Le richissime général Newton a fait don à la Galerie Grierson de cinquante millions de dollars pour rapatrier aux États-Unis le chef-d'œuvre de la peinture américaine : "La Mère de Whistler". Soucieux de donner le maximum de retentissement à cet événement, les administrateurs invitent la Royal National Gallery de Londres à envoyer sur place leur meilleur spécialiste en la matière. Erreur fatale : les Anglais profitent de l'occasion pour expédier à Los Angeles leur employé le plus haï et le plus nul, dans l'espoir de s'en débarrasser. Son nom est Bean, Mr. Bean.
En juillet 1944, le colonel von Waldheim fait évacuer les tableaux de maîtres de la Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume pour les envoyer en Allemagne. Labiche, un cheminot résistant, est chargé de conduire le train transportant ces objets d'art. Avec l'aide de ses compagnons résistants, il va chercher à faire en sorte que le train et les tableaux n'arrivent jamais à destination. Une des scènes les plus spectaculaires de ce film reconstitue le bombardement des installations de la gare de Vaires-sur-Marne.
Un peintre vieillissant est rongé par un secret qui l'obsède : l'abandon, il y a dix ans, d'un grand tableau qui devait être son chef-d’œuvre et dont sa femme était le modèle. L'arrivée d'un jeune couple dans sa propriété du Midi va lui permettre de reprendre cette œuvre et c'est la jeune femme, qui cette fois, lui sert de modèle. Pendant les cinq journées de pose, la tension va monter entre les différents protagonistes.
Stan Aubray, un détective enquête sur un dossier dont la manière de tuer est similaire à celle d'un cas récent. Au fur et à mesure de l'enquête il se rend compte que l'issue du premier meurtre n'est pas celle à laquelle il avait pensé.
Jack Albany, acteur new-yorkais raté se retrouve, bien malgré lui, à la tête d'un gang projetant le vol d'un inestimable tableau du musée de New-York...
A precocious young girl and her younger brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
56-year-old artist Mindy Alper has suffered severe depression and anxiety for most of her life. For a time she even lost the power of speech, and it was during this period that her drawings became extraordinarily articulate.
A documentary on the life of painter Frank Frazetta, who revolutionized science fiction, fantasy and comic art with breathtaking realistic paintings of fantastic heroes, most famously Conan the Barbarian.
World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft in history: lives, families, communities, property, culture and heritage were all stolen. The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
In an increasingly urban nation, Canada’s national parks are a treasured escape into extraordinary beauty and rugged wilderness. If the Group of Seven were an introduction to the landscape’s majesty, National Parks Project is the next logical chapter. Fifty-two contemporary artists from across the country, whose talents are as diverse as the parks they set out to explore, used their surroundings as a source of inspiration to blend musical and cinematic skills into collaboratively crafted vignettes. Epic in its ambition to celebrate these locales during Parks Canada’s centennial year, this omnibus film resonates with the knowledge that our unprotected land is more vulnerable than ever. Including films by Zacharius Kunuk, Peter Lynch, Sturla Gunnarsson and John Walker, and music by Sarah Harmer, Sam Roberts, Cadence Weapon and The Besnard Lakes, among many others, National Parks Project is a one-of-a-kind documentary experience.
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends. Andy Warhol, the son of poor Czech immigrants, grew up in the industrial slums of Pittsburgh while dreaming of Hollywood stars. He went on to become a star himself.
Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring the vast majority of Guatemalans to work each day. Since 2006, nearly 1,000 camioneta drivers and fare-collectors have been murdered for either refusing or being unable to pay the extortion money demanded by local Guatemalan gangs. LA CAMIONETA follows one such bus on its transformative journey: a journey between North and South, between life and death, and through an unfolding collection of moments, people, and places that serve to quietly remind us of the interconnected worlds in which we live.
A police chief's daughter, a sales agent for a home-security firm, meets an art gallery owner. Love and envy lead them to hatch a plot to steal overlooked but valuable paintings from her wealthy clients.
Beth Moore-Love is perhaps the greatest living artist working in America today. Her works can be found in private collections throughout the United States and Europe. She is a national treasure and yet, she is virtually unknown. Filmmaker Larry Wessel is determined to change that with his nine year labor of love.
Documentary on the marijuana pipe glassblowing industry and culture surrounding it.
Apiyemiyekî? addresses the genocide of the Waimiri-Atroari people in 1970s, when during the Brazilian dictatorship indigenous lands in the mid-west were invaded for the construction of the national road BR-174 and the installation of a mining company. Illustrations about the period, created by the indigenous population, including children, reveal a traumatic history, referring us to the present day.
A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.
A beautifully done video of Burning Man 2001, 2002 & 2003. Lots of people interviews, Center Cafe activity and extensive coverage of artist David Best and the Temple construction and burn. This documentary captures the swirling columns of dust that were created during the intense heat of the 2002 Temple burn.
One and a half years before the begin of the Second World War during the annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Hitler conceived the megalomaniac idea of creating the largest European art center in his home town of Linz. At the beginning of the war on the 1st of September 1939, not only did his armies advance but also his art thieves began to fan out in their great foray of art plundering; an expedition on a previously unheard of scale began. Not only did the task forces of diverse National Socialist organizations pillage the occupied countries; Nazi bigwigs like Goering also took whatever they felt was valuable. This documentary includes the long and eventful journey of an exceptional masterpiece of European art: the Ghent Altar, created by van Eyck.
Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic. Rather than a mechanical reproduction of the artist's work, the film tries to create a new reality by translating the performances into cinematographic images that intensify the fictional context of the film. Abramovic plays herself, but ,appearing in multiple forms, blurs her own identity. Memories and fantasies intermingle with day to day rituals. The chronological narrative often breaks to reflect the interior voyage of the protagonist from the present to the past and back to the present. The result is a visually impressive film. Balkan Baroque had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, 1999.