A has-been actress spends her days performing with her masochistic nurse. Things take a dark turn when their fun pastimes take method acting to the next level.
This documentary was written with passion and love for cinema, and on the other hand, he blamed her. Our fictional character for this documentary talks about her passion for cinema and how it affected her life and recounts the decades that passed on the cinema one after the other.
Da lydfilmen kom på slutten av 20-tallet, ble tilværelsen en annen for mang en skuespiller. Det populære paret Lina og Don får problemer, for Linas skjærende stemme kan knuse glass.
The whole world knows him. Burlesque comedy genius, popular actor, author, director, producer, composer, choreographer, Charlie Chaplin (1899-1977) used his talent to serve an ideal of justice and freedom. But his best scenario was his own destiny, a story written into the political and artistic history of the 20th century.
Leslie Caron, beloved star of Gigi and An American in Paris, is one of the last witnesses to the golden age of American cinema of the mid 20th century. Discovered by Gene Kelly when she was a teenager, she became one of the great talents in the worlds of film, dance, and theatre, still performing to this day! The film reveals a story told through the prism of a living legend who reveals secrets of her work and life- a world of contradictions, ambitions and dreams, lived by one of its most luminous personalities.
En stumfilmstjerne mister sin berømthet og sin rikdom når lydfilmer blir normalen mens den ambisiøse skuespillerinnen han elsker blir en stor Hollywood-stjerne.
En avdanket TV-skuespiller og hans stuntmann strever for å gjenoppnå berømmelse og suksess i filmindustrien i løpet av de siste årene av Hollywoods gullalder i 1969 Los Angeles, Hollywood i 1969 – en by i endring. TV-stjernen Rick Dalton og hans stuntmann Cliff Booth prøver å finne sin plass i en bransje de knapt kjenner igjen. Filmen byr på flere handlinger og en stor samling av kjente skuespillere i denne hyllesten til Hollywoods gullalder.
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
In 1988, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder (1906-2002) at his office in Beverly Hills, California, and turned on his camera for a series of filmed interviews. (A recut of the 1992 TV miniseries Billy, How Did You Do It?)
The life of Frank Sinatra, as an actor and singer and the steps along the way that led him to become such an icon.
For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a childhood of poverty to global fame, Cary Grant, the ultimate self-made star, explores his own screen image and what it took to create it.
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of the Hollywood Ten, serves to analyze this sadness, the tragedy of Spain and its consequences.
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Filmen er en detektivkomedie basert på 40-tallets "film noir"-filmer med hardkokte privatetterforskere a'la Humphrey Bogart i sentrum. I samspill med filmstjerner i klipp fra kjente 40-tallsfilmer kommer privatdetektiven Rigby Reardon seg frem på regnvåte gater, og han har like raske replikker som sine "forgjengere". Den vakre Julliet Forrest (Rachel Ward) leier Reardon, fordi hun er sikker på at det er noe mystisk ved hennes fars død. Reardon gjør det som forventes av en etterforsker som har et mysterium å løse; han blir skutt i skulderen, forgiftet av en drink, forelsker seg i sin klient, overfalles av skurker, kler seg ut som kvinne, havner i fengsel, rømmer, skyter en nazist, kysser sin klient...
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Martin Scorsese is among those paying tribute to Gene Tierney, the Academy Award-nominated American actress who was a leading lady in Hollywood throughout the 1940s and '50s.
Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celebrity (Keaton, Lloyd, Arbuckle, Valentino, Fairbanks, Coogan) he appears to have been making himself up as.
HAIL, CAESAR! følger én dag i livet til en studiosjef som har hendene fulle av problemer han må fikse.