Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have several hits on Broadway but De Sylva's personal ambition leads to friction as the other two increasingly feel left out of things.
A documentary about Swedish Discus champion Ricky Bruch as he prepares for the 1984 Olympics. The film highlights Bruch's obsessive behavior regarding his training and preparations. Facing difficulties with the Swedish Olympic Committee, Bruch is denied the right to compete in the Olympic Games. Bent on revenge, he trains like an animal and competes in smaller competitions, ultimately throwing his career-best 71.26 meters (233 feet, 9 inches). Proving to himself and the world that he is the greatest, Ricky's throw would have won the 1984 Olympics by nearly 5 meters.
A biographical film about Victor Herman, based on the memoir of the same name.
Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.
영국의 저명한 예술비평가 존 러스킨과 그의 십대 신부 에피 그레이의 미스터리한 관계를 다룬다.
In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into the three sections: The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera. The first segment covers Fuller's past as a newsman where he began as a copy boy and ended as a reporter. Part two describes Fuller's experiences in World War II, in which he participated as a soldier. The last section focuses on Fuller as director. Tim Robbins interviews Samuel Fuller revealing the director's own memories and impressions. Beside the interview, Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino accompany the documentary with their comments.
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
A fictionalised biopic about the end of David Hockney's relationship with Peter Schlesinger which was named after Hockney's pop-art painting 'A Bigger Splash'.
This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.
Thom Andersen's remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge's photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.
프랑스의 작은 시골에서 송로버섯 농장을 운영하는 라보리. 우연한 기회에 프랑스 대통령의 개인 셰프를 제의 받고 대통령 관저인 엘리제궁에 입성하게 된다. 격식을 차린 정통요리 위주였던 엘리제궁에서 대통령이 진짜로 원하는 음식은 프랑스의 따뜻한 홈쿠킹이라는 것을 알게 된다. 그녀가 대통령의 입맛을 사로잡을수록 수십 년간 엘리제궁의 음식을 전담했던 주방장의 원성은 높아만 지고, 주변의 불편한 시선으로 인해 라보리는 대통령 개인 셰프 자리에 회의를 느끼게 되는데…
일자리를 찾던 가난한 후미코는 카페 `기린`에서 일하게 된다. 후미코는 자신이 쓴 시를 손님들에게 보여주기도 하는데, 그러던 중 한 남자가 그녀의 시를 칭찬하며 동인지의 일원이 되기를 권한다. 후미코는 그와 함께 카페를 떠나지만, 그녀의 생활은 순탄치 않다. 어느 날, 그녀의 작품 〈방랑기〉가 잡지에 실리고 후미코에게 새로운 인생이 열린다.
A young journalist interviews a man who was a torturer during the early days of the communist regime in Romania.
The life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, famous french painter, who lived, enjoyed, loved in the late 1800s Paris' Montmartre cultural life. He suffered from suffered from congenital health conditions traditionally attributed to inbreeding. His lifestyle and work are a testimony of the late-19th-century parisian bohemian lifestyle, as he was commissioned to produce a series of posters for the Moulin Rouge cabaret opening. As an alcoholic, he was addicted to absinthe. The movie related his love affair with the french painter Suzanne Valadon.
Derek Jarman's film portrait of American writer William S. Burroughs was shot in September 1982 during his first visit to England to attend the legendary Final Academy events at the South London Ritzy Cinema. These were Burroughs-themed art and performance nights curated by Psychic TV. Jarman’s film shows Burroughs on Tottenham Court Road signing autographs with fans and inside a shop buying alcohol. The industrial soundtrack by Psychic TV features a sample of Burroughs repeating "boys, school showers and swimming pools full of 'em'". Additional footage shot by Jarman during Burroughs' visit is reported to have been confiscated by Scotland Yard in 1991 and remains lost. Jarman and Psychic TV would continue to collaborate (“magic bound us together” Jarman wrote), with Jarman directing the music video for Catalan and staring as the spokesperson in the Psychic TV video A Spokesman for the Temple of Psychick Youth.
<전함 포템킨>의 성공 이후 세르게이 에이젠슈타인은 새로운 영화를 찍으러 멕시코의 과나후아토로 간다. 할리우드로부터 버림받은 그는 멕시코에서 동성애에 눈을 뜬다. 최고의 천재였던 에이젠슈타인의 한 시절을 극화한 작품.
(2015년 제16회 전주국제영화제) <멕시코의 에이젠슈타인>은 <영국식 정원 살인 사건> 등 다양한 영화로 예술성과 신선한 연출력을 인정받아 전세계적인 명성과 팬을 확보한 '피터 그리너웨이' 감독이 매가폰을 잡았다. 영화의 아버지라고 할 수 있고 특히 몽타쥬 영화의 선구자인 구 소련 감독인 '세르게이 에이젠슈타인'이 스탈린의 박해를 피해 멕시코에서 영화촬영을 하던 시기를 상상력을 더해서 각색된 작품이다. '에이젠슈타인' 감독은 소련을 떠나 미국 할리우드로 건너갔지만 미국에서조차 탄압을 받게되자 영화촬영을 하기 위해 멕시코로 건너간다. 하지만 그는 뜻하지 않게 멕시코 현지 가이드를 통해 자신의 성정체성을 재발견하게 되는데..
(2015년 제15회 서울프라이드영화제)
서울 종로구 낙원동에 주말 밤이 찾아오면 새로운 주인들이 하나 둘씩 골목을 채우기 시작한다. 남자를 사랑하는 남자들이 삼삼오오 모여 앉아 술 한 잔 기울이며 고단한 삶을 위로하며, 친구를 만나고, 사랑을 찾는 그 곳. 낙원동은 언제부터인가 게이 남성들을 위한 작은 '낙원'이 되었다.
During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a young girl named Dorothy Quick.
Adapted from a book by Robert Lacey, this biographical film chronicles both the private and public life of automobile manufacturer Henry Ford (Cliff Robertson).
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
