Mermaid(2018)

I Needed Color(en)

Jim Carrey exhibits his talent as a painter and reflects on the value and power of art.

Vanilla(pt)

Look around. Everything you see and touch can taste like vanilla.

Alain Mimoun(fr)

A documentary about French marathon runner Alain Mimoun at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.

IX Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1964(de)

A documentary on the 1964 Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria.

Olympic Spirit(en)

A documentary covering the 1980 Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid.

Kid City(en)

Documentarian Jon Boorstin follows architect Frank Gehry and his sister, Doreen Gehry Nelson, as they attempt a new method of teaching elementary school children in Los Angeles. With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the siblings work together on a pilot program of “design-based learning” that would restructure the typical classroom curriculum, replacing rote math or civics lessons with an imaginary city designed and built entirely by the students themselves. Restored in 2018 by the Academy Film Archive.

Lillehammer ’94: 16 Days of Glory(en)

A documentary covering the 1994 Olympic Games in Lillehammer.

Atlanta’s Olympic Glory(en)

A documentary covering the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

Olympic Glory(en)

A documentary covering the 1998 Olympic Games in Nagano, filmed for IMAX presentations.

Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory(en)

A documentary covering the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory(en)

A documentary covering the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

People, Hopes, Medals(de)

A documentary covering the 1960 Winter Olympic Games in Squaw Valley, California.

Stop for Bud(da)

Stop for Bud is Jørgen Leth's first film and the first in his long collaboration with Ole John. […] they wanted to "blow up cinematic conventions and invent cinematic language from scratch". The jazz pianist Bud Powell moves around Copenhagen -- through King's Garden, along the quay at Kalkbrænderihavnen, across a waste dump. […] Bud is alone, accompanied only by his music. […] Image and sound are two different things -- that's Leth's and John's principle. Dexter Gordon, the narrator, tells stories about Powell's famous left hand. In an obituary for Powell, dated 3 August 1966, Leth wrote: "He quite willingly, or better still, unresistingly, mechanically, let himself be directed. The film attempts to depict his strange duality about his surroundings. His touch on the keys was like he was burning his fingers -- that's what it looked like, and that's how it sounded. But outside his playing, and often right in the middle of it, too, he was simply gone, not there."

The Return of the Living Dead: The Decade of Darkness(en)

A look at the horror movies of the 1980's.

China Strikes Back(en)

Raw footage received from photographer Harry Dunham revealed never before seen images of Mao Tse-Tung and the Eighth Route Army, inspiring Frontier to collectively shape a new film from desperate images, and to refine its dialectic editing.

Hold on Tight(en)

A short documentary exploring the ways LGBT couples show affection, and how small interactions like holding hands in public can carry, not only huge personal significance, but also the power to create social change.

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)(en)

Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others.

Man in the Glass: The Dale Brown Story(en)

Born on Halloween, 1935, Dale Brown's fight for justice began the day his father walked out - two days before he was born. About how an overachiever from tiny Minot, North Dakota relentlessly fought his way to the top.

The Silence(en)

There are children. There are those who abuse them. And there are those who know, but never tell.

9000 Laps(fr)