Gaumont, the Étrange Anthology

Sep 12, 2024

★ 7.5

Overview

To mark the 30th anniversary of L'Étrange Festival, Gaumont is opening up its archives to offer the best of its most secret, bizarre and crazy images, digitized for the first time. A unique program featuring black magic, surrealistic happenings, world records, the evolution of feminism, wild bets, vanished places, forgotten inventions and other delights.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Gaumont Video

Gaumont, the Étrange Anthology Trailers

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Cast

Self (archive footage)

Salvador Dalí

Self (archive footage)

Niki de Saint Phalle

Self (archive footage)

Pierre Vassiliu

Self (archive footage)

Gaston Defferre

Self (archive footage)

Jean-Pierre Raynaud

Self (archive footage)

Madeleine Ozeray

Self (archive footage)

Jean Cau

Self (archive footage)

Dominique Webb

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the Apollo 11 Moon landing was faked and actually recorded in a studio by the CIA with help from director Stanley Kubrick.

0.0

Puedo regresar fácilmente al pasado, pero ya no hay nadie ahí

Jan 17, 2025

It arises from the nostalgia for a place that witnessed the growth of two generations, but is now abandoned, awaiting its prompt demolition.

0.0

State of Bacon

May 15, 2014

State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading up to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. Bacon-enthusiasts, Governor Branstad, a bacon queen, Hacksaw Jim Duggan, members of PETA, and an envoy of Icelanders are not excluded from this bacon party and during the course of the film become intertwined with the organizers of the festival to show that bacon diplomacy is not dead.

6.0

The Back 80

May 20, 2017

Suzanne's life was turned upside down when a Bigfoot ran across the road in front of her one night. As she tries to understand what she's seen the creature arrives at her doorstep and sends her into a downward spiral looking for answers.

8.0

Romantik – Kunst wider das Chaos

Oct 3, 2021

Romantic art was a response to the social upheavals of the 19th century, as shown by works by its emblematic painters Friedrich, Venetsianov and Delacroix.

7.4

How the Beatles Changed the World

Oct 23, 2017

The fascinating story of the cultural, social, spiritual, and musical revolution ignited by the coming of the Beatles. Tracing the impact that these four band members had, first in their native Britain and soon after worldwide, it reappraises the band and follows their path from young subversives to countercultural heroes. Featuring fresh, revealing interviews with key collaborators as well as a wealth of rarely-seen archival footage, this is a bold new take on the most significant band in the history of music and their enduring impact on popular culture.

5.0

Abducted by Aliens: UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind

Jan 14, 2014

Are we being taken by beings from outer space or another dimension? Countless individuals have very real memories of being taken secretly against their will by Alien entities. What is the depth to this conspiracy and what do the government and military factions know?

5.5

Time Bomb Y2K

Mar 3, 2023

As the clock counted down to the the 21st century, the world faced a potential technological disaster: a bug that could cause computers to misinterpret the year 2000 as 1900. Crafted entirely from archival footage and featuring first-hand accounts from computer experts, survivalists, scholars, militia groups, conservative Christians, and pop icons, Time Bomb Y2K is a prescient and often humorous tale about the power and vulnerabilities of technology.

5.0

Le fabuleux destin de Jean Dujardin

Aug 2, 2021

No overview available.

5.7

Lynch (one)

Oct 26, 2007

Rare glimpse into the fascinating mind of one of cinema's greatest directors. Footage was gathered over a two year period and documents David Lynch's many creative interests as well as his passion for filmmaking. It’s “abstract trip” which reveals new aspects of the personality and the cinematographic vision of one of the exceptional authors of contemporary cinema. Personal portrait of David Lynch and his creative universe.

7.5

Irrésistible Gary Cooper

Jan 21, 2020

No overview available.

5.8

100 Years of Japanese Cinema

Sep 1, 1995

The story of the first century of Japanese cinema from the point of view of the controversial Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Ōshima.

7.0

Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

Oct 14, 1997

An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footage and commentary by family members, friends, fans, and people he's worked with, as well as behind-the-scenes antics of some of his most critically praised efforts.

7.1

Windy City Heat

Oct 12, 2003

A man caught up in the glamor of being a Hollywood celebrity has no idea that the production he's in is a fake.

7.3

Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility

Apr 8, 2009

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.

0.0

Amédée

Jun 6, 2024

In 1952, Amédée took his own life by jumping into the Seine. No one knows the reason for this tragic act. His story comes to us in bits and pieces.

3.7

Malamondo

Apr 30, 1964

This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.

0.0

That's Black Entertainment

Jan 1, 1989

This documentary presents clips from black films from 1929 through 1957.

7.9

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

Jan 19, 2018

A funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.

0.0

Is My Living In Vain

Oct 6, 2022

Is My Living in Vain is a meditation on the continuing history and emancipatory potential of the Black church as a space of belonging, affirmation and community organising. Combining shot footage, oral histories and archive material from both sides of the Atlantic, the film follows a tangled thread of personal and collective memories to interrogate the church’s contribution to a Black radical tradition.