• 1995
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Century of Cinema

Summary Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics. View more details

  • 1995
  • 1h

Century of Cinema

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Michel Piccoli Nagisa Ôshima Martin Scorsese Lena Nyman

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7.7

Details

Genres : History Biography Documentary

Release date : Jan 6, 1995

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : British Film Institute (BFI)

Language : English

Production companies : British Film Institute (BFI)

Summary Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics. View more details

Details

Genres : History Biography Documentary

Release date : Jan 6, 1995

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : British Film Institute (BFI)

Language : English

Production companies : British Film Institute (BFI)

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Nihon eiga no hyaku nen (1995) Cinema de Lágrimas (1995) Deux fois 50 ans de cinéma français (1995) A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears (1995) Nihon eiga no hyaku nen (1995) Century of Cinema (1995)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Aug 31, 1995
Nihon eiga no hyaku nen
Nagisa Oshima explores the first century of Japanese cinema.
Episode 2 • Oct 19, 1995
Ourselves Alone?
Theatre director and documentary filmmaker Donald Taylor Black contributes a thoughtful essay about Ireland's need to make images of itself for itself.
Episode 3 • Apr 13, 1995
A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears
Director Stephen Frears casts a subjective eye over British cinema, from World War Two, the 1960s and the emergence of working-class voices, to the erratic 1980s, where spectacular success and catastrophic failure go hand in hand.
Episode 4 • Apr 27, 1995
Die Nacht der Regisseure
150 German filmmakers of all generations are led through a fictitious ultramodern Cinema of Time, where they can experience a taste of what ambience and technology can offer.
Episode 5 • Nov 27, 1995
Cinema de Lágrimas
A Brazilian director goes to Mexico city to study the great Mexican melodramas of old. He meets a student he had previously met in Brazil and he becomes his assistant. But the student begins to miss the projections, behaving mysteriously. The director suspects something strange must be happening. But he will only find that out back in Brazil... Investigation about the melodrama myths, paying homage to South America cinema, especially the Mexican, in the 1930s until the 1950s, when Mexican moviemaking had stars like Maria Felix and Dolores Del Rio. The film took part in the British project celebrating the 100 Years of Cinema.
Episode 6 • May 20, 1995
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Martin Scorsese describes his initial and growing obsession with films from the 1940s and 50s as the art form developed and grew with clips from classics and cult classics.
Episode 7 • Jul 27, 1999
100 lat w kinie
Episode 8 • May 25, 1995
Deux fois 50 ans de cinéma français
At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject. Through the remainder of his hotel stay, Piccoli tests Godard's hypothesis.
Episode 9 • Oct 09, 1995
Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill
A personal journey through Sam Neill's childhood and memories.
Episode 10 • Oct 28, 1995
Scandinavie, Stig Björkman
Anyone desiring a quick introduction to or stimulating recap of Scandinavian cinema will find "I Am Curious, Film" a very seductive initiation.
Episode 11 • Dec 07, 1995
Gilwe-eui younghwa
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
Russkaya ideya
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
And the Show Goes On: Indian Chapter
Episode 14 • Sep 12, 1996
Le complot d'Aristote
The Cameroonian film, a meta-discourse on cinema, tackles the state and direction of cinema in the continent, the dominance of non-African works on African screens, and the clear absence of African films on the silver screens.
Episode 15 • Jul 13, 1999
40,000 years of dreaming
Australian born film maker George (Mad Max) Miller offers a personal view of Australian films. He suggests that they can be regarded as visual music, public dreaming, mythology, and song-lines. In extrapolating the idea of movies as song-lines he examines feature films under the following categories : songs of the land ; the bushman ; the convicts ; the bush-rangers ; mates and larrikins ; the digger ; pommy bashing ; the sheilas ; gays ; the wogs ; blackfellas ; urban subversion. He then concludes that these films can be thought of as "Hymns that sing of Australia".
Episode 16 • Sep 29, 1996
Naamsaang-neuiseung
Stanley Kwan examines queer themes in Chinese film for this insightful documentary, produced for the British Film Institute's "Century of Cinema" series. Using film clips, personal recollections, and interviews with film luminaries (including Ang Lee, Tsui Hark, Chen Kaige and Leslie Cheung), Kwan demonstrates how Chinese cinema has challenged gender norms for years, while asserting his own sexuality in a poignant conversation with his mother.

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