Walter Lassally

A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the characters as well as what they bring and take from them. We also get footage from the filming of the movie where we get to see how the actors and director work together to try and build up the scenes.

Han pasado dos décadas desde que se encontraron por primera vez en un tren en Vienna ('Antes del amanecer' (1995)), y más tarde en París ('Antes del atardecer' (2004)). Ahora es el turno de Grecia, páis en el que Celine y Jesse se encuentran de visita. La tercera entrega de la trilogía, retomando las vidas delos protagonistas, nueve años después de su segundo encuentro romántico y el misterio sobre cómo concluyó.

Being brought up by deaf parents did not hinder director Malcolm Venville. Instead, it opened his eyes to a whole new world of vivid images. Silent Film is an 11-minute film documenting his parents' romance.

Set in the period between the two world wars in a seaside village in the bay of Amvrakikos. Two children, Petros (8 years old) and Anthoula (7 years old) spend their summer holidays. During a walk they discover in an isolated shack a boy who lives with his mother. He is rejected by the community because of tuberculosis. Petros and Anthoula become friends with the boy. They encounter the cruelty of the adults and they decide to resist.

Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.

A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.

India, 1825: el país vive con un miedo mortal a miembros de culto conocidos como los "Engañadores". Cometen robos y asesinatos rituales. Horrorizado por sus actividades, un militar inglés, el capitán William Savage, concibe una peligrosa trama para detenerlos. disfrazado, planea convertirse en un "Engañador" e infiltrarse entre sus filas. Siempre presente en las aventuras de Savage hay un sentimiento de temor, él está en constante temor a la traición y la venganza y también sufre una transformación psicológica inquietante al experimentar la sed de sangre de la secta de primera mano.

Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been employed with the Bombay Police for many years. He is assigned to investigate the deadly assault on a Parsi man named Perfect, who is the Secretary of Lala Heera Lal, a wealthy man with underworld links. Inspector Ghote commences his investigation and is displeased when his superiors ask him to work with a Swedish Forensic Expert by the name of Axel Svennson.

Married film director has affair with leading lady.

La señora Delafield (Katherine Hepburn), una viuda acomodada, sobresalta a su familia cuando les anuncia que se ha enamorado de su médico, que es judío. La pareja tendrá que luchar no sólo contra los prejuicios de sus respectivas familias, sino también con los de sus intolerantes vecinos.

Adventurous Huck Finn prefers rafting on the Mississippi River rather than being a part of civilization.

A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to offer the down-and-out clients she serves at the homeless shelter. Soon, however, Carrie realizes that she's the one who has much to learn.

For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In "Children in the Crossfire" four children from both sides of the conflict come to America through a special project, and discover each other away from the ravages of their homeland.

30 minutes of footage left after the finances collapsed.

A bored lawyer and a suffragette vie for the attention of a faith healer's charismatic daughter.

Un instituto de chicas justo enfrente de un instituto de chicos. En medio, sólo una estrecha calle que los separa. Christine está locamente enamorada de Jim, un apuesto y atlético chico, con el que pretende fugarse en busca de una aventura amorosa de locura. Sin embargo, su archienemiga Jordan también lo desea, y hará todo lo que pueda para conseguirlo, cueste lo que cueste.

Anne está buscando información sobre Olivia, la hermana de su abuela. En los años 20, Olivia se había ido a la India para buscar a su marido, que trabajaba allí como funcionario del gobierno británico. Anne dispone de las cartas que envió Olivia y, además, del testimonio de un gran amigo.

Versión cinematográfica del libro con el mismo titulo de Mark Twain. El aprendiz de un joven impresor se imagina a sí mismo en los días de Guttenberg, ayudándole a imprimir la Biblia. Lo siguiente que sabe es que evocó un espíritu joven del futuro que lanza hechizos sobre impresoras en huelga y causa travesuras generales.

A jaded soldier-of-fortune who runs a bar in Zimbabwe aids a bank-robbing couple in their attempt to evade the authorities.

En un futuro próximo, la sociedad cede al peor de los caos a consecuencia de la bancarrota económica mundial. Los recursos básicos escasean, y se impone la ley del más fuerte. Salvo las fuerzas manipuladoras habituales y una administración agónica, no queda apenas ningún rastro del Estado. Reina la impunidad absoluta. En este contexto repleto de desechos, ratas y miseria, una mujer dada a la ensoñación escapista se hace cargo de una joven. Juntas deberán aprender a sobrevivir.

El joven y carismático Werner Gladow aprovecha su precaria situación tras la II Guerra Mundial para formar una banda criminal, y tratar de hacerse con el control del Berlin subterráneo.

La historia de Mark Twain sobre unos cobardes soldados confederados.

Un piloto de aviación tiene problemas con el alcohol, que intenta superar con la ayuda de una compañera.

Hussain, el hijo menor de una familia paquistaní, se encuentra con un adivino que predice su destino, liberar a los pobres y los oprimidos de un gobierno tiránico.

Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.

German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph (Martin West), a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun (this is the U.S.) and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company's history.

Durante una gira por los Estados Unidos, y en representación de la compañía de películas Continental, Jean Fidel Mileau se detiene en una pequeña población donde se encuentra el mánager de teatro Harris Sloan. Estos dos hombres sólo tienen una cosa en común: sus problemas con las mujeres. Jean Fidel los tendrá con su mujer cuando regrese a Francia. Harris con su novia, la periodista Madeleine Ross. Harris quiere casarse, pero Madeleine no quiere, ya que se está recuperando de una larga y dolorosa relación anterior a Harris... (FILMAFFINITY)

Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.

A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husband plants listening devices around their apartment and eventually drives the heretofore innocent woman into the arms of one of his co-workers.

When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves.

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away from the royal couple—nicknamed Georgie and Bonnie as children by their Scottish governess—they must also divine the true motives of the Indian curator of the collection (Saeed Jaffrey), who, in league with the Maharaja’s beautiful sister (Aparna Sen), may be working against them. Amidst the backdrop of lavish tourist entertainments, Christmas parties, fireworks, and even an English ghost, a desperate game of palace intrigue will determine the ultimate resting place of the priceless paintings.

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed him as a youngster - Robert Flaherty's famous documentary "Man of Aran" released in 1934.

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.

The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites. Their Austrian neighbors despise the Yugoslav guest workers. Because the mother has to look after the sick grandmother at home in Croatia, Ivo runs the male household in Vienna alone. Solitude and insults from the locals make the child unhappy. And so Ivo decides on a rainy winter's day to return to his home village on his own.

On the birthday of her late father, a deposed Maharaja, a displaced Indian princess living in London and his former private secretary watch home movies and reminisce about royal India.

Hollywood, 1929. Jolly Grimm (James Coco), un veterano actor cómico se resiste a aceptar su decadencia. Ha hecho una nueva película, pero sabe que el cine mudo ya no atrae al público. Sin embargo, con el fin de promocionarla, decide organizar una fiesta a la que invita a personalidades que podrían prestarle su apoyo. Para que la fiesta sea un éxito, cuenta con la colaboración de la bella Queenie (Raquel Welch), una actriz que, a pesar de todo, sigue junto a él.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating how the particular characteristics of friction are used on a new braking system to give greater control and greater safety when driving.

Ocho prestigiosos directores de todo el mundo dieron su visión de las Olimpiadas en este film de episodios repleto de hallazgos visuales: Milos Forman, Claude Lelouch, Arthur Penn, John Schlesinger, Kon Ichikawa, Mai Zetterling, Yuri Ozerov y Michel Pfleghar.

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as fertilizer. A cocky young neighboring boy decides to help her with the work.

An adopted teen who runs away to what he believes to be his birth town and mother, in the hopes of putting together the missing pieces of his sense of identity. He arrives during a wave of disappearances and murders, only to encounter New England aloofness and some very eccentric relatives.

Young Socialists from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea march to London and discuss their economic struggles en route. Supporting them are Ken Loach, Corin Redgrave, Arnold Wesker and other leading cultural figures of the left of British politics. The march is intercut with scenes dramatising parallel injustices in the English Civil War era and earlier - featuring Frances de la Tour in queenly mode as Elizabeth I. The film's unconventional structure also features frequent extracts of the rousing pop concert, with the band Slade, which culminated the epic march.

A young hippie couple rent a secluded cabin on the beach in an attempt to re-connect with each other and save their marriage. Unfortunately, the man they rented the cabin from is a military-brat sociopath with two dogs more vicious than his temper.

Una tribu de primitivos "hombres del barro" encuantran una pelota de croquet, rodando a través de su bosque. Tras ella, encuentran una gran propiedad abandonada en Long Island. Al entrar, comienzan a civilizarse y asumir los roles estereotipados y la vestimenta de la gente en una fiesta de fin de semana. A continuación se presenta una alegoría de la clase alta de la conducta. Por fin, empiezan a devolver a su estado original, y después de una batalla en el croquet, que desaparecen en el bosque.

Un joven seductor de 20 años, de pasado misterioso se traza un increíble plan para introducirse en la familia de la condesa Ornstein; seduce a los miembros de la aristocrática familia, enamora a la condesa, asesina sin escrúpulos cuando eso conviene a sus ambiciosos planes, traza los más descabellados proyectos corrompiendo todo lo que toca; pero nadie puede resistirse a su seductora presencia, a su exultante belleza y juventud, a su inmoral poder...

Scott Wardman, un escritor norteamericano de novelas pornográficas que reside en Londres, se enamora apasionadamente de una joven de dieciseis años con la que acaba contrayendo matrimonio. Tras la boda, se trasladan a Estados Unidos, donde empezarán a surgir problemas entre ellos.

An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs.

When 17 year old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colourful characters, discovers the pleasures of casual sex and falls in love. That's when things get complicated.

This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.

An American secret service agent goes to Greece to investigate a stolen hydrogen bomb. It's connected to an antique coin that belonged to his brother...another agent. Now he's tasked with taking his brother out!

La vida en una alejada isla griega cambia para siempre cuando dos cargas atómicas caen accidentalmente de un avión de la OTAN. El gobierno trata de recuperar su carga, sin causar alarma, por lo que envía agentes disfrazados de inversionistas en la búsqueda de un lugar para construir un resort. Unos lugareños encuentran una de las bombas y creyendo que oculta un tesoro, despliegan todo su ingenio para tratar de abrirla. Mientras tanto, los veraneantes, ignorantes del peligro se dedican a bailar y divertirse al ritmo de una música frenética. Para no despertar sospechas, los agentes del gobierno también organizan su propia fiesta. En la playa empiezan a aparecer peces muertos.

Thirty-year-old lower middle class Dimitris, faint-hearted and not particularly ambitious, is ready to jump at the opportunity that will get him handsomely provided. He wavers between yesterday, the German occupation nightmare and his love debut with a neighbour and contemporary, fluid reality. He meets Thaleia, a rich woman his age, who frequents the same night club as him, but his daily routine is invariably the same. The closure of the small industry in Drapetsona, where he used to work for the last 8 years, and his relationship with Maria confront him with a different reality. Maria is a progressive, evening school teacher, full of dreams.

"Labyrinth" is a groundbreaking multi-screen 45-minute presentation produced for Chamber III of the Labyrinth at Expo 67 in Montreal, using 35 mm and 70 mm film projected simultaneously on multiple screens. A film without commentary in which multiple images, sometimes complementary, sometimes contrasting, draw the viewer through the different stages of a labyrinth. The tone of the film moves from great joy to wrenching sorrow; from stark simplicity to ceremonial pomp. It is life as it is lived by the people of the world, each one, as the film suggests, in a personal labyrinth. Re-released in 1979 as "In the Labyrinth" by the National Film Board of Canada in a 21-minute single projection format.

Un convencional escritor inglés, de viaje en Creta por un asunto de herencias, ve como su vida cambia para siempre cuando conoce a Zorba Alexis, un hombre sencillo.

An industrialist's wife tries to remember the shocking sight that made her blind.

A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventu­ally replaced by a very different type of passion.

Basada en la novela homónima del escritor inglés Henry Fielding. Hijo ilegítimo de una pobre mujer que se vio obligada a abandonarlo poco después de nacer, Tom Jones (Albert Finney) fue adoptado y educado por el bondadoso señor Allworthy, en cuya casa creció feliz y despreocupadamente junto a Blifil, el sobrino de su protector. Con el tiempo, ambos se enamoraron de su encantadora vecina Sophie Western (Susannah York). Dominado por los celos, Blifil, el único heredero de la hacienda familiar, decidió expulsar a Tom de la casa.

Colin Smith es un joven de clase obrera que vive en los alrededores de Nottingham. Un día comete un robo en una panadería y es enviado a un reformatorio. Una vez allí, empieza a correr y, gracias a sus cualidades como corredor de fondo, va ganando puestos en la institución penitenciaria. Durante sus entrenamientos reflexiona sobre su vida anterior y empieza a comprender que se encuentra en una situación privilegiada.

Adaptación de la tragedia griega "Electra" de Eurípides. Tras una victoriosa campaña en la guerra de Troya regresa a Argos el rey Agamenón. Durante su ausencia su esposa Clitemnestra, madre de Electra y Orestes, se ha enamorado del cruel Egisto, conviertiéndole en su amante, y entre ambos preparan el asesinato del noble monarca...

A rich girl leaves her family to avoid marrying the person her father has chosen for her. Her father offers a reward in order to find her and an other girl that looks exactly like her is brought to him.

Una chica de 17 años vive en un barrio obrero inglés con su madre, una mujer alcohólica y promiscua que la ignora por completo. Un día, tras la marcha de la madre con un nuevo novio, se hace amiga de un joven homosexual, que está dispuesto a cuidarla a ella y a su futuro hijo, pues la chica se ha quedado embarazada después de una aventura esporádica con un marinero.

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at apartheid in South Africa and the Sharpville massacre.

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when she comes accross the ship's captain; her father!

Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.

When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.

The lives of two male Greek teens and the young daughter of the British Ambassador in Greece are turned upside down when the best friend of a teenage gang leader dies. Meanwhile, a love triangle is developed between the three characters.

A look at the daily lives of fishermen in East Bengal.

Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.

Short drama-documentary showing the first day in England of a Hungarian refugee.

An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

Hloi Pella es la hermosa hija de un distinguido empresario de Atenas, quien está al borde de la quiebra. La familia, orgullosa de su privilegiada posición social, sólo tiene una esperanza; que Hloi acepte la propuesta de matrimonio de un millonario grecoamericano, el problema es que ella está enamorada de otro hombre...

Every Day Except Christmas is a 37-minute documentary film filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, then located in the Covent Garden area of East central London. It was directed by Lindsay Anderson and produced by Karel Reisz and Leon Clore under the sponsorship of Ford of Britain, the first of the company's "Look At Britain" series.

Against the backdrop of a cloudless summer, love's unforeseen complications will entwine an Athenian writer, a morosely beautiful daughter, and a scorned local suitor. And then, calamity strikes. Can love redeem the sad girl in black?

The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship.

A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema'.

Two farming brothers take a chance on a sick cow and send cattle that have been in contact with it to market.

Promotional film for the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).

The British Passing Stranger stars Hollywood actor Lee Patterson as a deserting American GI. He drifts about until he falls in with a gang of gunrunners. He wants to quit, but can't until he makes enough money to support himself and his love Diane Cilento. Just before this is possible, Cilento's ex-boyfriend blows the whistle on the crooks. Just long enough not to wear out its welcome, The Passing Stranger is a passing good little film noir.

A montage of scenes from East End life set to a soundtrack of music hall songs with appropriate lyrics.

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children.

Story of Simon, the odd boy out and how he is thwarted in his attempts to be one of "the gang".

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

People quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move."

London families spend a day at Southend-on-Sea.

Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing.

Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.

Four examples of the kind of carelessness that leads to fires in this country frequently.

Harry Fabian trabaja a comisión como gancho de un club, pero es ambicioso y sueña con hacerse independiente. Para conseguirlo no dudará en embaucar al campeón del mundo de lucha greco-romana para que se enfrente a su hijo Kristo, que controla la lucha en Londres.

Elizabeth Sussex's exquisite documentary about a rural Scottish school, edited by Gladwell.

"Professor Marian died under mysterious circumstances."