Built in 1942 by a maverick film preservationist, this small Los Angeles theater championed silent film at the very moment when the Hollywood studios across town were busily destroying their nitrate inventories. With hard chairs, phonograph-record accompaniments, and mostly original vintage prints, the dingy mom-and-pop operation was nonetheless a palace to the fanatical few who became its loyal audience.
Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, Allan Carr threw th...
Her rise was a global phenomenon. Her downfall was a cruel national sport. People close to Britney S...
Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", ...
The documentary "Juanas, bravas mujeres", by Sandra Godoy, portrays the life of Juana Rouco Buela an...
Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It...
How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolut...
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with ...
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
Emilio Pascual, a historical figure of Andalusian cinema from the early 1900s, appears in today's Ma...
An atypical portrait of singer, songwriter, poet Georges Brassens.
Charles Louis Schulmeister (1770-1853) was a smuggler and a revolutionary, but also a chief of polic...
Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memori...
Dalida was an international star, selling over 140 million records in 10 languages. But behind her g...
A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of the filmmaker's Volga-German Great-Gre...