Bruce Weber

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed simply hanging out with friends, telling anecdotes from his life and recording jazz standards.

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see the young Baker, he of the beautiful face, in California and in Italy, where he appeared in at least one movie and at least one jail cell (for drug possession). And, we see the aged Baker, detached, indifferent, his face a ruin. Includes interviews with his children and ex-wife, women companions, and musicians.

Photographer Bruce Weber profiles boxer Andy Minsker, including his pro career and family relations, and the boys' boxing club Minsker runs.

The life of the legendary Italian photojournalist Paolo Di Paolo through his photographs, which capture the essence of a fascinating and turbulent Italy, the one inhabited by Anna Magnani and Pier Paolo Pasolini, a country that no longer exists.

A collection of Bruce Weber's favorite images of his dogs, friends, and historical world events.

Presented in five vignettes, and starring the brothers of Matt Dillon. The Beauty Brothers offers-up the romance, desire, dreamscapes and frustrations of youth. Part I: Junk Food Conversation, 2:44; Part II: Bedroom Bongos, 2:37; Part III: Dream Wheels, 2:39; Part IV: Poolhopping, 1:47; Part V: Runaway, 2:39

Chris Isaak begins his third decade as one of the most distinctive recording artists- and the epitome of modern cool-with his first career-spanning retrospective.

In 1991 Bruce Weber’s parents gave him a reel of family movies made during his childhood. Premiering at the New York Film Festival, Backyard Movie incorporates the private home movies of the Weber Family into the fiber of the film as it connects the director’s past and present inspirations.

An autobiographical piece: Weber is the off-screen narrator telling us about various key points in his life - as a teenager putting together a scrapbook of Hollywood stars and falling in love with Liz Taylor; living on a farm with Newfoundland dogs; his relationship with his father, who gave him his first camera; his first dance with a man at Stonewall bar in New York City. During the narration, images from the scrapbook and from home movies provide illustration and counterpoint. The dogs are the gentle giants, a boy's best friend.

A homage to Bruce Weber's Favourite things, these being mixing film, photography and classic movies. With portraits of a lesbian jazz singer and a 16-year-old wrestler.

A love letter to New York City, this ten minute tone poem follows Scottish songstress Angela McCluskey and her husband, the composer Paul Cantelon, through a beautiful autumn afternoon in Central Park. Features an original recording of the song “Autumn In New York” performed by Angela McCluskey.

Four-part short starring Irish actor Michael Fassbender.

An intimate look at pioneering artist George Platt Lynes, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. The documentary reveals Lynes’ gifted eye for the male form, his long-term friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alfred Kinsey, and his lasting influence as one of the first openly gay American artists.

In the mid-to-late fifties the word “Rock-A-Billy” found its way into the vocabulary of America’s youth. Bill Haley and His Comets were the leaders of this short-lived musical movement. By 1962 Rock-A-Billy was all but gone. But in present day London the fashions, attitudes, tattoos and music of the Rock-A-Billy era are alive and well; if you know where to find it. In venues like The Tennessee Rock and Roll Club, Teddy Boy society still perpetuates the mores of Rock-A-Billy culture. Visually arresting in its approach, The Teddy Boys of the Edwardian Drape Society offers a glimpse into this little known world of late night London.

Claire and Lila are neighbours. They both live in the same building, they see each other every day but they hardly know each other's names. Until today, when Claire decides to pay a visit to Lila and to ask for something that will definitely put at risk the cohabitation.

This film takes a closer look at the lives of seventeen transgender individuals and allows them to tell their stories in their own words.

This short film centers on Martin Luther King and Inauguration Day 2009 in a small section of Miami Beach called Liberty City. Once a place full of race riots and poverty, the people of this small neighborhood in Miami, Florida have rebuilt their community over the last ten years. The unity in the community is a testament to the dedication of one neighborhood’s pledge to build itself again.

A young man finds himself in a modern day Garden of Eden. As he spends a day wandering through the garden he realizes that to create something out of nothing, his role as a man is as important as his connection to nature.