From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of an era. Read More »
Documentary
Change Nothing / Ne change rien (2009) Pedro Costa, Jeanne Balibar, Rodolphe Burger, Hervé Loos
In Ne change rien, we see the French actress/singer Jeanne Balibar rehearsing Read More »
Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989) T. Minh-ha Trinh
Trinh T. Minh-ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits Read More »
West End Jungle (1961) Arnold L. Miller, David Gell, Heather Russell, Tom Bowman
Seamy or at least black and white expose of 1950’s London’s sex trade in all its guises. Read More »
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got (1985) Brigitte Berman, Artie Shaw, John Best, Lee Castle
Biography of clarinetist and bandleader Artie Shaw, one of the principal figures of the big band/jazz Read More »
The Singing Revolution (2006) James Tusty, Maureen Castle Tusty, Heiki Ahonen, Gustav Ernesaks, Linda Hunt
Most people don’t think about singing when they think about revolutions. Read More »
Slingshot Hip Hop (2008) Jacqueline Reem Salloum, Tamer Nafar, Suhell Nafar, Mahmoud Jreri
Palestinian youth write and perform hip hop in the ’48 (what they call Israel) and the occupied territories (Gaza and the West Bank). Read More »
George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey (1984) George Stevens Jr., Fred Astaire, Warren Beatty, Pandro S. Berman
Biography of director George Stevens by his son. It includes clips from many of his films with commentary by the actors Read More »
Origins of a Meal / Genèse d’un repas (1979) Luc Moullet
Bananas, eggs, and tuna: three basic foodstuffs with three wildly different points of origin. Read More »
Driving Me Crazy (1988) Nick Broomfield, André Heller, Graciela Daniele, Mercedes Ellington
Both uproaringly funny and unerringly cautionary, Broomfield’s behind-the-scenes document Read More »