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…
The Quiet Beekeeper
At the same time as Olof (Adam Lundgren) is trying to reach out to his teenage daughter (Hedvig Nilsson) after the death of her mother, he’s in for a new…
Young Winston
After his directing debut, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Richard Attenborough turned his attention to Winston Churchill and a David Lean-style epic blending politics with military battles. We learn…
A Bill of Divorcement
After spending 15 years in a mental institution, Hilary Fairfield (John Barrymore) suddenly appears, unannounced, at the home of his wife (Billie Burke) and daughter (Katharine Hepburn). Hepburn’s film debut…