"ALICE" is an intimate portrayal of composer, arranger and teacher Alice Parker whose collaboration with Shaw resulted in nearly 200 choral arrangements of folk songs, spirituals, hymns, and carols. These...
Cortázar: Notes for a Documentary tries to decipher this enigma: how an apolitical writer, so representative of the fears of the Argentine middle class, becomes the paradigm of the politically committed writer.
A Buenos Aires man, who believes he has been cursed as a vampire, dreams of a lost love who can release him. Meanwhile, a corrupt police detective is assigned to find a vampire-like killer operating in the city.
A disturbed lesbian librarian kidnaps a beautiful young woman she's obsessed with, breaks her foot to keep her incapacitated, then starts to kill off people she believes are intruding in their "relationship".
From the early 1700s to the Civil War enslaved and free Black fiddlers performed the music for dances and house parties hosted by elite plantation owners at their farms and townhouses in the American south.
A few have tried to play the role in the theater and in the movies, but only one has succeeded thus far. Her name was Eva Duarte de Peron and the world would come to know her as Evita.
A series of in-depth conversations with Poet Laureate Rita Dove—conducted and recorded by Eduardo Montes-Bradley between September 2012, and October 2013. The film explores the poet's life, exposing fundamental facts of Dove's childhood and formative years growing up in Akron, Ohio in the 1950s and during the turbulent 1960s, supplemented by selections from hundreds of still images and several hours of home movies from the Dove family's collection.
A fragmented biography, inconclusive, partial, of the brilliant Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, based on different testimonies: his links with Leonor de Acedevo —his mother— and María Kodama —his second wife—; his vast culture and devout dedication to literature, his and that of others; his country: the politicians and the disloyal military. Borges gradually builds his own impersonation of Borges.
Kluge a psychological thriller, a suspense story, about a French journalist, Anne, who is preparing a research paper on Argentina by interviewing female professionals. Travel to Buenos Aires for a series of interviews and begins with Marisa Losada, an illustrator of children's books. In the first encounter, an accidental exchange of identical cell phones takes place, and Anne receives shortly after a call from a certain Kluge who takes her for Marisa - whom she does not know personally - and makes a strange proposal to her.
Che: Rise and Fall, was entirely shot in Cuba at the time the remains of the legendary warrior were being airlifted from Bolivia to his final resting place in Santa Clara. The documentary brings out, for the first time, the voice of his brothers in arms in Sierra Maestra, Congo and Bolivia. But above all, that of Alberto Granados with whom the young CHE Guevara rode on a motorcycle out of Argentina on a trip that will end, tragically, sixteen years later in the jungles of Bolivia.