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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Intimate stranger is a poetic and emotional jigsaw puzzle carved out of the voluminous memorabilia of his grandfather's life story. Family members try to make sense of it all in this witty, candid and cinematically inventive documentary biography. In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In nobody's business, Alan Berliner takes on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant and graceful study of family history and memory. What emerges is a uniquely cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son. Ultimately this complex portrait is a meeting of the minds - where the past meets the present, where generations collide, and where the boundaries...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A biographical study of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller. Intercut with footage from some of Rampling's most famous films, this "self-portrait through others" is a revealing look at one of our most iconic screen stars.
Author
Series
Short cuts volume 57
Description
Bio-pics: A Life in Pictures offers a series of case studies which throw light on this most unique of genres. Is the bio-pic a genre in its own right? Or are such films merely footnotes in other more traditional genres such as the western or costume drama, depending on the historical figure under scrutiny. Unlike other genre forms bio-pics seemingly share no familiar iconography, codes or conventions. They can be set anywhere and at any time. What...
7) The American
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Based on the story of Joy Womack (Talia Ryder), one of the very few Americans ever accepted into Russia’s elite Bolshoi Ballet. Testing the limits of dedication, determination, sacrifice and virtuosity, Joy’s brilliance is an inspirational journey into the most competitive, hostile dance school in the world. Spurred on by Tatiyana Volkova (Diane Kruger), the Bolshoi’s magnetic and masterful tutor, and the searing passions of first love, Joy’s...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
From director John Ridley comes a biographical drama starring André Benjamin as Jimi Hendrix. The film captures Hendrix’s rise from an unknown backup guitarist in New York to a rock legend in London. Set in 1966-67, it follows his journey through the vibrant music scene, leading up to his breakthrough performance at the Monterey Pop Festival.
11) Liz & Dick
Publisher
Lifetime
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty and their fiery romance -- often called “the marriage of the century” -- was the most notorious, publicized and celebrated love affair of its day. Starring Lindsay Lohan and Grant Bowler, LIZ & DICK chronicles the fiery, legendary on-again off-again romance between Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
12) Sink or swim
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Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
A contemporary classic and a landmark in autobiographical filmmaking, 'Sink or Swim' is an unflinching account of the highly charged relationship between a daughter and her father. Through a series of twenty-six short stories, a young girl chronicles the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play. As the stories unfold, a dual portrait emerges: that of a father who cared more for his career than for his...
13) Stardust
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In 1971, a 24-year-old fledgling David Bowie (Johnny Flynn) is sent to America to promote his newest record, The Man Who Sold the World. Leaving behind his pregnant wife Angie (Jena Malone), Bowie and his band embark on a makeshift tour with struggling Mercury Records publicist Rob Oberman (Marc Maron). Stateside, Bowie is quickly met with an audience that's not yet ready for him. Bowie begins to realize a need to reinvent himself. His iconic, celestial...
15) Padre Pio
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, historic violence, and the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, but victorious. Padre Pio (Shia Labeouf) also arrives, to a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry evoking an aura of compelling charisma, saintliness, and storied visions of Jesus, Mary,...
16) Dreamin' wild
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Formats
Description
The true story of love and redemption, this film is about what happened to singer/songwriter Donnie Emerson and his family when the album he and his brother recorded as teens was rediscovered after thirty years of obscurity and was suddenly hailed by music critics as a lost masterpiece. While the album's rediscovery brings hopes of second chances, it also brings long-buried emotions as Donnie, his wife Nancy, brother Joe, and father Don Sr. come to...
17) Wildcat
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Directed by Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT weaves in and out of American writer Flannery O’Connor’s mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing?
18) My Left Foot
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1989.
Description
In this inspiring biographical drama, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Christy Brown, an Irish man born with cerebral palsy who can only control his left foot. Raised in a poor, working-class family, Christy faces immense challenges but, with the support of his mother (Brenda Fricker), learns to express himself through painting and writing. His remarkable determination leads him to become a celebrated artist and author.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Aviva Ziegler has worked in Award-winning Current Affairs television in Australia for over 20 years, observing and documenting the lives of others. In this film, Aviva turns the camera on herself to explore the essence of her own Jewishness. Being Jewish for Aviva is something of a conundrum: If you have no formal involvement in Judaism and its practices, and you don’t even believe in God, then what is it that makes you answer “yes” when asked...
20) Afterimage
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Legendary director Andrzej Wajda's final film is a passionate portrait of renowned avantgarde painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who challenged Stalinist orthodoxy. In post-war Poland, Strzeminski works as a professor at the National School of Fine Arts in Lodz. His students treat him like the "messiah of modern painting," but university authorities and the Ministry of Culture have a differing opinion. Refusing to comply with Party regulations, he is...
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