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Alan Magee: art is not a solace — Available Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Directed by P. David Berez, David Wright • Documentary • 2019 • 60 minutes • Bullfrog Films

Best known for his captivating realist paintings, artist Alan Magee also creates works that delve into the darkest aspects of human nature. His arresting images which comment on corporate greed, on cruelty and gun violence, and on civilian and military victims of war seem at odds with his serene paintings of nature and found objects, but through his distinctive visual language and interconnected themes, …

Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery — Available Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Directed by Arne Birkenstock • Documentary • With Wolfgang Beltracchi, Henrik Hanstein, Sofia Komarova • 2015 • 93 minutes • KimStim

For nearly 40 years, Wolfgang Beltracchi fooled the international art world and was responsible for the biggest art forgery scandal of the postwar era. An expert in art history, theory and painting techniques, he tracked down the gaps in the oeuvres of great artists - Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Heinrich Campendonk, Andre Derain and Max Pechstein, above all - and filled them with his own works. He and …

Maya — Available Friday, October 6, 2023
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve • Drama • With Roman Kolinka, Aarshi Banerjee • 2018 • 107 minutes • Under the Milky Way

December 2012. Two French reporters are released after months of captivity in Syria. Gabriel, just shy of 30, heads to his childhood home in Goa, India, to recover. There, he meets Maya.

August Pace: 1989-2019 — Available Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Directed by Daniel Madoff • Documentary • 2022 • 54 minutes • Bullfrog Films

Thirty years after the world premiere of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham’s "August Pace," the original cast members gather once again in a New York City studio to teach their roles to a younger generation. Their reunion is a grand experiment in group transmission where the older dancers rediscover the work only to let it go and see it anew as observers. In this fly-on-the-wall documentary, …

When Claude Got Shot — Available Friday, October 13, 2023
Directed by Brad Lichtenstein • Documentary • With Claudaire Motley Victoria Davison Nathan King Regina Ragland • 2021 • 94 minutes • 371 Productions

This unscripted feature follows five years in the life of Claude Motley as he tries to recover mentally and physically from being shot in the face by carjacker Nathan King, a 15 year-old boy at the time. Diverted from his legal career, Claude must persist through multiple surgeries, catastrophic health care bills and stress on his family while remaining engaged in the criminal justice journey determining …

Solutions — Available Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Directed by Pernille Rose Grønkjær • Documentary • With Steen Rasmussen, Eric Beinhocker, Doyne Farmer • 2021 • 102 minutes • First Run Features

In the desert of New Mexico, a group of scientists, entrepreneurs and innovators come together with an ambitious goal: to secure the future of humanity by creating a new and optimistic pathway into the future. Their expertise is diverse – from science and technology to economics, social studies and the business world. Focusing on the rising gap between rapidly evolving 'physical' technologies (like …

Wood and Water — Available Thursday, October 19, 2023
Directed by Jonas Bak • Drama • With Anke Bak, Patrick Lo • 2021 • 79 minutes • KimStim

With seamless grace, shooting on 16 mm, and underscored by a soundtrack from Brian Eno, German director Jonas Bak moves from the tall spires of the Black Forest to the teeming skyscrapers of Hong Kong in his tranquil, deeply moving feature debut.  Anke retires from her job at the church in a small town in the Black Forest. She looks forward to reuniting with her children over the summer holidays …

Geographies of Solitude — Available Friday, October 20, 2023
Directed by Jacquelyn Mills • Documentary • 2022 • 103 minutes • Cinema Guild

An immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island, a remote sliver of land in the Northwest Atlantic, the film follows Zoe Lucas, a naturalist and environmentalist who has lived there for over 40 years collecting, cleaning and documenting marine litter that persistently washes up on the island's shores. Shot on 16mm and created using eco-friendly filmmaking techniques, Geographies of Solitude is …

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg — Available Friday, October 20, 2023
Directed by Jerry Aronson • Documentary • With Joan Baez, William F. Buckley, William S. Burroughs • 1997 • 84 minutes • First Run Features

This documentary chronicles the life of American beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Born and raised in New Jersey, Ginsberg attends Columbia University alongside fellow beats Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Ginsberg rises to to the forefront of the American counterculture following the success of his iconic poem "Howl" in 1955, after which he becomes heavily involved in spiritualism and activism.

Thirst for Justice — Available Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Directed by Leana Hosea • Documentary • 2021 • 58 minutes • Bullfrog Films

Armed only with facts and their illnesses, extraordinary citizens take on industry and government, risking arrest to protect clean water.  From Flint, Michigan to the Navajo Nation, via Standing Rock, this is their story.  Thirst For Justice follows Janene Yazzie as she searches for the source of contamination in her son’s school’s water in Sanders, Arizona. She suspects drinking uranium contaminated …

RECENTLY ADDED: Titles added in the last two weeks

— Added Friday, September 29, 2023
Directed by Mark Cousins • Documentary • With Mark Cousins • 2022 • 167 minutes • Music Box

A decade after The Story of Film: An Odyssey, an expansive and influential inquiry into the state of moviemaking in the 20th century, filmmaker Mark Cousins returns with an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe. In The Story of Film: A New Generation, Cousins turns his sharp, meticulously honed gaze on world cinema from 2010 to 2021, using a surprising range of works … More

— Added Thursday, September 28, 2023
Directed by Jagoda Szelc • Drama • With Anna Krotoska, Malgorzata Szczerbowska • 2017 • 107 minutes • Yellow Veil Pictures

A protective woman has raised her young niece in the countryside as her own daughter. When her sister suddenly returns, it triggers a sense that she may be back to reclaim her offspring or to implement even more ominous plans. "A relentless aural experience." —Film Threat

— Added Thursday, September 28, 2023
Directed by Jagoda Szelc • Drama • With Zuzanna Lit, Anna Biernacik • 2018 • 108 minutes • Yellow Veil Pictures

A group of hotel interns wake up in an ice-cold van. They don't know each other yet, and have just arrived to do their internships. The strict manager of the hotel numbers the students: real names are not relevant, there is no place for individuality here. As they work through green-lit corridors and empty rooms, things become increasingly eerie. What exactly is going on here?

— Added Friday, September 22, 2023
Directed by Mark Cousins • Documentary • With Terence Davies, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Campion, Baz Luhrmann, Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant • 2012 • 61 minutes • Music Box

In the final part of The Story of Film: An Odyssey, movies come full circle. They get more serious after 9/11, and Romanian movies come to the fore, followed by David Lynch's Mulholland Drive becoming one of the most complex dream films ever made and Inception turning film into a game. In Moscow, master director Alexander Sokurov talks exclusively about his innovative films and then there's a surprise: … More

— Added Friday, September 22, 2023
Directed by Mark Cousins • Documentary • With Terence Davies, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Campion, Baz Luhrmann, Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant • 2012 • 61 minutes • Music Box

This is the story of the brilliant, flashy, playful movies in the English-speaking world in the 90s. We look at what was new in Tarantino's dialogue and the edge of the Coen brothers. The writer of Starship Troopers and Robocop talks exclusively about their irony. In Australia, Baz Luhrmann talks about Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge and we plunge into the digital world to see how it changed the movies … More

— Added Friday, September 22, 2023
Directed by Mark Cousins • Documentary • With Terence Davies, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Campion, Baz Luhrmann, Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant • 2012 • 61 minutes • Music Box

Few saw it coming, but cinema around the world in the 90s entered a golden age. The story starts in Iran, where we meet Abbas Kiarostami, who rethought movie making and made it more real. Then we meet Shinya Tsukamoto, who laid the ground for the bold new Japanese horror cinema. From Tokyo, the story moves to Paris where one of the world's greatest directors, Claire Denis, talks exclusively about … More

— Added Friday, September 22, 2023
Directed by Mark Cousins • Documentary • With Terence Davies, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Campion, Baz Luhrmann, Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant • 2012 • 61 minutes • Music Box

With Ronald Reagan in the White House and Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, the 1980s were the years of protest in the movies. This is the story of how brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American independent director John Sayles talks exclusively about these years. In Beijing we discover the blossoming of Chinese cinema before the Tian'anmen crackdown. In the Soviet Union, the past wells up … More

— Added Friday, September 22, 2023
Directed by Mark Cousins • Documentary • With Terence Davies, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jane Campion, Baz Luhrmann, Lars von Trier, Gus Van Sant • 2012 • 61 minutes • Music Box

Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist created the multiplexes, but they were also innovative. The Story of Film: Part 11 explains how, and then travels to India where the world's most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new things in the 70s. And we discover that Bruce Lee movies in Hong Kong kickstarted the kinetic films of Hong Kong, where Master Yuen Wo Ping talks exclusively … More

— Added Friday, September 22, 2023
Directed by Marité Ugas • Drama • With Baldomero Cáceres, Miguel Dávalos • 2020 • 93 minutes • Pragda Films

Aldo (Baldomero Cáceres) is an aging, self-proclaimed prophet who lost a sense of meaning in his life—until Gabriel (Miguel Dávalos), a young follower who idolizes Aldo and still believes in his teachings, tracks him down and encourages him to return to preaching. As Aldo reflects on his identity as a fraud and contemplates returning to his spiritual mission, Gabriel embraces his role as young … More

— Added Thursday, September 21, 2023
Directed by Dario Doria • Animation • 2020 • 69 minutes • Pragda Films

A film as necessary as it is beautiful, Vicenta explores the struggle for the right to a legal, safe, and free abortion. Through small clay figurines and live-action news clips, the documentary narrates the real human rights story of Vicenta, an illiterate working-class woman who cleans houses for a living. During a visit to the doctor, Vicenta discovered that her teenage daughter Laura, who is … More