Lisa Rinzler Movies

Set in a near-future, militarized world marked by closed borders, virtual labor and a global digital network that joins minds and experiences, three...

"Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That...

After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short...

Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty...

The life and work of Robert Frank—as a photographer and a filmmaker—are so intertwined that they're one in the same, and the vast amount...

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United...

In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and...

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...

A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy,...

Academy Award®–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic...

A summer heat wave and a series of sexual encounters connect a group of New Yorkers.

A cabaret owner tries to keep his club from being taken over by the powers that be.

For six female Holocaust survivors, liberation from the camps marked the beginning of a lifelong struggle.

A television reporter interviews fighters and promoters about Bruce Lee in preparation for a tournament to claim the title of “Successor to the...

Out of the underground dance clubs on the South Side of Chicago, a group of friends turn a new sound into a global movement.

In the future, surgeons practice their skill on androids designed to imitate patients, but Dr. Garrett sees this as pointless since she cares little...

Wim Wenders's atmospheric testimony about the problems he encountered while working on HAMMET(1982) with Francis Ford Coppola, and the differences...

A hot-shot journalist is swept up in a movement to challenge Apartheid in 1950s South Africa.

Reveals the courageous lives of pioneer camerawomen from Hollywood to Bollywood, from war zones to children’s laughter, in a way that has never...

The story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write and skateboard in Kabul.