Manfred Blank

Short documentary vignettes and interviews revolving around cinephile life in Paris.

Karl Rossmann, un joven burgués alemán de 17 años, es enviado a los Estados Unidos para evitar un escándalo familiar... Adaptación de la novela inacabada "Amerika", de Franz Kafka.

Karl Rossmann, un joven burgués alemán de 17 años, es enviado a los Estados Unidos para evitar un escándalo familiar... Adaptación de la novela inacabada "Amerika", de Franz Kafka.

A woman meanders through the streets of Istanbul five years after the military coup. Something is amiss, and the air is filled with a strangeness that seems to plague everyone. Friendship, conversation, boredom, wonder and hopelessness lead the woman to head to the island in the hope of change. What is left after all these?

Filmmaker Manfred Blank (director of the excellent Pharos of Chaos) interviews Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub at some length about their then-current production, Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations), in which he, himself, performed as an actor.

This film is at once a self-portrait and an homage to Jean-Marie Straub, Farocki's role model and former teacher at the Film Academy.

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hollywood star, icon of film noir and the western, who was also a marine, an OSS agent, an anti-communist informer, a writer and a wandering sailor: the hero of his own life.

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hollywood star, icon of film noir and the western, who was also a marine, an OSS agent, an anti-communist informer, a writer and a wandering sailor: the hero of his own life.

A superb, moving and thrilling interview with American actor Sterling Hayden (1916-86), held in Besançon, France, on board a dilapidated barge, when he was 65 years old. An unparalleled portrait, in his own words and without any qualms, of a legendary Hollywood star, icon of film noir and the western, who was also a marine, an OSS agent, an anti-communist informer, a writer and a wandering sailor: the hero of his own life.

Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant struggle and liberation from Western colonization, and link it to class tensions in France shortly before the Revolution of 1789, quoting texts by Engels as well as the pioneering nonfiction film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).

The child Ernesto doesn't want to go to school any more because, as he says, all he is taught there is things he doesn't know.

Kidlat Tahimik se asocia con un grupo de niños en una granja bávara para construir un cohete espacial. El objetivo es ir a la luna para comprobar si es posible jugar al yoyó en su superficie. Como señalan algunos diccionarios, el yoyó es precisamente un invento filipino. Es así como la granja alemana se convierte en la base del primer Proyecto Oficial Filipino Lunar o P.O.M.P (siglas de Philippine Official Moon Project).

Basado en el poema "Una tirada de dados jamás abolirá el azar", escrito por Stéphane Mallarmé en 1897. Fue rodado en el cementerio Père Lachaise de París en mayo de 1977. (FILMAFFINITY)