Lazybones (1925)

En Irlanda, un hombre del IRA traiciona a un asesino a la policía, pensando que es amante de su amante.

Singer-songwriter Slink Moss plays the mysterious driver of a Cadillac hearse who journeys across America to pick up and drop off a hitchhiker to his (final?) destination. The nearly-wordless film stylishly re-imagines the open road as a state of Limbo.

The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her journey to England. Stewart is pursued by his nemesis Rex Goodyear (John Hurt), and the group are supported by Dr Angela Bead (Vanessa Redgrave) and Miss Gwendolyn Quim (Dorothy Tutin), retired missionaries who become lovers during the voyage.

Florencia, una joven de 17 años, se tiene que hacer cargo de su hermano que está en estado vegetativo. ​Su ​madre​,​ internada en un hospital, la ayuda con un dinero que apenas les alcanza para vivir. Fan de los cómics y el anime​, descubre casualmente​ en un trastero un comic antiguo llamado “Las Plantas”, que narra una invasión de espíritus vegetales con poderes para poseer cuerpos humanos. Prácticamente sola, con la "compañía" de su hermano, Florencia trata de calmar su desamparo explorando su sexualidad con desconocidos a través de Internet.

An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.

This is a brief bio of the life of Tati through his works. Begins with his silent period, then feature films, and shows many examples from the short films on this disc. For someone with such a limited output of work, his reach and genius was limitless.

Produced by MGM in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, this short film follows U.S. naval aviators through their basic training in Florida and advanced training in California.

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.

Stéphane Mallarmé is one of the many educational documentaries that Éric Rohmer did for the television during the 1960’s. At the beginning of the film, Rohmer states that he has placed in Mallarmé’s mouth words taken from an interview with the writer by Jules Heuret published in 1891.

Films documenting African-American life in Oklahoma during the mid-1920s.

Carlos y su novia Carmen son una pareja feliz y divertida; sin embargo, su amigo León y su novia Luisa son todo lo contrario; así que Carlos recomienda a León que visite al misterioso Kamus —una suerte de artista, borracho y filósofo—, esperando que él pueda liberarle de su deprimente y contagioso pesimismo existencial…

A short piece in which Agnes Varda revisits actress Marthe Jarnias, who plays the old aunt in her 1985 film "Vagabond".

Lindsay Anderson's first feature, a documentary about the origin and processes of the Richard Sutcliffe Limited underground-conveyor company.

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that his Tramp character would not be heard. City Lights would not be a talking picture, but it would have a soundtrack. Chaplin personally composed a musical score and sound effects for the picture. With Peter Lord, the famous co-creator of Chicken Run and Wallace & Gromit, we see how Chaplin became the king of slapstick comedy and the superstar of the movies.

This eleven-minute documentary from 1965 follows the daily lives of pigs on a farm.

Hyman Goldberger, presidente del estudio de cine Super-Colossal Pictures, está en problemas: su principal patrocinador amenaza con dejar de financiar sus películas. Encuentra un grupo de seis personas adineradas que pueden querer convertirse en inversores en el estudio si su partidario descontento se retira. Desafortunadamente, su torpe corredor Albert elige ese día para invitar a seis de sus amigos músicos callejeros a participar en la película que se está filmando actualmente en el estudio, y Hyman los confunde con los posibles inversores. Sobrevienen complicaciones.

An early Bill Morrison short, in this work he traverses an urban landscape utilizing high contrast black and white footage. The bustling nature of the setting is complimented by the energetic music by Michael Gordon.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings

Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles on Chiloé, the second largest island off the coast of Chile. He does auditions, but mainly listens patiently to the stories of young and old people. As an outsider, he cautiously searches for the soul of the community and its underlying tensions.