The best Kevin Brownlow’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kevin Brownlow’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Kevin Brownlow.
Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
7.7/10
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
Notfilm
6.7/10
NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production meetings, and other rare archival elements.
Louise Brooks
7.4/10
55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
7.5/10
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.
Birth of the Tramp
7/10
A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot.
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
7.3/10
Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. As star of two of the best comedies ever made, Show People and The Patsy, she combined zany slapstick and exuberant mimicry. Glamorous, witty and kind, both on screen and off, Davies was also famous for her 35-year-long love affair with William Randolph Hearst.
Image Makers: The Adventures of America's Pioneer Cinematographers
7.8/10
Documentary following the history of America's first cinematographers.
Cartoon Carnival
7.9/10
Cartoon Carnival tells the story of the pioneering early days of the animated art-form and chronicles one film preservationist's quest to rescue pre-sound cartoons from obscurity and screen them to new, appreciative audiences.
-about 'The White Bus'
7.3/10
Follows the creation of Lindsay Anderson's The White Bus (1968), from pre-production to the shoot and in post.
