The First Monday in May (2016)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 31M
Director : Andrew Rossi
Sinopsis
Chronicles the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
Kate Miller es una atractiva mujer, insatisfecha sexualmente, a quien asesinan en un ascensor tras salir de su primera sesión con el psiquiatra Robert Elliott. Liz Blake, una joven prostituta, es testigo del crimen y decide intentar detener al culpable con la ayuda de Peter, el hijo de la víctima.
Debbie, hermana exconvicta de Danny Ocean, será la líder de un nuevo equipo de ladrones profesionales. Con la ayuda de su mano derecha planeará robar un valioso collar que está en manos de un malvado galerista.
Christian, mánager de un museo de arte contemporáneo, se encarga de una exhibición titulada "The Square" en la que hay una instalación que fomenta valores humanos y altruistas. Cuando contrata a una agencia de relaciones públicas para difundir el evento, la publicidad produce malestar en el público.
Colaboración entre la veterana directora Agnès Varda y el artista gráfico urbano y fotógrafo JR, un joven francés conocido por sus impactantes obras visuales que consisten en enormes intervenciones gráficas en calles y tejados de diversas ciudades de todo el mundo.
En la Francia ocupada de la II Guerra Mundial, las autoridades nazis decidieron proteger, pese a las circunstancias, la mayor y más valiosa colección de pintura del mundo: el Museo del Louvre. A través de la historia de Jacques Jaujard y el conde Franz Wolff-Metternich, en el París de 1940, Sokurov explora la relación entre el arte y el poder, siendo el Louvre el principal lugar de la civilización viva. Ambos hombres protegieron los tesoros de dicho museo al mismo tiempo que los grandes ejércitos arrasaban el corazón de la civilización dejando muchas víctimas por delante.
Chronicles the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San finds out his boss's plot to rob the National Art Museum.
Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large number of art pieces from all over the globe, from the Stone Age to the present day. A walk through their great institutions to marvel at their masterpieces.
El actor Jeremy Irons emprende un viaje épico a través de las salas del Museo del Prado en Madrid, España, doscientos años después de su inauguración, a lo largo de corredores donde miles de obras maestras de todos los tiempos cuentan las vidas de gobernantes y gente común, y relatos sobre tiempos de guerra y locura y tiempos de paz y felicidad; porque, como dijo Goya, la imaginación, la madre de todas las artes, crea monstruos imposibles, pero también indecibles maravillas.
In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.
To celebrate its 250th anniversary, this documentary tells the story of one of the world’s greatest museums, from its foundation by Catherine the Great, though to its status today as a breathtakingly beautiful complex which includes the Winter Palace. Showcasing a vast collection of the world’s greatest artworks together with contemporary art galleries and exhibitions, it holds over 3 million treasures and world class masterpieces in stunning architectural settings. This is its journey from Imperial Palace to State Museum, encompassing a sometimes troubled past, surviving both the Revolution in 1916 and the siege of Leningrad by the Nazis in 1941-44.
Es una historia estrechamente ligada al amor por los jardines y el deseo de preservar la naturaleza en una nación que se volvió cada vez más urbana y cosmopolita. Viajando a estudios, jardines y localizaciones icónicas a través de los Estados Unidos, Reino Unido y Francia, esta fascinante película es un deleite para la mirada. El jardín del artista: impresionismo americano presenta la agotada exposición El jardín del artista: Impresionismo americano y el movimiento de jardines, 1887-1920 que comenzó en la Academia de Bellas Artes de Pennsylvania y terminó en el Museo Florence Griswold, en Old Lyme, Connecticut. Gillian Anderson presta su voz para narrar esta historia repleta de color, belleza y amor al arte.
Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, now the Bode-Museum, the Bust of Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, has been the subject of controversy for more than a century. Von Bode, under pressure from the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, argued that the wax sculpture was created by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
Every night, when the museum closes its doors, the mironins, Blu, Low and Ro, three little drops of paint that live in the paintings created by the Spanish painter Joan Miró (1893-1983), come to life and immerse themselves in an inexhaustible universe where art and imagination reign.
Un recorrido por cuatrocientas pinturas, todas obras maestras, de las más de nueve mil que atesora el Museo del Prado de Madrid, España.
A bike messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man and an office worker make their way through an evening in New York City. A collection of eight large-scale moving images projected on the walls of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.
Lucy Jarvis -- the plucky camerawoman known for becoming the first Westerner to film inside communist China -- breaks barriers once again with this exclusive look at the world-famous Musée du Louvre, a place that previously barred access to all filmmakers. Charles Boyer is your host on this personalized tour of the museum's most prized possessions, including works by da Vinci, Michelangelo, Vermeer and Van Eyck.
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, after a long construction, the last and most grandiose museum of the Leader was opened. Soon after the opening, the ideology changed, and the flow of pilgrims gradually dried up. Despite this, the museum still works and the management is looking for ways to attract visitors. Faithful to the Lenin keepers of the museum as they can resist the onset of commercialization. The film tells about the modern life of this amazing museum-reserve and its employees.
