This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China. We learn of the life of the director in his own words and images from a child steeped in the values of Chinese communism exemplified by Chairman Mao, to a young man striving to live up to those ideals both as an artist and a soldier.
Shui-Bo Wang
Self - Narrator (voice)
This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China. We learn of the life of the director in his own words and images from a child steeped in the values of Chinese communism exemplified by Chairman Mao, to a young man striving to live up to those ideals both as an artist and a soldier.
Artist Shui-Bo Wang narrates this story of his family's life in China during the rise of the Maoist Communist regime and provides us with some stunningly detailed illustrations to accompany his history. Essentially this is a one-man documentary that highlights just how willingly the largely rural and illiterate population engaged in the ideas of freedom and wealth redistribution. Of their belief that Mao's defeat of the post-Imperial Nationalist government would shine a new light for all the people, offering hope, equality, housing, food and jobs for all. He, himself, even ended up working for the military propaganda machine extolling just how superior their life was to the decadent West where children died, frozen, on the streets. In times when technology was very limited and freedom of expression ever more so, the power of his imagery cannot be understated. This was the true message because it was the only message, and few people knew what was actually going on anywhere else. When Mao dies and Deng Xaioping takes over, the state begins to relax it's authoritarian stance on many things, not least with it's relationships with other cultures. The influences of Michelangelo and Da Vinci begin to supplant the more traditional ones. It's this deregulation, though, that sees him sent to an agrarian community to teach, and where he discovers that after thirty-odd years of socialism, things have changed little. Poverty is an every day feature of life and this causes him to question his dogma. Not just him, but many more of his comrades who proceed to gather on Tiananmen Square in 1989 to protest for the freedoms they always thought they had, but now realise they didn't. He and his wife moved to North America after witnessing what he thought were impossible sights on the square and found a degree of success in the place he had always been taught to vilify. His delivery is a little dry and chronological here. There's not a great deal of passion heard, but the clever interweaving of artwork and photography provides us with a "Wild Swans" style of approach to a very personal history of a man, his family, his beliefs and is engaging to observe.
Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
สารคดีเอชบีโอใหม่นี้ตรวจสอบผลงานภาพยนตร์ของสตีเวน สปีลเบิร์ก เผยให้เห็นว่าประสบการณ์ของเขาเป็นผลงานของเขาและเปลี่ยนแปลงตลอดเวลา
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveillance, and Buddhist teachings.
JB Smoove and Martin Starr host a celebration of 20 years of "Spider-Man" movies, from the Sam Raimi trilogy to Marc Webb's movies and the trio from Jon Watts.
เจาะลึกเบื้องหลังความสำเร็จของนักเตะชาวโปรตุเกสคนดังขวัญใจแฟนๆ อย่างคริสเตียโน โรนัลโด ที่จะมาเผยเส้นทางอาชีพ ชีวิตส่วนตัว และวิธีรับมือกับการมีชื่อเสียงของตัวเอง
Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpublished memoirs, the film reveals the essence of an extraordinary woman who rose from humble beginnings in New York City to become a glamorous international superstar and one of the greatest artists of all time.
Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.
สารคดีที่เล่าเรื่องราวของเบื้องหลังความเป็นมาของนักเตะดาวดังที่ประสบความสำเร็จมากที่สุดของรุ่น ในยุคที่ฟุตบอลอังกฤษถือเป็นจุดสูงสุด โดยเฉพาะเด็กหนุ่มยอดนักเตะดาวรุ่งพุ่งแรง 6 คนจากชนชั้นกลางที่ได้เข้ามาอยู่ร่วมทีมกันในสโมสร แมนเชสเตอร์ ยูไนเต็ด อันได้แก่ เดวิด เบ็คแฮม, นิคกี้ บัตต์, ไรอัน กิกส์, แกรี่ เนวิลล์, ฟิล เนวิลล์ และ พอล สโคลส์
Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the greatest animators The Walt Disney Company ever produced -- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Frank and Ollie, the talent behind BAMBI, PINOCCHIO, LADY AND THE TRAMP, THE JUNGLE BOOK, and others, set the standard for such modern-day hits as THE LION KING. It was their creative genius that helped make Disney synonymous with brilliant animation, magnificent music, and emotional storytelling. Take a journey with these extraordinary artists as they share secrets, insights, and the inspiration behind some of the greatest animated movies the world has ever known!
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their next feature film. Moving from director to financier to star actor, the two players provide us with a unique look behind the curtain at the world's biggest and most glamourous film festival, shining a light on the bitter-sweet relationship filmmakers have with Cannes and the film business. Featuring insights from directors Martin Scorsese, 'Bernando Bertolucci' and Roman Polanski; actors Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain and a host of film distribution luminaries.