NYC PREMIERE While the LGBT community began to experience greater visibility in the wake of 1969’s Stonewall riots, generations had quietly lived their lives before, out of the public eye. Stu Maddux reveals this hidden history by unearthing a treasure trove of rare home movies made by gay people – some dating to the 1930s […]
NYC PREMIERE Director Gillian Armstrong (Little Women) tells the story of the Oscar-winning costume designer (and her fellow Australian) Orry-Kelly. Drawing upon clips from his work in Hollywood classics – Some Like It Hot, An American in Paris, Irma la Douce – Armstrong captures Kelly’s on-screen genius and his hidden life as a gay man. […]
NYC PREMIERE A long-overdue portrait of an iconoclastic performer, Feelings are Facts profiles the incomparable Yvonne Rainer. In the 1960s, within a scant few years as a dancer and choreographer, she radically changed the art form through her influential work at the Judson Dance Theater. When she shifted to film in the 1970s, she continued […]
NYC PREMIERE In 1973, French journalist Claude Lanzmann set out to make a documentary about the Holocaust. After twelve long years, he finally released the nearly ten-hour-long Shoah to critical acclaim. For the first time, the 89-year-old auteur reflects on the challenges he faced to realize his vision. Adam Benzine combines fascinating unused footage from […]
WORLD PREMIERE Within the last decade, movie theaters have made the transition to digital projection, ending the reign of film after more than a century. As the technology has changed, moving obsolete film projectors into the realm of the odd collector, the skills of seasoned film projectionists are also in danger of being lost forever. By […]
NYC PREMIERE Before she was The New Yorker’s film critic, Pauline Kael partnered with cinephile Ed Landberg to transform a storefront into a beloved art house cinema. This film is followed by REEL IN THE CLOSET.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE At once a chronicle of a remarkable sixty-year partnership and a tribute to the unsung talents behind a staggering number of cinema classics, this loving film introduces the world to storyboard artist Harold Michelson and film researcher Lillian Michelson. Though largely uncredited, they left an indelible impression on films like The Birds, […]
NYC PREMIERE When three Mississippi preteens set out to pay tribute to their favorite film in 1982, little did they know it would become an obsession that lasted three decades. Committed to making their own version of Raiders of the Lost Ark, they spent seven eventful summers recreating the epic adventure, shot for shot – […]
US PREMIERE At seventeen, Michelle Maren escaped from an abusive home to the streets of NYC, taking on a variety of roles, including magician’s assistant, beauty queen and porn star. Now middle- aged and living on disability, she struggles with a host of psychological disorders. Inspired by Michel Negroponte’s acclaimed Jupiter’s Wife, Michelle reaches out […]
Acclaimed filmmaker Steve James pays tribute to the late Roger Ebert and to the love of movies. Using Ebert’s memoir as a launching point, James adroitly traces the Pulitzer Prize- winning critic’s career, demonstrating how Ebert, with TV sparring partner Gene Siskel, popularized film criticism for the masses. Folded into the film is the story […]