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1988
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser6.80 1988 HD
A documentary film about the life of pianist and jazz great Thelonious Monk. Features live performances by Monk and his band, and interviews with...
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2012
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor
The Practice of Architecture: Visiting Peter Zumthor1 2012 HD
Architect Peter Zumthor lives and works in the remote village of Haldenstein in the Swiss Canton of Graubünden where he can keep the politics of...
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1985
Empire City
Empire City9.00 1985 HD
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political...
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2004
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney
The Cremaster Cycle: A Conversation with Matthew Barney1 2004 HD
For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures. Recently both the sculptures and the films...
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1978
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel7.40 1978 HD
Documentary examining the life and career of producer/director Roger Corman. Clips from his films and interviews with actors and crew members who...
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1990
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis8.00 1990 HD
"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh...
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1993
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros1 1993 HD
The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though Laurie...
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2012
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY3.80 2012 HD
A visit to the studio of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, a remarkable, if somewhat solitary German artist, who established his status at age 30, just before the...
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1981
Edith Head
Edith Head1 1981 HD
A light-hearted, toe-tapping portrait of the well-known 8 Oscar winning Hollywood costume designer filmed in her opulent house and garden. Edith Head...
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2012
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture1 2012 HD
Architects Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl have been friends for many years, brought together by their creativity, philosophy and visionary...
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1980
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush1 1980 HD
When Brooklyn's Kings Theater -- one of five "Wonder Theaters" in the New York area -- closed its doors in 1977, the neighborhood mourned. In a...
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1989
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects
Japan: 3 Generations of Avant-Garde Architects10.00 1989 HD
Japan's establishment as an economic superpower led to a Golden Age of Japanese architecture. Six innovators stand out particularly, fusing Japanese...
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1987
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact
Francis Bacon and the Brutality of Fact1 1987 HD
In his London studio, Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester. His representations of the human figure in portraits and...
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2004
A Day with Zaha Hadid
A Day with Zaha Hadid1 2004 HD
While guiding us through her retrospective exhibition “Zaha Hadid Has Arrived”, the renowned architect recalls her career from its...
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1994
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy
Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy6.00 1994 HD
American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's...
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1999
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language1 1999 HD
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...
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1975
Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein1 1975 HD
In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada,...
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1980
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers1 1980 HD
Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of...
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1990
Arata Isozaki II: International Projects
Arata Isozaki II: International Projects1 1990 HD
Through a blend of Japanese history and Western influence, Arata Isozaki has built a career around his boldly distinctive architectural style....
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2005
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression2.00 2005 HD
Crewdson is observed and questioned closely during his work on ten new images in as many different sets.