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A Cinema of Discontent

Film Documentaries

“A Cinema of Discontent” explores the censorship codes through analyzing dozens of clips from mainstream and art-house films. It features insightful interviews with 12 Iranian filmmakers, including the internationally-acclaimed directors Jafar Panahi, Bahman Ghobadi, and the two-time Osc…

A Walk With Kiarostami

Film Documentaries

U.S.-based film professor Jamsheed Akrami talks to Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami in an inpromptu video interview, which offers a frank and funny view of Kiarostami rarely seen before. The interview was conducted over a span of two days during the Galway Film Fleadh in Ireland in 2003. In the first…

Before The Nickelodeon

Silent · Documentary · Film Documentaries

Noted film historian Charles Musser co-wrote and directed this definitive tribute to Edwin S. Porter, the mechanic and cameraman for Thomas Edison, now recognized as a major contributor to the evolution of film structure. From the time of The Great Train Robbery in 1903 until Griffith started at Bio…

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

Documentary · Film Documentaries · LGBTQ

A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960's and 70's to profoundly embrace life and…

Billy Wilder Speaks

Documentary · Film Documentaries

Billy Wilder Speaks is a lively lesson in filmmaking, from one of its undisputed masters.

Brakhage

Biography · Documentary · Film Documentaries

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of the greatest artists of our time. From 1952, at the age of nineteen, until his death, Brakhage created more than 400 films, ranging in length from several seconds to several hours, constantly and consi…

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Film Documentaries · Sexuality · Documentary

THE LOOK features Charlotte Rampling in a series of reflective conversations with artists, friends, and one-time collaborators such as novelist Paul Auster and photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller, revealing the personality and philosophies of one of our most iconic screen stars.

Code of the Freaks

Documentary · Film Documentaries

In an unprecedented look inside the disabled community, Code of the Freaks gives the mic to some of Hollywood’s most incensed and ignored critics – actual disabled people.

Dawson City: Frozen Time

Photography · Documentary · Film Documentaries

This meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the bizarre true history of a long-lost collection of 533 nitrate film prints from the early 1900s. Discovered buried under the permafrost in a former Canadian Gold Rush town, their story reveals the links bet…

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Documentary · Film Documentaries

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy: it is about the deeply gifted and flawed people behind a dark and difficult masterpiece; New York City in a troubled time of cultural ferment; and the era that made a movie and the movie that made an era.

Diva Dolorosa

Documentary · Film Documentaries · Film

In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate) affectionately captures the spirit of the World War One-era cinema diva. In all-but-lost gems such as La donna nuda(1914), and Tigre reale (1916), superstars such as Lyda Borelli and Pina…

Double Take

Sundance Film Festival · Documentary · Film Documentaries

Johan Grimonprez's ingenious documentary/ fiction hybrid - a meditation on identity, filmmaking, power and paranoia - looks at Alfred Hitchcock's 50s-60s films against the climate of Cold War anxiety. Using a meticulous array of archive footage and a story by novelist Tom McCarthy, Grimonprez traces…

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Documentary · Film Documentaries

The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, the film Pauline Kael (The New Yorker) called "the most powerful movie musical ever made." Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, this film captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish li…

Film, the Living Record of Our Memory

Documentary · Film Documentaries

This documentary argues for the importance of film preservation through the voices of archivists, curators, technicians, and filmmakers who have contributed to making sure moving images survive and remain accessible.

Filmworker

Cannes Film Festival · Documentary · Film Documentaries

After starring as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, Leon Vitali gave up his acting career to toil in obscurity as Stanley Kubrick’s devoted aide-de-camp. This candid, often funny, and sometimes shocking documentary offers a singular perspective on a creative genius.

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Art Documentaries · Avant Garde · Film Documentaries

This documentary provides a vivid introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: Avant-garde cinema. In its exploration of this expansive domain, FREE RADICALS privileges rare interviews with filmmakers in the avant-garde tradition and includes several…

Friendly Persuasion

Film Documentaries

“Friendly Persuasion” examines the critical issues of Iranian cinema by framing several key questions and providing informed responses through commentary, scene analysis, and interviews with top Iranian filmmakers. The questions focus on international flowering, censorship codes, ro…

Godard Cinema

Documentary · Film Documentaries

Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema and Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Art Documentaries · Film Documentaries · Music & Dance

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a personal documentary about the iconic actor in his intimate moments, with clips from some of his 250 films and his own heart-breaking renditions of American folk songs.

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (Kino Cult #50)

Cult · Documentary · Film Documentaries

This unique documentary recounts the history of the shock-value driver's education films that haunted American teens. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, these grisly movies used unflinching color footage of fatal accidents to scare young drivers.

A History of Israeli Cinema

Art Documentaries · Film Documentaries · Historic Drama

Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than 70 years of Israeli film with commentary from filmmakers, scholars and critics

Hitler's Hollywood

Documentary · Film Documentaries

This follow-up to From Caligari to Hitler traces the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the cinema of the Third Reich: an explosion of lavish, escapist films celebrating a German utopia and subtly legitimizing a brutality that continues to haunt the modern world. Features new English narration by…

The Lost Film Of Nuremberg

Documentary · Film Documentaries

Inspired by Sandra Schulberg’s decade-long research into the making of and suppression of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, The Lost Film of Nuremberg re-traces the hunt for film evidence used to convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood — Budd &am…

The Man You Loved To Hate

Biography · Documentary · Film Documentaries

A full-length documentary on von Stroheim’s life and career. Filled with rare photographs and excerpts from Stroheim’s legendary and lesser-known works, it is the definitive documentary profile of this most fascinating artist. U.S. 1979. 78 min. Color/B&W.

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

Film Documentaries · Documentary · LGBTQ

MUTANTES is a documentary about pro-sex feminism, a movement that seeks to redefine how we understand pornography and its role in media. Through interviews with sex workers, porn actresses, and other members of the sex industry, the film demystifies and explores the various sexual niches of punk por…

The Lost Cinema

Film Documentaries

The Lost Cinema is a film essay on the Iranian New Wave, a film movement which blossomed in the 70s as a protest against a local film industry dominated by shallow, socially uninformed domestic films and excessive exhibition of Hollywood and European imports. Despite the movement’s contri…

The Projectionist

Documentary · Film Documentaries

This documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou moves from 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts, charting a charming odyssey through the history of film exhibition and New York City.

Iranian Cinema Before and After the Revolution

Film Documentaries

Dr. Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian cinema. A former editor of Iranian film magazines, he has published extensively, presented numerous lectures, curated film series, and produced a number of films, including the feature-length documentaries The Lost Cinema, on political filmmaking unde…

Two in the Wave

Art Documentaries · Film Documentaries · World Cinema

Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. TWO IN THE WAVE documents their intensely combative and creative relationship.

The Village Detective: a song cycle

Documentary · Film Documentaries · RT Certified Fresh

Four reels of water-damaged 35mm film recovered by an Icelandic fishing boat serve as inspiration for Bill Morrison’s latest meditation on cinema’s past—this time centered on popular Russian actor Mihail Žarov and offering a journey into Soviet history and film accompanied by a go…