Casting By

Casting By

This essential new documentary pays tribute to the legacy of the late, legendary casting director Marion Dougherty and shines a light on one of the...

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The Booksellers

The Booksellers

What once seemed like an esoteric world now seems essential to our culture: the community of rare book dealers and collectors who, in their love of...

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Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes

Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes

Historian Andrew Cohen discusses Robert Drew's 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment.

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Uncropped

Uncropped

A legendary Village Voice photojournalist recounts the stories behind iconic images taken over the course of a five-decade career. A visual...

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The Happy House

The Happy House

Their relationship on the rocks, a young Brooklyn couple heads to a remote B&B to work things out. But from the moment they arrive at The Happy...

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Babe Ruth Footage

Babe Ruth Footage

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 Center...

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Not Interested

Not Interested

A spaced out knife salesman makes the house call of a lifetime.

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A Hole in a Fence

A Hole in a Fence

The changing face of Red Hook -- a one-of-a-kind neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. -- is the subject of this rich examination of city living by...

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Weimar on the Pacific

Weimar on the Pacific

In this documentary, film scholars Gerd Germünden and Noah Isenberg discuss the artistic origins of Marlene Dietrich in the cabarets of Weimar...

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Homay King on 'Shanghai Express'

Homay King on 'Shanghai Express'

Film scholar Homay King discusses director Josef von Sternberg's cinematic China and the role of star Anna May Wong in 'Shanghai Express'.

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Hollywood Propaganda and World War II

Hollywood Propaganda and World War II

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT was released a year before the U.S. entered World War II. The ending of the film was added at the last minute to bolster...

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In Search of Tracy Lord

In Search of Tracy Lord

Playwright Philip Barry and actor Katharine Hepburn, both experiencing career downturns in the late 1930s, worked closely together to create the...

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Sharon Malone and Eric Holder

Sharon Malone and Eric Holder

An interview with Sharon Malone and Eric Holder regarding the 1963 desegregation of the University of Alabama.

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Sweating In The Night

Sweating In The Night

A young man revisits his past in search of the girl of his dreams. He finds her - and her psychopath boyfriend.

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A Favor for Jerry

A Favor for Jerry

A FAVOR FOR JERRY follows Khan (Khan Baykal, ALWAYS SHINE, THE HAPPY HOUSE) as he crosses NYC filling in for a pot-dealing friend on election day...

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Too Cold to Swim

Too Cold to Swim

A man crossing Maine at the end of a solo cross country bicycle trip strikes up an unlikely friendship with an ex-Marine and his oddball younger...

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Between Horror, Fear, and Beauty

Between Horror, Fear, and Beauty

Crew members recount the production of the 1961 gothic film 'The Innocents.'

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Dancing on the Silk Razor

Dancing on the Silk Razor

A writer begins to question the originality of his ideas, sending him into a metaphysical crisis. Narrated by Wallace Shawn.

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