Directed by Pamela B. Green • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Jodie Foster, Alice Guy-Blache, Agnes Varda, Ava DuVernay, Geena Davis

Narrated by Jodie Foster, this full feature documentary rewrites film history, revealing for the first time the full scope of the life and work of cine...

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Valerio Ruiz • Italy • 2015 • The cinematic legacy of iconic filmmaker Lina Wertmüller.

Lina Wertmüller was one of the most iconic filmmakers of the 1970s. Martin Scorsese has described her 1974 feature Swept Away as essential viewing from the decade—scrambling politics of class,...

Directed by Andres Veiel • Documentary • 2018 • Germany • English, German with English subtitles
Featuring Joseph Beuys

A chronicle of the life and work of the iconoclastic, 20th-century German sculptor and performance artist Joseph Beuys. This documentary is not a portrait in the traditional se...

Directed by Richard Press • Documentary • 2010 • US • English
Featuring Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Iris Apfel

A delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of bicycle-riding octogenarian Bill Cunningham, the beloved 'New York Times' style photographer who was famous for his weekly columns "...

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Beth B • United States • 2016 • A deeply personal portrait of acclaimed artist Ida Applebroog.

Ida Applebroog was born into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family in the Bronx in the 1920s. As one of three daughters to a father who had prayed for sons, her childhood was less than cheerf...

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Gereon Wetzel • 2011 • Germany • The world's best restaurant creates the menu for its final season

For many years, Catalan chef Ferran Adrià ran the best restaurant in the world. Tucked away in a small cove a few hours north of Barcelona, El Bulli prepared some of the most daring...

Directed by Tony Zierra • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Stellan Skarsgard

Leon Vitali was a British television actor when Stanley Kubrick picked him for a role in "Barry Lyndon". That first encounter with the auteur proved decisive—he swiftly resolved to ...

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Gero von Boehm • Germany • 2020 • The life and legacy of a controversial photography genius.

One of the great masters of photography, Helmut Newton made a name for himself exploring the female form. Born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Newton lived as a teenager under the Nazis b...

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Pieter van Huystee • Netherlands • 2015 • A dive into the life and work of the controversial painter

The late-medieval artist Hieronymus Bosch died nearly 500 years ago. Yet his art remains a subject of fascainted study—in 2016, a special exhibition of his work was held at the No...

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Martina Kudlácek • Austria, Switzerland, Germany • 2002 • A portrait of a groundbreaking artist.

Maya Deren is considered by many to be the most innovative avant-garde filmmaker in the history of American cinema. Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Deren’s family fled the USSR in 1922 to escap...

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Walter Salles • Brazil • 2014 • An intimate portrait of one of China's greatest living directors.

Jia Zhangke is one of China's greatest living directors. His friend, the Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles, accompanies Zhangke throughout China—together, they visit Zhangke's hometo...

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Amei Wallach & Marion Cajori • U.S. • 2008 • The life and imagination of an icon of modern art.

As an artist, Louise Bourgeois is best known for her large-scale sculptures, towering arachnids that seem to defy gravity. As a screen presence, she is magnetic, mercurial and emotional...

Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Rupert Everett, David Hockney, Isaac Mizrahi

Oscar-winning set and costume designer, photographer, writer and painter Cecil Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler, but an arbiter of his time. From the Bright You...

Directed by Ric Burns • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Oliver Sacks, Temple Grandin, Atul Gawande

A month after receiving a fatal diagnosis, esteemed neurologist Oliver Sacks sat down for a series of interviews in his apartment in New York City. For eighty hours, surrounded by famil...

Directed by Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman • Documentary • 2015 • US, Senegal • English, French, Wolof with English subtitles
Featuring Ousmane Sembene, Mbissine Therese Diop, Samba Gadjigo

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impossible ...

Beniamino Barrese • 2019 • Italy • Benedetta wants to disappear. Her son documents her final act.

Benedetta Barzini was an iconic fashion model in the 1960s, a muse to Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon, Dalí. In the 70s, as a a radical feminist, she leveraged her visbility to guarantee women's emanci...

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Lars von Trier • 2003 • Denmark-Switzerland-Belgium-France • Lars von Trier challenges his mentor.

Documents the re-making of Jørgen Leth's classic short film The Perfect Human through a maddening maze of obstacles imposed by his former student Lars von Trier.

In 1967, prominent ...

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Alison Chernick • U.S. • 2004 • A comprehensive view of Jeff Koons’ shock-and-dazzle career.

Jeff Koons considers himself to be the greatest living artist. A former stockbroker, his work explores the nature of art as commodity, the same way Warhol’s oeuvre explored celebrity as c...

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Guillaume Nicloux • France • 2014 • Michel Houellebecq was kidnapped. But was he really?

A novelist named Michel Houellebecq sits at a table in Paris, pontificating on a bizarre range of topics. Three men appear and whisk him off to a house in the French countryside without expla...

Sophie Fiennes • UK & Ireland • 2012 • A journey through cinema and philosophy, Zizek-style.

Some have called Slavoj Žižek the Elvis of cultural theory. A Lacanian and a Marxist, the Slovenian philosopher possesses an infectious zeal and a voracious appetite for popular culture, casting his wry,...

Directed by Andrey M Paounov • Documentary • 2019 • US, Italy • English
Featuring Christo, Vladimir Yavachev, Wolfgang Volz

Ten years after the passing of his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize “The Floating Piers”, a project they conceived together many years before. D...