Films


The Loving Story
Nancy Buirski

A provocative chronicle of the groundbreaking civil rights battle of Richard and Mildred Loving, arrested for their interracial marriage in Virginia in 1958, whose case eventually went to the Supreme Court.

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Lower Ninth Ward
Lucia Small

A ten-minute assemblage of tracking shots captures a shattered New Orleans neighborhood in the early morning mist. Each of the caved-in houses and crushed objects…

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Luber Aloft
Anna-Lydia Florin

This stunningly photographed film captures the various works of Swiss artist Heinrich Lüber, for whom the world is a museum. Rather than set up his…

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Lucille and Melvin (excerpt)
Ross McElwee

Lucille Safford and her husband, Melvin, worked for my family for many years in Charlotte, N.C.—she as a housekeeper, he as a yardman. Lucille and…

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Lucio
Aitor Arregi, Jose Mari Goenaga

This film makes me hear the Clash singing, “daddy was a bankrobber, but he was a good man.” Serious and playful, fast paced and brilliant,…

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The Luckiest Nut in the World
Emily James

Not a talking head movie, but a singing nut movie. Witty, clever, and enlightening, The Luckiest Nut in the World whisks the viewer around the…

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Lucy Tsak Tsak
Andrey Paounov

Three minutes of pure joy for any film buff. This film memorializes a woman who has worked for 30 years in front of the camera,…

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Luis & I
Roger Gómez, Dani Resines

The wife of a human cannonball describes their life in the circus and the ways their love has endured decades of this itinerant lifestyle.

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Luke: A Tribute to Fred
Frank Easts, Jr.

A film about Fred Wolfe, 85-year-old brother of author Thomas Wolfe, whose personality and lifestyle were depicted through the character Luke Gant in his brother’s…

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Lumo
Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt, Nelson Walker III

Lumo is a young woman in the Masisi District of Democratic Republic of Congo. Like many women in the area, she suffers from fistula, a…

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Luther: Never Too Much
Dawn Porter

Few icons can be identified by their first name alone. Dawn Porter’s engaging film Luther: Never Too Much pays homage to one such rare figure…

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Luther: Never Too Much
Dawn Porter

Luther: Never Too Much, the documentary film, chronicles the story of a vocal virtuoso. Using a wealth of rarely seen archives, Luther tells his own story with assistance from his closest friends and musical collaborators including Mariah Carey, Dionne Warwick, Valerie Simpson, and Roberta Flack. The film relives the many stunning moments of Luther’s musical career, while exploring his unrequited love life, health struggles, and a lifelong battle to earn the respect his music deserved.

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Ma Bar
Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall

“Losing,” says 73-year-old Bill McFadyen, a Scottish competitive powerlifter who can bench-press over 350 pounds, “I don’t tolerate.”  Ma Bar is McFadyen’s war cry as…

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Made in Italy
Fabio Wuytack

A whimsical Belgian filmmaker discovers a Lumière brothers’ film circa 1897. That silent film shows the old railroad that was used to transport marble from…

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The Magic Life of V
Tonislav Hristov

In the wake of a traumatic childhood, Veera turns to live action role-playing as a method of empowerment and escape. This luminous Nordic film accompanies her into wondrous worlds, the most uncanny of which may ultimately be her own.

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Magic Trip
Alex Gibney, Allison Ellwood

Join Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters on their legendary, drug-fueled bus adventure across the country in 1964.

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Magnetic Reconnection
Kyle Armstrong

The Canadian Arctic is the terrestrial, and extraterrestrial, setting for a contemplative survey of transience, from generations-old decay to fleeting particles of light.

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The Magnificent Ambersons
Orson Welles

Orson Welles’s adaptation of Booth Tarkington’s novel about the fall of an “old money” Indianapolis family at the turn of the century resulting in part…

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