Blow Up of 'Blow-Up' (2016)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 52M
Director : Valentina Agostinis
Synopsis
Documentary about Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film.
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York to Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.
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This 82-minute 1991 documentary by Eckhart Schmidt features a 1980 interview with Douglas Sirk in which he reflects on his career.
A screenwriter gets involved with two actresses who are trying to succeed in the 1960s Hong Kong film industry.
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A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.
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The discovery of an illicit love affair leads two young Angelenos on a violent, sexually charged tour through the dark side of human nature.
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One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent.
Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura's documentary investigates the production of Godard's film.
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Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.