Keyword: biography

Killing Jesus

4.5

2015

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A miniseries chronicling the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

Audrey

7.4

2020

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Filmmaker Helena Coan examines the remarkable life and career of actress, fashion icon and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn.

Young Tom Edison

6.9

1940

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Inventor Thomas Edisons boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Toms only solace is his understanding mother who believes hes headed to do great things.

Amour Fou

6.3

2014

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Berlin, the Romantic Era. Young poet Heinrich wishes to conquer the inevitability of death through love, yet is unable to convince his skeptical cousin Marie to join him in a suicide pact. It is whilst coming to terms with this refusal, ineffably distressed by his cousins insensitivity to the depth of his feelings, that Heinrich meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance. Heinrichs subsequent offer to the beguiling young woman at first holds scant appeal, that is until Henriette discovers she is suffering from a terminal illness

Eisenstein in Guanajuato

6.3

2015

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The venerated filmmaker Eisenstein is comparable in talent, insight and wisdom, with the likes of Shakespeare or Beethoven; there are few - if any - directors who can be elevated to such heights. On the back of his revolutionary film Battleship Potemkin, he was celebrated around the world, and invited to the US. Ultimately rejected by Hollywood and maliciously maligned by conservative Americans, Eisenstein traveled to Mexico in 1931 to consider a film privately funded by American pro-Communist sympathizers, headed by the American writer Upton Sinclair. Eisensteins sensual Mexican experience appears to have been pivotal in his life and film career - a significant hinge between the early successes of Strike, Battleship Potemkin, and October, which made him a world-renowned figure, and his hesitant later career with Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible and The Boyars Plot.

Miles Ahead

6.4

2015

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An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

Life

6

2015

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A photographer for LIFE Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean.

Shut Up and Play the Piano

6.9

2018

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Chilly Gonzales is a Grammy-winning composer, virtuoso pianist and entertainer. Criss-crossing between rap, electro and solo piano music, he became the outrageous pop performer who invited himself to the ivory tower of classical music. The eccentric artist inspires and collaborates with the likes of Feist, Jarvis Cocker, Peaches, Daft Punk and Drake. Change seems to be the only constant in Gonzales journey. Every time his audience thinks it has finally figured him out, he makes a radical move and breaks with its expectations. The cinematic documentary Shut Up And Play The Piano follows Gonzales from his native Canada to late 90s underground Berlin, and via Paris to the worlds great philharmonic halls. It dives deep into the dichotomy of Gonzales stage persona, where self-doubt and megalomania are just two sides of the same coin. The playfulness of his character is mirrored in the look of the film. Using Gonzales extensive video archive in a rather unorthodox manner, Shut Up And Play The Piano explores his persona by interweaving newly shot interviews and concert scenes with fictional materials of totally different time periods. Reality and fiction blur together as we embark on a trip through Chilly Gonzales world.

A Tale of Love and Darkness

6

2015

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The story of Amos Ozs youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young mans relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.

Sweet Dreams

7.1

1985

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The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.

King David

4.8

1985

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The Biblical story of Israels greatest King.

American Splendor

7.6

2003

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An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.