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Two men meet in Milan for 48 hours. They met for the first time, elsewhere. The voice-over speaks of this first weekend and the images are those of the second. The film brings them together and goes beyond them to evoke a city and a passion.
Artistic documentary that combines images of human beings and nature to achieve a highly significant aesthetic result. Irrational deforestation in Itaúnas (northern Espírito Santo, Brazil) makes the village vulnerable to sand blown by the intense winds. In 1968, the region becomes uninhabitable, producing a living example of ecological disaster.
A satire about a mayor who has problems with the cost of the 1976 Olympics.
Life of Phillis is one of Oursler's earliest video narratives. In this psychosexual, low-tech epic, Oursler creates an outrageous theatrical world, fashioning characters from unlikely found objects. Willfully primitive, often grotesque, and crafted with an ingenious visual shorthand, Life of Phillis inhabits an ironic landscape fabricated from the detritus of pop culture.
A writer of 'pulp' detective fiction is forced to confront a tragedy from his past. As he struggles to complete his latest novel his real and fantasy worlds collide, threatening his very existence.
The Mother is one of Monteiro’s first essays on the universe of Portuguese oral culture, folktales and obscure colloquialisms. The plot revolves around a traditional tale about theft, greed, an ubiquitous mother, and the links between the worlds of the living and the dead.
A love triangle involving a young woman, her elderly husband and the husband's illegitimate brother. Tears, recriminations and bloodshed characterize this moving tale.
Tragic story of the brave woman Todora. Germans penetrated into the village. Villagers flee into the forest and a brave Todora rushes to the German tank and crosses the ball screen. Soldiers captured, and raped her. Her father Radul dispels the Germans, kills some of them and gets killed himself. Freedom arrives, Todora gives birth to son. Farmers despise the evaded, and her father intends to creates a memorial statue.
Luciano Pavarotti’s sang some of opera’s most demanding roles – Manrico in Il trovatore, Rodolfo in La bohème and Cavaradossi in Tosca – winning him the highest critical acclaim. He was acknowledged a true successor to two of the greatest opera singers to have ever lived, Enrico Caruso and Beniamino Gigli. In this fascinating introspective, filmed in Modena, Pesaro and Verona, Pavarotti talks about his life and performs arias by Verdi, Puccini and Leoncavallo, accompanied by the Orchestra Stabile Romagna, conducted by Leone Magiera.
Aspects of the life of the revolutionary combatants Lidia Doce and Clodomira Acosta, guerrilla supplies and messengers in the Sierra Maestra, until their capture, torture and death.
A boy falls in love with Cicciolina without ever having met her, but discovers that she is a very different woman from the one he had imagined. He transforms into Pygmalion to make her the woman he had dreamed of.
A Super 8, color and sound film by Joseph Morder.
Chicken and Fox's parents were against their children's friendship. But the kids managed to defend their friendship.
A young investigator enters a house that may be haunted.
The film reflects the suffering of a rural woman with a strong personality. Everyone in the village tries to marry her for the sake of the acres she owns
The Two Kids playing a Chicken Balloon.
1979 DCI World Championships held in Birmingham, AL on August 18, 1979 1. Blue Devils (1st Place 93.55) 2. Phantom Regiment (2nd Place 92.75) 3. Santa Clara Vanguard (3rd Place 90.70) 4. Spirit of Atlanta (4th Place 89.90) 5. 27th Lancers (5th Place 86.40) 6. Bridgemen (6th Place 86.20) 7. Guardsmen (7th Place 85.30) 8. Madison Scouts (8th Place 84.50) 9. North Star (9th Place 83.30) 10. Blue Stars (10th Place 83.05) 11. Cavaliers (11th Place 78.50) 12. Troopers (12th Place 77.90)
The puppet film in which Dream, the good guardian, helps a girl to find her doll.
A man doing the ironing on the ground floor of a tenement house observes the yard.
In the early stages of WW2 Japan invaded China. Obviously historical accuracy was not paramount in the movie creators minds. The Japanese set up a puppet government in Manchuria to act as a centre from which to conquer the rest of China. As part of their strategy the Japanese headquarters in Manchuria plans to process a large quantity of illegal opium in a short period. With that amount of drugs floating around temptation was close by. The money raised from the opium processing plant is to be used to fund the military expansion. But not all goes to plan.
The bumblebee wakes up and flies out of the nest, tempted by the scent of the meadow. It jumps from flower to flower until it comes across a lion's maw that wants to keep the bumblebee.
The film begins with a woman reflecting about her role as a person and as a mother. Her love and the sacrifices she has made for her children are evident and she has many happy memories of her time spent with them.
Black and white prints by Bruno Schulz take us to his room from pre-war Drohobych. Under the influence of quotes, objects are brought to life and green plants begin to appear on the surface of the antiquities. All of the things will be consumed by the fire.
Rapid rhythms due to a geometrical treatment of the images, of which most of the chisellings are oblique lines. Insertion were made with film scraps inside the chisellings. A seventeenth century music adds a touch of original anachronism to the film and dialogue with the reading of a superficial text about Rudolph Valentino.
Canadian horror film featuring music from Canadian punk bands The Curse, Cardboard Brains, Space Phlegm, The Ugly, Willie English, The Spenglers and The Secrets.
Bittersweet tourist film through the streets of Recife, focusing on the historical barbarism that monuments and postcards hide.
Official entry to the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1979 directed by Jun Gallardo and starred Lito Lapid, George Estregan, Dante Varona, David Aguila, Julie Ann Fortich, Lucita Soriano, Teroy de Guzman, and Yoyoy Villame.
“One day at the beach…a typically Australian day…something I really looked forward to, when I first came here as a migrant (Bondi was the first surfing beach I’d ever seen). In the early ’60s there was hardly a weekend I didn’t go to the beach. But it wasn’t until many, many years later that I was filmically advanced enough to make a film about it. The simplicity of just turning the camera on and letting people do what they wanted to in front of the lends appealed to me…the carefree atmosphere appealed to me…the carefree atmosphere of the beach captured with the innocence of early cinema. I didn’t even look through the lens. Shooting horizontal mattes allowed me to play with the density of what was going on…the surreality of the beach, the waves of water and people, the hot and cold of sun and surf, overexposure…heat rising up, surfers riding waves in the sky and into buildings, seagulls ducking beneath the mattes, then re-appearing.” (Paul Winkler)
A story of the good witch Bonycrone living on an isolated island and her friend, a former sailor Captain Drum; and their adventures on the island, on the sea and in town.
A film about a future dinosaur, a species that might be headed for extinction, even though it seems to be thriving now. Not the human race, which in spite of everything may continue to suffer for many years, but the automobile. The filmmaker was fortunate enough to reside at the meeting of two great expressways and a tunnel, and from his roof and kitchen window was able to observe closely these machines in their natural habitat (55 miles per hour). It is also a film about visual effects, the camera lens and the human eye, and the difference between the things that they both see.
Movieman follows the career of James S. Nairn who, for almost all his working life, aspired to the highest standards in cinema presentation.
A girl stands alone at the window after a night of love, which is the end of the relationship with a guy, and thinks about the past time with the boyfriend. She remembers the beautiful moments and decides not to despair and dare to make a fresh start.
Part 2 of a trio of pieces titled Lives. "Lives" documents how mothers and their children move similarly.
Cast: Rio Locsin, Rolly Quizon, Ronald Corveau, Subas Herrero
Protective Coloration shows Fisher seated at a mottled table. He wears short-sleeved hospital garb, surgical green ‘scrubs’. Nose-clips block his nostrils while a mouth-guard that looks like fake lips covers his mouth. Over the course of 11 minutes he masks his face and covers his hands with bright gear in colours that accumulate to resemble those of the standard reference chart: he puts on orange eye-caps, then a yellow bathing cap; covering his nose and mouth and the gear already there, he dons a black gas mask; a silky black sleeping mask voids his already covered eyes, a cyan blue bathing cap caps the yellow; yellow rubber gloves snap on his hands and forearms; puts on cyan eye goggles, then struggles with yet another bathing cap, hazmat orange, over the other two. A silvery transparent shower cap tops the caps, itself topped by a plastic green helmet. Finally heavy-duty magenta gloves hide most of the yellow rubber. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
A serialized propaganda epic that portrays the conflicts among Party leaders in the 1930s
Includes three plots: “The Bear with a Sweet Tooth,” “The Boastful Bunny,” and “The Ungrateful Little Goat.”
A wet hot dream about sensuality. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the National Film Preservation Foundation and the Pacific Film Archive in 2009.
Short film.
At the early fifties in Syria, a man meets Salama, Mustafa, Hussein, and Youssef, all of whom oppose the dictatorial authority, when he is thrown into a political prison due to a misunderstanding, after which he finds himself in a place other than what he imagined, living in a difficult intellectual struggle.
"Currents" investigates the procedures of spinal stimulation which aim to improve condition of patients suffering from serious nervous diseases. A small electrical current is constantly moving through the nerves, muscles, and tissues of our body. It can be seen and heard with an electromyograph. By hearing it, a patient can re-learn certain physical functions that have been lost. In other instances, hearing this current can help doctors to determine the nature of a nerve disease otherwise undefinable. The spinal stimulation consists of softly activating the surrounding area of the nerve in question as to incite it to draw energy from it's own potential. In spite of its scientific background, "Currents" is my personal account of this enlightening experience.
This film deals with the illegal Jewish immigrants - Holocaust survivors - who, between 1945 and 1948, overcame incredible hardships to get to Israel and, by their numbers and presence, helped to make inevitable the birth of the Jewish state.
In 1979, while doing his military service, Giancarlo Soldi made his directorial debut with this short film. The Super 8 camera for the short was provided by Paolo Gioli, a multimedia artist, to whom he had been the sole assistant for two years. The film was seized by the Carabinieri under the pretext of showing weapons protected by military secrecy until 2024.
Two families are pulled into a repeating spiral of murder and revenge.
Adapted from Kampoon Boonthawee's first novel, chronicling the man's incarcerated fate after he decided to search for his political-prisoner father but keeps ending up his life in prisons, and women.
Documentary filmmaker Drahomíra Vihanová made a documentary Searching during the filming of František Vláčil's Concert at the End of Summer. The film was made between 1978 and 1979. Rather than a reportage, the film is an observation of the director's work. It alternates between black-and-white sequences with diegetic sound depicting the making of the film and colour sections that are silent or contain non-diegetic music, with František Vláčil at the centre of them, thinking and searching for inspiration and the ideal form for his film.
