STEVE! (martin) a documentary in 2 pieces explores his extraordinary life from two distinct points. The film includes never-before-seen footage that includes raw insights into Steve Martin’s professional and personal life.
The film focuses on his struggles to a meteoric rise, revolutionizing stand up and walking away at 35.
The documentary also presents what he is doing today, retracing his transformation.
Ron Howard and his producing buddy Brian Grazer bring us an intimately raw and magical journey through the life, mind, and heart of iconic artist Frida Kahlo. Frida is told through her own words for the first time, drawn from her famed illustrated diary, revealing letters, essays, and candid print interviews — and brought vividly to life by lyrical animation inspired by her unforgettable artwork. The feature film directorial debut of acclaimed editor Carla Gutiérrez, Frida posits a striking context of why the artist—and her art—remains as powerful as ever.
Howard directed the documentary about legendary opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, and he’s continued the genre as a producer.
Covering over 40 years of her life, the filmmakers received unrestricted access to research materials, much never shown to the public before. What is extraordinary about Kahlo’s life and art is how her images would galvanize multiple generations of admirers worldwide, doing more than solidifying her status as a modern artist of timeless import.
In an intensive two-year journey, Gutiérrez and her formidable team of artisans, primarily women and proudly Latine, gathered together to craft a singular cinematic experience that could be no ordinary art history lesson. A living portrait emboldened by the magical realism befitting Kahlo’s remarkable life emerges. Yet, her voice ultimately stands supreme, a complex and powerful sound of many Fridas: fearless, seductive, defiant, vulnerable, raucous, and wonderfully alive.
We know the end of this story, which is sad, but the film Back to Black is a pseudo-celebration of a talented artist, Amy Winehouse, played by Marisa Abela.
Directed by Sam-Taylor Johnson, the movie portrays her turbulent relationship with Blake Fielder-Civil, played by Jack O’Connell, which motivates her to write and record the groundbreaking album Back to Black.
Sam-Taylor Johnson films include:
Fifty Shades of Grey
Nowhere Boy
A Million Little Pieces
It is the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier.
Their volatile marriage suffered because of the loss of their son, Dino, a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi.
Meanwhile, his drivers’ passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.
Based on Brock Yates’ 1991 book Enzo Ferrari: The Man, The Car, The Races, The Machine, with a screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin, Michael Mann directed Ferrari as a character study unlike anything else the director has done on the big screen.
“… Enzo Ferrari, one of the most famous yet inscrutable and complex men of the 20th century. For Mann, that was a perfect hook. “There is no equilibrium in his life, and that’s the whole point of Enzo Ferrari,” says Mann. “That fascinated me because that’s more like the way life actually is,” Mann continues. “Life is asymmetrical. Life is messy. Life is filled with chaos. Ferrari was precise and logical, rational in everything to do with his factory and race team. In the rest of his life, he was impulsive, defensive, libidinous, chaotic. This asymmetry and wonderful contradiction is what made him and the other characters in this unique story so human to me.”
Ridley Scott directs Napoleon with Jacquin Phoenix in the starring role and Vanessa Kirby as Josephine.
It’s a spectacle-filled action film detailing the checkered rise and fall of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.
Along with a stunning backdrop orchestrated by Scott, the story captures Napoleon’s relentless journey to power through the kaleidoscope of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine.
Christopher Nolan continues to bring poignant moments in history to the big screen. Oppenheimer follows the journey of developing the most powerful yet dangerous element that potentially can wipe out Earth and the human race — the fission of the atom.
Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer works with a group of scientists during the infamous Manhattan Project, which leads to the development of the atomic bomb.
The cast includes Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer, Emily Blunt as Katherine Oppenheimer, Robert Downy, Jr. as Lewis Strauss, Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock and Matt Damon as Leslie Groves.
Stephen Williams directs the true story Chevalier based on the life of the composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, played by Kevin Harrison Jr.
Stefani Robinson wrote the screenplay that follows the life of an illegitimate son of a French plantation owner and an African slave mother, played by Ronke Adekoluejo. As a prodigy, he rises to fame and befriends Marie Antoinette.
Bologne because a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer. He even fell in love.
Williams is a Canadian television and film director. He was one of the primary in-house directors for the series Lost.
Steven Spielberg directed this coming-of-age drama from a screenplay he co-wrote with Tony Kushner. The semi-autobiographical story follows Sammy Fabelmen, played by Gabriel LaBelle. Sammy is a yearning filmmaker based on Spielberg himself.
Michelle Williams plays the mother, and Paul Dano plays the father.
Directed by Baz Luhrmann, Elvis follows Colon Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks. At the beginning of the trailer, Parker says, “There are some who make me out to be a villain.”
With the story by Luhrmman and Jeremy Doner, the screenplay is co-written by Luhrmann, Soner, Craig Pearce and Sam Bromell.
The story follows the life and career of the rock-n-roll legend Elvis Presley, played by Austin Butler. Australian, Olivia DeJonge plays Priscilla Presley.