Gabriel Chávez Movies
- 2019

Sniffing Out ‘Polyester’
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Featurette on the making of John Waters' "Polyester."
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- 2016

The Way of Folk
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In this brand new featurette, executive producer T Bone Burnett and the Coen brothers discuss the history of some of the songs that heard in Inside...
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- 2018

Something in the Air: Making "sex, lies, and videotape"
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Produced for the Criterion Collection in 2018, the documentary features actors Peter Gallagher, Andie MacDowell, and Laura San Giacomo discussing...
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- 2015

Birth Pains
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Fun thirty-three minute documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's THE BROOD features interviews with star Samantha Eggar, executive producer...
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- 2016

Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker
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A conversation between Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker.
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- 2016

Shooting 'Blood Simple'
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Telestrator commentary and interview with Joel and Ethan Coen and Barry Sonnenfeld.
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- 2000

In The Country Where Nothing Happens
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A crooked CEO is kidnapped and nobody cares enough to pay his ransom.
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- 2017

Manthia Diawara on 'Borom Sarret'
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In this 2016 piece, filmmaker and cultural theorist Manthia Diawara (“African Film: New Forms and Aesthetics and Politics”) addreses the...
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- 2020

In Her Own Image: Kelley Conway on Agnès Varda
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Scholar Kelley Conway discusses director Agnès Varda’s unique approach to self-representation in THE BEACHES OF AGNÈS, in this...
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- 2019

Jay Cocks and Farran Smith Nehme on 'The Heiress'
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In this 2018 Criterion Collection program, screenwriter Jay Cocks and film critic Farran Smith Nehme discuss the adaptation for the film version of...
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- 2024

In Her Own Words
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This visual essay, produced in 2023, builds upon rare radio interviews that Chantal Akerman gave in 1975 and 1977, in which she reflects on her films...
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- 2016

Sharon Malone and Eric Holder
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An interview with Sharon Malone and Eric Holder regarding the 1963 desegregation of the University of Alabama.
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- 2014

Hollywood Propaganda and World War II
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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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- 2021

A Very Tricky Balance
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In this program, director Bing Liu, executive producer Gordon Quinn, and producer Diane Quon discuss the conception of Minding the Gap and its...
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- 2018

Cliff and Larry: Beginnings
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Sound editor/re-recording mixer Larry Blake and composer Cliff Martinez have worked with director Steven Soderbergh since the beginning of his...
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- 2013

Table Scraps: Notes on Babette's Feast
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In this essay on Babette's Feast, filmmaker Michael Almereyda charts the path from Isak Dinesen’s story to Gabriel Axel’s film, taking...
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- 2015

Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
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Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star.
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- 2022

Where It Began: The Origins of WALL·E
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In this program, created for the Criterion Collection in 2022, writer-director Andrew Stanton explores the films that inspired his approach to...
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- 2025

City Wide Fever
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Sam, a young film student, discovers a USB detailing the life and career of forgotten Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi. As she begins to...
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- 2020

The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
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An interview with Paul Schrader on his 1990 film "The Comfort of Strangers"
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