Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film. After spending 2 years and millions of dollars, the massive undertaking eventually fell apart, but the artists Jodorowsky assembled for the legendary project continued to work together. This group of artists, or his “warriors” as Jodorowsky named them, went on to define modern sci-fi cinema with such films as Alien, Blade Runner, Star Wars and Total Recall.

The struggles of Wang Tiancheng, an elderly and cantakerous street vendor in Wuhan, China, whose business is threatened by the development of a new retail district.

“The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975,” among other things an extraordinary feat of editing and archival research, takes up a familiar period in American history from a fresh and fascinating angle. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Swedish television journalists traveled to the United States with the intention of “showing the country as it really is.” Some of the images and interviews they collected have been assembled by Goran Hugo Olsson into a roughly chronological collage that restores a complex human dimension to the racial history of the era.

Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges.

Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor, and grounded in the illuminating presence and words of Didion herself. This is most certainly a film about loss—the loss of a solid American center, the personal losses of a husband and a child—but Didion describes everything she sees and experiences so attentively, so fully, and so bravely that she transforms the very worst of life into occasions for understanding. A Netflix release.

从上世纪50年代开始，Vivian Maier就在工作之余用一台Rollei双反相机拍摄街景，直至2009年逝世，她一共留下了超过10万张胶片，完整记录下芝加哥、纽约和巴黎在过去40年中的变迁。 Vivian Maier的作品直到2007年才被人们发现，她的照片敏锐而直率地捕捉到人们所流露出的情感，城市化进程所带来的变化、不同宗教和文化群体的种种境遇， 也被她记录在胶片中。通过挖掘人们的集体记忆，Vivian Maier展现出生活中动人的一面，将再平凡不过的日常景象，转变为出色的生活纪实， 从某种意义上说，足以与William Klein、Cartier-Bresson这些当时最著名的街头摄影师比肩。 2007年在一场拍卖会上被电影制片人John Maloof拍得后重见天日，她遂被摄影界公认为是20世纪最伟大的摄影师之一。 值得一提的是，Vivian Maier生前才华横溢，却默默无闻做了40年保姆，去世后留下10万多张芝加哥街景和街头人像底片， Vivian Maier的正式职业是一名保姆，她的所有拍摄都是在工作之外的业余时间里完成的，由于经济原因，绝大多数胶片都没有冲洗。 你不需要成为一名摄影师，一样可以成为一个出色的记录者。

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.