F For Fake
Synopsis: Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles’ free-form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career-the tenuous line between truth […]
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Working With Orson Welles
Synopsis: After nearly 30 years of self-imposed commercial/artistic exile in Europe, Orson Welles returned to Hollywood to undertake the ultimately unfinished The Other Side Of The Wind, the fascinating story […]
Orson Welles : The One-Man Band
Synopsis: An 88-minute documentary about Welles’s unfinished projects. ************************************************************************* Orson Welles : The One-Man Band 7.5 A visual essay on Welles final years and the unfinished projects that will […]
Mr. Arkadin (The Comprehensive Version)
Synopsis: Orson Welles’s Mr. Arkadin (a.k.a. Confidential Report) tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into […]
The Third Man
Synopsis: Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime, and thus begins this […]
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Synopsis: A simple, haunting phrase whistled off-screen tells us that a young girl will be killed. “Who is the murderer?” pleads a nearby placard as serial killer Hans Beckert (Peter […]
The Ice Pirates
Synopsis: Have an ice day! It’s a parched future, and water, the galaxy’s only valuable commodity, is controlled by the evil Templars. Their only foes: a handful of daring Ice […]
The Room
Synopsis: The Room is an electrifying American black comedy about love, passion, betrayal, and lies. It’s what happens in real life. You could be with your loving woman and all […]
Mammoth
Synopsis: We hunted it into extinction… Now it’s hunting us. When a meteor smashes into a local museum the fury of a partially frozen, 40,000 year old mammoth is unleashed […]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Synopsis: Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even […]
Can’t Stop the Music
Synopsis: New York City DJ/songwriter Jack Morell (Steve Guttenberg) needs just one big break to get his music heard and land a record deal. But with the help of his […]
13 Tzameti
Synopsis: 22 year-old Sébastien (Georges Babluani) leads an impoverished life constantly struggling to support his immigrant family. While repairing the roof of a neighbor’s house, he overhears a conversation about […]
Chinjeolhan geumjassi
Synopsis: The final film in the trilogy was created by Chan-Wook for his daughter. After being wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young child, a beautiful young woman (Lee […]
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