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Bond on Location(2012)

Behind the scenes of shooting in various notoriously difficult locations, including interviews with producers and lead actors.

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Imagine: John Lennon(1988)

The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from Yoko Ono's personal collection, previously unseen footage from Lennon's private archives, and interviews with David Bowie, his first wife Cynthia, second wife Yoko Ono and sons Julian and Sean.

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Tell Them Who You Are(2004)

The son of acclaimed cinematographer Haskell Wexler confronts his complex father by turning the camera on him. What results is a portrait of a difficult genius and a son's path out of the shadow of a famous father.

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Duras and Cinema(2014)

Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.

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Spielberg(2017)

A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

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Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn(2007)

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba

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Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary(2019)

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field, which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer and researcher Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.

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Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings(2024)

An analysis of the sources of inspiration that fed the imagination of the British writer, poet and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), great master of epic fantasy.

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Milan Kundera: From the Joke to Insignificance(2021)

The brilliant Czech writer Milan Kundera has not given an interview in thirty years; nor does he appear in public. How did he become a legendary author? What is so unique about his books?

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On Screen!: Mon Oncle Antoine(2006)

Documentary about the 1971 Canadian film by Claude Jutra.

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The Blade Runner Phenomenon(2021)

Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is one of the most influential science fiction films ever made. Its depiction of Los Angeles in the year 2019 is oppressively prophetic: climate catastrophe, increasing public surveillance, powerful monopolistic corporations, highly evolved artificial intelligence; a fantastic vision of the future world that has become a frightening reality.

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The Painting(2019)

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las meninas, o La familia de Felipe IV” (1656) has not been deciphered. The secret story of a painting unveiled as if it was the resolution of a perfect crime.

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Behind the Scenes of 'Y Tu Mamá También'(2001)

On-set documentary about the making of the film "Y tu mamá también."

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Ciné regards: Jacques Tati(1978)

Interview with the French film director, conducted for television in 1978.

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Filming Haneke(2000)

A making-of documentary featuring interviews with director Michael Haneke, actor Juliette Binoche, and producer Marin Karmitz, as well as on-set footage of cast and crew of "Code Unknown".

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The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for Emancipation(2023)

Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive novel about the dazzling social ascent of a rebellious heroine; too scandalous to be published at that contradictory time.

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Bernardo Bertolucci's Chinese Adventure(1986)

Documentary about the making of Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor.

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Disney: Through the Looking Glass(2010)

Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about the alleged Spanish origin of the American cartoonist Walt Disney, making the same journey that his supposed mother made to give him up for adoption in Chicago. A journey that begins in Mojácar, Almería, Spain, and ends in New York. An exciting adventure, like Alicia's through the looking glass, to discover what is truth and what is not, with an unexpected result.

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Dance Crazy in Hollywood(1990)

American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.

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Tati Express(2015)

Tati Express dives into Jacques Tati's films and how they look at a changing world throughout the 20th century. It shows how modernity impacts human-beings and goes through that amazing body of work at 100 mph.

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