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  • 2020
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    'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

    'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War

    1 2020 HD

    Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the...

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  • 2015
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    Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

    Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

    6.50 2015 HD

    Martin Scali, who was Wes Anderson's assistant on "Fantastic Mr. Fox", shot this short documentary in Newport, Rhode Island, during the filming of...

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  • 2020
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    Making 'The Irishman'

    Making 'The Irishman'

    7.00 2020 HD

    Join legendary director Martin Scorsese, and acting icons Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino going behind the scenes of their universally...

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  • 2004
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    Vitellonismo

    Vitellonismo

    7.00 2004 HD

    A look at the making of Federico Fellini's "I Vitelloni".

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  • 2008
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    Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

    Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

    7.00 2008 HD

    Documentary about the technical achievements of the 1940 film classic The Thief of Bagdad.

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  • 2018
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    Weimar on the Pacific

    Weimar on the Pacific

    1 2018 HD

    In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar...

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  • 2010
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    Tadao Sato on Ozu's The Only Son

    Tadao Sato on Ozu's The Only Son

    1 2010 HD

    Documentary and interview with Japanese film critic and scholar Tadao Sato about Yasujiro Ozu film The Only Son.

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  • 2013
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    Functions of Film Sound

    Functions of Film Sound

    1 2013 HD

    This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and...

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  • 2021
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    Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'

    Beautified Realism: The Making of 'Flowers of Shanghai'

    1 2021 HD

    A new documentary by Daniel Raim and Eugene Suen on the making of "Flowers of Shanghai," featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Mark...

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  • 2015
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    A Physical History of 'M'

    A Physical History of 'M'

    1 2015 HD

    This documentary traces the "physical history" of Fritz Lang’s M, from its production and original distribution to the digital restoration used...

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  • 2013
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    Living 'Lord of the Flies'

    Living 'Lord of the Flies'

    1 2013 HD

    Actor Tom Gaman (Simon) narrates some 8mm movies shot during the film's three-month production and shares memories of working on the movie during his...

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  • 2019
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    Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd'

    Ron Briley on 'A Face in the Crowd'

    1 2019 HD

    In this interview, shot by the Criterion Collection in 2018, Ron Briley, author of 'The Ambivalent Legacy of Elia Kazan: The Politics of the...

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  • 2017
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    Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts

    Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts

    1 2017 HD

    Filmed in Los Angeles in August 2017, director Donna Deitch, cinematographer Robert Elswit and production designer Jeannine Oppewall discuss their...

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  • 2020
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    Miranda July: Where it Began

    Miranda July: Where it Began

    1 2020 HD

    In this documentary, produced in 2019, director Miranda July and filmmaker Lena Dunham explore July’s beginnings, including her early work as a...

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  • 2019
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    Ozu & Noda

    Ozu & Noda

    6.00 2019 HD

    A new documentary by Daniel Raim on Yasujiro Ozu's relationship with longtime screenwriter Kogo Noda.

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  • 2019
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    On Camera: Fifteen Apollo Astronauts and Their Experience of a Lifetime

    On Camera: Fifteen Apollo Astronauts and Their Experience of a Lifetime

    1 2019 HD

    A collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts.

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  • 2021
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    Undressing a Legacy

    Undressing a Legacy

    1 2021 HD

    In this interview, conducted in spring 2021, scholar Nick Rees-Roberts traces the influence of La Piscine on the worlds of film and fashion in the...

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  • 2009
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    André Gregory and Wallace Shawn

    André Gregory and Wallace Shawn

    1 2009 HD

    In this hour-long piece, recorded in 2009, filmmaker Noah Baumbach talks with his friends the writer-actors André Gregory and Wallace Shawn...

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  • 2022
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    Making of Drive My Car

    Making of Drive My Car

    1 2022 HD

    Program about the making of the film, featuring behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with actors Reika Kirishima, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki...

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  • 2018
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    Strange Magic

    Strange Magic

    1 2018 HD

    Writer and Rookie editor in chief Tavi Gevinson explores THE VIRGIN SUICIDES through the lens of adolescence, suicide, and memory. It features...

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