
Ornette: Made in America
Shirley Clarke’s frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: Shirley Clarke
Actors: Alex Deych, Brion Gysin, Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman, Ed Blackwell, Gregory Gelman, Larissa Blitz, Matthew Meister, Ornette Coleman, William S. Burroughs

Primary
Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to…

Tokyo Olympiad
This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive events. Highlights include an epic…

Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons
Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks,…

Let’s Get Lost
Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker,…

Streetwise
This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they live by panhandling, prostitution, and petty…

A Quiet Love
In this intimate film, three Deaf couples share their remarkable love stories through Irish Sign Language: a decades-long forbidden romance across a religious divide, an LGBTQI+ couple navigating parenthood with…

Tongues Untied
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting…

28 Up
Just two years away from turning 30, participants in Michael Apted’s documentary series are facing serious questions of identity and purpose, wondering whether they’ve found their place in the world.

Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson
Explores the personal toll on James Safechuck and Wade Robson after they went public with accusations against pop icon Michael Jackson. The two men continue to seek justice as they…

Is This Fate?
A portrait of a family in Berlin in the late 1970s, this film focuses on the mother.

Comic Book Confidential
A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it.

Dario Argento’s World of Horror
Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985.