Illustrated with film clips rare photographs and artwork BillyWilderSpeaks i...Illustrated with film clips rare photographs and artwork Billy Wilder Speaks is a lively lesson in filmmaking from one of it s undisputed masters. In a series of filmed interviews conducted by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Volker Schlendorff (The Tin...more
Illustrated with film clips rare photographs and artwork BillyWilderSpeaks i...Illustrated with film clips rare photographs and artwork Billy Wilder Speaks is a lively lesson in filmmaking from one of it s undisputed masters. In a series of filmed interviews conducted by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Volker Schlendorff (The Tin...more
In this gripping documentary Academy Award Winner Meryl Streep (It s Complicat...In this gripping documentary Academy Award Winner Meryl Streep (It s Complicated Mamma Mia!) for the first time allowed cameras to record her preparation for her lead stage performance in Bertolt Brecht s Mother Courage And Her Children. Along with...more
In The Power of Myth the beloved 1988 PBS series mythologist and storyteller J...In The Power of Myth the beloved 1988 PBS series mythologist and storyteller Joseph Campbell joins Bill Moyers to explore what enduring myths can tell us about our lives. In each of six episodes - The Hero s Adventure The Message of the Myth The First...more
For forty years Henri Langlois presided over the Cinemathques Francaise with a...For forty years Henri Langlois presided over the Cinemathques Francaise with absolute commitment and unwavering passion. Beginning in 1936 Langlois beg borrow and steal hustling preserved the priceless treasures of an art form then still too new to be...more
The year is 1989 and 19 year old Jason Becker from Richmond California has jus...The year is 1989 and 19 year old Jason Becker from Richmond California has just been offered the biggest rock guitar job on the planet. He s on the cover of every guitar magazine and is being hailed by critics as a genius and the next greatest Rock...more
While the LGBT community has long had to struggle with stereotyping by outside...While the LGBT community has long had to struggle with stereotyping by outsiders gay men also have to deal with widely held perceptions from their peers that they re supposed to fit a certain image - men who are stylish carefully groomed trim and to a...more
Academy Award-? Winner Best Documentary Feature. THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY i...Academy Award-? Winner Best Documentary Feature. THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY is an intimate and moving portrait of one of the most remarkable women in American history. It is the story of a lonely unhappy child who became the most admired and respected...more
A global pursuit (with layovers in Japan Argentina Brazil France Spain the U.S...A global pursuit (with layovers in Japan Argentina Brazil France Spain the U.S. and other countries) for the best steak in the world Steak (R)evolution features exclusive conversations with chefs farmers butchers steakhouse owners journalists and...more
If Hollywood was Mount Olympus says movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti in Ba...If Hollywood was Mount Olympus says movie industry lobbyist Jack Valenti in Barry Avrich s the Last Mogul: The Life and Times of Lew Wasserman then Lew Wasserman was Zeus. Over sixty years as power broker at MCA and head of Universal Studios Wasserman...more
Playing Frisbee in North Korea is the first documentary produced and directed ...Playing Frisbee in North Korea is the first documentary produced and directed by an African-American female filmmaker from inside North Korea. The idea began at a conference on Korean Re-unification organized by General Colin L. Powell and the Colin...more
Presaging such playful sex comedies as Lubitsch s Trouble in Paradise and Desi...Presaging such playful sex comedies as Lubitsch s Trouble in Paradise and Design for Living the Doll follows the misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and...more
Director s Cut: contains footage not seen in theaters. An enigmatic musical po...Director s Cut: contains footage not seen in theaters. An enigmatic musical poet and the most documented classical musician of the last century world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate international audiences twenty-six years after his...more