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.

Экранизация романа Марджори Келлогг. Лайза Миннелли в роли Джуни Мун, женщины, чье лицо и рука обезображены кислотой, вылитой на нее извращенцем, над которым она посмеялась, когда он заставил ее раздеться на кладбище. Роберт Мур - молодой человек, воспитанный "голубым", раненный в результате несчастного случая на охоте с другом, за которым он как раз приударил.

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

Сын мощной мафии, Дон приходит домой из службы в армии во Вьетнаме и хочет вести свою собственную жизнь, но семейная традиция, с участием его старшего брата диктует иначе, и он находит себя, и медленно втягивается обратно в этот мир.

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.

1933 год. Восемь молодых женщин, друзья и члены группы высшего сословия в частной школе для девушек, готовятся к выпуску и началу собственной жизни. Фильм рассказывает о том, что с ними произошло в годы между окончанием школы и началом Второй Мировой. Они влюбляются и выходят замуж, строят свои карьеры ищут смысл жизни...

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

Еврейский ростовщик, жертва нацистского преследования, теряет веру в своих родных и единоверцев, слишком поздно осознавая, к какой трагедии привели его действия.

A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.

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.

Один день из жизни семьи Тайрон, каждый из членов которой стал жертвой алкогольной или наркотической зависимости.

Девушка влюбляется в молодого человека из самой влиятельной семьи города, который заводит интрижку с ее одноклассницей. Узнав об измене, девушка начинает сходить с ума.

Валентайн Ксавьер — бродячий музыкант, решивший сменить образ жизни и покончить со злачными местами и ночными клубами. Волею судьбы он попадает в провинциальный городок, где устраивается на работу продавцом в магазин Джейба Торренса. Между ним и Леди Торренс — женой хозяина магазина возникает симпатия. Но на сердце парня также претендует молодая и взбалмошная Кэрол Кутрер. В складывающихся обстоятельствах ему предстоит сделать нелегкий выбор.

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

Юношу обвиняют в убийстве собственного отца, ему грозит электрический стул. Двенадцать присяжных собираются чтобы вынести вердикт: виновен или нет.С начала заседания почти все склонились к тому, что виновен, и лишь только один из двенадцати позволил себе усомниться. Счет голосов присяжных по принципу «виновен — невиновен» был 11:1. К концу собрания мнения судей кардинально изменились…

Фильм повествует о девушке по прозвищу «Куколка», которая выходит за разорившегося дельца и становится жертвой в противостоянии своего мужа и его конкурента по бизнесу.

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.

War widow and pre-teen daughter leave home of tyrannical father-in-law in Florida, get lost on a detour, and find shelter at a nudist colony.

В центре сюжета судьба простого докера — Терри Мэллоу, терзающегося сомнениями и решающего встать на путь восстановления справедливости, после того как выясняется, что он работает на настоящего гангстера — коррумпированного босса портовых докеров Джонни Фрэндли.

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.

Непритязательная житейская история женитьбы капитана баржи «Аталанта» Жана на деревенской девушке Жюльетте, их свадебного путешествия по каналам Франции к Парижу в сопровождении юнги-несмышленыша и несуразного «морского волка» папаши Жюля…

Ноль за поведение означает, что не отпускают домой в воскресенье — самое суровое наказание в закрытом, строгом колледже для мальчиков. Ребята объявляют войну воспитателям и устраивают невероятные выходки.

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.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

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.