William A. Fraker Movies

Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips...

A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the other.

This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s....

An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry — organized gambling.

When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.

Haunted by visions from his abusive childhood, Montana deputy sheriff Lou Ford gradually exhibits the signs of a homicidal schizophrenic.

It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth...

Divine Madness is a 1980 concert film directed by Michael Ritchie, and featuring Bette Midler during her 1979 concert at Pasadena's Civic Auditorium....

Bobby and Rose, two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an...

An outrageous, affectionate look at coming of age in the Eisenhower era in Brooklyn.

Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfell enters their isolated...

A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance....

Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is...

Documentary that describes and analyzes the characteristics, themes and central concerns of Roman Polanski's cinema.

One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her...

A non-narrated documentary, told mainly in interviews with the filmmakers, on the making of the cult comedy classic, featuring outtakes, rare...

A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.

A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.

American director William Friedkin interviewed Austrian director Fritz Lang on February 21st and 24th, 1975. Lang died August 2nd, 1976.