Welcome back, Ms. Taylor. A new documentary allows the darling of Hollywood’s Golden Age to tell her own story. Combining recently discovered interviews with the actress and rare access to her personal archive, Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes provides a deeper look into Taylor’s inner life. Born in 1932, she acted in her first film at age 10, and two years later became widely known as the young star of M.G.M.’s National Velvet. Taylor was born beautiful, but she matured into a screen goddess of Junoesque curves and glorious violet eyes. Whether she was up or down, married (eight times, seven men) or single, healthy or hospitalized—she was famous until the day she died, in 2011, at 79. This documentary, which premiered last June at the Tribeca Film Festival, brings Taylor’s own perspective to the challenges she faced. —Jeanne Malle