They Live by Night: The Twisted Road
Jul 31, 2007Documentary short on the making of "They Live by Night" (1948).
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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western
Jul 27, 1997Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
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Portrait of writer Dorothy Parker, her Algonquin Round Table friends, her writing and her troubled life. Includes interviews, archival footage of Parker reading poetry and scenes from the 1994 film on Parker's life, "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Matthew Broderick.
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The Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival
Aug 25, 1972A stimulating, hilarious, provocative collection of the best American films dealing with you-know-what. Prize-winning films chosen by judges Gore Vidal, Andy Warhol, Terry Southern, Milos Forman, Holly Woodlawn, Sylvia Miles and Xaviera Hollander at the last two Erotic Film Festivals in New York.
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On Assignment: 'His Girl Friday'
Feb 07, 2006In this documentary short, film historian David Thomson and critic Molly Haskell analyze the themes of Howard Hawks's 1940 film "His Girl Friday."
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Doris Day: It's Magic
Oct 18, 1998When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her personal life. This documentary brings viewers close to the real Doris Day through the eyes of her friends and family members and with the help of film footage, newsreels and photographs. What surfaces is a complex picture of an equally complicated woman who faced problems far more formidable than her cinematic image revealed.
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Magic Time: The Art of Jack Lemmon
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Complicated Women
May 06, 2003Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered film content. No longer portrayed as virgins or vamps, the liberated female of the pre-code films had dimensions. Good girls had lovers and babies and held down jobs, while the bad girls were cast in a sympathetic light. And they did it all without apology.
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Tension: Who's Guilty Now?
Jul 31, 2007Decoy: A Map to Nowhere
Jul 31, 2007Documentary on the film noir Decoy, with Dick Cavett and Molly Haskell.
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Audrey Hepburn : douleur et gloire
Nov 30, 2020Un regard intime et sans précédent sur la vie, l'œuvre et l'héritage durable de l'actrice britannique Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).
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Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Sep 04, 2001This documentary was broadcast on the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) cable channel to kick off the presentation of films related to TCM's theme of the month for September 2001. Actors Lee Grant and Paul Mazursky, producer Roger Corman, director John Carpenter, film critic Molly Haskell, and journalist Peter Biskind discuss the issues involved in six films of the 1950s. Topics include teenage loneliness, youth rebellion, changing gender roles, and the beginning of the sexual revolution.
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A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
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Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
Apr 01, 2012Historians, biographers and personal friends of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margaret Mitchell reveal a complex woman who experienced profound identity shifts during her life and struggled with the two great issues of her day: the changing role of women and the liberation of African Americans.
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Qui a peur de Pauline Kael ?
Mar 22, 2019Pauline Kael, longtemps critique de films au New Yorker, s'est battue toute sa carrière pour imposer son empreinte. Une personnalité toute en éclat(s), riche d'une confiance en soi inébranlable, d'un passé complexe, mais surtout d'un amour profond pour l'Art et le cinéma.
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Public Enemies: The Golden Age of the Gangster Film
Oct 21, 2008Produced for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary looks at the early days of the gangster film.
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Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey
Nov 16, 1991A retrospective documentary on the life and career of Ohio-born actress, singer and TV star Doris Day.
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Gene Tierney, une star oubliée
May 13, 2017Au fil d’extraits lus de ses Mémoires et tirés de sa filmographie, qu’elle a traversée avec une délicatesse teintée d’élégance – trente-quatre films –, Clara et Julia Kuperberg (Billy Wilder – La perfection hollywoodienne, Joni Mitchell – Le spleen et la colère) retracent le parcours d’une femme éprouvée par la vie et d’une comédienne à l’aura mystérieuse et au jeu subtil, tout en intériorité, qui se souciait bien plus de son art que de son image. Comme le dit Martin Scorsese, ici longuement interviewé, qui lui voue un culte et dont la salle de projection personnelle est ornée des affiches de Péché mortel et de Laura, "derrière le masque de sa beauté" perçaient ses fêlures, qui la rendaient si touchante. Avec, aussi, les émouvants témoignages de ses petits-enfants et l’éclairage d’historiens du cinéma, le portrait sensible d’une grande actrice oubliée, populaire en son temps et cependant peu reconnue par le système.
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Notes on the New York Film Festival
Dec 31, 1971An interview with Peter Bogdanovich and Henry Jaglom who were presenting films at the ninth New York Film Festival (1971). The documentary was first presented on the television program Camera Three.
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Jul 02, 2009This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
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Scandal: The Trial of Mary Astor
Apr 27, 2018This documentary recounts the difficult choice actress Mary Astor had to make after learning her personal, very intimate, diaries had been stolen. The film tells the story of Astor's 1936 child custody case.
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Inside 'The Apartment'
Jan 06, 2008
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Aug 10, 2014Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.
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The grim woes that surrounded famed director Peter Bogdanovich and his film, "They All Laughed."
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Who Is Henry Jaglom?
Jul 08, 1997Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and a true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic fraud and the "world's worst director," Henry Jaglom obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and rare behind-the-scenes footage, this hilarious documentary explores the fascinating question of Who Is Henry Jaglom?
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Tensions and Traditions: Molly Haskell on Red River
Aug 14, 2014Interview with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and Red River
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Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Dec 13, 2010Each installment focuses on a different era of American movie history, from the invention of the first moving pictures to the revolutionary, cutting-edge films of the 1960s.
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Legends
Jan 21, 2011The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.
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American Masters
Dec 16, 2024American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.
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