Visages, villages
2017
7
An intimate insight into the servant culture and lifestyle of the Viceroy of India and family, as they visit Simla (Shimla) and Lahore.
Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely friendship.
Visages, villages
2017
7
Alice Diop's enchanting short film, a work of transcendent transformation, shows how the rough lines of Drancy station are immortalized in watercolor by the French artist Benoît Peyrucq. A tribute to a location fraught with historical and contemporary poignancy.
RER B
2017
6
Stars of Cabaret
1956
0
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.
L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat
1896
7
A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.
Berlin, die Symphonie der Großstadt
1927
7
Amateur film of a road trip through northeastern India, showing traditional dances and a gigantic flower float.
Trip to Manipur
1935
0
Thirty-three shots based on the landscapes of the Isère region near Vienne. A work of observation on light, the dilation of Time, wind, calm and storm.
Variations on Iserois Landscapes
2024
0
A group of teenagers from Flint, Michigan filmed themselves kidnapping and terrorizing a new acquaintance, before taking her out to a woods and dumping her in a shallow grave. They then taunted their terrified and blindfolded victim asking if she had any last requests before they cut her throat. But was the kidnap real or just a game? Three days later the tape was in the hands of the police and the 5 teenager friends were in custody facing life imprisonment. This program talks to the people at the heart of this story - including two of the defendants - in an attempt to understand what really happened in the woods around Flint last year. It also screens the video of the 'abduction'. What is revealed is an extraordinary and disturbing record of a night when something went terribly, terribly wrong.
The Real Blair Witch
2003
7
A documentary outlining railroad work and the effects on the lives impacted by the iron horse
A Great Railroad at Work
1942
0
A production of the association of American Railroads outlining the wonders of America's rail system.
Big Trains Rolling
1955
0
A documentary on the railroads of America produced by the Association of American Railroads
Mainline U.S.A.
1957
0
The Freight Train
1954
0
Rolling the Freight
1947
0
Made to foster relations between the local residents of Rhymney, in south Wales, and the church.
Valley of Rhymney
1947
0
Find bric-a-brac and trinkets galore in this vividly colourful snapshot of Portobello Road Market.
Portobello Road Market
1964
0
Made by an English family living in north India during the heyday of the Raj, this amateur film reveals the grandeur in which middle-class English colonials lived.
Home Life
1928
0
Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s. The Fearless Freaks documents their rise from Butthole Surfers-imitating noisemakers to grand poobahs of orchestral pop masterpieces. Filmmaker Bradley Beesely had the good fortune of living in the same neighborhood as lead Lip Wayne Coyne, who quickly enlisted his buddy to document his band's many concerts and assorted exploits. The early footage is a riot, with tragic hair styles on proud display as the boys attempt to cover up their lack of natural talent with sheer volume. During one show, they even have a friend bring a motorcycle on stage, which is then miked for sound and revved throughout the performance, clearing the club with toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Great punk rock stuff. Interspersed among the live bits are interviews with the band's family and friends, revealing the often tragic circumstances of their childhoods and early career.
The Fearless Freaks
2005
7
Opening a New Frontier
1955
0
A Union Pacific production outlining the Big Boy locomotive and the history of the last great steam engine to rule the rails
Last of the Giants
1959
0
Flight of the Century
1935
0