Signals Through the Flames (1983)

Красочная биография неаполитанского комедиографа-революционера, размышляющая над природой творчества и семейственности.

Impelled by a spirit which still preserves a patina of idealism, Alfredo arrives to Madrid with the intention to create "a performance that is free, straight from the heart, capable of making people feel alive". His concept of what acting should be begins beyond the stage, out in the streets face to face with the public. Outdoors, in any town square, in a park or in the city's most commercial street, Alfredo and his troupe November start the show; demons to provoke passers-by, displays of social conscience, actions taken to the extreme to put the forces of law and order on full alert. There are no limits, no censorship; only ideas which are always valid so long as the public ceases to be the public and becomes part of the show swept by surprise, fear, tears or laughter. Theater as life, life as theater… there is no longer any difference.

The Living Theatre is an experimental company founded in New York in 1947 by Julian Beck (New York 1925-1985), painter and poet, and the actress and stage director Judith Malina (Kiel 1926), a student of Erwin Piscator. From the very beginning the group’s activities bore the stamp of social and political commitment, imbued with a strong libertarian matrix. A video montage of films and videos from The Living Theatre Archives.

"The Pitch" takes a look at the world of international street performing buskers to find out why these men and women have chosen to "pass the hat" to make a living, along with the challenges they face.

Signals Through the Flames is at once a history and a celebration of the Living Theatre. Founded in the late 1940s by husband-and-wife performers Julian Beck and Judith Malina, the Living Theatre was for many years the predominent American outlet for the avant-garde movement. There were occasional self-imposed exiles to Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, but the group returned full-force during the Aquarius Age to entertain a new generation of theatregoers.

Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.

A dwarf, a dragon, and a golden egg. Yet the real fairy-tale of this film is the journey of Jeanmarie, the Dutch street performer. In an adventurous project, Jeanmarie teams up with youth worker Frank to travel through the last remaining untouched regions of China, performing his new show to local children. As they transport their wondrous music machine from village to village, they bring laughter and intrigue to all who witness their magical performance, reuniting reality with fantasy, Europe and Asia. In a film as imaginative and whimsical as Jeanmarie's play itself, this is a poignant tale of passion and conviction to follow and fulfil your dreams.

We are a conversation is a 2014 documentary directed by Alexis karpouzos and Spyros rasidakis and written by Alexis karpouzos exploring the unity of humanity, featuring poets from around the world, whose lives have been dedicated to explore the mysteries of life and existence.

Estado de Excepção is a documentary about CITAC (Coimbra Theater Initiation Circle), a university theater group, revealing history since it was constituted in 1956 until the aftermath of the 1974 revolution. It is the history of the theater group university and, through it, the history of theater in Portugal, revealing two remarkable decades of the History of Portugal. Through the Academy of Coimbra, the documentary reproduces student life, the position of women in society, and the change in mentalities of being and being in the world. It reproduces the existing censorship and the fight against the dictatorship, the resistance to an exhausted regime, as well as the emerging contradictions of the democratic revolution. CITAC has a heritage of 50 years of experience in Coimbra. It carries with it the possibility of the theatrical and civic formation of thinking bodies, constituting a proper ball of a possible model, generation by generation, between studies, theater, and social drama.

"Chapal Bhaduri, a leading lady of Bengal’s traditional folk traveling theatre-in-the-round, the Jatra, spent his life playing women. This film is an intimate biography that brings you face to face with this unique individual, sharing what it means to him to become a woman night after night, talking of the woman inside his body, of troubled sexuality, of a long partnership with his older lover, of the loneliness of living on the edges of conventional society–and showing how he metamorphoses into the goddess to perform her story." - The Bangalore International Centre

Окунитесь в мир Бэтмена и самосуда, что он принес в город Готэм. Бэтмен - человек, который, пережив большую трагедию, посвящает свою жизнь идеалам. Но что происходит, когда один человек берет на себя всё зло преступного мира? Изучите, почему Бэтмен является тем, кто он есть, и поймите, как мальчик, переживший трагедию, становится символом надежды для всех остальных.

Эта тайна существовала всегда. Ее раскрывали миру, ее держали в секрете, ее теряли и находили снова. За ней охотились, ее стремились узнать всеми доступными силами и средствами. И вот наступил момент, когда это тайное знание снова раскрывается миру. Многие великие люди прошлого обладали этим знанием: Платон, Леонардо, Галилей, Наполеон, Бетховен, Линкольн, Эйнштейн, Карнеги и многие другие. Части его появлялись в великих учениях, в литературе, в философских трактатах и религиозных текстах. Впервые в истории все разрозненные фрагменты собраны вместе в этом удивительном послании, коренным образом меняющем жизни тех, кто к нему прикасается…

For a book project, photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders took photographs of 30 stars of adult movies, each pair of photographs in the same pose, clothed and nude. This film records the photo shoots and includes interviews with the performers and commentary from eight writers (and John Waters). The actors and writers discuss economics, nudity and exhibitionism, careers, and private lives.

Брюс Ли, которого вы еще не знали. В фильм включены неизвестные ранее кадры его неоконченной работы «Игра смерти». Его знаменитый одно-дюймовый удар мог свалить с ног. Он мог отжиматься на одном пальце. Все это вы сможете увидеть в фильме «Брюс Ли: Путь воина».

Первый документальный фильм, снятый о жизни и смерти американского рэп-исполнителя Тупака Шакура, в котором показаны многие ранее невиданные интервью и выступления. Показ фильма стартовал в кинотеатрах с 16 ноября 2003 года. К 1 июля 2008 года, кассовые сборы фильма в США достигли 7,8 миллионов долларов, завоевав 11 строчку в списке самых кассовых документальных фильмов США. Фильм был номинирован на премию «Оскар».

Человек-Легенда. Где он родился, кто были его родители, жена и дети. Раритетные кадры о его первых шагах и лучших поединках в кинематографе. Создание его собственного стиля Кунг Фу «Джет Кон До» и тайна его загадочной смерти, полная домыслов и предположений.

Документальный фильм, созданный в поддержку ремейка «Кошмара на улице Вязов».