Serge Toubiana spent a year in the company of Isabelle Huppert. Wherever she went he followed, including prepping for a theatre production of Medea, doing promo work at Cannes, posing for photo shoots, as well behind the scenes footage of Huppert working with Claude Chabrol on Merci Pour le Chocolat’ and Michael Haneke on The Piano Teacher.
Category: Documentary
Canadian documentary filmmakers Janis Lundman and Adrienne Mitchell, over the course of a year, gathered footage of five very different 16-year-old girls, who each offered her own views on a range of topics relevant to adolescents. Collecting the girls’ most intimate viewpoints on relationships, substance abuse, their families and their aspirations, Lundman and Mitchell offer a poignant look at the hopes and fears of young women at the brink of adulthood.
A global television revolution is underway. Who controls what audiences tune into? At the moment, the reality is that two or three in New York or L.A. can impose their views on the world more forcefully than any politician. Distress Signals takes a penetrating look at the business of marketing television world-wide.
Documentary about the enemies, friends, and family of adult film icon John C. Holmes and their memories of him. It discusses the creation of the Johnny Wadd film series directed by Bob Chinn. It also covers the romantic relationships of John Holmes with first wife Sharon Holmes and his second wife, the porn actress Misty Dawn. It also covers how he groomed, sexually molested, and trafficked a 15 year old child, Dawn Schiller. Finally, it covers Eddie Nash and Wonderland murders, as well as Holmes’ death from AIDS.
Method Man follows the lives of five strippers living in five different states. More than a voyeuristic trek between strip clubs, the film is an insightful, intimate look at the everyday lives of strippers.
CONTRARY WARRIORS chronicles the Crow Indians’ century-long battle for survival. In spite of every effort by the U.S. government to assimilate the people and acquire tribal land, the Crows’ have persisted — their language, family and culture intact. They continue to live on their ancestors’ land in what is now southeastern Montana, but like tribes everywhere, the Crows’ future is a high-risk gamble.
Japan, 1986. At the tail end of the world tour promoting their latest album Revenge, Eurythmics tops the charts. Between concerts, pop duo Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart survey Japan’s cultural soundscape with the help of Conny Plank: A world of sounds both brutally technological and highly refined by tradition.
At Montauk, on the eastern tip of Long Island, a territory of romantic landscapes, Eric Dahan visits Paul Morrissey in his retreat. The numerous views of the ocean seem to metaphorize the form of the documentary, which is constructed as a layering of the continuous flow of the filmmaker’s words, images from his films—’Trash’ (1970), ‘Forty Deuce’ (1982), or ‘Mixed Blood’ (1985)—and a tour of his home.