Advanced Style, (2014) About Fashion Plates of a Certain Vintage

Advanced Style examines the lives of seven unique New Yorkers whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging.

Lunch 2012

For the past 40 years, a group of comedy writers and directors has gathered every other Wednesday for lunch - and other nourishment. These are the fabled guys that made America funny.


Stars: Sid Caesar, Monty Hall, Arthur Hiller, Carl Reiner

Finding Vivian Maier (2013 Posthumous view of photographer)


A documentary on the late Vivian Maier, a nanny whose previously unknown cache of 100,000 photographs earned her a posthumous reputation as one of the most accomplished street photographers.

Public Speaking (2010 Documentary with Fran Liebowitz)

A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the effect is a portrait of Fran's worldview and experiences.

Last Will and Embezzlement (2010 Financial and exploitation of the elderly)
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Last Will and Embezzlement" is a feature-length documentary which examines the financial exploitation of the elderly. Its creation was inspired by the recent, true-life events in the family of Pamela Glasner. Its focus is much more universal because the problem is, without question, universal. Of all the illegal and illicit enterprises in the world, elder exploitation is among the safest and most lucrative. It is a criminal's dream. It carries the least amount of risk, requires minimal outlay, can be done right from your living room, is virtually unreported by its victims - and then, even when it IS reported, it's perpetrators are practically never prosecuted.

GasLand (2010)

Can you imagine being able to light your tap water on fire? This is just one of the many shocking results due to the natural gas drilling boom which has swept the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology called hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" has unlocked a "Saudi Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe? Josh Fox encounters EPA whistleblowers, congressmen, world recognized scientists, and some of the most incredibly inspiring and heart-wrenching stories of ordinary Americans fighting against fossil fuel giants for environmental justice.

Banksy Does New York (2014 displays of street artists works in 31 days)

Documentary chronicling the famed street artist's "31 works of art in 31 days" in New York city.

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures HBO

Starting Saturday April 8th on HBO "Nothing Left Unsaid": Gloria Vanderbilt and Anderson Cooper :movieguy:

(If I'm not mistaken, it will re-air on CNN later in the week as well)

Everything Is Copy (2015) HBO

A look at the life and work of writer/filmmaker Nora Ephron.

Starting April 16th on HBO Confirmation cast: Kerry Washington, Zoe Lister-Jones, Erika Christensen

Confirmation chronicles the intense confirmation battle for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after Anita Hill, a former employee, claimed he sexually harassed her.

A good friend (OK, my crush) got me started watching a web show called RWBY (pronounced "Ruby,"), an indie-studio animated action/dark fantasy anime-inspired show about four young women training to fight monsters. It's kind of complicated to describe, but it happens to take a lot of inspiration from fairy tales, mythology, literature, and in some cases history and 20th-century classics. Also, it has a great soundtrack and fight scenes.

On the other hand the first couple of volumes, the first one especially, were dragged down by resource and time limitations (shoestring indie-studio budget) that resulted in things like bad animation outside of fight scenes in the first couple volumes, as well as what was intended to be the first season ending up getting dragged out over three volumes (the most recent of which just finished in February). The VAs also began as an almost all-amateur cast, so the voice acting wasn't so great in the early run. A lot of people apparently quit watching in the first and second volumes and didn't get drawn back in until the third.

It really got its shit together in the third volume, though. Production values went way up, the voice actors grew into their roles (there was some pretty impressive voice work from the recurring-character cast despite the lot of them beginning as amateurs), and the animation improved so much that the volume 3 finale gave me a whole new appreciation for animation in scenes that are just two characters talking to each other. Also the tone shift from more comedic in the first two volumes to the aforementioned "dark fantasy" genre thing in the third volume really hit the spot for me because I'm apparently one of those people who likes watching heroes face extraordinary adversity. The character modeling still has some technical hiccups but oh well nothing's perfect.

Also I'm pretty sure that either two of the main characters are being set up for a future romance arc together or this is some of the vilest queer-baiting I've ever seen, but the last couple episodes got me emotionally invested in it and now I have like a physical need for it to happen and if it doesn't happen I'm gonna cry and I am dying of hiatus fever 'cause Volume 4 isn't coming till fall and is it fall yet someone tell me it's fall

(I am too old for this shit)

but yeah there's a lot of stuff I want to say about this show but I can't because spoilers

It's a web show, though, so if I can get anyone here interested in watching it, I could see about livestreaming it so we could watch it as a group or something.

Home Box Office :

Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah

Featuring insights from filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, this Oscar-nominated doc charts one man's struggle to convey the pure horror of the Holocaust on film, and the burden he carried thereafter.

All the Way Bryan Cranston Mesmerizes as LBJ in HBO tonight's presentation

Killer Legends, on Netflix. It's more of a documentary.

Class Divide HBO Director Marc Levin


Director Marc Levin brings new focus to the effects of hyper-gentrification in his documentary about New York City’s West Chelsea, where an elite private school and public housing project share an intersection.

Queen Sugar OWN

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Now playing on HBO)

Warning: This Drug May Kill you HBO...


Told from the perspectives of four families devastated by opioid addiction, Warning: This Drug May Kill You offers a harrowing, unflinching look at the deadly epidemic currently facing the United States.

Abortion: Stories Women Tell.....

A thought-provoking look at the subject of abortion today, told through the stories of women struggling with unplanned pregnancies, abortion providers and clinic staff and activists on both sides of this contentious debate.