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This children's story for adults is set in the courtyard of a large tenement building. The protagonists are a little girl and a little boy. Their adventures, laced with lyricism and humour, hold up a mirror to the adult world.
The aging variety artist Bellinzon is proud of his daughter and son-in-law, who are following in his footsteps and are enjoying success abroad. However, he himself no longer performs artistic acts and receives a salary from his former employer without actually working for him. But that is about to change. Deputy Markvart threatens to fire him if he does not rehearse a new variety act. Bellinzon decides to perform a musical act, even though he cannot play anything...
A shy bear named Bashful stops four environmental villains from stopping Santa Claus.
After arriving on a ship in Valparaíso, Bohr meets Euríspides Chamorro, with whom he begins a trip through Chile, full of sketches, most of them led by the comedy duo Los Capo- rales.
This time, Teixeirinha faces great challenges, having to complete 7 tests, including jumping off the Guaíba Bridge in search of a lost treasure and winning the heart of a beautiful young woman. Music, romance and lots of humor, accentuated by the performance of Chilean comedian Jimmy Pipiolo. The setting is the city of Porto Alegre.
Agron is a circus clown who is hassled by the circus animals. Shemshedin thinks they should send these animals away, and so many hilarious situations ensue.
A curmudgeonly resident of a hospital makes trouble for the staff as he plots his escape.
The 1973 New Year's Eve conference marks a historic milestone: the first time Wim Kan appeared on television on New Year's Eve. After years of successful radio conferences, he dared to make the switch to television, and that proved to be a golden choice. In a colorful political year, with the formation of the Joop den Uyl cabinet and the oil crisis, Wim Kan was in top form.
The adventures of one “sex swapping” couple determined to turn their neighborhood on to the joys of organized bed hopping.
The course of Brazil's discovery by Pedro Álvares Cabral. After a troubled journey, the Portuguese sailors spot a new land. On landing, happy and expecting to expand their empire, they face themselves with a disappointment...
Based on Oslo Nye Teater's revue "Jubileumsrevyen 7 1/2" (The 7 1/2 Anniversary Revue), which premiered on August 19, 1974. Begins with interviews with Torvald Maurstad, Arve Opsahl, Aud Schønemann, and Rolf Just Nilsen. Interviews by Knut Bohwim. Followed by preparations for the revue.
Feature-length documentary on Hauris Lalancette, a Quebecer from Abitibi, who travels and draws surprising parallels between two corners of the country that are considered destitute and left behind. It is also about the search for ancestors and the nostalgia for old jobs that were better, both on the human level and on the technical level.
Two martial arts styles meet (or, should we say, clash) when a small army of well-trained patriots defend their homeland against an invading army of merciless trained killers. Who can say who will hold sway when the powerful tiger fist meets the elegant crane fist. One thing's for sure -- it'll be a bad case of fisticuffs! Originally part of The Kentucky Fried Movie, a Fistful of Yen was one of the sketches it included.
A little boy wants to be part of a group of friends who imposes tests before accepting it . Then the band begins to monitor an old man that children take for a spy .
Budapest, 19th century: Nosferatu is killed by a prince. Now in colour and on holiday in Brazil, he saps several natives.
An adaptation of the satirical play of the same name by comedian Rouïched (Ahmed Ayad). "El-Ghoula" (The Vampire) tells the story of a corrupt official who lives off the peasants of an agricultural cooperative. Instead of solving problems, this official manipulates empty rhetoric and "revolutionary" slogans to galvanize them and encourage them to continue working. Opportunistic, he will transform the fellahs' work into chaotic bureaucratic procedures for his own personal gain.
The first Brazilian movie adaptation of a national super-hero comic.
This animated short is the visual enactment of the year-long obstacle course run by a teacher trainee. Rich in humor and anecdote, it is a comedy of educational manners seen through the autobiographical and unflinching eye of the trainee-turned-filmmaker.
A video piece documenting the reenactment of the John F. Kennedy assassination in Dealey Plaza in a collaboration between two San Francisco-based artist collectives: T.R. Uthco (Diane Andrews Hall, Doug Hall, Jody Procter) and Ant Farm (Chip Lord, Doug Michels, Curtis Schreier). The artists taking on the roles of Kennedy, Jackie, and others rehearsed extensively to ensure verisimilitude, and when they performed the reenactment, it was executed with a striking attention to detail. While part of the video shows the artists playing on America's obsession with the media (T. R. Uthco's Jody Procter in his role as a secret service agent tells a camera, "We've always been worried about Dallas--it's a rough city, a gun city"), ultimately the video shows that the sacred images of the assassination cannot be mocked. This piece can be seen as a commentary on the pervasive media culture in America, as it explores how the Kennedy assassination itself became a new type of media event.
Animated film parody of Western / Cowboy movies.
Wang Chen, a police of the government, was involved with a murder case and was put in prison. His brother disguised as Pink Panther and saved him from the prison, but then they were attacked by Japanese police.
A wry comedy on the disagreeable aspects of menstruation where women act out their own dramas on a California hillside, in a supermarket, in a red-filtered ritual of mutual bonding. MENSES combines both the imagery and the politics of menstruation in a fine blend of comedy and drama.
A lively countryman arrives in Athens in search of a better future, only to find himself entangled in the well-orchestrated scheme of a notorious thief who is his spitting image. Will he manage to get out of the tight spot?
The lascivious Jungle King has illicit affairs with both blonde bombshell Jane and exotic jungle princess Meena.
In this sex farce, two middle-aged pairs of aspiring swingers rent a summer cottage. There they sit around discussing the pros and cons of having affairs.
The King of Eight is a 1970 short film produced for Sesame Street by Jim Henson, using stop-motion animation. The 70-second short film focuses on the title character, the jovial king (voiced by Jim Henson) of a land where everything exists in denominations of the number eight.
Titled Power, Tretti's sophomore film was a sort of Mel Brooks' History of the World, in which Tretti explored the history of mankind from one precise point of view: how the powerful ruled over the weak. A man confused as the God of Fire in prehistory; Jesus and Muhammad deciding who must eat what and when because of a power no one has seen; Tiberius Gracchus killed by the senate because he was fighting for the people. Tretti had a bullet for everyone. He loved to unmask those who claimed to be on the side of the less fortunate, showing the three powers - military, commercial and agricultural - sitting on three thrones and chatting on how they can suck life out of men and keep power tight in their hands.
Reza is content with his life—on the condition that his mother doesn’t keep pressuring him to get married! He is kind-hearted and a bit comical. In stark contrast stands another young man who looks just like him but is serious and deeply interested in women. By chance, the two accidentally switch places...
Three girls try to enjoy to the fullest their carefree lives in Athens. However, they get mixed up in situations whose full seriousness they do not grasp.
'Nonsense' piece inserted between Acts Two and Three of Jethro Tull's A Passion Play, which bears no relation to the rest of The Play. In 1973 concerts, the band left the stage after Act Two and a filmed version of 'The Hare...' was shown. A spoken-word comedic interlude (narrated by Jeffrey Hammond with an exaggerated Lancashire accent) backed by instrumentation. Presented as an absurd fable, the interlude details (with much wordplay) the failure of a group of anthropomorphic animals to help a hare find his missing eyeglasses.
A young man named "Rajabali Safari," who is considered by the public to be somewhat "clumsy," accidentally finds himself in a predicament and is forced to marry three women with contrasting personalities. To keep all three of them, he employs numerous strategies.
Captures the peculiar, Python-esque events that follow after a young man gets his hand stuck in a letter box.
Ateng is spoiled by his grandmother and this troubles his parents since Ateng is a little mentally challenged and needs special education from a teacher. The presence of Iskak, a village kid who is adopted and brought there to accompany Ateng is also a worry as Iskak always has ideas for his own profit. Ateng becomes very dependent on Iskak, so when Iskak is told to leave after he is accused of stealing a neighbor’s watch (though unproven), Ateng is very upset. Then he climbs up a water tower and refuses to come down until Iskak returns.
Two professional bums in search of true love.
A boring commuter fantasises about his sex life; when he gets home he is too exhausted to make love to his sexy wife.
Ivane does not think about starting a family life, so the villagers deicide to force him marry and try to take him and his bride to the church using all the possible means.
“An ‘avant-garde’ film of the seventies. A man obssessed with Phantom comics fantasises himself as the contemporary Phantom. Shot on location in Sydney, various Sydney visual artists play characters in this short comic story intercut with images from Phantom comics. Gary Shead is a visual artist who utilised cartoon imagery in his work, hence the idea for this film.” (Screensound)
Avram, an Hassadic hippie; Hassan, an Arab inventor; and Tex, a nonchalant Jew, with so different backgrounds and characters, share a liberal view about sexuality. In a world abiding by the strict moral derived from the Dybbuk (sacred book), the three men will go through a number of tribulations concerning marriage.
Ali and Veli come to Istanbul from their villages. Unfamiliar with the city, the young men are swindled in their first experiences of debauchery. Thanks to their uncles, who are experienced in nightlife, they decide to play by the rules of the game. Their uncle is Şaban Pekşaban, the famous pastrami king of Kayseri. The two naive friends constantly get involved in trouble. Ali and Veli rescue a singer who has gotten into trouble with the mafia, and thus step into the world of organized crime. They quickly accumulate many enemies. However, dealing with Ali and Veli will not be easy.
This self-funded verité comedy starring John Duigan is something of a swan song for the “Carlton ripple” and reflects the movement’s characteristic vacillation between intensely local and distantly international influences.