. von Hou Hsiao Hsien, Edward Yang und Ang Lee.

Die Videothek als Archiv – der Verein Les Videos in Zürich mit seinem Fundus von 30.000 Filmen ist ein Beispiel dafür, ebenso wie in Deutschland das Videodrom in Berlin (über 30.000 Filme, ein Bericht hier) oder das Video City in Frankfurt am Main (65.000 Filme, gute Nachricht nebenbei: die größte deutsche Videothek muss zum Jahresende nicht schließen. Sie zieht im Februar 2016 um).

Auf öffentliche Einrichtungen wie Bibliotheken und Kinematheken kann man hier meist nicht zählen, obwohl sie wegen ihrer Gemeinnützigkeit und der Bibliothekstantieme von den rechtlichen Beschränkungen kommerzieller Videotheken befreit sind. So ist nur in dieser Rechtsform der Kauf innerhalb des Europäischen Wirtschaftsraums (EWR) und der folgende Verleih möglich, ohne an das kommerzielle Vermietrecht gebunden zu sein. Und im EWR findet sich auch fast immer ein legaler Anbieter für Filme aus den verschiedenen Ländern der Welt. Eine solche Weltkinematographie wird es bei regionalen streaming-Anbietern nie geben.

Die Leute von Les Videos stellen ihre Videothek vor. Vielen Dank für den Hinweis an das digithek blog in der Schweiz.

Rahmin Bahrani gehört zu einer Strömung des US-Kinos, die der Filmkritiker der New York Times A. O. Scott  einmal als Neo-Neo Realism bezeichnet hat.

„„99 Homes“ ist Fiktion, aber nichts an Bahranis Film wirkt fiktiv. Auch der junge Bauarbeiter, der unter dem Einfluss des übermächtigen Immobilienmaklers zu einer Art Faust-Figur wird, indem er sich mit Haut und Haar an den gewissenlosen Vollstrecker eines manipulierbaren Gesetzes verkauft, um seiner Familie das Dach über dem Kopf zu retten, ist unter Bahranis mikroskopischer Regie kein Einzelfall. Er ist vielmehr Beispiel für eine Situation, in der materielle Umstände moralische Entscheidungen provozieren, zu denen sich die Betroffenen gestern noch unfähig gefühlt hätten. Seine Geschichte ist die Geschichte einer Krise, die zum System wurde. „99 Homes“ beschäftigt sich mit einem Aspekt amerikanischer Wirtschaftspolitik und deren Folgen, die nur wenigen außerhalb des Landes in ihren vollen Dimensionen vertraut ist. “ (Franz Everschor)

„99 Homes“ erscheint am 25.1.2016 in Großbritannien auf DVD und Blu-ray, bei studiocanal. Damit besteht eine Chance, dass dieser Anbieter den Film auch in Deutschland veröffentlicht.

112 Weddings (Zeitgeist, 95 min., DVD: $29.95). Director Doug Block speaks with couples whose weddings he filmed, who offer frank opinions on married life after the honeymoon.(VL-9/19). (europäischer Anbieter)

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1971 (First Run, 80 min., DVD: $24.95 [$300 w/PPR from Big Mouth Productions, www.bigmouthproductions.com]). Filmmaker Johanna Hamilton’s gripping documentary revisits a March 1971 break-in by activists at an FBI office in Media, PA, who found evidence of large scale illegal domestic spying. (VL-5/15)

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Banksy Does New York (Kino Lorber, 80 min., DVD: $19.95 [$349 w/PPR from www.kinolorberedu.com]). Chris Moukarbel’s documentary captures the social, cultural, and legal ramifications of a project by English graffiti artist and political activist Banksy, who visited New York City in October 2013 and unveiled one secret outdoor piece each day of the month. (VL-11/15)

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Big Men (Outcast Films [www.outcast-films.com], 99 min., DVD: $29.99: individuals; $295: institutions). Filmmaker Rachel Boynton chronicles the political and social upheaval created by the discovery of the „Jubilee“ oil field in the African nation of Ghana, which brings Texas-based energy firm Kosmos in to develop the new resource, with promises that benefits will trickle down. (VL-11/15)

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Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity (Kino Lorber, 82 min., DVD: $29.95 [$349 w/PPR from www.kinolorberedu.com]). Filmmaker Catherine Gund’s documentary serves up an energetic portrait of NYC-based dancer-choreographer Elizabeth Streb, who has steadily pushed the boundaries of modern dance with her „Pop Action“ fusion of dance, gymnastics, and machine-assisted kinetic stunts. (VL-7/15)

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Bronx Obama (Passion River, 91 min., DVD: $24.95 [$249 w/PPR from edu.passionriver.com]). A film about a nobody who becomes a faux somebody, director Ryan Murdock’s documentary follows Louis Ortiz, an underachieving single father whose resemblance to Barack Obama brought him notoriety during the 2008 presidential election. (VL-7/15)

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Citizenfour (Anchor Bay, 113 min., R, DVD: $22.98, Blu-ray: $26.99). This Oscar-winning documentary captures director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s remarkable encounters with whistleblower Edward Snowden in a Hong Kong hotel room, where he handed over classified documents that contained evidence of massive legal invasions of privacy by the National Security Agency. (VL-9/15) (europäischer Anbieter)

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Dinosaur 13 (Lionsgate, 100 min., DVD or Blu-ray: $19.98). Director Todd Douglas Miller’s intriguing documentary chronicles the real-life story of the discovery of the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossil—affectionately named “Sue”—followed by the legal controversy surrounding the government’s subsequent seizure of the bones. (VL-5/15) (europäischer Anbieter)

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Glen Campbell… I’ll Be Me (Virgil, 116 min., DVD: $19.99). Directed by James Keach, this CNN-aired documentary captures country/pop superstar Glen Campbell and his family following his 2011 diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease, as the singer embarks on his “Goodbye Tour.” (VL-9/15)

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The Green Prince (Music Box, 101 min., in English & Hebrew w/English subtitles, DVD: $29.95, Blu-ray: $34.95). Filmmaker Nadav Schirman’s documentary tells the amazing story of Mosab Hassan Yousef, a mole for Israeli security agency Shin Bet who also happens to be the son of Palestinian Hamas leader Sheikh Hassan Yousef. (VL-1/15) (europäischer Anbieter)

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The Hunting Ground (Anchor Bay, 102 min., DVD: $22.98, Blu-ray: $26.99 [$395 w/PPR from Ro*co Educational, www.rocoeducational.com]). Director Kirby Dick’s harrowing documentary weaves together cinema vérité footage and first-person testimonies to offer a startling exposé of sexual assault on U.S. college campuses. (VL-9/15)

Anmerkung: siehe auch den kritischen Kommentar zu diesem Film in der Zeitung Die Welt vom 3.9.2015: : „Mißbrauch an US-Unis“ von Michael Remke.

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The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (Kino Lorber, 105 min., DVD: $24.95). Brian Knappenberger’s documentary on Internet programming prodigy Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) tells the story of the tragic price that Swartz paid for his beliefs after he became obsessed with the issue of copyright vs. the public interest. (VL-3/15) (europäischer Anbieter)

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The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (HBO, 270 min., DVD: 2 discs, $19.98; Blu-ray: 2 discs, $24.98). Directed by Andrew Jarecki, this true crime documentary miniseries centers on Robert Durst, black sheep of a rich family, who was a suspect in the 1982 disappearance of his wife in New York, tied to a 2000 killing of a friend in California, and tried and acquitted for the 2001 murder of a neighbor in Texas. (VL-11/15) (europäischer Anbieter)

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Last Days in Vietnam (PBS, 120 min., DVD: $24.99, Blu-ray: $29.99 [$54.99 w/PPR from teacher.shop.pbs.org]). Rory Kennedy’s Oscar-nominated documentary features interviews with Ford administration members and former U.S. servicemen who witnessed the chaotic end of America’s military involvement in Vietnam while trying to save the lives of Vietnamese allies and friends. (VL-7/15) (europäischer Anbieter)

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Life Itself (Magnolia, 120 min., R, DVD: $26.98, Blu-ray: $29.98). Director Steve James’s moving ode to celebrated Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert (1942-2013) includes interviews with directors Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, and Errol Morris, along with critics A.O. Scott and Richard Corliss. (VL-3/15) (europäischer Anbieter)

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Limited Partnership (The Cinema Guild, 74 min., DVD: $99.95: public libraries; $395: colleges & universities). The recent Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage lends special poignancy to Thomas G. Miller’s documentary centering on Richard Adams and Tony Sullivan, who in 1975 became one of the world’s first legally married gay couples. (VL-9/15)

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Meru (Music Box, 90 min., R, DVD: $29.95, Blu-ray: $34.95). Director/climber Jimmy Chin and his wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi’s documentary chronicles a harrowing attempt to scale the titular Himalayan peak, combining observations by the climbers with insightful commentary from Into Thin Air author Jon Krakauer. (VL-11/15) (europäischer Anbieter)

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A Murder in the Park (MPI, 91 min., DVD: $24.98). Filmmakers Shawn Rech and Brandon Kimber’s investigative documentary explores a harrowing 1983 murder case in which a convicted killer on death row was exonerated and released thanks to the efforts of Northwestern University journalism students and their professor, David Protess, whose sloppy reinvestigation of the case wound up putting the wrong man behind bars. (VL-11/15)

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On Her Own (Passion River, 80 min., DVD: $59.95 ($250 w/PPR from edu.passionriver.com). Charting four years in the life of fifth-generation rancher-farmer Nancy Prebilich, director Morgan Schmidt-Feng’s documentary tells a haunting, tragic story about the fate of family farms in America today in the wake of the Great Recession. (VL-9/15)

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Particle Fever (PBS, 99 min., DVD: $24.99 [$295 w/PPR from Ro*co Educational, www.rocoeducational.com]). Offering a joyous celebration of intellectual achievement, filmmaker Mark Levinson’s documentary takes viewers on a behind-the-scenes tour of the biggest machine ever built: the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. (VL-1/15) (europäischer Anbieter)

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Red Army (Sony, 85 min., DVD: $30.99, Blu-ray: $34.99). Sports and politics meet in this director Gabe Polsky’s documentary centering on the titular powerhouse Soviet hockey team of the ‘80s—which won two Olympic gold medals and seven world championships before some members came to America and became U.S. stars. (VL-9/15) (europäischer Anbieter)

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Remote Area Medical (Cinedigm, 80 min., DVD: $29.95). Directed by Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman, this documentary about U.S. healthcare focuses on a three-day „pop-up“ medical clinic organized by the nonprofit titular organization that is held at Bristol, TN’s NASCAR speedway, where caregivers process victims of the coal-mining industry, deal with bad teeth, and treat the rare bobcat bite. (VL-5/15)

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The Seeds of Time (Kino Lorber, 77 min., DVD: $29.95 [$349 w/PPR from www.kinolorberedu.com]). Filmmaker Sandy McLeod looks at the interesting efforts of dedicated individuals, organizations, and enlightened governments to create „seed banks“ that preserve plant species around the world. (VL-7/15)

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Sex (Ed): The Movie (First Run, 76 min., DVD: $24.95). Director Brenda Goodman presents clips from sex education films to illustrate how Americans have learned about sex in this illuminating and frequently entertaining documentary that argues movies have always been a primary source of (usually bad) information concerning sexual anatomy, behavior, morals, diseases, and attitudes. (VL-3/15)

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Stop (Kino Lorber, 80 min., DVD: $149 [$349 w/PPR from www.kinolorberedu.com]). Director Spencer Wolff’s timely documentary follows a class-action lawsuit challenging the legality of the NYPD’s controversial “stop-and-frisk” policy, which unfairly targeted minorities. (VL-11/15)

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