A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film Magnolia (1999), containing behind-the-scenes footage and interviews.
Category: Documentary
Documentary
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Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock’s Favorite Film
A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943).
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Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey… to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.
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On the Edge of ‘Blade Runner’
This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it’s history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearly all the cast. Interviews with production staff, including Ridley, give details into the creative process and turmoil during preproduction. Stories from Paul M. Sammon and Fancher provide insight into Philip K. Dick and the origins of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Interweaved are cast interviews with the notable exceptions of Harrison Ford and Sean Young. Through these interviews we get a sense of how difficult and frustrating the film was to make as a result of an exacting director without allies and hot, wet, smoggy conditions; which added to the high pressure atmosphere everyone increasingly felt as the film went over budget. There is also a tour of some locations, most notably the Bradbury Building and the Warner Brothers backlot that was the LA 2019 streets, which look very different from Ridley’s dark version.
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Buñuel in Hollywood
This documentary traces the relationship of Buñuel with American culture and Hollywood. The program proposes a chronological journey through the Aragonese filmmaker stays in the U.S., the characters he met, the films he made and he could never do. The program also includes new material-unpublished until 2012 – the Aragonese director filmed in the U.S. in the early 1940s and where he can be seen playing one of their children or enjoying a short holiday in a cottage.
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Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
A short documentary based on Sergio Leone’s life and career, and the making of the film “Once Upon a Time in America.”
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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas “purely by chance”, without concern for chronological order.
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Divine Trash
The life and times of Baltimore film maker and midnight movie pioneer, John Waters.
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3-D Halloween
Ghost hunters are on the trail of a supernatural phenomenon and legendary figures in Scotland. The forest of Duffus Castle – long one of Scotland’s most powerful fortresses – is as much the scene of eerie encounters as Kilneuair Cemetery or Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull. Let the blue mist of eerie Scottish nights waft into your living room and experience the fascinating 3-D effects up close!
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The Filth and the Fury
Julien Temple’s second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk movement was just discovering itself. Featuring archival footage, never-before-seen performances, rehearsals, and recording sessions as well as interviews with group members who lived to tell the tale–including the one and only John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten).