Haiku On A Plum Tree and Filmworker
Another News Story
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Orban Wallace)
A documentary about journalists sent by their employers to the Mediterranean to cover the unfolding humanitarian tragedy.
All The Wild Horses
(Country: Ireland, Mongolia; Year: 2017; Director: Ivo Marloh)
A documentary about competitors in the Mongol Derby, the world's longest and toughest horse race.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Alexandra Dean; Writer: Alexandra Dean)
A documentary about the celebrated actress and inventor.
Brimstone And Glory
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Viktor Jakovleski)
A portrait of the National Pyrotechnics Festival in Tultepec.
Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Travis Wilkerson)
A documentary murder mystery about the filmmaker's family, set in lower Alabama.
Rod Taylor: Pulling No Punches and Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Filmworker
(Year: 2017; Director: Tony Zierra)
Documentary about the working relationship between actor Leon Vitali and Stanley Kubrick.
Full Review
See:
Whit Stillman in conversation on his Stanley Kubrick, Barcelona, The Last Days Of Disco, Eyes Wide Shut, and Barry Lyndon connection
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Leon Vitali in conversation on Filmworker, Stanley Kubrick's love of animals, photography, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining twins
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Leon Vitali in conversation on Filmworker
Haiku On A Plum Tree
(Country: Italy, Japan; Year: 2016; Director: Mujah Maraini-Melehi)
The director reflects on the fate of her grandparents, who moved from Italy to Japan and were interned in a civilian prison camp after refusing to pledge their allegiance to Mussolini’s Republic of Salò.
Lots Of Kids, A Monkey And A Castle (Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Gustavo Salmerón)
Julita always wanted lots of kids, a monkey, and a castle. After finally realizing these wishes, however, her family loses their property in the economic crisis. But they have not lost the disarming ease and kindheartedness that mark their domestic squabbling.
Scotty And The Secret History Of Hollywood
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Matt Tyrnauer; Stars: Scotty Bowers)
Scotty Bowers talks about procuring sex for Golden Age Hollywood stars.
Another News Story and Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun?
That Summer
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Göran Olsson; Stars: Jackie Onassis, Lee Radziwill)
In summer 1972, photographer Peter Beard and Jackie Onassis' socialite sibling Lee Radziwill worked together on a film about her relatives and the sisters’ childhood in the Hamptons. The abandoned footage - some of it shot by Andy Warhol - has finally emerged.
This Is Congo
(Country: US, Congo; Year: 2017; Director: Daniel McCabe)
Documentary about conflict in the DRC.
