A long look at John Cassavetes’s films, life (1929-1989), and exploration of how people love. Read More »
Documentary
Star Spangled to Death (2004) Ken Jacobs, Jack Smith, Jerry Sims, Gib Taylor, Documentary, History
STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH is an epic film shot for hundreds of dollars! Read More »
The Endless Summer (1966) Bruce Brown, Robert August, Michael Hynson, Lord James Blears, Documentary, Sport
They call it The Endless Summer the ultimate surfing adventure, crossing the globe in search of the perfect wave. Read More »
Soul to Soul (1971) Denis Sanders, Willie Bobo, Roberta Flack, Eddie Harris, Documentary, Music
Footage of a concert held in Ghana to celebrate the 14th anniversary of the independence of that country. Read More »
Faro Document (1970) Ingmar Bergman, Per Broman, Richard Ostman, Documentary
Fårö Document is Ingmar Bergman’s first documentary. Having recently built a house on the island in the Baltic he was taken by the people who lived there Read More »
Oxhide II (2009) Huifen Jia, Jiayin Liu, Zaiping Liu, Documentary, Drama
Just as in her previous film, Oxhide, the Chinese director films herself and her parents in their rather claustrophobic apartment with documentary realism. Read More »
Land Without Bread (1933) Luis Buñuel, Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O’Neill, Documentary, Short
In this documentary short by director Luis Buñuel he travels to Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain which was connected to the outside world only in 1922 with the completion of a road. Read More »
At Sea (2007) Peter B. Hutton, Documentary
A haunting meditation on human progress, both physical and metaphorical, At Sea charts a three-year passage from twenty-first-century ship building in South Korea Read More »
Directed by John Ford (1971) John Ford, Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles, Documentary, Biography
In 1971, Peter Bogdanovich was, perhaps, America’s most promising young filmmaker, having directed the remarkable “Targets” (1968) and “The Last Picture Show” (1971) earning him an Academy Award nomination for the latter. Read More »
Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) Kent Jones, Mathieu Amalric, Wes Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, Documentary
In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Read More »
Hearts and Minds (1974) Peter Davis, Dwight D. Eisenhower, William Marshall, Georges Bidault, Documentary, War
This film recounts the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage as well as its own film and interviews. Read More »
American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984) James Benning, Documentary
American Dreams is chock full of concrete, discrete elements that comprise an American iconography of the past three decades. Read More »
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 3: Rails (2003) Bing Wang, Documentary
A system of freight railways carries raw materials and finished goods in and out of Shenyang. Read More »
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 2: Remnants (2003) Bing Wang, Documentary
Part II, called “Remnants,” and is set in a shantytown whose living conditions mirror the dilapidation of the state-run factories seen in Part I. Read More »
Afriques: Comment ça va avec la douleur? / Africa, How Are You with Pain? (1996) Raymond Depardon, Documentary
Only a microphone on his camera, Raymond Depardon has surveyed Africa from July 1993 to February 1996. Read More »