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- DirectorJean PainlevéStarsAntonin ArtaudMarcel BarenceyHenri MarchandA 1922 play by Ivan Goll, considered a precursor of the theater of the absurd.
- DirectorJean PainlevéUnderwater photography presents the octopus: breathing, swimming, eating, dying.
- DirectorJean PainlevéPopular science descriptions of two marine crustaceans, both of whom camouflage themselves in found objects, moving, eating, interacting.
- DirectorJean PainlevéAn educational film, a movie through a microscope, in two parts. Within minutes after the egg drops in the water, fertilization occurs and contractions start. Soon, in a fertilized egg, we see the germinal disc divide into two blastomeres. Divisions continue; contractions re-occur at the cap as it covers the egg. Title cards in French tell us what to watch for. Muscular movements and circulation appear; the heart beats. In part two, we see blood circulation begin as red cells develop on the surface of the yoke. They mass toward the heart. Arteries form, blood flows. The egg hatches and blood flows to new areas.
- DirectorJean PainlevéA close-up look at sand urchins and rock urchins. At the seashore, a man digs up a sand urchin. We look closely. He sets it back in the sand, and it burrows out of sight. Its intestines take nutrients out of sand. Using magnification 200,000 times normal size, we see a rock urchin's spines with suckers on the end; a drawing illustrates how they work. A sea urchin walks toward a rock. We see three-fingered jaws - pedicellaria at the end of flexible stems - take in algae and other bits. We also see cilia less than 0.001 ml in length; their motion constant, creating whirlpools. On the shore again, we watch the setting sun. Occasional titles in French tell us what to watch for.
- DirectorJean PainlevéTitles in French and English help us know what we're seeing. In all waters, daphnia abound. They are crustaceans about 2 ml long, with one eye that turns in all directions. Antennae enable daphnia to move: in a close up magnified 150,000 times, we see the muscles of the antennae pulse. We see the eye, the nerve mass, blood globules, and the heart, beating several times per second. The intestine forms a long line. All are females; eggs develop above the intestine. New generations come rapidly. Inside each daphnia are tiny infusoria; we watch them clean the intestine of a dead daphnia. An enemy, the hydra, approaches. A daphnia dies, but many remain.
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- DirectorJean PainlevéA short black and white film which documents an experimental canine surgery.
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- DirectorJean PainlevéExamines the sea horse, the only fish that swims upright. We watch it use its prehensile tail to wrap around plants and other sea horses. A frontal bulge houses organs including an air ballast. Three fins propel this fish. We see a female place her eggs in a male's pouch where they are fertilized and nurtured until birth in violent contractions. Inside the pouch are nurturing blood vessels. We then follow the growth of an embryo, greatly magnified: we examine its heart beating and its dorsal fin moving. Young sea horses attach themselves to each other. The film ends with images of many sea horses moving on the ocean floor, superimposed on a horse race.
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- DirectorRené BertrandJean PainlevéPerrault's fairy tale presented in claymation with choral voices. Bluebeard goes courting, all six of his wives having died. He arrives at the house of a widow with two daughters. He's greatly feared, but he overcomes objections with a generous dowry. One sister (Anne) refuses him; the other accepts. At his castle, the damsel delights in precious minutes away from Bluebeard in the rose garden. The Saracens declare war; Bluebeard goes off to fight them, leaving the keys to the castle in the damsel's hands. He warns her not to enter the forbidden room. As war rages, she discovers riches in the castle and then enters the forbidden room. Will Bluebeard discover her act? Can she escape death?
- DirectorA.-P. DufourJean PainlevéWe begin on planet Earth, with a demonstration of measuring distances using triangulation. Then, an imaginary voyage begins from earth to the moon, on to Mars, Saturn, the closest star (besides the sun), and beyond to the edge of our universe. The film depicts imagined landscapes, and it speculates on universes beyond ours. It ends with philosophical musings about the significance of Earth.
- DirectorA.-P. DufourJean PainlevéA black and white short from Jean Painlevé which explores the relationships of size and length in organisms.
- DirectorA.-P. DufourJean PainlevéThe film begins with methodical descriptions of one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional space. It then looks at a two-dimensional world inhabited by flat mice. It imagines how a human, from the third dimension could interact with that world. It then suggests how beings from a fourth dimension might interact with us. Next the film posits time as a fourth dimension, with scenes to aid comprehension. An off-screen narrator, graphs, and clever photography provide explanations and illustrations. The film asks viewers to use their imaginations.
- DirectorA.-P. DufourJean PainlevéA black and white short from Jean Painlevé which explores the concept of populations and their interdependence on one another for survival.
- DirectorJean PainlevéA documentary intending to show to the outside world, aspects of science in modern French culture.
- DirectorJean PainlevéStarsMax SchreckA short look at the vampire bat sucking blood from a guinea pig.
- DirectorJean PainlevéStarsJacqueline CledonMichèle NadalA short subject exploring the relationship, using two dancers and five pieces, of time and space in the art of choreography.
- DirectorJean PainlevéGeorges RouquierStarsRoland TiratThe heroic drama of a scientist who battled to improve hygiene in hospitals, to ward off infectious diseases, and to overcome the skepticism of medical bureaucracy.
- DirectorJean Painlevé
- DirectorJean PainlevéIn a freshwater pond, various aquatic creatures try to eat others in order to avoid being eaten themselves.
- DirectorJean Painlevé
- DirectorJean Painlevé
- DirectorJean PainlevéStarsAlexander CalderAlexander Calder created and performed one of the most important and beloved works, his miniature circus (1926-1931). More than twenty years later Jean Painleve made Le Grande Cirque Calder 1927.
- DirectorJean PainlevéGeneviève HamonA complex creature. Regular underwater photography, magnified close-ups, and film through a microscope present sea urchins. We see their mouth and five teeth close and open. After injecting one with gelatin, the shell is removed and we see the muscle structure, digestive tube, and reproductive organs. Magnified stems reveal suction cups; stems lengthen and contract allowing the sea urchin to move. We see microscopic calcareous stems; at their ends are jaws with various uses. Cilia everywhere are in constant motion, stirring up water and debris. African music on the soundtrack suggests a shuffle dance.
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- DirectorJean PainlevéGeneviève HamonExamines the respiratory, reproductive, and metabolic systems of starfish.
- DirectorGeneviève HamonJean PainlevéAt a marine biology station, a clump of algae reveals polyps, stomachs with limbs, limbs with buds, buds with poison cells. This animal reproduces by buds, which we watch close up in time-lapse images. In another kind of jellyfish, the buds grow inside then live outside for a few days until being on their own. Another produces eggs, sometimes self-fertilized. Some single eggs become buds with colonies. Another clump gathered at low tide consists of filaments of a colony - plumes with poison ends. In images taking 72 hours, we see filaments grow and produce a feeding organ from which a plume emerges. New jellyfish emerge from buds twice a day at set times to form a new colonies.
- DirectorGeneviève HamonJean PainlevéAfter a comic introduction, we look closely at a shrimp. Eyes on stilts, color patterns, pinchered walking feet, a rostrum. We watch shrimp eat using a strong claw and a fine one; we watch digestion. After eating, shrimp clean themselves. The female lays eggs that cling to her feet. After three weeks, the eggs hatch explosively. Few larvae live to adulthood. We watch an adult shed its carapace with a final leap, leaving it vulnerable; other shrimp attack.
- DirectorGeneviève HamonJean PainlevéAn octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close; blowing water propels it through water. It feeds on a crab. In spring it's time to mate. A male grabs a female; he inserts his third arm in her respiratory cavity. We watch another pair: a larger female is the aggressor here. Mating is repeated over hours and days. With high magnification, we see many sperm; she releases strings of fertilized eggs that hang from the roof of a nest. She guards it for a month, fanning the strings to circulate water for oxygen and cleanliness. We watch the eggs up close develop at 1,400 times nature's rate. Then they're born and propel away.
- DirectorGeneviève HamonJean PainlevéStarsCarola MeierroseA short overview on the life and importance of diatoms, shown through a microscope.
- DirectorGeneviève HamonJean Painlevé
- DirectorGeneviève HamonJean PainlevéIn mud flats along the coast of Brittany we watch acera, small ball-shaped mollusks that are about two inches in diameter. They rest in mud; then, in water, they dance, their skirt-like hood spreading like a dervish's cassock. They spin and spin. The film adds musical accompaniment. We watch them mate and secrete eggs: acera are both male and female, and can form chains with other acera in which they simultaneously mate as a male and as a female. The eggs hatch, and the cycle begins again.
- DirectorJean PainlevéA microscopic view of liquid crystals morphing into various shapes.
- DirectorJean PainlevéAn enthusiastic grandfather sits with children in a Parisian park talking about pigeons. First. their physical appearance - eye, wings and tail, and color - and their varieties. Then, he encourages the children to imitate their walk. He points out courtship and mating rituals, then provides an illustrated discussion of how they eat. This section is punctuated by a flock of pigeons fighting over a small, hard ball each wants to eat; the narrator's describes it as if it were a soccer match. He concludes with a discussion of pigeons taking off, landing, and flying; he uses slow motion and stop-time photography to show his audience.
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- DirectorFrançois Lévy-KuentzStarsJean PainlevéJean Painlevé - whose 'Fantasy for Marine Biology' retraces the life and work - was close to Jean Vigo, Alexander Calder, Luis Bunuel and Sergei M. Eisenstein.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack FiskPeggy ReaveyA man approaches a woman in a field.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsPeggy ReaveyA woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsDorothy McGinnisRichard WhiteVirginia MaitlandA young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsCatherine E. CoulsonDavid LynchA double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJack NanceCharlotte StewartAllen JosephHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsAnthony HopkinsJohn HurtAnne BancroftA Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanVirginia MadsenFrancesca AnnisA Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis to free their desert world from the emperor's rule.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
- StarsHarry Dean StantonAndré MarconClaude JosseIn 1988, the Figaro magazine asked to a few famous directors a series of short movies, to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The thematic : The French seen by - The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNicolas CageLaura DernWillem DafoeYoung lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanMichael OntkeanMädchen AmickAn idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks.
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsIan BuchananNancye FergusonMiguel FerrerIn the 1950s, a group of television performers attempt to put together a live variety program and often find disastrous results.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsSheryl LeeRay WiseMädchen AmickLaura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.
- CreatorDavid LynchMonty MontgomeryStarsClark Heathcliff BrollyCamilla Overbye RoosGlenne HeadlyThree-part mini-series set during three different eras in a single room of an odd hotel where employees never age. Every story has a slight twist to it, but the stories are mostly dialogue-heavy psychological or relationship dramas.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsBill PullmanPatricia ArquetteJohn RoseliusAnonymous videotapes presage a musician's murder conviction, and a gangster's girlfriend leads a mechanic astray.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJustin TherouxNaomi WattsLaura HarringAfter a car wreck, an amnesiac woman sets out to learn what happened to her with the help of a wannabe actress.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsNaomi WattsLaura HarringJustin TherouxAfter a car wreck on Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
- StarsDavid LynchA series of 5-minute line animations (drawn in the rough style and with the minimalist plots of David Lynch's The Angriest Dog in the World comic strip) featuring an angry and violent Neanderthal, and his family and neighbors.
- DirectorAgnieszka JurekStarsDavid LynchAgnieszka JurekCora JurekA camera-eye is aimed at David Lynch's back while in Hanover a second one records the internet-stream, which connects the continents. a third one shoots parallely Agnieszka Jurek. she is interviewing Mr. Lynch.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJordan LaddEtsuko ShikataCerina VincentJohn's struggle to get out of a locked room with a sinister secret inside.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsJeffe AlperiRobert ChadwickCatherine E. CoulsonA collection of visionary director David Lynch's short films from the first 29 years of his career is accompanied by a special introduction to each film by the director himself.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsScott CoffeyRebekah Del RioLaura HarringIn a nameless city deluged by continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsKarolina GruszkaKrzysztof MajchrzakGrace ZabriskieAs an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsDavid LynchEmily StofleA journey into night.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsKarolina GruszkaPeter J. LucasWilliam MaierA collection of deleted scenes from David Lynch's 2006 surrealist horror 'Inland Empire'
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsMarion CotillardClark GongEmily StofleA nameless woman enters her Shanghai hotel room to find a vintage record playing and a blue Dior purse that seems to come from nowhere.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsMindy RamakerOne-minute short film, used as a trailer for the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale).
- StarsDavid LynchThis documentary is an exhilarating, inspiring round-up of questions and answers from David Lynch's European and Middle East tours of 2007-2009, when he visited 16 countries to meet film students, receive national awards, launch university projects, and describe the extraordinary benefits for creativity and peace to be gained by transcending thought with Transcendental Meditation, introduced to the world by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
- DirectorDavid LynchStarsChris IsaakKiefer SutherlandC.H. EvansTwin Peaks before Twin Peaks (1990) and at the same time not always and entirely in the same place as Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). A feature film which presents deleted scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) assembled together for the first time in an untold portion of the story's prequel.
- CreatorMark FrostDavid LynchStarsKyle MacLachlanSheryl LeeMichael HorsePicks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniA girl, about ten, tries to catch a butterfly but all the other insects intervene to save it.
- DirectorRoberto RosselliniA satire in which "Perfidious Albion," a big turkey representing England, goes around pecking at the hens, representing the nations of Europe, until defied by a rooster representing Italy.
- DirectorUmberto ScarpelliRenato SimoniStarsRuggero RuggeriMercedes BrignoneCarla CandianiAfter the defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon was sent into exile on the small island of Saint Helena. Surrounded by the few who were faithful to him, he spent his last years between an unyielding pride and the discouragement of freedom denied.
- DirectorMario Bava
- DirectorMario CostaStarsNelly CorradiLoretta Di LelioTito GobbiAn aging quack who promotes a love potion revisits a village, where a youth recalls to him in flashback how he had brought the lad's parents together years before.
- DirectorMario Bava
- DirectorMario BavaRiccardo Melani
- DirectorMario Bava
- DirectorPietro FrancisciStarsAldo FabriziVittorio De SicaPeppino De FilippoAfter WW2, a group of Italian soldiers languishing in a California POW camp is nostalgically reminiscing about the happy pre-war years while awaiting repatriation.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsGino BechiMaria CanigliaTito GobbiThere has been no Catholic church in the Italian district of London since the only one was bombed during the Blitz. Guido Marchi, a journalist wishing it to be restored, decides to organize a show in which great names of the Italian opera will appear, deceitfully using Carlo Scala's restaurant as collateral to get the loan so as to organize the show. Despite formidable, self-interested opposition he will finally realize his goal, and he will manage to marry the one he loves.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsTito GobbiGina LollobrigidaOnelia FineschiRecounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio.
- DirectorMario Bava
- DirectorLuigi Comencini
- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsGina LollobrigidaRichard NeyConstance DowlingJournalist decides to report on Miss Italy candidates, in which detective intrigue is added.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsJean KentRobert BeattyGordon HarkerWhile casing a bank he intends to rob, tough gangster Leo L'Americano (Robert Beatty) discovers that Antonio Pellegrini (Robert Beatty), a meek and mild clerk in the bank, is his exact double. Leo kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, making certain there are plenty of witnesses to testify that Antonio was the bank robber. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife Dorothy (Jean Kent).
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsAldo FabriziGina LollobrigidaDelia ScalaTragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsTino ScottiSilvana PampaniniNyta DoverA strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
- DirectorMario CostaStarsLeonardo CorteseDelia ScalaTamara Lees
- DirectorPietro FrancisciStarsAldo FiorelliSilvana PampaniniCarlo GiustiniFernando, a boy growing up in 1920's Italy, is inspired by reading a biography of Saint Anthony of Padua (after whom the city of San Antonio, Texas is named.) The wife of a young Roman painter who disappeared at the end of WWI goes to church with her son Fernando to pray to Saint Anthony for his return. After some time, the painter actually does return. Due to a head wound, he had lost his memory and recovered it on the same day his wife had invoked St. Anthony. The family visits St. Anthony's Basilica and purchases a book dedicated to Saint Anthony. The reading recalls the scenes and images in the life of the saint. The story is told entirely in flashbacks, as the adult Fernando recalls scenes from his childhood and, in turn, scenes from the life of the Saint.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStenoStarsAldo FabriziTotòAve NinchiEsposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
- DirectorAldo FabriziStarsAldo FabriziPeppino De FilippoAve NinchiA Sunday at the beach for the Passaguai family is a succession of more or less pleasant adventures.
- DirectorLuciano EmmerPresents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.
- DirectorAldo FabriziStarsAldo FabriziErminio MacarioAve NinchiTo get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.