An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery more
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in 1932. Insalubrity, misery and lack of opportunities provoke the emigration of young people and the solitude of those who remain in the desolation of one of the poorest and least developed Spanish regions at that time. (Silent short, voiced in 1937 and 1996.) close
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940.
A look at the parallel lives of Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler and how they crossed with the creation of the film “The Great Dictator,” released in 1940. close
Likely in June 1897, a group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at more
Likely in June 1897, a group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe. close
Theo Angelopoulos,
Vicente Aranda,
John Boorman,
Youssef Chahine,
Alain Corneau,
Konstantin Costa-Gavras,
Raymond Depardon,
Francis Girod,
Peter Greenaway,
Lasse Hallstrom,
Hugh Hudson,
Gaston Kaboré,
Abbas Kiarostami,
Cedric Klapisch,
Andrey Konchalovskiy,
Spike Lee,
Claude Lelouch,
Jose Juan Bigas Luna,
Sarah Moon,
Arthur Penn,
Lucian Pintilie,
Helma Sanders-Brahms,
Jerry Schatzberg,
Nadine Trintignant,
Fernando Trueba,
Liv Ullmann,
Jaco Van Dormael,
Regis Wargnier,
Wim Wenders,
Yoshishige Yoshida,
Yimou Zhang,
Merzak Allouache,
Gabriel Axel,
Michael Haneke,
James Ivory,
Patrice Leconte,
David Lynch,
Ismail Merchant,
Claude Miller,
Idrissa Ouedraogo,
Jacques Rivette
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions more
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes. close
Romm's "Ordinary Fascism" pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism more
Romm's "Ordinary Fascism" pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into absolute horror about fascism and nazism in the 1920s–1940s Europe, but also to a firmest of convictions that nothing of the sort should be allowed to happen again anywhere in the world. close