The Birthday Party (1931)

The Beach Party

A fun day at the beach. While Mickey, Horace, and Clarabelle go swimming, or try to, Minnie lays out a picnic. Pluto discovers why you shouldn't chase a crab. Everyone digs in to lunch. Mickey throws Pluto a string of sausages; he dives after them, and comes up with an angry octopus instead, who crashes into the picnic. Everyone fights the octopus, and Mickey finally manages to send it out to sea by throwing an anchor like a lasso.

Traffic Troubles

Mickey is driving a taxi. His first fare is a very large gentleman. Mickey stops traffic and gets a tongue-lashing from the officer. The cab runs into some bad road, bounces the fare down to almost nothing, then bounces the customer right out of the cab. Mickey pulls up to the curb and picks up his second passenger, Minnie. She plays her accordion while they ride. The cab gets a flat tire, and Mickey uses a pig to pump it up.

Siempre la duda

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A Boy Named Cocoy

A mountain boy seeks a better life in Manila and finds love.

Pedro Almodóvar, l'Insolent de la Mancha

An anti-conformist, Pedro Almodovar has dared everything in his immense cinematic career. Confronting impulses, drugs and unbridled sexuality, cross-dressing identities, over the years he has allowed a colorful, uninhibited, taboo-free post-Franco cinema to blossom. In a Spain now caught up in its past, the native of La Mancha embodies all those Spanish generations who know how important it is to remember and protect this artistic insolence at all costs.

Utol

Jaime quits a syndicate led by Don Jose, gets imprisoned, and reunites with his brother Joey who takes his place as the new leader of Don Jose's henchmen.

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby

In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.

The Craft of Dirty Harry

A look at the cinematographers, editors, musicians, production designers and other talent of the Dirty Harry series.

The Rolling Stones: Live from Paris 1995

In November of 1995, the Rolling Stones released the acclaimed album 'Stripped,' their second release on the Virgin Records label after 1994's 'Voodoo Lounge.' The concept for 'Stripped,' a studio/live hybrid album with stripped-down instrumentation, was conceived as a kind of response to 'MTV Unplugged' while the band was on their big-scale 1994/1995 world tour in support of 'Voodoo Lounge.' A total of four stripped-down concerts were held at small venues in Amsterdam, Paris and London, and recorded for the album 'Stripped.' The concert that was released under the title "Live from Paris 1995" on DVD and SD Blu-ray as part of the 2016 'Totally Stripped' deluxe boxed set took place on July 3, 1995 at the Paris Olympia, a venue with a capacity of about 2000. Three songs from this intimate concert were included on the original 'Stripped' album, namely "Shine a Light," "Let It Bleed" and "Angie."

Easy Money

Credit Card Stealing gone horribly wrong

Blond, Blue Eyes

Documentary filmmaker Simone de Vries follows Rutger Hauer around his homes in Hollywood and Friesland, the Netherlands as well as several movie sets around the world.

This Is My Love

A single woman tries to keep her sister from another man by framing her for her husband's murder.

Michel Sardou - Confidences Et Retrouvailles - Live 2011

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Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba

The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in film, rakugo, kodan and on stage many times, in part because Nakayama later joined the famous 47 Ronin (Chushingura) as Horibe Yasubei. But Makino and Inagaki’s version gives no hint of this more serious future, playing up the thrills and the comedy with Bando’s bravura performance. The multiple pans of Yasubei running to the duel are an exemplar of the experimental flourishes of 1930s Japanese cinema and the final duel, performed virtually like a dance number, is a marker of Makino’s love of rhythm and one of the best sword fights in Japanese film history. The film was originally released under the title Chikemuri Takadanoba (Bloody Takadanobaba) with a length of 57 minutes, but suffered some cuts and a title change when it was re-released in 1952.

Keep a Lid on It

Chaos erupts when members of two notorious Istanbul mobs arrive at a seaside town for family vacations.

Guilty Hands

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

George and the Christmas Star

George cuts out a paper star to top his Christmas tree but, dissatisfied, decides to go for the real thing - an unusually bright star that seems to beckon him from the sky.

Two Worlds

Two characters finding hope and coming together in the bleakest of moments. One marooned on a desolate planet and the other crash landing on the same planet. Both have benefits to helping each other find solace in this barren world.

Elephants Dream

Elephants Dream is the story of two strange characters exploring a capricious and seemingly infinite machine. The elder, Proog, acts as a tour-guide and protector, happily showing off the sights and dangers of the machine to his initially curious but increasingly skeptical protege Emo. As their journey unfolds we discover signs that the machine is not all Proog thinks it is, and his guiding takes on a more desperate aspect. Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, made purposefully open-ended as the world’s first 3D animated “Open movie”. The film itself is released under the Creative Commons license, along with the entirety of the production files used to make it (roughly 7 Gigabytes of data). The software used to make the movie is the free/open source animation suite Blender along with other open source software, thus allowing the movie to be remade, remixed and re-purposed with only a computer and the data on the DVD or download.

The Actor

In his dressing room, a young actor is making up as an old man. But behind the young man’s mask, what is his real face like ?

Kali, the Little Vampire

This is the story about a boy not like the others that dreams about finding his place in the world.

Another Side of the Moon

A comic film about traditional Caucasian hospitality.

Silent

A duo of street performers learns how sound and picture work together to create amazing cinema experiences.

Kernel

When the world has been pushed past breaking point, an aging neurobotanist collects and preserves what little of value remains.

Sand Wanderer

So young he can barely carry his spear, a young boy lagging behind the other warriors is dragged into a bizarre world of shifting sands.

If Not Now, Then When …?

It’s a beautiful summer day and Sven is finally going to take the plunge. He’s at the public pool, at the foot of the ladder leading up to the ten-metre board. Today he is going to jump. Now! Or perhaps some chips as a start? And it would be good to take a shower first. But then he’ll be ready, though …? Oh no, the queue behind him is waiting, there’s no turning back. Sven climbs up the tower.

(OO)

One boy battles his own personal tsunami of nose-water.

Blu

A wind strike, a splash of water and an accomplice look. Will they be enough to change the life of a child?

Casus belli

A terrible misunderstanding between a mouse and a frog provokes an escalation of reprisals and revenge that will culminate in the war between the people of Mice and the people of Frogs who both live on the edge of a field. But a real threat to this small world at war comes from somewhere else. Inspired by Batrachomyomachia (Battle of Frogs and Mice) a comic epic attributed to Homer.

Guide Dog

This twisted sequel to the Oscar-nominated film "Guard Dog" details the continuing adventures of an eager canine. This time he takes a job helping the blind, but still leaves a path of destruction in his wake.

Fowl Play

Blue Racer is forced to play with a rooster's son, so Racer tries to play games with him, which usually involve Blue Racer trying to get rid of the little bird. Unfortunatly for the snake, the rooster is keeping an eye on them all the time.

Short Animation of Shintaro Kago

Of late, Kago has also taken to posting his even less-known video work to his YouTube channel. In these jokey short films, many of them crudely animated, Kago's sick sense of humor reaches its full heights of absurdity. There's a playful surrealist sensibility to Kago's work, as well as a tendency to revel in the ridiculous, the crude and the disturbing. His work straddles a weird boundary between avant-garde experimentation and low-brow fart jokes — the punchline of one of these films is literally an oozing torrent of shit — although, admittedly, his videos seem to lean a bit more heavily towards the fart jokes than his comics. But hey, who doesn't appreciate a good fart joke once in a while?

Going Green

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The Beach

Reworked and colored images of people playing at the seashore.

Love Me, Fear Me

'What would you be willing to do for them to love you? '

Breakfast

Relentlessly reworking ‘real’ images, using techniques borrowed from painting and animated film, Patrick Bokanowski is an author of stature, capable of creating an insane and cataclysmic universe of unquestionable beauty.