בכנס בנורווגיה נחשף כי פרויקט מזעור בני אדם אפשרי ואף נוסה בהצלחה, מה שעשוי להביא לפתרון בעיות הקיימות בכדור הארץ. 10 שנים מאוחר יותר, חברות פרטיות מעודדות אנשים לעבור הליך של מיזעור בהבטחה לעתיד כלכלי וסביבתי טוב יותר. הן מציעות לאנשים שעברו מזעור, להתגורר ביישובים מיוחדים ברמת חיים גבוהה. פול ואודרי ספרנק, זוג נשוי, מחליטים לעבור את תהליך המזעור שהוא בלתי הפיך. לאחר שעבר את התהליך, מגלה פול כי רעייתו התחרטה ברגע האחרון והוא נותר להתמודד לבדו עם המציאות החדשה. בחייו החדשים, נחשף פול לאמיתות על העולם הממוזער, המתגלה כמיקרוקוסמוס של ארצות הברית, על פערי המעמדות והשחיתות שבה.
In the mid-80s, three women (each with an attorney) arrive at the office of New York entertainment manager, Morris Levy. One is an L.A. singer, formerly of the Platters; one is a petty thief from Philly; one teaches school in a small Georgia town. Each claims to be the widow of long-dead doo-wop singer-songwriter Frankie Lyman, and each wants years of royalties due to his estate, money Levy has never shared. During an ensuing civil trial, flashbacks tell the story of each one's life with Lyman, a boyish, high-pitched, dynamic performer, lost to heroin. Slowly, the three wives establish their own bond.
דמותה האייקונית של קתרין טייט נאן מגיעה למסך הגדול כשהיא יוצאת לטיול פראי מלונדון לאירלנד עם נכדה ג'יימי כדי לתקן עם אחותה המנוכרת נל. מציתים טבעוניים לוחמניים, קבוצות רוגבי סוערות, ריבים כל הלילה ושוטרים מטורפים על אופנועים, כולם גורמים ליום בחוץ. סיפור מוצא שמערבב את ההווה של נאן עם עברה, שבו אנחנו סוף סוף מגלים מה הפך אותה לממזר הזקן והקטנוני שהיא היום.
Victims of a tragic air crash are honoured in a sombre military funeral procession through the streets of Hitchin.
Lisbon, 1980, the city, the intensity, the chaos, the noise, the crowd. Overwhelmed by the commotion, a young woman sets off in search of peace in the palace gardens of Sintra. Her red umbrella glides across the pearly whiteness of the rising mist.
On-ice enforcers struggle to rise through the professional ranks of the world's most prestigious hockey league, only to be confronted with a new found fight for the existence of the role itself.
A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.
Crowds block the streets to catch a view of a handsome old carriage at a Jewish wedding.
A short experimental film by Japanese underground filmmaker Shozin Fukui. The film follows a young woman on the Tokyo subway, who may be possessed.
Join the Sunday morning crowds at the famous East End market, home of London's rag trade.
Genoa 2001: As the G8 Summit drew to a close and the press and politicians departed, 300 riot police stormed the Diaz School looking for members of the infamous Black Block. They found instead young activists, mostly students, teenagers and journalists from around Europe preparing to bunk down in the school gym. Undeterred, they unleashed a calculated frenzy of violence, beating young and old, male and female indiscriminately. Those seriously injured were rushed to the hospital in ambulances, though soon after they were forced to join those who had been arrested and driven to a detention centre and subjected to further abuse and degradation.
Set in the not to distant apocalyptic future. Earth is under invasion from computer/arcade aliens, tensions run high and teenagers still want to 'go out'.
Crowds is a feature documentary that records popular events of Uruguay where thousands of people gather spontaneously, called by faith, passion, celebration and memory. What happens when we set aside our individuality to act collectively? This documentary observes the passions that draw thousands of people close in order to join in a choral character. It discovers the crowd while it transgresses and experiences catharsis, while it seeks miracles and hopes; in continuous movement it splits and rejoins... until they dissipate and individuals re-emerge in their own solitude.
Picnickers in punts, ‘bumpers’ and bubbly.
Dud imagines himself as a daring circus performer (which would certainly impress Mamie.)