The Capote Tapes

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

2007 · ★ 7.7

An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her international success as a photojournalist, war reporter, and pop culture chronicler.

Maria Casarès and Albert Camus, you, my life

2022 · ★ 8.5

Maria Casarès, a theatre actress and Albert Camus, one of the most important modern french writer, keep a long correspondence (more than 900 letters) about their love and the emotions they feel for each other for 15 years.

Who Killed Nancy?

2009 · ★ 5

On October 12th, 1978, New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper, heroin addict, and girlfriend of Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious.

Betty: They Say I’m Different

2017 · ★ 7.3

An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty Mabry Davis arrived on the scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion style and outrageous funk. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and The Commodores and married Miles Davis, turning him from jazz to funk and then went on to ignite stages in the 70s with her sassy sexed up mix of hard rock and bluesy funk, inspiring artists from Prince to Erykah Badu to Karen 0 and Peaches. Then she vanished…

The Passion of Ayn Rand

1999 · ★ 5

Author Ayn Rand becomes involved with a much younger and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.

Banksy Does New York

2014 · ★ 6.8

On October 1, 2013, the elusive street artist Banksy launched a month-long residency in New York, an art show he called Better Out Than In. As one new work of art was presented each day in a secret location, a group of fans, called “Banksy Hunters,” took to the streets and blew up social media.

Two-pot Screamer (or: How I Will Remember the Dec.13th Screening of Adam C. Briggs' A Grand Mockery)

A short documentary chronicling the liquor-drenched final night of A Grand Mockery (2024)'s theatrical run in New York.

View on Boulevard, New York City

1896 · ★ 6

Taken in 1896 on the Boulevard (upper Broadway) on the occasion of a bicycle parade in the heyday of the wheeling craze. Old-fashioned horse cars lend interest to the scene.

Les vendredis d'Apostrophes

2015 · ★ 6

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts presented in the form of a primer, which he had commented on by a surprised Bernard Pivot.

The B Side Fighter

No synopsis available.

Julio Iglesias: Latin Crooner, Global Star

2022 · ★ 8

An account of the life and work of the charismatic and seductive Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, from his beginnings as a soccer player in the Spain of the 1960s, in the midst of Franco's dictatorship, to his astonishing worldwide success.

Gustaf Tenggren: svensk sagotecknare i Amerika

1990

Documentary about the Swedish illustrator and animator Gustaf Tenggren.