Writing
Gavin Lambert (23 July 1924 – 17 July 2005) was a British screenwriter, novelist, and biographer.
Documentary about Hollywood during the silent film era.
Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends and colleagues to provide a picture of the director’s unique accomplishments and to trace the arc of his career.
A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.
Biographical documentary on director Lindsay Anderson, featuring interviews with friends, family, and colleages.
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Tennessee William’s masterful melodrama about an aging movie star who, appalled by her own image on the screen, flees from her movie premiere and goes into seclusion, becoming entangled with a much younger hotel masseur and resident gigolo.
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashback to 1964 before she was out as trans, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Her psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with her and sends her to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and parenthood, she comes out as trans, with a new life in California.
After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.
An actress is persuaded by a charming man to join him in a scheme of revenge against his cousin.
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman husband, 20 years her senior, has been the angel for the play and gives her a way out: They are off to a holiday in Rome for his health. He suffers a fatal heart attack on the plane. Mrs. Stone stays in Rome. She leases a magnificent apartment with a view of the seven hills from the terrace. Then the contessa comes calling to introduce a young man named Paolo to her. The contessa knows many presentable young men and lonely American widows.