A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.
O documentário apresenta a vida inspiradora e divertida de Roger Ebert, um dos maiores e mais famosos críticos do cinema mundial. O filme acompanha seus últimos meses de vida, ao lado de sua esposa e de sua família, enquanto lutava contra um câncer que o impediu de falar. O documentário ainda conta sua história baseada em seu livro de memórias que se tornou best-seller que explora sua carreira, contando sobre seu Prêmio Pulitzer de crítica de cinema até se tornar uma das personalidades culturais mais influentes nos Estados Unidos.
Carlos Boyero is one of Spanish cinema's most followed and feared figures. Controversy has hounded him since he published his first article more than forty years ago, and he has remained in the eye of the hurricane ever since. Is he the last representative of a disappearing time? Has social media put an end to the traditional influence of the critics. Taking the background and personality of this very controversial figure as its basis, El crítico / The Critic will also endeavour to reflect on the enormous changes taking place in Spain in the field of film criticism.
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.
HECKLER is a comedic feature documentary exploring the increasingly critical world we live in. After starring in a film that was critically bashed, Jamie Kennedy takes on hecklers and critics and ask some interesting questions of people such as George Lucas, Bill Maher, Mike Ditka, Rob Zombie, Howie Mandel and many more. This fast moving, hilarious documentary pulls no punches as you see an uncensored look at just how nasty and mean the fight is between those in the spotlight and those in the dark.
Jon, escritor freelancer que mora em Los Angeles, fica totalmente abalado quando descobre ser portador do vírus HIV. Ao se envolver com o gigolô Luke, homem sem raízes que também possui a doença, embarca com ele num tórrido romance, que logo se transforma em dependência mútua. Quando Luke mata um policial homofóbico, os dois são obrigados a fugir, pegando a estrada do deserto californiano adentro. Sem terem para onde ir e sem nada a perder, Jon e Luke aproveitam a viagem ao máximo, onde o lema é “Foda-se tudo”.
Setenta críticos e cineastas discutem o cinema a partir do conflito que existe entre o artista e o observador, o criador e o crítico. Entre 1998 e 2007, Kleber Mendonça Filho registrou depoimentos sobre esta relação no Brasil, Estados Unidos e Europa, a partir da sua experiencia como crítico.
A series of bizarre and disturbing murders rock the city of Mumbai. Film critics are being killed week after week with the release of every new film. Arvind Mathur, Head of Crime Branch Mumbai, is tasked with solving the case. With the help of Zenobia, a criminal psychologist, he tries to understand the mind of the killer to trap him.
This 17-minute documentary is featured on the 3-Disc Criterion Collection DVD of The Battle of Algiers (1966), released in 2004. An in-depth look at the Battle of Algiers through the eyes of five established and accomplished filmmakers; Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone, Julian Schnabel and Mira Nair. They discuss how the shots, cinematography, set design, sound and editing directly influenced their own work and how the film's sequences look incredibly realistic, despite the claim that everything in the film was staged .
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator, who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli, a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit, and Stapelli's wife, Patricia, are roped into the case.
O que você faria se sua vida se tornasse um filme que você odeia? Uma divertida comédia argentina. Um crítico exigente de cinema - que odeia romances - não consegue evitar que sua vida se transforme em um filme do gênero ao se apaixonar por uma jovem.
An analysis of Quentin Dupieux's film "Incredible But True" by film critic Elena Lazic.
A day in the lives of a bunch of video store clerks in 1999, as the world as they know it is about to change drastically.
Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.
An experimental sampled film which shows the pleasurable art of movies about movies through scenes inside of theaters.
Two obscure film critics host four SF/Horror films: The Thing in the Basement, Illegal Alien, Nightfright, and Dr. Dobermind.
Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of both German and French cinema. In 1936, together with Henri Langlois, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with the goal of saving from destruction films, costumes, sets, posters, and other treasures of the 7th Art. A Jew exiled in Paris, she became a pillar of the capital's cultural scene, where she promoted German cinema.
The world every movie has gone, the man who translates everything into movies shows up.
Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the film’s stars, Georgina Hale and Murray Melvin. Also included are scenes that were cut from the released film for being too controversial.
When journalist Dennis gets assigned to write about Pretty Woman for Marquee magazine's “Hooray for Hollywood Hookers” issue, he invites five friends over to screen, celebrate and skewer the modern-day Cinderella story. The partiers include his roommate Tony, a burnt-out cruise ship crooner who's desperately looking for a new gig on land; Lauren, a relationship-challenged aspiring stand-up comic; Marcos, a sweet-natured attorney who never met a tangent he couldn't go off on; Ross, an Opera-loving video clerk with multiple tattoos and arsenal of movie fun facts at the ready; and Dr. Beverly Beaverman, the shrink next door who finds Freudian psychological meanings in everything she sees. Together, they do their best to make sense of the 1990 Richard Gere-Julia Roberts romantic comedy classic while discovering that the movie's themes—sex, money, sex for money—resonate in their lives in ways both ridiculous and profound.