The Christmas Fantasy "Night of the Meek" starring Art Carney as a drunken department-store Santa who experiences quite an epiphany on Christmas Eve. And “Five Characters in search of an exit”.
The Christmas Fantasy "Night of the Meek" starring Art Carney as a drunken department-store Santa who experiences quite an epiphany on Christmas Eve. And “Five Characters in search of an exit”.
2014-10-07
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Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
In this meditation on contemporary race relations, two black men discuss in voiceover certain “casual” events in life and cinema that are unnoticed or discounted by whites—gestures, hesitations, stares, off-the-cuff remarks, jokes—details of an ideology of repressed racism.
Set after the 1988 OVA movie Red Shoulder Document: Roots of Ambition and months before the events of the VOTOMS television series, Pailsen Files explores the origins of Chirico Cuvie as explained by the Red Shoulder Battalion's now-disgraced commander, Col Yoran Pailsen. Compilation of the Pailsen Files OAV series.
A musical tale about two impoverished sisters' anguish over whether or not to sell the final masterpiece of their recluse father days before the second world war, in Manila.
A drama centered on a white man lost in the Botswana marshlands.
The entire Foals show at Paradiso in Amsterdam, on March 16th, 2013. 0:00 - 3:50 - Prelude 3:55 - 7:16 - My Number 7:30 - 13:08 - Blue Blood 13:28 - 16:32 - Balloons 16:52 - 22:38 - Late Night 22:53 - 27:17 - Providence (a little bit of crowdsurfing by Yannis, if you're interested) 27:35 - 34:09 - Spanish Sahara 34:10 - 39:45 - Red Socks Pugie 39:46 - 47:30 - Electric Bloom 48:28 - 53:22 - Moon 53:53 - 58:58 - Inhaler 59:21 - 1:05:00 - Two Steps, Twice
Batman is investigating the overdose death of a CEO and the trail seems to lead him to Scarface and the Ventriloquist. But appearances, they say, are often deceiving.
"Gerda Malaperis!" (Gerda Disappears!) is based on the Esperanto novel by Swiss writer Claude Piron, which has been used as a learners' reader for years. Gerda is an expert on obscure and cryptic languages. Then she is abducted.
Restless and young, best buddies Selim and Çaça live a meager existence on the outskirts of Istanbul. By day they breed pigeons on the roof, by night they roam the streets with their entourage in their pimped-up car, "My Orange Angel". Their neighborhood's view of the city's gigantic business towers accelerates their ambitions. The two buddies want to open their own parking-lot business near a gigantic mall, and they just might get lucky, since they're supported by the local mafia boss.
Three scripts, each one with independent storylines, have in common a vision of the Colombian capital in 2016.
Newly wed couple Gay and Pel Butterworth are forced to take in some strange paying guests when their inheritance proves troublesome, but all is not as straight forward as it seems, when they discover they may have to divorce to get their hands on half the money...
A free flight of memory, instinct, expressions and sensations. The unrevealed city is seen through the eyes of caged animals.
At her grandmother's house, with her daughter, Lucie dreams of being an actress.
A man becomes consumed by curiosity over the mystery of his co-worker's eye patch.
The first movie of the trilogy project called “Director's Cut” that compiles the first Full Metal Panic! anime series.
From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when American astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the surface of the moon—, the beginnings of the space conquest were depicted in popular culture: cinema, television, comics and literature of the time contain numerous references to an imagined future.
It is 1865 and Union prisoners use a military balloon to escape a Southern prison camp near the end of the Civil War. The balloon drifts for days and finally lands on a mysterious volcanic island with very unusual inhabitants. Also landing, in a better aircraft, is Rulu, a visitor from Mercury. She seeks a radio-active material that will enable her to manufacture an explosive that will destroy the world or, at least, the portion known as Earth in this 15 Chapter Serial from the 1950s.
Set in the dark depths of a strange and mysterious power supply complex, ELLIOT tells the tale of a conflicted humanoid (Elliot) struggling to maintain his reality and understand his true identity. Elliot is thrust into a disconcerting downward spiral of despair in which he is forced to recognize the perils of his own cognition and constructed ideals in a crumbling universe where the lines between fantasy, simulation, and reality are blurred, and the fibers of Elliot’s fragile existence are ruptured.
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness novel which eternal theme is nothing other than man's quest for the secret of life. Since then, the Creature became a pop culture icon, overshadowing the novel and Doctor Frankenstein himself.
The surviving Resistance faces the First Order once again as the journey of Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron continues. With the power and knowledge of generations behind them, the final battle begins.
Eade is a fourteen year old girl who has spent her entire life on the spaceship Cradle. Eade and her dad are on the return journey to Earth when an explosion cripples the craft and seriously injures her father. As the clock counts down to self-destruction Cradle’s computer, System, assumes control of the ship and refuses to perform the life saving medical procedure that her father desperately needs. Whilst trying to outwit System to save her dad, Eade discovers the shocking truth of her existence and must face her uncertain future armed with the knowledge that her life in space is not as it seems.
In 2200, private detective Aline Ruby and her android partner Carlos Rivera are hired by a wealthy businessman to track down a notorious hacker. On Mars, they descend deep into the underbelly of the planet's capital city where they uncover a darker story of brain farms, corruption, and a missing girl who holds a secret about the robots that threatens to change the face of the universe.
Years after the world suffered from a deadly virus, a group of survivors tries to make ends meet with resources found in abandoned areas. The arrival of an unknown boy poses an even greater threat. Elsewhere, two men involved in mysteries try to communicate using sent codes. What to expect from the future in Redemption?
In a war-torn land of man vs. robot, a young runaway slave searching for his father must ally with a broken and battle-scarred war-robot or be hunted down by his brutal overseers.
After finding a mysterious note, two would-be time-travelers must face the consequences of their actions -- before they even finish building their machine.
One rainy night in futuristic Neo Berlin, nine year old Tina and her guardian robot, SAM-53, set off on a quest that asks: if cyberspace has made romantic love obsolete, do we still need love in the real world?
Short sci-fi where a man finds a robotic woman a.k.a. 'toygirl'.
Fake documentary about Seville and its imaginary innovations in urbanism.
The extraordinary life story of science fiction and fantasy writer Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) who, in spite of remaining for many years on the sidelines of the mainstream literature, managed to be recognized as one of the most remarkable US writers of all time, due to the relevance of her work and her commitment to the human condition.
The 1950s were a time marked by an idealistic feeling. The atomic age, with its promise to save humanity, revolutionized the world, technologically, socially and politically. All these factors gave birth to one of the most prolific film genres in the history of cinema: science fiction, which delighted the audience. Only a few years later, these same spectators saw on their television screens how the Russians launched the Sputnik into space.
Duda, Tato and Nick are inseparable friends, and call themselves "Os Xeretas" (The Snoopers). One day they find a girl with a strange symbol tattooed on her arm, lost in the city. The mystic Alana says she is, in fact, a time traveller, belonging to the Aleph people, responsible for the gates of time and space. She needs to get hold of a medallion to go home, or else she will die, but the medallion has been stolen. The Xeretas decide to help her. They go after the unscrupulous thief and his assistant, who had stolen it from the Museum of São Paulo. In the process, they discover a network of underground tunnels leading to unexpected places.
A video essay on how Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris transcends science fiction.
An exploration of the ideas of philosopher Douglas R. Hofstadter.