Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have several hits on Broadway but De Sylva's personal ambition leads to friction as the other two increasingly feel left out of things.
A documentary about Swedish Discus champion Ricky Bruch as he prepares for the 1984 Olympics. The film highlights Bruch's obsessive behavior regarding his training and preparations. Facing difficulties with the Swedish Olympic Committee, Bruch is denied the right to compete in the Olympic Games. Bent on revenge, he trains like an animal and competes in smaller competitions, ultimately throwing his career-best 71.26 meters (233 feet, 9 inches). Proving to himself and the world that he is the greatest, Ricky's throw would have won the 1984 Olympics by nearly 5 meters.
El joven norteamericano Víctor Herman y su familia se trasladó a la Unión Soviética a mediados de los años 30 . Cuando se negó a firmar como paracaidista para la URSS fue enviado a prisión sin ser juzgado. Tras la prisión, y torturas fue enviado a los Gulags (campos de trabajos forzados soviéticos).
Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.
Basado en el escándalo de la vida real que conmocionó a la era de la Inglaterra victoriana, la película cuenta la historia de Eufemia "Effie" Gray. A los 19 años, se casó con el historiador de arte y crítico prominente John Ruskin, pero se negó a consumar su matrimonio. Solitaria y frustrado Effie se ve atraída por el pintor pre-Rafaelita John Everett Millais, y encuentra un amiga y defensora en Lady Elizabeth Eastlake. Después de cinco años atrapados en un matrimonio sin amor, Effie desafiará las reglas de la sociedad victoriana...
In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director. Tim Robbins interviews Samuel Fuller revealing the director's own memories and impressions. Beside the interview, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino accompany the documentary with their comments.
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
La obra del artista David Hockney inpiró esta película de ficción, con el propio artista como protagonista.
En su lecho de muerte, la pintora Frida Kahlo recuerda su vida. Por su mente y por la pantalla, desfilan los personajes y situaciones más significativos de su atormentada existencia
Thom Andersen's remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge's photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.
Inspirado en la extraordinaria historia real de la cocinera privada del presidente François Miterrand, el film cuenta cómo Hortense Laborie, un prestigiosa chef del Perigord, se convierte en la responsable de las comidas presidenciales del Palacio del Elíseo.
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Frant Tandara, un antiguo torturador de las prisiones rumanas, está a punto de confesar sus crímenes a un periodista y a un antiguo prisionero político. (FILMAFFINITY)
Narra la historia de amor entre el famoso pintor Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec y la bella Suzanne Valdon.
Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the legendary Final Academy events at the South London Ritzy Cinema. These were Burroughs-themed art and performance nights curated by Psychic TV. Jarman’s film shows Burroughs on Tottenham Court Road signing autographs with fans and inside a shop buying alcohol. The industrial soundtrack by Psychic TV features a sample of Burroughs repeating "boys, school showers and swimming pools full of 'em'". Additional footage shot by Jarman during Burroughs' visit is reported to have been confiscated by Scotland Yard in 1991 and remains lost. Jarman and Psychic TV would continue to collaborate (“magic bound us together” Jarman wrote), with Jarman directing the music video for Catalan and staring as the spokesperson in the Psychic TV video A Spokesman for the Temple of Psychick Youth.
Greenaway lleva a la pantalla grande parte de la vida de Sergei Eisenstein, concretamente el periodo en el que el mítico realizador soviético vivió en México y rodó, entre otros films, "¡Que viva México!". El director de “El Acorazado Potemkin” (1925) pasó más de un año, a partir de diciembre de 1930, en tierras aztecas para filmar su fascinación por el Día de Muertos y los ritos religiosos de la cultura popular mexicana. Sin embargo, la cinta quedó inconclusa, por lo que en 1979 Grigori Aleksandrov, a partir de los “storyboards” originales de Eisenstein, compiló “¡Que Viva México!, una aproximación al montaje que éste planeaba.
A story about 4 gay men who try to lead a normal life in Korea, the conservative and harsh country for LGBT in Asia. In the middle of making a queer film Jun-moon, a director, loses his self-confidence due to social scrutiny regarding his sexual orientation. Byung-gwon, a gay rights activist, has been participating in movements to establish equal rights for homosexual laborers. Young-soo, a chef who moved from the countryside 15 years ago, lived a lonely life but he finds happiness after joining a gay choir. Yol, who works for a major company, dreams of the day him and his partner, can have a legal wedding with overcoming the prejudice against people living with HIV/AIDS.
Dorothy Quick, una joven chica, se hace amiga del famoso escritor, Samuel "Mark Twain" en sus últimos años de vida.
Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff Robertson).
Misticismo, entrega, espiritualidad y pobreza conforman la historia de Francisco de Asís, hijo de un acaudalado comerciante de telas, que un día abandonó todas las comodidades y riquezas de la casa paterna para dedicarse en cuerpo y alma a servir a Dios y a los necesitados. Biografía de uno de los personajes religiosos más importantes de la Historia.
