Loading ...“This is Not a Film,” shot on a cell phone and a modest DV camera and smuggled from Tehran to Paris…hidden in a cake… In March 2011… Panahi, under house arrest in his Tehran apartment while his sentence – six years in prison and a 20-year ban on making films – was being appealed, is [...]
Undefeated HD Online
Set in the inner-city of Memphis, “Undefeated” chronicles the Manassas Tigers’ 2009 football season, on and off-the-field, as they strive to win the first playoff game in the high school’s 110-year history. A perennial whipping boy, in recent decades Manassas had gone so far as to sell their home games to the highest bidder, but [...]
Re:Generation Music Project HD Online
A catalyst for musical innovation, “Re:Generation Music Project” is a new documentary that examines music’s past, present and future, while yielding five revolutionary collaborations in the process. Directed by award-winning documentarian, Amir Bar-Lev (“The Tillman Story,” “My Kid Could Paint That”), the documentary follows five electronic DJs/producers as they re-imagine music collaborating with influential artists [...]
The Miners’ Hymns HD Online
Acclaimed multi-media artist Bill Morrison ostensibly moves in a very different direction in “The Miners’ Hymns,” in which he uses stunning black and white archival footage of coal miners preserved by the British Film Institute National Archive to create an emotional requiem for a vanished way of life. The film is set to an original [...]
Splinters HD Online
“Splinters” is the first feature-length documentary film about the evolution of indigenous surfing in the developing nation of Papua New Guinea. In the 1980s an intrepid Australian pilot left behind a surfboard in the seaside village of Vanimo. Twenty years on, surfing is not only a pillar of village life but also a means to [...]
Carol Channing: Larger Than Life HD Online
If Carol Channing didn’t exist, no one could have made her up. One in a billion, Carol, at 89, remains an unstoppable, megawatt dynamo. Broadway diva extraordinaire is just the icing. Carol Channing hovered at the pinnacle of the entertainment world from the late-1950′s through the 1960′s and beyond, living life sensationally large. As Carol [...]
Crazy Horse HD Online
Everyone who marveled at Frederick Wiseman’s masterful “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet” (as well as those who missed it on screen) will want to feast their eyes on “Crazy Horse,” his inside look at Paris’s world-famous nude dance revue. The legendary erotic cabaret prides itself on the beauty of its women and the humor, [...]
Sing Your Song HD Online
Wonderfully archived and told with a remarkable sense of intimacy, visual style, and musical panache, Susanne Rostock’s inspiring biographical documentary surveys the life and times of singer, actor, and activist Harry Belafonte. From his rise to fame as a singer, inspired by Paul Robeson, and his experiences touring a segregated country, to his provocative crossover [...]
It’s About You HD Online
“It’s About You” is a new musical documentary that offers a rare and intimate look at the life and music of Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Mellencamp. The film premiered at the SXSW festival and follows Mellencamp on his summer 2009 concert tour and during the recording of his most recent album, 2010′s [...]
El Sicario: Room 164 HD Online
Gianfranco Rosi’s “El Sicario: Room 164″ is a concerted effort to reveal the significance of a nonentity, a hooded anonymous ex-sicario or hit man (with a $250,000 contract on his head) for the Mexican drug cartels interviewed in an eerily drab motel room near the border… The sicario’s unadorned mixture of boastfulness, self-flagellation, and willingness [...]