Presa na isolada quinta da sua família, Pearl tem de cuidar do seu pai doente sob a vigilância amarga e autoritária da sua mãe devota. Desejando uma vida glamorosa como a que se vê nos filmes, as ambições, tentações e repressões de Pearl colidem.
Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) é um garoto que é fã incondicional do personagem Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Ele ganha um ingresso de cinema mágico, que faz com que Danny entre no novo filme de Slater (Jack Slater IV) e passe por aventuras num mundo maluco, com desenhos animados, violência e até mesmo Catherine Tramell (personagem de Sharon Stone em Basic Instinct). Porém, há um problema: o mesmo ingresso faz com que os vilões do filme saiam para o mundo real. Slater vem atrás deles, passa por vários apuros e acaba encontrando o ator que o interpreta, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Situado em redor de um cinema antigo numa vila costeira inglesa no início dos anos 80, acompanha Hilary, uma gerente de cinema que se debate com a sua saúde mental, e Stephen, um funcionário novo que anseia por fugir desta vila provinciana onde enfrenta adversidades diárias. Tanto Hilary como Stephen encontram um sentimento de pertença através da sua relação improvável e afetuosa, onde vivenciam o poder curativo da música, do cinema e da comunidade.
Two projectionists discover a disturbing film featuring the lynching of a woman. Not only are they troubled by the content of the movie, but strange events befall them following the viewing.
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.
Set in the most easterly town in England, Lowestoft, a young Projectionist (Andrew Hooper) must overcome grief and barriers created from his Mother's untimely death, and become the filmmaker she wanted to him to be.
Documentary charting the experiences of projectionists who work or worked in cinemas in London, exploring the skills and dedication required for this unique role, set against changes in technology, society, and entertainment.
When the UK's oldest working cinema opened in 1909, it took five years to train a projectionist - a century later, it takes less than an hour. The Last Projectionist charts the amazing history of UK independent cinema, taking a tour of some of the most magical picture houses in the world, all centred around The Electric in Birmingham, the oldest working cinema in Britain.
A 'cine-ramic' roller-coaster ride through the rise, fall and re-birth of projected film.
Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died and left them his business—a cinema in the town of Sloughborough. Unfortunately they can't sell it for the fortune they hoped as they discover it is falling down and almost worthless.
A story told from three angles. Max meets Elizabeth; they live together, but when she talks of marriage, he balks. He becomes extremely jealous, probably without cause, and thinks she's taken up with a friend of his, Jack. Elizabeth, stung by Max's refusal to marry, catches Jack's eye, but the friendship seems innocent. Lena, who works with Max, likes him and realizes she can manipulate his jealousy and maybe engineer his split from Elizabeth. When she's sure Elizabeth is with a man, she calls Max at work, sending him home to confront the lovers. Then, Lena feels guilty and takes off for Max's apartment. What's really going on? Who's with Elizabeth?
12 Years ago, Fuyuko, was 7 years old, watched her sister, a high school student, raped and choked to die. Fuyuko never forgets that the man who killed her sister has a red snake tattoo on his thigh. Suffering from the memory and deeply being traumatized, Fuyuko meets the tattooed man by accident and tries to hunt down...
This is the story of my grandfather, Tiago Florit, who for 50 years was a film operator at the Teatre Principal de Maó, in Menorca. It is a review of his life, from his birth to his death, in a cinematographic key. A true love story to cinema.
A new projectionist spends her first evening on the job screening short films for an upcoming festival inside an old movie house. As she watches the horror films alone from the projection booth, she begins to feel that she is not alone.
A projectionist bored with his everyday life begins fantasizing about his being one of the superheroes he sees in the movies he shows.
Hollywood has made up their minds, forcing theaters to convert to digital or go dark. As theaters around the world change to newer digital technology, the job of the 35mm film projectionist is becoming irrelevant. Going Dark profiles two theater projectionists during their final days on the job.
Documentary about film projectionists.
Comedy short about working in a movie theater.