With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.
Film Jak jsem rozpoutal 2. světovou válku je adaptací populárního polského románu Kazimierze Sławińského Dobrodružství kanonýra Dolase. Je to válečná komedie o smolařském vojínovi Frankovi Dolasovi, který se chce blýsknout hrdinskými činy, ale místo toho se zaplétá do neuvěřitelných příhod. Příběh začíná 31. srpna 1939, kdy hlavní hrdina Franek přijíždí na německou hranici jako součást čety, která má posílit obranu železniční stanice. Usne však na stráži a jeho puška náhodně vystřelí. Franek je přesvědčen, že tím rozpoutal válku. Dostává se do německého zajetí, ze kterého se mu podaří utéct, ale tím jeho kuriózní válečná dobrodružství zdaleka nekončí...
The first rule is that there are no rules. For the bare-knuckle combatants competing in Musangwe fights, anything goes - you can even put a curse on him. The sport, which dates back centuries, has become a South African institution. Any male from the age of nine to ninety can compete. We follow a group of fighters as they slug it out in the ring. Who will be this year's champion?
While people's artist of the USSR Sergey Cherkassky "fights" with the role of king Lear, trying to understand the psychology and actions of Shakespeare's character, his own large family presents him with one riddle after another. His daughter Elena, who broke off her unsuccessful marriage, falls in love with rock musician Dean Makarov. The grandfather does not know that the son of his late daughter - in-law Sonia is gay, who is madly in love with the same Dean. All Sonya's daughter, Lala, "twists" the love with a student Vakhtangov school, the future actor Misha, but dreams of a luxurious life abroad. Son of Sergei Andreevich, father of Vitya and Lyali - Andrey - General, Hero of Russia, serving in Chechnya.
John Adams’s groundbreaking work vividly brings to life US President Nixon’s 1972 visit to the People’s Republic of China. Peter Sellars’s Metropolitan Opera production, based on his 1987 world-premiere staging, features choreography by Mark Morris and stars James Maddalena as Nixon, Robert Brubaker as Chairman Mao, Janis Kelly as First Lady Pat Nixon, Russell Braun as Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, and Kathleen Kim as Chiang Ch’ing, Mao’s wife. From the pomp of the public displays to the intimacy of the protagonists most private moments, Adams, Sellars and librettist Alice Goodman reveal the real characters behind the headlines in this landmark American opera.
Když byla Akiko ještě malá holčička, hrála si často se svými přáteli a psem Leem na mořském pobřeží. Jednoho dne jí však Leo utekl a během jeho hledání dívka narazila na podivný dům, s ještě podivnějšími obyvateli. Dnes už je Akiko dospělá, pracuje jako učitelka, a zážitek z dětství vnímá jen jako starou noční můru. Spolu se svojí sestrou Natsuko žije blízko jezera Fujimi, kde se ve volném čase věnuje malování. Jednoho dne však tamnímu správci přivezou záhadnou bednu, v níž se ukrývá bílá rakev. Nikdo neví, odkud se vzala a kdo ji poslal. Správce to vnímá jen jako velmi hrubý a nevkusný žert. Při pátrání po jejím původu však nalezne jedno jméno, které zasvěceným řekne prakticky vše – Dracula.
Experimental short painted directly on film.
Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.
Three years living in Sunset Park, living between the BQE and the Greenwood Cemetery, accumulating footage of junkyard cats, Park Slope strollers, burned out cars, flying birds.
A poor family in a rundown house where snow falls through the broken roof, there's no coal to heat the pathetic little stove, mother is sick, father sends daughter out to beg. Rejected by other beggars, the girl collapses in the snow…
Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot that threatens world security. When Coplan arrives, he is told the woman has been killed, and the trail of the murderer leads to her mad-scientist brother.
On April 9th Joey Janela's Spring Break 5 becomes a rSpring Break - fka JJSB5 and is live on FITE. The main event is for the GCW World Title where Rickey Shane Page defends his title agains Nick Gage.