Casual Fridays (2005)

Как известно, у чёрных парней из бедного Гарлема не слишком много путей выбиться в люди: через шоу-бизнес, спорт или криминал. В отличие от своих сверстников, Девон мечтает стать не гангстером, не актёром и не баскетболистом. Девон грезит о карьере барабанщика — уж больно ему нравиться наяривать палочками по кожаной поверхности. Его упорные попытки самоутвердиться на улицах не остаются без внимания: парня замечает хозяин оркестра и приглашает постучать по барабану в одном университете. Карьера начинается…

Нешуточные страсти разгораются не только на съемочной площадке мыльной оперы, но и за ее пределами. Главная героиня, звезда телевидения, стала жертвой интриг со стороны ее молодых соперниц.

A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with condition at home and at the theater, suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes to Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a settlement of poor people to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reasons for the actor’s odd behavior and to hear when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that only known what he does not want! The young director, who earlier started work on filming a portrait of the actor, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented by many tv reportages of removals of monumental public sculptures, but the citizens of Vilnius in Lithuania did the unexpected!

Когда Грейс приезжает, чтобы пожить со своей дочерью и зятем, она стремится найти способ быть полезной. Она любит читать детям истории, и однажды решает прочесть одну из них по телевидению. Положительный отклик зрителей был так велик, что большая телекомпания узнала об этом и предложила ей сняться в цикле передач. Но пройдя через многие испытания, Грейс понимает, что только время — самый ценный подарок, который она может дать дочери…

The plot centers on the cameraman Nelu - played by Daneliuc - and television reporter Luiza (Gina Patrichi), who are emotionally involved and are interviewing people caught travelling by train without tickets. Daneliuc is one of the first directors to have used direct sound, recording entire scenes and then mixing them with post-synchronized ones.

A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province, near the Afghanistan border. He has already hired Turkoman tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diagetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.

The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge (John Heard) recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback 'Dandy' Don Meredith (Brad Beyer), along with Keith Jackson (Shuler Hensley), and the combative Howard Cosell (John Turturro) as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd trio events to millions of viewers. Jackson departs the show after the first year to take over the network's focus on college football, and former New York Giants star Frank Gifford (Kevin Anderson) takes his place, ruffling Cosell's feathers. Then things get really crazy!

A live TV special of Harry Nilsson performing his album of standards 'A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night'

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