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Free Cinema, 1956 - ? An Essay on Film by Lindsay Anderson

A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement, made by one of it's greatest proponents, Lindsay Anderson, to commemorate British Film Year in 1985. Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill. Unlike Richard Attenborough's celebratory episode of the same series, or Alan Parker's more aggressive show, which was balanced between celebrating the greats and attacking Parker's bugbears, Greenaway and Jarman and the BFI, Anderson's show accentuates the negative, painting an image of a British cinema in terminal artistic decline and trashing the ambitions and approach of British Film Year itself. It's mordantly funny and very savage.

Free Cinema, 1956 - ? An Essay on Film by Lindsay Anderson

NR 1985
Vergessen Sie's

The foggy November day in Hamburg is not Nowak's day. The Hamburg taxi driver thinks he saw a dead body from "the neighborhood" being taken away in a garbage can. But all he wanted to do was return his son's teddy bear, which he had forgotten during a weekend visit to his divorced father. Suddenly, the taxi driver sees orange vehicles everywhere, and his wife even thinks he has kidnapped their son. He hasn't, so where is Timmy? The police don't want to hear any of it. "Forget it, Mr. Nowak!" Following a hunch, Nowak drives the garbage truck to the waste incineration plant on the outskirts of the city and enters the facility. What he discovers there is not what he expected...

Vergessen Sie's

8.0 1988
Portrait of an Average Man

In this rather routine, made-for-television movie by famed Indian director Mrinal Sen, an employee (K.K. Raina) in a large office is suddenly facing unemployment because his bosses have found him guilty of negligence. He is devastated, but he cannot lose his job since he is the only support of his family. Interspersed with the employee's efforts to convince his boss, in several different ways, that he cannot be fired are direct dialogues with the author (Shyamanand Jalan) who created the character of the employee. In these latter conversations, the employee berates his creator for giving him an impossible, no-win situation — he has no control over his fate.

Portrait of an Average Man

7.0 1984
Félix Ribeiro - Dr. Celulóide

Mini biography of the man who dedicated most of his life to collecting films and printed material relative to moving images, and who worked since his 29th birthday, for the creation of a Portuguese film archive - when not even the world's oldest film archive (Stockholm) didn't exist. The emphasis of on camera comments by his wife, friends, and film critics is more on some of the films he saved, then on his personal qualities - his modesty prevailing even then, for this last appearance on film. He would die two years after this television documentary was shown, in the series "Dos Lumière ao Lumiar", for the Portuguese national television, RTP.

Félix Ribeiro - Dr. Celulóide

8.0 1980
Incydent na pustyni

The film shows life in a dormitory, a world of indifference and apathy in which some eat, sleep, heal a hangover, others make love, and still others have fun at the expense of others. One of the students is assumed to climb the lightning rod to the top of the building. During its 'ascent' we look into the apartments on the next floors and observe the lives of their inhabitants. At some point, our hero falls and dies. Will this unnecessary death move life in the 'desert'?

Incydent na pustyni

NR 1984
Soulic Journey

The akashic record of certain past lifetimes of the Cosmic Visionary, Uriel, provides the viewer with a glimpse of the magnitude of the accomplishments of this Spiritual Being! As a Wayshower to mankind, Uriel has incarnated as a king, queen, artist, scientist, priest, and poet, reflecting to mankind a science of life that has helped develop a spiritual climate in eastern and western civilizations. Not limited in concept, her lifetimes have not been isolated to one planet but have extended to many other earth worlds as well. You are invited to enter these pages of history, perhaps to find your place in one or more of these civilizations of the past.

Soulic Journey

NR 1985
Mr. & Mrs. Fish Present The Treasure in the Eel's Cave

"A fun-filled story for young children explaining how the shape of fish help them to survive and adapt to their surroundings in the ocean. Children will laugh as they learn, watching the zany duo of "Mr. & Mrs. Fish" fool a hungry, bumbling, big fish. They are successful thanks to the help of a jolly pirate, a wizard, a balloon man, and an Italian chef. Live footage of sea creatures, a lot of bad jokes, and wonderful musical score by recording artists "Schooner Fare" add to the merriment."

Mr. & Mrs. Fish Present The Treasure in the Eel's Cave

NR 1982
Elephant: Lord of the Jungle

Great herds of Asian elephants once roamed from Baghdad to Beijing. Now only remnants of these once mighty herds survive, protected today by the Indian government. It is here that filmmaker Naresh Bedi turns his camera, capturing an intimate portrait of thee largest of land mammals. An adult elephant eats 300 pounds of green fodder and drinks 40 gallons of water a day. This film follows these gentle giants as they forage and feed, wallow in watering holes, dust their skin with dirt, and care for their young.

Elephant: Lord of the Jungle

10.0 1987