Meanwhile, the film has been restored by Fendi, and Mr. Visconti has a documentary on display made by his nephew, Ferdinando Cito Filomarino.
Mr. Moakley's documentary project is on display through Oct. 23 at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in Snug Harbor on Staten Island, where he will give a talk at 2 p.m. Saturday.
The lazier, broader, pseudo-documentary American approach is on display in "Shahs," which, like so many domestic reality shows, has a snappy opening montage front-loaded with the best bits — "We don't work in buildings, we own them!"; "I don't like ants, and I don't like ugly people" — followed by an hour of random irritation and spirit-sapping triviality.
Now she has something new on display: a documentary.
Art-centric films are being made often these days, and the New York-based Tribeca, which is known for its documentaries, will put many of them on display.
Documentary filmmaking as aesthetic experience is on display not only with the release of "Pow Wow" but also with the belated release, at Metrograph, of Manfred Kirchheimer's 2006 film "Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan".
Soon after the floor was opened for questions, Nikki Stephanopoulos, the communications director for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, whose son is the ABC News correspondent George Stephanopoulos, complained that the voluptuous, ravenous images of Mary Magdalene on display in the documentary bore little resemblance to Eastern representations of the Magdalene.
To this end, all the talents honed by years of making high-class documentaries about the ancient world are formidably on display.
The early Rolling Stones — young, shrewd and full of ambition, with Brian Jones on guitar — are on display in an hourlong documentary filmed during the band's tour of Ireland in 1965.
