True Stories

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True Stories
  • Festival
    Festival
    Movie + 9 extras

    Festival

    Movie + 9 extras

    Directed by Murray Lerner • 1967 • United States

    Before WOODSTOCK and MONTEREY POP, there was FESTIVAL. From 1963 through 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bo...

  • Original Cast Album: “Company”
    Original Cast Album: “Company”
    Movie + 6 extras

    Original Cast Album: “Company”

    Movie + 6 extras

    Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1970 • United States
    Starring Stephen Sondheim, Elaine Stritch, Donna McKechnie

    This legendary, long-unavailable documentary from Direct Cinema pioneer D. A. Pennebaker captures the behind-the-scenes drama that went into the making of a classic Broadway recording. ...

  • Fishing with John
    Fishing with John
    1 season

    Fishing with John

    1 season

    Directed by John Lurie • 1992 • United States

    John Lurie knows absolutely nothing about fishing, but that doesn’t stop him from undertaking the adventure of a lifetime in FISHING WITH JOHN. Traveling with his special guests to the most exotic and dangerous places on earth, John Lurie battles sha...

  • Salesman
    Salesman
    Movie + 4 extras

    Salesman

    Movie + 4 extras

    Criterion Collection Edition #122

    Directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin • 1969 • United States

    This radically influential portrait of American dreams and disillusionment from Direct Cinema pioneers David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin captures, with inde...

  • The Documentaries of Louis Malle
    The Documentaries of Louis Malle
    1 season

    The Documentaries of Louis Malle

    1 season

    Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, and AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS. At the same time, how...

  • Shakedown
    Shakedown
    Movie

    Shakedown

    Movie

    Directed by Leilah Weinraub • 2018 • United States

    Charting the eight-year run of Shakedown, a peripatetic black lesbian strip club in Los Angeles, director Leilah Weinraub attempts “to portray the before and after of a utopic moment.” Weinraub presents a world unto itself, shaped by the desires...

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