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The AIDS Show

Documentary · History

THE AIDS SHOW combines excerpts from a collaborative piece of theatre written in an unprecedented health crisis with interviews from the show's creators and performers, producing a powerful hybrid of documentary and drama about the community most affected by the disease – gay men.

About Tap

Documentary · Music Documentaries · Music & Dance

About Tap features stylistic performances and recollections by three of America’s leading male tap dancers: Steve Condos, Jimmy Slyde and Chuck Green. By introducing viewers to a unique history of dance, director George Nierenberg strives to answer the question, “How does an artist disco…

Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt

Documentary · History · Biography

The Memorial Quilt was started by the NAMES Project in the summer of 1987...and by the fall of '88, the quilt had grown to include 8,288 panels. Through on-the-scene documentation, filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman wove the NAMES Project's efforts to memoralize AIDS victims into an emotion…

The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy

Drama

Brothers Victor, Jose and Felipe are enlisted by Miss Malloy to restore her Victorian mansion on the Hudson so she can host one last party before she dies. 

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China

Documentary · History · Art

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney bring the bustling streets of three-hundred-year-old China to life through their analysis of the 72-foot-long seventh scroll of "The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour" by Wang Hui.

From the Archives of Modern Art

Short Films · Documentary · Drama

In six hilarious and sometimes bawdy short films, artist Eleanor Antin charts the career of one of her many personas — Eleanora Antinova, the once celebrated African-American ballerina of Diaghlev’s Ballets Russes.

Let There Be Light

Documentary · War

Labeled too disturbing and controversial for its time, John Huston's legendary film about the effects of war and post-traumatic stress returns with fully restored sound and visual quality.

My Brother's Wedding

Drama

Pierce Mundy works at his parents' South Central dry cleaners with no prospects for the future. With his best friend just getting out of jail and his brother busy planning a wedding to a snooty upper-middle-class black woman, Pierce navigates his conflicting obligations while trying to figure out wh…

Ornette: Made in America

Documentary · Music · Biography

Ground-breaking filmmaker Shirley Clarke combined forces with Ornette Coleman to create this dazzling window into the life of the great jazz artist and innovator. 

Say Amen, Somebody

Documentary · Music Documentaries · Music

SAY AMEN, SOMEBODY is a joyous, funny, and deeply emotional celebration of Gospel music from director George Nierenberg featuring an earth-shaking line-up of performers.

Scenes and Songs from Boyd Webb

Performing Arts · Biography · Art

A lush and astonishing visual treat, SCENES AND SONGS FROM BOYD WEBB sees the titular artist stage eight new works specifically to be viewed on film.

Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara

Documentary · Biography · Art

Director Philip Haas follows land artist Richard Long on his walk across Algeria’s Hoggar, a volcanic region of the Sahara Desert.

Two Friends

Lesbian · Drama

The first feature film by director Jane Campion and writer Helen Garner tells the history a teenage friendship going backward in time, from the relationship's bittersweet end to its hopeful beginning.

West is West

Romance · Comedy · Musical

A broke student on visa and a feisty bohemian artist become entangled in a series of increasingly elaborate schemes in order to keep him in the country.

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

Drama

In a film that both evokes and translates the message of Zen Buddhism, two monks and a young boy living on a remote mountain respond to the beauty of the world around them and to unanswerable koans about the meaning of life and death.

The World of Gilbert & George

Documentary · Art · Architecture

Art superstars Gilbert & George explored the dreariness of London under Margaret Thatcher while powerfully evoking the desires and tensions of its disillusioned youth —  alongside their own eccentricities — in this absurdist feature-length odyssey from producer Philip …

You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South

Documentary · History · Music

Focusing the Highlander School's role in helping build grassroots movements, this documentary tells the stories of ordinary people fighting for civil and labor rights and against toxic waste and strip mining.