Great Directors (2009)
Gênero : Documentário
Runtime : 1H 30M
Director : Angela Ismailos
Sinopse
Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismailos' voyage of discovering the creative personalities behind the camera.
Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped their number one hit off the charts and caused fans to hate them, destroy their CD’s, and protest at their concerts. A film about freedom of speech gone out of control and the three girls lives that were forever changed by a small anti-Bush comment
Liberty Wallace (Linda Fiorentino) é uma mulher bela e poderosa, que é também casada com um grande fabricante de armas, Victor (Oliver Platt). Tanto ela quanto o marido são dois importantes negociantes do mercado bélico internacional, mas sua vida muda quando o celular toca e lhe são passadas instruções que, se não forem obedecidas, uma bomba que está em uma carrocinha de cachorro-quente será detonada, matando várias pessoas. Um ex-agente da C.I.A., Joe (Wesley Snipes), está por trás disso. Apontando um rifle de alta precisão para ela, Joe a faz se algemar na carrocinha, mas se o celular for desligado ou acabar a bateria a bomba explodirá. O motivo disto é que Joe quer se vingar da morte da filha, causada por uma das melhores armas negociadas por Liberty.
A team of astronauts on the first mission to Mars crashes onto the surface, losing contact with Earth. With no other recourse, and help millions of miles away, the crew is forced to make desperate choices in order to stay alive. Will they be able to survive as the minutes slip away?
On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.
Young computer enthusiast Liam runs a website streaming video of his every action captured on a webcam. He lives a reclusive life, temporarily staying in a friend’s apartment in Paris until waitress Alison and her British husband, James, move in.
Em Nova York, em 1987, o belo jovem profissional Patrick Bateman tem uma segunda vida como um horrível assassino em série durante a noite. O elenco é formado pelo detetive, a noiva, a amante, o colega de trabalho e a secretária. Esta é uma comédia de humor seco que examina os elementos que transformam um homem em um monstro.
Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) foi um dos principais nomes da história artística do México. Conceituada e aclamada como pintora, ele teve um agitado casamento aberto com Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), seu companheiro também nas artes, e ainda um controverso caso com o político Leon Trostky (Geoffrey Rush), além de várias outras mulheres.
Pai de três filhos passa a criá-los sozinho depois de se separar da esposa. Ele conhece uma artista que usa seu talento para aproximar as pessoas e sua vida então se transforma.
Este ganhador do Oscar® mostra a vida das crianças do bairro da Luz Vermelha, em Calcutá. O aparente enriquecimento da Índia deixa de lado os menos favorecidos. Neste contexto, os menos privilegiados são as crianças filhas de prostitutas do bairro mais pobre da cidade. Porém, ainda há esperanças. Os documentaristas Zana Briski e Ross Kauffman procuram essas crianças e munidos de câmeras fotográficas pedem para eles fazerem retratos de tudo que lhes chama a atenção. Os resultados são emocionantes. E enquanto as crianças vão descobrindo essa nova forma de se expressar, os cineastas lutam para poder dar mais esperança e uma vida melhor a essas crianças, para as quais a pobreza é a maior ameaça à realização dos sonhos.
The little nomad girl, Nansal, finds a baby dog in the Mongolian veld, who becomes her best friend - against all rejections of her parents. A story about a Mongolian family of nomads - their traditional way of life and the rising call of the City.
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
The film describes the microcosmos of the small village Wacken and shows the clash of the cultures, before and during the biggest heavy metal festival in Europe.
Uma história sobre a misteriosa existência de cinco irmãs, contada pelos rapazes do seu bairro que, passados 20 anos continuam sem conseguir descobrir o mistério das irmãs Lisbon. É uma singular história sobre o isolamento dessas raparigas e um trágico retrato de como os rapazes assistiram impotentes enquanto as suas vidas feneciam.
A portrait of Rita, who claims that her mother was never a mother for her. Rita gives birth to her own five children and forces her mother to take the role of a mother.
Felix Rath is a small and lovable rogue . When he finds handwritten love letters from John F. Kennedy to his aunt Agnes in the estate of his deceased mother , he deflected with his buddy Dietrich immediately his birth certificate . Now he is the illegitimate son of his aunt and John F. Kennedy , testified during his legendary visit to Berlin in 1963. Nina Wieser , journalist at a reputable Berliner Zeitung , finds to Felix's big surprise out that this is actually true - he is the natural son of Agnes Kennedy . Overnight Felix is famous, Nina and he will be a couple - it could not be better ! The pleasure of Kennedy - existence goes in but pretty quickly when he everywhere mysterious men suddenly sees with dark sunglasses . He will have to deal with the anxiety and will now definitely not be more Kennedy . But how to prove it now that he is nothing more than an imposter ?
When Ruth's husband dies in New York, in 2000, she imposes strict Jewish mourning, which puzzles her children. A stranger comes to the house - Ruth's cousin - with a picture of Ruth, age 8, in Berlin, with a woman the cousin says helped Ruth escape. Hannah, Ruth's daughter engaged to a gentile, goes to Berlin to find the woman, Lena Fisher, now 90. Posing as a journalist investigating intermarriage, Hannah interviews Lena who tells the story of a week in 1943 when the Jewish husbands of Aryan women were detained in a building on Rosenstrasse. The women gather daily for word of their husbands. The film goes back and forth to tell Ruth and Lena's story. How will it affect Hannah?
