Movies

The Real James Dean - 05-Apr-2008

Duration: 
0:51:12

This documentary looks back over the life and death of this Hollywood icon. In the soft Californian twilight on a quiet road on the evening of September 30th 1955, a young man in a high-powered sports car was involved in a fatal accident. All such deaths are tragic for the family and friends of the victim, but this tragedy traumatised a generation and took from the world an actor who, although he had only just started out in Hollywood, had already ensured our enduring fascination with the three films he ha

Watch The Skies - 30-Dec-2007

Duration: 
0:55:47

Steven Spielberg says that science fiction is the greatest exercise for the brain, it stretches the belief that anything is possible. George Lucas, Ridley Scott and James Cameron talk about how science fiction films developed from the earlier naïve films to today's sophisticated sci-fi thrillers, and how they have remained popular.

Roberto Rossellini - 12-Apr-2008

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1:02:38

Roberto Rossellini's life and work is narrated by film director Carlo Lizzani, who started his career as Rossellini's assistant director, with contributions from famous and not-so-famous people. in Italian, English and French.

In The Mood For Doyle - 14-Jun-2009

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0:54:08

A profile of Australian cinematographer Chris Doyle, one of the host of Aussie Directors of Photography working overseas - but the only one based in Asia.

Close Up: Shostakovich - 05-Apr-2008

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0:58:36

Humour, sarcasm, grotesqueness - and not least an overriding pessimism - are characteristics not only found in Shostakovich himself but also in his music. The film intends to be as authentic as possible in portraying the composer; neither denouncing him as an opportunist nor praising him as a dissident. The film rather tries to reconstruct how the young musical star who was known for his grotesque distortions became the stiff state composer most of whose life is still shrouded in mystery. Shostakovich star

Film School

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0:25:01

In this reality series the lenses are turned on four NYU film students who are constantly on the edge of disaster as they try to organise and complete their own films, the renowned NYU graduation film. The four students include Leah - an eccentric 24 year old, Vincenzo - a high energy 35 year old from Italy, Alrick - a politically minded 28 year old and Barbara - a 28 year old who is faced with a family emergency days before her shoot. These students are all very driven, passionate and ambitious.

Buffalo Bill - 14-Aug-2009

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0:52:20

In 1886, Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show played to over one million people in New York City. It featured cowboys and Indians, sharp shooters including the famed Annie Oakley, hundreds of horses, buffalo, elk and donkeys, with more than 200 cast members, all moving about in a sweeping western landscape of mountains and plains. Behind the extravaganza was one man - a meagre plainsman turned international celebrity and frontier hero - William Cody, better known to the world as Buffalo Bill. This documentar

Clive James Talking in the Library: Simon Callow

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0:27:01

Simon Callow is an eloquent, ebullient combination of screen star, stage actor and writer. In Four Weddings and a Funeral and Shakespeare in Love he showed how a character role could dominate the big screen. In the theatre, his achievements include one-man shows (notably his portrait of Dickens) in which he dominates the stage all on his own. His biographical writings on Orson Welles and Charles Laughton are worthy of their protean subjects. Protean himself, in this interview he unveils yet another of his careers, as a film director.

Zoolander

Duration: 
1:24:49

(s) (2001) Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell. Ben Stiller stars as Derek Zoolander, the world's hottest - and dumbest - male supermodel. Little does he know, he's just become a pawn in a major international assassination conspiracy.

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Genre: Movies

Sub-Genre: Comedy/Musical

Country of Production: United States

Year of Production: 2001

Language: English

Director: Ben Stiller

Cast: Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller

Links: Related Site, IMDB

Colour type: Colour

World Trade Centre

Duration: 
2:03:45

Maggie Gyllenhaal,Maria Bello. Directed with compassion by Oscar-winning Oliver Stone and based on the accounts of survivers,Nicholas Cage and Michael Pena star as two policemen trapped in the World Trade Centre on 9/11

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