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While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves the inspirations for his films

Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple directs this documentary portrait of Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Woody Allen, seen traveling with friends and fellow musicians during their New Orleans jazz bands 1996 European tour

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion

A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act

A group of filmmakers visit Ingmar Bergmans house on the remote Swedish island of Faro to discuss his legacy

Facing a mid life crisis, 50 year old college dean Marion Post takes a sabbatical and rents an apartment next to a psychiatrists office to write a new book, then is drawn to the plight of a pregnant woman seeking that doctors help

Suffering from writers block and eagerly awaiting his writing award, Harry Block remembers events from his past and scenes from his best selling books as characters, real and fictional, come back to haunt him

Composer, conductor, genius, mensch, Marvin Hamlisch was as close to a modern day Da Vinci as it gets Hit after hit The Way We Were, Nobody Does It Better, The Sting, Chorus Line, Marvin was irrepressible and prolific

The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into

Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of prominent filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles,

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman

Jerry Falk learns a lesson the hard way when he falls in love with the beautiful but flighty Amanda

The iconic Carlyle hotel has been an international destination for a particular jet set as well as a favorite haunt of the most discernible New Yorkers

When their best friends announce that theyre separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage

Sallys parents marriage breaks up when her father undergoes a mid life crisis and impulsively weds a prostitute Meanwhile, Sallys own marriage also begins to disintegrate

The life and times of Virgil Starkwell, inept bank robber

Two young peoples bond leads to marital infidelity and ultimately crime

A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancees family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight

A documentary on Woody Allen that trails him on his movie sets and follows him back to Brooklyn as he visits his childhood haunts

In the early 20th century, wacky inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian invite two other couples for a weekend party at their romantic summer house in the countryside in this paean to Ingmar Bergmans Smiles of a Summer Night

Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback

Renowned scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss cross the globe as they speak publicly about the importance of science and reason in the modern world

On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle aged carousel operator, his beleaguered wife and the visitor who turns their lives upside down

A director is forced to work with his ex wife, who left him for the boss of the studio bankrolling his new film But the night before the first day of shooting, he develops a case of psychosomatic blindness

When he discovers his adopted son is a genius, a New York sportswriter seeks out the boys birth mother a ditzy porn star and prostitute

A film critic obsessed with Casablanca 1942 seeks to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart

A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister She looks like a million dollars but isnt bringing money, peace or love

Two alternating stories, one comedy and the other tragedy, about Melindas attempts to straighten out her life

An insurance investigator and an efficiency expert who hate each other are both hypnotized by a crooked hypnotist with a jade scorpion into stealing jewels

On their 16th anniversary, a married couples trip to a Beverly Hills mall becomes the stage for personal revelations and deceptions

Seven stories are trying to answer the question what is sex Or maybe they are not trying

An ophthalmologists mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman

Magician David Blaine ventures across America from New York to Los Angeles, performing to various celebrities and the general public

In the 1930s, a Bronx native moves to Hollywood and falls in love with a young woman who is seeing a married man

Two friends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re enter the picture