Non Succederà Più tells a chapter of Giovanni Vestri’s life, divided into chapters, a prologue, and an epilogue. It is an intimate and personal work that I hope will make me smile in a few years. The film explores a passion for cinema, love for cherished places, and the bond with the special people surrounding my life.
Non Succederà Più tells a chapter of Giovanni Vestri’s life, divided into chapters, a prologue, and an epilogue. It is an intimate and personal work that I hope will make me smile in a few years. The film explores a passion for cinema, love for cherished places, and the bond with the special people surrounding my life.
2023-10-20
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“Great movies begin when we leave the cinema.”
The story of a contemporary Robinson Crusoe, stranded on a desolate beach without any comforts, begins to question whether what he once considered comforts were actually illusions. It’s a search for freedom that moves from solitude to the acceptance of beauty, from consumerist recklessness to hunting for food to survive. An inverted environment that, in the end, doesn’t seem so far from his true self.
Filipina performance artist Bethesda moves into an art commune to search for her long missing biological mother. Along the way, she comes to realize that she just might be a fairy princess, fruit fly.
Three rugby girls question their own prejudices and those of their social circles towards female and male attributes in our society. All along the film we follow their locker room talks, their sport practice as well as their compromises mixing both coquettish touches and mudded knees. Without any use of speeches or theories, these teenage girls definitely offer us another way of being girls.
A female doctor tries to prove her innocence when an erotic tape is shown to her fiancé.
Images of two women, two men, and a gray cat form a montage of rapid bits of movement. A woman is in a bedroom, another wears an apron: they work with their hands, occasionally looking up. A man enters a room, a woman smiles. He sits, another man sits and smokes. The cat stretches. There are close-ups of each. The light is dim; a filter accentuates red. A bare foot stands on a satin sheet. A woman disrobes. She pets the cat. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2006.
Director Marc Levin travels to Chicago with hip-hop legend Chuck D (from Public Enemy) and Marshall Chess (son of Leonard Chess and heir to the legacy of Chess Records) to explore the heyday of the Chicago blues and how they come together to produce an album that seeks to bring veteran blues players along with contemporary hip hop musicians. Along with never before seen footage from Howlin 'Wolf, Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield Blues Band, they are original performances by Koko Taylor, Otis Rush, Magic Slim, Ike Turner and Sam Lay.
Cuco, a mexican parrot, goes on an adventure from Mexico to Hollywood in order to get help from El Americano, a famous superhero from TV, against an evil band of birds trying to take control of his family’s beloved circus.
A short comedy spoof about Universal Monsters and their everyday unconventional work done at their very own talent agency for their movies.
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
The lives of numerous twenty-somethings collide over the course of one long summer night in Northwest Washington DC.
While cleaning her childhood home, a girl comes across a mysterious box that strangely communicates with her, appearing to know her more than expected.
A couple of art representatives, harassed by their debts with a mafia organization, invent an "uncle's story" to defraud a group of alleged heirs, posing as the testator's lawyers.