The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of ‘Twelve Monkeys’
A documentary following Terry Gilliam through the creation of “Twelve Monkeys.”
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Genre: Documentary
Release: 1996
Frank Capra’s American Dream
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen
A complex visual study of the women of rural Senegal. Through a complicity of interaction between film and spectator, Reassemblage reflects on documentary filmmaking and the ethnographic representation of cultures.
Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Orson Welles’ archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner of Orson Welles in his last…
A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible
The updated autobiography of Britain’s most controversial film director, the maker of Women in Love, The Devils, The Music Lovers, Tommy and The Rainbow, is as unconventional and brilliant as…
1991: The Year Punk Broke
David Markey’s documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances by Dinosaur Jr, Babes in…
21 Up
After another 7 year wait, director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born children from Seven Up! and 7 Plus Seven. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes…
Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance
In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kéhaka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, sets the stage for a historic confrontation that would grab…
Häxan
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle…
Helicopter Canada
A view from a helicopter of the ten Canadian provinces in 1966. The result is a big, beautiful and engrossing bird’s-eye portrait of the country. Nothing here is quite the…
Zandra Rhodes
Commissioned by the COI, Peter Greenaway made a biographical short film about fashion designer Zandra Rhodes.
Who’s Afraid of the Bogeyman
Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty woman boss runs the business with humour and understanding. Her seven male employees respect…
Shake! Otis at Monterey
Renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captures Otis Redding in his ascendancy, singing at the historic Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967. Comedian Tom Smothers introduces Redding to a crowd…
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