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Edgar is an artist living in Paris during the 1920s who believes that sex is a subject of vital importance, but almost no one discusses it with the gravity it deserves. With this in mind, Edgar gathers together a panel of fellow creative types at the home of the wealthy tycoon Faldo and his oddly accented spouse Sasha for an evening in which they will discuss their erotic lives without self-serving wit or exaggeration.
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese celebrates US movies from the silent classics to the Hollywood of the seventies.
A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of filmmaking to advance their art. Among the classic directors profiled are D.W. Griffith, Josef von Sternberg, Erich Von Stroheim, and Preston Sturges up until more current filmmakers like David Lynch, Robert Altman, and Martin Scorsese..
An interview with Thelma Schoonmaker Powell about Powell and Pressburger's 1943 film THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP.
In Search of Kundun, a “making-of” documentary that is so much more, follows Scorsese as he plans his epic film and shoots in Morocco, and continues on to an audience with the Dalai Lama himself in the foothills of the Himalayas. Edited from over a hundred hours of footage, the documentary captures Scorsese’s fervor as a filmmaker and a man, the modest yet charismatic Dalai Lama, and the plight of the exiled Tibetans. -Denver Film Society
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Featuring interviews with Clint Eastwood and Desmond Tutu! Once considered a "terrorist", Nelson Mandela saved his country from bloody civil war and dismantled the system of apartheid through the spirit of reconciliation. In this powerful 88 minute documentary, witnesses give dramatic testimonials along with potent archival footage. Clint Eastwood, one of the film's interviewees, sums it up so simply: "The world needs people like him."
Documentary about Tourneur's Nightfall.
