This is Robert Schickel’s Documentary on Musical-Icon (and Scorsese idol) Vincente Minnelli of his series “The Men Who Made The Movies”. Read More »
Documentary
Valentino: The Last Emperor (2008) Matt Tyrnauer, Valentino Garavani, Giancarlo Giammetti, Nati Abascal
A look at the life of legendary fashion designer Valentino. Read More »
Journey Into the Beyond AKA Reise ins Jenseits – Die Welt des Übernatürlichen (1975) Rolf Olsen, John Carradine, Paul Ross
A “journey” into the world of the supernatural. Read More »
The Epic That Never Was (1965) Bill Duncalf, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Graves, Josef von Sternberg
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of “I, Claudius”, starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage. Read More »
The Age of Stupid (2009) Franny Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, Jehangir Wadia, Alvin DuVernay
The film contrasts a bleak future that we are heading towards Read More »
Nothing Ventured AKA Nicht ohne Risiko (2004) Harun Farocki
What venture capital or VC for short actually means is explained the film itself. Read More »
Freedom Fields (2018) Naziha Arebi
An intimate look at post-revolution Libya through the eyes of an aspiring all-female soccer team Read More »
America at the Movies (1976) George Stevens Jr., Woody Allen, Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam
A compilation of scenes from 83 films, divided into 5 segments Read More »
Top Fighter 2 (1996) Toby Russell, Shenagh Cameron, Jackie Chan, Ling Chang
Women too can fight! The sequel of “Top Fighter” focuses in the importance Read More »
Pommerland (2005) Volker Koepp, Grzegorz Bartosiewicz, Jim Bartosiewicz, Malgorzata Bartosiewicz
Pomerania (Polish: Pomorze, which means ‘Land By the Sea’) stretches along the southern Read More »
Fiddler’s Journey to the Big Screen (2022) Daniel Raim, Robert F. Boyle, Jeff Goldblum, Rosalind Harris
A documentary about the making of the musical film Fiddler on the Roof (1971). Read More »
The Big One (1997) Michael Moore, Elaine Bly, Dan Burns
Our intrepid defender of the working man, Michael Moore, documents his 1996 “Downsize This!” Read More »
Foucault Against Himself AKA Foucault contre lui même (2014) François Caillat, Leo Bersani, Georges Didi-Huberman, Didier Eribon
Captures the energy and fierce intellect of the man, introducing us to some Read More »
Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974) Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Michael Thomas, Jan Creighton, Jim Goode
Investigation into alternative didactic methods and the relationship between independently expressive surfaces and texts. Read More »
Cease Fire! (1953) Owen Crump, Roy Thompson Jr., Henry Goszkowski, Richard Karl Elliott
In this documentary, actual American soldiers and others re-enact a real Korean War operation Read More »