Movies: Clara Kuperberg

Portrait of one the most fantastic American cartoonist, author of MAUS, Pulitzer Prize in 1992....

Milos Forman and guests look at his career from his departing Czechoslovakia and his arrival in America with stories and interviews about The Fireman's Ball, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People Vs Larry Flynt, and The Man on the Moon...

A documentary about film noir films made in Los Angeles....

The True Story of the Barrymores is the story of 3 generations of actors who, from the birth of cinema to the advent of social networking, left their mark on the entertainment industry. It is also the story of a cursed generation and a legacy that wi...

Riffing on the topics covered in his brilliant "best selling, award winning" 1996 book My Dark Places, Ellroy takes us on a tour of his hometown both past and present in this short, entertaining film....

Dorothy Arzner was Hollywood's most powerful director, though History has forgotten her. She began working in the film industry at 19 as a "cutter" before the advent of editors, and gradually worked her way up through the studio system. Determined an...

Exploring the radical changes which hit Hollywood in the 1960s and 70s, with a new breed of director and actor, and the anti-hero very much replacing the all-American hero....

Biography on the famous writer-director, Billy Wilder....

This documentary by Clara and Julia Kuperberg examines how a set of moral guidelines known as the Hays Code influenced movie-making in Hollywood from the 30s through to the late 60s....

The dashing and dazzling Douglas Fairbanks was the movie star who "swashbuckled in Zorro, dueled exuberantly in Robin Hood and soared magnificently in The Thief of Bagdad"-- He was the "First King of Hollywood"....

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Story of a director Stanley Donen, king of Hollywood musicals and man behind such classics as "Singin' in the Rain"....

Martin Scorsese, in New York, talks about the musics in his films and all his influence and great composers as Bernard Herrmann or Bernstein. From Mean Streets to Aviator....

A documentary on the family of brothers who formed the Warner Bros studio....

Looks at roles given to women in Hollywood over the years and the development of 'chick flicks'. Writers, critics and studio executives including Nora Ephron, Molly Haskell and Linda Obst, discuss the rise of chick flicks....

During the 1930s anti-Semitism was rampant not only in Germany but also in America. There was a German American Bund and pro-Nazi rallies even filled Madison Square Gardens in New York City. And the US was isolationist. Until Pearl Harbor, then, ever...

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