Why are Americans so fat? Ominously, 37‚Ǩ of American children and adolescents are carrying too much fat and two out of every three adults are overweight or obese. Is it our fault for lacking self-control, or are the fast food corportations to blame? Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock hit the road and interviewed experts in 20 U.S. cities. From Surgeon Generals to gym teachers, cooks to kids, these authorities shared their research and opinions. During the journey, Spurlock also put his own body on the line, living on nothing but McDonald’s for an entire month. Could a man live on fast food alone? The film explores the horror of school lunch programs, declining health and physical education classes, food addictions and the extreme measures people take to lose weight and regain their health.
Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos (1931-2008), engraver, painter, is one of the great artists of the 20th century. His world is the crepuscular world of the end of the Portuguese Empire, he who created the first metaphors against the Portuguese Colonialism. And who, with constant vitality, has opposed himself against the New World Order. Knowing, with Eliot, that the past and the future time are both always present on the present time.
Tarnation begins in 2003 as Caouette learns of his mother’s lithium overdose in his native Texas. Faced with the haunting remnants of his past, including a family legacy of mental illness, abuse, and neglect, Caouette returns home to aid in his mother’s recovery. Slipping back into the archives of his youth, we watch Caouette grow up on camera, seeking escape from family trauma. Having relocated to New York in his twenties and subsequently attaining peace, Caouette discovers that family ties are never truly unbound. He rekindle a touching relationship with another victim of a tumultuous childhood – his own mother Renee.
A group of filmmakers attend the Frank International Film Festival, comprised solely of Frank and held at his mother’s house.
Made single handedly over four years on a hand cranked movie camera, War reveals the internal struggles of our isolated characters amid the rural ruins of a disappearing America. Although it does not have a conventional plot, the film’s narrative depicts the inner dramas of a farmer, a junkman, a preacher and a young boy who inhabit the empty farms and the abandoned countryside.
A well-known politician woman receives a tape showing her son in a pornographic film. She decides to hire a female detective to figure out who is trying to blackmail her.
Two women from disparate social and economic backgrounds spend a great deal of their time exploring modern industrial landscapes: malls, amusement parks and resorts. Chain was shot in seven different countries.
In fifteen linked chapters shot on locations ranging from Moscow to New York to Istanbul, Counting merges city symphony, diary film, and personal/political essay to create a vivid portrait of contemporary life.
Pierrot, a mechanic in Paris, falls madly for an older woman, a chemist, who at first refuses his love. Finally she accepts him when she discovers she is affected by a deadly illness.
Benjamin Smoke is an unorthodox documentary that follows Benjamin (no last name), the drag-queen, speed-freak, all-around renegade, Smoke’s vocalist.
A sad inauguration day, at Washington, for president Donald Trump, in Birth of a Nation.
A portrait of Luce Vigo, film critic and the daughter of French filmmaker Jean Vigo.
A woman suspects her husband to be unfaithful. Thus she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine.
Francoise returns to Toulon, her city, after twenty years of absence… to kill the people who have occupied her house and denounced her husband as a collaborator during the German occupation.
Two aging, lonely actresses (Hélène Surgère, Sonia Saviange) turn to alcohol to ease the pain of their hopelessness. Pasolini was very impressed by the film and invited the two actresses to Salò.
The collaboration between Cohen and the band Fugazi is a project that covers the ten-year period following the band’s inception in 1987. Far from a traditional documentary, the film is a portrait of musicians at work.
Everyone loves a parade, except for the dead.
Laurent is seeking a path in life after years of laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, who has only one obsession: meeting Marguerite again, the first love of his life.
