Living like a primate walled in solitude, Joseph, the train cleaner, goes home on a rainy night. On a sidewalk, a human form lies in blood and mud. Joseph lifts this injured body like a feather, takes it home, nurses it and “repairs” it with skillful hands. The young woman recovers her strenght and becomes the “shining part” of his poor existence. Until the day where…Read More »
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TV commercials collector Jean Marie Boursicot’s (who might be known to you by his Nights of AdEaters) compilation of advertising films and commercials produced by famous film directors. Featured directors; Vol 1: David Cronenberg, Tim Burton, Luc esson, Woody Allen, Spike Lee, Giuseppe Tornatore, Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Roman Polanski, Francis Ford Coppola, Tarsem Singh, Jean Jacques Annaud, Ridley Scott, Emir Kusturica, Wong Kar Wai, Michel Gondry, Tony Scott, Jean Luc Godard, Tony Kaye, Jan Kounen; Vol 2: Hugh Hudson, Martin Scorsese, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, Carlos Saura, Franco Zeffirelli, Claude Chabrol, Jean Jacques Annaud, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, Federico Fellini, Giuseppe Tornatore, Patrice Leconte, Andrei Konchalowski, David Lynch, Helmut Newton, Nikita Mikhalkov, Jean Jacques Beineix, Jean Pierre Jeunet and William Klein.Read More »
A multi-national corporation attempts to take over America while small pockets of resistance hold out against rampant technology.Read More »
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1. Desert Gods
First transmitted in 1963, this is the first in a series of six programmes by David Attenborough on the Northern Territory of Australia.
David Attenborough, cameraman Eugene Carr and sound recordist Bob Saunders spent four months in the Northern Territory of Australia. Hoping to capture the essence of this vast territory they meet its people and explore its unique landscape and animals.Read More »
Two American soldiers escape from a Japanese prison camp, in order to reach Mindanao and hand over to the Allied Forces a top secret coding device.Read More »
The year is 1957. The cast and crew of the Lester Guy Show are extremely apprehensive about their upcoming live television broadcast on the Zoblotnick Broadcasting Co. network. Lester Guy despises fellow cast member Betty Hudson for unknowingly becoming more popular than him and schemes to destroy her career. Only two of the seven episodes were written by David Lynch.Read More »
An uncharacteristic Bing Crosby plays Dr. Cook, a small town physician with a little something to hide. Outwardly gentle and compassionate, Cook is less politely inclined to those in his Vermont community whom he regards as disposable. When a young man (Frank Converse) whom Cook has raised as a son returns to the community, he begins to suspect that his father-figure is keeping secrets. The young man learns that the good Doctor has been murdering those patients whom he regards as useless, and then burying the victims in his meticulously kept garden. Made for TV, Dr. Cook’s Garden was adapted from a Broadway play by Ira Levin, in which Burl Ives starred in the title role. – All Movie GuideRead More »
Christabel Bielenberg’s historical memoir, “The Past Is Myself,” looking back on the years 1932-45, was the source for this depiction of life in Germany during Hitler’s rise.
Daughter of middle-class English-Irish parents, Christabel became a German citizen in 1934 when she married German law student Peter Bielenberg of a prominent Hamburg family. The couple raised their two sons amid Germany’s shifting political climate. In 1939, as the situation became acute, Peter joined a military organization planning to remove Hitler from power.Read More »
