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American Grindhouse

The salacious and uproarious AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE explores the hidden history of the exploitation...

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Alice Guy-Blaché was a true pioneer who got into the movie business at the very...

Before The Nickelodeon

An age of innovation An era of idealism The time when American movies were born BEFORE THE...

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

Years before the Beats arrived in San Francisco, the city exploded with artistic expressions:...

Billy Wilder Speaks

a film by Volker Schlöndorff BILLY WILDER SPEAKS The wit and wisdom of one of Hollywood's...

Blank City

BLANK CITY is an "absorbing snapshot of a daring time" (LA Times) when a disparate crew of renegade...

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930s and 40s and the inventor whose concepts...

Brakhage

Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde, and one of...

Charlotte Rampling: The Look

Legendary actress Charlotte Rampling (Heading South, Melancholia) is "the perfect confluence of...

Code of the Freaks

Code of the Freaks presents a radical reframing of the use of disabled characters in...

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film

In this acclaimed three-part documentary, celebrated film historians Kevin Brownlow and David Gill...

Dawson City: Frozen Time

This meditation on cinema’s past from Decasia director Bill Morrison pieces together the...

Derek

Written and NARRATED BY ACADEMY AWARD WINNER TILDA SWINTON A FILM BY ISAAC JULIEN PRODUCED...

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

A half century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the most original and...

Diva Dolorosa

In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut...

Double Take

An Official Selection at both the Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals, Johan Grimonprez's Double...

Edison: The Invention of the Movies

A comprehensive survey of one of cinema's most influential figures, Edison: The Invention of the...

Fiddler's Journey to the Big Screen

Winner of the Audience Award at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival The fall of 2021 marked the 50th...

Film, the Living Record of Our Memory

Why preserve film in a world where audiovisual materials seem so readily available online? That is...

Filmworker

Leon Vitali was a rising British television actor when Stanley Kubrick picked him for the role of...

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal...

From Caligari to Hitler

Using a montage of footage from the highest quality restorations, Suchsland illustrates Siegfried...

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction is a personal documentary about the iconic actor in his intimate...

Hell's Highway (plus Signal 30, Highways of Agony, Options to Live)

Critically acclaimed upon its 2003 theatrical release, Hell's Highway: the True Story of Highway...

A History of Israeli Cinema

Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more...

Hitler's Hollywood

NARRATED BY UDO KIER. Filmmaker Rüdiger Suchsland suggests that the Third Reich was...

The Magic of Melies

The MAGIC of MÉLIÈS Fifteen Fantastic Works by the Cinema’s First Special...

Mutantes: Punk Porn Feminism

Is pornography an acceptable form of expression - and if so, can distinctions be drawn between...

Swastika

Swastika is the most controversial documentary about Hitler ever made. Utilizing intimate color...

Iranian Cinema Before and After the Revolution

Dr. Jamsheed Akrami is a scholar of Iranian cinema. A former editor of Iranian film magazines, he...

Two in the Wave

Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Fran&ccedilois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as...

The Village Detective: a song cycle

During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four...