Fran Lebowitz

A medida que Nueva York se convertía en el epicentro de la crisis del SIDA, el arte de David Wojnarowicz se volvía más airado y franco, y su poderosa forma de ver el mundo tuvo un increíble impacto en la lucha para los derechos de los homosexuales. En esta exploración de su vida, a modo de collage Chris McKim mezcla hábilmente sus cuadros, fotos, películas, mensajes y conversaciones grabadas con recuerdos de amigos y familiares.

Un documental que rinde homenaje a los libreros y sumerge al espectador en su pequeño mundo. Explora el pasado, el presente y el futuro del libro a través de entrevistas con dueños de locales, coleccionistas y escritores como Fran Lebowitz, Susan Orlean, Kevin Young y Gay Talese, a la vez que analiza el impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en nuestra sociedad y la forma en la que afecta a la lectura.

The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when "tradition" was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving.

After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their newfound emancipation, unaware of an impending epidemic. A disease that seemed determined to wipe out an entire generation of gay men, was largely ignored by politicians and the mainstream media. Gaetan Dugas was a French-Canadian flight attendant, who offered to help early scientific research into the origins of AIDS. An unfortunate series of events followed and he would be vilified as Patient Zero, the man who gave us AIDS.

Esta meditación artística e íntima sobre lalegendaria narradora de historias examina su vida, sus obras y los poderosos temas que ha enfrentado a lo largo de su carrera literaria.

The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorkers.

André Leon Talley ha sido un referente en el mundo de la moda durante tanto tiempo que cuesta imaginar una época en la que no estuviera definiendo lo que es el estilo. En esta ocasión, la documentalista Kate Novack traza conexiones inexploradas hasta la fecha para arrojar luz a la infancia de André y la influencia de su abuela o su juventud en la Iglesia Afroamericana, así como su rol pionero en publicaciones como Vogue. Con un rico material de archivo, asistimos con André a algunos de los grandes momentos de la historia de la moda y de la cultura norteamericana del siglo XX.

Documental sobre la vida y obra del controvertido y reverenciado fotógrafo Robert Mapplethorne. Recorre los archivos y la obra del artista, con testimonios de sus familiares y amigos, e incluye una serie de entrevistas redescubiertas con el propio Mapplethorpe.

Ubicada en el centro de Manhattan, en pleno Nueva York, se alza Tiffany Y Co., una de las joyerías más famosas del mundo. El lujo, la elegancia y la sofisticación son algunas de las cualidades que simbolizan este popular negocio. Matthew Miele ("Esparcid mis cenizas en Bergdorf") dirige esta película documental que cuenta la historia de la mítica Tiffany & Co., fundada en 1837. De hecho, gran parte del público la recordará al quedar inmortalizada en el filme de Blake Edwards "Desayuno con diamantes", protagonizada por Audrey Hepburn, y a su vez basada en la novela "Desayuno en Tiffany's", de Truman Capote.

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America's first lady of literature. Her books encompass black American history but live and breathe in the present, rich in vivid characters, haunted by ghosts. Born poor in Ohio in 1931, she now lives in New York. She tells Alan Yentob how her father hated whites so much he wouldn't let them in the house. Her masterpiece, Beloved, shows the horrors of slavery perhaps better than any other artwork. She talks as she writes - with warmth and wit. Contributors include Angela Davis (whose biography she edited) and singer Jessye Norman.

Retrato íntimo y lleno de matices de una de las pensadoras más influyentes y provocadoras del siglo XX. Apasionada y sincera durante toda su carrera, Susan Sontag se convirtió en uno de los más importantes iconos literarios, políticos y feministas de su generación.

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

Película basada en hechos reales del corredor de bolsa neoyorquino Jordan Belfort. A mediados de los años 80, Belfort era un joven honrado que perseguía el sueño americano, pero pronto en la agencia de valores aprendió que lo más importante no era hacer ganar a sus clientes, sino ser ambicioso y ganar una buena comisión. Su enorme éxito y fortuna le valió el mote de "El lobo de Wall Street". Dinero. Poder. Mujeres. Drogas. Las tentaciones abundaban y el temor a la ley era irrelevante. Jordan y su manada de lobos consideraban que la discreción era una cualidad anticuada; nunca se conformaban con lo que tenían.

A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences.

A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences.

James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.

Curmudgeon. Contrarian. Misanthrope. Naysayer. For all the people interviewed in this film, someone has used one of the above words to describe them. What have they done to deserve such labels? Everywhere these men and women go, something is being celebrated; they don’t get what all the celebration is about and they’re compelled to question it.

Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the third of the six films, "Yesterday's Tomorrows," filmmaker Barry Levinson delves into what we, as Americans, thought the future would be as we traveled through the 20th century. Houses and cars of the future, the promise of technology, and the other hopes and dreams of the early part of the century gave way to the fears and anxieties brought about by the atomic age and the Hollywood disaster films that followed. Soon we wondered if we could control technology, or if it would control us. This film is by turns light-hearted and thoughtful, and rare historical and archival film, produced by government and industry, alternates with on-screen interviews with people as diverse as consumer advocate Ralph Nader, cartoonist Matt Groening, futurist Alvin Toffler, comedienne Phyllis Diller, and actor Martin Mull.

Portrait of writer Dorothy Parker, her Algonquin Round Table friends, her writing and her troubled life. Includes interviews, archival footage of Parker reading poetry and scenes from the 1994 film on Parker's life, "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Matthew Broderick.

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering.

Documentary portrait of Andy Warhol.

McGruff, Drew Barrymore, and a rag tag band of kids make a rock video about "saying no to drugs."