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  • Bertrand Mandico – L’émission a déjà commencé (2023)

    Bertrand Mandico2021-2030ArthouseFranceTV
    L'émission a déjà commencé (2023)
    L’émission a déjà commencé (2023)

    Histoires courtes, the France 2 short films program, gives carte blanche to Bertrand Mandico who brings together three of his short films.

    “Rainer, A Vicious Dog in Skull Valley” (2023) 26 min.
    Octavia Foss wants to stage a female version of Conan the Barbarian in the theater. She makes a pact with a dog-headed demon to achieve her goals.

    “We Barbarians” (2023) 27 min.
    On the set of a film in the making, four actresses take turns guiding us. They unknowingly drag us into their damnation.

    “The Last Cartoon” (2022) 8 min.
    A time, as much future as current, where “cinema will be will be all other and nothing else”. Where, “it will be the last appointment of the flesh”, where “the energy will be cannibal and the sun will reflect to say nothing”. Pessimistic or optimistic is this cinematic pamphlet on art ?Read More »

  • Bill Hays – The Serpent Son [The Oresteia] (1979)

    1971-1980Bill HaysClassicsTVUnited Kingdom
    The Serpent Son [The Oresteia] (1979)
    The Serpent Son [The Oresteia] (1979)

    This trilogy was broadcast in three weekly instalments as Agamemnon, Grave Gifts (the production’s title for Choephoroi, the play also known as Libation Bearers) and Furies (the production’s title for Eumenides). The three plays went out at 9.25pm on BBC2 on Wednesday nights (95, 85, and 75 mins respectively). The trilogy was followed by a half-hour ‘sophisticated modern comedy’ in the style of the ancient satyr play which traditionally followed tragic trilogies: Raphael and McLeish’s Of Mycenae and Men—which follows the reunion of Helen (Diana Dors) and Menelaus (Freddie Jones) after the fall of Troy—was directed by Hugh David.Read More »

  • Dominik Graf – Im Angesicht des Verbrechens aka In Face of the Crime (2010)

    Dominik Graf2001-2010CrimeGermanyTV
    Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (2010)
    Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (2010)

    “In this epic-scale saga of life on both sides of the law, Max Riemelt plays Marek Grosky, a Russian Jew who immigrated to Germany in the 1920s. Grosky is one of a large number of Russians who have fled their homeland and settled in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. While Marek has become a police officer in Berlin, his sister Stella (Marie Baumer) is married to a high-ranking crime chieftain, and the cop finds himself caught between two worlds, torn between his devotion to duty and his ties to his family. As a war rages between criminal factions in Charlottenburg, Marek witnesses the death of his brother and falls for a Ukrainian woman who has been brought to Germany to work as a prostitute. Im Angesicht des Verbrechens (aka In Face Of The Crime) was originally created as a ten-part series for German television; it was later re-edited into a pair of feature-length films which were screened as part of the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival. “
    by Mark DemingRead More »

  • Robert Knights – Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man (1980)

    Robert Knights1971-1980ClassicsTVUnited Kingdom
    Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man (1980)
    Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man (1980)

    Quote:
    A thoroughly superb four-part comedy-drama series, The History Man is considered a pivotal literary and television work and one of the most fondly-remembered of all Malcolm Bradbury’s output.

    Bradbury had always prided himself on stories concerning, criticising and critiquing academic culture and the proliferation of “new” university campuses which were dotted across the United Kingdom at the time. The History Man featured one such “new” educational establishment, the University of Watermouth, as the platform for the tale of Barbara and Howard Kirk (Geraldine James and Anthony Sher), an exploration of their very modern marriage and considerably radical political views.Read More »

  • Alan Bridges – Play for Today: Traitor (1971)

    Alan Bridges1971-1980DramaTVUnited Kingdom
    Traitor (1971)
    Traitor (1971)

    Adrian Harris, a former British operative who defected to Russia after he was discovered to be a Soviet spy, is interviewed in his dismal Moscow flat by a group of journalists from the Western press. The interview is highly antagonistic on both sides and as Harris is encouraged to resort more and more to whisky, the interviewers become more and more aggressive. The play ends with a twist that changes our understanding of the interview we have just seen.

    This gripping, almost claustrophobic piece tackles such themes as class, patriotism, childhood, institutions and political values. John Le Mesurier called this the best part he ever had on television. His compelling performance earned him a BAFTA.Read More »

  • Werner Schroeter – Salome (1971)

    1971-1980DramaGermanyTVWerner Schroeter
    Salome (1971)
    Salome (1971)

    Shot in a Roman temple in Baalbek, Lebanon, based on Oscar Wilde’s play, this television film features the drama of Salome, who asks Herod for the head of John the Baptist, whom she loves and who rejected it.Read More »

  • Béla Tarr – Macbeth (1983)

    1981-1990Béla TarrDramaHungaryTVWilliam Shakespeare
    Macbeth (1982)
    Macbeth (1982)

    In this powerful short film, the renowned William Shakespeare play is stripped down to the bare essentials, consisting of two lengthy shots.Read More »

  • Dan Curtis – Melvin Purvis G-MAN (1974)

    1971-1980CrimeDan CurtisTVUSA
    Melvin Purvis G MAN (1974)
    Melvin Purvis G MAN (1974)

    Plot Synopsis:
    When Machine Gun Kelly and his gang abduct and ransom a wealthy playboy, the FBI’s publicity-hungry Melvin Purvis is assigned to head up the case.Read More »

  • Joe Napolitano – Contagious (1997)

    1991-2000Joe NapolitanoThrillerTVUSA
    Contagious (1997)
    Contagious (1997)

    Imdb wrote:
    When some shrimp from Colombia, tainted with cholera, is served to some people on a plane bound for L.A., an outbreak ensues. And a doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into a epidemic. And if things weren’t bad enough, a drug smuggler who was carrying some drugs on him contaminates the drugs and are sold on the street. And to top things off, the doctor’s husband who is on a camping trip with their two children is sick but did not show any symptoms until they were isolated from the rest of the world. Can she get to them in time?Read More »

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