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  1. My Best Fiend 1999

    Documentary

    A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

    The sides of My Best Fiend

    • Werner Herzog remembering Klaus Kinski
    • Five films made together, from the jungle of Peru
    • Rages on set caught on camera

    Good for you if

    • you want the true story behind Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo.
    • you laugh at a director calmly recalling his plan to kill his star.
    • you like two impossible men who could not work apart.

    Bad for you if

    • you won't read subtitles for a film partly in German.
    • you find footage from the seventies dated.

    About: art · obsession · love and hate

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  2. A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

    The sides of No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    • Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1966
    • Greenwich Village folk clubs
    • Fans booing when he goes electric

    Good for you if

    • you want to hear Dylan's songs as they were first played.
    • you like the sixties, from the folk scene to the protest years.
    • you like a life story told by the people who were there.

    Bad for you if

    • three and a half hours is too much for you.
    • you find black and white footage from the sixties dated.

    About: reinvention · fame · the voice of a generation

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  3. 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

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  4. With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films. Director Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law and sometime collaborator, interviews heavyweights like Jack Nicholson, Woody Allen and Sydney Pollack, who explain the influence of Kubrick classics like "Dr. Strangelove" and "2001: A Space Odyssey," and how he absorbed visual clues from disposable culture such as television commercials.

    The sides of Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film

    • Stanley Kubrick's life and films
    • Interviews with Jack Nicholson and others who worked with him
    • Home footage from his family

    Good for you if

    • you love Dr. Strangelove, 2001 and the films around them.
    • you want to know the man behind the legend from people who knew him.
    • you care about how every Kubrick frame was built.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't sit through almost two and a half hours of documentary.
    • you need a story, not a career told in interviews.

    About: obsession · creation · cinema

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  5. A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.

    The sides of Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

    • Robin Williams in his own words
    • Stand-up clips from the late 1970s
    • Friends and family remembering him

    Good for you if

    • you want to laugh again at Robin Williams improvising at full speed.
    • you like a portrait that makes you laugh and cry in the same scene.
    • you want to hear the man behind Mork and Mrs. Doubtfire talk about himself.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't face depression and a death by suicide on screen.
    • you roll your eyes at loving tributes from famous friends.

    About: comedy · mental health · fame

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  6. I Am Heath Ledger 2017

    Documentary

    The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.

    The sides of I Am Heath Ledger

    • Heath Ledger's own home videos
    • Friends and family remembering him
    • A young actor from Perth to Hollywood

    Good for you if

    • you want to see Heath Ledger through his own camera.
    • you want a portrait that moves you to tears.
    • you like hearing who he was away from the set.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't take a story you know ends with an early death.
    • you roll your eyes at a tribute where everyone only praises.

    About: creativity · grief · fame

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  7. As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.

    The sides of They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

    • Orson Welles making his last film
    • The Other Side of the Wind
    • Years of chaotic shooting and money troubles

    Good for you if

    • you want the real story behind a film shot over years and left unfinished.
    • you like a portrait of a stubborn filmmaker late in life.
    • you love old Hollywood and the era of Welles.

    Bad for you if

    • you need a story told in order, without a flood of archive footage.
    • you want a warm, easy watch rather than a chaotic shoot.

    About: ambition · legacy · art

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  8. 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 sides of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    • The shoot of Apocalypse Now in the Philippines
    • Footage filmed by Eleanor Coppola
    • A typhoon, a heart attack and a director near breaking point

    Good for you if

    • you like seeing how a famous film almost never got made.
    • you like watching Francis Ford Coppola stake everything on one film.
    • you like the strange scenes of Brando improvising in the dark and Dennis Hopper rambling.

    Bad for you if

    • you want the battles of the film, not the chaos behind them.
    • you find grainy 1970s home footage dated.

    About: obsession · art · ego · madness

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  9. Listen to Me Marlon 2015

    Documentary

    With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.

    The sides of Listen to Me Marlon

    • Marlon Brando's private audio tapes
    • A digital head of Brando speaking
    • His life told in his own voice

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing Marlon Brando tell his own life, with no interviews.
    • you like a portrait of a troubled man beyond his famous roles.
    • you love clips of A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront.

    Bad for you if

    • you need a story that moves, not a voice over archives.
    • you can't take the family tragedies that marked his later life.

    About: fame · acting · solitude

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  10. Spielberg 2017

    Documentary

    A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

    The sides of Spielberg

    • Steven Spielberg telling his own story
    • From Jaws to Lincoln
    • His parents and his childhood

    Good for you if

    • you want Steven Spielberg telling his own story, film by film.
    • you like hearing how his parents' divorce runs through his films.
    • you like fifty years of Hollywood seen through one career.

    Bad for you if

    • you find two and a half hours of interviews too much.
    • you roll your eyes at filmmakers praising each other.

    About: childhood · ambition · cinema

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  11. 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

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  12. Imagine: John Lennon 1988

    Documentary

    The biography of former Beatle, John Lennon—narrated by Lennon himself—with extensive material from Yoko Ono's personal collection, previously unseen footage from Lennon's private archives, and interviews with David Bowie, his first wife Cynthia, second wife Yoko Ono and sons Julian and Sean.

    The sides of Imagine: John Lennon

    • John Lennon telling his own life
    • Home footage from Yoko Ono's archives
    • Cynthia, Julian and Sean looking back

    Good for you if

    • you love the Beatles and Lennon's solo songs.
    • you want Lennon in his own voice, from Liverpool to New York.
    • you like a portrait of a man with all his contradictions.

    Bad for you if

    • you find old 1960s and 70s footage dated.
    • you can't revisit his murder in New York in 1980.

    About: fame · love · peace · loss

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  13. De Palma 2016

    Documentary

    An intimate conversation between filmmakers, chronicling De Palma’s 55-year career, his life, and his filmmaking process, with revealing anecdotes and, of course, a wealth of film clips.

    The sides of De Palma

    • Brian De Palma talking to the camera
    • Clips from Carrie to Mission: Impossible
    • Stories from Hollywood sets

    Good for you if

    • you like a director telling candid stories about his own films.
    • you like a portrait of Brian De Palma the man, his family, his friends and his battles with studios.
    • you like the thrillers of the 1970s and 1980s.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand the bloody clips from his films.
    • you can't sit through two hours of one man talking.

    About: filmmaking · ambition · Hollywood

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  14. A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—only to find the course of his life altered by a stunning diagnosis. What happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease?

    The sides of STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

    • Michael J. Fox telling his own life
    • A Parkinson's diagnosis at twenty-nine
    • Clips from Back to the Future and Family Ties

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing Michael J. Fox tell his story in his own words.
    • you like being moved by his family standing by him.
    • you like his jokes about his own falls and tremors.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch someone live with an incurable illness.
    • you want a grim, unresolved look at Parkinson's. His optimism carries every scene.

    About: illness · optimism · fame

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  15. A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.

    The sides of The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

    • Slavoj Žižek talking through famous films
    • Rebuilt sets from Hitchcock and Lynch films
    • Psychoanalysis applied to desire and fantasy

    Good for you if

    • you like an excited philosopher talking nonstop about movies.
    • you like strange readings of Psycho, The Birds and Blue Velvet.
    • you love classic Hollywood and want to see it with new eyes.

    Bad for you if

    • two and a half hours of lecture is too much for you.
    • you need a story with people to follow, not one man talking over film clips.

    About: desire · fantasy · cinema

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  16. The Captains 2011

    Documentary

    The Captains is a feature-length documentary film written and directed by William Shatner. The film follows Shatner as he interviews the other actors who have portrayed starship captains in the Star Trek franchise.

    The sides of The Captains

    • William Shatner interviewing the other Star Trek captains
    • Actors talking about the roles that defined them
    • Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew and Chris Pine on camera

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing actors talk honestly about their careers.
    • you want to know the people behind Kirk, Picard and Janeway.
    • you grew up on the bridge of the Enterprise.

    Bad for you if

    • you want starships and space battles. This is actors talking in rooms.
    • you roll your eyes when actors open up about their feelings.

    About: fame · legacy · fandom

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  17. Life Itself 2014

    Documentary

    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.

    The sides of Life Itself

    • Roger Ebert in his last months
    • The Siskel and Ebert rivalry
    • Chaz Ebert at his side

    Good for you if

    • you want the life of Roger Ebert, from Chicago newsrooms to television.
    • you like being moved by a man facing the end with humor.
    • you like a rivalry with Gene Siskel that turned into deep affection.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't watch a long illness and its hospital scenes up close.
    • you need a story that moves faster than a life told in interviews.

    About: mortality · love · cinema

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  18. Beastie Boys Story 2020

    Documentary

    Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze.

    The sides of Beastie Boys Story

    • Two Beastie Boys telling their story on stage
    • Forty years of friendship
    • Archive footage from early hip-hop

    Good for you if

    • you grew up on the Beastie Boys or love early hip-hop.
    • you like two old friends looking back on a life together.
    • you like stories told with jokes and self-mockery.

    Bad for you if

    • you'd rather a music story stayed light, without a lump in your throat.
    • you want a concert film more than two men telling stories on a stage.

    About: friendship · growing up · loss

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  19. For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.

    The sides of Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

    • The Nightmare on Elm Street films one by one
    • The actors and crews of each film
    • How Freddy Krueger's effects were made

    Good for you if

    • you like hearing the people who made a horror series tell how it happened.
    • you want four hours on Freddy Krueger.
    • you like details you'll spot when you watch the films again.

    Bad for you if

    • you can't stand gory clips, even out of context.
    • you can't watch horror, even in clips.

    About: filmmaking · horror · show business

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  20. In Search of Darkness 2019

    Documentary

    An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.

    The sides of In Search of Darkness

    • Horror filmmakers looking back on the 1980s
    • Makeup and gore effects explained
    • A year by year tour of the decade

    Good for you if

    • you grew up on 80s horror tapes.
    • you like hearing how the gore effects were made.
    • you like stories from the actors and crews themselves.

    Bad for you if

    • you find over four hours too much for one sitting.
    • you want to be scared, not hear people talk about it.

    About: horror · nostalgia · craft

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