Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (1965)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 44M
Director : Donald Brittain, Don Owen
Escritor : Donald Brittain
Sinopse
A 1964 documentary portrait of Cohen in his pre-musician days as a poet and stand-up comedian.
Back in Town is George Carlin's ninth HBO special. It was also released on CD on September 17, 1996. This was also his first of many performances at the Beacon Theater in New York City. He rants about Abortion, The death penalty, prison farms, fart jokes, free floating hostility and words.
In front of a live audience at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Emmy-nominated host of Real Time with Bill Maher performs an all-new hour of stand-up comedy. Among the topics Bill discusses in his ninth HBO solo special are: Whether the "Great Recession" is really over; the fake patriotism of the right wing; what goes on in the mind of a terrorist; why Obama needs a posse instead of the secret service; the drug war; Michael Jackson; getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan; racism; the Teabagger movement; religion; the health-care fight; why Gov. Mark Sanford will come out looking good, and how silly it is to ask "Why do men cheat?"; and why comedy most definitely didn't die when George Bush left office.
An intimate documentary that follows Tig Notaro, a Los Angeles based comedian, who just days after being diagnosed with invasive stage II breast cancer changed the course of her career with a poignant stand-up set that became legendary overnight. It explores Tig's extraordinary journey as her career ignites and as her life unfolds in grand and unexpected ways, all the while continuing to battle a life-threatening illness and falling in love.
Justin Bieber vai ter que sobreviver às provocações dos comediantes do “Comedy central roast”, já que ele é o convidado da próxima edição, que vai ao ar nos Estados Unidos no dia 30 de março.
George Simmons é um popular comediante, que descobre que possui uma doença sanguínea incurável. Devido a ela, George tem apenas mais um ano de vida. Ira Wright é um comediante em ascensão, que tem dificuldades em dissociar seus personagens dele próprio. George e Ira têm uma característica em comum: não possuem amigos próximos. Uma noite eles se conhecem quando farão apresentações no mesmo local. George contrata Ira para ser seu assistente pessoal, abrindo seus shows. Logo eles se tornam amigos, com George ensinando a Ira como conduzir o público do palco e Ira ajudando-o a encontrar seu legado.
O comediante paquistanês Kumail e a estudante de graduação Emily se apaixonam, mas encontram dificuldades quando suas culturas entram em conflito. Além disso, quando Emily contrai uma doença misteriosa, Kumail deve resolver a crise com seus pais causada pelo conflito emocional entre sua família e seu coração.
Carlin returns to the stage in his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO®. His spot-on observations on the deterioration of human behavior include Americans’ obsession with their two favorite addictions - shopping and eating; his creative idea for The All-Suicide Channel, a new reality TV network; and the glorious rebirth of the planet to its original pristine condition - once the fires and floods destroy life as we know it.
Um antigo ícone do cinema de faroeste passa a maioria do seu tempo fumando ou cedendo sua voz para dublar comerciais de cigarro. Quando ele é atingido por algumas notícias que mudam a sua vida, ele decide reprisar o seu célebre papel em um novo filme chamado "The Hero" e se reconectar com a sua ex-esposa e filha
Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short life of the once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted audiences.
Mexican stand-up comedian Franco Escamilla draws his jokes from real-life experiences -- and he's willing to do anything for new material. He's not afraid to make generalizations about how men bathe. But he is scared to talk to strangers. Especially at funerals.
Um divertido, íntimo e comovedor retrato de um dos comediantes mais queridos e inventivos do mundo, Robin Williams. O filme explora sua extraordinária vida e carreira e revela o que o levou a dar voz a personagens em sua mente, até sua trágica morte.
A comediante neozelandesa Rose Matafeo acompanha sua história sincera de tesão nesse especial de stand-up inesquecível.
Após um apocalipse que transformou grande parte da população em zumbis, os moradores de uma pequena vila do Canadá lutam para continuar vivos. Os sobreviventes unem forças e refugiam-se na floresta para que todos consigam chegar em segurança na cidade grande. Mas será a cidade o santuário que procuram?
A story of two stand-up comedians, Deep and Zoya, and how they try to navigate their way through their relationship while joking about it on stage!
Decidido a ampliar seus horizontes, Rudy decide rodar por conta própria um filme estrelado por seu alter-ego Dolamyte, um cafetão bom de briga que sabe lutar kung fu. O que ele não imaginava era que fazer cinema fosse algo tão complicado quanto conseguir que seu filme seja exibido em circuito comercial.
Mais um especial de Louis C.K., desta vez gravado na The Comedy Store.
An uncensored monologue by Dani Rovira about today's society.
In his second stand-up special, Daniel Sosa reminisces about his childhood, ponders Mexican traditions and points out a major problem with "Coco".
Um americano escritor de podcasts impetuoso vai corajosamente à selva canadense para entrevistar um idoso com um passado incrível e descobre que o segredo sombrio deste homem envolve uma morsa.
Scott Pilgrim tem 23 anos, integra uma banda de colégio, vive trocando de emprego e tem um namoro firme. Sua vida está maravilhosa, até conhecer Ramona V. Flowers. Ele logo se apaixona perdidamente por ela, só que não será fácil conquistar seu amor. Para tanto ele precisa enfrentar os sete ex-namorados dela, que estão dispostos a tudo para impedir sua felicidade com outra pessoa.
An early Bill Morrison short, in this work he traverses an urban landscape utilizing high contrast black and white footage. The bustling nature of the setting is complimented by the energetic music by Michael Gordon.
Singer-songwriter Slink Moss plays the mysterious driver of a Cadillac hearse who journeys across America to pick up and drop off a hitchhiker to his (final?) destination. The nearly-wordless film stylishly re-imagines the open road as a state of Limbo.
In this short film, a young man, a girl and a dog attempt to fly with wings more symbolic than practical.
Emma is a teenager when she is the victim of a terrible road accident in London, and needs psychiatric care after she suffers from resulting brain injury. Her mother, Silvia, confines her in the house, and Emma's personality becomes aggressive, leading to a regrettable series of violent deaths.
Gallo rehearses his heroic resignation, with which he hopes to regain his youth, his dignity and even a love.
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
Based on Geoffrey Fletcher’s book, this captivating documentary exposes the real London of the swinging sixties. Turning its back on familiar sights, the film explores the hidden details of a crumbling metropolis. With James Mason as our Guide, we are led on an tour of the weird and wonderful pockets of London from abandoned music-halls to egg breaking factories.
The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.
Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.
This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was raised by Indians in America.
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, King Boy D and Rockman Rock, try to find and gain access to the mystical White Room. They leave a party at their house and drive in their 1968 US Cop Car through night-time London and the dusty plains of the Sierra Nevada region of Spain. There they face judgement: will they be allowed to enter the White Room? Meanwhile their lawyer David Franks tries to find a loophole to free them from their contract with Eternity.
A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.
Spark of Being, a close adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, explores the thematic interchangeability of three of the novel’s characters: the Captain, the Doctor, and the Creature. Spark of Being, which, as with all of Morrison's films, is dialogue-free, features Frank Hurley's original footage of Ernest Shackleton’s fated Antarctic expedition, along with a range of footage from other sources.
A humorous and satirical comedy, which places a man from the year 2222 one day in the (then) present day life in GDR, East Germany under Communist regime. Using a crystal for mind reading he uncovers some improprieties and moral weaknesses in the "Beautiful future" professed by VEB ("Volkseigener Betrieb" – "State Owned Holdings").
Lindsay Anderson's first feature, a documentary about the origin and processes of the Richard Sutcliffe Limited underground-conveyor company.
Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in secret, during a delicate trade-talk session between Vietnam and the United States. Captain Tom Watkins, the ex-prisoners' CO, begins to suspect that government-man Adam Roth, who is in charge of the debriefing, may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command.
Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings
Looking for extras and locations, a filmmaker settles on Chiloé, the second largest island off the coast of Chile. He does auditions, but mainly listens patiently to the stories of young and old people. As an outsider, he cautiously searches for the soul of the community and its underlying tensions.
In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three 90-foot rolls he created were edited together to complete the journey from Manhattan to Brooklyn, entitled Across the Brooklyn Bridge. As a commission by the Museum of Modern Art for the re-opening of their facility, American avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison took this remarkable footage and recombined it with itself to form a new split-screen extrapolation.