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Deauville Festival of American Cinema · 2021

Deauville Festival of American Cinema 2021

Uncle Sam Documentaries

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6 films · 1 review

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Birds Of America

Intent on paint­ing all the birds of Amer­i­ca, John-James Audubon became a cen­tral fig­ure of America’s nation­al iden­ti­ty. But as these birds start­ed dis­ap­pear­ing with the dawn of the indus­tri­al era, so did the original American Dream.

(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Jacques Loeuille; Writer: Jacques Loeuille)

JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass

Review preview for JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass

It’s quite a maze to pick your way through as a viewer and Stone does his best ease the path.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
Thirty years after his film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey through recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy.

(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Oliver Stone; Writer: James DiEugenio; Stars: Donald Sutherland, Whoopi Goldberg)

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Jim Carrey, America Unmasked

Documentary profile of the Canadian actor.

(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Thibaut Sève & Adrien Dénouette)

Michael Cimino, God Bless America (Michael Cimino, Un mirage américain)

A bio­graph­i­cal jour­ney, into the films, the life and the mem­o­ry of Michael Cimi­no, who passed away in 2016, at the age of 77, after spend­ing 20 years dream­ing of films that nev­er saw the light of the day.

(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Jean-Baptiste Thoret; Writer: Jean-Baptiste Thoret; Stars: Michael Cimino, Tommy Fitzgerald, Jim Freiling, Kathy Freiling, John Savage, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino, James Toback, Stanley White)

The State of Texas vs Melissa

Melissa Lucio was the first Hispanic woman sentenced to death in Texas. For ten years she has been awaiting her fate, and now faces her last appeal.

(Country: France; Year: 2020; Director: Sabrina Van Tassel)

Val

Documentary portrait of the actor Val Kilmer.

(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Ting Poo, Leo Scott; Stars: Val Kilmer)