In the factory where he repairs machines, an old man spends his last day at work before his colleagues say goodbye at a retirement party. A young self-conscious teen leaves his village and family to start training as an apprentice in town.Read More »
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The life and literature of South Mato Grosso poet Manoel de Barros. Alternating sequences of interviews with the poet, verses from his poetry, and statements of connoisseurs of his literature, the film portrays a revealing panel of the author`s language. Manoel de Barros, age 91, with some 20 books published, lives in Campo Grande. Acknowledged, the winner of several literary prizes, he is the Brazilian writer who accounts for the greatest sale in poetry in Brazil.Read More »
Billy Connolly plays Steve Myers, a lawyer who became a fisherman from frustration.
When his one piece of property, his boat, is struck by lightning and destroyed he is
denied insurance money because it was ‘an act of God’. He re-registers as a lawyer and
sues the insurance company and the church under the guise of God, defending himself.
The accident leads him to a friendship and eventual relationship with a journalist, Anna
Redmond (Davis).Read More »
Bruce Campbell stars as Carl, a man who launches a full-scale heist to steal mob money from the prison that just released him. With the help of an old friend, a driver and a safe-cracker, Carl’s attempt to carry out the heist is fraught with incompetence and bad luck. As the clock ticks and the circumstances turn tragic, Carl is forced to make the most important decision of his life. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” and filmed over twenty years before Sam Mendes’ “1917”, writer/director Josh Becker designed “Running Time” to play out using the “one continuous shot” technique with no computer-assisted trickery. Expertly photographed and edited on film to take place over 60 minutes of real-time, this gritty crime drama was shot entirely on location in the streets of Los Angeles.Read More »
Matt Stevens is the big man at high school. He sweats the students for protection money, acquires copies of tests for a fee, and has rigged the votes so he can beat Kelly in the election for student president. Aside from his anointed acolytes, Matt is almost universally despised. His parents are obscenely rich and spend their time travelling in Europe rather than giving him the parental guidance he needs. Things begin to get ugly when some of the teens resist his power and show Matt up at the drag race.Read More »
One UFO sighting after another proves false. He has to beg for money to keep his space-exploration magazine afloat. There are no messages in the TV static. Nevertheless, Tang Zhijun continues to believe in alien life forms and heads to the mountainous southwest of China, to investigate after watching a mysterious online video. He is accompanied by a drunk, a girl with insomnia, and a cynical staffer. For Tang, the moment of truth comes when they meet a young poet in a village, who says he is in contact with aliens. Read More »
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Max Ernst (1891-1976) is considered a pioneer of surrealist painting; his enigmatic, magical worlds delight and disturb the viewer: To mark the 50th anniversary of his death, this documentary tells his fascinating story from his early life in Germany up to his exile in the USA in the 1940s.Read More »
Insight into the master’s working mind.
In this two-part interview, Eric Rohmer develops some of the ideas underlying how he sees and makes films. Surrounded by his precious notebooks, cassettes and screen tests, he answers the questions put by his attentive and amused interviewer, Jean Douchet. He emphasises the role of German philosophy and music in his films as well as the part played by his French New Wave contemporaries. Turning to the random nature of life, a central theme in his films, he presents his principles and delivers a delectable lesson on the theory and practice of filmmaking, his writing methods, how he works with sound and his actors…Read More »
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The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for the overthrow of the Shogunate, and the Shinsengumi squad, who are chasing them.Read More »