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- Impressions of resistance and revolution in America, as shot on both coasts by visiting director Godard in the pivotal year of 1968, but not completed and not shown, after being taken over by local director Pennebaker, until three years later.
- With the election of Socialist Francois Mitterrand, the main character in the series, Victor, decides to come out of the closet.Even though this is still a time when the World Health Organization considers homosexuality to be a mental illness.
- A selection from an Internet poll covers thirty buildings in Berlin that have,according to those who chose them, the most interesting architectural resonance for their history, a selection which reveals many places the casual tourist to that great city may never have even heard of.
- Healing at her parents' home after a radical hysterectomy from a cervical cancer related to a drug DES she was exposed to when her mother was given it to prevent a miscarriage, Helfand uses her camera as a diary to document complex issues of science,and corporate greed,and in the process awakens as a political activist.
- An artwork in the remote Teshima museum on an island in the Seto Inland Sea,the installation called Matrix is visited by five women who interact with its play of air, light and water, while the artist herself refuses to appear on screen and is only shown in archival footage about her past work.
- This documentary on Argentina in the mid 1980s includes interviews with relatives of missing persons, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, politicians, and representatives of the Catholic Church there, allowing different points of view to give a fuller picture.
- The first screen adaptation of an epic Russian novel about a village of Cossacks on the Don River, covering the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the subsequent Civil War between Reds and Whites. The main character.an antihero,is the violent, impetuous, unreliable Melekhov.
- The complicated personality of America's seventh president is explored in detail in this two hour PBS documentary, leaving the viewer to decide whether the man should be celebrated for his achievements or condemned for his ignorance and savagery.
- One of the anthology films about Soviet citizens resisting the Nazi invaders during World War II, the feature consists of two stories, one about a teenage woman telephone operator who sacrifices herself, the other about a farm girl tending a sick pig who deals with two paratroopers seeking shelter.
- An anthology of short stories featuring the resourcefulness of ordinary Soviet citizens in fighting back against Nazi cruelty during the invasion of 1941 on, features an episode of a peasant woman who poisons food she cooks for the occupiers.
- As befits the austerity of this director, for his first ever on camera interview, it is just Bresson and the filmmaker, with pronouncements on the difference between "le cinematographe" and "le Cinema, " and much information about the man's tastes in other arts such as painting, photography and music.
- John, looking for the mother in Cuba he hasn't seen in thirty years, is surprised to discover just her corpse minus her head, and further to find that the rest of his family there, who are stranger than he thought, are not all that helpful in his quest.
- Just before one of the locations for the 1960 film Breathless is about to be demolished 33 years later, journalist Claude Ventura seeks out as many of the surviving participants in the shooting as he can, researches what happened back then, and even travels to Godard's native Switzerland to uncover some more links.
- Friends are divided by loyalties during the Civil War in Russia following the Bolshevik Revolution: a young artist returns from Germany to help the Reds but is sympathetic to one acquaintance helping the Whites and is threatened by another friend for permitting treachery.
- A satire on the romantic adventures of a youth who follows in the footsteps of his Don Juan like father.The student is sent away from Cologne where his family lives to a smaller town for falling in love with an actress,and is later expelled from school and lands up in the army just as they are preparing for a dangerous war.
- A print shop worker, Tufan, takes in a neighbor with emphysema and helps his daughter take care of a wounded bird, but tensions develop at his economically struggling business and strains develop because of his house guest with his marriage.
- A princess visiting in the hotel where a famous singer is staying,helps him out on the piano when he has dismissed his accompanist. he uses her again later,but when her betrothed,a prince,suspects her of being in the singer,s bedroom she runs away to another city to work incognito.But the singer turns up there as well and reconciles the lovers.
- A psychological melodrama about a lonely country woman who embarks on a marriage with a city chauffeur which is doomed to fail, this vehicle for an actress who would commit suicide later the year of the film,s release serves as her testament.
- A beggar with his paper boxes outspread, watches the same scene repeated over and over: a bookseller with his books laid out on an outdoor table, a female dropping her papers as she walks across a bridge, a man leaving a coin or two in a basin, a garbage man coming by with his equipment.
- A young soldier, who has spent the last three nights before he leaves for the front with his lover, discovers when he deserts to be with her once more that she has betrayed him, and decides to report to the police who are questioning him, that she is a Communist.
- Three episodes about the influence of Satan: a black boxer commits killings under the influence of his manager.A pair of lovers is haunted by the memory of a murdered wife.A wedding in the mountains is disrupted when the bride sees an apparation of the Devil who shares his expertise in astrology and the female heart.
- A penniless heiress, a disillusioned nun, the suicidal playwright they both love, a hapless art forger and the playwright's wife converge on the empty Long Island home of an aging matriarch and squabble among themselves about their relative success or failure.
- The closely knit comrades at Jochen's tool factory have hoped that one of their own, Franz, would be promoted, after some training, to replace the recently deceased foreman.But their office manager prefers to bring in an outsider, which causes tensions in the workplace.
- A captain, who has rescued a woman from danger,sails with her to Macao to do an arms deal with the Asian proprietor of a gambling den.The proprietor,s daughter, whom a visiting journalist tries to help, doesn,t know the sordid business her father is involved with.
- The heroic 19th century figure of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his role in the Risorgimento to unify Italy into one nation state are used to celebrate the bravery and grandiosity of Italy's new leader at the time the film was made, Benito Mussolini.
- Prodded by a visit from Marion's strict mother, Jochen plans to marry Marion.Whereas tensions growing between Monika and the overly bossy Harald lead Monika to consider divorce.Many of the characters we have come to know over the previous three episodes meet up, and pair off in interesting combinations, at a drunken party.
- This literary adaptation was one of only two films made during World War II on the subject of the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, as attention by filmmakers and viewers shifted away from past history and toward the current conflict.
- The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid hired by the wife of a baron,whom both the athlete and a baron flirt with,and a deadbeat tenant who fakes his suicide.
- An expanded version of the short, New York Story, in which we first see the arrival of the Loulou character in the big city, sharing a Soho apartment with three roommates, getting work as a film editor, and showing her previous movie Deux Fois at the Museum of Modern Art.
- With the news the tool factory is relocating to a more remote part of town, Jochen and Marion ask if they can switch apartments with Kathe and Wolf, to be closer to their respective jobs.And with this new inconvenience, the workers at the factory decide to come up with a list of demands, including the impractical-sounding proposal that they arrange their own schedule rather than have it dictated to them by the bosses.
- In the village of Tankuy, farmers are roused to revolutionary action against US based imperialism after one of them, an indigenous man, is brutalized by a landowner.Native non professionals contributed to and helped direct this example of radical, Collective oriented Latin American filmmaking.
- We are introduced to a middle class family, where one son, Jochen, works in a tool factory and shares close comradeship with his colleagues.When he accidentally meets a young lady, Marion,who has an office advertising job, while going out to get alcohol for a family gathering, a love affair between them develops.
- 1964–19721h 15m8.0 (9)TV EpisodeJohn Ford is interviewed,sitting on a bed in his Hollywood home, with a cigar and a drink,by two journalists,and deflects a number of the questions about his life and films with a cranky humor,even occasionally trying to converse with the French interviewer in French.
- This French made documentary surveys the situation in mid to late 1930s Spain: the revelations of a plot by Italy and Germany to subvert the new Republican government ;the progress made by the Popular Front since 1936 in fighting off the Franco rebels who are largely foreign Moorish troops, mercenaries, and Spaniards forced to join ;but the need for international aid because the governments of England and France have decided to look the other way and not intervene.
- A French writer travels to the States, confers with writer friends in New York and visits sites there associated with the novel The Catcher In the Rye, before tackling the task of driving up to New England to try to meet the reclusive author of that book.
- In this musical comedy, all the heirs of a recently deceased uncle must stay in his chateau until they find a buyer for it.If no one is found or if any of them leave, the place will be left to its Chinese servants, who devise tricks to cheat the heirs.
- An adaptation of a famous Argentinian novel (the author plays a supporting role as a schoolteacher ) which has been compared to William Faulkner for its realism in depicting the poverty of a desolate part of the country (the province of Entre Rios) and for its strong denunciation of social injustice and violence.
- How to represent the architect, his work, his projects? This classic documentary film explores many avenues in this regard. Pierre Kast defends and illustrates the theories and achievements of Le Corbusier, with the assistance of the architect himself.
- A Parisian painter working in the Basque country succeeds in keeping together a young woman and her smuggler boyfriend, even though the artist has feelings for the intended bride himself, and then he completes a painting on the subject of the wedding.
- This short sponsored by the Monnet Plan documents the extrication of salt from the Camargue area of southern France, as a group of workers build dikes, canals, and pumping stations, putting modern machinery to use so that the land can be cultivated.
- A native of Czechoslovakia recalls her journey from the Terezin internment camp there to Auschwitz in Poland, when she was eight months pregnant.
- One of 26 documentary shorts produced between 1942 and 1945 by the U.S. Overseas Film Bureau, and intended to show foreign viewers something about America and it's values, this one focuses on the important institution in Washington D.C. which preserves written and other works that have been copyrighted, as part of the country's heritage.
- A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded the American invention of Cinerama, and used three screens to present a drama of simultaneous images.
- Rex Stout's portly detective prides himself on solving crimes without venturing outside his comfortable home; here he relies on others to do the legwork in pinpointing who among a number of suspects is responsible for two sudden deaths, which the authorities at first are not convinced were murders.
- In a work of site-specific expanded Cinema, going beyond his earlier narrative features,the director presents a middle and upper class audience gathered in a museum setting with images of real homeless people from their wealthy city of Vienna, who are shown consuming food and participating in various vignettes.
- A number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders, whose atrocities are shown in graphic detail, is begun, with echoes of traditional Russian heroism and an appeal to save the country's religious and cultural monuments.
- Farmers in a collective of ancient villages near Tokyo fight back one summer ,with the help of student activists, against plans by the Japanese government to demolish their homes to make way for the expansion of an airport used by American planes headed for Viet Nam.
- Interlocking narratives, told out of chronological order, about partisans in the Second World War who are a band of nihilistic marauders, roaming the countryside and dispensing what they see as justice to those they consider collaborators with the enemy.
- Jochen's grandmother spends time searching for an apartment they can afford with her new boyfriend Gregor, an elderly gentleman she has picked up in a park.When they run across a library space being abandoned by the town authorities, Oma comes up with the idea of taking it over as a kindergarten for the neighborhood kids who have no place to play except the street, and they become do it yourself squatters.
- Three immigrants from different Latin American countries, all of whom use corn as an ingredient in their rich cuisines, have landed up in Charlotte, North Carolina, where they share their mouth-watering recipes and join together for a colorful feast.