Calvin Trillin Movies

Tobacco heiress Doris Duke develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Talking about his father’s loneliness s...

Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simult...

Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.

Four generations of a Jewish immigrant family create Russ and Daughters, a Lower East Side lox and herring emporium that survives and thrives. Produce...

A documentary on the oddball Greenwich Village eatery, Shopsin's.

Every great cook secretly believes in the power of food. Alice Waters just believes this more than anybody else. She is certain that we are what we ea...