Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray

May 3, 2024

1h 10m

★ 6.3

New restoration of four films by Man Ray

Overview

An immersion into the surreal and dreamlike world of painter, photographer and filmmaker Man Ray (1890-1976), one of the most prolific American visual artists, through four of his short films, brought to life by the atmospheric music of SQÜRL.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Womanray

Cinenovo

Film Constellation

Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray Trailers

Cast

The Woman / The Girl With The Painted Eyes / Nude Torso

Kiki of Montparnasse

The Man

André de la Rivière

The Other Man

Robert Desnos

Jacques Rigaut

Jacques-André Boiffard

Self

Man Ray

Self (uncredited)

Georges Auric

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.

7.8

Mulholland Drive

Jun 6, 2001

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

5.2

It's Better to Be Healthy and Wealthy than Poor and Sick

Sep 11, 1992

A satiric tragi-comedy about two women and their lover Robert who is an emigrant that keeps coming back. This film shows chaotic post-communist Europe after the fall of totalitarianism. Two opposite characters, women, meet during the Velvet Revolution in November 1989. Intellectual dissident Nona and a Communist secret police boss’ mistress Ester. They meet at an anti-regime demonstration and become friends. They don’t want anything to do with politics, both want to get married and have kids, but also get rich. Crazy plans and risky attempts to realize their shared dreams land them in many sticky situations in the post-revolution chaos. Too much money gets in the way of the power of friendship.

3.2

The Male Gaze: The Heat of the Night

Jul 15, 2019

When darkness falls, temperatures rise in these six stories about late night confessions, intimacy for sale, high speed hookups and full moon frissons. But when the sun comes up and reality reveals itself, will it have all been worth it? The short films are: Thirst (2018); According to Mateo [Según Mateo] (2017); Hardcore (2016); Beast [Séptimo] (2011); Petit Ami (2017); Skai Blue (2017).

6.0

Brise-Glace: Histoires de glace

Dec 15, 1987

Third and final part of collaborative project Brise Glace. Directed by Raúl Ruíz.

7.5

One-Eyed Likho

May 25, 1916

The plot is the embodiment of everyday belief about the impact of a certain evil force on a person. The action develops in a peasant environment.

7.3

Blow-Up

Dec 18, 1966

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

9.0

The Stolen Bride

Aug 10, 1927

The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.

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0.0

Women and Diamonds

Jun 1, 1924

In Africa a typist is framed for killing a diamond smuggler who betrayed her father.

8.0

An Imperial Message

Jan 1, 1975

An Imperial Message is a 1975 Hungarian experimental film directed by László Najmányi. The 'story' was based on Franz Kafka's short story Eine kaiserliche Botschaft.

0.0

Bunny Eats Tiger

Dec 20, 2025

A child finds a spellbound book on her way to school. The strange book foretells a murderous tiger coming to kill them and everything in their path.

6.7

Joyless Street

Mar 1, 1925

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.

4.3

The Illiac Passion

Dec 30, 1967

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.