Tag: filmmaking
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Stardust Memories
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
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Cannibal Holocaust
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area’s local cannibal tribes.
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Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life
Former Disney child star Hayley Mills returns to the Walt Disney Studio for a look at the techniques of animated film production, with various veteran Disney animators illustrating said techniques.
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The Wandering Company
Documentary about Merchant Ivory Productions, including interviews with the principals of the film production company and actors which have appeared in their films.
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Pretty Woman, un conte de fées hollywoodien
Overknee boots that triggered a fashion wave, a legendary shopping spree to the iconic theme song – the 1990 romantic comedy “Pretty Woman” by Garry Marshall starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere is still the genre’s biggest box office hit. The modern fairytale about a rich man who falls in love with a prostitute and…
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A Heroic Fight
The granddaughter of a Taiwanese triad boss becomes a victim of a kidnapping attempt, but she’s saved by a team of movie stuntmen. They become friends and work together to fend off one of the boss’ underlings who goes rogue when he’s overlooked for a promotion.
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Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood
A retrospective of the films of Britain’s Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.
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F/X2
F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks Rollie to help catch a killer. The operation goes well until some unknown man kills both the killer and Mike. Mike’s boss, Silak says it was the killer who killed Mike but Rollie knows it…
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Dangerous Game
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
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Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump
A look behind the scenes of Robert Zemeckis’ 1994 Oscar-winning film, ‘Forrest Gump’.
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A Rainy Day in New York
Two young people arrive in New York to spend a weekend, but once they arrive they’re met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
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Salaam Cinema
Makhmalbaf puts an advertisement in the papers calling for an open casting for his next movie. However when hundreds of people show up, he decides to make a movie about the casting and the screen tests of the would-be actors.
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Viva Erotica
Sing’s last two films were flops, but he is given the helm on a Category III sex film and has to cope with a leading lady who won’t do nude scenes, Triad backers, and a crumbling relationship with his girlfriend.
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Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock’s Favorite Film
A short documentary about the Making Of Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943).
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By Player
The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama’s life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the camera as if she is addressing Tonoyama himself, recollecting events in his life. The film focuses on Tonoyama’s alcohol dependence and his various sexual relationships, as well as his film…
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Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens – A Life in Animation
This biography, shown on American television as part of the PBS “Great Performances” series, examines the life works of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated animators, Chuck (Charles M.) Jones. He is best known for Warner Brothers cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and Pepe LePew. Included…
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State and Main
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
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Plump Fiction
Four stories intersect in this violent film parody. Exterminators dress as hit men and try to protect the wife of their boss, Montello. Meanwhile, the strippers at Montello’s strip club, dressed as nuns, attempt to rob him. Tag-team wrestlers steal Montello’s briefcase, thinking its contents are valuable. Finally, Bumpkin, running to deliver a script, loses…