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Coco Avant Chanel
[ DVD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] Before she was France's famous mademoiselle... Several years after leaving the orphanage to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She's both a seamstress for the performers and a... |
Jeremy Scott - The People's Designer
[ Arthouse / DVD - released 8/Apr/2016 ] JEREMY SCOTT: THE PEOPLE'S DESIGNER follows the story of Jeremy Scott's ascent from a small town in Missouri to his current position as the Creative Director of Moschino. A notable favorite among celebrities, Jeremy has become one of the most, if... |
Shadow Play - The Making of Anton Corbijn
[ Arthouse Films / DVD - released 3/Nov/2011 ] Internationally renowned artist and filmmaker Anton Corbijn has created some of his generation's seminal rock images. Photographing musicians as diverse as U2, The Killers and Nirvana, among others, Corbijn has created an aesthetic which is as stark... |
Winter At Westbeth
[ Vendetta Films DVD / DVD - released 19/Jul/2017 ] Filmed across one extraordinary year in New York City's Westbeth Artists Housing, video artist Edith Stephen (95) hopes to complete an experimental film for her birthday; revered contemporary dancer Dudley Williams (75) rehearses for an electrifying... |
Exit Through the Gift Shop
[ Madman Entertainment / DVD - released 2/Dec/2010 ] The incredible true story of how the world's greatest Street Art movie was never made... "A film about a man who tried to make a film about me" is how renowned British graffiti artist Banksy describes this feature. Banksy is used to fiercely... |
Marina Abramovic In Brazil: The Space In Between
[ Madman / DVD - released 8/Nov/2018 ] Marina Abramovic travels through Brazil in search of the spiritual forces of nature that are embedded in the culture of native Brazilians. Through communing with locals, partaking in local traditions, and venturing out into caves and forests, she... |
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders' Documentaries (Directors Suite) [ Madman Entertainment / 3 DVD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2008 ] Three films by acclaimed German director Wim Wenders. Tokyo-Ga: Moved by the work of director Yasujiro Ozu, Wim Wenders travels to Japan in search of the Tokyo seen in his films. Notebook on Cities and Clothes: Wim Wenders talks with Japanese... |
Banksy Does New York
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 4/Sep/2015 ] Banksy is revered and reviled, considered both a vandal and a genius. Completely anonymous, he is nevertheless without question one of the world's best known living artists. Over the course of a month-long residency in New York in October 2013,... |
David Attenborough's Wild City
[ SBS DVD / DVD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] This 3-part series aims to be nothing less than a comprehensive profile of Singapore's surprisingly diverse animals and plants and their fascinating behaviours. Each episode showcases the range of different habitats found in and around the built-up... |
Hermitage: The Power of Art
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 27/Aug/2020 ] The film treats The Hermitage as a living being. It tells the story of the daily life of the museum today continuously leaving the 'here and now' to retrace two and a half centuries A wonderful complex of buildings with the largest collection of... |
Big, Bigger, Biggest - Series 1
[ SBS / DVD - released 13/Jan/2011 ] Examining the advances in engineering that made some of the world's most iconic structures possible. How did Bridges evolve in size from tiny bamboo walkways spanning streams to super long suspension bridges connecting islands? How did Buildings... |
Botticelli, Florence And The Medici
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 14/Oct/2021 ] "Beauty, creativity, genius: the Renaissance Florence of Lorenzo de' Medici was a powerhouse of art and culture. Among countless shops and government buildings, there was endless beauty coexisting with the dark side of the city, made up of power... |
Dior And I
[ Madman Entertainment DVD / DVD - released 4/Sep/2015 ] DIOR AND I is a tantalising 'behind-the-seams' glimpse at the making of Raf Simons' first haute couture collection for Christian Dior in 2012. Established in the fashion world as a minimalist designer, Simons has both his reputation and the legacy... |
Eames: The Architect & the Painter
[ Arthouse Films / DVD - released 13/Sep/2012 ] The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames were America's most influential and important industrial designers. Admired for their creations and fascinating as individuals, they have risen to iconic status in American culture. EAMES: THE... |
Frida: Viva La Vida
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] The film highlights the two sides of Frida Kahlo's spirit: on one side the revolutionary, pioneering artist of contemporary feminism and on the other, the human being, victim of her tortured body and a tormented relationship. With Asia Argento as... |
Gauguin in Tahiti: Paradise Lost
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 18/Mar/2021 ] Gauguin in Tahiti: Paradise Lost will take us on the trail of a story that has become myth. Through Tahiti and Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, we will experience the landscapes that inspired Gauguin, in the places where he built houses with... |
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD ] Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his iconic portraits and fashion editorials - from Anna Wintour to Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling to Isabella Rossillini - finally gave their own... |
Hitler Versus Picasso
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 10/Feb/2022 ] In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize "Degenerate Art" (which they systematically looted and destroyed) and one, personally curated by Hitler, to glorify "Classic Art". This immersive documentary reveals the... |
Klimt and Schiele: Eros and Psyche
[ Lime Light DVD / DVD - released 11/Feb/2021 ] 1918. As the roar of the First World War cannons is dying out, in Vienna, the heart of Central Europe, a golden age comes to an end. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is beginning to disintegrate. Since the dawn of the century, Gustav Klimt and Egon... |
Mapplethorpe
[ Madman DVD / DVD - released 14/May/2020 ] Robert Mapplethorpe's portraits, images of calla lilies, and chronicles of New York City's underground BDSM scene remain touchstones of 20th-century photography even now, nearly three decades after his death from complications of HIV/AIDS in 1989.... |
