1. Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report (مهرجویی: کارنامه ۴۰ ساله)
Mehrjui: The Forty-Year Report dives into the artistic world of Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui. The film offers critical interpretations of his works from cinema experts, enriched with personal anecdotes from his peers.
2. Somewhere Between New York and LA
Since he was 18 years old, Blake Eckard has written and directed six feature length films in his hometown of Stanberry, Missouri . Aside from a short distribution deal in Canada and a few festival screenings, his movies have largely gone unseen.
3. Broadway Cinema: The Heart of Filmmaking in Nottingham
A short documentary about one of the best independent cinemas in the UK.
4. The Five Obstructions (De fem benspænd)
Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.
It has an average vote of 6.889 on TMDB.
5. The Longing of Michael Dudok de Wit (Het verlangen van Michael Dudok de Wit)
Michael Dudok de Wit was asked by the famous Japanese animation studio Ghibli, to create his first feature length animated film. This would be Ghibli's first international co-production ever. Maarten Schmidt and Thomas Doebele followed Dudok de Wit and his team during the complex creative process for over two years. He is a perfectionist that is used to making his own hand drawn animated films by himself. For this new and timely production, he was assisted by a team of 20 to 30 artists from all over Europe.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
6. Sex and Buttered Popcorn
Actor Ned Beatty hosts a look at the genre known as "exploitation" films. Interviews with some of the producers and directors of these films are shown, along with scenes from and trailers for some of these films.
It has an average vote of 4.333 on TMDB.
7. Beyond the mall (Más allá del mall)
Is there an audience for Latin American movies? These are some of the questions posed by an Ecuadorian filmmaker whose latest movie was a commercial flop. He embarks on a query to find answers to his questions and relief for his despair. His research leads him to a giant contraband market in the port city of Guayaquil, where pirated movies from all over the world are sold for one dollar each. Here, he discovers a number of Ecuadorian low budget movies produced by amateurs, with titles he had never heard of before: from action packed productions to evangelical melodramas.
It has an average vote of 7.667 on TMDB.
8. Kenneth Anger: Film as Magical Ritual (Kenneth Anger: Film als magisches Ritual)
Anger discusses his Aleister Crowley-inspired theories of art: How he views his camera like a wand and how he casts his films, preferring to consider his actors, not human beings but as elemental spirits. In fact, he reveals that he goes so far as to use astrology when making these choices. This is as direct an explanation of Anger’s cinemagical modus operandi as I have ever heard him articulate anywhere. It’s a must see for anyone interested in his work and showcases the Magus of cinema at the very height of his artistic powers. Fascinating.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
9. Survival of the Film Freaks
Survival of the Film Freaks is a documentary exploring the phenomenon of cult film in America and how it survives in the 21st Century. Through interviews and fan events, the documentary will trace decades of film fanaticism up to the present, where the 'digital age' has transformed the way we experience movies.
It has an average vote of 5.5 on TMDB.
10. Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
One-man armies, meet-cutes, casual strolls away from huge explosions — stars and industry insiders toast and roast these cinematic chestnuts and more.
It has an average vote of 6.03 on TMDB.
11. The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.
12. Inside High Noon Revisited
An updated version of John Mulholland’s making-of documentary that explores the remarkable 1952 film starring Gary Cooper, and the gripping story behind its troubled production. Though High Noon was originally seen as an attack on the blacklisting witch hunt gripping Hollywood at the time, it is now recognized as a damning portrait of civic complacency, democracy in peril. High Noon is today considered a classic of American cinema.
13. Toil And Trouble: Making 'Macbeth'
A new documentary on the Criterion Collection edition of Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation of Macbeth featuring interviews with the director, producer Andrew Braunsberg, assistant executive producer Victor Lownes, and actors Francesca Annis and Martin Shaw.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
14. Inside Story: National Lampoon's Vacation
A look at the making of the classic comedy film.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
15. Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
A look behind the scenes of Robert Zemeckis' 1994 Oscar-winning film, 'Forrest Gump'.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
16. The Water Is Finally Blue: The Untold Story of Robert Altman's O.C. and Stiggs
An in-depth oral history of the production and development history of Robert Altman's "O.C. and Stiggs," featuring commentaries from the film's cast and crew.
17. 8mm Boys
This coming-of-age memoir takes a candid look back on a group of struggling creatives isolated in the Appalachian Mountains. Three generations of perseverance is expressed through voice and creativity as families labor through mortality and heartbreak in this raw insight into the importance of community.
18. Alexeï Guerman, cinéaste bien interdit (Alexeï Guerman, cinéaste bien interdit)
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19. That Guy Dick Miller
Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has spanned almost 200 films across six decades, featuring a diverse range of interviews with directors, co-stars, and contemporaries.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
20. Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film
A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" .
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.