Baby Ghana (1957)
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Runtime : 12M
Director : Jean Rouch
Sinopse
Shows independence festivities in Ghana, formerly the Gold Coast, which on 6th March had become the first African colony to gain independence.
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, including an unethical promoter named Roberts, who tempt the man with a number of vices. Charley finds himself faced with increasingly difficult choices.
Primeiro filme de Rouch mostrando uma cerimônia anual do Yenendi (“refrescar”) através da qual os Songhay pedem aos deuses do céu as chuvas necessárias às boas colheitas. Narrado em over por Rouch, cuja voz convive com músicas e burburinhos nativos, o filme se constrói como uma prova cabal da eficácia deste rito de chuva. Ele se abre com planos da terra seca no mês de maio, resultante de 7 meses sem chuva, para em seguida mostrar os preparativos e o desenrolar das várias etapas da cerimônia (os músicos, as danças de possessão longamente mostradas, a negociação com os espíritos, a poção ritual derramada na terra, o sacrifício de animais) e culminar com os planos de um temporal prenunciado por sinais característicos. A sucessão destes três blocos principais tende a estabelecer uma relação causal inapelável entre a cerimônia e a chuva que se segue, de modo a endossar as crenças religiosas dos Songhay.
Uma jovem e ambiciosa modelo de loja de departamentos de Los Angeles tem o sonho de se casar com um milionário, mas descobre que a vida na riqueza nem sempre é feliz. E o sonho de infância de Leonora Eames se torna realidade. Se casa com Smith Ohlrig, um homem que vale milhões. Mas seu sonho inocente torna-se um pesadelo, quando percebe a verdade sobre seu marido - ele é louco por poder e insano! Como ele não lhe dará o divórcio, ela deixa sua vida de luxo em Long Island e vai trabalhar como recepcionista em um pobre consultório médico no Lower East Side de Nova York. Depois que Smith a engana em uma reconciliação temporária, Leonora fica grávida. Quando ela percebe que está esperando, ela e um dos médicos, Larry Quinada (James Mason), se apaixonaram. Mas ela é novamente atraída para seu marido rico em busca de segurança financeira para seu filho. Seu marido sádico está empenhado em manter ela e seu filho prisioneiros. O que vai acontecer com Leonora? (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
A telephone operator ends up drunk and at the mercy of a cad in his apartment. The next morning she wakes up with a hangover and the terrible fear she may be a murderess.
Breer's earliest experiments in animation are wonderfully dense yet lyrical abstractions based on Breer's own geometric paintings. - Harvard Film Archive
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A high school student falls asleep while sitting in class. When he wakes up, all time is frozen, except for him.
In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate and are led from the drugstore to a nightclub, where singer Lili is another recipient of a stolen bill. With Lili's help, the partners track down the remaining money, but both Lili and Frank are dismayed when Cal decides he wants to keep part of it.
A sculptor is traumatized by the death of his wife in a car accident. He builds a sculpture in her memory. As the lifelike sculpture begins to bleed through the cracks of clay, the sculptor's flesh mutates and crumbles away...
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Este controverso exemplar da filmografia do espanhol Nacho Cerdà mostra atividades secretas de um funcionário de necrotério. Venceu o prêmio de melhor curta-metragem no Fant-Asia Film Festival, em 1997.
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.
"Made with spray paint and hand-cut stencils, this film was an attempt at maximum plastic intensity… Places Breer for the first time among the major colorists of the avant-garde." – P. Adams Sitney
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While birds can be heard singing a shrill song, lines crisscross wildly as if they aimed to form shapes. Their efforts seem hopeless until the very end ,,,
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This Warner Bros. short reviews in an often humorous way the impact of the automobile on the United States. By 1900, the horseless carriage was beginning to have an impact. Early adopters were often the object of attention by large curious crowds. There were many car manufacturers and the quality of their product varied considerably. Traffic jams, pollution and automobile racing were only a few of the outcomes.
Dave Burke contrata dois homens muito diferentes para um assalto a banco. Suspeita e preconceito ameaçam acabar com a parceria. Dave Burke está procurando contratar dois homens para ajudá-lo em um assalto a banco: Earle Slater, um ex-condenado branco, e Johnny Ingram, um jogador negro. Ambos estão relutantes; mas Burke faz com que os credores de Ingram coloquem pressão sobre ele, enquanto Slater se sente humilhado por seu fracasso em sustentar sua namorada; então eles acabam aceitando. Mas Slater detesta e despreza negros, e as tensões na gangue aumentam rapidamente. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)