Cinema entertainment creates a series of conditions for the viewer (a dark theater, credits, actors, types of films), elements that prepare us for what we are about to see. In my film, I take a story and offer four endings (happy, dramatic, commercial). So, if films have a beginning, middle, and end, mine has a beginning, middle, end, end, end, end...
Keismer Varcas
Maja Oloe
Cinema entertainment creates a series of conditions for the viewer (a dark theater, credits, actors, types of films), elements that prepare us for what we are about to see. In my film, I take a story and offer four endings (happy, dramatic, commercial). So, if films have a beginning, middle, and end, mine has a beginning, middle, end, end, end, end...
One-man armies, meet-cutes, casual strolls away from huge explosions — stars and industry insiders toast and roast these cinematic chestnuts and more.
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.
In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; but the artists Jodorowsky brought together to carry it out continued to work together, and ended up laying the foundations for modern science fiction cinema.
Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she is capable of rather deplorable acts -- including murder.
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.
An intimate documentary delving into Rian Johnson's process as he comes in as a director new to the Star Wars universe.
Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, remembers his life: his mother, his lovers, the actors he worked with. The sixties in a small village in Valencia, the eighties in Madrid, the present, when he feels an immeasurable emptiness, facing his mortality, the incapability of continuing filming, the impossibility of separating creation from his own life. The need of narrating his past can be his salvation.
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen takes viewers on a whirlwind tour through the metropolis' real and cinematic history, investigating the myriad stories and legends that have come to define it, and meticulously, judiciously revealing the real city that lives beneath.