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An animated globe named Spin whisks kids around the world, teaching them about animals and their habitats.
Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.
The film examines the ways that women directors have contributed to this genre and emphasizes the role that the media play in representation of sexuality and gender, underscoring the power that film has to shape our perceptions of one another. Visually, this documentary comes to life on screen through compelling and intimate original interviews, intercut with emotionally-charged archival footage, photographs, ephemera, inspired music, and film clips.
In an economically struggling small town, Jenny, a young married woman, begins an affair with June, her college-bound, African-American neighbor.
When Nicole, a young copy-shop employee, is hired to translate an ancient Chinese manuscript, she soon finds that the document has strange powers that little by little begin to exert an eerie influence over her life.
Profiles the life of performer Hattie McDaniel, the first Black American to win an Oscar, and her unapologetic resilience in the face of critics.
Nathan Lane portrays a comic from the 1930s who plays gay men for laughs. Originally Episode 2 from Season 40 of Live From Lincoln Center on PBS.
A chronological look at films by, for, or about gays and lesbians in the United States, from 1947 to 2005, Kenneth Anger's "Fireworks" to "Brokeback Mountain". Talking heads, anchored by critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich, are interspersed with an advancing timeline and with clips from two dozen films. The narrative groups the pictures around various firsts, movements, and triumphs: experimental films, indie films, sex on screen, outlaw culture and bad guys, lesbian lovers, films about AIDS and dying, emergence of romantic comedy, transgender films, films about diversity and various cultures, documentaries and then mainstream Hollywood drama. What might come next?
Martin Scorsese reflects on the profound influence of director Elia Kazan, tracing his artistic journey from the Group Theatre to Hollywood success and the controversies of the blacklist era. Co-directed with Kent Jones, the film combines interviews and clips from Kazan’s classics—On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, and America, America—to portray him as a deeply personal filmmaker within an often impersonal industry.
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese looks back over the impact of The Statue of Liberty on the Twentieth Century, her evolution, what she meant to people of the past, and what she continues to mean after September 11th, 2001.
"The Riverbed traces the story of a despondent drifter who stumbles across a farmhouse inhabited by a wealthy widow and her disabled daughter. Exchanging board for labour, he stays at the house. Eventually he consents to the mother's wish that he marry the girl, with his eye on financial gain. He takes the girl to the city, where the couple struggles against hardship. As the man reverts to petty theft, her health deteriorates and he is forced to take her back to the now-abandoned farmhouse." - MIFF
An intimate look at the life and creative process of feminist, rebel, and visual artist Audrey Flack over her oft-controversial 40-year career.
"A young woman settles into her new life in New York City, overwhelmed by the crowds and wary of human contact. Shot in moody black and white collaging a visual language reminiscent of film noir, art horror, and street photography of the 60's and 70's, Rachel Reichman’s short film exemplifies the return to narrative in independent filmmaking following the structuralist experiments of the 1970s." - MoMA
Reviewing the pursuit of democracy within the U.S. on the anniversary of the 2021 Capitol riot.
Without Fear or Favor is the story of this extraordinary reporter’s professional, emotional, intellectual, political, and spiritual journey as an active participant in the 20th Century’s most transformational events: women’s suffrage, post-WWI reconstruction, the Great Depression, the rise of nationalism and fascism, World War II, the dawn of the nuclear age, and the Cold War. A fearless and uncompromising truth-teller, Dorothy Thompson raised the alarm whenever threats to a free press and civil society appeared, and she expected her audience to rise to the challenge. She was committed to the defense of liberal democracy from enemies both foreign and domestic, and boldly personified the power of a free press and the Fourth Estate.
