Varieties of Sweet Peas

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

April 1927 •English

Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.

A Natural History of Laughter

December 2011 •French

For how long have we been laughing? Are human beings the only ones to laugh? In the past, scientists tended to neglect such questions of laughter, leaving them to the philosophers. Jacques Mitsch's A NATURAL HISTORY OF LAUGHTER explores recent scientific attempts to explicate this most elusive of human faculties, undertaken by scientists who see it as a means of approaching some of the larger mysteries of neurology and human behavior.

La remise des décorations

April 1903 •French

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge

October 1888 •

A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge.

Materialista, idealista, cinematógrafo, magnetófono, buen chico y sádico

June 2012 •Spanish

Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen

December 2007 •English

A documentary about some of the comedians of the silent era featuring clips from their films and biographical information.

Ava Gardner: Life Is Bigger Than the Movies

June 2017 •French

A barefoot contessa, a screwed-up princess, an exquisite drunk, a bawdy aristocrat, a nightmare for puritanical America and the moguls of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Ava Gardner never stopped loving those she loved. She turned women green and made men sweat. And rejected with all her force the bulwark of normality.

Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern

May 1988 •English

The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes behind the scenes "home movies" from Bergman's personal archive, interviews with Bergman recorded over his 40 years in the film industry and passages from his autobiography read by Max von Sydow and Bergman himself.

50 años de... Canciones

November 2009 •Spanish

Rafael Azcona

September 2010 •Spanish

Time

July 1984 •Dutch

The point of departure for this film is the 1981 composition De Tijd by Dutch composer Louis Andriessen. Van der Keuken leaves the music undisturbed as an autonomous soundtrack and has the images engage in a sort of battle with it. These images are associations, fragments of events, scenes and situations. The film is preceded by a text by Bert Schierbeek.

Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza

March 2007 •Spanish

Documentary that reconstructs the professional life of the dancer through the thread of his own voice. A work that travels to the fundamental landscapes of the personal history of Gades with unpublished documents and the testimony of those who shared with him many pages of the book of his life and the history of Spanish dance in recent decades.

Billy Wilder: The Human Comedy

February 1998 •English

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

Orson Welles y Goya

May 2008 •Spanish

Los 5 Faust de F. W. Murnau

November 2002 •Spanish

The Cinema According to Dalí

May 2010 •English

Fritz Lang, le cercle du destin - Les films allemands

April 2004 •French

Silence

May 1998 •Polish

A portrait of a family living in a village in Masuria.

Gente de mesón

May 1969 •Spanish

Bola de Nieve

April 2003 •Spanish

Documentarian Jose Sanchez-Montes turns his attention towards the late Cuban musician Ignacio Villa, known throughout the world as Bola de Nieve (Snowball), with this 2003 biographical documentary entitled simply Bola de Nieve. A master pianist, Bola de Nieve was a mainstay through the middle portion of the 20th century, with his music almost omnipresent in South America cinema throughout those formative decades. With Bola de Nieve's famous statement "I'm a sad person, but my songs sound happy" in mind, Sanchez-Montes also looks at the influence of the musician's African heritage and homosexuality upon Bola de Nieve's unique musical style.