All Films

Conducting Dario Argento's 'Opera'

2001 • 36 min • United States of America

This documentary is featured on the Limited Edition DVD for Opera, released in 2001.

@ in the mood for love

2001 • 51 min • Hong Kong

A documentary following Wong Kar-wai and his cast and crew through the production of his 2000 film In the Mood for Love.

Movie Theaters of Rio

2001 • 60 min • Brazil

The story of Rio de Janeiro’s movie theaters and the radical transformation they have endured since the invention of Cinema.

Astro Boy: The Last Day of Earth

2001 • 16 min • Japan

Atom rescues Bem, a robot soldier who has escaped from a rubbish planet floating in space and is on the brink of death. A warm friendship develops between Atom and Bem, and it continues to grow. But one day, the rubbish planet suddenly begins to approach Earth. There is only one way to avoid a collision with Earth. Only this is... What will Astro do? Will he be able to protect a peaceful Earth as well as his friendship with Bem?

The Same

2001 • 13 min

A creepy house. Every night a dwarf awaits for his beautiful neighbor to return. He will do anything to win the girl of his dreams, including one terrible crime.

Pitch ‘n’ Putt with Beckett ‘n’ Joyce

2001 • 3 min • Ireland

Tensions arise between James Joyce and Samuel Beckett during a game of Pitch and Putt golf when a guest fails to show up.

Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing

2001 • 59 min • United Kingdom

Documentary charting the fascinating life and work of Lee Miller, a model for Vogue in 1920s New York who became the only female photojournalist to cover the Second World War. Having given up photography in later life and virtually disowned her own work, Miller's extraordinary archive of 40,000 negatives was only rediscovered after her death. George Melly, David Hare, friends, colleagues and her only son, Tony Penrose, trace the story of her unconventional life through her own remarkable pictures and photographs, as well as rarely seen archive footage.

The Long Night

2001 • 15 min • Italy

The long night of Manolo, hairdresser to the stars, on the Champs Élysées during his first experience with cocaine. He goes to discos and seances, sees widowed baronesses and pushers, and finally manages to set up his moment of intimacy with Ariel Bachini, famous film star, but…

Jewel of the Sahara

2001 • 17 min

Set in a French Foreign Legion Camp circa 1954, the film follows the fantasies of a British captain, desperately missing his home and wife

L'esprit du jeu

2001 • 8 min

Thomas engages in a strange game of billiards with an invisible opponent.

Evil Con Carne

2001 • 7 min • United States of America

A disembodied brain from a super villian known as Hector Con Carne attempts to take over the world with a doomsday machine.

Electromagnetic Radiation

2001 • 1 min • Canada

What do X-rays, microwaves and light have in common? Part of the Science Please! collection for children.

Unmasking Zorro

2001 • 45 min • United States of America

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film The Mask of Zorro (1998), including a brief history of the iconic character.

Cyclops

2001 • 46 min

Sex offender Carl Gatliss is paroled with a tiny camera implanted behind his retina to monitor his every move and send it back to probation officers Esther and Ken,who are watching on a screen. After he breaks parole by visiting his victim to make amends Ken wants him returned to prison but Esther prevents it. As a result Gatliss obsesses about Esther,killing his girlfriend for her and ultimately arriving at her house when she is alone and vulnerable.

Making 'Superman': Filming the Legend

2001 • 31 min • United States of America

Documentary on the making of the 1978 film 'Superman.'

Ski to the Max

2001 • 42 min • United States of America

Fun and breathtaking action, the fascination of speed and pure zeitgeist - that's "Ski to the Max". Willy Bogner wanted to push the boundaries - and exceeded them. A stunt thriller like a mixture of James Bond and Ethan Hawke: Deep snow skiing in the Himalayas, extreme skiing in Alaska, slopestyle in Aspen and paragliding in the Engadine. The best skiers in the world set new standards for human possibilities.

Di Gi Charat: A Trip To The Planet

2001 • 22 min

Dejiko decided to take a vacation and visit her home, Planet Di Gi Charat, together with Puchiko, Gema, and (accidentally) Rabi~en~Rose. However, Piyoko and her aids would not let go this chance to capture her.

The Real Linda Lovelace

2001 • 53 min

Takes a look at the rise and fall of Linda Lovelace, the first major porn star.

2001 and Beyond

2001 • 47 min • Canada

Author Arthur C. Clarke and the cast and crew of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" star in this documentary, released in the film's long-anticipated title year. The origins of the production are traced as we see how the early days of the space race influenced Kubrick and Clarke's vision of a far more optimistic 21st century than we've managed to achieve - at least so far.

Kikumana

2001 • 6 min • Japan

This work "Kikumana" is an animation of a girl called Kikumana who acts like in a stage performance, the role defeated by such an ill circumstance though she tries to find herself. The primal aim is to get the audience feeling a strange atmosphere spread from this work. The image has a pictorial atmosphere and a documentary touch at the same time. Unrealistic phenomena take place there.

Cáca Milis

2001 • 18 min • Ireland

A chance encounter on a train between a young woman and a blind man.

Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man

2001 • 50 min

The cast and main players in the crew come together to discuss the making of cult British horror film The Wicker Man. They discuss the adaptation of the source material, the casting process and the difficult shoot which dealt with everything from a summer film being shot in late autumn and the troubles of the actual wicker man itself.

La Mer à Boire

2001 • 15 min • France

Summertime at the beach. Swimming, yelling, playing, tanning. 25-year-old Marie who came alone to lie in the sun and swim in the sea, loses the bottom half of her bathing suit.

Do You Have a Licence to Save this Planet?

2001 • 30 min • United Kingdom

The time traveling Foot Doctor discovers that the Cyberons and Autons are ineffectually trying to invade the Earth yet again. Can he and a helpful salesman save the day or will his arch enemy The Licensor defeat him for good?