Gabriel Chávez Movies
- 2016
The Highest Standards — Shih Chun on A Touch of Zen
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In this short documentary, actor Shih Chun addresses his longtime collaboration with director King Hu and his performance as Gu Sheng-zhai in A Touch...
- 2016
Art-house Martial Arts — Tony Rayns on A Touch of Zen
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In this short documentary, film critic Tony Rayns discusses director King Hu and A Touch of Zen.
- 2017
Hawks on Hawks
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This ten-minute segment, heralded as part of a new shorts program, is composed of excerpts from a 1972 audio conversation between Hawks and Peter...
- 2011
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
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In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well...
- 2016
The Way of Folk
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In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside...
- 2016
The Reluctant Lead — Hsu Feng on A Touch of Zen
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In this short documentary, actress Hsu Feng discusses her iconic role as Yang Hui-zhen in King Hu's A Touch of Zen.
- 2015
Birth Pains
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Fun thirty-three minute documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's THE BROOD features interviews with star Samantha Eggar, executive producer...
- 2021
Undressing a Legacy
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In this interview, conducted in spring 2021, scholar Nick Rees-Roberts traces the influence of La Piscine on the worlds of film and fashion in the...
- 2020
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
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An interview with Paul Schrader on his 1990 film "The Comfort of Strangers"
- 2015
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
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Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star.
- 2022
Where It Began: The Origins of WALL·E
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In this program, created for the Criterion Collection in 2022, writer-director Andrew Stanton explores the films that inspired his approach to...
- 2017
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson
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In this 25-minute video essay, film scholar David Bordwell, co-author of "Film Art: An Introduction", conducts an analysis of Howard Hawks's "His...
- 2019
Evan Dalton Smith on Andy Griffith
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'A Face in the Crowd' was Andy Griffith's first film role; he would go on to be most famous for his folksy portrayal of Sheriff Andy Taylor on...
- 2018
Weimar on the Pacific
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In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar...
- 2000
In The Country Where Nothing Happens
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A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
- 2021
Passion Project
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Explores the ten-year journey of adapting Uzodinma Iweala's 2005 novel "Beasts of No Nation" into the 2015 film.
- 2022
Reflecting On Take Out
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In this new documentary, produced by the Criterion Collection in 2022, directors Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou and actors Charles Jang, Wang-Thye...
- 2016
Way Out on a Limb
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Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style...
- 2013
Table Scraps: Notes on Babette's Feast
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In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking...
- 2018
Dietrich Icon
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Film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White consider the collaboration between Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, as well...