Couture

A drama set in the world of fashion, but showing very little interest in it, even though the filmmakers were granted a rare permission to shoot behind the scenes at…

The Last Laugh: Unchaining a Camera

Photo: UFA In the early 1920s, Alfred Hitchcock was in Berlin together with director Graham Cutts, working on a film called The Blackguard. That’s how the fledgling filmmaker came to…

Golden Boys

In 1997, Joachim Posener (Adam Lundgren) is released from prison and comes up with a scheme: taking over a Swedish investment company, using a British lord (Nigel Havers) as cover.…

Eiffel

What inspired Gustave Eiffel to build his great tower in the heart of Paris in the late 1800s? The answer to that question is not really what we learn in…

Remarkably Bright Creatures

When elderly cleaning lady Tova (Sally Field) injures her foot, she needs help taking care of the Washington aquarium where she works; young drifter Cameron (Lewis Pullman) gives her a…

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

The kind of biography that focuses on a crucial era in a person’s life; here it is a young Bruce Springsteen struggling with his new album ”Nebraska”, while also avoiding…

Michael

A biography focusing on Michael Jackson’s rise as a superstar during the 1980s and how he ultimately liberated himself from his abusive father’s dominance. Embraced by his fans who turned…

Lenny: Canceled by Courts

Dustin Hoffman. Photo: United Artists In 2004, Comedy Central put together a list of the 100 greatest standup comedians of all time. Richard Pryor, George Carlin and Lenny Bruce made…

Lovers on the Bridge: Citizens of Pont Neuf

Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant. Photo: Gaumont It’s the kind of troubled film project that generates not one but two different documentaries telling the story of how it was made;…

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

Welcome to the pathetic life of Dr. Josef Mengele, the famed ”Angel of Death” who notoriously experimented on his Jewish victims in Auschwitz before disappearing after the end of the…