Walter Lassally

A documentary that takes a look at the production of BEFORE MIDNIGHT. As the film starts, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are sitting around as filming has just completed. From here we get some terrific stories as they talk about the characters as well as what they bring and take from them. We also get footage from the filming of the movie where we get to see how the actors and director work together to try and build up the scenes.

Третья часть трилогии. Мы встречаем Джесс и Селин еще через 9 лет в Греции. Почти две декады прошло с их первой встречи в поезде, направляющемся в Вену.

Being brought up by deaf parents did not hinder director Malcolm Venville. Instead, it opened his eyes to a whole new world of vivid images. Silent Film is an 11-minute film documenting his parents' romance.

Set in the period between the two world wars in a seaside village in the bay of Amvrakikos. Two children, Petros (8 years old) and Anthoula (7 years old) spend their summer holidays. During a walk they discover in an isolated shack a boy who lives with his mother. He is rejected by the community because of tuberculosis. Petros and Anthoula become friends with the boy. They encounter the cruelty of the adults and they decide to resist.

Виктория Браун, старая незамужняя женщина, жила тихо и спокойно, пока не обнаружила к удивлению на своём чердаке незнакомого мужчину. Последний оказался сбежавшим заключённым, оказавшийся за решёткой за кражу драгоценностей, и Виктория предлагает ему остаться у неё. Постепенно между ними возникает невероятное поначалу чувство доверия, а вскоре и самая настоящая дружба.

A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.

Индия, 1825 год. Капитан Уильям Сэвидж, только что женившийся на дочери полковника, узнает о страшных ритуальных убийствах и производит несколько арестов. Однако полковник приказывает освободить арестованных за недостатком доказательств. Сэвиджу, тем временем, удалось добиться признания одного из членов секты, решившего помочь ему покончить с варварским обычаем. Переодевшись индусом, капитан отправляется на «охоту» вместе с группой душителей, чтобы собрать доказательства. Фильм основан на реальных событиях.

Полицейский инспектор Гхоте живёт в Бомбее вместе со своей женой Пратимой жизнью обычного обывателя среднего класса. Он уже много лет работает в полиции. Его жена обычно недовольна и хочет лучшей жизни. Гхоте поручено расследовать убийство парса по имени Совершенный, который был секретарем Лала Хир Лала, богатого человека с криминальными связями. Инспектор Гхоте начинает расследование, как вдруг, к его недовольству, начальство просит его работать в паре со шведским экспертом-криминалистом Акселем Свеннсоном.

Married film director has affair with leading lady.

После выписки из больницы миссис Делафилд (уже далеко не молодая и обеспеченная вдова) начинает проявлять симпатию к своему лечащему врачу (небогат и разведен), который моложе ее на пять лет. Взаимная симпатия приводит героев к мысли: "А не пожениться ли нам?" Дети обеих сторон в шоке.

Adventurous Huck Finn prefers rafting on the Mississippi River rather than being a part of civilization.

A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to offer the down-and-out clients she serves at the homeless shelter. Soon, however, Carrie realizes that she's the one who has much to learn.

For the children of Northern Ireland, violence and hatred are a way of life passed from one generation to the next. In "Children in the Crossfire" four children from both sides of the conflict come to America through a special project, and discover each other away from the ravages of their homeland.

30 minutes of footage left after the finances collapsed.

Экранизация романа Генри Джеймса. Приезд в Бостон юной красавицы Верины Таррант вызвал необычные для 19-го века любовные страсти. Богатая и надменная феминистка Олайв Чанселлор решила взять девушку под свою «опеку». А кузен Олайв, молодой юрист Бэзил Рэнсом, мечтает, во что бы то ни стало, заполучить руку и сердце Верины. Бэзил и Олайв ведут настоящую войну за девушку. Но Верина не желает пассивно подчиняться чужой воле и сама выбирает свою судьбу…

В академии для благородных девиц состоится «большой бал». Приедут благородные юноши, а, кроме того, члены строительного комитета, решающие вопрос о пристройке нового крыла к зданию академии. Девушкам предстоит непростая работа — за один вечер очаровать всех молодых людей и комитетчиков.

Анна изучает скандальную жизнь двоюродной бабушки Оливии. В 1920-е годы, когда Оливия только вышла замуж за Дугласа, служащего в колониальной администрации, они уезжают в Индию. Постепенно Индия очаровывает женщину, и она влюбляется в местного правителя - наваба, который сочетает британские особенности правления с индийской роскошью и безжалостностью. Это увлечение рискованно, особенно на фоне активности местных бандитов и политических интриг британцев, направленных против наваба. Углубляясь в судьбу бабушки, Анна пересматривает и собственную жизнь.

The film version of the same-titled book by Mark Twain. A young printer's apprentice imagines himself back in the days of Guttenberg, helping him to print the Bible. The next thing he knows he has conjured up a young spirit from the future who casts spells over striking printers and causes general mischief.

A jaded soldier-of-fortune who runs a bar in Zimbabwe aids a bank-robbing couple in their attempt to evade the authorities.

Based on the acclaimed novel by Doris Lessing, this dystopian science fiction tale concerns a woman struggling to make her way in a post-apocalyptic society. D (Julie Christie) is living in a city that's at the point of collapse following a catastrophic nuclear war; lawlessness and violence rule the day, and gangs of brutal youth roam the streets. With the help of her teenage companion Emily (Leonie Mellinger), D tries to make her way, and in order to cope, she often escapes into a fantasy world in which she lives in genteel Victorian surroundings in the 19th century.

The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.

Mark Twain tale of cowardly Confederate soldiers.

Mike Hagan is a pilot in passenger service and candidate for the honor "Best Pilot of the Year". Nobody knows that he's got private sorrows - he's an alcoholic. A stewardess notices his regular visits of the toilet and reports it.

A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.

Based on the turbulent life of the temperamental French painter, Paul Gauguin, and his compulsive search for creative freedom which caused him to abandon his wife and five children in Paris for a life of contentment in Tahiti.

German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph (Martin West), a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun (this is the U.S.) and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company's history.

Когда нервный театральный менеджер встретился с честолюбивой журналисткой, это нельзя было назвать любовью с первого взгляда. Она считала его слишком навязчивым, а он ее - слишком скованной. Несмотря на это, их знакомство довольно скоро переросло в бурный роман.

Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.

A middle-aged man's doubts about himself transform themselves into paranoia about his younger wife's behavior in this psychological thriller. The husband plants listening devices around their apartment and eventually drives the heretofore innocent woman into the arms of one of his co-workers.

When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the bank themselves.

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at nothing to possess them. Peggy Ashcroft and Larry Pine star as two rapacious art collectors who come to the decaying Art Deco palace of a young Maharaja (Victor Banerjee) to examine a legendary collection of Indian miniature paintings. While vying with each other to get the pictures away from the royal couple—nicknamed Georgie and Bonnie as children by their Scottish governess—they must also divine the true motives of the Indian curator of the collection (Saeed Jaffrey), who, in league with the Maharaja’s beautiful sister (Aparna Sen), may be working against them. Amidst the backdrop of lavish tourist entertainments, Christmas parties, fireworks, and even an English ghost, a desperate game of palace intrigue will determine the ultimate resting place of the priceless paintings.

American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed him as a youngster - Robert Flaherty's famous documentary "Man of Aran" released in 1934.

Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.

The twelve year old Ivo has been living in Vienna with his family for three years. His father and brothers work at construction sites. Their Austrian neighbors despise the Yugoslav guest workers. Because the mother has to look after the sick grandmother at home in Croatia, Ivo runs the male household in Vienna alone. Solitude and insults from the locals make the child unhappy. And so Ivo decides on a rainy winter's day to return to his home village on his own.

Каждый год в день рождения покойного отца индийская принцесса приглашает на чашку чая старого англичанина, воспитателя махараджи. Вместе они смотрят любительские ленты, снятые много лет назад, и вспоминают прошлое.

Голливуд 20-е годы. Звезда немого кино Гримм устраивает дома грандиозную вечеринку. Гримм надеется, что звездная тусовка даст новый толчок его карьере. Но актер напивается и все идет не совсем так как было запланировано. А веселая вечеринка превращается в безумную оргию.

A BAFTA award nominated documentary demonstrating how the particular characteristics of friction are used on a new braking system to give greater control and greater safety when driving.

Eight acclaimed filmmakers bring their unique and differing perspectives to the 1972 Summer Olympic Games held in Munich. The segments include Lelouch's take on Olympic losers and their struggle to remain dignified even in the face of bitter disappointment and defeat; Zetterling's dramatic exploration of the world of weightlifting; and Pfleghar's piece on young Russian gymnast Ludmilla Tourischev's majestic performance on the uneven bars.

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell as fertilizer. A cocky young neighboring boy decides to help her with the work.

An adopted teen who runs away to what he believes to be his birth town and mother, in the hopes of putting together the missing pieces of his sense of identity. He arrives during a wave of disappearances and murders, only to encounter New England aloofness and some very eccentric relatives.

Young Socialists from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea march to London and discuss their economic struggles en route. Supporting them are Ken Loach, Corin Redgrave, Arnold Wesker and other leading cultural figures of the left of British politics. The march is intercut with scenes dramatising parallel injustices in the English Civil War era and earlier - featuring Frances de la Tour in queenly mode as Elizabeth I. The film's unconventional structure also features frequent extracts of the rousing pop concert, with the band Slade, which culminated the epic march.

A young hippie couple rent a secluded cabin on the beach in an attempt to re-connect with each other and save their marriage. Unfortunately, the man they rented the cabin from is a military-brat sociopath with two dogs more vicious than his temper.

A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civilized and assume the stereotypical roles and dress of people at a weekend party. There follows an allegory of upper-class behavior. At last, they begin to devolve toward their original status, and after a battle at croquet, they disappear into the woods.

An opportunistic young man working as a servant to a European countess uses his sexual talents to better his station in life.

Чарльз Бронсон исполняет в этом фильме роль матерого литератора,подвизающегося на ниве порнороманов. Именно это его умение завлекает в любовные сети молоденьких несмышленых девчонок, даже не достигших половой зрелости.

An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.

Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs.

When 17 year old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colourful characters, discovers the pleasures of casual sex and falls in love. That's when things get complicated.

This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.

An American secret service agent goes to Greece to investigate a stolen hydrogen bomb. It's connected to an antique coin that belonged to his brother...another agent. Now he's tasked with taking his brother out!

Американский военный самолет, перевозивший секретное оружие, потерпел катастрофу в небе над греческим островом. Чтобы найти потерю, но при этом предотвратить панику среди местных жителей и властей, НАТОвские генералы придумали спецоперацию - объявить остров курортной зоной...

Thirty-year-old lower middle class Dimitris, faint-hearted and not particularly ambitious, is ready to jump at the opportunity that will get him handsomely provided. He wavers between yesterday, the German occupation nightmare and his love debut with a neighbour and contemporary, fluid reality. He meets Thaleia, a rich woman his age, who frequents the same night club as him, but his daily routine is invariably the same. The closure of the small industry in Drapetsona, where he used to work for the last 8 years, and his relationship with Maria confront him with a different reality. Maria is a progressive, evening school teacher, full of dreams.

"Labyrinth" is a groundbreaking multi-screen 45-minute presentation produced for Chamber III of the Labyrinth at Expo 67 in Montreal, using 35 mm and 70 mm film projected simultaneously on multiple screens. A film without commentary in which multiple images, sometimes complementary, sometimes contrasting, draw the viewer through the different stages of a labyrinth. The tone of the film moves from great joy to wrenching sorrow; from stark simplicity to ceremonial pomp. It is life as it is lived by the people of the world, each one, as the film suggests, in a personal labyrinth. Re-released in 1979 as "In the Labyrinth" by the National Film Board of Canada in a 21-minute single projection format.

Молодой англичанин Бэзил получает в наследство участок земли и шахту на острове Крит, где сталкивается с жестокими нравами местных жителей, и только дружба с жизнерадостным и находчивым греком Зорбой позволяет ему преодолеть возникшие проблемы.

An industrialist's wife tries to remember the shocking sight that made her blind.

A film fantasy concerning the adventures of a modern girl whose passion for peaches is eventu­ally replaced by a very different type of passion.

Том Джонс, брошенный ребенок, воспитывается у сквайра Олверти. Негодуя, что Блайфил является законным наследником Олверти, Том становится мошенником, падким на хорошеньких женщин. Он испытывает чувства к дочери сквайра Вестерна Софи, однако ее доброжелатель узнает про его отношения с местной девушкой Молли. Том терпит неудачу и отправляется в путешествие…

Британский художественный фильм режиссёра Тони Ричардсона, снятый в 1962 по одноимённому рассказу Алана Силлитоу. Картина рассказывает о Колине Смите, юноше, приговоренном после ограбления булочной к пребыванию в исправительной школе. Фильм содержит резкую критику общественного устройства Великобритании.

Миф об Электре, желавшей отомстить за смерть своего отца Агамемнона и подстрекавшей брата Ореста на убийство собственной матери Клитемнестры и её любовника.

A rich girl leaves her family to avoid marrying the person her father has chosen for her. Her father offers a reward in order to find her and an other girl that looks exactly like her is brought to him.

Неуклюжая, застенчивая семнадцатилетняя Джо живёт со своей безалаберной матерью-алкоголичкой Хелен. После конфликта с очередным кавалером матери Джо проводит ночь с чернокожим моряком, находящимся в коротком отпуске на берегу.

A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at apartheid in South Africa and the Sharpville massacre.

Aliki is in love with someone who serves his duty in the greek navy. Wanting to see him, she disguises as a navy soldier and gets aboard her lover's ship. Things get more complicated when she comes accross the ship's captain; her father!

Madalena is a tough seventeen-year-old who is forced to take on her father's ferry business after he dies. She has her many brothers and sisters to support, and there is no one else to do the job. So she rallies her defenses and sets out to give her rival in the ferry business a run for his money. But at the same time, the rival's handsome son is starting to look better and better. Madalena refuses to acknowledge her feelings for him -- though how long she can sustain that denial is the question.

When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.

The lives of two male Greek teens and the young daughter of the British Ambassador in Greece are turned upside down when the best friend of a teenage gang leader dies. Meanwhile, a love triangle is developed between the three characters.

Действие картины происходит на востоке Пакистана. В фильме показана семья рыбаков. Невыносимая тяжесть ежедневной борьбы за существование, показана объективной неореалистической камерой. Положение рыбаков безнадежно: человека, у которого они просят денег, интересует только своё личное материальное обеспечение, но не жизнь других людей.

Seminal piece of documentary filmmaking by New Wave director Karel Reisz following the daily activities of members of the Lambeth Youth club in late-1950s London.

Short drama-documentary showing the first day in England of a Hungarian refugee.

An old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.

A daughter discovers her wealthy family is actually on the verge of bankruptcy and decides to charm a millionaire for his money in marriage. Soon she is torn between living a lie and keeping up appearances.

Every Day Except Christmas is a 37-minute documentary film filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, then located in the Covent Garden area of East central London. It was directed by Lindsay Anderson and produced by Karel Reisz and Leon Clore under the sponsorship of Ford of Britain, the first of the company's "Look At Britain" series.

Сестра Марины покончила с собой, бросившись в реку. Ее брат — твердолобый, но слабый духом человек, а овдовевшая мать пользуется репутацией местной потаскухи. Семья Марины когда-то была очень богата, а теперь разорилась. Молчаливая и печальная девушка в черном оказывается объектом насмешек, зависти и травли со стороны местных. Особенно докучает Марине Кристос, чьи ухаживания она отвергла. Каждый раз выходя из дома, девушка испытывает страх очередных унижений. Людские пересуды мешают ей наладить и личную жизнь. Когда она влюбляется в молодого афинянина, он боится ответить ей взаимностью.

The workaday boredom and crushing hardships of London's East End in the 1950s, seen from the point of view of two deaf-mutes who share a strong bond of friendship.

A night at the Wood Green Jazz Club - an example of 'Free Cinema'.

Two farming brothers take a chance on a sick cow and send cattle that have been in contact with it to market.

Promotional film for the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children).

The British Passing Stranger stars Hollywood actor Lee Patterson as a deserting American GI. He drifts about until he falls in with a gang of gunrunners. He wants to quit, but can't until he makes enough money to support himself and his love Diane Cilento. Just before this is possible, Cilento's ex-boyfriend blows the whistle on the crooks. Just long enough not to wear out its welcome, The Passing Stranger is a passing good little film noir.

A montage of scenes from East End life set to a soundtrack of music hall songs with appropriate lyrics.

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are shown painstakingly learning what words are through exercises and games, practicing lip-reading and finally speech. Richard Burton's calm and sometimes-poetic narration adds to the heartwarming cheerfulness and courage of the children.

Story of Simon, the odd boy out and how he is thwarted in his attempts to be one of "the gang".

After a puritan youth, a young English woman discovers her sensuality in North-Africa.

People quietly or campily pass the time in an overgrown garden full of statues, while a puritanical, funereal gentleman posts bills prohibiting all leisure activities.

Part of BFI collection "London on the Move."

London families spend a day at Southend-on-Sea.

Documentary about the production of a small town weekly newspaper from reporting to printing.

Early Lindsay Anderson industrial film promoting Sutcliffe's conveyors. Three different uses of Sutcliffe's conveyor installations.

Four examples of the kind of carelessness that leads to fires in this country frequently.

Гарри Фабиан — Лондонский шустрила с честолюбивыми планами, которые никогда не срабатывают. Однажды, когда он сталкивается с наиболее известным греко-римским борцом в мире, Грегориусом, в лондонской борцовской арене, которой управляет его сын Кристо, он выдумывает схему, которая, как он думает, положит начало к его финансовой независимости.

Elizabeth Sussex's exquisite documentary about a rural Scottish school, edited by Gladwell.

"Professor Marian died under mysterious circumstances."