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| There are over 250.000 actors in LA. For every role to be cast, thousands of headshots are sent in and hundreds of actors are called in for auditions. Who makes the decisions? What happens during a casting session? We follow an aspiring young actress and an upcoming casting agent while Hollywood's most famous casting directors finally reveal their hidden secrets. | ||||||
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| Well-known Italian American actors, directors, writers and other film artists share what it's like being a 'Hollywood Italian', and, with film clips and insider commentary on Hollywood history, show how they use their background to make art from the alchemy of mob movies, Hollywood politics, and American pop culture. |
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| Errol Morris' has the uncanny ability to extract truths from people and his trademark is making private drama public. This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary filmmaking in recent cinema history. This comprehensive overview of Morris' career includes clips of all his important films: among them GATES OF HEAVEN, FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL, and MR. DEATH as well as interviews with collaborators such as Werner Herzog and Phillip Glass. |
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| COMRADES IN DREAMS takes us to four corners of the world and portrays 4 individuals all connected by one passion: cinema! Shot in small cinemas in the USA, Burkina Faso, India and North Korea we follow the dedicated cineastes and their efforts to make their audiences dream every night. The film dives into a set of fascinating lives where stories from the everyday and from the silver screen frequently merge into something magical. |
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| Just 36, Selznick was already a legend. GONE WITH THE WIND changed the way movies were made in Hollywood. During that production however Selznick made his most lasting contribution to American film making, by bringing Alfred Hitchcock to Hollywood. The relationship exemplified the changing of the guard in Hollywood. David O. Selznick represented the studio system where the producer had complete control. Alfred Hitchcock was to become one of the first directors recognized for the unique authorship and control he commanded over every aspect of his movie making. | |||||
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| Part icon, part iconoclast, Melvin Van Peebles is a filmmaker with a history that's as fascinating as any of his motion pictures. This award-winning documentary (full of rare archival footage and unforgettable backstage stories from Spike Lee, Mario Van Peebles, Gil Scott-Heron, and others) is a carefully crafted tale of how a young black kid from Chicago ended up making one of the most controversial movies in American history, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, the film that sparked the Blaxploitation era in Hollywood. |
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| Italian born Laura Huxley, a teenage violin virtuoso, left the concert stage to become a renowned psychotherapist and author. In 1956 Laura married Aldous Huxley, literary giant and prophet of the 20th century. Huxley wrote BRAVE NEW WORLD in 1933. Laura and Aldous maintained a compelling personal and professional union until his death in 1963. Laura Huxley continued writing and giving seminars until her death in 2007 at the age of 96. Laura Huxley's candid recollections offer a compelling glimpse of her life with Aldous. |
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| Imaginary Witness tells for the first time the fascinating story of the American film industry's complex and contradictory responses to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Retracing 60 years of Hollywood filmmaking, utilizing carefully selected excerpts and told through first-hand accounts of directors, actors, writers, and producers, the film covers all of Hollywood's most important movies dealing with the issue. With Steven Spielberg, Sydney Lumet, Dan Curtis, Rod Steiger and many others. | |||||
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| Born in 1931 and dead by 1955, it is as if James Dean had a destiny, rather than a life. A cinema figure of huge iconic and mythic dimensions, it is said of Dean that he didn't just change the way people acted, he changed the way people lived. Synonymous with adolescent angst, he redefined the American male ideal, making vulnerable sexy and alienation desirable. Remarkably, there are only three films to his legacy - EAST OF EDEN, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE and GIANT. | |||||
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| How does Michael Moore create his films? Is it pure fact, propaganda or fiction, or a mixture? While trying to get an interview with Michael Moore, the filmmakers investigate how Moore uses documentary techniques to affect political change. By looking at ROGER AND ME, BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE and FAHRENHEIT 9/11, the film builds a controversial portrait of him, exposing many revealing background stories.Featuring: a.o. Noam Chomsky, Albert Maysles, Michael Moore, Errol Morris, Ralph Nader. |
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| Riveting exploration of the friendship between Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller that abruptly came to an end when Kazan testified during the time of the 1950's "blacklist". Collaborators and best friends for many years before, they had even shared a girlfriend in Marilyn Monroe. Kazan and Miller embodied the deep divisions of that era. No one who survived the blacklist emerged unscathed: morals were compromised, friends were turned upon, lives were ruined, and no one was without sin. | |||||
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| When the dreams of a young and charismatic Iraqi film student Muthana are crushed following the bombing of Baghdad's film school, a brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changes his life forever. Seeing the clip, actor Liev Schreiber, feeling guilty about a war he opposes decides to extend to the unknown Iraqi the opportunity of a lifetime - to come to Prague to intern on his new feature film. But in a comedic turn of events, Schreiber's good intentions quickly backfire as the eager student proves to have intentions of his own. |
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| Cree director Neil Diamond brings a wry and slightly mischievous wit to this insightful and entertaining documentary that traces the evolution of the powerful images of "the Indian" in Hollywood movies - images that have influenced the understanding (and misunderstanding) of North American Natives in almost every corner of the world and have locked the North American natives into powerful stereotypes, from which they only recently started to break loose. WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009 |
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| With unprecedented access to Davis' vast personal archives, STARDUST illuminates the tempestuous life and career of one of the most gifted actresses to emerge from the Hollywood studio system. Narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon, STARDUST features original interviews with Bette's son Michael Merrill, Jane Fonda, Ellen Burstyn, Gena Rowlands and James Woods who make this documentary a complete and entertaining biography. | ||||||
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| Errol Flynn remains one of the most fascinating characters ever to work in Hollywood. Remembered as much for his scandals as his acting, there was another side to Errol: writer, war reporter and even devoted family man. |
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| In the 1970's a new wave of Horror filmmakers changed the genre completely and introduced new visions and styles that influenced the Horror genre until today. With extraordinary clips and archive, this story is told by the giants of the genre, who started out in those days: Romero, Craven, Cronenberg, Carpenter and Hooper talk about terror, their work and the world that inspired it: America in the 70s. |
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| One of THE classis documentaries of the last decade, THE CELLULOID CLOSET is a riveting and entertaining look at Hollywood and how it has both reflected and defined the way we think about homosexuality. From comic sissies to lesbian vampires, from pathetic queens to sadistic predators, from the good to the bad. With over a hundred film clips of Hollywood classics and many priceless anecdotes by Tom Hanks, Shirley MacLaine, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis and Gore Vidal. | ||||||
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| A fascinating and funny look behind the scenes of the multi-million dollar B-movie and erotic thriller industry. Actors and actresses bare their soles on camera, and their responses are honest and revealing. They indicate powerful inner conflicts, betrayals of personal values, and degrading states of emotional disarray, which are inter-cut with their personal history and graphic scenes of the movies they now make. THE DARK SIDE OF HOLLYWOOD is a powerful portrait of the fragility of fame and the cost of stardom. |
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| Courage, persistence and confidence in his own skills explain how John A. Alonzo went from being the son of a poor Mexican migrant worker to become one of the most acclaimed Hollywood cinematographers. |
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| Considered one of the best documentaries on the subject, this shocking and thoroughly engrossing documentary about the adult film industry goes onto the sets, behind the scenes and into the private lives of the men and women who have chosen to trade sex for a chance at fame and fortune. Three uncompromising chapters (The Stars, The Industry, and The Consequences) reveal the realities, consequences and ultimately the sacrifices of people in an industry that is often willing to sell fantasy at any price. |
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| Leni Riefenstahl has secured her place in cinema history, but her story remains a sensitive topic as one of her most ardent admirers was Adolf Hitler. TRIMPH DES WILLENS and OLYMPIA glorified the Nazi Party and later would bring an abrupt end to her filmmaking career. Riefenstahl became an outcast after the war, but tried to pursue her artistic endeavors with characteristic determination and enthusiasm. Leni Riefenstahl died at the age of 101 in 2003. | ||||||
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| Lars Von Trier is a man of contradictions, a daring and provocative artist who is as enigmatic as private a person, since years continuously refusing contact with press and media. TRANCEFORMER is an exclusive document with many clips of his films, which offers a unique insight into his art and his world of thoughts. | |||||
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| A documentary musical about the rise and fall of the Revolutionary Model Operas during the Cultural Revolution in China, based on traditional Chinese stories and adapted to the likes of Maos wife. We see these propaganda operas with those who performed in it, and look at their renewed popularity in modern day China. They are performed again by young people and are now also available in Karaoke versions in the Chinese Supermarket. A marvellous mixture of high and low culture. | ||||||
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