Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.
It’s hard for a boy not to get excited when his dad gets a new job as Senior Chief Night Manager at Charbay’s Chicken World and Restaurant Resort, the world’s largest fast-food entertainment complex in North America. But things quickly get very, very clucked.
An early experimental short based on the idea of troubled women and made for the purposes of getting to grips with DaVinci Resolve. Focussed on creating a visceral uncanny mood piece, with emphasis on an intricate sound mix and overlaying images from Brian De Palma's Passion (2012), David Lynch's Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014), Lost Highway (1997) and Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant (2017).
Fight alongside Sylvester Stallone as he creates a brand-new director's cut of Rocky IV: ROCKY VS. DRAGO. This feature-length documentary offers a personal and uncompromising look into the editing process, captured by Sly's longtime friend and fellow filmmaker John Herzfeld.
Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way Scorsese brings the written story to life on the big screen. Additional interviews with the likes of Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Thelma Schoonmaker, the director’s own parents, and others build a perception of Scorsese that not everybody knows.
A brief portrait of famous and brave bullfighter Manuel Benítez el Corbobés; an account on still photos of his triumphs and failures.
When a sound engineer notices a strange background sound in a voice over session, he must investigate the mysterious source.
"Diablo Viejo" was going to be a family road trip movie, but the production stops when the co-directors' 9 year relationship comes to an end. After the separation both put together their own version of the story with the pieces of a broken relationship and a frustrated documentary.
To forget about the end of a relationship, a woman fantasizes about an ideal one. Fantasy and reality begin to melt into one another, but the past finds a way to rear its head again. Films used:
Notorious (1946)
Gaslight (1944)
In Sink (get it?), each video clip is accompanied by the audio clip from the video that preceded it.
A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.
Filmmaker Kogonada unpicks what defines the Golden Age of Italian cinema with a side-by-side comparison of two edits of the same film, one according to Italian director Vittorio De Sica, and the other according to Hollywood producer David O. Selznick.
editing experiments with a walk in the woods
Kogonada looks at how the motif of doors reverberates through Robert Bresson's work.
Two instants separated by 99 days conflict with each other.