School Life
John and Amanda teach Latin, English and guitar at a fantastical stately home-turned-school. Nearly 50-year careers are drawing to a close for the pair who have become legends with the mantra: “Reading! ’Rithmetic! Rock ’n’ roll!” But for pupil and teacher alike, leaving is the hardest lesson.
Genre: Documentary
Director: David Rane, Neasa Ní Chianáin
Actors: Amanda Leyden, Dermot Dix, John Leyden
The Power of the Heart
From the director of ‘THE SECRET’ comes this unparalleled and life-changing film about the astonishing power and intelligence of your heart. Featuring some of the most inspiring and influential icons…
George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
Legendary comic Carlin comes back to the Beacon theater to angrily rant about airport security, germs, cigars, angels, children and parents, men, names, religion, god, advertising, Bill Jeff and minorities.
Why We Fight
Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki’s shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an…
These Amazing Shadows
Tells the history and importance of The National Film Registry, a roll call of American cinema treasures that reflects the diversity of film, and indeed the American experience itself.
The True Story of Killing Pablo
The career and death of notorious Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Driven by their mutual admiration of classical architecture, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown have worked together to create a space of unique post-Modernist construction. Filmed during the design and realization…
My Old School
In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff…
Last Address
Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Norman René, Peter Hujar, Ethyl Eichelberger, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cookie Mueller, Klaus Nomi… the list of New York artists who died of AIDS over the last 30…
Witch Hunt
Executive Producer Sean Penn presents “Witch Hunt,” a gripping indictment of the American justice system told through the lens of one small town. Voters in Bakersfield, California elected a tough…
A Place at the Table
Using personal stories, this powerful documentary illuminates the plight of the 49 million Americans struggling with food insecurity. A single mother, a small-town policeman and a farmer are among those…
Solstice
1 day. 100 miles. The idea sounds impossible to most of us, but that’s the challenge Ashley Lindsey faces in ‘Solstice,’ which documents her attempt to finish the Western States…
He Dreams of Giants
15 years after “Lost in la Mancha”, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe come back to follow Terry Gilliam’s new (successful) attempt at filming “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote”.