Allison Anders

This timely exploration of Hollywood and LGBTQ+ identity examines the life of legendary actor Rock Hudson, from his public "ladies' man" persona to his private life as a gay man.

The son of a junkie aristocrat and a schizophrenic showgirl becomes a master of reinvention on a 50+ year journey through rock and roll, TV, and movies.

Hal Ashby's obsessive genius led to an unprecedented string of Oscar®-winning classics, including Harold and Maude, Shampoo and Being There. But as contemporaries Coppola, Scorsese and Spielberg rose to blockbuster stardom in the 1980s, Ashby's uncompromising nature played out as a cautionary tale of art versus commerce.

Follows the serendipitous meeting of two young girls on the Venice Boardwalk, who, though worlds apart in lifestyle, embark on unexpected and lifelong friendship. CC is an aspiring singer trying to make it in Los Angeles. Hillary is the daughter of a prominent civil rights lawyer who struggles to find her own destiny. Their friendship—even with its ups and downs—sustains them for decades.

A short, Filmstruck-produced documentary on the life of director Shirley Clarke.

Follows the lyrical journey of an imaginative teenage girl who runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter, but not even unicorns can save her now.

“Ring of Fire” recounts June’s meteoric rise to fame with The Carter Family, considered the First Family of country music, before breaking out on her own to perform, when she would become a legend in her own right. Taking a personal look at June’s first two marriages, life with her daughters and touching relationship with her son, the movie showcases her infamous courtship with Cash and June’s heroic role in saving his life during his battles with substance abuse, as well as how her unwavering faith in God, confidence and talent has taught lessons to generations.

A young musician recovers from the loss of his girlfriend with the help of his female filmmaker friend, and even forms a friendship with the rival who stole her.

A young musician recovers from the loss of his girlfriend with the help of his female filmmaker friend, and even forms a friendship with the rival who stole her.

When Ben McCauley daringly introduces himself anonymously via email to his secret crush, he mistakenly sends a message to single mother Charley Anderson. Ben begins dating Chloe, but she never quite lives up to the e-mail relationship and anonymous friendship he develops with her co-worker Charley.

This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.

Boyd Rice may well be the only person alive who's been on a first name basis with both Charles Manson and Marilyn Manson. His career has spanned more than three decades, during which time he has remained at the epicenter of underground culture and controversy.

Allison Anders talks about her love for the work of film director Douglas Sirk

Shane Black ("Lethal Weapon"), John Carpenter ("Halloween"), Frank Darabont ("The Shawshank Redemption"), William Goldman ("The Princess Bride"), Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver"), and dozens of other Hollywood screenwriters share hilarious anecdotes and penetrating insights in "Tales from the Script," the most comprehensive documentary ever made about screenwriting. By analyzing their triumphs and recalling their failures, the participants explain how successful writers develop the skills necessary for toughing out careers in one of the world's most competitive industries. They also reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest screenplays ever written, describing their adventures with luminaries including Harrison Ford, Stanley Kubrick, Joel Silver, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg. The film was produced in tandem with the upcoming HarperCollins book of the same name.

The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews originally appeared in the documentary "Douglas Sirk: Uber Stars" (Eckhart Schmidt, 1980)

A look at the mystique of road movies, combining interviews, film clips, music, photography, literature and a narrative storyline featuring Paul Rudd and Tom McCarthy.

Kirby Dick's provocative documentary investigates the secretive and inconsistent process by which the Motion Picture Association of America rates films, revealing the organization's underhanded efforts to control culture. Dick questions whether certain studios get preferential treatment and exposes the discrepancies in how the MPAA views sex and violence.

Short documentary about the making of the 1987 film.

A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.

A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.

A look at the lives of several struggling L.A. musicians. Gwen, a singer-songwriter, is on a quest for the big-time. Working as an assistant to a film production designer, Gwen tries to steal her boss' boyfriend, a veteran rock producer. The producer, meanwhile, is trying to orchestrate a comeback for an '80s band.

A look at the lives of several struggling L.A. musicians. Gwen, a singer-songwriter, is on a quest for the big-time. Working as an assistant to a film production designer, Gwen tries to steal her boss' boyfriend, a veteran rock producer. The producer, meanwhile, is trying to orchestrate a comeback for an '80s band.

A film director (Adam Rifkin) decides to chart the course of a young actor (Tony Markes) as he tries to make it in Hollywood...

가수의 꿈을 키워나가는 에드나는 고향 필라델피아에서의 가요제에서 1위를 차치하고, 레코드를 취입할 수 있는 기회를 잡는다. 하지만 남자가수만을 우대하는 레코드사에서 그녀에게는 좀처럼 기회가 오지 않는다. 에드나는 포기하지 않고,음악에 대한 열정과 자신의 재능을 믿고 남성위주의 대중음악계에 뛰어들 것을 결심한다. 그렇게 동분서주하지만 무명의 티를 벗지 못하던 에드나는 식당에서 조엘이라는 음반제작자를 만나고 그의 권유에 따라 작곡가의 길로 들어서 드니스 웨이벌리라는 예명으로 본격적인 활동을 시작한다. 또한 고향 가요제때 알게되었던 흑인 여가수 도리스를 조엘에게 소개시키고 자신의 곡을 주어 큰 성공을 거둔 에드나는 그 이후로 계속적인 히트를 기록하게 되고,사랑도 성취하게 되어 결혼하여 아이도 낳아 행복한 생활을 하게 된다. 하지만 남편의 외도를 목격하게 된 그녀는 남편과 이혼을 하고, 둘째 아이를 낳아 혼자 기르면서 생활하게 된다. 잠시 주춤하던 차에 조엘은 그녀에게 음반취입을 권유하고 작업과정에서 음반 제작가 레이와 재혼했지만, 결국 음반은 실패하고, 정신질환을 앓던 레이는 자살하게 되는데...

가수의 꿈을 키워나가는 에드나는 고향 필라델피아에서의 가요제에서 1위를 차치하고, 레코드를 취입할 수 있는 기회를 잡는다. 하지만 남자가수만을 우대하는 레코드사에서 그녀에게는 좀처럼 기회가 오지 않는다. 에드나는 포기하지 않고,음악에 대한 열정과 자신의 재능을 믿고 남성위주의 대중음악계에 뛰어들 것을 결심한다. 그렇게 동분서주하지만 무명의 티를 벗지 못하던 에드나는 식당에서 조엘이라는 음반제작자를 만나고 그의 권유에 따라 작곡가의 길로 들어서 드니스 웨이벌리라는 예명으로 본격적인 활동을 시작한다. 또한 고향 가요제때 알게되었던 흑인 여가수 도리스를 조엘에게 소개시키고 자신의 곡을 주어 큰 성공을 거둔 에드나는 그 이후로 계속적인 히트를 기록하게 되고,사랑도 성취하게 되어 결혼하여 아이도 낳아 행복한 생활을 하게 된다. 하지만 남편의 외도를 목격하게 된 그녀는 남편과 이혼을 하고, 둘째 아이를 낳아 혼자 기르면서 생활하게 된다. 잠시 주춤하던 차에 조엘은 그녀에게 음반취입을 권유하고 작업과정에서 음반 제작가 레이와 재혼했지만, 결국 음반은 실패하고, 정신질환을 앓던 레이는 자살하게 되는데...

새해 전날 밤, LA 몽시뇰 호텔에서 첫근무를 하게 된 괴짜 벨보이 테드는 상상조차 할 수 없는 최악의 밤을 맞이한다. 허니문 스위트룸에 투숙한 마녀들의 부활의식에 야릇한 제물로 걸려드는가 하면, 얼음 배달차 들른 룸 404호의 악당 지그프리드는 아내의 정부라고 오해를 한다. 5백 달러를 받고 돌봐주기로 한 룸 309호 갱스터 부부의 꼬마 악동들은 시끌벅적한 소란을 벌이며 방 한 칸을 홀라당 날려버린다. 마지막 펜트하우스 특실 룸에는 할리우드 최고의 코미디언 체스터 러쉬와 그의 친구들이 벌이는 잔인한 내기에 엉겁결에 끼어들게 된 테드는 피할 수 없는 희생양이 될 판이 된다.

새해 전날 밤, LA 몽시뇰 호텔에서 첫근무를 하게 된 괴짜 벨보이 테드는 상상조차 할 수 없는 최악의 밤을 맞이한다. 허니문 스위트룸에 투숙한 마녀들의 부활의식에 야릇한 제물로 걸려드는가 하면, 얼음 배달차 들른 룸 404호의 악당 지그프리드는 아내의 정부라고 오해를 한다. 5백 달러를 받고 돌봐주기로 한 룸 309호 갱스터 부부의 꼬마 악동들은 시끌벅적한 소란을 벌이며 방 한 칸을 홀라당 날려버린다. 마지막 펜트하우스 특실 룸에는 할리우드 최고의 코미디언 체스터 러쉬와 그의 친구들이 벌이는 잔인한 내기에 엉겁결에 끼어들게 된 테드는 피할 수 없는 희생양이 될 판이 된다.

Interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe in the early 1990s, exploring the opportunities and obstacles that face them. A program made to accompany a Channel 4 season of films directed and produced by women.

Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.

Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.

Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.

Before carving out a niche as one of the most distinct voices in nineties American cinema, Allison Anders made her debut, alongside codirectors and fellow UCLA film school students Kurt Voss and Dean Lent, with 1987’s Border Radio. A low-key, semi-improvised postpunk diary that took four years to complete, Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D., of the Flesh Eaters, as a singer/songwriter who has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his wife (Luanna Anders), a no-nonsense rock journalist, to track him down with the help of his friends (John Doe of the band X; Chris Shearer). With its sprawling Southern Californian and Mexican landscapes, captured in evocative 16mm black and white, Border Radio is a singular, DIY memento of the indie film explosion in America.

멕시코와 미국의 접경 지역 부근, 텍사스주의 어느 황량한 마을에 탈진한 듯 보이는 한 남자가 걸어온다. 그의 이름은 트래비스. 의식을 잃은 트래비스의 소지품에서 월트란 이름을 발견한 의사는 연락을 취하게 되고, 캘리포니아주 로스앤젤레스에서 살던 동생 월트가 형인 트래비스를 데리러 온다. 4년 만에 소식을 접한 월트는 병원에서 말 없이 사라진 형을 바로 찾아내지만, 형은 계속 침묵으로만 일관한다. 그동안 형의 아들인 헌터를 맡아 기르던 월터와 그의 아내 앤은 헌터가 트래비스를 아버지로 인정할 수 있게 최선을 다하지만, 다른 한편으로는 기른 정에 얽매여 헌터를 잃게 되진 않을까 우려한다. 월트는 형이 텍사스에서 헌터의 엄마, 제인과 살다가 왜 갑자기 헤어지게 됐는지 털어놓지 않자 답답해하고, 트래비스는 앤으로부터 제인이 헌터에게 매달 정기적으로 송금해오는데, 휴스턴의 한 은행을 이용하고 있다는 애기를 듣고 직접 찾아보기로 결심하는데..