Subgenre Sampler
Documentary: 3044 Films to Buy & Rent
Une Visite au Louvre (2004)
- Dir. Jean-Marie Straub, Daniele Huillet
- A rigorous, if oddly illuminating art film about art, with Cézanne's own personal critiques of art narrated over a series of Louvre artworks, shot…
Unforgivable Blackness (2004)
- Dir. Ken Burns
- Engrossing and provocative look at the greatest black American boxer of the early 20th century, Jack Johnson, renowned equally for his physical…
Vincent: The Full Story (2004)
- Dir. Mark James
- Expertly assembled documentary of the great artist drawing on his early life –including previously untold accounts – and following…
Voices of Iraq (2004)
- In January 2004 over 100 digital video cameras were distributed to people in Iraq with the request to film themselves, with the aim of gaining an…
Wall (Mur) (2004)
- Dir. Simone Bitton
- A visual and aural rumination on the physical divide between Israel in Palestine, this observant documentary never motions to take sides, meditating…
What the Bleep do we Know!? (What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?) (2004)
- Dir. William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente
Feat. Marlee Matlin
- A unique and certainly popular piece of 'New Age intellectualism", this follows the travails of a deaf photographer (Matlin) through life and…
White Diamond, The (2004)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
- Werner Herzog finds another slightly insane alter–ego for himself in Dr Graham Dorrington, here documenting the engineer's wild ambition to…
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, The (2004)
- Dir. Judy Irving
- The unlikely tale of a homeless street musician in San Francisco, Mark Bittner, and his longtime attachment to a flock of wild parrots…
WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception (2004)
- Dir. Danny Schechter
- Media–commentator Schechter presents an angry analysis of the narrative of Western media complicity in the official 'line' on the US invasion…
Word Wars (2004)
- Dir. Eric Chaikin, Julian Petrillo
- A chastening, though lightly toned chronicle of a year on the US scrabble circuit for four top players, each hoping to win the US$25000 top prize at…