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- Meet a mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, reclusive cousins of Jackie O., managing to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, NY, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot.
- A middle-aged couple's career and marriage are overturned when a disarming young couple enters their lives.
- A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.
- When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this film.
- Four dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics.
- A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences.
- Utilizing hours of unseen archival footage, The Beales is a new take on the women of Grey Gardens.
- The life and legacy of Marlon Brando and how he changed acting.
- This documentary follows a Mississippi Delta school district and a single Delta family as they struggle against the crippling effects of poverty in the wake of more than one hundred years of slavery.
- Herb and Dorothy Vogel redefine what it means to be an art collector.
- Christo, an artist, wants to put a piece of orange fabric across a valley. This Oscar-nominated film documents his success showing how a large piece of fabric can look small when accomplished.
- A documentary following the Fab Four for five days in 1964. A humorous and freewheeling account of their first trip to America.
- The controversial story of the artist Christo's grand-scale environmental art project in Japan and California that ended in the tragic death of two of its spectators. At its world premiere in 1994 at the Berlin International Film Festival, Howard Feinstein of Variety praised the film as, "highly original and structurally flawless . . . an ambitious documentary about an ambitious project." Umbrellas won The Grand Prize at the Montreal International Film Festival. It was shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and The Louvre Museum, Paris and on the European network ARTE.
- Scientifically, his music has a great positive influence in the unborn child's brain.
- A documentary on New York City's biggest public art project ever, an installation called "The Gates," by Christo and Jeanne Claude.
- This is a documentary about direct-cinema from its very beginnings (Nanook of the North) to the fake-direct-cinema of the Blair Witch Project. All the important direct-cinema filmmakers are portrayed and/or interviewed: Leacock, Wiseman, Maysles, Pennebaker, Reisz and others.
- Journalists from all over America meet Marlon Brando in a New York hotel room to interview him about his new film, Morituri. Seeing this as an opportunity to let the legendary actor promote the film, they find Brando unwilling to talk about it, instead he is more interested in larking about and turning on the charm when being interviewed by Bobbi Johnson (a reporter for a Boston radio station), Miss USA of 1964.
- In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Paul McCartney travels through the streets of New York and organizes a benefit concert.
- A film that further explores the artists' fusion of culture, environment and politics. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's fight for permission to surround eleven islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric, interwoven with their struggle to wrap the Pont-Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin.
- A Korean orphan travels to the United States to visit the American G.I.s who unofficially "adopted" him while stationed in South Korea. Will one of the veterans adopt him for real?
- A documentary portrait of the brash American producer and distributor Joseph E.Levine, known for his successful promotions of Godzilla and Hercules,and now working on the US release of an Italian art film.
- SALLY GROSS - THE PLEASURE OF STILLNESS is an intimate documentary portrait about the life and work of the critically acclaimed New York-based dancer and choreographer, Sally Gross, who has been performing for over 50 years. The film features excerpts from her work as well as interviews with dance critics, collaborators and friends. The film also captures Sally's unique history including her days growing up as a daughter of immigrants in the Lower East Side of New York City, her training with visionary choreographer Alwin Nikolais at Henry Street Playhouse, and her involvement in the legendary Judson Dance Theater. Now in her seventies, Sally still continues to choreograph and perform. Filmed in the captivating cinema verite style Albert Maysles and Kristen Nutile follow this charismatic artist as she embarks on the unpredictable journey of creating a new work.
- Unused footage from the legendary documentary of the Rolling Stones mixing "Little Queenie" in the studio; performing "Oh Carol" and "Prodigal Son" at Madison Square Garden; and Mick hanging out back stage with Ike and Tina Turner.
- An engrossing document of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's efforts to build a 24 1/2-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white fabric across the hills of northern California. The artists' struggle with local ranchers, environmentalists and state bureaucrats ends when the fence is unfurled, reuniting the community in a celebration of beauty. Nominated at the 1978 Academy Awards®.
- Norman Salsitz was born 84 years ago as Naftali Saleschütz. After the war he emigrated to the USA, after almost sixty years he is going back to Kolbuszowa in southern Poland for the first time
- Making of the recording of Carmen by Bizet. Starring Jessye Norman, Mirella Freni, Neil Shicoff, Simon Estes, and the Orchestre national de France conducted by Seiji Ozawa.
- Bill Hader talks about the documentary Salesman and his own faux-documentary series Documentary Now.
- Three weeks after the Six-Day War, Leonard Bernstein plans a historic concert atop Mount Scopus; played by Isaac Stern and the Israel Philharmonic.
- The film shows Salvador Dali hamming it up with Raquel Welch after he arrives in Hollywood to create a poster for the film Fantastic Voyage.
- A film portrait of photographer Sylvia Plachy.
- In 1911, in a cave outside Kiev, the mutilated body of the Christian child Andrei Yushchinsky was found, having been stabbed 47 times. During the funeral procession for the boy, members of the Black Hundreds, an organization similar to the KKK, passed out pamphlets labeling the crime as a Jewish ritual murder. The pamphlet read in part: "ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS! The Yids have tortured Andryusha Yushchinsky to death! Every year before their Passover, they torture to death several dozens of Christian children in order to get their blood to mix with their matzos... Russians! If your children are dear to you, beat up the Yids! Beat them up until there is not a single Yid left in Russia. Have pity on your children! Avenge the unhappy martyr! It is time! It is time!" The Russian government, threatened by revolutionary upheaval, saw in this incident a golden opportunity. At the direction of the Minister of Justice and the Tsar, prosecutors framed a Jewish factory manager, Mendel Beilis. Their goal was to convict the Jewish people of ritual murder; further, the trial aimed to incite a slaughter and to rally "real Russians" to support the tsar in his efforts to crush the burgeoning democracy movement. Ritual murder accusations against Jews date back to 12th-century England, and continue today; in 2005, a substantial portion of the Russian Duma voted in support of a letter reiterating this accusation. It was used by Hitler as well, and has been adapted recently to a Hezbollah version. Scapegoat On Trial considers the Beilis Affair as a prototype that ushered in a century in which governments have used modern political tactics to revive or even manufacture "ancient" hatreds, which in turn have served as portals to genocidal violence. But the film also emphasizes a more uplifting theme: the birth of the global human rights movement, and the collaboration of disparate individuals and groups to stop genocidal massacres. The case created an international sensation, a second Dreyfus Affair, in which workers went on strike, and hundreds of cultural, intellectual and religious leaders around the world raised their voices together against injustice. The film will incorporate voices of today's human rights lawyers and activists as they consider the Beilis trial in light of their own experiences. The Beilis trial of 1913 was nearly lost in history because it was quickly overshadowed by the onset of World War I and then by the Russian Revolution. But this case is crucially relevant today and deserves to be more widely known. Fantastic myths and "Big Lies" are still part of the arsenal that governments wield to pit people against scapegoats. This instance, when ordinary people around the world stood in protest and exposed the lie, should be remembered and celebrated.
- Close Up: Portraits features a roster of the world's top photographers, caught in the creative act, behind the camera. As captured through the lens of Albert Maysles, a legendary filmmaker (Gimme Shelter, Salesman, Grey Gardens) and photographer in his own right, the intimate moments of fellow artists in their creative element are brought to life. Artist to artist, photographer to photographer, Close Up: Portraits explores the philosophies and techniques with which the photographers approach every shot. The images the world knows and loves, the photographers that create them: Maysles Films' Close Up: Portaits is a window into the creative state of mind of some of today's top working photographers.
- Told in the Maysles' intimatible style, IBM: A SELF PORTRAIT captures the future corporate juggernaut at an early stage of their development. The emphasis here is on the human ingenuity behind the technology industry-- the colorful technicians and executives working together to create a future design for living.
- An adventurous action-packed story about a police officer nicknamed "Sheriff", who, bravely fighting mafia functionaries, easily and simply takes bribes from its bosses.
- 1985– 1h 27mTV-148.0 (224)TV EpisodeProfiles the life and work of author/civil rights activist, James Baldwin.
- 1971– 1h 30mTV-G7.8 (127)TV Episode
- 1999– 50m7.5 (12)TV EpisodeThis 50-minute documentary unfolds the creative journey of Albert Maysles' cult classic, GREY GARDENS - from non-fiction film to spectacularly mounted Broadway musical. Captured in the 1975 Maysles film, GREY GARDENS, the indomitable Edith Beale and her daughter Edie, aunt and cousin to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, were revealed to be a most unique and engaging mother daughter act - inhabiting a folie à deux built upon powerful interdependence, quirky eccentricity, courage, devotion and love. Their essence and their story soon catapulted them to cult icon status, an ironic counterpoint to Mrs. Onassis' own such status, and culminating in the ultimate homage: being portrayed on the Broadway stage. The documentary will feature behind-the-scenes footage of the show's rehearsals, performance and insightful interviews with the creators and cast, as well as a revealing interview with Albert Maysles and relevant insights from Beale authorities, devotees, cultural commentators, audience and fans.
- We follow the preparations for Ali's final attempt to win back the World Heavyweight title. Even during the lead up to the fight grave concerns were held for Ali's health and the man who stepped into the ring was frail imitation of his former self.