Bert Rigby, You're a Fool (1989)
He's a singer! He's a dancer! He's a coal-miner! And when Hollywood called, it was the answer to his dreams. So why is everyone saying...
Gênero : Comédia
Runtime : 1H 34M
Director : Carl Reiner
Sinopse
A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.
Um músico ajuda uma jovem cantora a encontrar fama quando a idade e o alcoolismo enviam sua própria carreira para uma espiral descendente.
Lucille Ball e Desi Arnaz se casaram em 1940 e viram sua fama decolar após estrearem uma das mais memoráveis sitcoms americanas chamada "I Love Lucy". Entretanto, quando tudo parecia estar indo bem, os dois são envolvidos em uma trama de acusações chocantes que ameaçam sua vida pessoal e profissional. Ao longo da semana mais tensa de gravações, o relacionamento complexo dos dois será posto à prova, enquanto algumas verdades vêm à tona.
O documentário narra a trajetória dos primos israelenses Menahem Golan e Yoram Globus, cinéfilos e donos da Cannon Films, que durante os anos 1980 foi a mais poderosa companhia independente de Hollywood e responsável por alguns dos maiores absurdos cinematográficos já cometidos durante aquele período, além de mostrar a sua ascensão e queda.
Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has spanned almost 200 films across six decades, featuring a diverse range of interviews with directors, co-stars, and contemporaries.
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three wives establish their own bond.
Em Connecticut, na casa da família Reynolds, Clara (Paula Niedert Elliott) vive com os nervos à flor da pele devido à sua família egoísta que faz parte do mundo do showbiz. Durante uma noite, ela acredita estar sendo assombrada por uma força sobrenatural, na qual acaba encontrando consolo e orientação para lidar com os familiares e com sua vida.
This is the story of two male prostitutes who want to become professional actors and how they struggle to get into show business.
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
A comic horror drama depicting a grotesque situation that occurs with the appearance of a supernatural entity navigating between the filming teams at the filming site.
A musical about a miner who wants to break into show business.
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Becky (1927) film
Confrontado por um aluno, o advogado Michael Thornton se dá conta de que não é feliz e decide mudar de carreira. Ele abandona o rígido e tedioso mundo do Direito e passa a investir na profissão de ator. Sua ambição é Shakespeare, mas tudo que ele consegue é uma ponta na televisão. Incentivado pela esposa, Helen, e pela atriz Mary McAllister ele continua acreditando.
Adana De Guia is a famous actress whose career is beginning to slip down the limelight while Eva Cristobal is a fanatic who loves Adana so much that she will do anything for her idol. Adana helped Eva to become her personal assistant, also gave her a break in one of her movie, unknowingly that Eva was just using her to be able to reach her dream of becoming a big star. Eva succeeded in her plans but cannot find true happiness that Adana has.
Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.
In the township of Mphopomeni in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa, Siyabonga, a young man, puts up theatre plays. When he hears about a movie that will be shot in a nearby town, he makes it his mission to be part of it. From conspiring with a maid to steal wifi from the “umlungus” (white people) so he can write an email to the film producers to using witchcraft, Siyabonga does all he can to improve his life and take control of his fortune. And after travelling many surprising roads, he’ll finally meet the film’s director. Siyabonga is born out of their encounter.
Baseado no clássico romance chinês "Jin Ping Mei", escrito durante a dinastia Ming. O romance em si é o primeiro trabalho ficcional chinês completo, a representar a sexualidade de maneira explícita. O filme (e também o romance) acontece durante o período de 1111 a 1127 e gira em torno de Ximen Quing, um oportunista corrupto e um comerciante lascivo, que é rico o suficiente para se casar com um grupo de esposas e concubinas.