The First Monday in May (2016)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 31M
Director : Andrew Rossi
Sinopse
Chronicles the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
Um terapeuta de Manhattan, o Dr. Robert Elliott, enfrenta o momento mais aterrorizante de sua vida, quando um assassino psicopata começa a atacar as mulheres de sua vida - usando uma navalha roubada de seu escritório. Desesperado para encontrar o assassino antes que outra pessoa seja ferida, Elliott logo se vê envolvido em um mundo de escusos e perturbadores desejos.
Cinco anos, oito meses, 12 dias... em contagem regressiva. Este foi o tempo que Debbie Ocean levou para preparar o maior assalto da sua vida. Ela sabe que precisará de uma equipe com as melhores do métier, a começar pela sua parceira de crimes Lou Miller. Juntas, elas recrutam um grupo de especialistas: a joalheira Amita, a vigarista Constance, a especialista em receptação Tammy, a hacker Nine Ball e a estilista Rose. O alvo é US$ 150 milhões de dólares em diamantes... diamantes que estarão no pescoço da atriz mundialmente famosa Daphne Kluger, na grande atração no evento do ano, o Met Gala. O plano é sólido como uma rocha, mas tudo precisará ser perfeito para a equipe conseguir entrar e escapar com os diamantes. Tudo absolutamente à vista.
Um drama satírico que reflete nossos tempos - sobre o senso de comunidade, coragem moral e a necessidade das pessoas ricas pelo egocentrismo em um mundo cada vez mais incerto.
Visages Villages mostra a icônica diretora Agnès Varda em uma colaboração inesperada com o fotógrafo JR ao embarcar em uma viagem singular. Eles partem no caminhão fotográfico de JR, explorando as cidades da França rural para tirar retratos de seus residentes e ampliá-los em gigantescos murais.
Pensando na relação entre arte e poder, o documentário filmado no Museu do Louvre questiona a arte pode nos ensinar sobre nós mesmo, inclusive nos momentos mais sangrentos do mundo.
Chronicles the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
Lao San is a young veteran high in Kungfu power but low in intelligence. After landing on a job as a body guard for a wealthy antique collector, Lao San finds out his boss's plot to rob the National Art Museum.
Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large number of art pieces from all over the globe, from the Stone Age to the present day. A walk through their great institutions to marvel at their masterpieces.
Actor Jeremy Irons embarks on an epic journey through the halls of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain, two hundred years after its inauguration, along corridors where thousands of masterpieces of all time tell the lives of rulers and common people, and tales about times of war and madness and times of peace and happiness; because, as Goya said, imagination, the mother of the arts, produces impossible monsters, but also unspeakable wonders.
In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.
To celebrate its 250th anniversary, this documentary tells the story of one of the world’s greatest museums, from its foundation by Catherine the Great, though to its status today as a breathtakingly beautiful complex which includes the Winter Palace. Showcasing a vast collection of the world’s greatest artworks together with contemporary art galleries and exhibitions, it holds over 3 million treasures and world class masterpieces in stunning architectural settings. This is its journey from Imperial Palace to State Museum, encompassing a sometimes troubled past, surviving both the Revolution in 1916 and the siege of Leningrad by the Nazis in 1941-44.
Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about its art as a creative power-house. It’s a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, gardens and iconic locations throughout the United States, UK and France, this mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes. The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism features the sell-out exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920 that began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, now the Bode-Museum, the Bust of Flora, Roman goddess of flowers, has been the subject of controversy for more than a century. Von Bode, under pressure from the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, argued that the wax sculpture was created by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).
Every night, when the museum closes its doors, the mironins, Blu, Low and Ro, three little drops of paint that live in the paintings created by the Spanish painter Joan Miró (1893-1983), come to life and immerse themselves in an inexhaustible universe where art and imagination reign.
A journey through four hundred paintings, all masterpieces, among the more than nine thousand treasured in the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.
A bike messenger, an electrician, a postal worker, a business man and an office worker make their way through an evening in New York City. A collection of eight large-scale moving images projected on the walls of New York's Museum of Modern Art.
A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.
Lucy Jarvis -- the plucky camerawoman known for becoming the first Westerner to film inside communist China -- breaks barriers once again with this exclusive look at the world-famous Musée du Louvre, a place that previously barred access to all filmmakers. Charles Boyer is your host on this personalized tour of the museum's most prized possessions, including works by da Vinci, Michelangelo, Vermeer and Van Eyck.
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, after a long construction, the last and most grandiose museum of the Leader was opened. Soon after the opening, the ideology changed, and the flow of pilgrims gradually dried up. Despite this, the museum still works and the management is looking for ways to attract visitors. Faithful to the Lenin keepers of the museum as they can resist the onset of commercialization. The film tells about the modern life of this amazing museum-reserve and its employees.
