Peter Biskind

An uncensored look at the life and work of film producer Harvey Weinstein.

A conversation about guilty pleasures turns into one man's quest to find others on a library waiting list, while simultaneously examining the fate of the famous Hollywood bomb Ishtar (1987).

An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino. Interview footage and film clips are blended together to form a chronological approach to the subject matter.

Dans les armes du président américain Reagan contre l’Empire soviétique, il en est une essentielle : le soft power. Moqué à sa sortie, le quatrième opus de la saga Rocky se révéla un succès. Il fait partie de cet arsenal invisible et va – avec ses codes – conquérir la jeunesse du monde. La victoire du gentil américain qui se bat en terre hostile contre l’homme-machine soviétique en cache une autre : celle de l’homme contre le système, celle de la volonté individuelle contre l’organisation liberticide. Près de trente ans après sa sortie, en 1985, ce blockbuster apparaît comme le porte-drapeau cinématographique d’une délégation de super-héros musculeux (Schwarzenegger, Van Damme) qui valorisent l’individu.

This 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.

An intimate portrait of an oft-forgotten character in Hollywood: the screenwriter. Raised in Baghdad, screenwriter Mardik Martin was infused with an early love for movies when he was sent to the U.S. by his family to avoid being drafted into the Iraqi army. Mardik discovered the NYU cinema department, and there he met Martin Scorsese; their friendship would lead to some of the greatest films in American cinema.

Peter Biskind talks about Michey One.

Documentary that traces the tangled rights to Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale," the first James Bond story, which took over a half century to reach the screen in recognizable form.

The burning of the Bank of America in Isla Vista, CA, adjacent to the University of California Santa Barbara

The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and gripping story of the last golden age of American cinema, an exalted celebration of creativity and experimentation; but also of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll: a turbulent and dark tale of ambition, envy, betrayal, hatred and self-destruction.

Each 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.