Taxi Driver Stories

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the inherent flaws of legal methadone treatments for heroin addiction by profiling eight addicts, in various stages of recovery and relapse, who attend the New York Center for Addiction Treatment Services (NYCATS).

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Michel Negroponte

German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Wim Wenders

Cast

Chishū Ryū, Yûharu Atsuta, Werner Herzog

This film visits many of the neighborhoods and landmarks on Manhattan Island and occasionally includes a history lesson. The neighborhoods include the Bowery, Chinatown, Herald Square, and Times Square. Some of the architectural highlights are the Empire State Building, the New York Public Library, Temple Emanuel, the Central Park Zoo,...

Runtime

20m

Director

James H. Smith

Cast

James A. FitzPatrick, Ann Miller, Xavier Cugat

Doubling as a cartography of the ever-changing city, Bill Cunningham New York portrays the secluded pioneer of street fashion with grace and heart.

Runtime

1h 25m

Director

Richard Press

Cast

Bill Cunningham, Tom Wolfe, Anna Wintour

Nick Broomfield and a documentary crew visit Pandora's Box, an up-scale house of bondage on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where clients pay $175 an hour to be subservient to mistresses. Mistresses talk about their craft; a few clients, usually masked, are interviewed as well. Then, the camera watches sessions organized around fetishes: rub...

Runtime

1h 24m

Director

Nick Broomfield

Cast

Mistress Beatrice, Mistress Catherine, Mistress Delilah