Chasing Beauty (2013)
Жанр : документальный
Время выполнения : 1Ч 30М
Директор : Brent Huff
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CHASING BEAUTY provides a rare glimpse into the intriguing and complex world of modeling. Behind the glossy covers of Vogue and Glamour lie the rarely talked about, uncensored stories of what models endure and sacrifice to become a top model. CHASING BEAUTY examines body image and the psychological effects of the beauty business on young women and men.
Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.
Jean Kilbourne's pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning Killing us Softly films have influenced millions of college and high school students across two generations and on an international scale. In this important new film, Kilbourne reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years. With wit and warmth, Kilbourne uses over 160 ads and TV commercials to critique advertising's image of women. By fostering creative and productive dialogue, she invites viewers to look at familiar images in a new way, that moves and empowers them to take action.
A gay high-school student learns that the teen wrestler he pines for has died in a car accident. But that's only the start of the romance.
Документальный фильм, рассказывающий историю жизни и скейтборд-карьеры великого скейтера Дэнни Вэя. За свою более, чем двадцатилетнюю профессиональную карьеру в скейтбординге, Дэнни Вэй прошел путь от “ам-райдера” Powell-Peralta и H-Street до соучредителя культового бренда Plan B и райдера “золотого состава” команды.
Фильм рассказывает о 13-летнем мальчике по имени Эмерсон, который умен и развит не по годам. И не мудрено - ведь его воспитывают и обучают дома родные мама с папой, настоящие хиппи. Однако из-за проблем с математикой Эмерсону приходится записаться в школу. Одноклассникам трудно принять свободомыслящего паренька, пишущего романы и обожающего Шекспира. Общий язык ему удается найти с учителем литературы - однако тот оказывается геем...
Autumn 1944, Estonia. Tens of thousands of people leave their homeland in fear of approaching frontline. Some seashore villages remain completely empty. A young woman with huge grey eyes gets off the boat. Eetla leaves the last boat, thus giving up her last chance to escape. Defying the cold wind and rain of September, she returns to the lighthouse which is unexpected to her father Gottfrid, the lighthouse keeper, and herself. Eetla's return becomes her self-encounter and self-recognition.
Lonely secret service officer Gustav meets a mysterious gypsy woman. It soon comes clear that it is a trap set by the Russian intelligence. Gustav is ordered to continue the relationship to get a better understanding of the enemy's plans. Unfortunately, Gustav finds himself struggling with the task, as he is falling in love with the enemy. Is there a way out of this situation?
Ten-year-old Flynn McGarry transforms his living room into a supper club using his classmates as line cooks. Achieving sudden fame, Flynn outgrows his bedroom kitchen and sets out to challenge the hierarchy of the culinary world.
В 1999 г., кинематографисты Джо Брюстер и Мишель Стивенсон повернули камеру на самих себя и приступили к съёмкам своего пятилетнего сына Идриса и его лучшего друга Шона. Они начали с детского сада при престижной школе Далтон-скул просто потому, что частное учреждение решило начать разнообразить состав учащихся. Камеры продолжали следовать за обеими семьями ещё в течение 12 лет, пока пути двух мальчиков не разошлись: один продолжил обучение в частной школе, а другой последовал совсем другому пути в государственной системе образования.
Five women veterans who have endured unimaginable trauma in service create a shared sisterhood to help the rising number of stranded homeless women veterans by entering a competition that unexpectedly catalyzes moving events in their own lives.
Criminal Frans Weeling realizes, after he has a revelation on the island Texel, he is only another link in the chain of the whole universe. This idea enlightens him, but also conflicts with his position and perspectives in the underworld.
When three university friends turn up unexpectedly, twenty-something lawyer Lorna Johnston is led into a dangerous world.
This special focuses on a group of men who have fallen in love with their life-size dolls, called "Real Dolls." For these men, their $10,000 lifelike, built-to-order creations have replaced human women. For some people, finding a partner in life can be difficult. For these men, it's almost impossible. Some years ago, a small factory in California began making an alternative partner. Each one is tailored made to suit every taste. There are now 3000 real dolls across the world providing some of those with love and companionship that real women cannot.
A low-rent bounty hunter named Rod Rosse, The One Man Posse, gets entangled in a web of danger when he takes on a job from an ex-biker/ex-wrestler turned U.S. senator named "Deathface."
После переезда в Чикаго для учебы в художественной школе, Сэм начинает пользоваться своей молодостью и сексуальностью для того, чтобы оплачивать счета. Его давний, живущий в другом городе, бойфренд Аарон, не может выдержать разлуки с ним и готов найти любую работу, только чтобы Сэм перестал заниматься сексом за деньги. Когда они решают пожениться и переехать в другую страну, где это можно сделать законно, их финансовые заботы усиливаются, до тех пор пока однажды Аарон, шпионя за Сэмом, не снимает его на камеру с одним широко известным и видным клиентом… и все меняется. История любви превращается в рассказ о вымогательстве.
The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound impact on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Within the Soviet system, a colorful crowd of artists, musicians, freaks, vagabonds and other long-haired drop-outs created their own system, which connected those who believed in peace, love, and freedom for their bodies and souls. More than 40 years later, a group of eccentric hippies from Estonia take a road trip to Moscow where the hippies still gather annually on the 1st of June for celebration that is related to the tragic event in 1971, when thousands of Soviet hippies were arrested by the KGB. The journey through time and dimensions goes deep into the psychedelic underground world in which these people strived for freedom.
A novelist's life ricochets from 1920s Paris to '50s New York and '80s London. Along the way he meets Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - the exiled British king and his mistress Wallis Simpson.
Rex is an old man who is bitter about never becoming famous and having lived a life without any meaning. After suffering a stroke, he ends up in a nursing home staffed by Latin American immigrants. Put off by the situation, he focuses his energy on getting out, which places him at odds with the Latino workers. However, their relationship takes on new meaning when it is discovered that he once shook hands with Vicente Fernandez, a Mexican singer, producer and actor idolized throughout Latin culture. The employees soon begin to treat Rex like the celebrity he's always dreamed of being.
An intimate portrait of Kati, a teenage girl about to graduate high school, who endures a moment-by-moment emotional transformation over the course of three tumultuous days that leave her future in doubt.
Roman Baskin's debut as a film director is an allegorical story of a man (Sulev Luik) who happens to step out of a train in a small town named Vernanda. He buys some bread only to discover that it has got a bomb inside and "souvenirs" of this kind are the town's trademark. While the man wants desperately to get rid of the bomb the townsfolk is not amused by such rude behaviour.