-
Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami
Movie
Directed by Sophie Fiennes • Documentary • 2018 • UK, Ireland • English
Featuring Grace Jones, Sly Dunbar, Robbie ShakespeareSophie Fiennes’s electrifying documentary is a journey through the public and private worlds of mega-icon Grace Jones that contrasts musical sequences with intimate perso...
-
T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
Movie
Directed by Sophie Fiennes • Theatre • 2023 • UK • English
Starring Ralph FiennesRalph Fiennes delivers an exquisite performance of T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece. During the pandemic, the Oscar nominee set himself the challenge of committing “Four Quartets” to memory, and in 2021 he brought ...
-
Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
Movie
Directed by Rosalynde LeBlanc, Tom Hurwitz • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Bill T. Jones, Arnie ZaneReaching beyond the world of dance and the remarkable legacy of renowned choreographer-dancer-director Bill T. Jones, this Peabody Award winning documentary touches the essence of c...
-
On Broadway
Movie
Directed by Oren Jacoby • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Helen Mirren, Ian McKellen, Hugh JackmanAs 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...
-
The Mountain
Movie
Directed by Rick Alverson • Drama • 2019 • US • English
Starring Jeff Goldblum, Tye Sheridan, Udo KierJeff Goldblum and Tye Sheridan star in this psychosurgical odyssey set against the 1950’s "golden age" of American male supremacy. Sheridan plays a photographer who joins a renowned lobotomist ...
-
Code of the Freaks
Movie
Directed by Salome Chasnoff • Documentary • 2020 • US • English
Featuring Lawrence Carter-Long, Candace Coleman, Mike Ervin"Code of the Freaks" presents a radical reframing of the use of disabled characters in film. Using hundreds of clips spanning over 100 years of moviemaking, and a cast of d...
-
Born to Be
Movie
Directed by Tania Cypriano • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring Jess TingWith extraordinary access, “Born to Be” offers an intimate look at the pioneering work of Dr. Jess Ting (he/him) at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery. There, for the first ...
-
The Gospel of Eureka
Movie
Directed by Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring Justin Vivian Bond, Anita Bryant, Lee KeatingWelcome 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...
-
Filmworker
Movie
Directed by Tony Zierra • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Leon Vitali, Ryan O'Neal, Stellan SkarsgardLeon 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 ...
-
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
Movie
Directed by Pamela B. Green • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Agnes Varda, Ava DuVernay, Geena DavisNarrated by Jodie Foster, this full feature documentary rewrites film history, revealing for the first time the full scope of the life and work of cinema’s first female director, scre...
-
Tommy Guns
Movie
Directed by Carlos Conceição • Arthouse • 2023 • Angola, Portugal, France • Portuguese, Nyaneka with English subtitles
Starring João Arrais, Vicente Gil, Anabela MoreiraAngolan-Portuguese director Carlos Conceição’s audacious and enigmatic “Tommy Guns” invokes the ghosts of Angola’s colonial pa...
-
Ever Deadly
Movie
Directed by Tanya Tagaq, Chelsea McMullan • Documentary • 2022 • Canada • English, Inuktitut with English subtitles
Featuring Tanya Tagaq, Laakkuluk Williamson, Bathory Mary Gillis"Ever Deadly" weaves together intimate concert footage of Tanya Tagaq alongside moving personal reflections, stunni...
-
Framing Agnes
Movie
Directed by Chase Joynt • Documentary • 2022 • US • English
Featuring Zachary Drucker, Chase Joynt, Silas HowardWinner 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...
-
Sisters with Transistors
Movie
Directed by Lisa Rovner • Documentary • 2021 • UK • English
Featuring Laurie Anderson, Jean-Michel Jarre, Kim Gordon"Sisters with Transistors" is the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to utterly trans...
-
Dawson City: Frozen Time
Movie
Directed by Bill Morrison • Documentary • 2017 • US • English
Featuring Michael Gates, Kathy Jones-GatesPart fever dream, part historical record, this is the bizarre true story of some 533 silent film reels, buried for almost 50 years in a sub-arctic swimming pool, deep in the Yukon permafrost....
-
The Changin' Times of Ike White
Movie
Directed by Daniel Vernon • Documentary • 2019 • UK • English
Featuring Ike White, Lana Gutman, Greg ErricoServing a life sentence for murder, music prodigy Ike White had plenty of time to perfect his musical talent. Ike's skills were so exceptional that his story captured the media's attention...
-
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
Movie
Directed by Sara Fishko • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Sam Stephenson, Carla Bley, Steve ReichIn 1950s Manhattan, a dingy loft building becomes the home and obsession of the brilliant photographer W. Eugene Smith – who leaves his family and moves there to live the artist’s life. ...
-
Slam
Movie
Directed by Marc Levin • Drama • 1988 • US • English
Starring Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, Bonz MaloneWinner 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...
-
Bill Cunningham New York
Movie
Directed by Richard Press • Documentary • 2010 • US • English
Featuring Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Iris ApfelA 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 "...
-
52 Tuesdays
Movie
Directed by Sophie Hyde • Drama • 2013 • Australia • English
Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Del Herbert-Jane16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for a gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday a...
-
Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Movie
Directed by Nancy Buirski • Documentary • 2013 • US • English
Featuring Tanaquil Le Clercq, George BalanchineA mesmerizing portrait of legendary ballerina Tanaquil Le Clercq, muse to both George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, whose career was cut short by polio at the age of 27. This is a story...
-
The Southerner
Movie
Directed by Jean Renoir • Drama • 1945 • US • English
Starring Norman Lloyd, Carol Naish, Betty FieldJean Renoir wrote and directed this adaptation of George Sessions Perry's novel “Hold Autumn in Your Hand”. The story follows the struggles of an idealistic farmer trying to raise a family and a...
-
A Bigger Splash
Movie
Directed by Jack Hazan • Documentary •1974 • UK • English
Featuring David HockneyIn this intimate and innovative film about artist David Hockney, director Jack Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid. The result is at once a time capsule of hedonistic gay life in the 1970s an...
-
Battleship Potemkin
Movie
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein • Silent • 1926 • Russia • Russian with English intertitles
Starring Aleksandr Antono, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy AleksandrovSergei Eisenstein's 1925 masterpiece remains one of the most influential silent films of all time. Enraged with the deplorable conditions on...