Documentaries in “art and entertainment”
CoSM the Movie: Alex Grey and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
CoSM the Movie: Alex Grey and the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors
CoSM The Movie is a magical new kind of documentary experience, leading audiences on an enriching and sense-heightening journey into the visionary art cosmos of world-renowned painter Alex Grey.
Grey is our guide on a cinematic pilgrimage through the Chapel of Sacred Mirrors gallery in New York City, where his vividly rendered depic...
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
It’s not the expected thing for a documentary on Turkish music to open with a quote from Confucius, but that is not the only fascinating surprise that Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul has to offer. The latest film by Fatih Akin, who directed the exceptional Head-On, turns out to be a Bosporus-based Buena Vista Social Club wit...
Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Kurt Cobain: About a Son
Following in the deeply idiosyncratic footsteps of Last Days, About a Son plays more like autobiography than documentary. Gus Van Sant’s feature extrapolates moments from the life of Kurt Cobain (with Michael Pitt as a musician named Blake), while A.J. Schnack’s non-fiction film adheres closer to the facts, but advances a more radical ...
Mike Tyson: Beyond the Glory
Mike Tyson: Beyond the Glory
Who is this famous boxer who one the title in the WBC, WBA and IBF? Mike Tyson was once the most famous and successful boxer in the world.
Mike was the youngest man ever to win a world heavyweight title at just 20 years old. But his life was not always easy.
Mike Tyson – Beyond the Glory shows the becoming of the fighting machine M...
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine
Garry Kasparov is arguably the greatest chess player who has ever lived. In 1997 he played a chess match against IBM’s computer Deep Blue. Kasparov lost the match. This film shows the match and the events surrounding it from Kasparov’s perspective. It delves into the psychological aspects of the game, paranoia surrounding it and suspic...
John and Yoko’s Year of Peace
John and Yoko’s Year of Peace
Amazing that a nearly hour-long film about a Beatle that contains almost no music could still be worthwhile, but that’s the case with John & Yoko’s Year of Peace.
The year in question is 1969, when the newly married couple staged the notorious “bed-in” at a Toronto hotel to promote their somewhat naive but sincere campaign for world...