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Filming Location: Berlin

Films in this library shot in Berlin, a city whose history is legible in its streets, which films use directly. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.

Speed Racer sits in his colorful race car, which has impossible geometry and bright, flat colors with no shadows, designedBerlin

Speed Racer (2008) Review

Speed Racer (2008) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. The Wachowskis spent a hundred and twenty million dollars building a candy-colored world with no shadows in it, made ninety-four back, and produced the most misunderstood studio film…

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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

The Last Voyage of the Demeter earns its 6.5 by taking a few haunting pages from Dracula and building an entire film from them, with mixed but genuinely entertaining results. The film's great strength is its vision of Dracula as…

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Citizenfour (2014)

Citizenfour is Laura Poitras's 2014 American documentary depicting Edward Snowden's June 2013 meetings with Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald in Hong Kong, when Snowden disclosed classified National Security Agency documents revealing extensive surveillance programs. Citizenfour proves how documentary could operate…

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M (1931)

Fritz Lang's 1931 German film. Peter Lorre as a child murderer hunted by both police and the criminal underworld.

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