Boris Kaufman

The film "All the Vertovs" tells about the Kaufman brothers-David, Mikhail and Boris. All three are world-class filmmakers. Each of them managed to achieve the highest level of proficiency in the profession, each had their own vision of the world and the gift to embody it on the screen in a unique, deeply individual manner.

Junie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an epileptic, and Warren, who is gay and uses a wheelchair. The unlikely trio of outcasts decides to move in together and manages to enjoy a series of adventures as they endure various forms of prejudice and struggle with their own issues.

Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into that world.

One day, Morroe Rieff learns that his friend and fellow writer, Leslie Braverman, has died. After meeting Leslie's widow, Inez, who is more flirtatious than grieving, Morroe joins up with three other writer friends, Barnet, Felix, and Holly to attend funeral services. However, the quartet faces numerous obstacles that could keep them from paying their respects.

It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.

A man attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.

Único da família a escapar de um campo de concentração nazista, o judeu Sol Nazerman (Rod Steiger) agora tenta reconstruir a vida nos EUA como comerciante. No entanto, mesmo 40 anos depois, as memórias traumáticas das atrocidades cometidas pelo regime nazista ainda o assombram. Dirigido por Sidney Lumet, o filme foi indicado ao Oscar de Melhor Ator e ao Urso de Ouro no Festival de Berlim.

Enquanto tenta seduzir uma mulher casada (Paula Prentiss), o pianista Henry Orient (Peter Sellers) é interrompido por duas colegiais precoces, Valerie (Tippy Walker) e Marian (Merrie Spaeth). A princípio, ele não se importa, mas como as coincidências se repetem Henry acha que as garotas são espiãs do marido da amante. Valerie acaba se apaixonando pelo pianista.

A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.

Acompanhe um dia completo da família Tyrone, marcada por diversos problemas: uma mãe viciada em morfina, um pai frustrado com a carreira, um filho desequilibrado emocionalmente e o outro sofrendo de tuberculose.

O amor de uma garota frágil do Kansas por um jovem bonito da família mais poderosa da cidade a leva a um coração partido e à loucura. É 1928 no sudeste do Kansas, rico em petróleo. Os alunos do ensino médio Bud Stamper e Deanie Loomis estão apaixonados um pelo outro. Bud, o popular capitão de futebol, e Deanie, a alma sensível, são 'bons' garotos que só chegaram a se beijar. Eles esperam se casar um dia. Mas ambos enfrentam pressões dentro do relacionamento, Bud que tem o desejo de ir mais longe, apesar de saber em seu coração que, se eles fizerem isso, Deanie acabará ficando com uma reputação igual de sua própria irmã, Ginny Stamper, conhecida como a garota solitária e imoral. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Valentine 'Snakeskin' Xavier, um vagabundo de origens obscuras propenso a problemas, chega numa pequena cidade do Mississippi e consegue um emprego numa loja administrada por Lady Torrence cujo marido, Jabe M. Torrance, está morrendo de câncer. Apesar de estar em busca de uma vida simples e honesta, se vê envolvido com mulheres cheias de problemas. Val é perseguido por Carol Cutere, a enigmática vadia local de boa família.

A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.

Um jovem porto-riquenho é acusado do brutal crime de ter matado o próprio pai. Quando ele vai a julgamento, doze jurados se reúnem para decidir a sentença, levando em conta que o réu deve ser considerado inocente até que se prove o contrário. Onze dos jurados têm plena certeza de que ele é culpado, e votam pela condenação, mas um jurado acha que é melhor investigar mais para que a sentença seja correta. Para isso ele terá que enfrentar diferentes interpretações dos fatos, e a má vontade dos outros jurados, que só querem ir logo para suas casas.

Uma adaptação de Tennessee Williams. A luta de dois homens e suas relações com duas mulheres infantis.

A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon becomes apparent that Walter Ramsey, who has inherited the position of CEO, is grooming Staples to replace Briggs. Ramsey will not fire Briggs, instead doing everything he can to humiliate and sabotage Briggs until he resigns.

Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a bar in the hotel gives him a drink, he breaks out in song and discovers a great voice. Under a psychiatrist's treatment, and because of a blow to the head by some hoodlums, he realizes his name is David and that he was the son of a great Jewish Cantor, and gradually recovers his memory of losing his parents. He gives up a promising career singing in nightclubs to return to the synagogue.

Viúva e filha saem da casa e da tirania do sogro na Flórida, se perdem em um desvio, e encontram abrigo em uma colônia de nudismo.

Terry Malloy sonha com as glórias do boxe, mas foi convencido pelo corrupto mafioso Johnny Friendly, para quem trabalha, a perder uma luta. Quando Terry presencia um assassinato cometido pelos capangas do chefe, ele se sente responsável pelo crime.

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.

Short story film about a derelict and forgotten character hiding in a room somewhere in South America.

Hymn of the Nations, originally titled Arturo Toscanini: Hymn of the Nations, is a 1944 film directed by Alexander Hammid, which features the "Inno delle nazioni," a patriotic work for tenor soloist, chorus, and orchestra, composed by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi in the early 1860s. (For this musical work, Verdi utilized the national anthems of several European nations.) In December 1943, Arturo Toscanini filmed a performance of this music for inclusion in an Office of War Information documentary about the role of Italian-Americans in aiding the Allies during World War II. Toscanini added a bridge passage to include arrangements of "The Star-Spangled Banner" for the United States and "The Internationale" for the Soviet Union and the Italian partisans. Joining Toscanini in the filmed performance in NBC Studio 8-H, were tenor Jan Peerce, the Westminster Choir, and the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The film also included the overture to Verdi's opera La Forza del Destino.

Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Louis Jouvet as a possessive Baron who has his own designs on our heroine.

When his colleague presents him with (forged) evidence of his wife Sylvette's unfaithfulness, factory owner Jean Sourdier kills him in a fit of rage. After fifteen years in prison he is determined to take revenge on his wife by killing Ninette, a daughter from her second marriage.

Sentenced to 20 years after killing a colleague for revealing that his wife was unfaithful, Sourdier escapes hoping to kill the woman as well.He learns she was true to him and has had a little girl who thinks the father is dead.

A criminal is being blackmailed by his former accomplices. He does everything in his power to gain time because the statutory limitation for the crime he committed starts at midnight.

On his wedding day, mere hours before the statute of limitations for his crimes expires, revengeful mobsters abduct former criminal Jean Verdier. The gang leader's daughter - who's still in love with Jean - tries to stall the police until the clock strikes twelve and he can no longer be prosecuted.

Impressionist performance of a ballet dancer to the music of Federico Mompou.

“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again. (IMDb)

Les Berceaux is about the dedicated sailors who venture out into the deepest ocean, and the wives who must await their return. The woman sits in her living room, gently rocking her infant’s cradle as she sings, the movement mimicking the rolling motion of the ocean waves. Many men will lose their lives to the ocean’s vast waters, but the juxtaposition of death and life (in the cradle) suggests an endless and noble cycle. Kirsanoff imaginatively places a rear-projection screen outside the woman’s window, through which, as she sings, we can watch the ocean waves lapping up against the shore, or the ship charging majestically over the water. Also worth noting is that the film was photographed by Boris Kaufman, who later also shot On the Waterfront (1954) and 12 Angry Men (1957). —Shortcutcinema.blogspot.pt

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

How a simple sewer, a perfect look-alike of the president of the council, manages to reform a country and make himself loved by his fellow citizens.

Quando se casa com Jean, Juliette vai morar no barco do marido, onde o casal está acompanhado apenas de mais dois tripulantes. Pouco tempo depois, entediada com a vida a bordo, a mulher desembarca em Paris para ver a vida noturna. Irritado com isso, Jean zarpa, abandonando Juliette, mas, angustiado pela culpa e pela saudade, cai em depressão, e um dos tripulantes volta à cidade para tentar achar Juliette.

Volta aos tempos de escola num colégio do interior, as bagunças dentro do dormitório, a punição severa, a recreação, o estudo indisciplinado e os confrontos com a administração. Um noite os garotos internos decidem se libertar da autoridade dos adultos e uma revolta arrebenta. Esta é a obra mais autobiográfica de Jean Vigo.

Short documentary directed by Jean Vigo about the French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses, including close ups and freeze frames of the swimmer's body.

Um satírico e envolvente retrato da cidade turística de Nice, na Côte d’Azur, na época vendida como a cidade dos prazeres.

Um satírico e envolvente retrato da cidade turística de Nice, na Côte d’Azur, na época vendida como a cidade dos prazeres.

Um satírico e envolvente retrato da cidade turística de Nice, na Côte d’Azur, na época vendida como a cidade dos prazeres.

La marche des machines is a thundering, thumping symphony of turbines, belts, flanges, wheels and sparks.

The goods supplying all of Paris come by cart, by train. Big Les Halles handlers do the unloading, the market's night life in full swing around them: meat cut, vegetables sorted, coffee downed at the café. Les Halles teems with life until the small hours of the morning.

The goods supplying all of Paris come by cart, by train. Big Les Halles handlers do the unloading, the market's night life in full swing around them: meat cut, vegetables sorted, coffee downed at the café. Les Halles teems with life until the small hours of the morning.

The goods supplying all of Paris come by cart, by train. Big Les Halles handlers do the unloading, the market's night life in full swing around them: meat cut, vegetables sorted, coffee downed at the café. Les Halles teems with life until the small hours of the morning.