In 1971, a plane came apart over the Peruvian jungle close to where Werner Herzog was filming Aguirre, the Wrath of God. The only survivor from nearly 100 passengers was Juliane Kopcke, a 17-year-old German girl, who escaped from the jungle after the search was called off. Years later, Herzog tracked down the woman to […]
In this personal essay film, Werner Herzog reflects on his friendship with the tempestuous actor Klaus Kinski whose memorable collaborations with the director include Aguirre, Nosferatu, Woyzeck and Fitzcarraldo. “He was such an intense man,” said Herzog, “something that naturally frightens most people. But often he was a joy and…he was one of the few […]
Errol Morris’ debut film Gates of Heaven is an eccentric portrait of the American dream, focusing on two California pet cemeteries. One enterprise is set up by Floyd McClure at the intersection of two superhighways; the other is run by the Harbert family, who apply the latest marketing concepts to the profession. Morris flouted the […]
The Thin Blue Line is the fascinating, controversial true story of the arrest and conviction of Randall Adams for the murder of a Dallas policeman in 1976. Billed as “the first movie mystery to actually solve a murder,” the film is credited with overturning the conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the murder of Dallas […]
ERROL MORRIS IN PERSON! Rarely screened since its original release, A Brief History of Time examines the life and work of Stephen Hawking, the physicist who has spent much of his life in a wheelchair, yet managed feats of the intellect often compared to Einstein’s. In this adaptation of Hawking’s book about the origins of […]
Werner Herzog is one of the great storytellers of our time, not only in films such as Grizzly Man and Encounters at the End of the World, but in general conversation. Resisting categorization, he once said, “For me, the boundary between fiction and ‘documentary’ simply does not exist; they are all just films.” This talk […]
On the occasion of DOC NYC, D.A. Pennebaker reflects on filming Bowie and the Spiders from Mars: “I was on Mars myself when I got Bowie’s request that we film a concert at Hammersmith Hall in London. Getting from a raft on the Mississippi River headed for New Orleans to London required a series of complicated travel […]
Presented in 3-D, this gorgeously photographed journey through the ocean world follows the life of a loggerhead turtle, starting as a baby on a Florida beach and migrating from the Sargasso Sea to the Gulf Stream to the shores of Africa and back to Florida to lay its eggs. Narrated by Miranda Richardson, Turtle: The […]
Winner of Grand Jury Prize at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Teen magicians from across the U.S. and other parts of the globe travel to Las Vegas to vie for the top prize in the World Magic Seminar. We follow six contestants as they develop their routines with countless hours of practice. Throughout the film, […]
GALA: Sun. Nov. 7, 2010 – 7pm (NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts) “Tabloid is a return to my favorite genre,” writes Errol Morris. “Sick, sad and funny, but, of course, it’s more than that. It is a meditation on how we are shaped by the media and even more powerfully, by ourselves.” At […]