The best Susan Sontag’s movies

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

16/01/1933- 28/12/2004
We present our ranking of the best Susan Sontag’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Susan Sontag.

Zelig

Zelig
7.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/07/1983
  • Character: Susan Sontag - Contemporary Interviews
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens

Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 19/05/2007
  • Character: Herself - Writer (archive footage)
An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her international success as a photojournalist, war reporter, and pop culture chronicler.

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 02/08/2020
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Women were clearly at the core of legendary photographer Helmut Newton's work. The stars of his iconic portraits and fashion editorials – from Catherine Deneuve to Grace Jones, Charlotte Rampling to Isabella Rossellini – finally give their own interpretation of the life and work of this controversial genius. A portrait by the portrayed. Provocative, unconventional, subversive, his depiction of women still sparks the question: were they subjects or objects?

Regarding Susan Sontag

Regarding Susan Sontag
6.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 20/04/2014
  • Character: herself (archive footage)
An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal, life-changing moments through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words, as read by Patricia Clarkson.

Symphony Of The Invisible

Symphony Of The Invisible
  • Release: 17/11/2020
  • Character: Herself (voice)
"Symphony of the Invisible" is a reflection on creation and how through art, poetry and images you can break the limits that have been imposed on language and life itself.

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 28/11/1965
  • Character: Self
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.

Town Bloody Hall

Town Bloody Hall
7.2/10
Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Diana Trilling — debate the issue of Women's Liberation.

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box

Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
7.7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 29/11/1991
  • Character: Herself
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made those magnificent and strange collage boxes. He was also one of our great experimental filmmakers and once apparently made Salvador Dali extremely jealous at a screening of his masterpiece, Rose Hobart. In this film we get to hear people like Susan Sontag, Stan Brakhage, and Tony Curtis talk about their friendships with the artist. It turns out that Curtis was quite a collector and he seemed to have a very deep understanding of what Cornell was doing in his work.

Galaxie

Galaxie
8.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 03/09/1966
  • Character: Herself
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike Kuchar, most observed in their homes or studios. Filmed in vibrant color, Galaxie pulses with life. It is a masterpiece of in-camera composition and editing, and stands as a vibrant response to Andy Warhol's contemporary Screen Tests.

Improper Conduct

Improper Conduct
7.9/10
The story of the persecution of homosexuals and intellectuals in Cuba under Fidel Castro's dictatorship, from the beginning of the Cuban Revolution (1953-59) until the early 1980s. Interviews with relevant personalities of Cuban culture who suffered persecution demonstrate that concentration camps for gays existed in Cuba.

The Great Magician

The Great Magician
"The Great Magician" - A portrait of Frans Zwartjes (1927-2017), sometimes called 'the most important experimental filmmaker of his time' by the American essayist Susan Sontag.

150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement

150 Miles of Rotting, Rutted, Lumpy, Dilapidated Pavement
A Woman Watches People.

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