Chumlum

Dec 29, 1963

0h 26m

★ 6.0

Overview

Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of a cadre of creative people having fun on camera, playing dress-up, dancing, flirting, lazing around.

Genres

Documentary

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Cast

Jack Smith

Beverly Grant

Mario Montez

Joel Markman

Francis Francine

Guy Henson

Barry Titus

Zelda Nelson

Gerard Malanga

Tiny Tim

Jerry Wald has to write about radio, visiting Sid Gary gives him the tip it might be more easy for him to write this article at the radio station than at his newspaper office. At the studio they listen to the Boswell Sister's rehearsal, which is interupted by some not so friendly remarks by orchestra leader Abe Lyman, they listen at the door, where a Colonel Stoopnagel broadcast is prepared, as well as to the rehearsal of a new song for an broadcast by Kate Smith.

7.7

Blush: An Extraordinary Voyage

Oct 18, 2022

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.

6.0

Larisa

Oct 1, 1980

Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck.

0.0

Close-Up on Planets

Sep 28, 1982

Computer animation and footage from NASA space missions explain how our solar system evolved and the place Earth has within the system.

8.0

Julieta

May 11, 2006

The life and times of the mexican pianist Julieta García Rello, as told by her granddaughter.

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).

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0.0

Max in the Morning

Jan 1, 1965

At the microphone with Max Ferguson, radio satirist, as he creates his weekday-morning program. Filmed inside his CBC broadcasting booth, this film watches and records as Max ad-libs his way through zany interpretations of news events. His only script is the morning paper and with it he tilts at humbug with a flair that has made him a national figure.

0.0

Black Waters

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“Aguas Negras” is an experimental documentary about the Cuautitlán River. The film examines the passage of time and the pollution of the river by focusing on conversations with multiple generations of women in the filmmaker's family that have grown up by the river in a municipality identified as having the highest perception of insecurity in the State of Mexico.

4.9

Visions of Europe

May 1, 2004

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

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5.7

Font Men

Mar 9, 2014

You've never heard of Jonathan Hoefler or Tobias Frere-Jones but you've seen their work. They run the most successful and respected type design studio in the world, making fonts used by the Wall Street Journal to the President of the United States.

3.4

Birdman

Jul 1, 2015

A portrait of Robert, a troubled but poetic soul struggling with his purgatorial existence in a hackney scrapyard.

7.6

Somniloquies

Feb 12, 2017

Works with sound recordings of Dion McGregor, who became famous for talking in his sleep.

0.0

Arthur Penn: The Director

Jan 18, 1970

A short documentary about Arthur Penn.

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10.0

The Angela Murray Gibson Experience

Apr 22, 1998

In the 1920s, Angela Murray Gibson chose an unusual location to embark on a career in silent filmmaking: her tiny hometown of Casselton, North Dakota. She had previously helped Mary Pickford as an advisor and assistant director on The Pride of the Clan (1917), which Mary Pickford produced and starred in. She opened North Dakota's first movie studio, and she had the audacity to be a woman in an industry dominated by men.

0.0

La Cocotte d'azur

Jan 1, 1958

A short film made with the film end rolls of 'Du côté de la côte'.

8.0

The Captain

May 16, 2022

Of Maine’s more than 5000 commercial lobstermen only 4% are female. The Captain celebrates that fearless minority through the lens of Sadie Samuels. At 27 years old, she is the youngest and only female lobster boat captain in the Rockport, Maine harbor. Despite the long hours and manual labor of hauling traps, Samuels is in love — obsessed even — with what she calls the most beautiful, magical place on the planet. Her love for lobster fishing was imparted early in her childhood by her dad Matt, who has been her mentor and inspiration since she was a little girl in yellow fishing boots.

7.0

I Am One of the People

May 16, 2022

Harmful chemicals are disproportionately affecting Black communities in Southern Louisiana along the Mississippi River. I am One of the People is an experimental short film exposing the environmental racism of “Cancer Alley.”

0.0

Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare

Jul 28, 2009

This thirty minute documentary features interviews with Giovinazzo's key contemporaries discussing the continued impact and influence of Combat Shock twenty-five years later.

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0.0

Jayuk

Jan 1, 1998

A 20-minute documentary film about the Kyrgyz people living by the Narym River.

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0.0

The Devil's Bridge

Jan 1, 1997

Life in a Kyrgyz aul (village) in the mountains connected to the rest of the world by a cable bridge, and the teenage boys who are constructing the rope of the bridge. A rope bridge which the locals call “The devil’s bridge” forms part of each and every event which takes place in a small village lost in the mountains of the Kyrgyz Republic. A platform driven by a huge winch which they have to pull with their own strength to cross the torrent is their only link with the outside world. But the director of the documentary wondered something else: “Does this bridge unite or does it actually separate?” Through the mist and over the thrashing waters, the inhabitants of the area glide along their ropes. A film, in the director’s own words, about ordinary people who live in an extraordinary place.

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