My Dad Is 100 Years Old

Dec 6, 2006

0h 17m

★ 6.9

Overview

A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father, Roberto Rossellini.

Genres

Documentary

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Spanky Productions Inc.

Documentary Channel

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Cast

Self / Alfred Hitchcock / David O. Selznick / Federico Fellini / Charlie Chaplin / Ingrid Bergman / Roberto Rossellini

Isabella Rossellini

The Belly of Roberto Rossellini

Isaac Paz Sr.

Pina (archive footage) (uncredited)

Anna Magnani

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7.3

Leaving Las Vegas

Oct 27, 1995

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

7.5

Ed Wood

Sep 28, 1994

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.

7.5

Barton Fink

Aug 1, 1991

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

7.1

Lisbon Story

Dec 16, 1994

Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

7.1

Contempt

Oct 29, 1963

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

0.0

Newspaper Boy

May 13, 1955

Newspaper Boy is a Malayalam–language Indian film released in 1955. It is the first neo realistic movie in the language. The film, a drama of stark realism, narrates the life of the common man on the street. The film is noteworthy in that the entire production programme from script-writing to direction was controlled and executed by students.

6.9

King Kong

Dec 12, 2005

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

7.4

Bad Education

Mar 19, 2004

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.

6.4

Hitler's Hollywood

Feb 23, 2017

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich collapsed. (A sequel to From Caligari to Hitler, 2015.)

6.5

The Day of the Locust

May 7, 1975

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

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7.2

Comrades in Dreams

Oct 15, 2006

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.

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0.0

Omnibus: François Truffaut

Dec 2, 1973

No overview available.

6.0

Alfonso Sánchez

Jan 1, 1980

Famous Spanish film critic Alfonso Sánchez talks about his personal life, his work and Anouk Aimée. A sentimental tribute to one of the most relevant figures on the Spanish film scene.

7.6

Becoming Marilyn

Jul 7, 2022

The story of how Norma Jeane Mortenson became Marilyn Monroe (1926-62), a lucid path of self-discovery, from anonymity to stardom: the painful birth of a myth.

6.6

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

Jul 7, 2018

A feature-length documentary focusing on the acclaimed work and eclectic career of maverick filmmaker Larry Cohen, writer-director of "Black Caesar," "It's Alive," "God Told Me To," "Q," "The Stuff," and many more.

6.0

Encounter with Fritz Lang

Feb 5, 1964

Interview with Fritz Lang on the roof of Villa Malaparte on Capri during the filming of the fictitious film "Odysseus" and the filming of "Contempt" by Jean-Luc Godard, in which Fritz Lang plays the role of an old film director. During the interview, excerpts from the Lang films "The Nibelungen", "The Tired Death" and "M" are shown.

6.6

Tout Va Bien

Apr 28, 1972

A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.

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