Those Wonderful Movie Cranks (1979)

The evolution of the zombie from its roots in Haitian voodoo to its coveted role as the world's most popular monster: from being a clumsy corpse to becoming a cannibal killer and the main agent of every infectious pandemic, the zombie has come a long way in seventy years. A look at the rising tide of zombie culture examining why something so dead has so much life in viewers' nightmares and at the box office.

What is the state of cinema and what being a filmmaker means? What are the measures taken to protect authors' copyright? What is their legal status in different countries? (Sequel to “Filmmakers vs. Tycoons.”)

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art. (Abridged version of the original collection of eight short films).

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.

998년에 총 4부 8편(각 장은 A와 B, 두 편씩으로 구성되어 있다)이 완성된 의 출발점은 대략 1978년 몬트리올에서 고다르가 한 연속 강의에까지 거슬러 올라간다. 이 강의 중 일부를 수록한 책 >에서 고다르는 ‘참된’ 영화의 역사란 일러스트레이션이 삽입된 텍스트들이 아니라 이미지와 사운드들로 이루어져야 한다고 썼다. 는 고다르가 자신의 이런 생각에 따라 실제 영화 속 이미지와 사운드의 조각들을 몽타주해 서술한 고다르판 영화의 역사이다. 고다르가 쓴 이 영화의 역사는 우리가 보통의 영화사 서적들에서 볼 수 있는 것과 같은 연대기적인 역사의 기록은 아니다. 오히려 그는 자신이 고고학적이거나 생물학적이라고 부르는 방식을 통해 20세기의 영화에 대한 단선적인 역사가 아닌 복수의 역사를 이야기한다. 미국의 저명한 영화 평론가 조나단 로젠봄은 프로젝트의 원대함이란 측면에서 고다르의 를 제임스 조이스의 에 비견할 만한 것이라고 말한다. 고다르의 이 프로젝트는, 거의 17년의 집필 기간을 소요한 조이스의 작품에 맞먹을 에너지를 들여 만들어진 것이기도 하지만 무엇보다도 영화를 통해 지각되는 20세기를 다룬다는 점에서도 언어를 통해 이해되는 인류의 역사에 관심을 갖는 조이스의 작품에 견줄 수 있다는 것이다. 고다르가 써낸 이 영화의 역사가, 후에 20세기 영화사를 돌이켜볼 때 그 역사를 통틀어 최고의 사건 가운데 하나로 꼽힐 것임은 분명한 일이다.

역사를 표현하는 영화의 힘과 더불어 성과 죽음의 이미지를 그린다.

Actor Sam Neill discusses New Zealand film and his own experiences within and without.

An account of the extraordinary life of film pioneer Georges Méliès (1861-1938) and the amazing story of the copy in color of his masterpiece “A Trip to the Moon” (1902), unexpectedly found in Spain and restored thanks to the heroic efforts of a group of true cinema lovers.

Actor Ned Beatty hosts a look at the genre known as "exploitation" films. Interviews with some of the producers and directors of these films are shown, along with scenes from and trailers for some of these films.

An account of the life and work of legendary Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune (1920-97), the most prominent actor of the Golden Age of Japanese cinema.

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 documentary about film producer Hal Roach.

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century. In 1903, the brothers entered the budding motion picture business. In time, the Warner Brothers moved into film production and would open their own studio in 1923.

A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a young Swedish woman who became one of the most celebrated actresses in world cinema.

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).

A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot.

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.

This glasnost-era documentary, which incorporates footage from films from the 1920s through the 1980s, looks at the history of women in Russian cinema through the eyes of Russian women directors, actors, and scriptwriters. The film’s title refers to a WWII slogan about women doing the work of absent men in the fields and at home. Featuring Kira Muratova, Natalia Ryazantseva, Inna Churikova, Nonna Mordyukova, and others.

An expansive research project that takes us in a flashback to the reconstruction of a lost film production in Manchuria, the doomed epic entitled The Lost Tribes. (M HKA)