Premiered in the framework of Bafici, Seized Files: Film School is the second collective feature sponsored by the Museum of the Cinema of Buenos Aires, this time with propaganda series produced during the fifties, aimed at a young audience also protagonist of them. The more re-concentrated nature of materials, less heterogeneous than events intervened "first project use old newsreel "Sucesos Argentinos"", makes that the movie has a more cohesive character on the back and return of the same images, flowed through various searches of each Director, creating different looks and uses. In this case, the director wanted to out his 'intervention' in all senses of the word, just like Prividera's previous feature films. In fact, in these few minutes is both using the file how in the beginning of Fatherland (2011), and the intertitles deployed on M (2007), in base a quote it reconsiders those old images and words looking for its resonance in our present.
Premiered in the framework of Bafici, Seized Files: Film School is the second collective feature sponsored by the Museum of the Cinema of Buenos Aires, this time with propaganda series produced during the fifties, aimed at a young audience also protagonist of them. The more re-concentrated nature of materials, less heterogeneous than events intervened "first project use old newsreel "Sucesos Argentinos"", makes that the movie has a more cohesive character on the back and return of the same images, flowed through various searches of each Director, creating different looks and uses. In this case, the director wanted to out his 'intervention' in all senses of the word, just like Prividera's previous feature films. In fact, in these few minutes is both using the file how in the beginning of Fatherland (2011), and the intertitles deployed on M (2007), in base a quote it reconsiders those old images and words looking for its resonance in our present.
2016-04-14
5.5
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family are chasing celebrity, one another and the relentless ghosts of their pasts.
Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit.
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.
After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties—and incriminating information regarding a high-ranking figure.
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
Following the release of The Godfather Part III in 1990, Coppola, Barry Malkin, and Walter Murch edited the three Godfather movies into chronological order. As had the earlier compilations, this film incorporated scenes that are not part of the theatrical releases.
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.
When veteran anchorman Howard Beale is forced to retire his 25-year post because of his age, he announces to viewers that he will kill himself during his farewell broadcast. Network executives rethink their decision when his fanatical tirade results in a spike in ratings.