Presents Peter Ustinov’s personal view of Leningrad. He briefly relates the city’s history, showing many of the buildings – St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, the Imperial Winter Palace, St. Isaac’s Cathedral, amongst many others. He discusses many aspects of the arts, literature, music ballet and drama of Leningrad.Read More »
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Tired of the behavior from the men in the local wine harvesting village in France, nine women form the Sabines women’s club – name chosen because no fewer than three of them go by the name of Sabine. They rent a mini bus to spend a weekend in Paris, void of men. The men of the village feel threatened by this act of women’s liberation. They organize a masked and armed commando, hi-jack the mini bus and kidnap the Sabines, in a reference to the ancient Roman myth of the abduction of the Sabines. Will the Sabines’ little liberation movement prevail or will it be crushed by the phallocracy, or is there a third option of equal opportunities and mutual enjoyment?Read More »
A married businessman has an affair with his secretary. Someone takes pictures as proof of his infidelity and blackmails him. Who could the blackmailer be, and what perverse things do they want?Read More »
Based on the poem “The Pleasure of Sunday” by László Nagy.Through everyday scenes, with an abundance of close-ups, like a kaleidoscope of undeniable beauty-both plastic and chromatic-it opens up new, experimental pathways of expression.
A kaleidoscopic journey through Budapest over the course of a single Sunday, where ordinary moments—work, family gatherings, public parks, bars, and nightlife—become fragments of a larger portrait of everyday life. Eschewing traditional storytelling, András Jeles transforms the city’s routines into an experimental visual poem.Read More »
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We are in 1946.
Marco Maffei, a young man who spends time cruising aimlessly on Lake Maggiore with his second-hand boat, is approached by the extravagant Temistocle Mario Orimbelli who invites him in his villa where he presents him his wife Cleofe and his sister in law Matilde, alleged widow because her husband is missing in action in Abyssinia.Read More »
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They’re just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. For Frédérique it’s the year of her first serious love, her first foray into politics (the Algerian question and “ban the bomb”), her first kiss from an older man, her first friend who runs away, and her first loss of friendship over values. For Anne, who watches her sister closely, it’s a year of her first period and of learning to talk to boys, dealing with unfair teachers, and sorting things out with mom after getting in trouble.Read More »
Dream Island Girl is a visual poem about the loss of humanity in the age of material civilization. The plot is an illusion. Like in a dream, the emotional narrative tells the story.Read More »
A cop seeking to avenge his partner’s death during a robbery is put on the right path by a scruffy restaurateur who operates a non-violent thieves’ school.Read More »
Overview: Hank is a slacker with no real ambition in life other than to meet all the interesting people in New York City. And that he does — or does he? — when he runs into Paul one day in Central Park.Read More »