Cinema Now

Apr 8, 2022

0h 14m

★ 2.0

A meditation on cinema(s) as they currently are - dormant, towering meccas of film that once served (and will again serve) strangers, families and communities.

Overview

A fragmented collection of independent closed cinemas, in London during lockdown, captured on Super 8mm film.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Self (voice)

Aidan McCarthy

Self (voice)

Amir Daftari

Self (voice)

Anais Marchand

Self (voice)

Andrea Waite

Self (voice)

Angela O'Driscoll

Self (voice)

Ben Connolly

Self (voice)

Bethany Thompson

Self (voice)

Carolina Plaza Briones

Self (voice)

Chantelle Brown

Self (voice)

Chris Belas

Self (voice)

Christiana Bingley

Self (voice)

Christopher David Freeman

Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas, somewhere at the end of the world. Comrades in Dreams brings together six cinema makers from North Korea, America, India and Africa and follows their efforts to make their audiences dream every night.

6.8

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

Aug 14, 2019

The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong over the decades, transformed Western action cinema and inspired the birth of cultural movements such as blaxploitation, hip hop music, parkour and Wakaliwood cinema.

7.0

The Omen Legacy

Oct 30, 2001

The true stories that spawned the serie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very name still conjures up thoughts of Satan. This documentary shares spine-tingling information about the the all-too-memorable flick that has terrorized film audiences since 1976.

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5.0

Building a Better Bond

Jan 1, 2006

Teaser promotional documentary made for theaters and exhibitors, shot in 1994 during pre-production to promote the then upcoming James Bond movie GoldenEye (1995).

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5.5

The Return of Bond: The Start of Production Press Event

Jul 17, 2006

A short documentary about the press of GoldenEye.

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0.0

Omnibus: François Truffaut

Dec 2, 1973

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4.2

Song 5

Mar 20, 1964

SONG 5: A childbirth song (the Songs are a cycle of silent color 8mm films by the American experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage produced from 1964 to 1969).

0.0

Cry Rock

Oct 3, 2010

In the Bella Coola Valley, a haunting legend endures through generations as a filmmaker reckons with whether the stories of her ancestors can survive being held or if they were never meant to be captured.

7.2

Gena Rowlands: A Life on Film

Jun 5, 2019

An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with her husband, legendary director John Cassavetes (1929-89), she lived an unusual life beyond the dream factory, a life in which reality and fiction were so perfectly intertwined that it made possible films that still today seem incredibly real.

5.8

The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

Jul 2, 2002

Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.

10.0

Selva. A Portrait of Parvaneh Navaï

Jan 21, 1982

Trance dances and out of body projection. In front of the camera, Parvaneh Navaï becomes a mediator who enters in contact with and immerses into the energies of Nature, while her own energy radiates and echos in the forest ("selva"). The camera amplifies and expands her presence, transforming the forest into an imaginary space. The camera becomes a painter's brush.

8.2

Ôrí

May 2, 1989

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

6.0

Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic

Apr 5, 2004

Documentary about the legendary American film director from his introduction to the film industry in its early years to his death in 1959.

4.8

Poumon Vert et Tapis Rouge

Sep 29, 2021

To help Francis Hallé in his fight to save the last tropical forests, a documentary filmmaker with a passion for nature decides to make his first film: "The Botanist", an ecological thriller with Leonardo DiCaprio. He traces his path with malice, obstinacy, and discovers, with candor, the arcana of the seventh art. Even if he never gives up, will his film ever exist?

4.0

West End Jungle

Dec 1, 1961

1961 documentary about the history and seedy reality of the sex industry in London's Soho.

9.0

Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord

Dec 13, 2021

Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret - This is the story of a bunch of friends. Comedian buddies. Actors who dreamed of the Conservatory and the National Theater of Paris. The theater was their ideal, cinema will be their paradise. Their friend Jean-Paul Belmondo, the relaxed Parisian, who failed the entrance exam, will make sparks fly. Rochefort, Marielle and Noiret, the three provincials, will climb the steps of recognition one by one. From the little cabarets on the Left Bank to the TV shows of the Buttes-Chaumont pioneers. From the second roles to the first and from the B movies to the classics.

5.0

Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?

Jan 1, 1972

A documentary about the making of Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy "What's Up Doc?" starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.

7.5

Boundless

Nov 2, 2013

As Hong Kong's foremost filmmaker, Johnnie To himself becomes the protagonist of this painstaking documentary exploring him and his Boundless world of film. A film student from Beijing and avid Johnnie To fan, Ferris Lin boldly approached To with a proposal to document the master director for his graduation thesis. To agreed immediately and Lin's camera closely followed him for over two years, capturing the man behind the movies and the myths. The result is Boundless, a candid profile of one of Hong Kong's greatest directors and a heartfelt love letter to Hong Kong cinema.

7.0

Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie

Jan 1, 2021

The story of the abandoned production of 'Day of the Champion', a movie about Formula 1 which was set to film in 1966.

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0.0

Dance for All

Sep 22, 2007

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