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Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Invited to present his first film in Normandy, the young director Geraud Champreux has no idea this film tour is about to change his life. From wild stampedes to woeful screenings, from trawler trips to drunken evenings, Geraud ends up finding inspiration in this unlikely town at the end of the earth.
Publisher
Facets
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
Description
The films of Luc Moullet unites these two films, which focus on Moullet's years of filming in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence region of France. Together, these two films show the many sides of Moullet's body of work and of his perspective as a filmmaker.
5) Faces places
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Director Agnes Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
6) Planetarium
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
On the eve of World War II, two sisters, who are believed to possess the supernatural ability to connect with ghosts, tour through Europe. They cross paths with a visionary French producer while performing in Paris.
8) King Kong
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Description
In the 1930s, a down-on-her-luck actress accompanies an over-ambitious filmmaker on an expedition to a remote island. There they encounter a terrifying giant ape who forms an attachment to the beautiful actress. Hoping to win fame and fortune, the filmmaker brings the ape back to New York City for public exhibition, with catastrophic results.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
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Celebrate Latinx/a/o Heritage Month with Cinema! / ¡Celebre el Mes de la Herencia Latinx/a/o con cinema!
¡Películas para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana!/Movies to Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month!
¡Películas para celebrar el Mes de la Herencia Hispana!/Movies to Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month!
Formats
Description
The film tells of a series of reencounters experienced by Salvador Mallo, a film director in his physical decline. Some of them in the flesh, others remembered: his childhood in the '60s, when he emigrated with his parents to a village in Valencia in search of prosperity, the first desire, his first adult love in the Madrid of the '80s, the pain of the breakup of that love while it was still alive and intense.
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A documentary film about Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to make a film adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel, Dune, starring Jodorowsky's own 12-year-old son, as well as Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali with music by Pink Floyd; film includes interviews with Jodorowsky and others.
12) Sembène!
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ousmane Semb̀ne was a Senegalese dockworker and fifth-grade dropout who became the self-taught father of African cinema who fought enormous odds to return African stories to Africa.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Español
Description
Pedro Almódovar's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema. When her father becomes gravely ill, beautiful Lena consents to a relationship with her boss Ernesto Martel. An extremely wealthy and much-older man, he pays for her father's hospitalisation and provides her a lavish lifestyle. Lena's dream, however, is to act and she soon falls for the director of her first film - a project bankrolled by her jealous husband to keep her near. Upon his discovery...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Charts the rise and fall of Cannon Films, a motion picture studio that produced a distinctive line of low-budget films under the leadership of Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, two movie-obsessed, Israeli cousins whose passion for cinema changed the way movies are made and marketed.
Yoram Globus and the late Menahem Golan are two movie-obsessed immigrant cousins who became Hollywood's ultimate gate-crashers. With hair-trigger randomness, these cousins...
15) Lambert & Stamp
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called the Who a rebellious restlessness that was just what...
16) Roger & me
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Chronicles "the efforts of the world's largest corporation, General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town. In his quest to discover why GM would want to do such a thing, filmmaker Michael Moore, a Flint native, attempts to meet the chairman, Roger Smith, and invite him out for a few beers up in Flint to 'talk things over'. In between his efforts to see Smith, Moore, the son of a Flint autoworker, takes us on a bizarre...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
Español
Description
"Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken. Inspired by the real-life water wars in Bolivia in the...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1962 Hitchcock and Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting, used to produce the mythical book, Hitchcock/Truffaut, this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock's incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by...
19) Elena
Publisher
Syndicado Digital Distribution
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Filmmaker Petra Costa presents a medidation on her sister Elena Andrada, who moved to New York from Brazil when Costa was seven to become an actress, where she fell into a state of depression and ended her own life, a mystery that Costa reconstructs with home movies, newspaper clippings, diary entries, and letters.
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