Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché
The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother’s archives in this intimate documentary.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Celeste Bell, Paul Sng
Actors: Bruno Aleph Wizard, Celeste Bell, Don Letts, Kathleen Hanna, Neneh Cherry, Poly Styrene, Ruth Negga, Thurston Moore, Vivienne Westwood, Youth
The Road to Guantanamo
Part drama, part documentary, The Road to Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were…
The Man Who Saw Frankenstein Cry
King of Horror, legendary actor, scriptwriter and director, Paul Naschy is regarded as the Spanish Lon Chaney and the most prolific filmmaker dedicated to the fantastic cinema in Spain.
Welfare
WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and…
From the East
Chantal Akerman has toured Eastern Europe through Russia, Poland, the Ukraine filming everything that moved her : faces, streets, cars, buses, stations, landscapes, interiors, queues, doors, windows, meals. Women and…
Gloria: In Her Own Words
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem is interviewed by Peter Kunhardt as she discusses her childhood, her career, the women’s movement, and her personal life
Sharks of Hawaii
Nearly 40 shark species live in the warm waters of Hawaii’s volcanic islands, including white tip reef sharks, Galapagos sharks and tiger sharks.
Dawson City: Frozen Time
The true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s to 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered buried in a sub-arctic swimming…
Lemebel
Pedro Lemebel, the writer and visual artist, defeated a marginal childhood to become one of the first to shake up Chile’s conservative society during Pinochet’s dictatorship. Dressed in feather boas,…
For Madmen Only
Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets out to write his autobiography for D.C. Comics. As he leads us through sewers, mental wards,…
Candyman: The David Klein Story
Candyman tells the amazing true story of David Klein, an eccentric candy inventor from LA, who came up with the concept of Jelly Belly® jellybeans. These colorful beans became a…
Bad 25
Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson’s Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and interviews with confidants, musicians, choreographers,…
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin
When Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave him his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out…