격동의 시대에 펼쳐진 인간관계에 관한 감동적인 드라마
펄은 몸이 불편한 아버지를 모시며 어머니와 함께 농장 일을 하며 살고 있다. 하지만 그녀에게 강한 꿈이 있었으니 바로 무용단의 댄서가 되는 것. 전장으로 자원 입대를 한 남편 하워드를 그리워 하는 펄에게 우연히 극장에서 만난 남자가 추파를 던지며 자신과 함께 유럽으로 갈 것을 제안한다. 내적 갈등에 혼란스러워 하는 펄, 게다가 어머니의 강압적인 행동으로 불화도 점점 커지게 된다. 새장에 갇혀 있는 새처럼 살아가는 펄에게 하나의 사건이 발생하게 되고, 마침내 그녀는 이성을 잃게 되는데...
낡고 오래된 복화극장은 내일이면 문을 닫을 예정이며, 그 마지막 상영작으로 호금전 감독의 <용문객잔>을 상영하고 있다. 쏟아지는 폭우를 뚫고 극장에 모인 관객 중에는 동성애 파트너를 찾는 젊은 일본 남자, 야한 옷차림으로 연신 피스타치오를 까먹는 젊은 여자, 그리고 손자의 손을 잡고 온 노인 마오티엔이 있다. <용문객잔>은 이 노인의 배우 데뷔작이었지만 극장의 다른 이들은 그 사정을 알 리 없다. 사람인지 유령인지 알 수 없는 이들이 객석과 복도, 화장실을 떠도는 가운데 그 동안 이 극장을 지켜온 두 사람, 다리를 저는 여자 매표원과 젊은 영사기사 역시 마지막까지 서로를 스쳐갈 뿐이다.
After much hard work, a pathologist discovers and captures a creature that lives in every vertebrate and grows when fear grips its host. "Scream for your lives!"
1960년대 컬트 호러무비 '다크 베니스'를 제작,감독,주연했던 '테드 래드포드'
그는 그가 맡았던 살인마 역할에 너무 심취했던 탓에 현실과 영화를 혼동하여
지난 40여년간 정신병원에 갇혀 지내오게 되었는데....
그러던 어느날, 그는 병원에서 자신의 영화를 보던 중 병원안을 초토화시켜놓은 채 그 길로 행방불명 되고 만다.
그로부터 5년 후, 마침 어느 작은 시골 극장에서 래드포드가 제작했던 '다크 베니스'가 심야 상영되면서 5년 전에 있었던 병원에서의 대학살극이 다시 한 번 재현되기 시작하는데...
Three young movie theater employees are given the task of re-opening a long-closed, old-time theater at which, many years before, a shocking series of grisly murders took place. It seems many more murders have occurred since then but all of this remains unknown to these three young upstart employees hoping to finally make it big on their own. As they approach the grand re-opening night, things keep getting stranger and more unsettling with items suddenly starting to move around by themselves without any seen aid and a terrifying old man seemingly haunting the premises.
Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny all the way from the woods to a local movie theater, where cinema-related hijinks ensue.
A shy movie fan must overcome his confidence issues when he and his crush, the theater concession stand girl, are pulled into a 1930s adventure film by its fiery heroine.
It's the last night at the closing Royal Alamo Cineplex and two slacker employees work the concessions stand, arguing about life and movies while contemplating their futures.
Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is a documentary about the history, the development in the present days and the future of movie theaters in the city of Turin, Italy. It mixes the documentary language with comedy and fiction, and is enriched by interviews to some of the most important voices of Turin cinematography. The film follows the evolution of movie theaters by enlightening its main milestones: the pre-cinema experiences in the late 19th Century, the colossals and the movie cathedrals of the silent era, the arthouse theaters, the National Museum of Cinema, the Torino Film Festival, the movie theaters system today and the main hypothesis about its future. The mission of Handbook of Movie Theaters' History is to explore and give back to the audience a deep reflection about the identity and the value of movie theater, in its social and anthropological role and as a mass media, and to analyze the experience of the viewer.
Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected by her star status.
Young Homer and his best friend Freddie are fans of "The Super-Duper", a superhero in comics and movies. They learn that sometimes The Super-Duper needs help too. Based on a short story from the book, "Homer Price".
For two decades, Cine Marrocos, a movie theatre in the heart of São Paulo, was one of the most popular and opulent of the city. After it was closed, in 1972, it was occupied by a homeless workers' movement. The documentary tells the story of the people who lived there, alternating scenes from an acting class with those of the movies exhibited there in the past.
A 122 year old movie theater is going to be closed.
The staff members, visitors and friends of the old cinema will see the last days of the building and it's history. Then the appearance of a mysterious old man triggers confusion.
An avid moviegoer sees several films depicting grisly murderers and decides to commit a crime himself, only to discover that there's quite a difference between fantasy and reality.
Alone at a matinee together, with a big, mouthwatering bucket of popcorn.
Filmed in the supposed-waning hours of the movie theater industry, our fearlessly fearful hero wanders around his own theater, reminiscing on times long gone, amidst a future unsure.
Spring 2021. A cinephile invites you on an intimate trip through the last surviving cinema houses in Latvia. This documentary essay, shot on super 8mm, opens the locked doors to picture houses during a Covid-19 lockdown, perhaps the most difficult time in the history of physical cinema space.
