After 46 years in exile, former major league baseball star Luis Tiant returns to Cuba, where he encounters unexpected demons and receives unexpected gifts from his family.
This film captures the essence of Jewish humor in this fearlessly open, prejudice-defying documentary. Through a collage of interviews and comedy routines, take us a tour of Jewish humor, from the earthy jokes of the Eastern European shtetls to the stand-up routines of U.S. comics and modern day Israel, which can't resist poking fun at its most sacred institutions.
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In five chapters with titles borrowed from Dostoevsky to Arthur Rimbaud and Walter Benjamin, the film passes from the port town of Calais to Paris, from black and white to color, from silent to sound, from super-8 to video, from stifled words to free jazz, the film testify the iniquitous policies which shape our time, and the character of certain political lives as migrants, im...
Adolf Loos helped define Modernist Architecture with his 1908 essay proclaiming ornament to be a crime. His 1908 manifesto, "Ornament and Crime" – a turning point in architectural theory, much discussed and debated to this present day, is read by Carola Regnier, while in the background, we follow photographs of marble tombstones from the 18th century at St. John's Cathedrale in...
University of Texas student Duane Graves chronicles his charismatic childhood chum Rene Moreno, a San Antonio native with Down Syndrome, in this playful, stirring, remarkably unique portrait documentary.
"Those Waiting For The Birds" is the portrait of a game: "pigeon racing". Through passionate pigeon racers, such as Robert Calonne, an old mason and famous champion, Serge Taillieu, a young unemployed but diligent player, or Herbots Philip, who made breading pigeons a lucrative business, the film director is contemplating this sport today. As a kind of "horse racing of the poor...
The inside story of Fleewood Mac from their formation in 1967 to the present day (2009) - as told by the members of the band.