A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and feet appear to be bare. (Library of Congress)
Herself
A woman in a white gown performs a skirt dance, using her arms to produce circles and other patterns within the folds of her costume. Her legs and feet appear to be bare. (Library of Congress)
1897-10-24
4.8
Tintin and his friends investigate when something ominous haunts seven archaeologists, just after their return from an ethnographic expedition to the Andes, where they have dug up the tomb of Inca Rascar Capac.
Following the events of Volume 1, the mutated glee club continue their violent rampage in Tromaville. Chrissy and Lauren, two innocent lesbian lovers, must fight not only the Cretins, mutants, and monsters but also the evil Tromorganic Foodstuffs Conglomerate. Can they, and Kevin the Wonder Duck, save Tromaville High School and the world?
Last Minute: highlights the importance of closure and the moment we spend with each others
When Jen's son disappears during a game of hide-and-seek she unwittingly embarks on a journey through time to find him.
In her childhood, Riana lived in a small town with her father and her mother who ran a funeral house business. A disaster required them move to Uncle Johan's house in Jakarta and Riana meets with Riani doll. Riana grows up and one day got visited by Mrs. Klara, a counselor-teacher in her school who wants to know why Riana has not attended school and suggests Riana rehabilitated. Disasters take place to Riana's parents. Mrs. Klara comes again with Hendro, Lusi and Anggi, to help Riana socialize. But, their presence triggers a bigger problem; a vicious creature of the past ia released and terrorize them all.
The death of the matriarch on Christmas eve provokes a crisis that makes the family review attitudes and give a new meaning to the date.
After the Combiner Wars ended, Cybertron started to be rebuilt. However, an undead Starscream has been reincarnated as Trypticon, wreaking havoc around him. To combat this menace, Windblade gathers up a ragtag team of Transformers, including Optimus Prime and Megatron, to resurrect an ancient ally. And while some may be forever changed by the events, others may not emerge with their sparks intact.
The Red Mountain Tribe hangs out in my backyard. "Lipton's lovely home movie PEOPLE, in its affection for valuable inconsequential gestures, indicates in the course of its three minutes why there has to be a continuing alternative to the commercial cinema." – Roger Greenspun, The New York Times
Katja and Johann are two teenagers who are the best of friends. They spend most of their time in a ruined fort, fantasizing about an ideal world. Their relationship becomes threatened when Johann is taken ill with leukemia, and Katja's mother is undecided on whether to stay with her husband or leave with her lover.
When cars start to explode, which can lead to a serious oil crisis, Tintin and his friends travel to the Middle East to get to the bottom of the problem.
High school guidance counselor Jeff and his platonic friend and co-worker Anne are responsible, well intentioned, kind… and boring. They frustratingly watch on as their peers find love and companionship, while they continue to fail in spectacular fashion when it comes to romance. As they reach their loneliness breaking point, they make a pact to forgo their familiar, vanilla personas in exchange for their unexplored, confident alter egos. They wave goodbye to Jeff’s awkward all-male book club and Anne’s flailing attempts to catch the eye of Jeff’s sexy neighbor Max, and say hello to raucous summer nights filled with booze, dancing, and sex. Naturally things don’t exactly go according to plan.
Andrew Angus Dalrymple's realistic portrait of a British soldier, his Irish lover and her twin sister amidst the strife of Northern Ireland.
When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the disappearance, the inhabitants of a forbidding estate called "Summerfield" take on more and more significance.
Alone in his college dorm room, a young man struggles with his family's reaction when he is pressured into coming out to them over the telephone. Damian sinks into depression as he realizes that both he and his family have an arduous journey ahead if they are to heal old wounds and accept his sexuality. Coming to Terms demonstrates how denial and blame can damage relationships and is an excellent video for youth, counselors and families.
Men and women have been stumbling headlong into parenthood since the dawn of time. With no formal training, no license required and no how-to manual, the results can be full of unexpected hilarity. And lucky for us, the cameras are rolling. Bob Saget hosts this side-splitting look at parenting in a one-hour America's Funniest Home Videos theme show. With cameos by his real-life parents, Saget shows us the parent-child moments nothing could prepare us for.
Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.
Two rich American young adults who meet and fall in love in Venice, Italy. With plenty of money and no real responsibilities or direction in life, the couple begin experimenting with illicit drugs. The movie travels through a series of flashbacks showing their progression from marijuana to harder drugs as a result of their complex romantic entanglement with each other.
An absentee father and his bipolar son are forced to live together as they struggle with a recent family tragedy. The tension and anxiety boil as they live and try to cope in a tiny apartment. As time passes, they realize their shared pain is not their only source of grief, as they find the outside world is a cruel and unjust place.
Things take a turn for the worse when a down-on-their-luck band has a chance encounter in the pine barrens of NJ.
Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family with a hands-on interest in continuing the directing legacy. Among the materials he found in the estate of Robert and Frances Flaherty’s daughter Monica were the film reels and video tapes detailing several years of work on realising her lifelong dream project: a sound version of her parents’ 1926 docu-fiction axiom, Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age.
The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
The film uses stop-frame animation to create maps on the screen, and showed the then-current military situation in the Dardanelles, using various maps to assist understanding. Small cardboard cut-outs show the deployment of men and ships. Intertitles explain tactics, and shelling explosions are illustrated by clouds of cotton wool.
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
Women getting onto a rickshaw.
A very graceful dance with voluminous draperies, by Annabelle Moore, well-known on the metropolitan stage.
The parade occupies only a small portion of the screen, the crowds are a seething mass that do really move and the Independence Bell is nowhere to be seen.
Lumière Brothers film automobiles driving at the Champs-Elysées.
A view of the entrance to the Stockholmsutställlningen, the World Exhibition in Stockholm.
A variation on the popular Butterfly Dance, released in hand-colored and stenciled versions. The film has the catalogue number 2011 and was likely shot in 1897 but not screened in France until the 10th of December 1899.
One minute film of Buffalo Bill's famous show.
Panorama film shot floating down the Seine.
A view of the Ferris wheel from the Chicago Exposition of 1893, turning slowly.
A street scene in Toulouse. Catalog no. 157.
A battalion, preceded by three riders and a military marching band, parades in front of the crowd. A man is manoeuvring a handcart bearing the inscription "Sunlight Soap" in the foreground.
The arrival of King Rama V, the king of Siam, in Switzerland.