Phoenix Tapes (1999)

Alfred Hitchcock (Toby Jones) se encontraba en la cima de su carrera y creatividad cuando, en 1962, eligió a una desconocida modelo para protagonizar su película más ambiciosa: "Los Pájaros". Pero mientras convertía a Tippi Hedren (Sienna Miller) en la perfecta rubia hitchcockiana de su imaginación, el director se obsesionó con el imposible sueño de enamorar a la actriz.

En 1962, los cineastas Alfred Hitchcock y François Truffaut se encerraron para tener una larga conversación de cincuenta horas y quinientas preguntas sobre el cine del maestro del suspense. Hitchcock se encontraba en la cima de su creatividad, y Truffaut ya había hecho Los 400 golpes y Tirad sobre el pianista. El resultado fue el libro El cine según Hitchcock, un texto imprescindible para los amantes y estudiosos del séptimo arte.

Fue a principios de los sesenta, cuando el maestro del suspense dejó que la protagonista de su nueva película muriese pasados apenas cuarenta minutos de película, en una escena que iba a poner patas arriba el cine. Alexandre O. Philippe, un cinéfilo irredento, disecciona aquellos cincuenta y dos planos de 'Psicosis', que supusieron un golpe de efecto narrativo y un elogio a la brutalidad hecha sugerencia.

Documental sobre el mejor cine de terror y suspense hasta 1984, incluyendo reportajes e imágenes de películas de terror varias, donde salen muchas caras conocidas.

A tribute to a fascinating film shot by Alfred Hitchcock in 1958, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak, and to the city of San Francisco, California, where the magic was created; but also a challenge: how to pay homage to a masterpiece without using its footage; how to do it simply by gathering images from various sources, all of them haunted by the curse of a mysterious green fog that seems to cause irrepressible vertigo…

Martin Scorsese ha hecho un descubrimiento sensacional: hasta sus manos ha llegado un guión incompleto de Alfred Hitchcock y se propone devolverlo a la vida rodándolo. Scorsese se sumerge en la mente de Hitchcock, trata de pensar cómo lo hubiera hecho él, selecciona cuidadosamente la técnica y lo reinterpreta. La historia se titula "La clave reserva". Sólo hay un problema: falta una parte. Simon Barker y Kelli O'Hara protagonizan una historia en el colosal auditorio newyorkino de Carnegie Hall. Los amantes del cine seguro que encuentran al hombre que sabía demasiado, y quizá lo encuentren con la muerte en los talones... Scorsese y Hitchcock; ambos se dan la mano para brindar con todos los espectadores, naturalmente a su manera.

Giulio, un estudiante de Ciencias de la Comunicación especializado en Hitchcock, empieza a obsesionarse con el cine de este director. Su obsesión alcanza tales dimensiones que acaba distorsionando el mundo hasta transformarlo en un lugar tenebroso. (FILMAFFINITY)

A documentary about Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 film Rear Window.

Documental sobre la creación y la restauración de la obra maestra de Alfred Hitchcock, "Vertigo". Narrado por Roddy McDowall, y con el "detrás de escena" comentado por Barbara Bel Geddes, Patricia Hitchcock y Martin Scorsese, entre otros.

Documentary short focusing on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1953 film I Confess.

When characters stare at the camera in the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the look is almost always associated with the threat of death (through the eyes of a victim, a murderer, a witness). This momentary suspension between death and life is partly what makes Hitchcock the indisputable master of suspense.

This is a wonderful and revealing film about famed horror and suspense director Alfred Hitchcock. You'll see behind-the-scenes of some of his most famous films including Psycho, Rear Window, Dial M for Murder, Vertigo and many more! Containing interviews, unique production shorts, trailers, film clips, news segments, and more, this collection offers a rare look into the life and times of this man who became a Hollywood legend and the undisputed Master of Suspense!

One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and reassembled to illuminate the patterns, rhythms and choreography of the original so as to break through and make for an eight banded kinetic tour de force. As the piece progresses the temporal displacement of each band gets closer and closer until they all unite into a remarkable grand finale.

A sardonic look at the dark secrets of the British Film Industry of the 1920s and 30s, where scandal and sordid behaviour was almost as rife as in Hollywood.

Film director Hitchcock discusses his life and career in long talks with Pia Lindstrom (newscaster and daughter of Hitchcock star Ingrid Berman) and with film historian William Everson. Excerpts from several films illustrate these interviews. Discussion topics include: what is fear?, method acting vs. film acting, the difference between the usual "Who Done It" mystery and what he considers to be real suspense. His choice of leading ladies and why (Bergman, Baxter, Kelly, Marie Saint, Leigh, etc.).

Screenwriter John Michael Hayes reminisces about his partnership with Alfred Hitchcock during the making of the classic 1954 film Rear Window.

Norman Bates' 1st cousin once removed invites the camera out to his desert homeland to discuss his notorious distant relative (Short, Drama).

A comedy based on NBC's "People Are Funny" radio (and later television) program with Art Linkletter with a fictional story of how the program came to be on a national network from its humble beginning at a Nevada radio station. Jack Haley is a producer with only half-rights to the program while Ozzie Nelson and Helen Walker are the radio writers and supply the romance. Rudy Vallee, always able to burlesque himself intentional and, quite often, unintentional, is the owner of the sought-after sponsoring company. Frances Langford, as herself, sings "I'm in the Mood for Love" while the Vagabonds quartet (billed 12th and last) chimes in on "Angeline" and "The Old Square Dance is Back Again."

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Con la actuación estelar del actor y teniente Clark Gable, el film nos ofrece una visión privilegiada del día a día en la vida de los pilotos de bombarderos B-17 estadounidenses en sus bases de Inglaterra, su preparación y entrenamiento; así como los peligros a los que deben hacer frente en las continuas misiones de bombardeo sobre la Europa ocupada.

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Iskyss is a strong and poetic love story based on Gunvor Galtung Haavik’s double life through 30 years. During the Cold War, she was employed by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and assigned to the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow. With the information she had access to in the capacity of her position as interpreter and secretary, she frequently fed the KGB secret information.

Una niña tiene que decidir con quién casarse: un pobre campesino o un rico propietario de un club nocturno.

Moody, atmospheric ghost story starring Mason as a retired tradesman who purchases an old mansion that has been vacant for 40 years because it is believed to be haunted by the spirit of a young woman who had died there. Unaware of the mansion's reputation, Mason and his wife Mullen move in and hire a young woman, Lockwood, to keep house. Soon after Lockwood's arrival, strange things begin to happen in the household, and it becomes apparent that she is possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, though Mason scoffs at the idea. On death's door and bedridden, Lockwood asks for the same doctor who treated the woman who died 40 years ago. He arrives and treats her. The next morning Lockwood is cured, and it is revealed by the police that the doctor's dead body was found in his carriage hours before the time Mason claims he arrived to see Lockwood. Convinced that not only the ghost of the girl but that of the doctor as well entered his home, Mason finally believes in the supernatural.

A loving couple struggle to fend for themselves in modern day Los Angeles, One a loner and down and out, the other a lonely but hardworking secretary. Eventually, as cracks form in their passionate relationship, they resort to robbing an aging actress for money.

En 1975, Nicolas Philibert, un joven ayudante de dirección, participó en la película de René Allio "Yo, Pierre Riviére, habiendo matado a mi madre, mi hermana y mi hermano...", inspirada en un crimen que tuvo lugar en Normandía hace 140 años. Esta película debía su singularidad al hecho de que los miembros del equipo artístico eran los propios granjeros de la región. Treinta años después de rodar aquella película, Nicolas Philibert decide reencontrarse con los actores. Algunos ya no viven y otros han emigrado, pero en un absoluto proceso de investigación, Philibert intenta recuperarlos para que nos hablen sobre su vida y nos cuenten cómo les ha afectado su participación en aquella película.

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

The story of the Dassau family, a family of artists: Frau Dassau is a composer, her husband is a writer, and their children are equally gifted as painters, poets and musicians. But unfortunately, no one wants to invest money in their art. The family is about to starve when Nicole comes up with a marvelous idea: She is going to write the "most scandalous book", the sex memoirs of a teenager. For this, she hides under the pseudonym of Eva. The book becomes an enormous success indeed, but Nicole's parents are decent people, and the public interest in their sluttish daughter begins to bother them. Things begin to get even more unpleasant when Nicole falls in love with an American publisher who'd prefer a virgin…

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

On Christmas Eve, Léa and Juliette, a couple, want to rob a supermarket that Juliette knows is empty of surveillance on this festive evening. But, as much for each of them as for Eric, the vigil who is there after all, nothing will happen as planned. Besides, shortly before leaving him alone, the store manager gave Eric a gun, just in case.

While Douglas Coupland works on a grand art project about Canada, the writer recounts his life and his musings about the various aspects of Canadian identity.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.

A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").

El joven y carismático Werner Gladow aprovecha su precaria situación tras la II Guerra Mundial para formar una banda criminal, y tratar de hacerse con el control del Berlin subterráneo.

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.