List of the best Ron Mann movies: Comic Book Confidential(1988), Carmine Street Guitars(2018), Poetry in Motion(1982), Altman(2014), Tales of the Rat Fink(2006), Go Further(2003), Know Your Mushrooms(2008), Listen to the City(1984), Flak(2009), Imagine the Sound(1981), Grass(1999) ... ...
Documentary
Canada|USA
1988
90 Minutes
Director
comic book artist spirited amusing cool north america comic books censorship rise 1980s
A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it.
Documentary, Music
Canada
2018
80 Minutes
Director
Eszter Balint Nels Cline Kirk Douglas Eleanor Friedberger Bill Frisell Dallas Good
Five days in the life of fabled Greenwich Village guitar store Carmine Street Guitars.
Documentary
Canada
1982
90 Minutes
Director
Helen Adam Miguel AlgarÃn Amiri Baraka Ted Berrigan Charles Bukowski William S. Burroughs John Cage Jim Carroll Jayne Cortez Robert Creeley Christopher Dewdney
More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Several also comment. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem.... See full summary »
Documentary
Canada
2006
78 Minutes
Director
The life and times of famed hot rod & custom car designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
Documentary
Canada|USA
2003
80 Minutes
Director
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Woody Harrelson and a group of friends take a road trip on a bio-fueled bus to demonstrate ways to be environmentally responsible and visit people who live by that principle.
Documentary
Canada
2008
74 Minutes
Director
Gary Lincoff
Ron Mann investigates the miraculous, near-secret world of fungi. Visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences ... See full summary »
Musical
Canada
1984
87 Minutes
Director
P.J. Soles Michael Glassbourg Sandy Horne Jim Carroll
Hupar wakes up from a 20-year coma. Disoriented, he soon meets Arete, a young poet and Sophis, a TV newswoman. Together, the three team up to expose corporate crime in a crumbling city scape of the very near future.
Documentary
2009
30 Minutes
Director
Attempting to capture the apolitical spirit of the 1970s, filmmaker Ron Mann follows several people as they debate political change.
Documentary, Music
1981
90 Minutes
Director
Filmmaker Ron Mann profiles jazzmen: Bill Dixon, trumpet; Archie Shepp, saxophone; Paul Bley, piano; Cecil Taylor, piano.
Documentary
1999
80 Minutes
Director
Harry S. Robins Douglass Smith
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Filmmaker Ron Mann looks at the history of marijuana, from early government propaganda newsreels to Ronald Reagan's war on drugs. Narrated by Woody Harrelson.