An assessment of the 20th century’s best known artist and his vast achievements through the insights and speculations of over a dozen participants. Filmed on the 100th anniversary of Picasso’s birth at MoMA, Musée Picasso, Walker Art Center, Museu Picasso Barcelona. Featuring Henry Moore, Anthony Caro, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rosenblum, Clement Greenberg, Roland Penrose and others.
Category: Documentary
Documentary
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Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki
Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki, shot by Pirjo Honkasalo and Eero Salmenhaara, is a documentary on the capital of Finland.
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After That
Film director Shunichi Nagasaki reflects on a near-fatal motorcycle accident that occurred while shooting his commercial feature debut The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September.
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Johnny Goes Home
Johnny Carson makes a nostalgic visit back to his hometown of Norfolk, Nebraska in the fall of 1981, revisiting the places of his youth and talking with some of the people he grew up with.
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Memory of the People
Dedicated to the memory of L.I. Brezhnev.
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Hungermarschen
The film oscillates between depicting the everyday life of workers in 1917 and 1982, where the common denominator is that they in both families have difficulty making ends meet financially.
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Why was Cairo Calm
It begins in the days after Sadat’s assassination in 1981 by an islamist cell of army officers. The American media had led an outpouring of shock and grief in the United States at the death of the heroic president. All the western leaders then travelled to Cairo to say goodbye to the man who had courageously changed the course of history. But then they found that practically no Egyptians turned up to the funeral. And the western politicians and the American TV reporters couldn’t understand why. The documentary tries to find the answer.
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Lights! Camera! Annie! The Making of a Major Hollywood Musical
An in-depth look into the making of the film Annie (1982). It covers the adaptation changes from the original Broadway musical, the hiring of director John Huston, the nationwide search to cast the title role, the production process, and the conception of several musical numbers, including a different version of the song “Easy Street” than the one that ended up in the film.
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Kyiv Symphony
The film is dedicated to the 1500th anniversary of Kyiv.
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The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.