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A biography of James Hamilton, one of the greatest cultural photojournalists of our time and the quintessential black-and-white chronicler of New York City. Seven decades of career and hundreds of portraits of music, art, fashion, and film stars parade through juicy conversations about the art of photography. As we see incredible images of James Brown, […]
Teaches of Peaches
Shot during the 20th-anniversary tour of the psychosexual manifesto Teaches of Peaches, the film illustrates the journey of transformation and empowerment that turned Canadian folk artist Merrill Nisker into Peaches, the electropunk, queer, and feminist agitator who turned alternative dance floors upside down in the 2000s, operating from the Berlin underground. It contains abundant and […]
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg
“I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. But I don’t need to settle scores. I’m reclaiming my soul,” wrote Italian-German model and actress Anita Pallenberg in her never-published autobiography. Narrated by Scarlett Johansson, these memoirs offer a raw and harrowing account of the life of a style icon, a symbol of sexual […]
Ennio: The Maestro
The director of “Cinema Paradiso” pays tribute to the greatest soundtrack creator and one of the key composers of the 20th century: Ennio Morricone. The search for beauty and “that sound”, and the conflict between the popular and the culture, in a career spanning more than half a century, with the lucid and humble testimony […]
Disco Ruin
Forty years of Italian club culture, depicted as a great hedonistic and psychedelic dream from which no one wanted to wake up. A chronicle of the rise and fall of the discotheque in the most audacious country in the glorification of the DJ and in the construction of futuristic temples (which now seem like vestiges […]
Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande
The tale of how, in the early 70’s some friends from Brixton, originally from former English colonies like Jamaica and Guyana, developed a sophisticated funk-rock sound with African roots that was utterly unique. And they bequeathed drum breaks and bass lines that would pollinate the disco, hip-hop and house scenes and that day after day, […]