Tag: Friday Night Flicks
Friday Night Flicks: Lord of the Flies
Peter Brook’s 1963 version of Lord of the Flies is better than William Goldings sensational novel. It’s all the terror and tension of middle school.
Friday Night Flicks – Thin
Director Lauren Greenfield goes inside the Renfrew Center, a South Florida treatment facility specializing in eating disorders, to capture the struggles of four women trying to recover from anorexia and bulimia.
Friday Night Flicks: The Doctor Who Hears Voices
In the interests of privacy, this film has an actress (Ruth Wilson) playing “Ruth,” who seeks help when she starts hearing voices telling her to kill herself — but that’s the real Dr. Rufus May, and he says Ruth’s story is based entirely on fact. May is a National Health Service therapist in the U.K. […]
Friday Night Flicks: Nineteen Eighty-Four
Live BBC production of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, starring Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence and Yvonne Mitchell. READ – Nineteen Eighty-Four (TV programme)
Friday Night Flicks: The One Percent
This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing “wealth gap” in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, […]
Friday Night Flicks: The Quiet One
READ – The ‘Quiet’ man: Eliot man recalls a ‘masterpiece’ film From 16 MM Lost & Found: Dubbed a “genuine masterpiece” by the New York Times, The Quiet One documents a 10 year old African American boy during his time at the Wiltwyck School for Boys. Loathed and essentially abandoned by his family, Donald Peters […]
Friday Night Flicks: Choosing to Die
Choosing to Die In a frank and personal documentary, author Sir Terry Pratchett considers how he might choose to end his life. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2008, Terry wants to know whether he might be able to end his life before his disease takes over. Traveling to the Dignitas Clinic in Switzerland, Terry witnesses first […]
Friday Night Flicks: The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive
The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive – Part One The Secret Life Of The Manic Depressive – Part Two From Top Documentary Films: Stephen Fry presents this documentary exploring the disease of manic depression; a little understood but potentially devastating condition affecting an estimated two percent of the population. Stephen embarks on an emotional […]
Friday Night Flicks: History of the Mad House
From the BBC Four series Mental, made in 2010