Tomando como punto central las vivencias de Juliette, una mujer casada y con dos hijos que trabaja como ama de casa de día y prostituta por la noche, Godard realiza una especie de documental dramatizado sobre las vidas, las sensaciones, los personajes y los caracteres que pueblan el llamado nuevo París de los años 60.
Documental sobre el fraude y las falsificaciones que se centra en la figura del falsificador Elmyr de Hory y su biógrafo, Clifford Irving, autor también escribió la fraudulenta biografía de Howard Hughes. Asimismo relata la reclusión de Hughes y la carrera de Welles, que comenzó con la emisión radiofónica de una falsa invasión marciana: "The War of the Worlds".
Veinticinco cineastas, uno por cada estado de la Unión Europea, realizaron una película sobre sus respectivos países. Todas tenían el mismo presupuesto, debían estar ambientadas en el presente o en un futuro inmediato y durar cinco minutos. No había otras limitaciones, de modo que los autores tenían plena libertad para expresarse. Entre los directores figuran tanto nombres consagrados como voces nuevas dentro del panorama cinematográfico. Cada corto tiene su propia identidad, por lo que es posible establecer comparaciones fascinantes; pero, además, juntos ofrecen una imagen global de la Comunidad Europea a través de la fusión de esas distintas visiones conceptuales y creativas.
A young woman who has just started a job at an art museum writes an email to a friend she lived with until recently. The other woman, also young, works as an artist and has just moved to a new city. A narrator reads this email, but we don't know which of the two women the voice belongs to, whether to the sender or to the receiver of the message. Neither are we aware of the details of this relationship; but what we do know is that, in addition to their interest in art, they share a concern for the difficulties of carrying out their personal and professional lives in the present. By focusing on the peripheral or hidden details of some paintings in the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, this narrator relates several stories linked to the social, economic and psychological conditions of the artists, both past and present.
CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project's biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system's onward rush toward descension despite its resistance to division. The logo for this chapter is the Manx triskelion - three identical armored legs revolving around a central axis. Set on the Isle of Man, the film absorbs the island's folklore ...
A year in the life of Elsa Michaud and Gabriel Gauthier, students of Fine Arts in Paris, lovers in troubled times, overwhelmed by maddening verbal and auditory stimuli, witnesses of a globalized violence more visible than ever in a chaotic digital era, in which the slow execution of simple gestures in a silent performance is an act of resistance.
Estudio artístico centrado en las cariátides de París, con versos de Baudelaire de fondo.
How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys and existential angst of the Times obit writers, as they chronicle life after death on the front lines of history.
The wanderer Rascal embarks on a psychotic and contradictory journey to break out of the ego bubble in which his self-loathing and isolation have inserted him in. After his metamorphosis, his soulmate, Paloma, makes him realize that life is as complicated as it is simple - and that all that's left to do is to live.
La fascinante historia del ascenso al poder del dictador Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) en Italia en 1922 y de cómo el fascismo marcó el destino del mundo entero en los oscuros años venideros.
La película de Victor Fleming de 1939 'The Wizard of Oz' es una de las obsesiones más persistentes de David Lynch. Este nuevo documental se adentra en este tema para explorar esta corriente Technicolor en la obra de Lynch.
A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.
Un ensayo atmosférico, que viene a ser una versión alternativa de «El conde Drácula», película dirigida por Jesús Franco en 1970; una narración fantasmal entre la ficción y la realidad.
Una mirada muy personal a la historia del cine dirigida, escrita y editada por Jean-Luc Godard en su residencia suiza de Rolle durante diez años (1988-98); un collage monumental, construido a partir de fragmentos de películas, textos y citas, fotos y pinturas, música y sonidos, y diferentes lecturas; una visión crítica, bella y melancólica del arte del cine.
"Land of Dreams" - When the daughter Johanna is born in 1983, Jan Troell tells the story about his childhood Sweden and how things were when he grow-up in the land of fairy tales and potential prosperity.
Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text based on their life stories.
Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian woman in myth. It asks, among other questions, is the Amazonian woman a rare strong female image or is she a figure derived from male phantasy? The film explores the complexities of such questions, but does not seek any concrete answers.
The reunion of a group of former medical students results in a flood of bitter memories.
The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminating the African colonial adventure of the ruthless dictator Benito Mussolini, by then lord of Libya, Eritrea and Somalia; a bloody and tragic story told through the naive drawings of Pietro Dall'Igna, an Italian schoolboy born in 1925.
Un docu-drama que sigue la vida de Manoel de Oliveira, durante los tiempos de la dictadura en Portugal.