Arne Sucksdorff: Uma Vida Documentando a Vida

2004-01-01 | pt

Cautivos en la arena

2006-02-13 | es

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

1998-02-04 | en

The Short Game

Each year, the world’s best 7 year-old golfers descend on Pinehurst, North Carolina to compete in the World Championships of Junior Golf. The Short Game follows eight of these very young athletes on their quest to become the sport’s next phenom.

2013-09-20 | en

Masters of the Heist

Heists do not solely exist in the movies. These high profile schemes are elaborately planned, artful in their Machiavellian plotting, and so meticulously coordinated that they are often referred to as "the masterpieces of the confidence game". Often aimed at impossibly ambitious targets - casinos, jewelry stores, or famous museums - the masterminds behind these crimes are often heralded as the ingenious magicians of the underworld. The mystery and magnitude of these real crime stories sparks an undeniable interest for us innocent onlookers - a sense of seduction, spectacle and entertainment.

2007-11-13 | en

Spin

Pirated satellite feeds revealing U.S. media personalities’ contempt for their viewers come full circle in Spin. TV out-takes appropriated from network satellite feeds unravel the tightly-spun fabric of television—a system that silences public debate and enforces the exclusion of anyone outside the pack of journalists, politicians, spin doctors, and televangelists who manufacture the news. Spin moves through the L.A. riots and the floating TV talk-show called the 1992 U.S. presidential election.

1995-10-05 | en

Choice Bouquets

A display of flower bouquets, rotating to show the Kinemacolour process.

1910-09-01 | en

Street Musicians of Bombay

Off-camera, a Western traveler tells us of hearing singing from his hotel window in Bombay. He searches for the source, and discovers a caste of street performers, eking out a modest living. We see individuals and groups, old and young, snake charmers and those hired to sing at family celebrations. A few talk about their lives and refute accusations of kidnapping lodged against the caste. A troupe of women sing at a party for a pregnant woman - they are saucy and blunt, encouraging and sisterly.

1994-07-17 | en

Sweet Sounds

This short documentary, shot in July 1976 at the Mannes College of Music on Manhattan's Upper East Side, marks the first collaboration between Merchant Ivory Films and composer Richard Robbins, who would go on to provide the musical scores for nearly all Merchant Ivory films. Later in 1976, 'Sweet Sounds' was shown at the New York and London Film Festivals. It was also broadcast on PBS.

1976-10-01 | en

Scénario du film Passion

Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of his 1982 film Passion. “I didn’t want to write the script,” he states, “I wanted to see it.” Positioning himself in a video editing suite in front of a white film screen that evokes for him the “famous blank page of Mallarmé,” Godard uses video as a sketchbook with which to reconceive the film. The result is a philosophical, often humorous rumination on the desire and labor that inform the conceptual and image making process of the cinema.

1982-01-28 | fr

Athlete with Wand

An athlete demonstrating various poses.

1894-02-01 | xx

The Melbourne Cup

This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race.

1896-11-23 | en

20,000 Employees Entering Lord Armstrong's Elswick Works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

This film is part of the Mitchell and Kenyon collection - an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century.

1900-01-01 | en

I Am My Films: A Portrait of Werner Herzog

Interview film with German director Werner Herzog revisiting the films he made up to ca. 1977.

1979-04-18 | de

The Most Beautiful Women In Paris

Hervé Lewis is not only a mentor to many stars (Johnny Hallyday, Jean Reno, Emmanuelle Béart, and more), but also a professional photographer. After the success of many renowned advertising campaigns for Aubade Lingerie, Hervé Lewis' first film, in which he rediscovers the lighting of his black and white photographs, is dedicated to the beauty of women. His pure and poetic images convey an uncommon sensuality, power and intensity. Through Hervé Lewis' lens, every woman becomes a star.

2005-02-28 | fr

The Ten-Year Lunch

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the 1920s. The core of the so-called Round Table group included short story and poetry writer Dorothy Parker; comic actor and writer Robert Benchley; The New Yorker founder Harold Ross; columnist and social reformer Heywood Broun; critic Alexander Woollcott; and playwrights George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber and Robert Sherwood.

1987-09-28 | en

Photographic Studies in Hypnosis: Abnormal Psychology

Silent film showcasing hypnosis and its effects.

1938-01-01 | en

Somm

Somm takes the viewer on a humorous, emotional and illuminating look into the mysterious world of the Court of Master Sommeliers and their massively intimidating Master Sommelier Exam.

2013-06-21 | en

Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector

A documentary capturing the modern day VHS culture and VHS collectors.

2013-04-05 | en

Modern Marvels: American Steel: Built to Last

An exploration of the past and future of the steel industry in America.

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