Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.
After 46 years in exile, former major league baseball star Luis Tiant returns to Cuba, where he encounters unexpected demons and receives unexpected gifts from his family.
This film captures the essence of Jewish humor in this fearlessly open, prejudice-defying documentary. Through a collage of interviews and comedy routines, take us a tour of Jewish humor, from the earthy jokes of the Eastern European shtetls to the stand-up routines of U.S. comics and modern day Israel, which can't resist poking fun at its most sacred institutions.
Producer: MO...
The first collaboration between Matthew Barney & Elizabeth Peyton, Blood of Two is a unique, site-specific work that draws its references from Hydra itself – the surrounding environment, animals, humans, and local traditions are all part of the project in equal measure.
Blood of Two centers on the former function of the Slaughterhouse and the customs of Hydra to establish conne...
It's early 2000, the young entrepreneur Patrick Casey count the millions. Everything seems possible, so why not - do a movie A group of friends without much experience decides to make an epic cult, perhaps even "the best film ever made".
In five chapters with titles borrowed from Dostoevsky to Arthur Rimbaud and Walter Benjamin, the film passes from the port town of Calais to Paris, from black and white to color, from silent to sound, from super-8 to video, from stifled words to free jazz, the film testify the iniquitous policies which shape our time, and the character of certain political lives as migrants, im...
Adolf Loos helped define Modernist Architecture with his 1908 essay proclaiming ornament to be a crime. His 1908 manifesto, "Ornament and Crime" – a turning point in architectural theory, much discussed and debated to this present day, is read by Carola Regnier, while in the background, we follow photographs of marble tombstones from the 18th century at St. John's Cathedrale in...
University of Texas student Duane Graves chronicles his charismatic childhood chum Rene Moreno, a San Antonio native with Down Syndrome, in this playful, stirring, remarkably unique portrait documentary.
"Those Waiting For The Birds" is the portrait of a game: "pigeon racing". Through passionate pigeon racers, such as Robert Calonne, an old mason and famous champion, Serge Taillieu, a young unemployed but diligent player, or Herbots Philip, who made breading pigeons a lucrative business, the film director is contemplating this sport today. As a kind of "horse racing of the poor...
The inside story of Fleewood Mac from their formation in 1967 to the present day (2009) - as told by the members of the band.
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圧倒的存在感をフィルムに刻み続けた稀代の名優三國連太郎。
37年前に未完に終わった映画が今、甦る。その作品に込めた思いとは？
日本映画史に残る数々の名作に出演し、その圧倒的な存在感で稀代の名優として知られる三國連太郎。そんな三國が37年前、役者として押しも押されもせぬ存在であった49歳の時に、私財をなげうって製作した1本の映画があった。幻の自主映画『岸のない河』である。
一人息子を不治の病で失った元医者が、自分の死に場所を求めパキスタン、アフガニスタンを彷徨するという内容のセミドキュメンタリー作品で、三國は製作／監督／主演を務めたが、数々のトラブルに見舞われ結局は完成に至らなかった。「...
One of the world's first babies resulting from artificial insemination, Barry Stevens, goes on a complicated quest to find his biological father. His sister Janice joins in the search after a health issue with possible genetic sources. He interviews fertility doctors, gay parents, genealogy experts, and finds many lost siblings.
