Subgenre Sampler
Documentary > Arts & Artists: 278 Films to Buy & Rent
Objectified (2009)
- Dir. Gary Hustwit
- Gary Hustwit’s follow–up to the superb typography documentary HELVETICA delves into the unseen world of industrial design, investigating and…
Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn (2009)
- Dir. Josh Whiteman
- Behind the defining look of Joy Division, U2, Depeche Mode and Simple Minds (curiously absent here), Dutch rock photographer turned filmmaker Anton…
Tell Them Anything You Want - A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009)
- Dir. Spike Jonze, Lance Bangs
- These frank and insightful conversations with Maurice Sendak (and dir. Spike Jonze) paint a surprising portrait of the WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE…
Visual Acoustics (2009)
- Dir. Eric Bricker
- Fans of modernist architecture will savour this docu–tribute to the life and career of Southern California architectural photographer, Julius…
We Live in Public (2009)
- Dir. Ondi Timoner
- Armed to the teeth with dot–com millions, mad prophet–cum–performance artist Josh Harris goes off the deep end in this startling…
Andy Warhol's Factory People (2008)
- Dir. Catherine Schorr O'Sullivan
Feat. Andy Warhol
- Nicely self–contained document of Andy Warhol's Factory and its workers, which does a great job of tracking down many of the hipsters and…
Art of Spain (2008)
- Art critic Andrew Graham–Dixon continues his thorough exploration of national art with this focus on Spanish architecture and culture,…
Art Star and the Sudanese Twins, The (2008)
- Dir. Pietra Brettkelly
- With a genuinely compelling subject to draw confession from, this oddly–topical documentary – on the increasingly common adoption of African…
Bastardy (2008)
- Dir. Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Feat. Jack Charles
- Documentary about Jack Charles, a.k.a. "Jackie", the legendary Australian aboriginal stage and screen actor who was a victim of Australia's forced…
Beaches of Agnes, The (2008)
- Dir. Agnes Varda
- A wonderfully light–footed collection of memories and monologues in documentary essay form from the queen of the French New Wave, Agnes…