In Ne change rien, we see the French actress/singer Jeanne Balibar rehearsing Read More »
Documentary
Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989)
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 »
Directed by John Ford (1971) John Ford, Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles
In 1971, Peter Bogdanovich was, perhaps, America’s most promising young filmmaker Read More »