The film tells about the Siberian penal servitude of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story of the difficult transformation of a young romantic into a great Russian writer. The film is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
"From the Notebook of..." was shot in Florence and takes as its point of departure Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks and Paul Valéry's essay on da Vinci's process. These two elements suggest an implicit comparison between the treatment of space in Renaissance art and the moving image. The film marks a critical development in the artist's work in that he repeatedly employs a series of rapid pans and upward tilts along the city's buildings or facades, often integrating glimpses of his own face. As Beavers notes in his writing on the film, the camera movements are tied to the filmmakers' presence and suggests his investigative gaze.
HE NOTEBOOKS is an inspiring film about friendship, love, and hope. When Preston Walker suddenly finds himself forgetting his memories, he puts a game plan in place to help him remember ...
Secret Nuremberg Notebooks Documentary from 2006 by Jean-Charles Deniau and Dominique Tibi . We have already seen the famous photos of the Nuremberg trials. But until now, no one has taken us into the defendants' prison cells and personal thoughts. The 34-year-old Jewish psychiatrist Leon Goldensohn spent six months in the company of four of the most notorious Nazi war criminals. His unique and recently rediscovered notes allows us for the first time get a glimpse of Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Hans Franck and Julius Streicher's life. The interviews deal with ever-topical questions such as: What are the psychological mechanisms underlying human evil? The film also features dramatic reconstructions of the key events of World War II.
Behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Prestige" (2006).
This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and featuring original music by Angus MacLise, who was the first drummer to perform with The Velvet Underground.
Video diary film by Jonas Mekas, premiered at the British Film Institute on December 5, 2017.
82-year-old Elisheva Rise passed away. After her death, her children clear out her home, and find some journals. She secretly wrote to each of her seven children journals documenting 57 years, from their birth to the day she died. It was her life's work. Every evening she would sit in her home in Kibbutz Ein Tzurim and write to her children, whom she had never hugged nor kissed. Now, they open the journals for the first time. Following the treasure she left behind, they embark on an emotional and painful journey, learning about childhood, motherhood, and parenting.
A review of Howard Hawks's work, focusing on "His Girl Friday".
The pet magazine "Cat's Notebook", which boasts a circulation of 100,000, has become a video! In the first issue, we will introduce the cat show that decides the best cat in Japan.
Dvd Featurette on the work of D.C. Fontana on Star Trek: The Original Series
Noman, a homeless outsider in the big city, tells his story of a disconnected world. Dedicated to those who feel like they aren't seen. We see you. We feel for you. We understand you.
The Editor’s Notebook is a salute from one titan of Chicago media to another. A sponsored film produced by Wilding Picture Productions on behalf of the Chicago Daily News, The Editor’s Notebook mixes documentary footage, staged recreations, and interviews with the newspaper’s staff to illuminate and explain the work of the Daily News and the importance of a free press in American democracy. As both Wilding and the Daily News are long defunct, The Editor’s Notebook also provides an entertaining and accessible look at media companies whose legacies have no present-day corporate guardian or benefactor.
"Even though I can't explain why, a film that moves me deeply each time I see it ... enchanting!" – Stan Brakhage
A woman walks into a video store and makes a sad, strange request.
The series, which warmly describes the troubles of high school students during their adolescence, the secrets they hide from their families and teachers, and their happiness and sadness in high school, made many faces known.
An abstract journalistic collage that archives the month of October, 2017.
Leonardo da Vinci strove to know the world equally through artistic and scientific means. This poetic portrayal of one of history’s most imaginative minds returns to the Goodman nearly three decades after it burst onto the stage in a career-catapulting production for adaptor/director Mary Zimmerman. In a production composed entirely of words from his notebooks and various treatises, da Vinci’s ideas on topics from mathematics, anatomy, architecture and engineering, to philosophy, love and the human spirit come to vivid life.
A film by Nick Collins
A four-minute silent collection of fragments filmed in and around Shanghai in 2012.
