Category Documentary

It is the eternal problem of musical biopics: is it possible to have a 100% sincere portrait, in the highs as in the bass, when is it a band mate or a relative of the protagonist of the biography to produce or co-produce? In fact in cases where the image that emerges from the musician is anything but sweetened – like Jimi: All Is by My Side on Jimi Hendrix – the production is forced to renounce the rights to the original songs of the artist...

Mythical Wrestling wrestler, showman, film actor, André the Giant was a figure literally bigger than life and entered the collective imagination, at least in the Western one...

A documentary that analyzes the penitentiary system of the United States of America telling the life of Bruce Lisker who spent twenty-six years in prison for a crime he never committed...

All Eyez on Me accounts the life and inheritance of Tupac Shakur, including his ascent to superstardom as a hip-bounce craftsman, on-screen character, artist and dissident, and in addition his detainment and productive, questionable time at Death Row Records...

In 2007, the actor Oscar winner Adrien Brody fell in love with a partially burned stone barn tucked away in the north woods of upstate New York, who reminded him of an old European castle. Trying to realize the dream of a lifetime, in having a place in the country, it has decided to risk buying this charming inn, but dilapidated. Adrien has dealt the elaborate restoration of the property for seven years, transforming it into a magical place to share with family and friends...

Kim Baker arrives in Afghanistan, in Kabul, as a war reporter. He does not know the real situation of the place and in the first days hard to get used to this new life. Tina Fey, icon of the Hollywood comedy, plays the American journalist in Glenn Ficarra and John Requa movie based on the book-truth of the Baker “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a black comedy with a more political and social subtext. The directors of Crazy, Stupid Love through a blatant comedy show the effects of war even on those not directly involved: Kim begins to get used to the danger, that life always on the cutting edge, where even a journalist would do anything for a ‘ exclusive for its network. The horror of war has become a commodity, like everything. Thanks to a cast of actors always impeccable, Alfred Molina who plays the national prosecutor and Martin Freeman as the Scottish journalist Iain, the film maintains an increasingly fast-paced with never a failure...

La Traviata is considered one of the finest works of Verdi and the traditional staging of Richard Eyre is one of the most popular productions of the Royal Opera House. It is the story of a Parisian courtesan Violetta Valery, one of the great heroines of opera history, that is inspired by the story of the courtesan Marie Duplessis, who died in 1847, at the age of 23 years...

In 2013, holed up in a hotel room in Hong Kong, the twenty-nine Edward Snowden, former coach of the CIA and the NSA computer consultant, revealed, sensitive data in hand, the British newspaper The Guardian and documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, l ‘ existence of different mass surveillance programs, kept secret intelligence programs, which guarantee the US government an extremely invasive monitoring level and against any privacy rights on its territory and the rest of the world, passed with the security excuse...

The events of the Prince of Denmark whose father was killed by his uncle who soon after he married his mother, his dilemmas, his feigned madness and relive the tragic death in a mass in the National Theatre scene starring Benedict Cumberbatch ...

It is 1950 and Brazil has the entire ear radio or their eyes to the small screen: it is a matter of national pride. The home defeat at the hands of Uruguay, in the last game of the World Championships in Rio, throwing the country into a state of collective despair and devastating. Through the implementation of practical discussion of the ginga, the expression of a happy and spectacular football, Brazilians bring into question their own identity and their worldview. But not the little I say, 9 years old, played football elf shoeless between Bauru alleys...