Don Lenzer

Filmes

Muito Ralph: Vida e Obra de Ralph Lauren
Director of Photography
Dirigido pela vencedora de 14 Emmy® Susan Lacy (Jane Fonda em Cinco Atos, Spielberg), este documentário traça um perfil do icônico estilista Ralph Lauren. Trazendo entrevistas com personalidades, familiares e amigos, Very Ralph revela o homem que, ao longo de uma carreira de mais de cinco décadas, tornou-se símbolo do estilo americano no mundo todo.
RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words
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How does some one with three strikes against her, rise to the highest court in the land, the U. S. Supreme Court?
Eagles: Live at the Capital Centre (March 1977)
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Eagles Live At The Capital Centre - March 1977, featuring never-before-released performances from the Eagles’ two-night stand at Washington, D.C.’s Capital Center during the legendary Hotel California tour.
Anita
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The story of young, brilliant African-American Anita Hill who accuses the Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unwanted sexual advances during explosive Senate Hearings in 1991 and ignites a political firestorm about sexual harassment, race, power and politics that resonates today.
Desconhecidos: Cinco Histórias da Internet
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Em tempos de redes sociais, milhões de desconhecidos se tornam amigos em um instante por meio da internet. Mas essas relações virtuais podem se tornar grandes romances da vida real?
Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family
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In his early twenties, Sam Cagnina, oldest son of a Mafia hit man, meets Steven, a handsome 19-year old college student and they fall in love. Then, after a few years Sam offers Steven a "visionary" idea. What if they could find a woman who would fall in love with both of them and agree to live in a "trio" relationship? They spend the next 7 years dating and looking for that special woman. Finally, they meet Samantha, a young, struggling actress. THREE OF HEARTS explores this very unique trio union as they negotiate their living arangements, fall in love and open one of the hottest wellness centres in New York City. Everyone who comes in contact with them is never quite sure how the relationship works. But the one thing which seems certain is their love for each other.
A Canção de Xiara
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Documentário com o foco em Xiara, uma menina de sete anos, cujo pai cumpre pena de prisão por porte de arma.
The Education of Gore Vidal
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A contrarian and wickedly funny man, "The Education of Gore Vidal" explores Vidal's extraordinary life and work, joining him at his cliff-side villa in Ravello, Italy.
The Artist in Me
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A short documentary following 19-year-old Amanda Dunbar, who shares her thoughts on being an artist alongside a group of children in her art class. This documentary is included as a special feature on the 2002 Barbie as Rapunzel DVD.
Nos Braços de Estranhos: Histórias do Kindertransport
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In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey... to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.
O Longo Caminho Para Casa
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A trajetória dos sobreviventes do Holocausto, e que logo depois lutaram para a fundação do Estado de Israel.
Bill T. Jones: Still/Here
Cinematography
Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’s highly acclaimed dance Still/Here. At workshops around the country, people facing life-threatening illnesses are asked to remember the highs and lows of their lives, and even imagine their own deaths. They then transform their feelings into expressive movement, which Jones incorporates into the dance performed later in the program. For this documentary, Jones demonstrates the movements of his own life story: his first encounter with white people, confusion over his sexuality, his partner Arnie Zane’s untimely death from AIDS, and Jones’s own HIV-positive status.
You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story
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Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.
High Fidelity: The Adventures of the Guarneri String Quartet
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Relationships, rehearsals, performances, hobbies, and family life of the members of the Guarneri String Quartet.
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
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James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy.
A Hungry Feeling: The Life and Death of Brendan Behan
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Colleagues and relatives reflect on the dynamic life of Irish writer Brendan Behan, beginning with his adolescent years as an activist and his affiliation with the IRA youth group, Fianna Éireann. Behan rises to fame as a poet and playwright and achieves international success in the wake of his successful autobiography, "Borstal Boy." But in his later years, Behan's prominence wanes as alcoholism, egotistical tendencies and a growing obsession with celebrity begin to overtake him.
Eddie Murphy - Sem Censura
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Logo após conquistar fama no programa humorístico "Saturday Night Live" e no filme "Um Tira da Pesada", Eddie Murphy lançou este trabalho que é um registro de sua tradicional performance stand-up comedy. Aqui o comediante foca em seus assuntos mais constantes, como o divórcio, relações entre os sexos, mas também abre espaço para um tópico que passou a fazer parte de seus problemas com a fama: Espectadores ofendidos com a abordagem de suas piadas e frases carregadas de palavrões. O segredo é entrar na levada de humor do astro, que já começa provocando na chamada do filme: "Cuidado: Você poderá se ofender se é negro, branco, homem, mulher, rico ou pobre, Bill Cosby, Mr. T ou Richard Pryor".
The Ten-Year Lunch
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The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
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One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Described by director St. Clair Bourne as “a narrative performance documentary,” this category-defiant film on the life of poet and writer Hughes and the times in which he lived and worked moves from America to Senegal to Paris, from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance to the Black Pride awakening of the 1960s.
Directed by William Wyler
Cinematography
Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
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Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son.
Amor Sobre Rodas
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A female bicycle messenger is looking for love in New York City and becomes involved with two very different men.
The Grateful Dead Movie
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Released in 1977 and directed by Jerry Garcia, is a film that captures performances from the Grateful Dead's October 1974 five-night stand at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. This end-of-tour run marked the beginning of an extended hiatus for the band, with no shows planned for 1975. The movie also faithfully portrays the burgeoning Deadhead scene. The film features the "Wall of Sound" concert sound system that the Dead used for all of 1974.
Not a Pretty Picture
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Mixing narrative and documentary filming in a unique way the story is autobiographical and is about a date rape dissecting the characters and circumstances around it. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
Corações e Mentes
Second Unit Cinematographer
Documentário analisa as razões da Guerra do Vietnã, mostrando imagens de bombardeios, destruição de aldeias, depoimentos de ex-soldados, políticos e generais responsáveis pelas operações militares. Contrapondo versões contra e a favor do conflito, o filme criou condições para uma dolorosa autocrítica sobre a ação americana no Vietnã, que custou milhões de vidas dos dois lados.
Father Dan Berrigan: The Holy Outlaw
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This documentary deals with the 4 months that Father Daniel Berrigan was underground from the FBI, due to participating in and leading the burning of draft records in an act of civil disobedience.
Father Dan Berrigan: The Holy Outlaw
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This documentary deals with the 4 months that Father Daniel Berrigan was underground from the FBI, due to participating in and leading the burning of draft records in an act of civil disobedience.
Woodstock - 3 Dias de Paz, Amor e Música
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Woodstock ou Festival de Woodstock foi um festival de música realizado entre os dias 15 e 18 de agosto de 1969 na fazenda de gado leiteiro de 600 acres de Max Yasgur, 70 quilômetros a sudoeste da cidade de Woodstock. Foi anunciado como "Uma Exposição Aquariana: 3 Dias de Paz & Música". O festival deveria ocorrer originalmente na pequena cidade de Wallkill, mas os moradores locais não aceitaram, o que levou o evento para a pequena Bethel, a uma hora e meia de distância. O festival exemplificou a era da contracultura do final da década de 1960 e começo de 1970. 32 dos mais conhecidos músicos da época se apresentaram durante um fim de semana, por vezes chuvoso, para 400 mil espectadores. Evento único e lendário, reconhecido como um dos maiores momentos na história da música popular. Tudo foi filmado para um documentário lançado em 1970, Woodstock, com trilha sonora dos melhores momentos, e com a canção Woodstock, de Joni Mitchell.
Napalm
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A variety of locals react to a napalm plant and an ensuing protest in Redwood City CA during the Vietnam War.
Napalm
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A variety of locals react to a napalm plant and an ensuing protest in Redwood City CA during the Vietnam War.
Napalm
Director
A variety of locals react to a napalm plant and an ensuing protest in Redwood City CA during the Vietnam War.
Have You Heard of the San Francisco Mime Troupe?
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Documentary directed by Don Lenzer and Fred Wardenburg
The Primal Mind
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Written and hosted by Jack Marks aka “Jamake Highwater,” an American Jewish author who misrepresented himself as Native American, this film examines the differences between Native American and Western cultures, including their views of nature, time, space, art, architecture, and dance.