A documentary exploring, to my understanding, the death of cinema and (metaphoric) death of the director, while, through interviews with four different filmmakers, also touching on several different layers of global cinema: the transnational entanglement of European and Hollywood cinema, the historical material dimension and material constraints to film making, cinema and neoliberalism / end of history discourses, and intermediality / the recontextualization of European cinematic language (i.e., the authority of cinema, e.g. Goddard's Breathless) by Brazilian and Portuguese directors into politically revolutionary films, with particular attention to Glauber Rocha.
Films to Die For works best as a meditation or conversation piece, not as an argument; it was far from the most accessible documentary I have watched, but the individual interviews and carefully curated footage gave plenty to think and talk about afterwards.