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Milos Forman is a multi-award-winning director with a fascinating backstory. Born in Czechkoslovakia, he was orphaned at an early age when his parents perished in Nazi concentration camps. After an early career making films in his native country, he moved to Hollywood and his career took off. He is most well known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which won five Academy Awards, Hair!, and Amadeus, the biography of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,...
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[1995]
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Television first arrived in American homes just as the Hollywood studio system was collapsing. As the new medium took hold, so did a new era of motion picture entertainment. Top directors, actors, and film scholars trace the influence of each medium on the other, from the live and fresh dramas of the Golden Age of Television and the growth of Hollywood spectacles to the megalithic entertainment industry of today.
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Made in cooperation with the American Film Institute, Directors: Life Behind the Camera features thirty-three legendary directors who reveal intimate and in-depth knowledge about the art of filmmaking and, as well, their own career in the movies. Culled from over 300 hours of interviews, this two-disc, four hour presentation is totally interactive, allowing instant access to a single director, or access to an entire topic involving all directors....
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[2018]
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Fred Zinnemann, the Austrian-born American film director, won 4 Academy Awards as well as 19 for the actors who starred in his films. He was among the first directors to insist on using authentic locations to create more realism. Among his most-noted films were the western classic High Noon (1952) starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, From Here to Eternity (1953), Oklahoma! (1955), The Nun's Story (1959) starring Audrey Hepburn, The Day of the Jackal...
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Paul O’Brien is an entrepreneur, startup consultant, and founder of MediaTech Ventures. Why he says the future is now—and how his secrets could be the key to getting your next big idea funded, whether it’s VC, sponsorship, or grant—Paul breaks down the startup ecosystem as it relates to media and technology. Plus, John and Paul discuss the ever-changing role of today’s CMO, and why data should be at the top of every marketer’s mind. Filmed...
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A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
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[2018]
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Garry Shandling experienced a normal childhood in Tucson, AZ until age ten, when his older brother and only sibling, Barry, died from cystic fibrosis. His parents barely discussed Barry’s passing, and his mother began clinging to her younger son, developing an intense bond that would inspire much of Garry’s later comedy material. Shandling went to college to study engineering, but a chance encounter with George Carlin prompted an impulsive move...
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[2017]
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"The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick : Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides -- Americans who...
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Dixieland, swing, bebop, modal, free, avant-garde, these were some of the terms critics used during the 1960s to categorize the diverse manifestations of jazz music. As for the artists themselves, many were desperate for work and headed for Europe, including bebop saxophone master Dexter Gordon. At home, jazz sought relevance. During the Civil Rights struggle it became a voice of protest, while avant-garde explorer John Coltrane reached for a higher...
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[2019]
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Ken Burns chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, rising from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of the nation. From its roots in ballads, hymns, and the blues to its mainstream popularity, viewers will follow the evolution of country music over the course of the twentieth century as it eventually emerged to become America's music. Features never-before-seen footage and photographs, plus interviews with more...
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[2004]
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Using a playful narrative structure, this program outlines the most common stylistic techniques of film language used to communicate with the viewer. The program highlights the importance of character, genre, and the cinematic techniques of mise en scène and cinematography, as well as the use of continuity editing and sound. With a script developed by Victoria Giummarra, author of Senior Media Workbook and a Board member of ATOM (Australian Teachers...
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[2008]
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Henry Jaglom is hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice, and a true maverick of American cinema, and dismissed by others as a voyeuristic, egomaniacal fraud and the "world's worst director." He obsessively confuses and abuses the line between life and art. Featuring scores of interviews (with notables including Orson Welles, Dennis Hopper, Candice Bergen, Milos Forman and Peter Bogdanovich) and behind-the-scenes footage, this documentary...
13) Frame By Frame
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[1999]
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The relationship between director and production designer is a special one. Frame by Frame is a documentary that goes behind the scenes of David Cronenberg's sci-fi film, eXistenZ, for a rare and fascinating look at the art of production designer, Carol Spier.
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[2012]
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Jennifer Lynch, daughter of cult film auteur David Lynch, was the youngest American woman to direct a feature film. Fifteen years later after an extended hiatus as a recovering addict and hard-working single mother, Lynch returns to the director's chair with an ambitious project that will test her skills and the entire crew's sanity on the set of a Bollywood/Hollywood action film.
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Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this program dramatically evokes the causes of the war. Here are the burning questions of union and states' rights, John Brown at Harper's Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln, the firing on Fort Sumter, and the jubilant rush to arms on both sides. Along the way the war's major figures are introduced: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and a host of lesser-known but...
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[2016]
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In this video, Rick Davis interviews Aviva Kempner, a long-time documentary filmmaker whose works cover a broad range of issues, such as homelessness, civil rights, and the Holocaust. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is one of her most noted works. The film won many awards, including the Peabody Award and awards from the National Board of Review, the New York Film Critics Circle and the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Kempner is also the founder...
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