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- DirectorKenji IwaisawaStarsShintarô SakamotoRen KomaiTomoya MaenoA trio of delinquent schoolkids form a music band.
- DirectorChuan ChenStarsJackie ChanDean ShekJames TienA pair of evil kung-fu artists, Heaven and Earth, are slaughtering the entire Yin-Yang brotherhood. The movie opens with two members of the brotherhood and their two male children being chased by Heaven, Earth, and miscellaneous bad guys. The two members get away separately with their children. Twenty years later, we see Chan Lung (Jackie Chan) as he hunts frogs and snakes and keeps them in his pants. You learn he was one of the boys. The other is a lazy man who uses windmill-driven levers to deliver things to and from bedside, even a chamberpot and breakfast. Eventually, their respective paternal figures are killed, and they are forced to fight Heaven and Earth.
- DirectorKatja RaganelliKonrad WicklerIn 1978, German filmmaker Katja Raganelli set out for Budapest to capture Márta Mészáros at work on the set of her ninth feature, On The Move. The result is an intimate portrait of Mészáros's life and approach to her craft, featuring interviews with the director as well as close collaborators.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsRiccardo CucciollaDocumentary featuring interviews with female partisans who participated in the resistance and survived the German invasion of Italy in the 1940's.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsBill SageSabrina LloydTatiana AbracosA comic drama about a time in the near future when citizens are happy to be property traded on the stock exchange.
- DirectorChantal AkermanStarsMark AmitinEszter BalintKirk BaltzThe stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor.
- DirectorSamantha FullerStarsJames FrancoJennifer BealsBill DukeFriends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs.
- DirectorKen JacobsStarsJonas MekasUsing his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest brand of color film, Kodak (whose production was discontinued in 2009) and to Jonas Mekas, who managed to breathe life into Kodak.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsBae DoonaArata IuraItsuji ItaoA life-size blow-up doll develops a soul and falls in love with a video store clerk.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsAlberto BellocchioLetizia BellocchioMarco BellocchioA personal documentary centered around the suicide of the director's twin brother, Camillo Bellocchio, in 1968.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsD.J. MendelDanielle MeyerPallavi SastryThe funny and moving tale of Joe Fulton who can fix anything for anybody but he can't achieve success himself. But maybe today will be different!
- DirectorShirley ClarkeIn this suppressed UNICEF-sponsored polemic, Shirley Clarke juxtaposes school children in creepy Halloween costumes with scenes of poverty outside the USA.
- DirectorLasse HallströmStarsStig EngströmAnita EkströmGöran StangertzArne, Calle, and Gunnar are friends, probably in their twenties. One telephones the others, and they decide to visit a nightclub. They hope to meet women and have sex. After they arrive at the club, each man meets with a certain degree of success or failure. Calle particularly is frustrated, for no woman agrees to dance with him. Meanwhile, Arne and Gunnar are busily conversing with women. Eventually the friends all leave with lady friends in tow, and spend the night in various apartments. In the morning, the couples depart differently. One couple has bonded amicably, another tenuously, and the third not at all. The next day, the men reconnect, and decide to try their luck again.
- DirectorVera ChytilováStarsMiroslav MachácekTomás PalatýStepánka CervenkováA group of teenagers are mysteriously invited to a skiing workshop in the mountains. There are eleven of them, but the camp supervisors insist that there should be only ten, and that one of them is an intruder.
- DirectorVera ChytilováPartially dramatized documentary retelling of the life of philosopher Tomás Garrigue Masaryk, who led newly-created Czechoslovakia after WWI, with hinted parallels to the end of Communist rule occurring at the time of the film.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsHolger LöwenadlerAnna LindahlBirger MalmstenA sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeStarsAnna SokolowClarke parallels the sense of spectacle and the real violence of an actual bullfight with a dance interpretation of the emotional experience, using a distillation of the ritual gestures in the Spanish bull ring. In her intense interpretation, Sokolow embodies both matador and bull, both executioner and the sacrifice.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeWheaton GalentineIrving JacobyA documentary short subject about the construction of a new skyscraper in late 1950s Manhattan, the Tishman building on prestigious Fifth Avenue.
- StarsTilda SwintonAdjoa AndohJane FondaA documentary that spans 13 decades and five continents to give a guided tour of the art and craft of movies as told by female filmmakers.
- DirectorAnna BillerStarsAnna BillerJared SanfordNatalia SchroederA young Victorian woman struggles with an incubus against a backdrop of the Old West. With original period costumes, sets, and a western-vaudeville soundtrack.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsRobert AtzornChristine BucheggerMartin BenrathAn account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeD.A. Pennebaker
- DirectorMiranda JulyStarsMiranda JulyA woman observes another woman on a surveillance camera and describes her actions, with no other interaction between them.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsLorraine AcheeMarissa ChibasGeorge FeasterA shy and introverted city surveyor has his quiet, scholarly world turned upside down when a young woman mysteriously appears in his apartment.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsMike BradyRicky LudwigGary SauerBursts of canine aggression punctuate a portrait of three men confronting their friendship and failings.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsPatricia DunnockParker PoseyAdrienne ShellyTwo charming but inept agents of the supernatural (sort of like cupid goddesses) decide to interfere in human affairs. Mini Musical Comedy. Like one of those Shakespeare situation comedies in the woods. Or the Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour." A mini-opera with some sort of dense but ultimately meaningless plot. There's a young man who works too much and who needs to fall in love and a young woman in similar straits on the far side of the forest. The goddesses split up and attempt to cast spells on the mortals. But one of them, while casting a spell calculated to make the man fall in love with the first girl he sees, bungles the job. He falls wildly in love with her instead. She tries to escape but he steals her roller blades, without which she cannot return to the spirit world. Lot's of running around, mistaken identities, everyone gets lost, some arias, later... The goddesses do somehow manage to bring the two overworked mortals crashing into one another's arms and to retrieve the supernatural roller blades. We'll figure that out later.
- DirectorJean-Jacques BeineixStarsYves AfonsoDenise PéronCorinne CostantiniAn impoverished man starts to pretend he keeps a dog in his apartment.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsMartin DonovanPJ HarveyDave SimondsThe end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdelina discuss and debate the end of the world, the opening of the seven seals, and the essence of being human.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsParker PoseyJeff GoldblumLiam AikenA ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Published in them is information that could compromises the security of the U.S., causing Fay to first head to Paris to fetch them ...
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsPaul AustinRobert John BurkeMartin DonovanThree short films about lovers' ultimatums are set in New York, Berlin and Tokyo.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsJarl KulleBibi AnderssonStig JärrelDon Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission - to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes crazy when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngmar BergmanIrene BromanPer BromanFårö Document 1979 is the ten-year followup to the first documentary Bergman made about his adopted home, Fårö, where he filmed many of his best works and lived until the end of his life.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsSabrina LloydParker PoseyParker Posey and Sabrina Lloyd discuss an assortment of concerns in Hal Hartley's THE SISTERS OF MERCY, all loosely connected to a song by the Breeders. It is both a film about real estate dilemmas and a film about the making of a film about real estate dilemmas. Sort of.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsDwight EwellLianna PaiPaul SchulzeIt is March 1 1994 and we see four characters while New York is under attack.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeStarsLynda DavisClay TaliaferroCarol WarnerAn abstract work featuring three dancers, the performers interact with large screens as well as each other. Included in Shirley Clarke's Four Journeys Into Mystic Time, costuming and color play an integral role in this piece.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsElina LöwensohnMiho NikaidoJames UrbaniakA slow, meditative piece of visual music commissioned by the Paris Gallery of the Foundation Cartier for their group show, "Amours." Different artists, filmmakers and writers were asked to make something treating the concept of "amour" (or "love"). Hal Hartley decided to treat that aspect of love which is charity and deconstructed the well known phrase from the gospel of Mark regarding "turning the other cheek."
- DirectorMiranda JulyStarsPolly BilchukPeter BordenEva RioseloA dark experimental, video narrative of intertwining people.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeStarsGary BatesKathe Copperman
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsJanine EriksenGeorge FeasterBob GosseHal Hartley's thesis film from the State University of New York at Purchase where he graduated in 1984. The film was finally completed the following year and broadcast on PBS in 1986.
- DirectorJacques DemyStarsJacques DemyJacques Demy's debut dramatic short about a young man suffering from a broken heart.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsLouis AndriessenKyle GilmanHal HartleyHartley's conscientious assistant in Berlin receives weekly letters from her boss and sends him the books he needs as he struggles in Amsterdam to create the staging for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen's opera, "la Commedia."
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsLouis AndriessenKyle GilmanHal HartleyHartley's conscientious assistant in Berlin receives weekly letters from her boss and sends him the books he needs as he struggles in Amsterdam to create the staging for Dutch composer Louis Andriessen's opera, "la Commedia."
- DirectorShirley Clarke
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsSabrina LloydParker PoseyExperimental short film in which two women secluded in an apartment impersonate the promised benefits and investment risks of real estate purchases, but as people, instead of as the land value with buildings and resources involved in it.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsNikolai KinskiBettina ZimmermannIreen KirschA commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actress friend so she can rehearse her drama school audition while he goes off to save his doomed production in New York.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsChristina FlickAn ambitious and idealistic young actress comes to Berlin to convince an American ex-pat filmmaker that she must be his next muse - the leading lady of his first great German film.
- DirectorHal HartleyStarsJean-Luc GodardJordana MaurerD.J. MendelAn artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it.
- DirectorShirley ClarkeStarsCarol Warner
- DirectorJacques DemyStarsYves DemyGeorges RouquierThis is October 1955. The place is a village in Loire-Atlantique, La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, where an old clog-maker works and lives with his wife and their adopted son. The clog-maker's meticulous craft is described with love and close attention to detail. On the other hand, forthcoming death pervades the quiet everyday life of the elderly couple.
- DirectorJacques DemyStarsJean-Louis TrintignantLaurent TerzieffMicheline PresleTwo playful young men about town take a break from ogling the ladies passing by ,to reminisce about how one of them first learned the meaning of Lechery as a schoolboy.
- DirectorJohn HubleyStarsDizzy GillespieDon KeeferRalph HertzJazz legend Dizzy Gillespie is hired to record the soundtrack for a television commercial-but the music has a mind of its own in this irreverent blend of live-action and animation.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerAladdin, a poor tailor in Baghdad, discovers a magic lamp with a genie inside. After he uses it to gain wealth and the hand of the caliph's daughter, he must fend off an evil sorcerer who wants the lamp for himself.
- DirectorSusan SeidelmanStarsKaren ButlerBilly WineJilian FrankOn her 30th birthday, a first-time unfaithful wife picks up a strange hitchhiker who helps her conceptualize her values.
- DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsPatrick RotmanBertrand TavernierDocumentary on the French-Algerian conflict 1954-1962 which was never officially called a "war", including interviews with some of the survivors.
- DirectorMira NairIndia Cabaret (1985) is a documentary by Mira Nair exploring the "respectable" and "immoral" stereotypes of women in Indian society told from the point of view of 2 strip-tease dancers in a cabaret house in Bombay. There are no voice-overs by either the cabaret dancers nor the men who were interviewed who frequented the cabaret club. Nair explores the marginalized quite often in her films, male and female. This time it is the marginalized women in Bombay who have been cast out because of the 'nature' of their jobs. The women themselves are not ashamed of what they do for a living; what they prize more is the fact that they do not have to be at the mercy of the men in their lives [husbands, brothers, fathers or lovers] as their female peers. They earn their own living, 'decently' ; they are free to come and go as they please and do not have to follow the rules imposed by men or worse society. One of the dancers is offered the opportunity to end her stint at the club and 'clean up' her act; she's offered the 'love' by a man, who promises to take her away, but she refuses. She is content to having her independence and earning her keep. The film also portrays the parallelism of the men who go to see these 'dirty' women dance for their pleasure; the men who pretend o be happily married and decent upright citizens, and who, when interviewed have no qualms about telling the camera how worthless these type of women are. The film explores "the double standards of an essentially patriarchal society."
- DirectorAlbert MayslesDavid MayslesCharlotte ZwerinStarsWilly BrandtJacques ChiracChristoA film that further explores the artists' fusion of culture, environment and politics. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's fight for permission to surround eleven islands in Miami's Biscayne Bay with 6.5 million square feet of bright pink fabric, interwoven with their struggle to wrap the Pont-Neuf in Paris and the Reichstag in Berlin.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerThis New Testament parable is animated in Lotte Reiniger's inimitable style.
- DirectorMira NairStarsShiney AhujaTinnu AnandRaima SenA short movie aiming to spread awareness about awareness from the perspective of people from different economic classes.
- DirectorLaura PoitrasComposed of images filmed at Ground Zero in September 2001, two weeks after the 9/11 attacks. The soundtrack is composed of the National Anthem recorded in October 2001 at the Yankees' World Series Game 4 in New York. The solo vocal recording has been looped and sampled to form a deconstructed version of the national anthem.
- DirectorMarcel OphülsStarsMartine CarolDanielle DarrieuxDaniel GélinMarcel Ophüls relates anecdotes about his father, Max Ophüls. This four-part documentary also contain rare interviews of several actors who worked with the famous director, as well as clips from the main movies discussed.
- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsOrson WellesMario CiprianiLaura BettiPier Paolo Pasolini's contribution to the omnibus film "RO.GO.PA.G" casts Orson Welles as a director attempting to make a film of the crucifixion of Jesus-all while he, the cast, and crew behave in the most un-Christlike ways imaginable.
- DirectorAlbert MayslesDavid MayslesCharlotte ZwerinStarsChristoJeanne-ClaudeAn engrossing document of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's efforts to build a 24 1/2-mile-long, 18-foot-high fence of white fabric across the hills of northern California. The artists' struggle with local ranchers, environmentalists and state bureaucrats ends when the fence is unfurled, reuniting the community in a celebration of beauty. Nominated at the 1978 Academy Awards®.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsEddie MarsanSamantha SpiroSam KellyMembers of a family live frantic lives of Olympian proportion.