SPFX: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back is a television documentary special which originally aired on CBS on September 22, 1980. Hosted by actor Mark Hamill, it is a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the special effects in the second Star Wars film, The Empire Strikes Back, which was released that year.
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Director: Robert Guenette
Actors: Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, Frank Oz, Harrison Ford, Kenny Baker, Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew
Pulling John (2009)
John Brzenk is troubled by when to call it quits; should he retire when he is on top or wait until someone takes his title. After twenty-five solid years of…
A Crude Awakening (2006)
Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack’s nonfiction treatise Crude Awakening joins Maxed Out, An Inconvenient Truth, and other recent documentaries devoted to unearthing and exploring forces that are untying the connective…
Owned: A Tale of Two Americas (2018)
A fever dream vision into the dark history behind the US housing economy. Tracking its overtly racist beginnings to its unbridled commoditization, the doc exposes a foundational story few Americans…
Muxes (2016)
In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category,…
An Owl is an Owl is an Owl (1990)
From Chris Marker’s collection Bestiaire aka Petit Bestiaire (1990), consisting of three video haikus.
The Swell Season (2011)
The world fell in love with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová when their songwriting collaboration in the film Once (2006) culminated in a jubilant Oscar win. But behind the scenes,…
Live At Roseland – Elements of 4 (2011)
Live at Roseland: Elements of 4 is a live DVD concert film by American R&B recording artist, Beyoncé Knowles. It was directed by Knowles, Ed Burke and Anthony Green, and…
Stan Lee’s Mutants, Monsters & Marvels (2002)
Filmmaker and comic writer Kevin Smith interviews comic book legend Stan Lee about his life and work in comics across the decades.
12th & Delaware (2010)
The abortion battle continues to rage in unexpected ways on one corner in an American city.
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk (2017)
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of the…
The Brandon Teena Story (1998)
Documentary about Brandon Teena, a transgender man who was murdered along with two others in 1993 in rural Nebraska.
Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (2006)
Poet, singer / songwriter and ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his home about his life and times. The interview is interspersed with archive photos and exuberant praise and…