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The Beaches of Agnès 2008
Documentary
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
The sides of The Beaches of Agnès
- Agnès Varda looking back at eighty
- Mirrors set up on a beach
- Her life with Jacques Demy
Good for you if
- you like a filmmaker telling her own life in her own way.
- you like playful images, from mirrors on the sand to a street turned into a beach.
- you want time with a warm, curious, funny woman.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a French film.
- you need a documentary that moves fast and sticks to the facts.
About: memory · aging · love · cinema
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present 2012
Documentary
Performance artist Marina Abramovic prepares for a major retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The sides of Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
- Marina Abramović before her MoMA retrospective
- An artist sitting silent for hours, facing strangers
- A reunion with her former partner Ulay
Good for you if
- you want to see how a famous artist prepares a show.
- you like watching one woman hold a room in total silence.
- you're drawn to strong, uncompromising people.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum and can't sit through long silences.
- you have no patience for strange art, like walking the Great Wall to break up or staring at strangers for hours.
About: art · endurance · presence · love
The Wolfpack 2015
Documentary
Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed ‘The Wolfpack’, the brothers spend their childhood reenacting their favorite films using elaborate home-made props and costumes. Their world is shaken up when one of the brothers escapes and everything changes.
The sides of The Wolfpack
- Six brothers raised inside a Manhattan apartment
- Home-made remakes of Reservoir Dogs and The Dark Knight
- A first walk outside without their father
Good for you if
- you like a true story stranger than most fiction.
- you like six brothers who share everything in a few rooms.
- you like the Angulo brothers remaking Tarantino with cardboard props.
Bad for you if
- you can't face a father who kept his children locked away.
- you want every question about the family answered.
About: confinement · cinema · freedom · brotherhood
The Five Obstructions 2003
Documentary
In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starring a man and women sitting in a box while a narrator poses questions about their relationship and humanity. Years later, Danish director Lars von Trier made a deal with Leth to remake his film five times, each under a different set of circumstances and with von Trier's strictly prescribed rules. As Leth completes each challenge, von Trier creates increasingly further elaborate stipulations.
The sides of The Five Obstructions
- Jørgen Leth remaking his own short film
- Lars von Trier inventing the rules
- One remake made as a cartoon
Good for you if
- you like a game between two directors that keeps getting stranger.
- you're fascinated by Lars von Trier trying to break his mentor.
- you enjoy two filmmakers sparring across a table.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for the Danish parts.
- you need to know at the end who won the game between the two men.
About: creativity · constraints · mentorship

Seven Up! 1985
Documentary
A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. The filmmakers plan to re-interview them at 7 year intervals to track how their lives and attitudes change as they age.
The sides of Seven Up!
- Fourteen British children aged seven
- Kids from rich and poor backgrounds
- The first film of a series that returns every seven years
Good for you if
- you like real children talking honestly about money, school and the future.
- you like seeing where lives begin before you watch them grow.
- you like small portraits of very different kids.
Bad for you if
- you find 1960s black and white footage dated.
- you want to know how their lives turn out, and this first film leaves them at seven.
About: class · childhood · destiny
Jodorowsky's Dune 2013
Documentary
In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; but the artists Jodorowsky brought together to carry it out continued to work together, and ended up laying the foundations for modern science fiction cinema.
The sides of Jodorowsky's Dune
- A director preparing Dune in 1974
- A book of storyboards for a film nobody shot
- Dalí and Mick Jagger in the cast
Good for you if
- you want the man himself telling you how he lost the film.
- you like pages of Moebius drawings and Giger designs on screen.
- you like the feeling of a film too big to exist.
Bad for you if
- you want something happening on screen and not people remembering a project.
- you can't take a man casting Salvador Dalí as a galactic emperor.
About: ambition · failure · cinema
Finding Vivian Maier 2014
Documentary
Vivian Maier's photos were seemingly destined for obscurity, lost among the clutter of the countless objects she'd collected throughout her life. Instead these images have shaken the world of street photography and irrevocably changed the life of the man who brought them to the public eye. This film brings to life the interesting turns and travails of the improbable saga of John Maloof's discovery of Vivian Maier, unravelling this mysterious tale through her documentary films, photographs, odd collections and personal accounts from the people that knew her. What started as a blog to show her work quickly became a viral sensation in the photography world. Photos destined for the trash heap now line gallery exhibitions, a forthcoming book and this documentary film.
The sides of Finding Vivian Maier
- A nanny who secretly took thousands of photos
- Boxes of negatives bought at an auction
- The families she worked for remembering her
Good for you if
- you like piecing together who a secretive woman really was.
- you love street photography of the American city in the fifties and sixties.
- you like a real discovery told by the man who made it.
Bad for you if
- you want every question about her life answered.
- you need more happening on screen than people talking about photos.
About: art · privacy · recognition
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness 2013
Documentary
Follows the behind-the-scenes work of Studio Ghibli, focusing on the notable figures Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki.
The sides of The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
- Hayao Miyazaki at work on The Wind Rises
- A year inside Studio Ghibli
- Producer Toshio Suzuki and Isao Takahata
Good for you if
- you want to watch Miyazaki draw, grumble and doubt at his desk.
- you like a quiet, patient film about daily work.
- you love Ghibli films and want to see where they come from.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles.
- you need drama or stakes to stay with a film.
About: work · creation · ageing
To Be and to Have 2002
Documentary
The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez, who shows patience and respect for the children as we follow their story through a single school year.
The sides of To Be and to Have
- A one-class village school in Auvergne
- A patient teacher, Georges Lopez
- Children from four to twelve over one school year
Good for you if
- you like a quiet year in a small village classroom.
- you like watching children grow up across one school year.
- you enjoy patient scenes with no narration and no hurry.
Bad for you if
- you won't read subtitles for a French documentary.
- you want a documentary about school policy, not one classroom's year.
About: education · childhood · patience
Under the Sun 2015
Documentary
Over the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
The sides of Under the Sun
- A Pyongyang family filmed for a year
- Officials directing every scene
- What happens between the takes
Good for you if
- you like everyday life that feels staged and surreal.
- you want to see how a regime scripts its own people.
- you're curious about a real family in North Korea.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum and long silent shots wear you out.
- you won't read subtitles for a film in Korean.
About: propaganda · control · childhood
El viaje de Chihiro 2001
Anime
De camino a su nueva casa, una niña de diez años y sus padres se adentran en el mundo de los espíritus. Sus padres se convierten en cerdos y ella tiene que trabajar en unos baños para salvarlos.
Las caras de El viaje de Chihiro
- Un mundo extraño con sus propias reglas
- Una niña que encuentra su valor
- Momentos tranquilos y naturaleza
- Cada fotograma dibujado a mano
Buena para ti si
- te encanta perderte en un mundo con sus propias reglas extrañas.
- te gusta no saber qué va a cruzar la puerta a continuación.
- te gustan las películas que se detienen a respirar, como ese tranquilo viaje en tren.
Mala para ti si
- no ves películas de animación.
- quieres que todo esté explicado. Gran parte de los baños nunca lo está.
Temas: crecer · la codicia · conservar tu nombre · el trabajo
Val 2021
Documentary
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood's most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors, has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
The sides of Val
- Val Kilmer's own home videos over forty years
- His son reading his words
- Throat cancer and a lost voice
Good for you if
- you like an actor's life told through his own camera.
- you can be moved by Val Kilmer struggling to speak after cancer.
- you like a family story, from 16mm films made with his brothers to his son reading his words.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch illness and a body that fails.
- you want the energy of his films, not a quiet look back.
About: art · illness · memory
Lessons of Darkness 1992
Documentary
Shortly after the Gulf War, oil fires were raging all through Kuwait. In the week before this sea of fire would be extinguished, Werner Herzog filmed this apocalyptic landscape with its murky skies, scorched earth and capricious flames.
The sides of Lessons of Darkness
- Kuwait's oil fields burning after the Gulf War
- Firefighters capping the wells
- Werner Herzog filming Earth like another planet
Good for you if
- you like burning oil fields filmed like an alien world.
- you like images carried by Wagner and Verdi.
- you like Werner Herzog's strange, poetic way of seeing.
Bad for you if
- you need momentum. Long shots of burning wells glide by with barely a word.
- you want things explained. Herzog never lays out the war and narrates it like science fiction.
About: war · apocalypse · landscape
Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself 2020
Documentary
Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'
The sides of Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
- A magician alone on a small stage
- Audience members choosing who they are
- Card tricks that turn into confessions
Good for you if
- you like magic that leaves you quiet rather than clapping.
- you can watch one man hold a room with stories and cards for ninety minutes.
- you'd rather keep a question like "who am I" than get it answered.
Bad for you if
- you roll your eyes at a stage show that asks you to be moved.
- you need momentum. Most of it is one man speaking softly on a small stage.
About: identity · illusion · being seen
Crumb 1995
Documentary
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind.
The sides of Crumb
- The cartoonist Robert Crumb at home and on the street
- His two troubled brothers
- Underground comics from the sixties
Good for you if
- you like a portrait of an artist that doesn't look away from his obsessions.
- you can laugh at a family this strange and this sad.
- you're drawn to the odd corners of sixties counterculture.
Bad for you if
- you'd rather not see Crumb's sexual drawings up close.
- you can't take mental illness and a family falling apart on screen.
About: art · brothers · obsession · the family
The Velvet Underground 2021
Documentary
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.
The sides of The Velvet Underground
- Lou Reed, John Cale and the birth of a band
- Andy Warhol's Factory in 1960s New York
- Split screens full of archive footage
Good for you if
- you love the drone and noise of the Velvet Underground.
- you like Todd Haynes cutting archive footage into split screens.
- you want to be dropped into the New York avant-garde of the sixties.
Bad for you if
- you can't stand experimental films and art-school strangeness.
- you find two hours of interviews and archives too much.
About: art · rebellion · New York
Exit Through the Gift Shop 2010
Documentary
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank. Fiercely guarding his anonymity to avoid prosecution, Banksy has so far resisted all attempts to be captured on film. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells the incredible true story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
The sides of Exit Through the Gift Shop
- A French shopkeeper filming street artists at night
- Banksy turning the camera around
- A huge art show built from nothing
Good for you if
- you like an eccentric who becomes an art star almost by accident.
- you like never being sure whether it's all a prank.
- you like night footage of graffiti artists at work.
Bad for you if
- you need to know a documentary is telling the truth. Many suspect a hoax.
- you need suspense to stay hooked. It's interviews and night footage of artists painting walls.
About: art · fame · authenticity
Moonage Daydream 2022
Documentary
A cinematic odyssey featuring never-before-seen footage exploring David Bowie's creative and musical journey.
The sides of Moonage Daydream
- David Bowie in his own words
- A collage of concerts, films and paintings
- Ziggy Stardust to Berlin and beyond
Good for you if
- you like Bowie's songs loud and woven through the whole film.
- you want a documentary that feels like a trip.
- you like the strange, shape-shifting side of Bowie.
Bad for you if
- two hours and fifteen minutes of collage is too much for you.
- you want a life explained. Bowie's thoughts on art and change come in fragments, with no narrator to sum up.
About: reinvention · art · time
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids 2004
Documentary
Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta. Director Zana Briski went to photograph the prostitutes when she met and became friends with their children. Briski began giving photography lessons to the children and became aware that their photography might be a way for them to lead better lives.
The sides of Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
- Children of sex workers in Calcutta
- Cameras handed to kids in a red light district
- A photographer trying to get them into school
Good for you if
- you want real children from Calcutta's red light district telling their own lives.
- you can be moved by kids who still laugh where they grow up.
- you like seeing a place through the photos the children took themselves.
Bad for you if
- you can't watch children growing up around prostitution and violence.
- you need a happy ending for every child.
About: childhood · poverty · art as a way out
Casting JonBenet 2017
Documentary
Twenty years after the modern world's most notorious child murder, the legacy of the crime and its impact are explored.
The sides of Casting JonBenet
- Local actors auditioning to play the people in a real case
- The murder of a six-year-old girl in Boulder
- Everyone's own theory of what happened
Good for you if
- you like a film that leaves the question open on purpose.
- you want to see how a famous crime lives on in a town's imagination.
- you like local actors whose own lives seep into the roles they audition for.
Bad for you if
- you can't sit with the death of a child, even years later.
- you want a plain documentary, not rows of local actors playing the same parents.
About: grief · rumour · the media