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Advance Australian Film

Mar 1, 2014

1h 7m

★ 5.7

A Documentary aiming to re-invigorate the passion for Australian Film.

Overview

It's been 20 years since an Australian film has reached number one at the yearly Box Office and our films have consistently grossed under 5% for the years. So what can we do to make a change?

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Documentary

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This promotional short film for "Soylent Green" (1973) begins by showing clips of films that depicted what the future might be like beyond Earth. The narrator then discusses the origin of the idea depicted in "Soylent Green." Director Richard Fleischer and star Charlton Heston discuss how an upcoming crowd scene will be filmed. Then we see what happens when the crowd riots because there is not enough food available to be distributed to everyone. "Soylent Green" was Edward G. Robinson's 101st (and, as it turned out, his last) feature film. During a break in filming, the cast and crew hold a ceremony celebrating the first film of his "second hundred," and Robinson makes appreciative remarks to the crowd. Studio head Jack L. Warner and friend George Burns are among those in attendance.

0.0

David Lean: A Self Portrait

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6.0

Clawing! A Journey Through the Spanish Horror

Jun 20, 2014

In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: international markets were opened, the production was continuous, a small star-system was created, as well as a solid group of specialized directors. Although foreign trends were imitated, Spanish horror offered a particular approach to sex, blood and violence. It was an extremely unusual artistic movement in Franco's Spain.

6.0

Love & Loyalty: The Making of 'The Remains of the Day'

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7.2

La La La

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7.5

Boundless

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8.0

Cannes : Palmes, scandales et tapis rouge

May 17, 2022

How could the Cannes Film Festival become the biggest cinema event in the world? For 75 years, Cannes has succeeded in this prodigy of placing cinema, its sometimes paltry splendors but also its requirements of great modern art, at the center of everything, as if, for ten days in May, nothing was more important than it. This film tells how Cannes has become the largest film festival in the world by opening up to cinematic modernity while never forgetting that cinema remains a performing art, a popular art.

5.2

Au Hasard Bresson

Apr 1, 1967

In 1966, German film critic Theodor Kotulla — who would go on to become one of the New German Cinema's most uncompromising filmmakers — visited the set of Robert Bresson's "Mouchette" (1967) and created this half-hour documentary about the director. It won the 1967 German Film Award for best short documentary.

4.0

Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde

Oct 26, 1965

A 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews with many of film director Max Ophuls’s collaborators

6.0

That's Life: Vittorio De Sica

Jan 1, 2001

Documentary about the life and career of Italian film director Vittorio De Sica.

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6.3

Auge in Auge - Eine deutsche Filmgeschichte

Jul 3, 2008

This is not merely another film about cinema history; it is a film about the love of cinema, a journey of discovery through over a century of German film history. Ten people working in film today remember their favourite films of yesteryear.

6.8

Shine a Light

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Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look at The Rolling Stones." Scorsese filmed the Stones over a two-day period at the intimate Beacon Theater in New York City in fall 2006. Cinematographers capture the raw energy of the legendary band.

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0.0

The Birth of Children of Paradise

Jan 1, 1967

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors.

0.0

Cesare Zavattini

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Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

7.0

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Documentary about the life and career of Japanese actor Chishu Ryu.

0.0

The Making of "Tampopo"

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Documentary about the making of Juzo Itami's film "Tampopo" (1985).

6.5

Talking with Ozu

Nov 27, 1993

A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders

8.3

Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us

Jul 1, 2003

This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, composer and other contributors speak at length and in detail about how the award-winning film was devised, cast, filmed, scored and edited.

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.

6.5

Akira Kurosawa: My Life in Cinema

Jan 1, 1993

Nagisa Oshima interviews Akira Kurosawa, leading him to share his thoughts about filmmaking, his life and works, and numerous anecdotes relating to his films and his various film activities.

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