Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is one of the most influential science fiction films ever made. Its depiction of Los Angeles in the year 2019 is oppressively prophetic: climate catastrophe, increasing public surveillance, powerful monopolistic corporations, highly evolved artificial intelligence; a fantastic vision of the future world that has become a frightening reality.
This video essay, featuring film scholar Leonard Leff, addresses the 1938 Alfred Hitchcock film The Lady Vanishes' British context and political underpinnings and the details and techniques that undeniably make it a 'Hitchcock picture.'
This documentary is featured in the 4-disc Collector's Edition DVD set, released in 2004, for Gone with the Wind (1939).
This short documentary includes interviews with Florenz Ziegfeld's daughter Patricia and actress Luise Rainer. Ziegfeld's life and the making of the film The Great Ziegfeld (1936) are discussed.
This short documentary film gives a little history of the parade, with film clips. But, its main focus is on the making of the 1947 classic holiday film "Miracle on 34th Street" and the 20th Century Fox shooting of the November 1946 parade and in Macy's department store.
Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the film’s stars, Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.
When a group of filmmakers trek deep into the woods to investigate a missing persons case, they inadvertently start a chain of events that lead to horrific consequences.
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Naturists celebrate Halloween by having a party at Little Boxes Theater.
The final creative chapter of one of music’s most iconic artists. Featuring rare interviews with those who knew and worked alongside Bowie as well as famous fans and figures who have been inspired by his artistry, the film will uncover the strategy behind Bowie’s artistic resurrection and the inexhaustible extraordinary creativity that defined his final decade, in which he released his critically acclaimed album Blackstar just two days before he died. This was an emergence from the turbulence of the 1990s, when Bowie had found himself at odds with a changing industry but pushed on to headline Glastonbury in 2000.
A group of naturists book a private nature retreat.
Hitlers Gipfelstürmer
Fliegende Bauten
The Living Weapon
The veiled story of Japanese diaspora in Mexico and the endurable impact of historic silence in its descendants is portrayed through testimonies and an exploration of landscape and choreography, questioning the formation and theatricality of individual and collective identity. When everything that's left of history are memories, how are invisible wounds healed? Yurei goes through different zones in Mexico towards an exploration of memory.
Made between 2021 and 2022, the medium-length film pays homage to the eponymous work by artist León Ferrari, a literary collage created between 1965 and 1967 in the context of the Vietnam War: it replicates its method through a montage of archives from the confinement caused by the pandemic. What do we do with the information debris that passes through our bodies? From this question, the filmmaker composes an ecology of the image/archive, recycling alienating, banal, ridiculous, excessive, and/or hateful spam in the face of other voices of resistance.
In 1971, a group of young female soccer players filled Mexico City's Azteca Stadium with 115,000 spectators to play the final match of the Second Women's World Cup. This documentary features their exceptional and forgotten story.
A portrait of the actress Isabella Rossellini as an artist, farmer, author, and inspiration. Shot over a single season, A Season with Isabella Rossellini unveils Rossellini's unique charm, following her on the set of Alice Rohrwacher's La Chimera in Italy; rehearsing her monologue for Darwin's Smile in France and Spain; sitting for a beauty commercial in Los Angeles on her 70th birthday; and back home at her 28-acre farm, Mama Farm, in New York.
Making of 'La confiance règne'
In a personal documentary, the director confronts an identity crisis triggered by the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The director returns to Ukraine to explore her linguistic roots. In her family's village, she speaks Surzhik with her grandmother. Moving to Kharkiv, she sees the war's impact and discusses language dynamics with her mother, who urges her to switch to Ukrainian. This journey highlights the complex relationship between identity and language.