Biography
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John Berger (three films)
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Three very different documentaries feature British art critic and poet, John Berger (1926-2017). Working on an astonishing range of topics and art-forms, his groundbreaking insights on seeing shaped the public for decades.
Realized as a portrait in works and collaborations, JOHN BERGER OR THE AR...
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Camille Claudel
Directed by Bruno Nuytten • Drama • With Isabelle Adjani, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grevill, Philippe Clevenot, Gérard Depardieu • 1988 • 175 minutes
The biography of the iconic French sculptor Camille Claudel in a tale of love, betrayal and female empowerment. When her enthusiasm for the arts...
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Wim Wenders' Story of His Early Years
Directed by Marcel Wehn • Documentary • With Wim Wenders, Peter Handke, Robby Müller • 2007 • 96 minutes
In intimate conversations Wim Wenders talks about his sheltered upbringing in post-war Germany. The film follows him on a journey into the past that takes him to Paris, where he lived as a yo...
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The Woodmans
Directed by C. Scott Willis • Documentary • With Betty Woodman, Francesca Woodman, Charles Woodman George Woodman • 2010 • 83 minutes
The Woodmans are a family of well-known artists bonded in their belief of art-making as the highest form of expression. But for their daughter Francesca — one of ...
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Gabo: The Creation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Directed by Justin Webster • Documentary • 2015 • 90 minutes
How did a boy from a tiny town on the Caribbean coast become a writer who won the hearts of millions? How did he change our perception of reality with his work?
The answers lie in the incredible story of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the 19...
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Westwood: Punk. Icon. Activist.
Directed by Lorna Tucker • Documentary • With Vivienne Westwood • 2018 • 79 minutes
An intimate and inspiring portrait of a true icon: Dame Vivienne Westwood. Punk Rock’s Grande Dame and one of the most culturally influential provocateurs in recent history.
After defining the 1970s punk look wi...
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Algren
Directed by Michael Caplan • Documentary • 2021 • 85 minutes
The new feature documentary ALGREN is a journey through the gritty world, brilliant mind, and noble heart of Nelson Algren. Exploding onto the national scene in 1950 after winning the first-ever National Book Award for The Man with the...
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Gorbachev. Heaven
Directed by Vitaly Mansky • Documentary • 2021 • 100 minutes
GORBACHEV. HEAVEN finds acclaimed director Vitaly Mansky (UNDER THE SUN) at home with a man who helped to shape the 20th-century: Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Soviet leader was acclaimed as the architect of Glasnost and Perestroika, polici...
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Martha: A Picture Story
Directed by Selina Miles • Documentary • With Martha Cooper, Os Gemeos, Shepard Fairey • 2019 • 81 minutes
In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war on it. Decades later, Cooper has become influential to t...
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Violette Leduc, In Pursuit of Love
Directed by Esther Hoffenberg • Documentary • 2013 • 57 minutes
After decades of working in relative obscurity, author and memoirist Violette Leduc exploded onto the French literary scene in 1964 with the publication of her taboo-breaking memoir The Bastard. Engaging frankly with her experience ...
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The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Notes on the Life of Nat Hentoff
Directed by David L. Lewis • Documentary • With Nat Hentoff, Amiri Baraka, Karen Durbin • 2013 • 86 minutes
Nat Hentoff was one of the enduring voices of the last 65 years, a writer who championed jazz as an art form and was present at the creation of ‘alternative’ journalism in America. This un...
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The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Directed by Eugene Jarecki • Documentary • With Henry Kissinger, Brian Cox, Amy Goodman, Alexander Haig, William Safire, Seymour Hersh • 2002 • 80 minutes
Featuring previously unseen footage, de-classified documents, and revealing interviews with Kissinger supporters (Alexander Haig, Brent Scowc...
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Tina In Mexico
Directed by Brenda Longfellow • Documentary • 2004 • 60 minutes
A new independent feature documentary by acclaimed Canadian director Brenda Longfellow, TINA IN MEXICO, follows the tumultuous and epic story of Tina Modotti, revolutionary, bohemian spirit and renowned photographer, acclaimed for h...
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John Berger or The Art of Looking
Directed by Cordelia Dvorák • Documentary • 2016 • 55 minutes
Art, politics and motorcycles: on the occasion of his 90th birthday, JOHN BERGER OR THE ART OF LOOKING is an intimate portrait of the writer and art-critic whose groundbreaking insights on seeing have shaped us for already five decade...
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Jump Shot: The Kenny Sailors Story
Directed by Jacob Hamilton • Documentary • With Kenny Sailors, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant • 2022 • 79 minutes
From EP Stephen Curry, the award-winning film Jump Shot celebrates the true story of Kenny Sailors, the forgotten basketball legend who introduced the jumpshot, became a 2-time collegia...
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The Two Lives of Eva
Directed by Esther Hoffenberg • Documentary • 2006 • 85 minutes
In this emotionally moving and revelatory documentary, Esther Hoffenberg investigates the early life of her mother, Eva (née Lamprecht), interviewing her friends, relatives and acquaintances, and scrutinizing her mother's tape-recor...
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Jay Myself
Directed by Stephen Wilkes • Documentary • With Jay Maisel • 2019 • 79 minutes
JAY MYSELF documents the monumental move of renowned photographer and artist, Jay Maisel, who, in February 2015 after forty-eight years, begrudgingly sold his home—the 36,000 square-foot, 100-year-old landmark buildin...
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Neirud
Directed by Fernanda Faya • Documentary • 2023 • 72 minutes
Neirud is a compelling documentary that unearths the lost legacy of a mysterious woman who once defied social norms and cultural boundaries. When filmmaker Fernanda Faya discovers that her late aunt—known only as Neirud—had a secret pas...
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Maguy Marin
Directed by David Mambouch • Documentary • 2020 • 105 minutes
Star choreographer Maguy Marin burst onto the 1970s French new wave dance scene. A contemporary of Pina Bausch, Marin’s work stood out for its theatrical aesthetic, political commentary, and audacious integration of traditional dance ...
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The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Directed by Jerry Aronson • Documentary • With Joan Baez, William F. Buckley, William S. Burroughs • 2005 • 84 minutes
This documentary chronicles the life of American beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Born and raised in New Jersey, Ginsberg attends Columbia University alongside fellow beats Jack Keroua...
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Blum: Masters of Their Own Destiny
Directed by Jasmila Žbanić • Documentary • 2024 • 76 minutes
After the Second World War, in devastated, rural Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country of illiterate people, the entrepreneur Emerik Blum created a large and successful global company, "Energoinvest," that operated worldwide with a billion...
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The Propagandist
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Jan Teunissen (1898-1975) loved films. He loved them so much, he shot daily home movies of his children, became a professional director, and made the first Dutch film with sound. And when the Nazis occupied Holland, he started making films for them too. Was he a true believer? An anti-Semite? An ...
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This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth
Directed by Yung Chang • Documentary • With Robert Fisk • 2019 • 109 minutes
For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world.
Yung Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand...
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Alumination
Directed by Eric Bricker • Documentary • With Patrick Dempsey, Kate Pierson • 2021 • 86 minutes
For nearly a century, the image of the Airstream travel trailer, with sunlight gleaming off the aluminum of its sleek silver-bullet body, has evoked the romance of escape and the mystique of a world w...