Room 237 (2012)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Rodney Ascher
Actors: Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Jay Weidner, John Fell Ryan, Juli Kearns
Country: United States of America
Between the Beats (2024)
San Francisco was the epicenter of the American rave scene and witnessed some legendary events that began in the early ‘90s. These all-night electronic-music dance parties are culturally iconic and…
Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin (2018)
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party’s protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life…
Songs of Earth (2023)
With Olin’s 85-year-old father as guide, we experience Norway’s most adventurous valley, Oldedalen in Nordfjord. He grew up here, and here generations before him have lived in balance with nature.
Car Crash: Who’s Lying? (2018)
Documentary exploring the aftermath of a car crash. As stories change and conflicting testimonies emerge, police must unpick the mystery of what really went on.
Licensed to Kill (1997)
A riveting journey into the minds of men whose contempt for homosexuals led them to murder. Attacked in 1977 by gay bashers on the streets of San Francisco, filmmaker Arthur…
In Search of Walt Whitman Part One: The Early Years (1819-1860) (2020)
Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood in Long Island and Brooklyn to write the masterpiece Leaves of Grass in 1855 that revolutionizes literature. Many of his most famous poems…
The Price of Sugar (2007)
On the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, tourists flock to pristine beaches, with little knowledge that a few miles away thousands of dispossessed Haitians are under armed guard on…
The Net (2003)
More of a film essay – of the type pioneered by Orson Welles and Chris Marker – than a standard documentary, German filmmaker Lutz Dammbeck’s The Net: The Unabomber, the…
The Soviet Story (2008)
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the…
We Are X (2016)
As glam rock’s most flamboyant survivors, X Japan ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late ’80s with their melodic metal. Twenty years after their tragic dissolution, X Japan’s…
Tisza: Autumn Sketches (1963)
The first signs of autumn are seen in a landscape along a river. Some villagers are stacking a bed of stone blocks on the river-bank to avoid more eroding. Others…