Director Martin Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences: the late Elia Kazan. Utilizing precisely chosen clips from Kazan’s signature films and interview footage of the director himself, co-directors Scor
One cannot designate a work as a masterpiece when it is first created, for many years must pass in order to determine whether an artistic work is in fact a masterpiece.
Throughout a year’s work, a group of ten actors and a film director will work together on the creation of the characters and on the structure of the plot of a new film to come. Long sessions of discussion, rehearsals and endless repetitions serve to devel
The Luxor temple of cinema, built in Paris in 1921 and inspired by Egyptian architecture, was briefly converted into a discotheque before being left abandoned in the 1990’s. Compiled in the form of a “making-of”, the film shows a guided tour of the site.
If your knowledge of classic vampire stories is limited to the legends of Frederich Murnaus’ “Nosferatu” and Bella Lugosis’ “Dracula”, its time for you to get to know they are based on reality and this insightful documentary proves it. Vampires are for re
Marie Rivière is a frequent cast member in the films of Eric Rohmer. In 1978, she made her feature debut in his “Perceval le Gallois”, a poetic adventure drama set in medieval times. Her first leading role was as the wife of a jealous young student in “La
“The only two ways of leaving the island were the sea and the cinema.” Blaufuks’ documentary look lead us to S. Vicente (Cape Vert) and through the memories left on the island by the cinema. Based upon an interesting research work, both for the testimonie
A documentary by Laetitia Mikles about Japanese director Naomi Kawase.
An experimental documentary on Kenneth Anger, shot last year during the Lucca film festival in Toscany.
Using blown-up, fractured images from the six banned scenes in “Syndromes and a Century” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, it’s a kind of report on the absurdity of an act of censorship while ironically exploring the fragmented history of Thailand.
Sompot Chidgasornpongse was Weerasethakul’s assistant director.
A fable around places which are deserted by characters borrowed from Hitchcock’s films. The spectator strolls alone in empty spaces, in search of the other, who disappeared.
An impossible meeting of the cinema History.
This fascinating documentary chronicles the recent restoration of Georges Méliès’ fantastical A Trip to the Moon to its original 1902 colors. Includes interviews with contemporary filmmakers such as Costa-Gavras, Michel Gondry, Michel Hazanavicius and Jean-Pierre Jeunet on Méliès’ enduring significance to cinema.
When the life of Jean-Claude Van Damme collides with the reality of a holdup in Brussels, Belgium, his childhood home where he’s still considered a national icon, suddenly the huge movie star turns into an ordinary guy, filled with fears, contradictions and hopes. How can he be up to the legend he has built? What can a film hero do when the gun pointed to his temple isn’t charged with blanks?
A musical landscape film about a street corner in Rio using photographs among others by Bressane’s parents (taken between 1909 and 1955) and Bressane’s own films (shot between 1957 and 2005), bringing the total fictional time the film covers to almost a century Aperana means wrong road. A fiction about a fiction.
Using images “from the first four and a half decades of cinematography,” taken from 11 archives across the world, Gustav Deutsch has constructed a musical “film drama in five acts. (…) Film is: a girl and a gun. (Isabella Reicher)
Johan Grimonprez casts Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor, unwittingly caught up in a Double Take on the cold war period. “Double Take” targets the global political rise of fear as a commodity, in a tale of odd couples and double deals.
Portrait of a film (A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick’s ninth feature film). Portrait of an era (the 60s, marked by the Vietnam War, the protest movements of the youth and the rise of insecurity in Western societies). Portrait of a filmmaker (Stanley Kubrick, a perfectionist filmmaker). A Clockwork Orange is the work of a visionary.