2022 documentary film

This feature-length documentary is a cinematic biography of a song. Inspired by "The Holy or the Broken," Alan Light's critically acclaimed book, it is a definitive exploration of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."

Rating? 3/10 for the story, 10/10 for the music.

2020 film by Jia Zhangke

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《完全精神手册》一片的主角山本昌知，决定在82岁那年从临床医学领域退休，这使多年来一直依赖他的患者们感到非常焦虑。在2020年早春，山本夫妇开启了新的生活。这对他们来说，意味着要去面对从未有过的挑战，现在他需要花更多的时间照顾他的妻子芳子。

日本官方开记招，只视作例行公事，偏偏有一人穷追不舍，要求官员讲人话。《东京新闻》记者望月衣塑子以打烂沙盆问到笃的求真态度，追究填海工程忽视污染，跟进伊藤诗织遭性侵案，质疑政府高层利益输送。其故事曾被改编成电影《新闻记者》The Journalist（藤井道人2019年导演作品），引起社会回响。森达也（《我在真理教的日子》，23 届）找来望月衣塑子本人，纪录她如何在父权社会挑战贪腐高墙，在强调集体和服从的社会，坚持「我」的独立思考，维护传媒作为第四权监察政府的责任。

A visionary, innovator, and originator who defied categorization and embodied the word cool: a foray into the life and career of musical and cultural icon Miles Davis.

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.

Chris Marker's elliptical, oblique documentary on the making of Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" is an uneasy blend of hagiography (usual Cahiers du Cinema stuff) and Marker's trademark meditations on the mediating role of technology in memory and the human experience, plus probably aging, and etc., etc., etc. These Gallicisms seem out-of-place; but the philosophies are easily discarded. What makes the film a pleasure are the glimpses we see of Kurosawa's work processes, in addition to all the detail and work that goes into the making of a true epic.

Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.

电影从一封来自1969年的信开始追溯，谈及独立前原住民被奴役的黑暗历史，直到1969年发生的种族冲突事件，电影记录下这些不被谈论及允许的回忆，探讨种族之间造成仇恨与隔阂的原因，入围台北电影奖最佳纪录片等三项大奖。

'Walk With Me' follows a community of Zen Buddhist monks and nuns who have dedicated their lives to mastering the art of mindfulness with their world-famous teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. Filmed over three years in France and the USA, this intimate and meditative film travels deep inside a world that seems far from our everyday, and reveals how the monastics transform suffering in themselves and in others through their deep enquiry into the nature of existence, suffering, and their true selves. 《正念的奇跡》拍攝了一群禪修出家人的社群。他們畢生致力于追隨國際知名的老師一行禪師掌握正念的藝術。拍攝時間前後歷時超過三年，橫跨法國、美國。這部親切又發人深思的電影，進入了一個遠離我們日常生活的世界，並且揭示了僧侶們如何通過深入探尋存在的本質、煩惱的由來和各自真實的自己轉化自己和他人的煩惱。

2019 documentary film by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with two hundred stores, in thirty countries, on five continents. From humble beginnings in a small-town drugstore, Tower Records eventually became the heart and soul of the music world, and a powerful force in the music industry. In 1999, Tower Records made $1 billion. In 2006, the company filed for bankruptcy. What went wrong? Everyone thinks they know what killed Tower Records: The Internet. But that's not the story. "All Things Must Pass" is a feature documentary film examining this iconic company's explosive trajectory, tragic demise, and legacy forged by its rebellious founder Russ Solomon.

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the recording of Aretha Franklin's best-selling album finally sees the light of day more than four decades after the original footage was shot.

This intimate portrait of Andy Warhol pulls together a unique library of material shot by New York film legend Jonas Mekas. Spanning from 1963 to 1990, the film features a cast of counterculture icons including Allen Ginsberg, George Maciunas, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono, as well as John and Caroline Kennedy, and Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy Onassis's sister and Warhol muse)—to whom Mekas dedicates the film. The film features footage from the Velvet Underground's first public performance. A portrait of the remarkable life of arguable the twentieth century's most famous artist and leading iconographer.

In 1969, a Japanese detective film Black Lizard was released. It went on to become a cult classic. The main character "Black Lizard" was played by Akihiro Miwa, who has been a Japanese icon for the last 50 years. Since his rise to fame in the 1960s, singer and actor Miwa Akihiro has been an inspiration to writers, artists, musicians, film and theater makers. For years being the sole public figure in Japan to openly declare his homosexuality, Miwa has also encouraged openness and a feeling of identity among young Japanese homosexuals. Directed by French director Pascal-Alex Vincent, Miwa: A Japanese Icon is the first authorized documentary about the wonderful and iconic Japanese artist.

MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema- verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.