Crown v. Stevens (1936)
Género : Crimen, Suspense
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 6M
Director : Michael Powell
Sinopsis
When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is suprised find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of insurance
Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.
A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
Based on the Bela Bartok opera, Bluebeard woos his women and then swiftly disposes of them.
Documental sobre Jean Taris, el nadador olímpico y 29 veces campeón francés. Estudia el estilo de natación del antiguo campeón del mundo explicando los mecanismos del arrastre, breaststroke y otras técnicas de la natación. Vigo emplea técnicas como la cámara lenta, fotografía subacuática y uso dramático de la iluminación subacuática.
En los sótanos de la Ópera de París vive oculto el misterioso Eric, el hombre de voz de ángel y rostro desfigurado de demonio, que acecha entre pared y pared a la hermosa soprano Christine Daeé, a la que desea catapultar hasta la cima de la fama; pero cuando se entera de que la cantante está prometida al apuesto vizconde Raoul, se vuelve loco de celos.
Giacomo Casanova, viejo bibliotecario del castillo del Dux, en Bohemia, recuerda su vida, repleta de historias de amor y de aventuras. Anciano, solo y desesperado, rememora los apasionantes viajes de su juventud por todas las capitales de Europa.
La joven esposa de un viejo marinero está harta de su monótona vida en la barcaza “L'Atalante”. Después de dejarse llevar por la artificiosa vida de la ciudad, dejando a su marido sumido en la desesperación, regresa con él amargamente decepcionada.
Children living and playing in a war zone are touched by violence. Part of How Are the Kids? (1990), a UNICEF-sponsored six-film anthology depicting childhood horrors around the world.
In the 1968 movement in Paris, Jean-Luc Godard made a 16mm, 3-minute long film, Film-tract No.1968, Le Rouge, in collaboration with French artist Gérard Fromanger. Starting with the shot identifying its title written in red paint on the Le Monde for 31 July 1968, the film shows the process of making Fromanger’s poster image, which is thick red paint flows over a tri-color French flag. —Hye Young Min
A video letter composed for Amnesty International's 'Lest We Forget' series.
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
Introduction of the 2008 Viennale.
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
Rather than writing a simple letter to explain his absence from the press conference for his latest Cannes entry, "Goodbye to Language," at the Cannes Film Festival, instead, legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard created a video "Letter in motion to (Cannes president) Gilles Jacob and (artistic director) Thierry Fremaux." The video intercuts from Godard speaking cryptically about his "path" to key scenes from Godard classics such as "Alphaville" and "King Lear" with Burgess Meredith and Molly Ringwald, and quotes poet Jacques Prevert and philosopher Hannah Arendt.
Jean-Luc Godard addresses two filmic letters to young Israeli soldiers who were sentenced after refusing to intervene in the occupied territories.
A short two-minute rumination on the once volatile situation during the period of the Bosnian War presented in the form of a photo-montage with accompanying text.
La película dedica su primera parte a analizar las posibilidades de realizar un viaje a la Luna con el fin de encontrar oro. En la segunda, se trata del viaje y de las sorpresas que deparará a los protagonistas.
Conmovedora visión de Niza, la atmósfera y el tipo de vida de la ciudad. La película se centra principalmente en el contraste entre los ricos ociosos que toman el sol y disfrutan de los lujos de hoteles y casinos, y los barrios pobres de Niza.
Obra maestra donde Jean Vigo (muerto a los 29 años con tan sólo cuatro películas en su haber) retrata sus recuerdos infantiles a través de la historia de cuatro jóvenes estudiantes franceses que, sujetos a un estricto régimen escolar, deciden rebelarse contra la institución. Filme prohibido en Francia en su estreno por su presunto mensaje antipatriótico.
