[Part 1] Alan Yentob travels to Los Angeles to meet acclaimed director, screenwriter and producer Werner Herzog. The pair discuss Herzog's career to date, including films such as Rescue Dawn, Grizzly Man and Fitzcarraldo - one of several projects that saw him working with eccentric actor Klaus Kinski. They also talk about what the future might hold for a man known to be uncompromising in his search for the truth.
Religion as superstition, superstition as religion.
from Werner Herzog's 'Encounters at the end of the world'
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[Part 1] Filmmaker Joseph Bullman uncovers the nation's ancient heritage of binge-drinking, rudeness, violence, hooliganism, slaggishness, consumerism and bigotry in The Seven Sins of England.
Tarkovsky candidly and articulately discusses the difficulties of making films under the censors of the Soviet Union. He explores his aesthetic ideology, filmmakers he admires, and his eventual self-exile from Russia. He talks about recurring images in his movies - water, horses, fire, snow - but adamantly refuses to divulge what they mean, as he feels that would impose his own meaning onto the audience. At times cagey and resistant to interviewers, Tarkovsky nevertheless reveals his vision and his rigorous devotion to his art.
Historical documentary examining a remarkable escape attempt from Alcatraz prison. In June 1962, three inmates successfully broke out of the jail and took to the waters of San Francisco Bay in a makeshift raft, never to be seen again. The film uses interviews with former inmates, guards and FBI agents to piece together the story of the escape, while three modern-day coastguards board a replica of the raft to see if it could have carried the men to freedom.
[Part 2] Expressionist painter Chuck Connelly was at the top of the New York art scene in the 1980s. This film tells the story of his fall from grace.
[Part 2] Filmmaker Joseph Bullman uncovers the nation's ancient heritage of binge-drinking, rudeness, violence, hooliganism, slaggishness, consumerism and bigotry in The Seven Sins of England.
Documentary about the life of Gregory Rasputin. Facts taken from official documents released by the Soviet Archives.
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