Deceased turn-of-the-century playboy Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche) presents himself to the outer offices of Hades, where he asks a bemused Satan for permission to enter the gates of hell. Though the devil doubts that Henry’s sins qualify him for eternal damnation, Henry proceeds to recount a lifetime of wooing and pursuing women, his long, happy marriage to Martha (Gene...
L’infanzia, la vita e la morte di Balthazar, asino nato fra i pastori. Acquistato appena nato per rallegrare l’estate dei figli di una famiglia borghese, viene rifiutato e rivenduto l’anno successivo perché è diventato grosso e irsuto. Iniziano per Balthazar le vicissitudini che lo porteranno, ignaro, a confrontarsi con gli uomini.
Dopo la fine della guerra in Bosnia, Halima, una contadina di un remoto villaggio musulmano, decide di ritrovare i resti di suo marito e di suo figlio, catturati dalle forze paramilitari serbe e giustiziati. Attraverso l'analisi del DNA, il Comitato delle Nazioni Unite per le persone scomparse riesce a identificare i resti del marito in una delle fosse comuni, ma non que...
In 1996, the municipality of Naples approved a project of urban upgrading to reconvert the former industrial site of Bagnoli and create a low-density housing complex offering high environmental quality. The president and the general manager of Bagnoli S.p.A., the company carrying out the project, supervise the works and dialog with the institutions, the mayors and the press,...
Paris. Jean Fournier, a young bank employee, is encouraged by his friend Caron to take an interest in gambling. After winning money in a game of roulette, he decides to vacation in Nice, where he falls in love with Jackie Demestre, an inveterate player. They start to gamble together and win lots of money. Jeanne Moreau, with her platinum blond hair, superbly embodies the un...
In the summer of 1968, three friends, Réb, Makay and Nikita decided to leave Hungary. Only Makay obtained his passport, but Reb stole it and took off for the U.S. Seventeen years later, he comes back to Hungary with a teen-age daughter, Marylou, and starts in with his usual underhanded, sly schemes for making money. His idea is to leave his daughter to her mother and take ad...
Una storia familiare ambientata nella Russia rurale. La vita di un padre introverso e della figlia adolescente gira intorno ai loro viaggi su un furgone rosso, la loro casa su ruote, e le proiezioni cinematografiche che portano in piccole città e villaggi dispersi. Un road movie che ricorda le peregrinazioni di Wenders e i paesaggi di Tarkovskij, nella fredda e deso...
San Miniato al Tedesco, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, November 1594. Monna Gostanza da Libbiano is a sixty year old countrywoman, midwife, spinner and healer. Accused of witchcraft by the bishop of Lucca, she will be arrested.
Il film è ambientato nella Belfast degli anni '70, nel periodo in cui la città era al centro degli scontri tra Inghilterra e Irlanda. Il protagonista, Terry Hooley, mentre i suoi amici imbracciano le armi per contrastare gli inglesi, apre nella parte della città più tormentata degli scontri tra opposte fazioni, il negozio di dischi Good Vibrat...
Good Time for a Change è un film etnografico che racconta l’esperienza di Danilo, un giovane italiano che sta pensando di emigrare in Canada. Il film illustra dall’interno tutte le fasi dell’esperienza migrante e il suo incontro con la realtà canadese, dalla metropoli di Toronto fino alle foreste incontaminate del Nord dell’Ontario. All&...
It follows the resistance to modernization in rural Mexico. It is a reminder that it is still possible to live in tune with our essence as human beings. A survey of rural Mexico composed into an extraordinary collage of labor practices and vast landscapes, Gods of Mexico portrays the rich diversity of several communities of Native Peoples and Afro-descendants throughout the...
A German U-boat is sunk in Hudson Bay. The survived nazi sailors attempt to evade capture by traveling across Canada to the still-neutral United States. An anti-nazi film, which avoids any stereotypes, recalls Hitchcock's dramas and counts several great English actors, as Anton Walbrook, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard.
Artist, anarchist, drop-out, paperless immigrant: Giovanni Segantini was all of this. He created, usually under the open sky, monumental, idealized alpine landscapes. In the course of his lifetime, he climbed ever higher in search of more light, finally dying at 41 in an Engadin alpine hut at 2700m. The film offers insight into his difficult childhood and boyhood, shares his...
Lucy Muir, a beautiful widow, moves with her daughter into a seaside cottage. She soon discovers her new home is haunted by the handsome ghost of a sea captain. When Lucy loses her income, the captain comes up with a solution to her financial woes and, in the process, wins her heart. Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison and a young Natalie Wood co-star in one of the most romantic g...
Mandel Baruch was an handsome man, a "Mensch" who had sacrificed everything for business. When he dies, his beloved son, Lionel, gathers some old family friends to organize a funeral to be remembered.
This documentary film follows the process of creating one of Velasco Vitali's famous dog sculptures, from wax to glazed bronze, at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia (Battaglia Artistic Foundry), in Milan. The film observes the work of a group of skilled artisans in this 100-year old foundry and reveals the ancient traditions of bronze sculpture making, un...
Dreyer's final film is a Danish drama based on the 1906 play of the same name by Hjalmar Söderberg. Gertrud, unhappily married with a lawyer and politician, meets first her former lover, a famous poet, then starts a relation with a young composer and eventually ends up living alone. Thirty years later, Gertrud looks back at her life. She says that love is the only thing that...
A surreal black comedy set in a decrepit 1960's housing development project in the Netherlands. Thomas is twelve years old. When his mother is drawn into sainthood and the resulting frustrations of his father become too difficult to manage, Thomas becomes obsessed with events on the broadcast news about the liberation of the Belgian Congo. Thomas becomes fond of Lumumba, one...
Tel Aviv, August 2006. Three episodes dealing with the different sides of identity: ethnicity, religion, politics and sexual orientation. Four young Israeli lesbians, a group of religious queers from all the world, an Arabic gay who dresses up and acts as drag queen. Background is the war in Lebanon.
Vincent Parry, unjustly condemned of his's wife's murder, has only one possibility: plastic surgery. He changes his appearance and starts looking for the murderer. A young and beautiful woman helps him escape from the police. It is the third of four films that the real-life couple Bacall and Bogart made together.
