Childhood in Art

A Great Day in Harlem

1994 · ★ 6.6

Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just about every jazz musician at the time showed up for the photo shoot which took place in front of a brownstone near the 125th street station. The documentary compiles interviews of many of the musicians in the photograph to talk about the day of the photograph, and it shows film footage taken that day by Milt Hinton and his wife.

Umberto Eco: A Library of the World

2023 · ★ 7.4

A walk through the immense private library of Italian writer and thinker Umberto Eco (1932-2016).

Malandain, quand l'amour prend corps

2026

No synopsis available.

Artus : Son p'tit truc en plus

2024 · ★ 8

A look behind the scenes of the film Un p'tit truc en plus, with interviews with Artus, Clovis Cornillac, and Ludovic Boul, as well as exclusive footage from the making-of.

Marcello Mastroianni, irrésistiblement libre

2024 · ★ 6.5

The 1960s opened with La Dolce Vita by Federico Fellini and its unforgettable lead: Marcello Mastroianni. The actor seemed to glide effortlessly through his roles — and through life — as if to say that life is not all that serious, or perhaps that it is far too serious not to be laughed at. But what kind of man was hiding behind the actor with the handsome, boyish looks, who appeared so gentle and nonchalant?

The Faces We Lost

2017

A documentary about how Rwandans use personal and family photographs to remember and commemorate the loved ones they lost in the 1994 genocide.

Zelensky

2025 · ★ 8

Ten years ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was just one of the many faces on Ukrainian television screens. He became a star thanks to the 2015 satirical series Servant of the People, in which he played a history teacher who becomes president. Four years later, what began as fiction became a reality. Follow the transformation of a popular TV comedian into a statesman on the frontlines of the Russian invasion. Archival footage, family photos, television appearances, and interviews with Zelensky and those closest to him create a multi-layered portrait of a man who always longed for a large audience. At the same time, the film places his personal development in the broader context of post-Soviet Ukraine, which is also searching for its own identity.

Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

1975 · ★ 7.2

Thom Andersen's hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge's photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.

Jag Kulle

1995

Interview with Jarl Kulle cut together with a summary of his career.

Shoot

1971

November 19, 1971, F Space, Santa Ana, California: “At 7:45 p.m. I was shot in the left arm by a friend”.

Mi pesadilla fue que me mataba la guerrilla

No synopsis available.

Thermonuclear Art

2015

The sun is always changing and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is always watching. Launched on February 11, 2010, SDO keeps a 24-hour eye on the entire disk of the sun, with a prime view of the graceful dance of solar material coursing through the sun's atmosphere, the corona.