I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco (2002)
A documentary by photographer Sam Jones documenting American rock band Wilco recording their fourth album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Originally intended as a showcase of the band’s creative process, the film crew catches unexpected complications between the band and its record label and problems among the band members themselves.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Sam Jones
Actors: Fred Armisen, Glenn Kotche, Greg Kot, Jay Bennett, Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Leroy Bach, Tony Margherita, Wes Orshoski
Behind the Planet of the Apes (1998)
This documentary was shown as part of the American Movie Classics (AMC) cable TV channel’s celebration of the 30th anniversary of the release of Planet of the Apes (1968). We…
White Angel… Black Angel (1970)
Witness devilish rituals from around the globe. Satanism! Voodoo! Majicks Black and White! Shocking Truths, etc.!
Destricted (2006)
A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.
Being Michael Madsen (2007)
Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant’s life, loves, and troubles.
Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends) (2017)
The November 13, 2015 terrorist attack in Paris claimed 130 lives around the city — 89 of them at the Eagles of Death Metal’s Bataclan Theatre concert. “Eagles of Death…
Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown (2016)
Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime sketches and signature slapstick humor. Yet Lewis was far…
Carts of Darkness (2008)
In the picture-postcard community of North Vancouver, filmmaker Murray Siple follows men who have turned bottle-picking, their primary source of income, into the extreme sport of shopping cart racing. Enduring…
Run Ricky Run (2010)
Ricky Williams does not conform to America’s definition of the modern athlete. In 2004, with rumors of another positive marijuana test looming, the Miami Dolphins running back traded adulation and…
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (2015)
The wild West Berlin of the 1980s became the creative melting pot of pop subcultures: music, art and chaos. Before the Iron Curtain fell, anything and everything seemed possible.
Always at The Carlyle (2018)
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.
The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story (2003)
The full bizarre, tragic but celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd.
Confession (1998)
Originally aired on Russian television, this five-part semi-documentary series tells the story of a Russian naval commander in charge of an Arctic-based ship. The film provokes a meditation on solitude…