Media Criticism Movies
- 2019
Velvet Buzzsaw
Velvet Buzzsaw5.3642019HD
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovere...
- 1972
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful6.5531972HD
Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur déno...
- 2012
The New Watchdogs
The New Watchdogs7.42012HD
In 1932, the writer Paul Nizan published "The New Watchdogs" to denounce the philosophers and writers of his time who, sheltering behind intellectual...
- 1979
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs5.21979HD
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of findin...
- 2011
Big Boys Gone Bananas!*
Big Boys Gone Bananas!*6.82011HD
The conflict between Dole Food Company and Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten unfolds dramatically in the documentary "BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!" as the c...
- 2019
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project6.72019HD
Marion Stokes secretly recorded television 24 hours a day for 30 years from 1975 until her death in 2012. For Marion taping was a form of activism to...
- 2015
The Enchanting Porkers
The Enchanting Porkers02015HD
The movie "Swineherds" is a satirical anti-musical which deals with the phenomena of the media sensationalism that trivializes even the most serious a...
- 2024
Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream
Brand New You: Makeover Television and the American Dream02024HD
What do popular television makeover programs like What Not to Wear, The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Swan tell us about how...
- 2021
Beyond Borders
Beyond Borders42021HD
Pilot JP Schulze and filmmaker Louis Cole set off to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine, 1974 Cessna T210L airplane named Balloo. They had 90...
- 2024
The Inexhaustible Variety of Life
The Inexhaustible Variety of Life02024HD
- 2010
Fin de concession
Fin de concession6.82010HD
Pierre Carles questions the privatization of the leading French televisions channel : is it not scandalous that the TFI-Bouygues concession has been a...
- 2021
Love in the Time of Corona
Love in the Time of Corona2.52021HD
A video essay by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make sure that you are...
- 2021
The Denigration of Carl Skiln
The Denigration of Carl Skiln02021HD
Up against a deadline, a narcissistic screenwriter forces two of his worst critics to delete their reviews of his work at gunpoint.
- 2000
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games
Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games02000HD
Video and computer games represent a $6 billion a year industry. One out of every ten households in American owns a Sony Playstation. Children who own...
- 1977
The Storyteller
The Storyteller01977HD
A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.
- 2024
A Weak & Panicked Animal
A Weak & Panicked Animal02024HD
Enclosed by a civilised landscape, society reduces the problem of human survival to a minimum. The sidewalk, the fence, the clearing, demarcate a trea...
- 2020
The America Bureau
The America Bureau02020HD
Journalists from around the world are reporting on the 2020 Presidential race-and offering perspectives not found in American media coverage.