I, a Woman

Mac Ahlberg directed this once-notorious soft-core Danish film (1965) about a woman (Essy Persson) in a series of sexual relationships. more...

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I Always Wanted to Be a Saint

Luxembourg writer-director Genevieve Mersch makes her feature debut with this compelling 2003 drama about a smart, acerbic teenager (Marie Kremer) who, abandoned by her mother and neglected by her hardworking father, finds an imaginary friend in a race car driver killed during a televised match. more...

• by Joshua Katzman

I Am (NR)

Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Nutty Professor) produced this philosophical documentary. more...

• Tags: Documentary

I Am a Camera

This pre-Cabaret adaptation of John van Druten's play—based in turn on Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories—caused a minor flutter in 1955 when it was condemned by the Legion of Decency for the following line, delivered by Julie Harris: “What do you want to do first, have a drink or go to bed?” Otherwise, it's fairly tame stuff, reasonably well directed (if memory serves) by Henry Cornelius; Laurence Harvey, Shelley Winters, and Patrick McGoohan costar. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

I Am a Cat

Kon Ichikawa directed this 1975 adaptation of Natsume Soseki's famous 1905 satirical novel, in which a feline narrator comments on the foibles and frailties of the learned gentry during the modernization of Japan. more...

• by Ted Shen

I Am a Dancer

Made for French TV by Pierre Jourdan in 1969, this documentary introduces the general public to Rudolf Nureyev as a lithe, mop-haired icon to be adored, a mission reinforced by the cliche-laden, voice-of-God narration. more...

• by Ted Shen

I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang

Mervyn LeRoy's 1932 indictment of the chain-gang system marked a transition between the prison cycle of the early 30s and the topical films of the decade's middle years. more...

• by Don Druker

I Am a Man

A feature-length documentary by Bryon Hurt (1996) in which he travels across America, discussing issues of black masculinity with Alvin Poussaint, Andrew Young, Michael Dyson, and many others. more...

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I Am a Sex Addict

Shortly before his third marriage Caveh Zahedi recounts and restages events from his life showing how his addiction to prostitutes doomed his first two. more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum

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I Am Andean

At the beginning of this intriguing documentary a Peruvian band performing on a New York subway platform is joined by a lithe young woman whose dancing captivates onlookers. more...

• by Andrea Gronvall

I Am Ann

Hilarious and sexy, Ann Coppel's 2004 mockumentary short in which her shout “I am Ann!” becomes the basis of a self-empowerment movement with workshops and therapists and rallies. more...

• by Fred Camper

I Am Become Death: They Made the Bomb

A 1995 documentary about the Manhattan Project, directed by Arthur MacCaig. more...

I Am Bolivar

Ambitious but unwieldy, this black comedy from Colombia (2001) is the warped odyssey of an idealistic actor (Robinson Diaz) with a hit TV series who comes unhinged and begins to disappear into his role: Simon Bolivar, the 19th-century revolutionary who drove the Spanish from Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador. more...

• by J.R. Jones

I Am Comic (NR)

Former stand-up comedian Jordan Brady interviewed dozens of comics for this documentary about the profession—so many, in fact, that the result plays like a joke file. more...

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I Am Cuba

Some of the most exhilarating camera movements and most luscious black-and-white cinematography you'll ever see inhabit this singular, delirious 141-minute communist propaganda epic of 1964, a Cuban-Russian production poorly received in both countries at the time (in Cuba it was often referred to as “I Am Not Cuba”). more...

• by Jonathan Rosenbaum