Uno sguardo inedito e intimo sulla vita, il lavoro e l'eredità duratura dell'attrice britannica Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).
Un approfondimento sulla rappresentazione di Hollywood delle persone transgender e all'impatto di quelle storie sulle vite transgender e sulla cultura americana.
Un'esilarante introduzione, utilizzando come esempio alcuni dei migliori film mai realizzati, ad alcune delle idee più interessanti del filosofo e psicoanalista sloveno Slavoj Žižek sulla soggettività personale, la fantasia e la realtà, il desiderio e la sessualità.
Using testimonies by pioneers and witnesses of the times, delve into the feverish visual culture the media generated – with far-fetched examples of canine television games, seduction manuals, aerobics class while holding a baby, among others.
La fantastica storia di come un'antica arte marziale, il kung fu cinese, abbia conquistato il mondo attraverso le centinaia di film prodotti a Hong Kong nel corso dei decenni, trasformando il cinema d'azione occidentale e ispirando la nascita di diversi movimenti culturali.
Un resoconto personale e accattivante della vita e dell'opera straordinaria di Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), una giovane donna svedese che è diventata una delle attrici più celebri del cinema mondiale.
Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desire and female pleasure; but also about violence and abuse; and about pornography, until then an almost clandestine industry, as a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.
An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece “A Trip to the Moon” (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.
Un viaggio nel cuore labirintico dell'ideologia, che plasma e giustifica credenze e pratiche sia collettive che personali: con uno zelo contagioso e un appetito vorace per la cultura popolare, il filosofo e psicoanalista sloveno Slavoj Žižek analizza alcuni dei film più importanti della storia del cinema per spiegare come la narrazione cinematografica contribuisca a rafforzare le idee etiche e politiche prevalenti.
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.
The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema attendance: the story of the creation of a sensual epic that marked a turning point in the struggle for sexual emancipation.
An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.
Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, and its subsequent sequels have asked its viewers challenging questions about contemporary society under the guise of a bold science fiction saga: a fascinating look at a hugely successful pop culture phenomenon.
La straordinaria vita di Orson Welles (1915-85), enigma hollywoodiano, irriducibile creatore indipendente: un prodigio musicale, un eccellente pittore, un maestro di teatro e radio, un moderno Shakespeare, un mago sempre alla ricerca di un nuovo trucco per sorprendere il suo pubblico, una figura romantica leggendaria che viveva solo per il cinema.
How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.
The personal and professional story, told in first person, of Spanish actress Carmen Maura, director Pedro Almodóvar's first muse and a brilliant artist in her own right.
At the beginning of the 1960s, when the French pioneers of cinéma vérité set out to achieve a new realism, and when direct cinema in Québec began to vie for notice, the Baltics wit-nessed the birth of a generation of documentarists who favored a more romantic view of the world around them. This meditative documentary essay – from a Latvian writer and Lithuanian director whose composed touch has long dovetailed with the stylistically diverse works of the Baltic New Wave – pushes adroitly past the limits of the common his-toriographic investigation to create a portrait of less-clearly remembered filmmakers. The result is a consummate poetic treatment of the ontology of documentary creation. Also a cinematic poem about cinema poets.