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Mekong Hotel (2012)
, 56minutesDirected by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Jenjira Pongpas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Dans un hôtel surplombant le Mékong, à Nong Khai, dans la frontière entre la Thaïlande et le Laos, le cinéaste Apichatpong Weerasethakul et son équipe travaille sur un film intitulé Ecstasy Garden. Entre documentaire et fiction, nous assistons aux répétitions du film qui raconte la rencontre dans une terrasse d'hôtel au bord du fleuve Mékong entre Phon, une jeune fille, et Tong, un jeune garçon. La jeune fille apprend l'existence d'un "pob", un fantôme cannibale, et que sa mère Tante Jen en est un. La relation avec les deux parentes va peu à peu changer.
, 2h27Genres Comedy
Themes Films about films
Actors Mamta Mohandas, Sreenivasan, Vineeth Sreenivasan, Fahadh shanu, Jagathy Sreekumar, Suraj Venjaramoodu
Saroj Kumar is a matinée idol and megastar in Kerala churning out hits one after the other. But a few of his recent movies, such as Vekkeda Vedi, turns out to be big flops. His new film, directed by Alex Samuel, gets cancelled on the first day of shooting when Saroj slaps fellow actor Shyam for some silly reasons. Pachalam Bhasi, the producer, tries for a compromise, but Saroj is not ready to apologise.
, 2h16Directed by Sophie Fiennes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Documentary films about films
Žižek appears transplanted into the scenes of various movies, exploring and exposing how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. As the ideologies undergirding cinematic fantasies are revealed, striking associations emerge: from nuns advising following your desires at The Sound of Music to the political dimensions of Jaws. Taxi Driver, Zabriskie Point, The Searchers, The Dark Knight, John Carpenter’s They Live (“one of the forgotten masterpieces of the Hollywood Left”), Titanic, Kinder Surprise eggs, verité news footage, the emptiness of Beethoven’s "Ode to Joy", and propaganda epics from Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia all inform Žižek’s psychoanalytic-cinematic argument.
Side by Side (2012)
, 1h38Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors James Cameron, David Fincher, John Malkovich, Danny Boyle, David Lynch, Robert Rodríguez
The documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation. It shows what artists and filmmakers have been able to accomplish with both film and digital and how their needs and innovations have helped push filmmaking in new directions. Interviews with directors, cinematographers, colorists, scientists, engineers and artists reveal their experiences and feelings about working with film and digital.
Room 237 (2012)
, 1h42Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Stephen King, Nicole Kidman, Liam Neeson
The film interviews fans of The Shining who, using their own brands of film analysis, connect Kubrick's film with (among others) genocide of Native Americans, the Holocaust, and the Apollo 11 moon landing. The interviewees are not seen in Room 237, but rather, their commentaries and claims about the film are heard over a variety of visual clips (primarily from the film The Shining itself) which loosely connect with their dialogue.
The Act of Killing (2012)
, 2h39Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, Joshua Oppenheimer
Origin Danemark
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about racism, Documentary films about racism, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about politics, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry
The film focuses on the perpetrators of the Indonesian killings of 1965–66 in the present day; ostensibly towards the communist community where almost a million people were killed. When Suharto overthrew Sukarno, the President of Indonesia, following the failed coup of the 30 September Movement in 1965, the gangsters Anwar Congo and Adi Zulkadry in Medan (North Sumatra) were promoted from selling black market movie theatre tickets to leading the most powerful death squad in North Sumatra. They also extorted money from ethnic Chinese as the price for keeping their lives. Anwar is said to have personally killed 1,000 people.
The Girl (2012)
, 1h31Directed by Julian Jarrold
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about films
Actors Toby Jones, Sienna Miller, Imelda Staunton, Penelope Wilton, Sean Michael, Carl Beukes
The film is a partially fictionalised account of the relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren. In 1961, Hitchcock notices Hedren in a television commercial for a diet drink. He wants to turn her into the next Grace Kelly, with whom he had worked extensively during the 1950s. Hedren passes her screen test and is groomed for the starring role in Hitchcock's latest film, The Birds; the director instructs her about her dress and appearance.
Nema Aviona Za Zagreb (2012)
, 1h22Directed by Louis van Gasteren
Origin France
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Louis van Gasteren, Michèle Girardon, Nicholas Parsons
As the film opens, a ninety-year-old Louis van Gasteren—a documentary filmmaker and artist famed in the Netherlands—is seated in a video editing suite, watching scenes of himself in the 1960s, a time when “anything was possible.” He reflects on how much he has changed, and that he is that same person and yet is not.
The War of the Volcanoes (2012)
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Roberto Rossellini, Anna Magnani
It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
, 1h2Directed by Don Hertzfeldt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about films
Actors Don Hertzfeldt
Hugo (2011)
, 2h7Directed by Martin Scorsese
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Adventure
Themes Films about films, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Steampunk films, Children's films, Robot films
Actors Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer
In 1931, 12-year-old Hugo Cabret lives in Paris with his father, a widowed, but kind and devoted master clockmaker. Hugo's father takes him to see films and loves those of Georges Méliès best of all.
D'un film à l'autre (2011)
, 1h44Directed by Claude Lelouch
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Autobiographical documentary films
Actors Claude Lelouch, Anouk Aimée, Richard Anconina, Fanny Ardant, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pierre Arditi
Claude Lelouch fait le bilan de sa carrière.
, 1h20Directed by Pip Chodorov
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Hans Richter, Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Robert Breer, Maurice Lemaître, Jonas Mekas
Qu'est-ce que le cinéma "expérimental"? Avec malice, humour et poésie, Pip Chodorov invite ses amis cinéastes - Hans Richter, Peter Kubelka, Ken Jacobs, Jonas Mekas, Maurice Lemaître, Stan Brakhage et bien d'autres - à évoquer leur travail, et retrace cent ans d'histoire de l'avant-garde tout en évoquant son rapport personnel à cet art, à ces films et images ayant forgé son existence.
Shark Night 3D (2011)
, 1h34Directed by David Richard Ellis
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about films, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Psychologie, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, Transport films, Films about sharks, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Films about psychiatry
Actors Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan, Chris Carmack, Katharine McPhee Foster, Donal Logue, Joshua Leonard
Seven Tulane University undergraduates – Sara, Nick, Beth, Malik, Maya, Blake and Gordon – drive to Sara's family vacation home on a private lake. There, Sara encounters her old boyfriend, Dennis, and his friend Red.
Super 8 (2011)
, 1h52Directed by J. J. Abrams
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction
Themes Films about films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee, Ron Eldard
In 1979, Deputy Sheriff Jack Lamb (Kyle Chandler) of Lillian, Ohio, and his 14-year-old son Joe (Joel Courtney), mourn the death of his mother Elizabeth (Caitriona Balfe) in a steel mill accident. Jack blames her co-worker, Louis Dainard (Ron Eldard), as she was covering his shift while he recovered from a hangover.