A rare and beautiful example of detailed real-world observation, without any of the structuring devices typical of newsreels: With indelible glimpses of the Jewish quarter, the Prater, the Naschmarkt (open-air food market), and bourgeois flâneurs promenading in the city center in 1919–20, Vienna’s urban space is meticulously and unhurriedly laid out, as if intended not just for the contemporary public, but also for future historians of cosmopolitan city life.
A rare and beautiful example of detailed real-world observation, without any of the structuring devices typical of newsreels: With indelible glimpses of the Jewish quarter, the Prater, the Naschmarkt (open-air food market), and bourgeois flâneurs promenading in the city center in 1919–20, Vienna’s urban space is meticulously and unhurriedly laid out, as if intended not just for the contemporary public, but also for future historians of cosmopolitan city life.
Before Sunrise เล่าถึงการพบกันของ เจสซี และ เซลีน หนุ่มชาวอเมริกันกับสาวชาวฝรั่งเศสที่พบกันโดยบังเอิญ ทั้งคู่ได้มีโอกาสพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดกันในช่วงการเดินทาง แล้วดันถูกคอกันเป็นอย่างมาก ทำให้เจสซีจึงถือโอกาสชวนเซลีนลงรถไฟเพื่อไปเที่ยวด้วยกันที่เวียนนา ทั้งคู่มีเวลาแค่เพียงหนึ่งคืนก่อนที่พระอาทิตย์จะขึ้นเท่านั้น เพราะเจสซีจะต้องเดินทางกลับอเมริกาในวันต่อมา ในขณะที่เซลีนก็มีแผนที่จะกลับไปเรียนต่อที่ฝรั่งเศส จึงเป็นจุดเริ่มต้นในความสัมพันธ์ของคนแปลกหน้าสองคน ที่แบ่งปันเรื่องราวและทัศนคติในชีวิตของตัวเองให้กับฝ่าย ด้วยความคิดที่ว่าพวกเขาคงไม่ได้เจอกันอีก
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
A deadly car crash sets off three parallel stories of women at crisis points, faltering behind the doors of the same, plain Vienna apartment block.
Vignettes of the lives of several residents of a Vienna suburb during a heat wave.
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
An on-the-scene documentary following the events of September 11, 2001 from an insider's view, through the lens of two French filmmakers who simply set out to make a movie about a rookie NYC fireman and ended up filming the tragic event that changed our lives forever.
German director Wim Wenders tries to explore the Tokyo that was depicted in the films of Yasujiro Ozu and finds a very different city.
An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the impenetrable wall of a self-imposed seclusion: how his dramatic experiences during World War II influenced his life and work, his relationships with very young women, his obsessive writing methods, his many literary secrets.
Hallam's talent for spying on people reveals his darkest fears-and his most peculiar desires. Driven to expose the true cause of his mother's death, he instead finds himself searching the rooftops of the city for love.