Description: Drawing upon recently declassified documents, archival footage and behind-the-scenes interviews, "Wonders Are Many: The Making of 'Doctor Atomic'" chronicles the creation of the monumental opera based on the mysterious and paradoxical “father of the atomic bomb,” Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, as his squad prepares to detonate the world’s first atomic weapon.
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Description: Splinters is the first feature-length documentary movie about the evolution of indigenous surfing in the developing nation of Papua Fresh Guinea. In the 1980s an intrepid Australian pilot left behind a surfboard in the seaside village of Vanimo. Twenty years on, surfing is not only a pillar of village life but also a means to prestige. With no access to economic or educational advancement, allow alone running water and power, village life is hermetic. A spot on the Papua Fresh Guinea national surfing squad is the method to see the wider world; the only way.
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Description: A documentary about former Major League Baseball player, Bill "The Spaceman" Lee. Lee was the ultimate gonzo player, a brilliant left handed pitcher who defied each manager or front office executive who tried to control him. The fanatics loved him and so did sportswriters who delighted in asking the usual baseball questions, only to receive philosophical responses involving the relationship between existentialism and the curveball or the results of karma on a pitcher's rotator cuff.
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Description: A movie featuring the veteran soul melody artists and melody of Stax Records.
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Description: One of the most necessary figures in contemporary cinema, Pedro Costa's celebrated melody documentary is a mesmerizing portrait of French actress-turned-singer Jeanne Balibar, a transfixing, cigarette-smoking chanteuse with an intense devotion to her craft. Photographed in shimmering black-and-white and featuring a soundtrack of jazz-inflected pop songs, the movie is a luminous exploration of the constructive process.
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Description: Eat This Fresh York is the storyline of two greatest friends' struggle to launch a restaurant in the meal capital of the world. As Billy Phelps and John McCormick suffer through financial crisis, the loss of their chef, and a crumbling relationship, the filmmakers turn the camera on Fresh York City's legendary restaurateurs who prove that dreams can come true. Billy and John's gamble to launch a restaurant together takes shape on Division Street, a special block in Brooklyn that separates the Satmar Jewish community of Williamsburg from the Latino neighborhood of the South Side. During the course of a year, they convert a former check-cashing store located under the elevated train tracks of the J/M/Z subway lines into a retro speakeasy. But before the restaurant is totally built they come close to bankruptcy and almost call it quits on their friendship.
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Description: The simplified black-and-white documentary challenges the viewer to hear the storyline of the Sahrawi people.
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Description: Says few stories of sex work around the world. The documentary revolves around the lives and individual hopes, needs and experiences of the women.
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Description: Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo' goes behind prison walls to follow convict cowgirls on their adventure to the 2007 Oklahoma State Penitentiary Rodeo. In 2006, female inmates were allowed to participate for the first time. In a state with the highest female incarceration rate in the country, these girls share common experiences such as broken homes, drug abuse and alienation from their children. Since 1940, the Oklahoma State Penitentiary has held an annual 'Prison Rodeo'. Part Wild West present and part coliseum-esque spectacle, it's one of the last of its type - a relic of the American penal system. Prisoners compete on wild-broncs and bucking bulls, risking life-long injuries. For inmates like Danny Liles, a 14-year veteran of the rodeo, the possibility to war livestock offers a brief respite from prison life. Within this strange arena the prisoners become the heroes while the public and guards applaud
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Description: A group of documentary filmmakers chronicle the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
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Description: An average guy makes a resolution to stop using plastic bags at the grocery store. Tiny does he know that this easy decision will change his life completely. He comes to the conclusion that our consumptive test of plastic has finally caught up to us, and looks at what we can do about it. Today. Right now.
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Description: Three-part series exploring Australia's Nice Barrier Reef, one of the natural wonders of the globe and the biggest living structure on our planet. Monty Halls explores its full 2000-kilometre length, from the wild outer reefs of the Coral Sea to the tangled mangrove and steaming rainforest on the shoreline; from huge mountainous islands to small coral cays barely above sea level; from the dark depths of the abyss beyond the reef to colorful coral gardens of the shallows.
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Description: The Nice Barrier Reef is vitally linked to the rest of the planet in many ways. Monsters travel for thousands of miles to visit in spectacular numbers, including tiger sharks, nice whales, sea birds and the biggest green turtle gathering on the planet.
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Description: For two years, director Anne Wivel and her camera followed her husband, the prominent Danish politician Svend Auken. The initial aim was to portray a modern, idealistic politician with nice visions for the future. But during shooting, Auken contracted cancer, and the movie became a portrayal of the politician, husband and father who feels his life is fading away, even if his work here is not yet finished.
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Description: A complex, insightful look at the Chicano experience as mirrored in the lives and melody of the most acclaimed Norteño musicians of the Texas-Mexican border, including Flaco Jimenez and Lydia Mendoza. Video contains premium feature, Del Mero Corazon.
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Description: A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose details chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtrack.
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Description: A joyous romp through the dance, food, music, friendship, and even religion of the Polka. The explosive energy and high spirits of the polka subculture are rendered with warmth and dedication to scholarship in this adventure through Polish-American celebrations. Polka stars like Jimmy Sturr, Eddie Blazonzyck and Walt Solek are featured.
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Description: Dawn breaks in La Habana, and as the day advances we follow the easy lives of ten ordinary Cubans, with only sounds and photos accompanied by music.
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Description: Thrilling musical portrait of Zydeco Lord Clifton Chenier, who combines the pulsating rhythms of Cajun dance melody and black R&B with African overtones, belting out his irresistible melody in the sweaty juke joints of South Louisiana.
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Description: A warmly amusing look at a bus-full of American tourists on a whirlwind tour of Europe. The eclectic soundtrack contains Mozart, Bob Dylan, Sandy Denny, Jonathan Richman, others.
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Description: This little-known Blank gem is a portrait of the Serbian-American communities of Chicago and California, highlighting their history in this country, their music, dancing and religion.
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Description: What happens when a dedicated husband and father quits his job, adopts the persona of a Western-Movie Singing Cowboy, takes on the whole art establishment (including Christo and Andy Warhol), and refuses to agree cash for his art ? Meet Gerry Gaxiola, AKA The Maestro, an ex-wage slave who gave up everything to create art for art's sake. The Maestro's storyline should inspire a entire fresh generation of Van Goghs.
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Description: The definitive movie on the history of the toe-tapping, foot-stomping melody of French Southwest Louisiana. Contains many Cajun and Zydeco greats, featuring Michael Doucet and Beausoleil, Clifton Chenier, Marc and Ann Savoy, D.L. Menard, and many others.
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Description: During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman's point is to search and bring to the U.S. the greatest hand picked and hand processed tea. This find takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmer's collectives selling tea, methods to export "boutique tea" from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming's greatest friend, the earthworm.
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Description: Virginia Creepers examines more than 50 years of tv horror hosting in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a reflection of a national cultural phenomenon. The movie not only documents shows and personalities but also the transformation of local tv programming from a breeding ground for homegrown talent and community involvement to its actual state as a corporate cookie cutter. It also documents the rise of the internet host, which began with Virginia's Count Gore De Vol.
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Description: As with the plot to frame Lee Harvey Oswald, the verdict on Robert Kennedy's murder was decided even before the situation went to court. A lone, deranged killer has everytime been the greatest method to explain away, and distract attention from, much more intricate conspiracies. This landmark documentary summarizes the greatest evidence that has ever emerged, contradicting the official storyline of Robert Kennedy's assassination. While sold by the corporate media as an launch and shut situation vs "Palestinian radical" Sirhan Sirhan, this riveting movie presents meticulously researched evidence, by few independent investigators, exposing outrageous procedure violations, blatant forgeries, and unexplained dismissals on the part of the authorities, revealing a world-class cover-up.
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Description: LSD: Trouble Kid and Wonder Drug captures the fascinating storyline of LSD as it is eloquently said by Dr. Albert Hofmann, the 100-year-old sage-scientist who brought LSD into the world. With interviews and presentations by Rick Doblin, Alex Grey, Ralph Metzner, Carl Ruck, Goa Gil, and others, this historic message from the father of LSD is a timeless relic and an instant source of inspiration. The storyline is said through an acc of the 2006 International LSD Conference in Basel, Switzerland. At the now-legendary conference, eighty speakers and two thousand participants gathered for three days in honor of Dr. Hofmann's 100th birthday and to hear Dr. Hofmann speak about his life, his discovery, and his thoughts on the psychedelic experience. It was also an opportunity for leading doctors, researchers, artists and thinkers in the psychedelic field to show their work.
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Description: TUPAC: ASSASSINATION II - RECKONING features the motive for murder in a follow-up to the award winning and critically acclaimed predecessor "Tupac: Assassination - Conspiracy or Revenge." RECKONING takes you into an unprecedented lvl of access regarding the life and death of Tupac Shakur. An emotional look at the loss felt by those closest to Shakur, the movie also explores the real legacy of the hip-hop icon: his influence on the youth of today and the work that still continues. Filled with intimate observations, humorous anecdotes and discussions only an artist as outspoken as Tupac should ever place forward, Tupac's inner circle - family and business associates who have refused to be interviewed for any documentary until actually - share notification of certain theories and place to rest others regarding those responsible for Tupac's death.
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Description: “Getting Up” is a movie about legendary L.A. graffiti artist Tony “Tempt” Quan who was diagnosed with ALS and became almost fully paralyzed. Through the test of some nice technology Tony is able to continue making art with the movement of his eyes.
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Description: Burzynski, the Film is the storyline of a medical doctor and Ph.D biochemist called Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly the most convoluted and intriguing legal war vs the Meal & Drug Administration in American history. His victorious wars with the United States government were centered around Dr. Burzynski's gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the 1970's named Antineoplastons, which have currently finished Phase II FDA-supervised clinical trials in 2009 and should start the final phase of FDA playing in 2011–barring the ability to raise the needed $300 million to fund the final phase of FDA clinical trials.
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Description: An intense insider's portrait of Fresh Orleans' road celebrations and special cultural gumbo: Second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Details live melody from Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers and more. This glorious, soul-satisfying movie is among Blank's unique masterworks.
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Description: For more than 30 years a boy by the name of Dick Proenneke lived alone in the Alaskan Bush. His only neighbors were the wolves and grizzly bears and his only transportation was his canoe and a nice set of legs. Through the years, Dick kept written journals of everyday life at Twin Lakes but would also document much of his journey on movie with his 16 mms Bolex camera. The Frozen North is Dick's own filmed acc of his life alone in this "One Man's Wilderness", produced from original footage not included in "Alone in the Wilderness" or "Alaska Silence & Solitude".
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Description: Documentary about British fashion designer Ozwald Boateng.
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Description: A documentary about extreme body modification implant artist, Steve Haworth. Through painful surgery and suspension from hooks, he does more with naked skin than a mere tattoo or piercing.
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Description: Profile of Kenneth Anger, looking at the uproar his ebooks on Hollywood scandals caused and journeying through the darker side of Hollywood's history, including movie clips, and Anger testing a tutorial with comedian Mike McShane testing the God of Hollywood. It also contains a look at some of Anger's own work.
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Description: A movie about the work of the artist most popular for her monuments such as the Vietnam Memorial Wall and the Civil Rights Fountain Memorial.
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Description: A Dutch family left Holland to transform a 400 year old monastery into a home, artist's workshop, and nature preserve. Filmed entirely in remote village in Portugal, Convento bends the rigid structure of documentary filmmaking, blurring the lines of notification and surrealism Featuring the renowned kinetic artist Christiaan Zwanikken and his family.
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Description: Chuck Wepner is a liquor salesman from Bayonne, N.J., who drives a Cadillac with “Champ” vanity plates. A former Fresh Jersey State Heavyweight Boxing Champion, he took abuse from Sonny Liston, got his nose broken by Muhammad Ali, and inspired Sylvester Stallone to write “Rocky” which won three Academy Awards. Wepner was left out of the “Rocky” glory, and his career took turn after strange turn as he worked to stay in the spotlight: he went on to war Andre the Giant as “The Assassin” and boxed a 900 pound bear. Twice.
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Description: Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental movie in America, taking the very private mission of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental movie community.
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Description: In this mesmerizing collage of silent Italian melodrama, found-footage filmmaker Peter Delpeut (Lyrical Nitrate) affectionately captures the spirit of the Globe Fight One-era cinema diva. In all-but-lost gems such as La donna nuda(1914), and Tigre reale (1916), superstars such as Lyda Borelli and Pina Menichelli portrayed heroines teetering dangerously between defiant indulgence in sexual passion and hysterical remorse at their own cruelties. Delpeut’s inventive celebration of Black Romanticism is both striking and heartbreaking in its composition—a beautifully woven narrative of tempted fate and self-torment, elegantly guided by Loek Dikker’s original score. Zeitgeist Movies is proud to show Delpeut’s stunningly experimental work in all its heaving bosomed, luridly tinted glory.
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