When the wrong body has been sent for cremation, a hapless funeral director has to make amends to the deceased's estranged children. As he devises a plan for a sham funeral, the children's hypocrisy and apathy begin to surface..
"Nicolás Zukerfeld’s third feature is a wry, surprising work of filmmaking-as-criticism that begins as a kind of supercut of moments from the work of pantheon Hollywood auteur Raoul Walsh. This rhythmically entrancing parade of images traces a mysterious and amusing arc across the director’s vast oeuvre—but at the halfway mark, the film reinvents itself as an idiosyncratic, essayistic investigation into memory, cinema, and their shared mutability." - NYFF.
A down-on-his luck writer meets a movie producer, who asks him to write a screenplay on the condition that he visit locations for the film. Chaos ensues..
In the village Rachitele the legend says if you kiss a girl on the Wool Day she will be your wife. Three shepherds are willing to do anything possible in order to kiss somebody..
The film begins with Max being invited to dinner with his fiancée and future in-laws. To be polite, he stops on the way at a bakery to bring along a small gift for the in-laws. Unfortunately, he steps on some flypaper and has a devil of a time getting it off himself. When he arrives at the dinner, he's quite sticky and this causes LOTS of problems--which would have all been alleviated had he told them of his flypaper predicament. The title of the print gives the wrong date and title. Although there may well have been an earlier version with a similar plot (a number of films, which Max Linder made between 1905 and 1908, are still unidentified) it is quite clear that this particular one was made in 1910..
During the Anti-Japanese War, two students at the University of Shanghai fall in love..
A gang of tough youths, who have little interest in finding work, while away their days with quarrels and girls in their Kishiwada neighborhood. Based on the novel by Toshikazu Nakaba, who also wrote "The Easy Life". Starring the popular comic trio, "Neptune.".
A film about the lives of two mothers and their children reflects the real life that is happening in today's society. After years of waiting, the long-awaited finale is finally over, as "When My Mother Gets Old", the third series to tell the story of a mother's life after "Mother's Heart" and "Modern Mother"..
Anna and Tomas have decided to divorce, but the journey to the lawyer is bound by doubt and strong ties between them..
An old couple who live in a remote village lose touch with their children who live in the city and who are too busy to visit them. In order to get their attention, they get divorced....
Léontine is sent airborne by too many helium balloons and takes a catastrophic joyride across town, while her parents and the townsfolk frantically chase after her. Her journey is depicted with dazzling aerial views..
Fish store owner May is thirty and single, so when Chris, a millionaire, appears, May's family is only too eager to send her off. May is crushed when she finds out Chris's only reason for loving her was her resemblance to his ex-girlfriend Linda..
Women getting on and riding Tehran-Rey railway tram..
Anton Ivanovich Voronov is a highly respected professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, who places the music of Bach above everything else and regards it as the ultimate yardstick by which other musical accomplishments must be measured. His daughter, Serafima, is an aspiring singer with great potential, and her father’s anger is aroused when she begins singing in the operetta composed by Aleksei Mukhin, thus abandoning what he considers the higher calling of opera. Mukhin’s work, however, demands a high level of ability from his soloist, and Anton Ivanovich is persuaded of the legitimacy of operetta as a musical genre when, in a dream, he is visited by Johann Sebastian Bach himself, who tells him that ‘people need all kinds of music’..
On February 14, 2007, Valentine's Day, eight people who support gay relationships and marriage went to SOHO Modern City and various bus stops to give roses and cards to passersby, wish them a happy Valentine’s Day, and ask their support for gay rights. Upon seeing the words in the cards, everybody reacted differently. When they were asked their opinion of homosexuality, or what they would think if a family member were gay, their answers were all different and interesting, and even blackly humorous..
Gambler Kosim tries to hang himself but is saved by an old man, who then recommends he go visit a cave-dwelling hermit who knows black magic. There, Kosim learns a magic spell to transform himself into a pig. As a requirement, he has to sacrifice one of his children and he's not allowed to hear prayer nor see monkeys. He uses his new power to steal money until he's caught, shot and decapitated, but his head lives on..
