A fictionalized day in the life of Anna Nicole Smith, revealing her innermost thoughts on the people (friends, servants, lawyers, photographers) and events (photoshoots, bathing, sexual exploits) that make up her life.
Category: Documentary
Documentary
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Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s
In 1995, Chasen’s closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting dignitaries, Presidents and the Pope. During its two final weeks, Chasen regulars (actors and producers), staff, and management sat for interviews. There’s an Oscar party for 1500, footage and photos of famous diners, and time with Tommy Gallagher, the ebullient head waiter until retirement in 1994, his son Patrick, catering head Raymond Bilbool, general manager Ronnie Clint, hat check girl Val Schwab, ladies’ room attendant Onetta Johnson, and foreign- born waiters, including Jaime. When he started in 1970, like other Latins, he wasn’t allowed out of the kitchen. It’s a family farewell.
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Chef Aid: Behind The Menu
The fascinating life of South Park’s musical cafeteria employee, Jerome “Chef” McElroy, is examined in this exclusive behind-the-scenes special. Chef’s influence on a generation of musicians and rock stars is revealed through candid interviews with Elton John, Flea, Ike Turner, Meatloaf, Ozzy Osborne and many others. This one-off mockumentary is produced in the style of VH1’s Behind the Music.
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Junket Whore
A documentary film that explores the relationship between publicists and journalists in Hollywood.
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Journey to Beijing
The “Miao-Tuan” Group started off on a two-month “Walk to Beijing” trip in February, 1997, to commemorate Hong Kong ‘s return to China. The group traversed through Guangzhou, across the Yellow River, to Mao Zedong’s birthplace, to Tiananmen Square, and finally to the Great Wall. The trip provided a unique way of viewing the post-1997 relationship between China and Hong Kong.
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Playboy: The Story of X
The Story Of X takes you to the earliest days of adult films when men peddled stag reels and projectors out of the trunks of their cars, then through the movie house years to the arrival of the home video business, and now the Internet. Meet the men behind the camera, such as “King of Sexploitation” Dave Friedman and the preeminent breast man Russ Meyer. Considered pariahs at the time, they’re now hailed as pioneers in the fight against censorship. The Story of X visits the 60s when women’s rights, not nudity, became the issue and recounts porn’s arrival in Hollywood, led by director Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango In Paris. In the 70s, several groundbreaking films, including Behind The Green Door featuring Marilyn Chambers and Deep Throat featuring Linda Lovelace, took the genre to a new level.
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Behind the Planet of the Apes
Roddy McDowall takes you, film by film, from production meetings to make-up sessions, then right onto the movie set to see the actual filming of the science fiction masterpiece. The most comprehensive history of Planet of the Apes ever created, this fascinating 127-minute documentary explores one of the most imaginative and influential series in movie history.
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Unit 731: Nightmare in Manchuria
During World War II, Japanese scientists, led by Shiro Ishii, built a medical facility in Manchuria. It is in this place, Unit 731, that Ishii and his scientists conducted some of the most horrific war crimes of the 20th century. The goal of Unit 731 was to experiment with germ warfare, with the ultimate aim of using these weapons on the United States during the war. Experiments were conducted on Chinese civilians, soldiers and American prisoners of war. They ranged from live dissections to the deliberate infection of surrounding villages with diseases such as the bubonic plague. Now, over fifty years later, activists, journalists and historians are uncovering the story of Unit 731, and the American complicity that let these war crimes go unpunished.
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Beefcake
A look at the 1950s muscle men’s magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men’s films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.
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Frat House
Frat House is a documentary film exploring the darker side of fraternity life, largely filmed at Allentown, Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College; the majority of the film was shot in the house of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.