The Irreversible Odyssey

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 ci...

Runtime

1h 28m

Director

Lars von Trier, Jørgen Leth

Cast

Claus Nissen, Majken Algren Nielsen

When World War II broke out, John Ford, in his forties, commissioned in the Naval Reserve, was put in charge of the Field Photographic Unit by Bill Donavan, director of the soon-to-be-OSS. During the war, Field Photo made at least 87 documentaries, many with Ford's signature attention to heroism and loss, and many from the point of vie...

Runtime

56m

Director

Tom Thurman

Cast

Kris Kristofferson, Peter Bogdanovich, Oliver Stone

Documentary about the efforts to reconstruct Sam Fuller's The Big Red One closer to the film Fuller had originally envisioned.

Runtime

47m

Director

Richard Schickel

Cast

Samuel Fuller, Mark Hamill, Bobby Di Cicco

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie th...

Runtime

1h 42m

Cast

Bob Balaban, Ian Buruma, Michael Childers

Making of documentary on The Souvenir & The Souvenir Part II.

Runtime

41m

Cast

Joanna Hogg, Martin Scorsese, Honor Swinton Byrne