Painting with Light (2000)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 27M
Director : Craig McCall
Sinopsis
An examination of the great advances in cinematography achieved by Jack Cardiff.
De la miseria al éxito, esta es la historia de Danny, un gato lleno de talento cuyo sueño en la vida es llegar a ser una estrella del espectáculo, y que ve como su meta se aleja al descubrir que sólo los humanos consiguen buenos papeles en Hollywood. En la gran pantalla, los animales ladran, maúllan o mugen, pero los gatos no bailan. Con la ayuda de su nuevo amiga, la hilarante hipopótamo Tillie, la encantadora pero cínica gatita, Sawyer y el adorable pingüino Pudge, Danny jura romper todas las barreras animales y prueba que los sueños pueden hacerse realidad.
Uno de mis más preciados elementos patrimoniales -al menos en términos de valor sentimental- es un VHS original de “La Señora Doubtfire”. Sí, puede que debiera visitar a un psicoanalista, o tomarme unas prolongadas vacaciones. Pero el caso es que si hacemos caso al proverbio “mal de muchos, consuelo de tontos”, el tonto que les habla ha encontrado en “Rewind This!”, un redentor oasis documental. Con constantes referencias visuales al VHS, “Rewind This!” es un exhaustivo, instructivo, nostálgico y divertido repaso a la historia del vídeo. Y a la influencia que éste tuvo sobre el proceso productivo cinematográfico. Lástima que su ritmo narrativo -demasiado vivaz-, dificulte la absorción de buena parte de la información transmitida.
A través de una televisión de 40 cm, en compañía de sus padres, abuelos y vecinos del edificio siciliano de Elizabeth Street (en el Little Italy de Nueva York), el pequeño Martin Scorsese descubre el cine italiano. La mayoría de las películas se encontraban en mal estado, había sido reeditadas con cortes de publicidad. Sin embargo, supusieron el primer contacto con sus orígenes: la región de Sicilia, de donde emigraron sus abuelos en 1909. Documental dirigido y narrado por Scorsese que lleva al espectador a realizar un viaje fascinante a través del cine italiano, desde el neorrealismo de la postguerra italiana hasta las obras maestras de autores como Fellini, estableciendo relaciones e influencias con otras cinematografías.
A finales de los años ochenta, en la Rumanía de Ceausescu, un contrabandista de VHS y una valiente traductora llevaron la magia del cine occidental al pueblo rumano y sembraron la semilla de una revolución.
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Australian-born filmmaker George Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories: songs of the land; the bushman; the convicts; the bush-rangers; mates and larrikins; the digger; pommy bashing; the sheilas; gays; the wogs; blackfellas; and urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia."
After completing a 6 year conviction, Erick Montalvo gets rehabilitated into society and decides to start a family with his wife Michelle. Among many situations and economic problems, their lives become unbearable. Their child, born prematurely and with several conditions, requires a surgery costing more than $120,000. Out of desperation, Erick loses control and decides to do one last job that takes him “back to the beginning”.
El director del documental interrumpe los rodajes de 5 películas que se realizan en Chile en 1984, para preguntar a cada director cuál es el sentido de lo que están haciendo, en un tiempo en que hacer cine en Chile está casi prohibido.
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