Film Category: Thematic

Last Man Standing
Paul Stekler

If the Texas politics of George W. Bush seem to be the blueprint for success in Washington these days, what are they like back in…

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LBJ
David Grubin

LBJ, a biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson, tells the sprawling story of one of the nation’s most controversial presidents, whose political career spanned the Great…

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The Gleaners and I
Agnès Varda

A personal journey through unscreened corners of France, from farm fields and vineyards to city markets, the film addresses the topic of gleaning, or the…

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Looking for Richard
Al Pacino

Al Pacino conceived, directed, and starred in this comedy/documentary of Shakespeare on the street, that is, his and his fellow actors’ enthusiastic, outrageous attempts to…

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Louisiana Story
Robert Flaherty

The first time John Grierson used the term “documentary” was in reference to Moana, thus defining a new type of filmmaking made famous four years…

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The Old Place
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville

A filmmaker who digs deep to get at truths and has revolutionized the possibilities for the makers of moving images as much as Pollock did…

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Paradox Lake
Przemyslaw Reut

Highly original and impossible to classify, the film dares to plunge into the world of autism, in a verité-style study of the experience of a…

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Return to the Edge of the World
Michael Powell

A sea-faring nation, Britain produced films of its fishermen and islanders as either documentaries or dramas shot on location and mixing professionals and locals. In…

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Thirteen
David Williams

A true hybrid, Thirteen blends fiction and documentary to get at the heart of an adolescent 13-year-old girl in Virginia who suffers a crisis, withdraws,…

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From the Pole to the Equator
Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi

In the 1970s, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi began making films from early nitrate footage, reframing shots and keeping the scratches and damaged bits.…

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