Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, loving father--and ruthless killer of over 100 people. You'll meet him in this powerful documentary that features one of the most vivid and disturbing interviews ever recorded--taped behind the walls of the prison where Kuklinski is serving two consecutive life sentences for multiple homicide.
For the third time, HBO cameras go inside Trenton State Maximum Security Prison--and inside the mind of one of the most prolific killers in U.S. history--in this gripping documentary. Mafia hit man Richard Kuklinski freely admits to killing more than 100 people, but in this special, he speaks with top psychiatrist Dr. Park Dietz in an effort to face the truth about his condition. Filled with more never-before-revealed confessions, it's the most chillingly candid Iceman special yet as it combines often-confrontational interview footage between Kuklinski and Dietz with photos, crime reenactments and home movies that add new layers to this evolving and fascinating story.
An analysis of Quentin Dupieux's film "Incredible But True" by film critic Elena Lazic.
"Chi ha ucciso Roger Ackroyd" è uno dei più famosi romanzi di Agatha Christie. Pierre Bayard, professore di letteratura, offre un'affascinante decostruzione del romanzo. L'assassino non può essere il dott. Sheppard, come asserisce blandamente Hercule Poirot.
A 60th anniversary retrospective documentary on the influence and context of the 1962 film, To Kill a Mockingbird.
This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's book "Film Art." The chapter analyzes the sound design of Bresson's masterpiece as a means of discussing the use of sound in film.
Arguing that advertising not only sells things, but also ideas about the world, media scholar Sut Jhally offers a blistering analysis of commercial culture's inability to let go of reactionary gender representations. Jhally's starting point is the breakthrough work of the late sociologist Erving Goffman, whose 1959 book The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life prefigured the growing field of performance studies. Jhally applies Goffman's analysis of the body in print advertising to hundreds of print ads today, uncovering an astonishing pattern of regressive and destructive gender codes. By looking beyond advertising as a medium that simply sells products, and beyond analyses of gender that tend to focus on either biology or objectification, The Codes of Gender offers important insights into the social construction of masculinity and femininity, the relationship between gender and power, and the everyday performance of cultural norms.
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.
A documentary on the genesis, writing, shooting and analysis of the film "The Name of the Rose".
Attraverso le testimonianze dello scrittore Umberto Eco e del regista Jean-Jacques Annaud, si raccontano i due processi creativi che hanno portato alla nascita del libro e del film «Il nome della rosa». Si documentano così le varie fasi della realizzazione della pellicola: il lavoro di sceneggiatura e di preparazione, la pre-produzione, il lavoro dello scenografo e del direttore della fotografia e quello del set; le interviste ai protagonisti (Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Murray Abraham, etc…), ai grandi collaboratori del regista, allo scenografo Dante Ferretti, al direttore della fotografia Tonino Delli Colli, oltre naturalmente al regista Jean-Jacques Annaud, che con Umberto Eco rappresenta la vera guida di tutto il film.
A documentary series finale analysing the entirety of Twenty One Pilots' new full-length studio album "Trench". Jimmy not only uncovers the stories of internal pain and fear that Tyler Joseph tells through the songs on the album. But, he also learns to overcome his own personal fears.
A series of interviews between film historians Jonathan Rigby, Kevin Lyons, John J. Johnston and several others that tracks the events which led to the making of the film The Horror of Frankenstein and the state of the Hammer studio at the time.
George Lucas discute di come Joseph Campbell e il suo concetto di Monomito (alias il Viaggio dell'Eroe) e altri concetti della mitologia e della religione abbiano plasmato la saga di Star Wars.
Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets behind his undertakings and novels.