Country: United States
Genre: Documentary
Long before OReilly and Beck Morton Downey Jr. was tearing up the talk-show format with his divisive populism. Between the fistfights rabid audience and Morts cigarette smoke always in your face The Morton Downey Jr. Show was billed as 3-D television rock and roll without the music. Évocateur meditates on the hysteria that ended the 80s and ultimately its most notorious...
Country: Canada
Genre: Documentary
Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of todays most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singers thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the...
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Comedy
The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy Shephard Fairey Invader and many of the worlds most infamous graffiti artists at...
Country: United States, Australia
Genre: Documentary
100 pounds overweight loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldnt end well- with one foot already in the grave the other wasnt far behind. FAT SICK & NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary
Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandoras Box an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattans Fifth Avenue where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients usually masked are interviewed as well. Then the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rubber wrestling corporal punishment masochism and...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, History
Tells the story of the Kung Fu sub-culture from its ancient Peking Opera origins to its superhero-powered future. From Enter the Dragon to Kung Fu Panda and everything in between Films of Fury features the genres greatest on-screen warriors and reveals the legend the lore and the loony of the Kung Fu film genre like it has never been seen...
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