Documentary portrait of writer and performer Spalding Gray, tracing his journey from his Rhode Island childhood to his rise as a celebrated monologist. Through interviews, performance excerpts, and reflections, it explores how he transformed personal experience into art. The film highlights his distinctive storytelling style—wry, confessional, and deeply human—revealing the creative process behind his acclaimed stage works.
Category: TV Movie
French Beauty is a 70-minute documentary exploring the idea of femininity in French cinema. Through interviews with iconic actresses such as Brigitte Bardot, Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve and others, interwoven with film clips, fashion imagery, and archival footage, the film investigates how beauty is constructed, perceived, and performed. It considers what it means to be a “French beauty” — the tension between private identity and public image, the implications of being nude on screen, loss of privacy, and how the star system and couture contribute to, and exploit, these ideals.
Set in the refined world of the Jugendstil era, Die schwarze Katze tells the story of a man whose seemingly stable life begins to crumble under the weight of obsession, guilt, and drink. His once gentle affection for animals turns into tormenting fear, embodied by a mysterious black cat that seems to haunt his every step. Blending psychological tension with gothic elegance, Karl-Heinz Kramberg’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale explores how madness and conscience can entwine—until the boundary between reality and nightmare vanishes.
In this modern adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, a lonely man in Munich becomes obsessed with an old man’s strange, pale eye, which seems to torment his every thought. His fixation drives him to commit a carefully planned murder. Shot in stark black and white, the film captures the descent of a rational mind into paranoia and insanity.
Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner.
The touching portrayal of a young mother (and dance student) who travels to California after the death of her husband. In order to pay the bills she takes up burlesque dancing. To her dismay, the club she works at is sold to new owners who transform it into a hardcore strip club, where the dancers must bare all. Reluctantly, she performs. Unfortunately, a photographer hired by her father-in-law is in the audience, who snaps some naughty pics of her performing. He uses these to try and get custody of his grandson.
Someone Else’s Country looks critically at the radical economic changes implemented by the 1984 Labour Government — where privatisation of state assets was part of a wider agenda that sought to remake New Zealand as a model free-market state. The trickle-down ‘Rogernomics’ rhetoric warned of no gain without pain, and here the theory is counterpointed by the social effects (redundant workers, Post Office closures). Made by Alister Barry in 1996 when the effects were raw, the film draws extensively on archive footage and interviews with key “witnesses to history”.