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Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
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Directed by José Luis López-Linares • Documentary • 2022 • France, Spain, Portugal • French, English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Jean-Claude Carrière, Nahal Tajadod-Carrière, Julian SchnabelIn his last journey, prolific screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière returns to Spain and talks ...
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The Changin' Times of Ike White
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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...
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Epicentro
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Directed by Hubert Sauper • Documentary • 2020 • Austria, France • English, Spanish with English subtitles
Featuring Oona Chaplin, Fena LeChuck, Juan PedronWinner of the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, "Epicentro" is an immersive and metaphorical portrai...
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Bill Cunningham New York
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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 "...
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Beuys
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Directed by Andres Veiel • Documentary • 2018 • Germany • English, German with English subtitles
Featuring Joseph BeuysA 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...
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Portrait of Jason
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Directed by Shirley Clarke • Documentary • 1967 • US • English
Featuring Jason Holliday, Shirley ClarkeIn 1966, director Shirley Clarke spent twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday where she confronted the iconic performer about his good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, on-an...
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Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight
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Directed by Wendy Keys • Documentary • 2008 • US • English
Featuring Milton GlaserFor 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...
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Kamikaze Hearts
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Directed by Juliet Bashore • LGBTQ+ • 1986 • US • English • Mature Content
Featuring Tigr, Sharon Mitchell, Jon MartinAlternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunges into the 1980s porn industry and takes an unsparing look at issues...
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George: The Story of George Maciunas & Fluxus
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Directed by Jeffrey Perkins • Documentary • 2019 • US, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Germany, Japan, Denmark, Italy, France, Netherlands • English
Featuring Yoko Ono, Jonas Mekas, Nam June PaikThis feature documentary is as mercurial as its subject, George Maciunas, impresario of the international...
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Everybody Know… Elizabeth Murray
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Directed by Kristi Zea • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Meryl Streep, Elizabeth Murray, Chuck CloseAn 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...
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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 LearyRobert Redford narrates this intimate portrait of Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert, who began probing the edges of consciousness through psychedelics. Now...
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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
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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...
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Licht-Stockhausen's Legacy
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Directed by Oeke Hoogendijk • Documentary • 2022 • Netherlands • English, Dutch with English subtitles
Featuring Johanna Stephens-Janning, Doris Stockhausen, Julika StockhausenBrilliant...Megalomaniac...Unstageable – these are just some of the words that have been used to describe the mammoth a...
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When the Beat Drops
Directed by Jamal Sims • Documentary • 2018 • US • English
Featuring Anthony DavisDrop into the electric and subversive underground dance scene known as bucking. As voguing exploded out of the ballroom scene of NYC, bucking was boldly pioneered in the clubs of the Deep South as a new form of se...
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Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters
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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...
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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
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Directed by Matt Wolf • Documentary • 2019 • US • English
Featuring Marion Stokes, Anne Stokes Hochberg, Frank HollmanMatt 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...
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Say Amen, Somebody
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Directed by George T. Nierenberg • Documentary • 1983 • US • English
Featuring Thomas A. Dorsey, Willie Mae Ford Smith, Delois Barrett CampbellOne of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time, "Say Amen, Somebody" is a joyous, funny, and deeply emotional celebration of Gospel music fro...
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Heartworn Highways Revisited
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Directed by Wayne Price • Documentary • 2016 • US • English
Featuring Guy Clark, David Allan Coe, Justin Townes Earle2021 marked the 45th anniversary of the seminal music documentary "Heartworn Highways", a film that captured the nascent roots of the Outlaw Country movement in the mid-70s. Toda...
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Ornette: Made in America
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Directed by Shirley Clarke • Documentary • 1986 • US • English
Featuring Ornette Coleman, William Burroughs, Yoko OnoGround-breaking filmmaker Shirley Clarke combined forces with Ornette Coleman to create this dazzling window into the life of the great jazz artist and innovator. Documentary foo...
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Zen for Nothing
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Directed by Werner Penzel • Documentary • 2017 • Germany, Japan • English, German, Japanese with English subtitles
Featuring Sabine Timoteo, The Sangha Community of the Antaiji Zen Monastery of JapanA masterly immersion into life at a Japanese Zen monastery that is both simple and beautifully f...
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A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China
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Directed by Philip Haas • Documentary • 1988 • US • English
Featuring David HockneyPainted by Wang Hui and his assistants, the seventh scroll of "The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour" contains over 72 feet of beautiful and minutely detailed artistry. Director Philip Haas and famed arti...
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Boatman
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Directed by Gianfranco Rosi • Documentary • 1993 • Italy • English, Hindi, Italian with English subtitles
Academy Award Nominee Gianfranco Rosi has emerged as one of the most awarded and provocative documentarians working today. His observational films artfully and sympathetically depict the liv...
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Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet
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Directed by Jesse Vile • Documentary • 2012 • US • English
Featuring Jason Becker, Marty Friedman, Joe SatrianiWhen doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig's Disease, they said he would never make music again or live to see his 25th birthday. 22 years later, without...
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The War Tapes
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Directed by Deborah Scranton • Documentary • 2006 • US • English
Featuring Zack Bazzi, Duncan Domey, Ben FlandersImmediate, raw, and direct, “The War Tapes” is the first film shot by the soldiers themselves, bypassing the embedded reporter filter and providing an intimate front-row look at how ...