Signals Through the Flames (1983)

El querido actor y dramaturgo napolitano Eduardo Scarpetta, padre de Eduardo De Filippo, dedicó toda su vida al teatro, logrando el éxito con obras atemporales como “Miseria e nobiltà”. Sin embargo, todo por lo que trabajó parece perdido en 1904, cuando se ve envuelto en una desagradable batalla legal que podría comprometer su libertad de expresión.

Empujado por su espíritu todavía idealista, Alfredo decide crear "un arte más libre, hecho con el corazón, capaz de hacer que la gente se sienta viva". Su concepto del teatro va más allá del escenario, se traslada a la calle, cara a cara con el público esperando que éste se implique, provocándolo si es necesario. Sus actuaciones cargadas de denuncia social, sin límites ni censuras, llevan a poner en alerta a las fuerzas del orden público... (FILMAFFINITY)

The Living Theatre is an experimental company founded in New York in 1947 by Julian Beck (New York 1925-1985), painter and poet, and the actress and stage director Judith Malina (Kiel 1926), a student of Erwin Piscator. From the very beginning the group’s activities bore the stamp of social and political commitment, imbued with a strong libertarian matrix. A video montage of films and videos from The Living Theatre Archives.

"The Pitch" takes a look at the world of international street performing buskers to find out why these men and women have chosen to "pass the hat" to make a living, along with the challenges they face.

Signals Through the Flames is at once a history and a celebration of the Living Theatre. Founded in the late 1940s by husband-and-wife performers Julian Beck and Judith Malina, the Living Theatre was for many years the predominent American outlet for the avant-garde movement. There were occasional self-imposed exiles to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, but the group returned full-force during the Aquarius Age to entertain a new generation of theatregoers.

Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.

A dwarf, a dragon, and a golden egg. Yet the real fairy-tale of this film is the journey of Jeanmarie, the Dutch street performer. In an adventurous project, Jeanmarie teams up with youth worker Frank to travel through the last remaining untouched regions of China, performing his new show to local children. As they transport their wondrous music machine from village to village, they bring laughter and intrigue to all who witness their magical performance, reuniting reality with fantasy, Europe and Asia. In a film as imaginative and whimsical as Jeanmarie's play itself, this is a poignant tale of passion and conviction to follow and fulfil your dreams.

We are a conversation is a 2014 documentary directed by Alexis karpouzos and Spyros rasidakis and written by Alexis karpouzos exploring the unity of humanity, featuring poets from around the world, whose lives have been dedicated to explore the mysteries of life and existence.

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.

"Chapal Bhaduri, a leading lady of Bengal’s traditional folk traveling theatre-in-the-round, the Jatra, spent his life playing women. This film is an intimate biography that brings you face to face with this unique individual, sharing what it means to him to become a woman night after night, talking of the woman inside his body, of troubled sexuality, of a long partnership with his older lover, of the loneliness of living on the edges of conventional society–and showing how he metamorphoses into the goddess to perform her story." - The Bangalore International Centre

Documental del Canal Historia en el que, a través de viñetas de cómics e imágenes de las películas de Christopher Nolan, se explica la psicología del personaje creado por Bob Kane: cómo Batman, un joven atormentado por la tragedia, se convierte en un símbolo de esperanza para los demás.

Documental de ficción que gira alrededor de la supuesta revelación del gran secreto que deben seguir los seres humanos para alcanzar lo deseado. En Estados Unidos llegó a estar en el puesto nº1 de los DVD más vendidos.

For a book project, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders took photographs of 30 stars of adult movies, each pair of photographs in the same pose, clothed and nude. This film records the photo shoots and includes interviews with the performers and commentary from eight writers (and John Waters). The actors and writers discuss economics, nudity and exhibitionism, careers, and private lives.

Documental centrado en la figura del artista marcial Bruce Lee, que incluye entre otras cosas algunas escenas inéditas de sus películas, descartes de "Juego Con la Muerte" y el montaje de 34 minutos de las escenas rodadas tal y como Bruce las había pensado.

Películas caseras, fotografías y poesía recitada ilustran la vida de Tupac Shakur, uno de los MC de hip-hop más queridos, revolucionarios y volátiles de todos los tiempos.

Golden Harvest Productions, la productora de la serie de impactantes films de artes marciales de Bruce Lee, presenta un amplio documental para conmemorar la carrera y la labor del más grande héroe de kung-fu que jamás se haya conocido. En "La Leyenda de Bruce Lee" se hace un recorrido por la vida y la carrera del "Pequeño Dragón", desde sus días como estrella infantil en films cantoneses, pasando por su incursión en Estados Unidos en las series de televisión "The Green Hornet" y "Longstreet", hasta que se convirtió en una de las mayores estrellas de todo el mundo, logrando cambiar la opinión y renovando el estilo de los films de artes marciales. En el documental se incluyen fragmentos de todos los films de Bruce Lee, incluidos "Furia Oriental" y "Operación Dragón" así como anécdotas de rodaje de su obra maestra inacabada "Juego con la Muerte". También se incluyen una serie de entrevistas inéditas con aquellos que lo conocieron íntimamente e imágenes de su emotivo funeral.

Extenso documental (de cuatro horas de duración) que analiza el impacto y la importancia de la saga "Pesadilla en Elm Street", presentando entrevistas con sus principales responsables, como el creador del film original (Wes Craven) o el actor asociado al temible Freddy Kruger, Robert Englund.