Cinema Now

Apr 8, 2022

0h 14m

★ 2.0

A meditation on cinema(s) as they currently are - dormant, towering meccas of film that once served (and will again serve) strangers, families and communities.

Overview

A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Self (voice)

Aidan McCarthy

Self (voice)

Amir Daftari

Self (voice)

Anais Marchand

Self (voice)

Andrea Waite

Self (voice)

Angela O'Driscoll

Self (voice)

Ben Connolly

Self (voice)

Bethany Thompson

Self (voice)

Carolina Plaza Briones

Self (voice)

Chantelle Brown

Self (voice)

Chris Belas

Self (voice)

Christiana Bingley

Self (voice)

Christopher David Freeman

Martin Scorsese’s electrifying concert documentary captures The Rolling Stones live at New York’s Beacon Theatre during their A Bigger Bang tour. Filmed over two nights in 2006 with an all-star team of cinematographers, the film combines dynamic performances with archival footage and rare glimpses behind the scenes, offering a vibrant portrait of the band’s enduring energy and legacy.

6.7

Counter Shot: Departure of the Filmmakers

Feb 14, 2008

Documentary about filmmakers of the New German Cinema who were members of the legendary Filmverlag für Autoren (Film Publishing House for Authors). Among them are Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Wim Wenders.

0.0

Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema

Dec 2, 1976

BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.

6.3

The China Odyssey: Empire of the Sun

Dec 30, 1987

Documentary about the making of director Steven Spielberg's film Empire of the Sun

7.8

Disclosure

Jun 19, 2020

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

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0.0

Omnibus: François Truffaut

Dec 2, 1973

No overview available.

8.5

Thelma & Louise: Born to Live

Apr 5, 2025

The story was born from the pen of debutante Callie Khouri: Thelma, married to a macho man, and Louise, an independent waitress, go on a girls' getaway that turns into a runaway when the latter, during a stopover in a bar, shoots a man who was trying to rape her friend. But at the dawn of the 1990s, screens were dominated by testosterone-fueled opuses, and Hollywood studios were reluctant to entrust the steering wheel to a female duo. Seduced by the script, forwarded by his associate Mimi Polk, Ridley Scott agreed to produce the film and decided, against all odds, to direct it himself. Under the British director's watch, the two accidental outlaws, fabulously portrayed by Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis, flee across the vastness of the Far West on an emancipatory epic that sees them defy male oppression and reveal themselves to themselves.

9.0

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

Oct 17, 2007

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba

0.0

To Paint With Pictures

Jan 1, 2005

Documentary about the making of Swedish film director Jan Troell's "The New Land" (1971) and "The Emigrants" (1972).

6.2

VHS Revolution

Aug 28, 2017

Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.

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0.0

Dance for All

Sep 22, 2007

No overview available.

0.0

Exergo

May 4, 2024

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrator unravels several stories related to the economic, social and psychological conditions of past and current artists.

0.0

Ciné regards: Tess: Roman Polanski

Sep 1, 1979

Television documentary about the making of Roman Polanski's 1979 film, Tess.

7.0

Mantrap – Straw Dogs: The Final Cut

Mar 8, 2003

Documentary about the making of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 film "Straw Dogs."

7.1

My Generation

Oct 8, 2017

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s swinging London.

5.0

Dog Days: The Making of 'Cujo'

Sep 1, 2007

Documentary about the making of the 1983 thriller "Cujo"

0.0

Off to School

Nov 21, 2025

In July of 2021 there was a flood of catastrophic scope in the Ahrtal Region of Germany. 135 people lost their lives and countless others lost their possessions, their homes, their most treasured mementos. Three years later the reconstruction is progressing slowly. This is an attempt at exploring, what it means to irretrievably lose a part of ones’ past.

10.0

Disney: Through the Looking Glass

Jan 11, 2010

Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about the alleged Spanish origin of the American cartoonist Walt Disney, making the same journey that his supposed mother made to give him up for adoption in Chicago. A journey that begins in Mojácar, Almería, Spain, and ends in New York. An exciting adventure, like Alicia's through the looking glass, to discover what is truth and what is not, with an unexpected result.

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0.0

Volvo City

Nov 4, 1991

Stamford Hill in North London is home to a community of 30,000 Hasidic Jews. Aiming to preserve a way of life they had in eighteenth century Poland and living strictly according to over 600 Biblical commandments brings them into conflict with modern life. They have embraced one aspect fully though, the Volvo Estate car.

7.2

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Oct 6, 2014

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.