Author Talk Series
Enjoy a range of talks from bestselling authors and thought leaders. Brought to you in partnership with the Library Speakers Consortium.
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Feature film portraits of important lives
DVD
Get on up : the James Brown story [2014]
Tate Taylor
The imitation game [2014]
Morten Tyldum
I, Tonya [2017]
Craig Gillespie
The theory of everything [2014]
James Marsh
Straight outta Compton [2016]
F Gary Gray
Hidden figures [2017]
Theodore Melfi
Loving [2017]
Jeff Nichols
Bohemian rhapsody [2018]
Bryan Singer
The social network [2010]
David Fincher
Ray [2005]
Taylor Hackford
The king's speech [2010]
Tom Hooper
Selma [2015]
Ava DuVernay
Walk the line [2005]
Joaquin Phoenix
A beautiful mind [2006]
Brian Grazer
Love & mercy [2015]
William Pohlad
Capote [2005]
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Selena [2007]
Gregory Nava
La vie en rose : the extraordinary life of… [2007]
Alain Goldman
Frida [2002]
Julie Taymor
Raging bull [2004]
Martin Scorsese
Malcolm X [1992]
Spike Lee
Miles ahead [2016]
Don Cheadle
Born to be blue [2015]
Robert Budreau
My left foot [1989]
Shane Connaughton
Nowhere boy [2009]
Sam Taylor-Johnson
Sid and Nancy [1986]
Alex Cox
Ed Wood [2004]
Tim Burton
Visual Materials
Coal miner's daughter [1980]
Sissy Spacek
Lady sings the blues [1972]
Sidney J Furie
Gandhi [1982]
Ben Kingsley
GoodFellas [2007]
Into the wild [2008]
Art Linson
Betty & Coretta [2013]
Yves Simoneau
127 hours [2011]
Danny Boyle
Moneyball [2012]
Bennett Miller
The intouchables [2013]
Éric Toledano
The last king of Scotland [2006]
Forest Whitaker
Chariots of fire [1981]
Hugh Hudson
Unbroken [2014]
Angelina Jolie
Unbroken, path to redemption [2018]
Harold Cronk
Man on the moon [1999]
Miloš Forman
First man [2019]
Damien Chazelle
Serpico [1973]
Al Pacino
The sea inside [2004]
Alejandro Amenábar
Bronson [2008]
Nicolas Winding Refn
Legend [2015]
Brian Helgeland
Elizabeth [1998]
Cate Blanchett
Black mass [2016]
Scott Cooper
Darkest hour [2017]
Joe Wright
My week with Marilyn [2012]
Simon Curtis
42 : the Jackie Robinson story [2013]
The old man & the gun [2019]
David Lowery
Can you ever forgive me? [2018]
Marielle Heller
Mary Queen of Scots [2018]
Josie Rourke
A private war [2018]
Matthew Heineman
Welcome to Marwen [2018]
Robert Zemeckis
At eternity's gate [2018]
Julian Schnabel
The front runner [2019]
Jason Reitman
Stan & Ollie [2019]
Jon S Baird
My dinner with Hervé [2018]
Sacha Gervasi
On the basis of sex [2018]
Mimi Leder
J.T. Leroy [2019]
Justin Kelly
The Kid [2019]
Vincent D'Onofrio
Rocketman [2019]
Dexter Fletcher
The white crow [2018]
Ralph Fiennes
American made [2018]
Doug Liman
Marshall [2018]
Reginald Hudlin
Rebel in the rye [2018]
Danny Strong
Don't worry, he won't get far on foot [2018]
Gus Van Sant
The catcher was a spy [2018]
Ben Lewin
Gotti [2018]
Kevin Connolly
Paterno [2018]
Barry Levinson
Film stars don't die in Liverpool [2017]
Paul McGuigan
The tale [2018]
Jennifer Fox
My friend Dahmer [2018]
Marc Meyers
The Post [2017]
Steven Spielberg
All the money in the world [2017]
Ridley Scott
Mark Felt : the man who brought down the White… [2017]
Peter Landesman
Con man [2018]
Bruce W Caulk
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women [2017]
Angela Robinson
Molly's game [2018]
Mark Gordon
LBJ [2018]
Rob Reiner
7 days in Entebbe [2018]
José Padilha
Gauguin : voyage to Tahiti [2017]
Édouard Deluc
Lizzie [2018]
Craig Willam Macneill
Shock and awe [2017]
BlacKkKlansman [2018]
White Boy Rick [2018]
Yann Demange
The disaster artist [2017]
James Franco
Birth of the dragon [2017]
George Nolfi
Churchill [2017]
Jonathan Teplitzky
The glass castle [2017]
Destin Daniel Cretton
The wizard of lies [2017]
Stronger [2016]
David Gordon Green
The founder [2016]
John Lee Hancock
Blu-ray
Lion [2016]
Garth Davis
Christine [2017]
Antonio Campos
Maudie [2017]
Aisling Walsh
A quiet passion [2016]
Terence Davies
Denial [2016]
Mick Jackson
Jackie [2017]
Pablo Larraín
Bleed for this [2016]
Ben Younger
Neruda [2016]
The walk [2016]
The 33 [2016]
Patricia Riggen
The big short [2015]
Adam McKay
Experimenter [2015]
Michael Almereyda
Pawn sacrifice [2016]
Edward Zwick
Bridge of spies [2015]
Truth [2016]
James Vanderbilt
Spotlight [2015]
Tom McCarthy
Race [2016]
Stephen Hopkins
The lady in the van [2016]
Nicholas Hytner
Whiskey tango foxtrot [2016]
Glenn Ficarra
Florence Foster Jenkins [2016]
Stephen Frears
Snowden [2016]
Oliver Stone
Pelé : birth of a legend [2016]
Jeff Zimbalist
Sully [2016]
Clint Eastwood
Hands of stone [2016]
Jonathan Jakubowicz
The Buddy Holly story [2016]
Steve Rash
The man who knew infinity [2016]
Matthew Brown
Free State of Jones [2016]
Gary Ross
Genius [2016]
Michael Grandage
All the way [2016]
Jay Roach
Confirmation [2016]
Rick Famuyiwa
The Danish girl [2015]
Elvis & Nixon [2016]
Liza Johnson
Nina [2016]
Cynthia Mort
Southside with you [2016]
Richard Tanne
The infiltrator [2016]
Brad Furman
Toni Braxton : the movie event [2016]
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Eddie the Eagle [2016]
Bessie [2015]
Dee Rees
American sniper [2014]
Big eyes [2014]
Mr. Turner [2015]
Mike Leigh
Rosewater [2014]
Jon Stewart
Harriet [2019]
Kasi Lemmons
A hidden life [2019]
Terrence Malick
Richard Jewell [2019]
Dark waters [2019]
Todd Haynes
Bombshell [2019]
Just mercy [2019]
Wild nights with Emily [2020]
Madeleine Olnek
The last full measure [2020]
Todd Robinson
Gosnell : the trial of America's biggest serial… [2018]
Nick Searcy
Becoming Astrid = Unga Astrid [2018]
Pernille Fischer Christensen
Blaze [2018]
Ethan Hawke
Pasolini [2014]
Abel Ferrara
The professor and the madman [2019]
Farhad Safinia
Brian Banks [2019]
Tom Shadyac
Tolkien [2019]
Dome Karukoski
Borg vs. McEnroe [2017]
Janus Metz
Mary Shelley [2017]
Haifaa Al-Mansour
Loving Pablo, hating Escobar [2018]
Fernando León
Colette [2018]
Wash Westmoreland
