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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary Great directors. Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles open up about their extraordinary careers with unexpected candor and humor. Ismailos gets them to talk about their artistic evolution from their debut...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From Go fish to Paris is burning to The watermelon woman, this festival favorite goes behind the scenes to reveal seven successful lesbian directors. These talented movie-makers enlighten and entertain as they explore their sexual identity, growing up gay, inspirations and techniques, Hollywood vs. Indie, and of course, love and sex, onscreen and off. The conversations are intimate, the topics unlimited, and the clips from their work enthralling!...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the delightful farce Meeting Spencer, one of the great character actors of our time, Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested development), steps into a hilariously funny leading role. During one fateful night at Frankie and Johnnie's steakhouse in Manhattan, famed (but fading) director Harris Chappell (Tambor) plans to re-launch his Broadway career after suffering a humiliating series of flops in Hollywood.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. The Story of Film: Part 11 explains how, and then travels to India where the world's most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the 70s. And we discover that Bruce Lee movies in Hong Kong kickstarted the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where Master Yuen Wo Ping talks exclusively about his action movies and his wire fu choreography...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
With Ronald Reagan in the White House and Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, the 1980s were the years of protest in the movies. This is the story of how brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years. In Beijing we discover the blossoming of Chinese cinema before the Tian'anmen crackdown. In the Soviet Union, the past wells up in astonishing films, and in Poland the master director...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film." There were more women working in influential positions behind the scenes in film before 1920 than at any other time in history. Filmmaker, author, nationwide lecturer Ally Acker, takes us on an archival journey of the pioneering female filmmakers who have transformed the way we look at movies from 1896 to the present. This compelling event has toured three countries. Ally...
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Language
English
Description
Being in show business is tough, but being an actor in Denver is tougher, as performer and full-time computer repairman Arthur Martinez realizes when he hires two indie filmmakers to make a feature film with him as the lead. The filmmakers scrap the genre film Arthur had intended them to make, instead quickly designing an entirely new project based around his real-life person, which becomes more and more elusive as the production steams ahead.
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film." This documentary features the most gifted young directors of the 80's and 90's, revealing the secrets of their success in their craft. Features: Susan Seidelman and Amy Heckerling. Includes interview material with Barbra Streisand. Ally Acker is the director of the ten part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film.”
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film." This documentary features the most gifted young directors of the 80's and 90's, revealing the secrets of their success in their craft. Features: Martha Coolidge, Donna Deitch. Includes interview material with Barbra Streisand. Ally Acker is the director of the ten part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film.”
11) Arrebato
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Language
Español
Description
ARREBATO’s dimension-shattering blend of heroin, sex, and Super-8 is the final word on cinemania. This towering feat of counterculture was the final feature of cult filmmaker and movie poster designer Iván Zulueta - is a film without genre, and is Pedro Almodóvar’s favorite horror film! Horror movie director José is adrift in a sea of doubt and drugs. As his belated second feature nears completion, his reclusive bubble is popped by two events:...
12) Meredith Monk
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Meredith Monk is a composer, singer, filmmaker, and director/choreographer. This tape includes interviews and excerpts from performance. A pioneer in what is now called "extended vocal technique" and "interdisciplinary performance," Ms. Monk has created more than 80 works of music, theater, dance, and film. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, she has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a major force in the performing arts. "When...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The reel women collection features films about women and/or made by female directors. Strong female roles reflecting socialist gender ideals and policies abound, such as in the filmic foundation myth, Castles and cottages. In other films, such as A Berlin romance, women are portrayed as susceptible to the consumer attractions of the West, but also the site of conscience and moral action, as in The murderers are among us and Destinies of women. Later...
14) Derek
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton personally conducts an intimatecinematic commemoration of the life, times, and work of UK filmmaker,artist, and renegade Derek Jarman in Derek. Both a "heartbreaking and giddily alive biopic" and an "accomplished homage" (Art forum), Isaac Julien's Derek is a joyful requiem celebrating Derek Jarman's life, vision and legacy with the same maverick energy and affectionate creativity that made its subject one of the...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film." The Producer and the Director must function like two hands of the same heart. These two rare interviews take us from the beginning to the end of one movie, "A Dry White Season." Features: award-winning Martinique director, Euzhan Palcy, and award winning Hollywood producer, Paula Weinstein. Ally Acker is the director of the ten part archival program series, "Filmmakers...
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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film." From Mary Pickford to Barbra Streisand the successful actress turned producer/director is one of Hollywood's longest standing traditions. Features: Lee Grant and Rita Moreno. Includes interview materials with Barbra Streisand. Ally Acker is the director of the ten part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film.”
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ms. Clarke's dance films, though rarely seen, are seminal in the history of dance for the camera. The tape features: Dance in the Sun (1953), with Daniel Nagrin In Paris parks (1954) Bullfight (1955) Moment in love (1956) both with Anna Sokolow A visual diary (1980) with Blondell cummings. Shirley Clarke began her career as a dancer, having studied and performed with Martha Graham, Anna Sokolow, and Hanya Holm. Her background as a dancer is evident...
18) X
Language
English
Description
A group of actors set out to make an adult film in rural Texas under the noses of their reclusive hosts—an elderly couple with a farm and boarding house for rent. But when the couple catches their young guests in the act, the cast finds themselves in a desperate fight for their lives in this tantalizing slasher from writer-director Ti West.
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Language
English
Description
This unique documentary is composed entirely of archival footage and photographs, accompanied by the voice of Stanley Kubrick. Taken from a series of rare interviews, the film provides an opportunity to understand the work of a master filmmaker, giving voice to one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema, as well as one of the most controversial and enigmatic.
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Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the award winning, 10 part archival program series, "Filmmakers on Film." There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice Guy Blaché in 1896. Few people know that Lillian Gish became a director in her own right in 1920. Ida Lupino directed over a hundred episodes of "Have Gun, Will Travel," "Thriller," "Gunsmoke," and many independent features....
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