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.
Этот документальный фильм - не простой портрет жизни армянского кинорежиссера Сергея Параджанова, а, скорее, яркое празднование его таланта и творчества. Фильм Казальса, сфокусированный на коллажах, которые он создал за годы заключения, и интервью с самим режиссером, демонстрирует масштаб художественного видения Параджанова, с любовью воспевая память этого бунтаря художественного кино.
Diaries, audiotapes, videotapes and testimonies from friends and colleagues offer insight into the life and career of Gilda Radner -- the beloved comic and actress who became an icon on Saturday Night Live.
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, classmates, and peers are interviewed not only about his theories but the man himself.
A documentary on Pakistani architect and urban planner Perween Rahman and her remarkable work for Karachi’s poor.
Breathing is about the thin space between life and death. 34-year-old Neil Platt plans his own funeral, muses about the meaning of life and the impossibility of terminating a mobile phone contract. With 5 months left to live, and paralyzed from the neck down by Motor Neurone Disease, he ponders how to communicate about his life in a letter for his baby son. How can he anticipate what he might want to know about his father in a future he can only imagine?
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.
Петербургский танцовщик Александр Ширяев был одним из первых в России, кто открыл широкие возможности кинематографа, доказав это делом. Артист Императорского балета, ученик Мариуса Петипа, виртуозный исполнитель характерных танцев в Мариинке, он приспособил кинематограф для своей профессии - снимал танцы, но затем попробовал себя и в других жанрах - трюковой комической ленты, рисованной и кукольной анимации. Снятые в самом начале прошлого столетия и чудом сохранившиеся, эти ленты открыл в 1995 году киновед и режиссер Виктор Бочаров. Некоторые из уникальных пленок и вошли в этот фильм, рассказывающий о личности и судьбе Александра Ширяева и его ранних кинематографических опытах.
Фильм рассказывает о печальной судьбе исследователя-любителя Тимоти Тредвелла, посвятившего себя изучению повадок самого свирепого медведя на планете — гризли. Жизнь Тредвелла оборвалась в октябре 2003 года на Аляске. Огромный медведь разорвал исследователя и его подругу во время очередного путешествия. На протяжении картины друзья и коллеги Тимоти пытаются понять причины его необыкновенного увлечения и ответить, что заставляет современного человека отказаться от благ цивилизации в пользу дружбы с гигантским медведем.
