In the very oldfashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They pr...
After saving a tramp from *******, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million francs to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
Wealthy Tony Newlander becomes disgusted with the fortune seekers around him. After saving a tramp from drowning, he takes his clothes and goes off to discover life among the real people. Only, a humorous twist of f...
Sadistic Stephen Danel owns a penal island, and when he is not humiliating and mistreating his wife, he is torturing his convict prisoners and using them for slave labor. Government agent Mark Sheldon is sent to infiltrate the island and bring Danel to justice. Written by Ken Yousten {kyousten@bev.net} (imdb)
1922年,23岁的希区柯克执导他的首部电影《13号》,宣告了一代悬念大师的银幕初登场。曾执导过多部电影史纪录片的英国导演马克·卡曾斯以《13号》百年庆为契机,推出了这部致敬希区柯克的论文电影。影片出人意料地从希区柯克的角度出发,以口述方式(由著名影星阿利斯泰尔·麦高恩配音)、模拟了一出“希区柯克带你看希区柯克电影”的戏码。通过这个虚拟的主观视点,向影迷介绍希区柯克数量庞大的经典作品中的共通点、以及隐藏在趣味和高能背后的视听技巧,亦展现了卡曾斯本人的博学和洞察力。
"Metropolis", "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", M, "Nosferatu", "People on Sunday", "Berlin, Symphony of a Metropolis" all rank among the classics and most influential films of European Cinema. FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER tells the story of early German Cinema as the story of social and cultural upheaval in the first republic, between 1918 and 1933. Siegfried Kracauer, who wrote the g...