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"It never done a woman any harm to be at the end o' a back-hander." In a society where drunkenness and battered wives are treated as 'normal', Jean McLeod attempts to hold her family together. But after a particularly severe beating she decides to fight back.
A short film made by Eric Rohmer dealing with the drawings of Raphael.
Two apartments are joined together, the demolition of a wall transfers two small flats into a big one. Seven young people move in and share the living quarters. They all have definite ideas about life and living together and want to make them come true. But they don´t really know what they want. Everyday life causes problems and when a merry-go-round of changing relationships among the young people begins to run quicker and quicker, the constant moving from one room to the other ands before the eyes of the astonished house superintendent with the setting up again of the wall which separated the two walls.
Documentary film about the Release Group Hamburg.
The arousal behavior of the warthog is shown. Also explained is the muzzle fight between boars and females.
Disco-Film 39: The film, which is based on the song "Drachenflug" by the group Kleeblatt, tells of interpersonal relationships.
"I found that soundtrack abandonned on a shelf in an editing room. It had been hanging about there for a few weeks before I decided to listen to it. There you are, carefully cellotaped in the correct order of the editing rushes, claps, cuts and wrong frames of a film I don’t know anything about. That soudtrack immediatly appealed to me. Its discontinuary and fragmentary aspect, nevertheles made sense, was a sort of transcription in the world of sounds of what had been so for visual in my other films. Moreover, its contents made of sentences or scenes only just introduced or repeated, of questions about identity and the body, the coming in and out of the characters, scenes of seduction and violence, all that mixture permanently interrupted by the unknown director that give his orders : "Ready ! Motor ! Action !" in short, all this gave the film a mysterious and imaginary atmosphere." Christian Lebrat (Dedicated to Marcel Duchamp)
Film homage to the great Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, in which they dramatize fragments of his poems and the play "La casa de Bernarda Alba". From his texts, the voice of the poet himself weaves the plot. His characters come to life: El Amargo, which runs from a poem taken from "El Cante Jond" to the "Romancero Gitano". The Woman, blurred and present in so many of his poems. The Mother, a living synthesis of his play-writing. The balcony is open from the hidden Granada to exciting New York. From the rider of tireless riding to the mysterious baroque of Holy Week. From the first babble of the poet to his violent death. Spain is behind its lyric. Also in many images and tensions of the film. The argument of this one wants to approach the argument of a poet. His life and his work, united irremediably.
Mistaken identity, unrequited love and the supernatural combine in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Documentary about the IG Farben Building in Frankfurt.
A short social drama. As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. About the difficulty of finding the right bed. He wants the bed, she wants love, the salesman sees loneliness.
Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror
One in three marriages in Britain ends in divorce; perhaps more would if it weren't for the couples staying together for the children. How does it affect the kids? Are their views taken into account? Scene investigates and interviews parents, children and young adults.
A exploration of the origin, theory, philosophy and themes of Stephen Dwoskin's films from 1963 to 1984.
In an post-apocalyptic future, a group of young terrorists fights desperately against the obscure "Professor", the personification of all that is unwholesome in society, who ingeniously controls the ruins of civilization.
The death of a mother transforms the lives of her family. Her husband treats her son Henri harshly, and her daughter, who is hospitalized, refuses to eat. Henri is tormented and lonely. To prove himself, he decides to participate in the region's annual race. Faced with numerous obstacles, both physical and psychological, Henri will have to show courage to achieve victory.
This ironic mix of thriller, slapstick, and family funeral drama prioritizes building a story around the music. The film depicts an abusive marriage culminating in murder, and the complicit children's actions only exacerbate the situation. As the saying goes, "raise crows and they'll peck your eyes out."
Two middle-class couples compete with each other by providing false information about their respective situations in order to dazzle each other into marrying their two children.
Filmed production of Bizet’s Carmen at Earls Court in London, June 1989.
A full moon night in a godforsaken region somewhere between Fulda and the Carpathians: On a lonely country road, opera diva Alma Meyer-Efeu and her pianist rush towards another comeback attempt. At the same time, a trio of ladies and their manager race through the night, fleeing from debts, scandals and affairs. And Jutta Schröder, the tabloid gossip, is not far away either. As luck would have it, the seven meet up and end up in a remote castle ruin in their search for a place to spend the night...
Documentary following young male prostitutes in Birmingham and Manchester. (An episode of the BBC's "Forty Minutes" series.)
'Look, I'm not being horrible or nothing, Sadie, but all you've got is a body. You've got to make the most of it. It's not enough just to like the idea of being a model. You've got to be businesslike about it.' How does 16-year-old Sadie react to her friend Mary's advice? Where - in the glamour model world - will she end up?
All over Britain are strange and delightful buildings with one thing in common - they were created for animals. Lucinda Lambton is your guide to such follies. Castles, temples, palaces, obelisks and pyramids, they are a happy by-product of the British passion for animals.
This short film portrays people that live near a highway
Film by Ignacio Pardo
In 1965, a man named Matías is taken to a psychiatric hospital, after being found at the streets, "in the company of homosexuals and in a state of intoxication by alcohol and drugs". His documentation says he's 41 years old and born in Poland. He says his mother was an aristocrat. His arrival will have a profound impact on the institution and, especially, on one of the doctors.
The noble Madame de la Lommerane lives her life with pleasure and sophistication, naturally according to her social rules. Her partner, the Marquis d'Arcis, does not play along with her game—he has his own ideas about life. To counteract the somewhat tired relationship, she plays along, pretending that her infatuation has faded...
A mockumentary about Turkey-based Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist, and actor Yilmaz Güney, shot three years after the filmmaker's death. It's also a political portrait of 20th century Turkey.
Documentary exploring the life and work of the noted Puerto Rican bibliophile and historian, Arturo Shomburg, who devoted much of his life to collecting and documenting the African heritage and diaspora.
Two friendly guys, tired of a monotonous and boring life, decide to live fully. They want to meet new sensations and to be surrounded by beautiful women. For these reasons, they start working in a travel agency as guides.
A year in the life of star fourteen-year-old Welsh boy soprano Aled Jones.
Calling International Resuce… a runaway rocket carrying three astronauts is heading for a collision course with the Sun… Impact imminent!
An author who falls in love with a girl gets haunted by the ghost of the dead lover of the girl's mother.
That day, Charlerine went out, still overcome by an irresistible desire to kill, kill, kill...
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by James Levine and his top-flight cast. Plácido Domingo is Des Grieux, the handsome, headstrong young aristocrat who falls head over heels for the enticing, impetuous Manon Lescaut (Renata Scotto). Manon returns his love, but her obsession with luxury ruins them both. Gian Carlo Menotti’s opulent production, with sets and costumes by Desmond Heeley, superbly captures the colorful world of 18th century France.
Period drama based on a novel. While waiting for a train, a lonely woman is witness to a suicide on the tracks. A sympathetic man strikes up a friendship with her. At first reluctant, she is drawn in by his self-assured good looks, despite an uneasy feeling that he is not what he seems. She eventually discovers that he is hiding a deadly secret.
"I think of Fragments of the Angel and the sequence with Françoise and Ermina in the countryside, and I ask myself how to "justify" it throughout the film and tell myself that the text could say: "The angel is leading me to... ” [...] There are a thousand arrows embedded in the framework of reality." -Hernández
Les tournesols colorés is derived from the same footage used in Les tournesols, but with candy colors, giving other modulations to movie movements. The two versions can be shown one after the other, although they were designed to be played separately.
Martha lives in Hamburg with her young son and makes films with real passion. To stay close to the pulse of society, she has moved in with a Portuguese family. Teresa helps foreigners navigate bureaucracy, while Martha tries to build a romance with Alfred. Their shared everyday life reflects West German realities, captured spontaneously and with sarcastic wit.
Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from Great Britain to Australia. Mulvey and Wollen’s experimental documentary combines newsreel footage of the aviator’s arrival, dramatic recreations of events from her life and contemporary discussions by feminist groups on the subject of heroism in this most unconventional biopic.
The camera searches for flotsam. The camera finds flotsam! Only the color photocopier creates beach life. The color photocopier scans each film image into individually different color structures. Parallel to the film, an additional movement is created by the rapid sequence of individual images.
Beautiful legs walk, laundry falls...
An authoritarian rancher about to die and his children live in a dingy mansion and fight each other over inheritance in a game of degradation.
As seasons and events unfold in the village of Octeville-sur-Mer, the filmmaker describes the close and affectionate ties that have grown between the villagers and Jean-Jacques, a curious fellow who should in no way be likened to a “village idiot”.