Catalog Search Results
Series
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood Signs is the documentary that celebrates autograph collecting, collectors, and our obsession with celebrities. It focuses on autograph dealing, the history of the autograph, autograph conventions, celebrities' point of view, and, of course, the folks whose lives revolve around autographs. Hollywood Signs is a love letter to a world with characters you definitely don't see every day.
Series
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
YOU CAN'T KILL MEME follows a filmmaker's three year descent into the anonymous internet underworld, tracking the spread of an insidious strain of extremist occult magic. While investigating the influence of online misinformation on the 2016 election, the filmmaker infiltrates the shadowy corners of Internet forums 4chan and Reddit. There, she learns of the book Memetic Magic, a field manual for conjuring "thought viruses" capable of sowing global...
Series
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
25 years after making El Mariachi for only $7,000, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez recreates the experience with micro-budget indie Red 11, this time documenting his process to teach other artists how they can make their dreams a reality.
Series
Publisher
Gravitas
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-one year old Ben is following his TV-obsessed Dad to explore how television consumption has evolved from one generation to the next. Television used to bring people together. Does television now fragment us as a culture? Nominated for Best Documentary at **New York City International Film Festival**, **Los Angeles CineFest**, and **WorldFest Houston**.
Series
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Follows the rise of the sports card industry, becoming a place for people to become millionaires overnight and showcases how a piece of cardboard can turn into a $1M+ investment by simply adding an athlete's face and signature to it.
Series
Publisher
Cineverse
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
25 years after making El Mariachi for only $7,000, filmmaker Robert Rodriguez recreates the experience with micro-budget indie Red 11, this time documenting his process to teach other artists how they can make their dreams a reality.
10) A Song For You
Series
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From Willie Nelson to Wilco, Ray Charles to Radiohead, A SONG FOR YOU: AUSTIN CITY LIMITS offers the ultimate backstage pass and front row seat to 40 years of incredible music from the longest running music show in TV history. Official Selection at the **SXSW Film Festival**. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the **Nashville Film Festival.** "*This stem-to-stern look at the institution centered in the "Live Music Capital of the World" traces the...
Series
Publisher
Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When the world-renowned cultural and political theorist Stuart Hall died in 2014, he left behind an unfinished 300,000-word memoir. In this interview with MEF Executive Director Sut Jhally, Bill Schwarz talks about the challenges of preparing the final published book, detailing his negotiations and conversations with the disembodied words of an author who cherished dialogue above all else.
12) Art of the Prank
Series
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This documentary is about New York artist Joey Skaggs, the godfather of the media hoax. Famed for such media fictions as the Celebrity Sperm Bank, the Cathouse for Dogs, the Fat Squad, and Portofess, all reported as fact by prestigious journalists, he's one of America's greatest living satirists. When Skaggs decides to pull off the most demanding hoax of his career, filmmaker Andrea Marini gets a unique view into the mind of this most unconventional...
13) Doctor Who Am I
Series
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Infamous Doctor Who screenwriter, Matthew Jacobs, is reluctantly dragged back into the American 'Whoniverse' to face the fandom that brutally rejected his work 25 years earlier.
Series
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A Pope John Paul II lollipop. An Elvis Presley shower curtain. A Princess Diana teacup. These are just some of the countless pieces of memorabilia that these pop culture icons' most devoted fans collect and cherish - but why? Director Annie Berman, explores the deep veneration and legacies of the Pope, the Princess, and the King. Over the course of 20 years, Berman profiles these figures' biggest fans and makes numerous pilgrimages to Vatican City,...
15) Claydream
Series
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Known as the "Father of Claymation," Will Vinton revolutionized the animation business during the 1980s and 90s, creating such iconic characters as the California Raisins and Domino's The Noid. But after thirty years of being the unheralded king of clay, Vinton's carefully sculpted American dream came crumbling down. Structured around interviews with this charismatic pioneer and his close collaborators, along with a treasure trove of clips of their...
Series
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Documentary tracing the development and production of the mini-series '"Lonesome Dove" (1989), from Larry McMurtry's novel of the same name. Stars Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones, among others, described the circumstances of filming, and director Simon Wincer comments on the adaptation of the novel. Others from the crew, including wranglers and stuntmen, describe some of the difficulties of this massive project.
Series
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A feature length conversation between noted film critics Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall covering the state of television and the legendary show "The Sopranos." Based on the New York Times bestseller "The Sopranos Sessions."
Series
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When an out-of-work actor discovers through Facebook that he's been wildly famous in Serbia for almost two decades, he sets out to discover why. This film examines how Rob Stewart became a symbol of freedom for non-violent Serbian protests through his role as Nick Slaughter on CBS's Tropical Heat (aka Sweating Bullets). Stewart's Serbian visit, dubbed "Slaughtermania" by the national press, uncovers the surprising meaning behind the show's popularity,...
20) Darkon
Series
Publisher
SeeThink Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The 2006 cult-hit documentary DARKON covers an epic war raging through the realm of Darkon (an American LARP). Skip Lipman, a suburban stay-at-home dad leads his rebel army in a monumental quest to topple a mighty empire and lead the Realm to new era of liberty and glory. A beloved adventure in the quirky imaginations of suburban Americans, DARKON investigates the LARPers lives in the game and out of the game offering insight into our complex relationship...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try submitting a purchase suggestion. Submit Request