The Magic Sword of Watari
Another movie with the boy born from a giant peach.
Another movie with the boy born from a giant peach.
Un documentaire sur ce qui constitue peut-être le sommet de la carrière de la Callas : sa prestation dans "Tosca", l'opéra de Puccini, au Royal Opera House de Covent Garden, en 1964. Un chapitre inoubliable de l’histoire de l’opéra et de la scène, avec d’émouvantes images de sa prestation filmée, jusqu’aux coulisses..
Experimental Finnish movie from 1961, about one night in the city. In 1960, the director Eino Ruutsalo spoke of the movie with these words: "The camera moves around the night - loose images are created - they create memories, consortia in us, or do not create. Man as such is interesting. Woman for a man. Man for a woman. There is no final destiny - there are only events. Different people touch each other - nothing is too solid and not ready. Everything hovers and gets new shapes"..
This entry in the "Reel Moments" video series contains newsreel and archive footage of famous 20th century disasters, including: the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge, various ship sinkings, racecar crashes, and assassinations, with emphasis on the assassinations of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy..
When the villagers in Qingshuilian village along the Xiaoli River in northern Shaanxi have to evacuate to intruding forces of Hu Zongnan, only a stubborn grandfather is left behind..
Palencia, Spain, late 1990s. While Gema and Toribio, who live in their own cloud of precarious happiness, always smile stupidly as if they have to apologize for something they have not actually done, their little son Martín suffers, every day at school, an unbearable ordeal, tragic but also comical, that they, a peer of daydreaming simpletons, are unaware of..
In this film, circles of colored light (red, green, blue) pulsate and flicker as they move around the frame. Where they intersect, they display a variety of secondary colors. The term, circles of confusion belongs to the physics of the lenses. Here it has to do with the focus of light. Here it refers to the focus of mental and emotional energies as an irrational system for composing a film..
If the whole world is lying, why not do the same? So thinks Yegor - the protagonist of the film. But the reality all the time offers a choice: continue to lie or face the truth..
Julie has left her boyfriend because of an argument. The Family supports her decision when her brother tells them that he really is a criminal. Surprisingly the boyfriend turns up not knowing what to expect him..
Gupabal is an old village that is soon to disappear into history due to redevelopment. An hour before the evacuated area is scheduled to be detonated, a famous elderly novelist named CHOI Ho sneaks into the village carrying a small bundle. Arriving at the old home where he was raised, CHOI embarks on a journey through the past via a beautiful reunion with his already-deceased mother. However in the midst of these travels through old memories, he accidentally discovers the secret that his mother has been hiding....
Vinny De Ghoulie returns to Shorts With Legs with what may very well be his 8 ½. This is a maddening deconstruction of his own process culled from the remnants of a feature film he mounted, but failed to to realize. As amusingly bemusing as it is devastating..
For decades, Egyptologists have been searching for a priceless treasure that could revolutionize our knowledge of the Pharaonic dynasties: Cleopatra’s tomb. A treasure that has not yet been found. However, the recent discovery of an incredible relic could lead to it. A renowned American collector might hold the key to the mysterious tomb. He recently discovered a perfectly preserved mummified hand, brought back from Egypt in the 18th century. If the accompanying text is to be believed, it is that of Cleopatra VII, the last Queen Pharaoh of this vanished civilization. Could it be true? A thrilling investigation begins to solve a 2,000-year-old enigma. With the help of international experts, we retrace the path of a unique relic from archaeological excavation sites to laboratories, right up to the DNA investigation which - exclusively for this film - will enable us to uncover this strange mystery, and to understand the immutable myth built around Cleopatra..
A self-made woman befriends a poor old couple who pretend to be her long-lost grandparents, although she does not accept their assertion of a biological relationship..
Dans la peau d'une femme qui rentre tard chez elle après une soirée... sous la forme d'une partie de jeu vidéo..
Children ages 6 and up can teach themselves to read with a self-paced, kid-friendly program that has twelve entertaining stories that employ fun characters and build in sequence from the simple to the more complex. Kids have time to read each screen before hearing a voice read the highlighted words. In addition to community library children's multi-media collections, these titles (Alphabet Circus Video, Nursery Rhymes Video, Getting Ready for Kindergarten Video, and Phonics Easy Readers on DVD) are very highly recommended supplements for preschool, daycare, home schooling, and traditional curriculums. --Children's Bookwatch, September 2005.
Documentaire sur des goze, des artistes ayant perdu la vue pendant leur enfance et qui, pour subvenir aux besoins de leurs familles, ont quitté leurs parents pour apprendre l'art du chant et du shamisen..
Tackling the big global questions from evolution and religion to Nationalism and the wealth gap, Damien's a comic with a real philosophical swagger. An intelligent but oh-so-accessible set that'll give your brain and your ribs a good tickle..
The plot tells about the operation "Bagration", which took place in August 1944. The picture is about overcoming, about the dark forest, in which the heroes fall and face off against themselves..