Peter Becker Movies

2010
Underworld: How it Came to Be
Underworld: How it Came to Be
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Documentary on the making of Josef von Sternberg's 'Underworld,' which launched the American gangster genre as we know it.
2018
Poitier's Walter Lee
Poitier's Walter Lee
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An interview with film scholar Mia Mask, co-editor of Poitier Revisited.
2007
Life as a Dream
Life as a Dream
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Fim scholar Vida T. Johnson, co-author of 'The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue, discusses the significance of 'Ivan's Childhood' in...
2010
Tadao Sato on Ozu's The Only Son
Tadao Sato on Ozu's The Only Son
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Documentary and interview with Japanese film critic and scholar Tadao Sato about Yasujiro Ozu film The Only Son.
2006
Reviving Harry Lime
Reviving Harry Lime
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Radio producer Harry Alan Towers discusses his work with Orson Welles.
2005
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
Lucas, Coppola & Kurosawa
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An featurette with George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola looking back on their experience working alongside iconic filmmaker Akira Kurosawa on...
1970
Projection/Admiration
Projection/Admiration
01970HD
Charli contemplates the messiness of the ethics in filmmaking and collaboration.
2020
Miranda July: Where it Began
Miranda July: Where it Began
02020HD
In this documentary, produced in 2019, director Miranda July and filmmaker Lena Dunham explore July’s beginnings, including her early work as a...
2016
Coming to America: Jan Troell on 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land'
Coming to America: Jan Troell on 'The Emigrants' and 'The New Land'
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An interview with director Jan Troell, conducted by critic Peter Cowie, on his epic Oscar-nominated masterpieces, The Emigrants (1971) and The New...
2020
Uncovering The Naked City
Uncovering The Naked City
02020HD
In this short documentary and personal essay, Bruce Goldstein, founder of Rialto Pictures and repertory director at New York’s FIlm Forum,...
2006
Making Sweetie
Making Sweetie
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Stars Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston recall their work in Jane Campion's 1989 film 'Sweetie'.
2005
Dreams and Burdens
Dreams and Burdens
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A retrospective interview with director Werner Herzog.
2018
Homay King on 'Shanghai Express'
Homay King on 'Shanghai Express'
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Film scholar Homay King discusses director Josef von Sternberg's cinematic China and the role of star Anna May Wong in 'Shanghai Express'.
2015
Babe Ruth Footage
Babe Ruth Footage
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One of SPEEDY’s many delights is a surprise cameo by Babe Ruth. In this new piece, David Filipi, director of film and video at the Wexner...
2016
Hans Fromm on 'Phoenix'
Hans Fromm on 'Phoenix'
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New interview with cinematographer Hans Fromm.
2019
On Camera: Fifteen Apollo Astronauts and Their Experience of a Lifetime
On Camera: Fifteen Apollo Astronauts and Their Experience of a Lifetime
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A collection of excerpted on-screen interviews with fifteen of the Apollo astronauts.
2018
Dietrich Icon
Dietrich Icon
02018HD
Film scholars Mary Desjardins, Amy Lawrence, and Patricia White consider the collaboration between Marlene Dietrich and Josef von Sternberg, as well...
2019
Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'
Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'
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In this 2018 Criterion Collection program, screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme discuss the adaptation for the film version of...
2014
John Bailey on Freddie Francis
John Bailey on Freddie Francis
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Cinematographer John Bailey discusses director of photography Freddie Francis's innovations for the 1961 film 'The Innocents', and how Francis and...
1970
Miles Goes Modal
Miles Goes Modal
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In 2006, jazz trumpeter Jon Faddis and critic Gary Giddins discuss the iconic Miles Davis and the critical time in his career when the score for...