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- DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsJenjira PongpasSakda KaewbuadeeChai BhatanaShifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a film-maker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampiric mother and daughter.
- DirectorArthur RipleyStarsW.C. FieldsElise CavannaHarry WatsonAn inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill.
- DirectorLeslie M. RoushStarsRobert BenchleyRuth LeeLecturer Robert Benchley outlines some of the pet peeves that wives have with their husbands.
- DirectorLeslie M. RoushStarsRobert BenchleyRuth LeePolice officer Benchley shows us the antisocial potential of inanimate objects such as shoelaces and handkerchiefs.
- DirectorRay CozineStarsGeorge BurnsGracie AllenChester CluteGeorge is taken to the hospital in mistake for an accident victim. After his needless operation, he meets Nurse Gracie, who adds insanity to injury.
- DirectorAubrey ScottoStarsGeorge BurnsGracie AllenChester CluteBurns and Allen have a dizzy conversation in a bookstore.
- DirectorAubrey ScottoStarsGeorge BurnsGracie AllenChester CluteStreet-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns & Allen's vaudeville "dizzy" routine.
- DirectorAubrey ScottoStarsGeorge BurnsGracie AllenChester CluteGeorge, working in a hat shop, gets tricky with the customers. Then Gracie comes in and drives him batty.
- DirectorSaul BassStarsPeter HansenPaul SaltmanMixing animation with live-action, Saul Bass' "Why Man Creates" is an eight-part meditation on the nature and struggle of creativity.
- DirectorSaul BassStarsWalter LangGary MerrillVic PerrinThe simple actions of a young boy on the beach provide visual metaphors for the normally unseen world. The camera adds a profound dimension to what the boy has seen, giving us a deeper understanding of visual awareness.
- DirectorElaine BassSaul BassStarsJohn AbbottNoah HathawayDavid ComfortA child has only an 8 day life-span to complete a mysterious journey from the dim cave-dwelling society where he is born to a final gateway, the object of folklore. The abstract learning-games taught to the child bear an eerie resemblance to mammoth tasks and obstacles that hinder him in his journey. Can he complete the quest before his 8 days are up, and what lies at the end of this arcane sunless world? The gray, stagnating civilization place all their hope in a future they cannot comprehend and learned tasks whose meaning they no longer understand.
- DirectorElaine BassSaul BassStarsJohn H. MayerRobert MillarProduced by actor Robert Redford, The Solar Film is a part serious live action, part satirical animated educational documentary made to show the history of fossil fuels and why the use of clean solar energy should be the way of the future.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinAlbert AustinA drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.
- DirectorMargaret TaitA look at the day to day life of the inhabitants and workers of Rose Street in Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh.
- DirectorHiroshi TeshigaharaStarsSofu TeshigaharaSculptor Sofu Teshigahara, father of filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara, prepares for an exhibition.
- DirectorMargaret TaitStarsMargaret TaitAdaptation of a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
- DirectorMargaret WilliamsStarsTamara KrikorianMargaret TaitScottish filmmaker Margaret Tait in conversation with video artist Tamara Krikorian.
- DirectorPavel JurácekJan SchmidtStarsKarel VasicekConsuela MorávkováIvan RuzickaA man borrows a cat and when he goes back to return it, the place where he got it is no longer there. He begins his search.
- DirectorJan SchmidtStarsVlastimil Brodský
- DirectorChristopher MunchStarsDavid AngusIan HartStephanie PackA fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
- DirectorMichael BlackwoodStarsTadao AndôJapanese architect, Tadao Ando, roots himself in cultural visions of space, landscape, and juxtaposition. Inspired deeply by his home and heritage, Ando proposes an international architecture that he believes can only be conceived by someone Japanese. Believing in the importance of carpentry and craftsmanship, Ando pays tribute to his culture and the way in which architecture is approached through the body. Showcasing his individuality through urban complexes, residences and chapels, Ando presents the work of his formative years, before embarking on projects in Europe and the United States.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsIra RubinSam DeFazioAndrea MartinNow middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger, and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it all, he talks about how much of his success and happiness is due to the support of his "friend" Joe. Unfortunately, the only one who blindly believes that Joe is anything close to a friend is Murray himself, because it's obvious to everyone else that Joe not only back-stabs him at every chance, but is also sleeping with his wife.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsCatherine ScorseseCharles ScorseseMartin ScorseseMartin Scorsese interviews his mother and father about their life in New York City and the family history back in Sicily. These are two people who have lived together for a long time and know each other very well.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsPeter BernuthIn the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsZeph MichaelisMimi StarkSarah BravemanA writer named Algernon (but called Harry by his friends) buys a picture of a boat on a lake, and his obsession with it renders normal life impossible. He attempts to function again by consulting an analyst and becoming married, but eventually succumbs to his strange anxiety by disappearing into the picture.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPhyllis AllenMack SwainAfter a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.
- DirectorHenri-Georges ClouzotStarsBoucot FilsGermaine AusseyJean WallA burlesque heist film with an O.Henry type twist ending.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinMykola ShpykovskyiStarsJosé Raúl CapablancaVladimir FogelAnna ZemtsovaWith an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.
- DirectorDavid DouglasStarsRip TornMan's emergency creativity can be seen at its best, after Saddam Hussein had the Kuwait oil wells lit up, as teams from all over the world fought those fires for months, and had to save the oil resources, as well as reduce air pollution.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsAntoine VitezA documentary account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s.
- DirectorDenis Segaller
- DirectorHelma Sanders-BrahmsStarsMaurice BazinPhilippe CollinHerman Sander"Hermann mein Vater" is a companion piece by director Helma Sanders-Brahms to her 1980 film "Germany Pale Mother". The latter work was focused on the impact of war on a German family. This made-for-tv documentary follows Sanders-Brahms and her father Hermann on a trip to Normandy, where he was stationed as a soldier in 1940-41.
- DirectorWalter SallesStarsFrans KrajcbergSocorro NobreAfter reading an article, an inmate in Salvador identifies herself with Franz Krajcberg and decides to write a letter to the Holocaust survivor.
- DirectorClyde BruckmanStarsW.C. FieldsRosemary ThebyGeorge ChandlerThe prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsSari AkasakaSakio HirataJinichi IshizakiExperimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with...a vampire?
- DirectorJean-Jacques BeineixStarsYves AfonsoDenise PéronCorinne CostantiniAn impoverished man starts to pretend he keeps a dog in his apartment.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsNicole BergerStella DassasAlain DelrieuA careless mother hires a young tutor to bring up her son's marks, as bad in mathematics as in French language. The young woman tries to teach the boy the easiest things in the curriculum, as well as some manners. She fails, faced with a puzzling logic in the boys' answers, and her tight new shoes. Alone at last, the boy picks up his rubber ball - to sleep on it.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsBrice ParainDominique Dubarle
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsNadja TesichJean-Pierre LéaudNadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust. Besides her student life she likes to stroll about Paris, to explore the variety of this wide and open city.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsAntoine VitezAn examination of the lifestyles of female college students in 1966.
- DirectorKrzysztof KieslowskiPeople of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsJean-Luc GodardStéphane AudranAnna KarinaTwo young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous. After saying good-bye to Clara, Walter accompanies Charlotte into her house, although she doesn't want him to. Charlotte is hungry and cooks a steak. She asks Walter if he wants a piece of it. He says no, but she gives him a small piece anyway. He wants a kiss, and she says no. She starts to compare herself with Clara, who Walter agrees is more beautiful. In spite of this, Walter says he likes Charlotte much more, but she thinks he is lying. She notices that he is cold and shivering. She hugs him, he kisses her, and she starts kissing him. After leaving the house he accompanies her to the train.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsBarbet SchroederClaudine SoubrierMichèle GirardonA law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsBjörn AndrésenSergio GarfagnoliLuchino ViscontiDocumentary on Luchino Visconti's travels and auditions in search for a young actor to portray the role of Tadzio in his adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice", finally choosing Swedish actor Björn Andrésen.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisRoy BrooksA man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsJean-Luc GodardThis TV short film has Godard playing himself with his back to the camera. He cuts to extra-diegetic images and also employs very long superimpositions.
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsPearlly ChuaA woman is wandering the upstairs shopping center above a bus terminus aimlessly, as she cannot pay for the bus ticket to travel to Muar, even though she is generously offered a ticket at a discounted price that she has enough money for.
- DirectorManoel de OliveiraA documentary that looks at the people working in the river Douro, around the city of Porto.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsMatt DillonDaphné PatakiaSusan ElleA professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
- DirectorJacques TatiStarsJacques TatiPaul DemangeSchool for Postmen" is a 1947 short film directed and starring Jacques Tati, playing a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.
- DirectorDerek JarmanStarsWilliam S. BurroughsPeter ChristophersonFM EinheitShort portrait of writer William S. Burroughs.
- DirectorJoseph CornellJoseph Cornell's editing tactic is to seduce through the use of dislodged movie tropes. Hence the viewer is cut loose from any normal meanings to pursue the snippets of clips and fragments taken from long-forgotten obscure movies. One is encouraged to let the Cornellian montages wash over them in an endles reverie of ecstatic moments. - Bruce Posner
- DirectorJames BroughtonStarsAnna HalprinWelland LathropPoems narrate four afternoon vignettes; each protagonist is older than the one in the previous sketch. As a girl skips rope in "Game Little Gladys," she sings a jingle about who she might marry. In a park, ten men appear atop low pedestals. Is one her future? In "Gardener's Son," a teen wakes outdoors; thinking about love, he goes about his chores, passing by classical statues and slightly-older women. In "Princess Printemps," a spring poem accompanies a somewhat addled princess as an equally silly suitor pursues her. In "The Aging Balletomane," a man rocking on a porch looks about him, remembers his youth, and sees an apparition of a woman. She dances. He reaches for her. She disappears.
- DirectorKen AnnakinExploring the daily life of a large family in Yorkshire, at work in the textile mills and at play.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsJim BroadbentStephen BillBelinda BradleyThe 23rd Earl of Leete shares brief moments of his life, the truth behind his family estate and his particular glorious moment when he murdered his wife and his brother.
- DirectorFrancis Lee1941 was Francis Lee's first film; CH'AN his last. In between, he became an expert Sumi-e watercolorist and here he combines eloquent ink paintings with masterful animation methods. This film moves through mysterious shapes, takes the viewer on an explosive meditative journey across the imaginary landscapes of his creations. - Bruce Posner
- DirectorRobert DrewStarsLyndon B. JohnsonJohn Kennedy Jr.Caroline KennedyThe sights and sounds from the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in November, 1963.
- DirectorPeter GlushanokStarsMiriam ColeMartha GrahamStuart HodesA filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsBarbara LassRoman PolanskiHenryk KlubaA church bell chimes. An old woman stops to feed pidgins on her way to work in the men's lavatory in the basement of a public building. She sits all day by the lavatory door as little dramas play out -- of illness, assignation, and routine -- a few tips her only acknowledgment. The sound of footsteps on the floor above her brings a reverie of her youth, when she was a beauty, the day a platoon of soldiers marched into her valley. As the day in the basement proceeds, she completes a set of memories that takes her from passion to maternal love to rejection and tragedy. Could there be more awaiting her on this day of remembering the fruit of her womb?
- DirectorAmy GreenfieldTRANSPORT came out of many influences in the early 1970s: the dead of Vietnam; the poem by my poetry teacher Anne Sexton, "For God While Sleeping"; the post-modern experiments with trust, to give yourself totally while being lifted by another; and the airborne astronauts of moon exploration. - Amy Greenfield
- DirectorXavier LegrandStarsLéa DruckerAnne BenoîtMiljan ChâtelainMiriam, with her two children, escapes her husband, whom she fears.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJacques TatiMax MartelLouis RoburA boxer is out in the country with his entourage, training for his next fight. Meanwhile, on the farm nearby, Roger is neglecting his chores. As he watches the boxer and his sparring partners at work, Roger starts to fantasize about being a boxer himself. Then, when none of the boxer's sparring partners can continue, he is asked to fill in, although he doesn't know anything about how to box.
- DirectorNata MetlukhA day full of socially awkward moments.
- DirectorJean-Marie StraubStarsIrm HermannKristin PetersonHanna SchygullaThree sequences are linked together in this short film by Straub; the first sequence is a long tracking shot from a car of prostitutes plying their trade on the night-time streets of Germany; the second is a staged play, cut down to 10 minutes by Straub and photographed in a single take; the final sequence covers the marriage of James and Lilith, and Lilith's subsequent execution of her pimp, played by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
- DirectorDon HertzfeldtStarsJulia PottWinona MaeSara CushmanA little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
- DirectorWerner HerzogDenis ReichleStarsWerner HerzogDenis ReichleThe film focuses on a group of Miskito in Nicaragua who used child soldiers in their resistance against the Sandinistas.
- DirectorGreg MacGillivrayStarsSteven K. KatonaMeryl StreepJudith ConnorFilmmaker Greg MacGillivray examines the world's oceans and their importance to life on Earth.
- StarsJay MartinMistyVickyAn amazing 22-minute short film featuring interviews with four transwomen in 1967.
- DirectorHugh HarmanStarsMel BlancJeanne DunneThe Hollywood Choir BoysTwo baby squirrels ask grandpa to explain what "men" are when they hear everyone singing of "peace on earth, goodwill to men". Grandpa tells the story of man's last war.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsRoger CoggioAnne OlivierJacopo NiziA humorous travelogue of the French Riviera.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAntoine BourseillerDanièle DelormeClotilde JoanoWalk around the Loire Valley castles 'shown in chronological order of construction' with commentaries, 16th-century poems, and gardeners' reflections.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsJasmine ThiréMichel JeannèsJacky PatinA 14-year-old girl opens a package containing a magical magenta ball dress ten times her teenage size. Jasmine enters the folds of the dress, into a modern anti-fairy tale and everyday empowerment.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsJason SchwartzmanNatalie PortmanWaris AhluwaliaA prologue of one heart-breaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in The Darjeeling Limited (2007).
- DirectorBoris KaufmanJean VigoWhat starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
- DirectorJean VigoStarsJean TarisJean Vigo films the talents of great swimming champion Jean Taris performing different acts. Vigo film technique allied with Taris swimming style are intertwined with grace and effect.
- DirectorJean VigoStarsJean DastéRobert le FlonLouis LefebvreIn a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.
- DirectorAlan BarillaroA hungry sandpiper hatchling ventures from her nest for the first time to dig for food by the shoreline. The problem is, the food is buried in the sand where scary waves roll up.
- DirectorKrit KomkrichwarakoolStarsKenny BrainJosh PymanA unique relationship flourishes between an aspiring artist and a plant man growing in his garden.
- DirectorTheodor KotullaStarsRobert BressonNadine NortierA documentary featuring director Robert Bresson on the set of Mouchette and interviews with him (off and in).
- DirectorJim JarmuschStarsCharlotte GainsbourgIndya MooreJulianne MooreA waiter, played by the famously mustached Leo Reilly, stands with a platter of water while observing some guests - Chloë Sevigny, Julianne Moore, and Indya Moore - hanging out after a dinner party.
- DirectorLeslie M. RoushStarsRobert BenchleyPhyllis KennedyAfter some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink his coffee, and he thinks the arrival of some plumbers is just a giant conspiracy to keep him unnerved.
- DirectorBill MorrisonStarsGuy de LanceyStephen KellamBob McGrath
- DirectorJames AgeeHelen LevittJanice LoebImages of street life in New York's Spanish Harlem during the 1940s.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaA documentary of the caryatids in Paris accompanied by the poetry of Baudelaire and the music of Offenbach.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsAgnès VardaIn 2005, filmmaker Agnès Varda revisited the Rue Daguerre where she used to live 30 years earlier and had interviewed the shopkeepers for her film Daguerreotypes, to see how things might have changed. The same grocer was still there, and the accordion shop had been repainted a different color.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsJulie DepardieuFrédérick E. Grasser-HerméSilvia UrrutiaMagic, synchronicity, love and loss around the Place Denfert-Rochereaus and its famous statue of the lion of Denfert.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsLouis AragonMichel PiccoliElsa TrioletThe story of a poet's (Louis Aragon) love for his wife, the writer Elsa Triolet.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsDorothée BlanckAntoine BourseillerAndré RousseletImpressions of the rue Mouffetard, Paris 5, through the eyes of a pregnant woman.
- DirectorOusmane SembeneStarsMamadou M'BowAmadi DiengFatim DiagneA young unemployed man fends off accusations of laziness and makes a home for his pregnant girlfriend who has been rejected by her family.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsDaws ButlerWilliam HannaPat McGeehanTwo buzzards suffer from acute food shortage and make up for it by cooking each other, or at least trying to.
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsTilda SwintonAgustín AlmodóvarMiguel AlmodóvarA woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.
- DirectorLeo De BoerJurriën RoodStarsRobert BressonLouis MalleDominique SandaA Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsElem KlimovValentin RasputinStefaniya StanyutaA loving film tribute to Russian filmmaker Larisa Shepitko, who died tragically in a car accident in 1979 at the age of 40. This documentary by her husband, Elem Klimov, includes excerpts from all of Shepitko's films, and her own voice is heard talking about her life and art.
- DirectorAndrzej CelinskiHanna PolakAIDS, drug abuse, police brutality, and other social ills in post-Soviet Russia.
- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsCatherine SéePhilippe BeuzenChristian CharrièreThe friendship of Bertrand and Guillaume is complicated when the womanizing Guillaume begins to pursue a charming girl named Suzanne.
- DirectorAlain ResnaisStarsMichel BouquetReinhard HeydrichHeinrich HimmlerThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- DirectorXiaogang GuA commercial commissioned by FIRST film festival and LEXUS company. A side story short of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
- DirectorChris MarkerStarsÉtienne BeckerJean NégroniHélène ChatelainThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
- DirectorNazli NourStarsNazli NourMolly TerryAn old woman apparently tormented by people in the street comforts herself in her room with memories of her youth.