Pauline Oliveros isn’t just one of the most influential 20th century composers , she’s literally changed the way many people hear and play music through the work of her Deep Listening Institute. Now she will be the subject of a new documentary from filmmaker Daniel Weintraub that will follow her career as well as examine the “deep listening concept”.
An account of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood's most famous and glamorous movie stars.
Why did Simenon, a novelist who contributed so much to the seventh art, like to say that he hated the cinema? Because he could never become a director? Because, claustrophobic, he was unable to lock himself in a projection room? Clearly, there is an affair between the writer and the cinema and Georges Simenon is the main protagonist. An investigation that is more than ever topical as Patrice Leconte has announced his plan to adapt an investigation by the famous Inspector Maigret.
Over three very personal films, Sir David Attenborough looks back at the unparalleled changes in natural history that he has witnessed during his 60-year career.
Communal property, free sexuality, dissolution of the nuclear family - these were the basic principles of the Friedrichshof, the largest commune in Europe founded by the Viennese Actionist Otto Muehl in the 1970's. Because of these principles Paul-Julien Robert, who was born into this commune, for a long time didn't know who was his biological father.
This documentary is not a straightforward portrait of Armenian film director Sergei Paradjanov's life, but rather a fluid celebration of his talent and creativity. Focusing on the collages he produced during his years in prison, and featuring interviews with the director himself, Cazals' film demonstrates the scope of Paradjanov's artistic vision, lovingly commemorating this rebel of art cinema.
A parte da vida de Gilda Radner que o público não teve o privilégio de conhecer: relacionamentos, sucesso, fama e até um câncer no ovário. Gravações pessoais raras, páginas de diário e depoimentos de amigos e admiradores, como Amy Poehler, Cecily Strong e Lorne Michaels, são mostrados, funcionando como um tributo à comediante do Saturday Night Live.
Um filme sobre a vida e o trabalho do cosmólogo Stephen Hawking, que, apesar da quase total paralisia, é uma das mentes mais brilhantes de todos os tempos.
A documentary on Pakistani architect and urban planner Perween Rahman and her remarkable work for Karachi’s poor.
Documentário segue os últimos meses de Neil Platt, um jovem pai com uma doença de neurônio motor que é terminal e debilitante.
In this celebration of the life and work of the hugely popular entertainer, who died in April 2016, friends and fans pay tribute to a great comic talent. Victoria Wood wrote some of television's greatest comedy sketches and musicals, and also won two BAFTA awards for her drama Housewife, 49. Stars including Sir Lenny Henry, Peter Kay and Alison Steadman talk about Victoria's contribution to entertainment, while friends and fellow actors including Celia Imrie, Michael Ball, David Threlfall and Anne Reid recall what it was like to work with the woman once voted as the person the British public would most like to have as their next door neighbour.
The working class girl from Landala, Gothenburg, through the fine art of theatre and all the way to Hollywood.
A biography of the short-lived character actor Laird Cregar.
A prominent Russian ballet dancer and teacher Alexander Shiryaev had another talent hidden for almost a century. Archive materials that date back to 1906 reveal his bold experiments at stop-motion and paper animation.
A vida e a morte de Timothy Treadwell, ecologista e especialista em ursos. Por 13 verões consecutivos Treadwell foi para o Alasca viver desarmado entre esses animais. Nas últimas 5 vezes ele documentou sua viagem com uma câmera. Em outubro de 2003 os restos mortais de Treadwell e de sua namorada Amie Huguenard foram encontrados pelo piloto que deveria trazê-los de volta. O casal fora devorado por um urso, o primeiro caso registrado de ataque naquele campo. Herzog utiliza as filmagens de Treadwell para explorar sua personalidade e levantar questões sobre a difícil relação entre homem e natureza.
