Cast: Robert Towne

Direction Mark Cousins

Cast Aleksandr Sokúrov · Norman Lloyd · Lars von Trier · Paul Schrader

Plot 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' is a documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of 900 minutes. It...

Direction Ted Demme · Richard LaGravenese

Cast Martin Scorsese · Francis Ford Coppola · Robert Altman · Peter Bogdanovich

Plot The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the music revolution,...

Direction Mel Stuart

Cast I.A.L. Diamond · William Friedkin · Jack Lemmon · Shirley MacLaine

Plot A one-hour profile of Billy Wilder, the writer-director whose movies include "Double Indemnity", "The Lost Weekend", "Sunset Blvd.", "Ace in the Hole", "Stalag 17", "Sabrina", "The Seven Year Itch", "Witness...

Direction Rob Garver

Cast Pauline Kael · Quentin Tarantino · Woody Allen · Alec Baldwin

Plot Pauline Kael was likely the most powerful, and divisive, movie critic of the 20th century. Her love of movies was revealed in her ruthless pursuit of what made a movie...

Direction Shane Salerno

Cast Philip Seymour Hoffman · Edward Norton · John Cusack · Martin Sheen

Plot An unprecedented look inside the private world of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.

Direction Jack Nicholson

Cast William Tepper · Karen Black · Michael Margotta · Bruce Dern

Plot Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And...

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Betsy Jones-Moreland · Robert Towne · Antony Carbone

Plot Ev, along with her husband, Harold, and their lawyer friend Martin, are swimming while on vacation in Puerto Rico. When they resurface, they gradually conclude that an unexplained, temporary interruption...

Direction Roger Corman

Cast Antony Carbone · Robert Towne · Beach Dickerson · Betsy Jones-Moreland

Plot American crook Renzo Capetto sees a chance to make a bundle when a Caribbean island has a revolution. He plans to help loyalists (and the national treasury) escape on his...

Direction Bruce Ricker

Cast Ed Harris · Peter Bogdanovich · Larry Cohen · Andrew Sarris

Plot A profile of the filmmaker ("The Tall T," "Seven Men from Now") who, notes narrator Ed Harris, "made his mark in one of America's greatest art forms.the Western movie." Included:...