Chronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer Read More »
Biography
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) Alan Rudolph
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit Read More »
Close-Up / Nema-ye nazdik (1990) Abbas Kiarostami
The true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf Read More »
The Elephant Man (1980) David Lynch, Anthony Hopkins
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Read More »
Tom and Viv (1994) Brian Gilbert, Willem Dafoe
In 1915, T.S. (Tom) Eliot and Vivienne Haigh-Wood elope, but her longstanding gynecological Read More »
Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (1989) Paulo Rocha
In Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (Mask of Steel Versus Blue Abyss), Paulo Rocha does Read More »
Rasputin / Agoniya (1981) Elem Klimov, Aleksey Petrenko
Russia, 1916. Be it by craft or madness, Rasputin exercises power over the indecisive Nicholas Read More »
Docteur Petiot (1990) Christian de Chalonge, Michel Serrault
Based on the true story of Dr. Marcel Petiot: During World War II, in Nazi-occupied Paris Read More »
Riel (1979) George Bloomfield, Raymond Cloutier, Roger Blay, Lloyd Bochner
A film about the actions of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two seperate rebellions. Read More »
Bright Leaves (2003) Ross McElwee, Allan Gurganus, Paula Larke, Marilyn Levine
North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state in America. Read More »