Acrobats (2008)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 11M
Sinopsis
The fascinating city of Tokyo is the mesmerizing setting where three people live. A man has been fired from his job, but shame is too heavy a burden for him. He repeats the same ceremony every morning. He gets up, gets dressed and walks out to his non-existent job. He wanders around carrying his lie with him. Eiko works at a twenty-four hour convenience store. Hours and days go by with no emotions beyond the opening and closing of the teller. A man appears into her life. They will start a relationship that will fill in part the emptiness in their lives. A rock band is falling apart. After the last rehearsal, the guitar player announces his decision to quit to his friend, the singer and front man of the band, but he is not willing to accept it. Three everyday stories – three lives are told.
Audrey y Morgan son dos amigas que se ven involucradas en una conspiración internacional cuando una de ellas descubre que su ex-novio era en realidad un espía.
Entra en el gabinete de curiosidades de un inventor ambicioso que desafía las leyes del tiempo, el espacio y la dimensión para reinventar todo lo que le rodea. De repente, lo visible se vuelve invisible, las perspectivas se transforman y el mundo literalmente se pone patas arriba. Sumérgete en una experiencia cinematográfica espectacular a través de ángulos nunca antes vistos. ¡Ir al cine se ha vuelto asombroso!
En una época de grandes peligros, los monjes de Dunhuang esconden el Sharira, un talismán budista que contiene la esencia de un hombre santo, en un lugar inaccesible para los mortales. Sin embargo, está escrito que algún día alguien lo encontrará. Yin (Michelle Yeoh) y su hermano Tong son los últimos descendientes de una antigua familia de acróbatas. Un día, se presenta Eric (Ben Chaplin), un hombre que conoció a Yin en el pasado. Trae un medallón que será la clave para descifrar los misterios del Sharira. Juntos se lanzan a un peligroso viaje en busca del Talismán. Pero Karl (Richard Roxburgh) busca lo mismo que que ellos y los sigue de cerca: es un hombre rico que carece de compasión y escrúpulos y que no se detendrá ante nada. La búsqueda los conduce al desierto de Dunhuang y después al Tibet. (FILMAFFINITY)
Quídam es un desconocido que pasa, un transeúnte solitario, el individuo apresurado, un personaje cualquiera… cualquiera. Es el individuo que va y viene y vive en nuestra sociedad demasiado anónima. El que forma mayoría silenciosa en la masa. El que grita, sueña y canta en cada uno de nosotros. Éste es el “quídam” que el Cirque du Soleil celebra.
La historia "O" reúne una mezcla mística de circo y al mismo tiempo involucra al público como parte del espectáculo. Los imaginativos personajes actúan en el escenario como si fuera un patio de recreo con una piscina y crean una especie de tierra, aire, agua y ballet lleno de diversión.
King of the slack wire. His daring feats of balancing as he performs his thrilling feats in midair show that he is perfectly at home.
Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the rise and fall of the gigantic, traveling tented railroad circus and brings to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town and its stars were among the most famous people in the country.
Un teatro embrujado, donde habitan los vengativos espíritus de los actores de una obra que murieron en un incendio 13 años atrás. La reapertura del local con un nuevo espectáculo traerá consigo víctimas.
A family troupe of acrobats, made up to appear Japanese, perform various unbelievable stunts in front of the camera, achieved through a trick of the camera.
The narrative centres on a nomadic opera troupe who travel to various towns as part of their nationwide tour and astound the locals with their skills. When visiting a coastal town, one of the young performers becomes involved in a market brawl after two local bullies begin to push their weight around. The righteous young performer is saved from a vicious beating at the hands of the thugs by a mysterious fighter who uses his sublime abilities to save the day. He gradually reveals to his new friends that he is a former Shaolin student and a staunch patriot - readily opposing the Manchu rulers. In a finale filled with glorious fight action, the time for revenge is realised and the battle between good and evil once again takes place.
The famous acrobats in the above title appear in a marvellous acrobatic act. There are three barrels arranged on the stage. The boys, blindfolded, stand on opposite sides of the stage, and jump from one barrel into the other until they both land in the same barrel at the same time. They then jump backwards onto the stage over the two barrels. One table is then mounted upon another and the center barrel is placed on top. The brothers still blindfolded jump one each into a barrel and from them to the first to the second table and from the second table into the barrel on top of the second table. They then jump backwards onto the stage. This is pronounced by show people to be the most marvellous acrobatic feat that has ever been introduced. (Edison Catalog)
Luis Martinetti, a contortionist suspended from acrobatic flying rings, contorts himself for about thirty seconds. This is one of the first films made for Edison's kinetoscopes.
Eight circus performers known as the Grunato family perform their famous balancing act.
One out of three silent adaptations of the novella "Les quatre diables" written by Danish author Herman Bang. The most famous one, although unfortunately lost, is without any doubt F.W. Murnau's "4 Devils". This German version, by Danish director A.W. Sandberg, was done eight years prior to Murnau's American one, and was a big success at the time.
En Dralion, los cuatro elementos que rigen el orden natural adquieren forma humana. A través de esta personificación, cada elemento representa el propio color que lo evoca: el aire es azul; el agua es verde; el fuego es rojo; la tierra es ocre. En el mundo de Dralion, las culturas se mezclan, el hombre y la naturaleza son uno, y se alcanza el equilibrio.
Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.
The scene is set at Billy Rose's Casa Manana Revue, filmed at the Fort Worth Frontier Fiesta (1937), an enormous production created as part of the Texas Centennial civic celebrations. The opening song, "The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful" emanated from the first edition of the Revue and became a hit song on two continents in 1936.
Hadji Cheriff, a performer known for a variety of unusual abilities, demonstrates part of his act in the Thomas Edison studio. He has a large knife in his hand at the opening of the act. He then hurls the knife away and begins a rapid series of dance-like motions, executing numerous cartwheels and whirling movements.
Love triangle in an acrobatic trapeze act results in a missed catch and a death, but was it on purpose?
Considered a remake of Lumière's La Voltige from 1895.
