For the first time in seven years, Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles returns to the studio with close friends to begin recording her most intimate album yet, born of profound personal loss and grief. Internationally known for pop anthems like “Love Song” and “Brave,” this cinematic portrait observes the most private corners of Sara’s creative process, as well as her personal life. What unfolds in front of the camera is the incredibly raw experience of mining one’s own pain to create art – and the hope that carries an artist forward: that sharing what is broken in oneself might ultimately bring us closer to healing and repair.
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No Country for Mothers is a documentary investigation into the lies used throughout history to distract and divide American mothers. The film opens on a simple truth: motherhood in America is impossible by design. Work ends at 6, but school pickup is at 3. Child care costs more than a paycheck. Some moms are back at work two weeks after giving birth. Moms aren’t broken. The system is. So why hasn’t it changed? Because every time mothers get close to fixing it, someone hands them a culture war instead. Tradwife versus girlboss. Working mom versus stay-at-home mom. It’s the same fight on repeat since the 1950s, just in new costumes. And it works, because the worst thing you can accuse a woman of is being a bad mother. So moms take the bait. They spend their energy defending their choices instead of demanding better ones. And while they fight each other, nothing changes. No Country for Mothers traces that struggle through American history and travels the country to hear from the moms actually living it. Most don’t want to milk a cow or hustle past their kids’ bedtimes. They’re just trying to get through the week without a sick kid or a broken car blowing up the budget.
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From Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Poh Si Teng, American Doctor follows three American physicians— Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—united by a single oath to save lives. After volunteering in besieged hospitals in Gaza, they return home determined to fight for the patients and colleagues they left behind, taking their battle from the front lines of war to the halls of Congress.
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An immersive journey into the world of wild horses, Wild Beauty illuminates both the profound beauty, and desperate plight currently faced by the wild horses in the Western United States. Filmmaker Ashley Avis (Disney’s Black Beauty) and crew go on a multi-year expedition to uncover the truth in hopes to protect them, before wild horses disappear forever. A Q&A with the filmmaker Ashley Avis follows the film, moderated by Elizabeth Novogratz.
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In 1977, PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist from a poor, ‘untouchable’ family, picked up a handful of paintbrushes and a second-hand bicycle and set off on a 6000-mile cross-continent mission – to find Lotta, the woman who had captured his heart. A love story like no other, THE CYCLE OF LOVE is an inspiring, heart-warming, epic true-life adventure about the search for self-belief and risking everything for what your heart tells you. Presented in English and Hindi with English subtitles.
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In memory of our friend and patron, Clive Davis. More than mere biography, CLIVE DAVIS: THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES is a guided tour of a cultural revolution that deeply impacted the music industry through the career of a man who consistently caught the next wave before everyone else — if he didn’t just create the wave himself. From the ’60s to the rise of hip-hop, Davis discovered, mentored, or oversaw an incredible range of performers during his career including: Janis Joplin, Bruce Springsteen, Simon & Garfunkel, Santana, Miles Davis, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, Patti Smith, The Grateful Dead, Kenny G, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Alicia Keys. Many of them are featured, in both archival footage and contemporary interviews, to attest to Davis’ singular talent and blessed life, as well as the work that went into one to create the other. In Aretha’s words, Davis is “the greatest record man of all time,” and this film is definitive, ceaselessly entertaining proof.
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Ten states. 10,825 miles. 123 theaters. Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, theaters struggling to hold on, and theaters that—thanks to their thoughtful caretakers—are not only surviving but thriving. Between the stops along the way, Rustin poetically intersperses excerpts from Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 classic film The Last Picture Show, as well as reflections on past and present hardships facing the film exhibition industry. The Last Picture Shows is not only a timely portrait of an industry in crisis, one facing the headwinds of consolidation, streaming, and the diminishing theatrical experience, but it also reminds viewers that even in vast cinema deserts, there are oases of community and gathering that remain, where the movie house continues to be a place of wonder, contemplation, and connection.
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The 1972 Toronto production of Godspell, the musical about the life of Jesus, starred a then-unknown cast of Martin Short, Gilda Radner, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas, and Victor Garber, et al, with Paul Shaffer serving as musical director – a crazy confluence of talent rivalling ‘Paris in the 20s.’ Featuring interviews with all the surviving members of the cast, as well as other show business luminaries who testify to the production’s profound and lasting influence, the film also makes use of never-before-seen-or-heard archives from the cast, including rare audio recordings of the musical itself, as well as the hilarious cast parties of the gang hanging out at Marty and Eugene’s apartment at 1063 Avenue Road late into the night, which will shed joyful new light on this magical time and place.
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Peter Asher’s extraordinary life has intersected with some of the greatest artists and musical moments of the last six decades. A child actor who became a pop star and then a manager and producer to the likes of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, he is a Zelig-like figure who remains a vital creative force to this day. Featuring interviews with Paul McCartney, Carole King, and many more.
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A Eurasian Eagle-Owl named Flaco escapes from the Central Park Zoo and sets off on a magical odyssey through the island of Manhattan. Flaco overcomes his years of captivity and lack of survival skills to answer the call of the wild – and discovers he was wild inside all along.
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