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Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.Read More »
A documentary in the Cineastes de notre Temps series on legedary french director Philippe Garrel. Read More »
1776. Poland. With his homeland partitioned and ruled by Russia, Polish nobleman and patriot Boleslas Vorowski heads a secret liberation movement. When Vorowski is wounded in battle, his mentor, the inventor Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen, constructs the Turk, a marvelous chess-playing automaton. With the handsome Polish nobleman secreted inside, the Turk vanquishes the Russians – if only on the chessboard. When Catherine the Great summons the Turk to the Russian Imperial Court for a command match, the fate of Polish independence lies in the hands of the chess player.Read More »
Born in 1942, grand-son of Sicilian immigrants, Martin Scorsese made his first trial in 1964 before beginning his first feature film, “Who’s that knocking my door?”, Which is largely autobiographical. In 1970, he collaborated on “Woodstock” and joined Hollywood where Roger Corman says he “Boxcar Bertha” saga time of the Depression. “Mean Street” reveals to the public in 1973; he takes in this film introspection Youth Little Italy, wedged between the Mafia, the American dream and fantasy of a Catholic education. Read More »
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À Tokyo, Paulo Rocha rencontre Shohei Imamura qu’il considère comme ” la parfaite illustration de l’espoir et du désespoir des anarchistes “. Rocha observe et écoute attentivement Imamura, s’intéressant particulièrement au regard qu’il porte sur ses oeuvres de jeunesse. Que ce soit à travers une conversation avec l’acteur Kazuo Kitamura, ou une rencontre avec une coiffeuse, Imamura se révèle comme le véritable artisan de la contre-histoire du Japon.Read More »
Traumatized by the War of Algeria and by the accidental death of his wife and his son, Manu left the right road. His last caper was the attack of the Antwerp-Tangiers Express, carrying a precious cargo of industrial diamonds. But the whole affair was bungled and all of his accomplices got shot. The only survivor of this disaster, Manu now finds refuge in the mountain house of Lucia, the widow of a smuggler who lives alone there with her little boy…Read More »
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can’t find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.Read More »
A union pensioner and his wife are robbed, but find that merely getting the assailants brought to justice is not enough for their consciences.Read More »
From the Cinéastes de notre temps series, Jean-Luc Godard ou le cinéma au défi exposes Godard’s life through his words and films, featuring interviews with him, as well as his father and sister, Anna Karina, Macha Méril, Louis Aragon, and others. First aired 15 July 1965 on ORTF’s second channel.Read More »