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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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    Cast: Reika Kirishima

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: J. Hoberman

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  • 2015
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    Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

    Exploring the Set of 'Moonrise Kingdom'

    5.80 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Martin Scali

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Dan Stewart

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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".

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Vittorio Boarini

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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.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ray Harryhausen

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  • 2020
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    Making 'The Irishman'

    Making 'The Irishman'

    7.20 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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Martin Scorsese

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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.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Charlie Duke

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  • 2013
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    The Making of 'Nashville'

    The Making of 'Nashville'

    1 2013 HD

    Retrospective documentary on the making of Robert Altman's Nashville (1975).

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ronee Blakley

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  • 2010
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    Underworld: How it Came to Be

    Underworld: How it Came to Be

    1 2010 HD

    Documentary on the making of Josef von Sternberg's 'Underworld,' which launched the American gangster genre as we know it.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Janet Bergstrom

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Gerd Germünden

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Peter Lorre

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  • 2006
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    Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'

    Building the Inferno: Nobuo Nakagawa and the Making of 'Jigoku'

    6.00 2006 HD

    A new documentary on director Nobuo Nakagawa and the making of the film, Jigoku. Featuring exclusive interview with Nakagawa collaborators.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Yōichi Numata

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Ron Briley

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  • 2016
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    Shooting 'Blood Simple'

    Shooting 'Blood Simple'

    1 2016 HD

    Telestrator commentary and interview with Joel and Ethan Coen and Barry Sonnenfeld.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Joel Coen

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  • 2006
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    Fellini's Homecoming

    Fellini's Homecoming

    1 2006 HD

    A documentary created by the Criterion Collection for their release of Italian film director Federico Fellini's Amarcord about his relationship with...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Luigi 'Titta' Benzi

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Noah Baumbach

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  • 2009
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    CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution

    CHE and the Digital Cinema Revolution

    1 2009 HD

    CHE was the first feature to use the Red camera, which Soderbergh embraced for its versatility and image quality. This short 2009 documentary looks...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Steven Soderbergh

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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...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Tavi Gevinson

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  • 2020
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    Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies

    Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies

    8.00 2020 HD

    Time Travelers, a new documentary by Daniel Raim featuring interviews with John Bengtson and film historian Marc Wanamaker, reveals newly discovered...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Buster Keaton

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