A Man Who Was Superman

SONG Soo-jung is a producer going on her third year at a small company. Her specialty is human interest stories. She is driven to produce these shallow stories for the sake of her ambition of one day becoming Korea’s own Oprah Winfrey. However, she is reaching the end of what’s left of her pride. One day, after months of not getting paid, she leaves her office with the company camera to produce a story on a lion apparently refusing to eat its meal. On her way, however, she comes across a robber, but she is saved somehow by Superman in a Hawaiian shirt. “Superman” claims he’s unable to tap into his supernatural powers as the bad guys have placed kryptonite inside his head. However, he doesn’t let that get in his way from helping others, from saving the world from global warming to saving a lost puppy.

Fidelio - Beethoven - Opernhaus Zürich 2008

Translucence, transparency – warmth’ are the qualities identified by Bernard Haitink as necessary for an ideal sound performance of Beethoven's only opera, and all are present in this fantastic recording of Katharina Thalbach's 2008 production for Opernhaus Zurich. Haitink conducts the Zurich Opera Orchestra in a magnificent performance in which Leonore Overture No. 3 provides an interlude between the two scenes of the second act, following a tradition started by Gustav Mahler. German soprano Melanie Diener, in the role of Leonore, leads a brilliant cast including Alfred Muff as Rocco, Roberto Saccà as Florestan, Sandra Trattnigg as Marzelline and Christoph Strehl as Jaquino. This High Definition recording with true surround sound marks the start of the exciting collaboration between Opus Arte and Opernhaus Zurich.

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Fiasco

SYNOPSIS Albert Serra’s piece for and audiovisual tribute to Chaplin the filmmaker… What is Chaplin’s legacy in contemporary cinema? It is not about producing films like Chaplin did, nor remembering the icon in a naïve fashion, but about finding traces of his cinema in their own individual looks.

Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action

Captures the exciting movement of Spiritual Activism that is exploding around the planet, and the powerful personalities who are igniting it.

Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: Abbreviation for Dead Winter [Diminished by 1,794]

“A single piece of paper, a second stab at suture, a story three times over, a frame for every mile. With words by Charles Darwin. A long-distance dedication for a far-away friend halfway up the mountain.” —David Gatten

Film-Landscape-People: an Exquisite Corpse

Exquisite Corpse: 100ft of film, exposed three times and hand-processed in one day. This in-camera triptych documents the landscape, people and filmmaking process at Phil Hoffman's legendary experimental film camp.

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Film spatial

The 'Film spatial' proposes a subjective visit to Yona Friedman's apartment Yona Friedman is an 86 year old visionary architect and urbanist. His work has overthrown the dominating position of the architect as well as the established link between citizens with their cities, and of man and his environment. Unlike how one conceives of an architect's apartment nowadays, Yona Friedman's space can be perceived from an erratic point of view or angle, which could be the one of his dog, Baltkis, who is the key figure of Yonas Friedman's universe. Through the exploration of a floating universe tinged with mysteries,'Film spatial' invites one to another way of perceiving the world, freed from intellectual and conceptual conformism.

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Filmmaking Without Boundaries: Interview with Peter Brook

Director Peter Brook discusses his move from theater to film, his approach to adapting LORD OF THE FLIES, and the film's complicated production history.

Filmquiz

Nanni Moretti speaks of the forty films that have inspired him.

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Finding the Horn

Sometimes you just don’t know what to say about something you’ve made, whether it’s a painting, a movie, a sandwich, or a mistake. (Mark Toscano)