The New Deal for Artists (1981)
Genre: Documentary
Director: Wieland Schulz-Keil
Actors: Howard Da Silva, James Brooks, John Houseman, Nelson Algren, Orson Welles, Will Geer
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Toni Morrison leads an assembly…
Punk Like Me (2006)
A man scams his way onto the Warped Tour by pretending to be a writer for Rolling Stone magazine.
La Singla (2023)
In the 1960s, a young Spanish flamenco dancer named Antonia Singla captivated audiences with her strikingly passionate performances. Having lost her hearing at a young age, La Singla rose to…
Corman’s World (2011)
A chronicle of the long career of American filmmaker Roger Corman, the most tenacious and ingenious low-budget producer and director in the US film industry, a pioneer of independent filmmaking…
The Filth and the Fury (2000)
Julien Temple’s second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself. Featuring archival…
Alison (2016)
Raped. Disemboweled. Nearly decapitated. Dumped on the outskirts of a nature reserve, dead – or so they thought. She needed a hero that night, so that’s what she became. This…
The Female Closet (1998)
The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of artists Alice Austen, Hannah Höch and Nicole Eisenman. Utilizing groundbreaking…
The Ancient Woods (2018)
A poetic and atypical nature film about the various inhabitants of an old-growth forest, on the ground, in the air and in the water. There’s no commentary, only the rich,…
The River Runner (2021)
Legendary kayaker Scott Lindgren attempts to complete an extreme, unprecedented whitewater expedition 20-years-in-the-making. When a brain tumor derails his goals, he sinks into the darkness of his own trauma only…
The Modern Jungle (2016)
A story of globalization filtered through the fever dream of a Mexican shaman, The Modern Jungle is also an intimate portrait of Zoque culture, commodity fetish, and the predicament of…
Occupation: Dreamland (2005)
This documentary of American soldiers in Falluja offers a revealing and complex portrait of Army life.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2023)
An extraordinary adventure through the interior of the human body; or the discovery of an alien landscape of unprecedented beauty.