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American Independents

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American Independents
  • On Broadway

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    Directed by Oren Jacoby • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
    Featuring Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman

    As theatergoers prepare for the return of Broadway after COVID, an all-star cast, including Hugh Jackman, Helen Mirren, James Corden, Viola Davis, and Ian McKellen, tell the story of th...

  • Out of My Head

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    Directed by Susanna Styron • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Paul Auster, Joan Didion, John Lewis

    A filmmaker seeking treatment for her daughter's migraine attacks discovers a confounding neurological disease and learns why a devastating condition, afflicting nearly a billion people ...

  • The Price of Everything

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    Directed by Nathaniel Kahn • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Jeff Koons, Jerry Saltz, Jeffrey Deitch

    "The Price of Everything" examines the role of art and passion in today’s money-driven, consumer-based society. Featuring collectors, dealers, and a rich range of artists from Jeff Ko...

  • Slam
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    Slam

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    Directed by Marc Levin • Drama • 1988 • US • English
    Starring Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, Bonz Malone

    Winner of a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and a Caméra d'Or for Best First Feature at Cannes, "Slam" stars Saul Williams as a young Black performance poet who is imprisoned for a petty marijuana c...

  • Call Her Applebroog

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    Directed by Beth B • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
    Featuring Ida Applebroog

    This deeply personal portrait of acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog was shot with mischievous reverence by her filmmaker daughter, Beth B (“Exposed”). Born in the Bronx to Orthodox Jewish émigrés from Po...

  • Chef Flynn

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    Directed by Cameron Yates • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Flynn McGarry, Meg McGarry

    While many of his peers were still playing with toys, Flynn McGarry was creating remarkable gastronomic delights. Enjoying unwavering support from his artist mother Meg, he devoted himself entirely...

  • Jazz on a Summer's Day

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    Directed by Bert Stern • Documentary • 1959 • US • English
    Featuring Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Anita O'Day

    Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and directed by renowned photographer Bert Stern, this film features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends includin...

  • Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

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    Directed by Matt Wolf • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
    Featuring Marion Stokes, Anne Stokes Hochberg, Frank Hollman

    Matt Wolf’s documentary delves into the strange life of Marion Stokes, who obsessively and privately recorded American television news twenty-four hours a day. A civil rights-e...

  • Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation

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    Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
    Featuring Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto

    The brilliant work, personal struggles, and cultural impact of iconic American writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams explodes onto the screen in this innovative documentary fea...

  • Studio 54

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    Directed by Matt Tyrnauer • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
    Featuring Ian Schrager Steve Rubell, Norma Kamali

    A haven of hedonism, glitz, and glamour, the infamous New York nightclub Studio 54 was the ultimate escapist fantasy until it imploded in financial scandal. With unprecedented access a...

  • Film About A Woman Who...

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    Directed by Yvonne Rainer • Arthouse • 1974 • US • English
    Starring Dempster Leech, Shirley Soffer, John Erdman

    Yvonne Rainer’s second landmark feature tells the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger, with Rainer needling at questions raised by contemporary femini...

  • Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary

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    Directed by Nancy Buirski • Documentary • 2015 • US • English
    Featuring Robert Redford, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary

    Robert Redford narrates this intimate portrait of Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, who began probing the edges of consciousness through psychedelics. Now...

  • Everybody Know… Elizabeth Murray

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    Directed by Kristi Zea • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
    Featuring Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Murray, Chuck Close

    An intimate portrait of the groundbreaking artist Elizabeth Murray, this documentary explores the relationship between Murray’s family life and career as well as her place in contempo...

  • Filmworker

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    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 ...

  • The Last Resort

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    Directed by Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
    Featuring Edna Buchanan, Gary Monroe

    By the 1970s, a number of New York Jewish retirees had turned from seasonal visitors to year-round residents of South Beach, making Miami home to a population that was primarily over...

  • Framing Agnes

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    Directed by Chase Joynt • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
    Featuring Zachary Drucker, Chase Joynt, Silas Howard

    Winner of the NEXT Innovator Award and Audience Award at the Sundance, "Framing Agnes" is the story of the pioneering transgender woman who participated in an infamous gender study co...

  • The GoodTimes Kid

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    Directed by Azazel Jacobs • Comedy • 2005 • U.S. • English
    Starring Azazel Jacobs, Gerardo Naranjo, Sara Diaz

    A story about stolen love and stolen identities, Azazel Jacobs’ "The GoodTimes Kid" is an absurdist comedy of errors, a punk-rock slice of DIY rebellion, and a warmhearted frolic. Slacke...

  • The Gospel of Eureka

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    Directed by Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
    Featuring Justin Vivian Bond, Anita Bryant, Lee Keating

    Welcome to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, a one-of-a-kind oasis in the Ozarks where Christian piety rubs shoulders with a thriving queer community. This lushly photo...

  • Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

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    Directed by Daniel Raim • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
    Featuring Harold Michelson, Lillian Michelson, Mel Brooks

    Movie fans know the work of Harold and Lillian Michelson, even if they don't recognize the names. Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and...

  • In Balanchine's Classroom

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    Directed by Connie Hochman • Documentary • 2021 • US • English
    Featuring George Balanchine, Jacques d'Amboise, Merrill Ashley

    "In Balanchine's Classroom" takes us back to the glory years of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet through the remembrances of his former dancers and their quest to...

  • In Case of Emergency

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    Directed by Carolyn Jones • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
    Featuring Cathlyn Robinson, Michelle Lyon, Rabih Saad

    Following emergency nurses and their patients in seven unique settings across the U.S, this documentary sheds light on the biggest healthcare crises facing Americans today, and the...

  • Kaddish

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    Directed by Steve Brand • Documentary • 1984 • US • English
    Featuring Yossi Klein, Zoltan Klein, Breindy Klein

    The story of the stormy yet loving relationship between writer and Jewish activist Yossi Klein and his father Zoltan, who had survived the Holocaust's devastation of Hungarian Jewry by ...

  • King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery to Memphis

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    Directed by Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Documentary • 1970 • US • English
    Featuring Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee

    Nominated for Best Documentary at the Academy Awards, this monumental film follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his rise from regional activist to worl...

  • Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight

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    Directed by Wendy Keys • Documentary • 2008 • US • English
    Featuring Milton Glaser

    For many, Milton Glaser is the personification of American graphic design. Best known for co-founding "New York Magazine" and creating the enduring "I Love NY" campaign, the full breadth of Glaser's remarkable art...