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Lots of Ice and a Little Bit of Water
Roberta and Suzana are two sisters, both in their thirties, of totally different beauty and life styles, united by a common goal: to take revenge on their grandmother, a mean old woman who, in the past, turned the little girls' lives into hell, with her strict educational concepts. Since they were very young, the two sisters plan to kidnap the grandmother and now is the long awaited moment. Before Roberta and Suzana leave to the beach house, the setting of their grandmother's terrorist practices, Roberta, while waiting for Suzana at a restaurant, meets Renato, an extremely proper guy who ends up involved in this unexpected adventure. The two sisters' departure leaves Suzana's husband, Alberto, bewildered and he ends up being also part of a parallel mad adventure.
Masters of Production: The Hidden Art of Hollywood Film
Using interviews with top designers, art and plans from their workshops, and the films themselves this documentary explores the influence of these artists on the iconography of our culture.
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
In the nine months prior to World War II, 10.000 innocent children left behind their families, their homes, their childhood, and took the journey... to Britain to escape the Nazi Holocaust.
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
In the nineteenth film in the series, in May 1919, Indy is working as a translator at the historic Paris Peace Conference. He meets up with T.E. Lawrence once more, but finds his ideals have changed a lot since the start of the war. Indy then decides to finally head home to Princeton - even though it means having to face his father. He gets reacquainted with his childhood friend Paul Robeson, who becomes the target of racism when they visit New York City.
This Side of Paradise: Fragments of An Unfinished Biography
Unpredictably, as most of my life’s key events have been, for a period of several years of late sixties and early seventies, I had the fortune to spend some time, mostly during the summers, with Jackie Kennedy’s and her sister Lee Radziwill’s families and children. Cinema was an integral, inseparable, as a matter of fact, a key part of our friendship. The time was still very close to the untimely, tragic death of John F. Kennedy. Jackie wanted to give something to her children to do, to help to ease the transition, life without a father. One of her thoughts was that a movie camera would be fun for children. Peter Beard, who was at that time tutoring John Jr. and Caroline in art history, suggested to Jackie that I was the man to introduce the children to cinema. Jackie said yes. And that’s how it all began
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
In the twenty-first film in the series, in 1920's New York, twenty-year-old Indiana Jones is working backstage at George White's Scandals. Having just arrived in the Big Apple, Indy manages to woo no less than three girls in as many days: singer Peggy, poet Kate and socialite Gloria. He manages to get Peggy a song to sing by his good friend George Gershwin; Kate and her friends at the Vicious circle will review the show and Gloria's father helps out to back the show when White needs financial help.
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Sent by President Thomas Jefferson to find the fabled Northwest Passage, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the most important expedition in American history— a voyage of danger and discovery from St. Louis to the headwaters of the Missouri River, over the Continental Divide to the Pacific. It was the United States' first exploration of the West and one of the nation's most enduring adventures. This extraordinary film tells the remarkable story of the entire Corps of Discovery— not just the two famous Captains, but the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea, who brought along her infant son. Journey with them all, across a breath-taking landscape in an unforgettable experience that explores both the history— and promise— of America.
The Theater of the Times of Perestroika and Glasnost
Arkady Ruderman (along with cameraman Yuri Gorulev) still shot his film about Chagall, but the figure of Chagall himself remained, as they say, "behind the scenes." At the center of the plot was the story of the dismissal of the editor of the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia, Irina Shelenkova, who did not agree with the gross falsification of data on the life and work of M. Chagall in an article for the fifth volume of the Encyclopedia of Literature and Art of Belarus, proposed for publication by the same V.Begun.
Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization
Nirad C. Chaudhuri expounds his views on culture, history, religion and society from a comparative perspective.
Some of the Life of Our Emperor in Doorn
A German documentary about the activities of Kaiser Wilhelm II during his exile in the Netherlands.