Film critic Alejandro G. Calvo traces an audiovisual journey through the work of David Lynch trying to find clues to decipher his enigmatic universe.
Film critic Alejandro G. Calvo traces an audiovisual journey through the work of David Lynch trying to find clues to decipher his enigmatic universe.
2025-04-09
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The short film companion to Mac Miller's Balloonerism follows a group of school friends who are transfigured by the music of a chord organ and launched into a shadow world. Swallowed by the turtle of time, they must plod through the underbelly of adulthood.
Presented by that King of Sleaze Harry Novak comes this film about a woman who leaves her film career in Rome(no longer wanted) and comes to stay with her sister who married a millionaire. While there she devises a plan for her brother-in-law's brother and servant to have sex with her sister after being drugged with a an aphrodisiac in the hopes that her brother-in-law will divorce her sister and marry her. Whew! Some plot.
While preparing for the USATF National Youth Championships, a high school runner and track coach struggle to come to terms with an irrecoverable loss.
Two desperate singers take a job as the singing act in a movie theater between shows. They soon regret their decision.
After hearing a mythical story from his grandmother, a boy experiences terrifying events at his grandparents’ house, uncovering a hidden truth that makes him vow never to whistle again.
Delves deep into the anxiety, thrill and uncertainty of six aspiring animation artists as they are plunged into the twelve-week trial-by-fire that is the NFB's Hothouse for animation filmmakers.
"Periyar Peran Da - Puratchiyin Puyale" (தமிழ்: பெரியார் பேரன்டா - புரட்சியின் புயலே) is a dynamic Tamil anthem that embodies the spirit of revolution, empowerment, and social justice. Translated as "Grandson of Periyar - Torchbearer of Revolution," the song honors the legacy of Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, the visionary social reformer, while urging listeners to uphold ideals of equality, self-respect, and societal progress. Produced by Ashoksaravanan | Co-Produced by Inamulhassan | A call to action for equality and justice.
Ruth Butler, a clerk in an emporium, marries Jimmy Rutledge and thereby greatly displeases his mother, the owner of the emporium, because of Ruth's lowly origins. Renaud Graham, one of Mrs. Rutledge's friends, becomes interested in Ruth, forces his way into her apartment, and attempts to make violent love to her. Jimmy walks in on their embrace and, suspecting the worst, leaves Ruth. In the family way, Ruth finds refuge in a boardinghouse where she meets Al Bryant, an aspiring writer. Ruth tells Al her life story, and he makes it into a bestselling novel and then into a play. Jimmy sees the play and comes to his senses, winning Ruth's forgiveness.
A documentary film about Studio One which, from 1974 to 1994, was the center of queer nightlife in West Hollywood as well as the staging ground for the rise of the LGBTQ rights movement and fight against the AIDS crisis.
Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.
Merlo was the place chosen by the López Araújo for their last family vacations. The day that the holidays end and they return to Buenos Aires, the parents will be separated. And the children will alternately see their father and mother. During the holidays the wife tries to live as if they were still a happy marriage.
Spanning one day, the film takes place in a “Muled” (An Islamic saint's day celebration), following the curious and intertwined stories of a variety of different characters living nearby, working invisiting the Muled.
A puzzle of dark secrets surfaces when a pastor inherits a church from his mentor.
Six elderly retired women, two from Buenos Aires, Argentina; two from Montevideo, Uruguay; and two from Madrid, Spain, have something in common, despite their different interests and lives: they go to the movies almost every day.
Rome, Italy, June 1993. Antonietta De Lillo and Marcello Garofalo interview legendary Italian film director Lucio Fulci (1927-96).
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.
1939 short documentary by Belgian filmmaker on pianter Hans Memling.
The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a memorable and legendary literary character, and the first female storyteller to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909); a woman as pioneering in her life as in her remarkable work.
Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret - This is the story of a bunch of friends. Comedian buddies. Actors who dreamed of the Conservatory and the National Theater of Paris. The theater was their ideal, cinema will be their paradise. Their friend Jean-Paul Belmondo, the relaxed Parisian, who failed the entrance exam, will make sparks fly. Rochefort, Marielle and Noiret, the three provincials, will climb the steps of recognition one by one. From the little cabarets on the Left Bank to the TV shows of the Buttes-Chaumont pioneers. From the second roles to the first and from the B movies to the classics.
Portrait of director Andrey Zvyagintsev against the background of the filming of his film "Loveless".
A moving account, in his own words, of the personal life and work of the brilliant Czech filmmaker Miloš Forman (1932-2018): his tragic childhood, his major contribution to the cultural movement known as the Czech New Wave, his exile in Paris, his troubled days in New York, his rise to stardom in Hollywood; a complete existence in the service of cinema.
In 1864, the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-70), suffering from health problems, retires to the monastery of Veruela. Far from the noise and worldly activity of the capital, he immerses himself in the landscape of the mysterious Moncayo mountain. There, he discovers a new world full of legends that converge in a small village located at the foot of the mountain: Trasmoz, the Village of the Witches, the only officially cursed village in Spain.
A first-person account of the life and work of Spanish writer Antonio Gala.
The incredible story of the mythical Russian-American actor and filmmaker Yul Brynner (1920-85), the most exotic sex-symbol since Rudolph Valentino; the story of the atypical destiny of an international nomad: from the Parisian cabarets to the stages of Broadway and the Hollywood studios. The rise to fame of a multidisciplinary genius who became a king of the screen.
Film director and screenwriter Seijun Suzuki (1923-2017), who in the sixties was the great innovator of Japanese cinema; and his collaborator, art director and screenwriter Takeo Kimura (1918-2010), recall how they made their great masterpieces about the Yakuza underworld for the Nikkatsu film company.
A look at the world of US writer Paul Auster, on the occasion of the publication of his new novel, an exploration of human identity and the soul of New York, the city that Auster has portrayed as no one else has ever done.
The life and work of the legendary Francisco Ibáñez, brilliant cartoonist, creator of Clever & Smart and many other characters through whom he has portrayed Spanish society for over seven decades, with wild humor, subtle cruelty and much tenderness.
Alvin Ailey was a visionary artist who found salvation through dance. Told in his own words and through the creation of a dance inspired by his life, this immersive portrait follows a man who, when confronted by a world that refused to embrace him, determined to build one that would.
As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking documentary exploring him and his Boundless world of film. A film student from Beijing and avid Johnnie To fan, Ferris Lin boldly approached To with a proposal to document the master director for his graduation thesis. To agreed immediately and Lin's camera closely followed him for over two years, capturing the man behind the movies and the myths. The result is Boundless, a candid profile of one of Hong Kong's greatest directors and a heartfelt love letter to Hong Kong cinema.