Working With Weinstein

Life Itself

2014

The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.

Trespassing Bergman

2013

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockholm to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special film buffs, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergman's Video, 2012.)

Serbia, Year Zero

2001

Documentary that follows events after the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, while looking back on the previous fifteen years, tracing his rise to power. Personal testimony alternates with analysis of a disintegrating society.

Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?

1972

A documentary about the making of Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy "What's Up Doc?" starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.

Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'

2001

The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the film, and the subtle power of its execution.

Amish Witches: The True Story of Holmes County

2016

A television reality crew has arrived in town to document facts about an isolated Amish sect. Filming is interrupted when the grandmother of their host family, a shunned witch, dies and is denied a Christian burial. When paranormal activities begin to plague the family, they ask the crew to document it. But they never foresee the dangers that the spirits have in store for them.

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

1991

A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

The Dinosaur and the Baby

1967

An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of art forms, the role of the cinema, their collaboration together, and much more. (Filmed in 1964 but released for TV in 1967.)

A Profile of 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp'

2000

A documentary on "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."

A Look at the World of 'Soylent Green'

1973

This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicted what the future might be like beyond Earth. The narrator then discusses the origin of the idea depicted in "Soylent Green." Director Richard Fleischer and star Charlton Heston discuss how an upcoming crowd scene will be filmed. Then we see what happens when the crowd riots because there is not enough food available to be distributed to everyone. "Soylent Green" was Edward G. Robinson's 101st (and, as it turned out, his last) feature film. During a break in filming, the cast and crew hold a ceremony celebrating the first film of his "second hundred," and Robinson makes appreciative remarks to the crowd. Studio head Jack L. Warner and friend George Burns are among those in attendance.

Salò: Yesterday and Today

2002

A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.

Stop au harcèlement : la rue est à nous aussi

2021

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

2008

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

Somebody's Daughter

2008

Because of the internet's accessibility, anonymity, and affordability, pornography addictions have risen to epidemic levels, destroying intimacy, marriages and families, while distorting our definition of sex and sexuality.

Twist of Faith

2004

A man confronts the trauma of past sexual abuse as a boy by a Catholic priest only to find his decision shatters his relationships with his family, community and faith.