Ian Christie

Director Stephen Frears, film historian Ian Christie, and author and British film historian Richard Dacre discuss the unique qualities of The Man in the White Suit as well as the legacy of its director, Alexander Mackendrick.

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved, revealing it to be far richer than previously acknowledged. This documentary, featuring clips from a remarkable range of films, celebrates the early years of British filmmaking and spans from such pioneers as George Albert Smith and Cecil Hepworth to such later figures as Anthony Asquith, Maurice Elvey and, of course, Alfred Hitchcock.

A series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom (1960). It includes a rare interview with Karlheinz Böhm talking about his role and its subsequent effect on him.

19世紀の欧州。バチカンの密命を帯びて魔物と戦うモンスター・ハンター、ヘルシングは、吸血鬼ドラキュラを倒すという任務を帯びて相棒の僧侶カールとトランシルバニアに乗り込む。彼らはそこで女吸血鬼《ドラキュラの花嫁》たちに襲撃されて逃げ惑う群集に遭遇。2人は怪物との戦いの中で、ただひとり毅然と戦う女性・アナと知り合う。彼女こそは代々ドラキュラと戦い続けるヴァレリアス一族の王女だが、ある事情を抱えていた。

遺伝子工学者ブルース・バナーは、実験装置の事故で大量のガンマ線を浴びてしまう。命に別状はなかったが、以来、彼は何度も強い怒りに我を忘れそうになり、ついにその怒りがピークに達した時、彼は怪力を持つ巨人ハルクに変貌する。その後もブルースは何度もハルクに変身するが、我に返ると自分が引き起こした惨事に苦悩する。実は元をたどれば同じく遺伝子工学者だった彼の父デヴィッド・バナー博士の研究に端を発していた。

5年前、相棒のKとともに地球の危機を救ったJは、いまやMIBのエリート捜査官。日常業務を淡々とこなす平穏な毎日を送っていた。しかし、そんな彼の前に新たな敵が出現した。地球上では下着のモデルとして活躍している超セクシー宇宙人のサーリーナに、なんとMIB本部が占拠されてしまう。一人助かったJが頼れるのは、現在は引退している元相棒のKだけ。ところが、郵便局員となったKは完全に平和ボケ状態。しかもエージェント時代の記憶をきれいに消されていた。果たして、Kは記憶を取り戻し、敏腕エージェントとしてJとともに地球を救うことができるのか？

Documentary about the making of Powell and Pressburger's 1947 film "Black Narcissus."

A documentary on "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp."

Nancy Franklin was so overwhelmed by the film 'I Know Where I'm Going!' (1945) that she traveled from New York to the Western Isles of Scotland to see the places where it was made and to find out more about the people who made it. This documentary retraces her steps on a subsequent visit.