Documentary
Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.
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Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
Enrique Herreros
Maurice Tourneur: Weaver of Dreams
Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
Comrades in Dreams
Tati Express
Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
Emmanuelle: Queen of French Erotic Cinema
Shine a Light
Inventory
Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary
Salò: Yesterday and Today
Omnibus: François Truffaut
Somewhere Between New York and LA
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Merton: A Film Biography
Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me Memories
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Cinema Through the Eye of Magnum
IMDB 7.7 | Sep , 2017
The film tells the story of the intimate and unprecedented encounter between the photojournalists of the Magnum Agency and the world of cinema. The confrontation of two seemingly opposite worlds – fiction and reality. For 70 years their paths crossed: a family of photographers, amongst them the biggest names in photography, and a family of actors and filmmakers who helped write the history of cinema, from John Huston to Marilyn Monroe to Orson Welles, Kate Winslet and Sean Penn.Enrique Herreros
IMDB 6.5 | Jun , 2011
The story of Enrique Herreros (1903-1977), cartoonist, advertiser, poster designer, talent manager, actor, producer and filmmaker, and the most daring of mountaineers; the man who, along with his companions from the so-called “other Generation of '27,” brought Hollywood to Madrid's Gran Vía, turning a grey and sinister post-war city into the capital of an incipient and ambitious cultural industry.Maurice Tourneur: Weaver of Dreams
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2024
Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film traces the incredible journey of this crucial innovator from Paris to Hollywood. He inspired many of his peers and was also a mentor to some great filmmakers, including his son Jacques. Using previously unseen home movies, this film reveals the private man as well as the inspired artist whose career spanned four decades and two world wars.Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut
IMDB 7 | Mar , 2003
Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."Comrades in Dreams
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2006
Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas, somewhere at the end of the world. Comrades in Dreams brings together six cinema makers from North Korea, America, India and Africa and follows their efforts to make their audiences dream every night.Tati Express
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 2015
Tati Express dives into Jacques Tati's films and how they look at a changing world throughout the 20th century. It shows how modernity impacts human-beings and goes through that amazing body of work at 100 mph.Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers
IMDB 6.7 | Feb , 2008
Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders.Emmanuelle: Queen of French Erotic Cinema
IMDB 6.6 | Jun , 2021
France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema attendance: the story of the creation of a sensual epic that marked a turning point in the struggle for sexual emancipation.Shine a Light
IMDB 6.9 | Apr , 2008
Martin Scorsese’s electrifying concert documentary captures The Rolling Stones live at New York’s Beacon Theatre during their A Bigger Bang tour. Filmed over two nights in 2006 with an all-star team of cinematographers, the film combines dynamic performances with archival footage and rare glimpses behind the scenes, offering a vibrant portrait of the band’s enduring energy and legacy.Inventory
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2008
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas' film Summer Hours, and its approach to art.Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail
IMDB 6.6 | Jan , 2019
An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses (1988), thirty years after the fatwa uttered by the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini: his youth in multicultural Bombay, his life in England, his many years of forced hiding, his thoughts on President Trump's United States of America.Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
IMDB 7.9 | Nov , 1991
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.The Golden Gong: The Story of Rank Films - British Cinema's Legendary Studio
IMDB 6 | Jan , 1985
Documentary - After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his establishment of the legendary Pinewood Studios. Narrated by Michael Caine, THE GOLDEN GONG chronicles Pinewood's rise to success. - Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde, Betty E. BoxZombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary
IMDB 7.8 | Nov , 2019
Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field, which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer and researcher Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.Salò: Yesterday and Today
IMDB 5 | Oct , 2002
A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.Omnibus: François Truffaut
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1973
Somewhere Between New York and LA
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2020
Since he was 18 years old, Blake Eckard has written and directed six feature length films in his hometown of Stanberry, Missouri (population 1186). Aside from a short distribution deal in Canada and a few festival screenings, his movies have largely gone unseen.Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
IMDB 6 | Jul , 1990
Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges.Merton: A Film Biography
IMDB 8 | Jan , 1984
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace. Merton: A Film Biography provides the first comprehensive look at this remarkable 20th century religious philosopher who wrote, in addition to his immensely popular autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, over 60 books on some of the most pressing social issues of our time, some of which are excerpted here. Merton offers an engaging profile of a man whose presence in the world touched millions of people and whose words and thoughts continue to have a profound impact and relevance today.Moving Through Time: Fire Walk With Me Memories
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2014
Documentary about the making of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me.