What to Watch Right Now

Melody Maker Magazine’s Chief Contributing Photographer (1965-1975), Barrie Wentzell tells the story of the rise and fall of the magazine, which marked the end to a style of rock n’ roll journalism that no longer exists today.

Kevin Mann

A late night knock at the door from an absent friend brings the question - "I need you to come with me, but I can't tell you where we're going or what we're going to do." How far would you go to help those you care about?

A chronicle of the Holocaust, exploring stories of survival, tragedy, hope, and resilience through one of history's darkest chapters.

AFTERWARD delves into the secret wounds carried by victims as well as victimizers as the Jerusalem-born filmmaker seeks to make sense of the the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the wave of anti-Semitism sweeping the globe.

When famous actress Rebecca Rosetti suffers a nervous breakdown and holes up in a seaside motel in Venice Beach, her estranged twin brother Matthew must make a choice: sell his explosive tell-all book about their childhood or save his troubled sister from herself.

Factory and construction workers, farmers, commuters, miners, students. The director captures the state of his nation, by static filming one or more people in more or less motionless poses. No narrative, just portraits.

The testament of a former concentration camp prisoner confronts and turns the lives of two young people from different worlds around, shedding light on the tragic history of their family.

How do you remember somebody in a disposable world? UNTITLED PIZZA MOVIE is a six-part limited series, that weaves an abandoned film about pizza (shot in NYC in the 1990s), and a stunning, filmed archive (thousands of objects), with a remarkable triple portrait, tracing the trajectory of three lives, across thirty years and three continents. Written and directed by celebrated filmmaker, David Shapiro, UNTITLED PIZZA MOVIE examines the fault lines of class, friendship, filmmaking, and memory.

Set on the streets of Los Angeles at night, Disco'd is a portrait of the fastest-growing homeless population in the US. Focusing on human behavior within the frame of displacement, Disco'd offers an immersive, personal perspective, while also highlighting broader issues such as consumerism, addiction, affordable housing, and public health.

In 2016, June (Allison Tolman) and Edward (Ray Santiago) are having a disagreement about David Bowie's death and its effect on their relationship when he suddenly disappears in a flash of light. Twenty-four years later in the year 2040, June lives alone next door to friend Samuel (Jeff Perry), still mourning the loss of Edward. Since the state institutionalizes everyone after their 60th birthday and since she's nearly 60, she and her neighbor are planning to flee to Mexico to escape confinement when suddenly still-youthful Edward reappears the same way he disappeared. Will she still leave with Samuel, or stay and reunite with Edward, despite their age difference?

Home to the nation's largest Latino immigrant population, East Los Angeles sits squarely in the crossfire of debate about American identity. Yet every November, this community comes together for a distinctly American event, drawing 25,000 proud locals to one of the country's fiercest high school football rivalry games: The East L.A. Classic. The All-Americans follows four students seeking glory on the field, while grappling with personal obstacles and striving to make sense of their community's place in today's America.

Nina and Madeleine, two retired women, are secretly deeply in love for decades. From everybody's point of view, including Madeleine's family, they are simply neighbors living on the top floor of their building. They come and go between their two apartments, sharing the tender delights of everyday life together. Until the day their relationship is turned upside down by an unexpected event leading Madeleine's daughter to slowly unveil the truth about them.

Yaadi falls in love with Rehmat, an innocent and focused student. Rehmat's father decides to arrange her marriage with a law-abiding man called Yuvi which places Rehmat at a crossroad in her life.

On the Annapurna Massif, Tukten, a young Nepali man setting off for a new life as a laborer in Dubai, encounters an older Australian woman who causes him to change course and discover his homeland in a new light.

Break On Thru: A Celebration of Ray Manzarek and The Doors is a concert documentary from a 2016 all-star performance in Los Angeles that John Densmore and Robby Krieger, the two surviving members of The Doors, developed to celebrate what would have been Manzarek's 70th birthday. As well as the all star concert there's never before seen footage from The Doors archives and new Interviews from Densmore and Krieger. It's a one of a kind documentary about a very special person and a legendary rock band.

In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction.

The Church of Scientology has aptly been subject to public scrutiny and few people have gained access to current members — until now. Over the Rainbow is an empathic and unsettling look at the world through the eyes of Scientologists.

'Fronteras' follows a Mexican-American Border Patrol agent as he struggles to stay true to his morals when a life-threatening narcotic sweeps across the South West.

Elli is an android programmed with memories that mean everything to her owner but nothing to her. The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.

A young woman in Saudi Arabia documents her attempt to flee the country before her arranged marriage.

Undine is a young woman with a degree in urban history who gives guided tours about the development of Berlin. She works freelance and lives in a small, impersonal flat. As ordinary as her city life may seem, her secret weighs heavily. When she is left by her boyfriend for another woman, she is caught up in a curse that would mean death for one person and a farewell to earthly existence for another. But Undine resists her destiny. At the moment of betrayal, Christoph appears and she falls in love with him. He is an industrial diver and shows her his underwater world - which she already knows. And which is part of her secret and the curse she can't seem to escape. Undine is young, but has an old, mythical name. In the myth, she lives in a forest lake, a beautiful, virginal nymph. A man who steps onto the shore of the lake and calls her name becomes her wife. If the man betrays love, he must die - Undine will kill him. The Undine in the film is light and clever and stubborn.

Laila is a beautiful young girl belonging to the Gujjar-Bakarwal tribe, a community of nomadic shepherds in Kashmir. She marries Tanvir a fellow tribesman and in the winter the couple migrates to the plains with their tribe to escape heavy snowfall in the Valley. Her beauty quickly becomes the talk of the surrounding areas. A local police officer, Rishi, and his consort Mushtaq, a forest officer, raid the Bakarwal camp with the pretext of catching a glimpse of her; her beauty leaves them awestruck. What ensues is a twisted game begins between Mushtaq and Laila, wherein she must use her wits to stay clear of his blatant advances while being disillusioned by her husband, Tanvir's inaction. Laila Aur Satt Geet is part allegory, part ethnographic study, and part feminist fairytale, using the narrative device of local folk songs - seven, to be exact - to describe Laila's inner and outer worlds.