Sister Belladonna
Sister Gloria
In this revealing documentary, Ken McMullen creates an elegant portrait of artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman, based on an interview conducted by John Cartwright. The questions are unobtrusive, allowing Jarman to reflect on his major films. Despite the debilitating effects of serious illness, we see an artist with his inner vision unimpaired; still humorous, self effacing and disarmingly charming.
10.0A gentle and confused home movie in search of a lost space - my grandmother's garden, where I spent my childhood. There is nothing to testify to that place and my time there. There are memories pollinated by the pollen of garden poppies the warmth of my hands, toiling in the sunshine and the stories of adults about the big world. Summer, reveries, childhood, prejudices, the realities of the noughties, a small town - shimmering images that can never manifest, but endlessly manifest themselves. The intimate experience is torn by externalised reality: the formerly Latin poppy becomes a threat to gardeners and gardeners, bugs represent terror and flowers represent death.
0.0On the road documentary with Prince and the New Power Generation during their 2004 Musicology tour from the west coast Los Angeles' House of Blues to the east coast's Madison Square Garden in New York City with press stops along the way and behind the scenes concert footage.
6.0A playwright Iran tries to confront a creative crisis while political clashes erupt during her country's 2009 election.
Documenting the rebuilding of Potsdam one year after the war under Soviet supervision.
Tells the story of Tucson and the legendary movies that were shot there.
0.0Quadrophenia: Our Generation documents the making of the film and, with the help of cast members and celebrity fans, examines its legacy and place in British pop culture.
0.0The inspiring story of three law students from the South Pacific who join a movement to bring climate change before the International Court of Justice via the UN. Their goal: to save their home islands from destruction.
Interview with critic Molly Haskell about Hawks and Red River
0.0Bütler’s film is the first documentary to tell the story of the great artist Ferdinand Hodler, a huge national figure in Swiss art history. Born in 19th Century Bern, Hodler was an orphan whose painting of Wilhelm Tell has become an iconic piece of Swiss art. Prominent contributors such as writer Peter Bichsel and artist Rudolf Schindler comment on what makes Hodler’s pictures so iconic. Enlightening, moving and far removed from any clichés, the film explains the great themes of Hodler’s work – man, nature, love and death – and takes a fascinating journey into an artistic and very contemporary world.
0.0While the children are enjoying their summer holidays, Basri, 8, heads off to the Macedonian mountains to join his brothers. They are the shepherds of hundreds of sheep, helped by huge dogs that protect them from wolves. For Basri, it's freedom, while his teenage brothers dream of elsewhere.
6.7Behind the glitz of Miss Italia, director Patrizia Mirigliani fights to save the iconic pageant, now wavering amid scandals and changing beauty standards.
8.2When troubled teen Ray Klonsky began writing letters to prison inmate David McCallum, both of their lives changed forever. Hundreds of letters later, Ray graduated from university determined to set his wrongly convicted friend free.
8.5A short essay on the hidden realities beneath the surface of Shanghai.
6.8Several comic greats pay tribute to the legendary stand-up stage founded by Budd Friedman in 1963.
7.5This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.
The untold story of a Royal "propagandist in pearls" whose wartime friendship with President Roosevelt became a vital catalyst to win back freedom for her tiny occupied country.