Une scène d'hypnotisme II

An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions...

Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures take the audience from the early failed attempts by...

A man is being haunted by a masked stranger. The only language used in the movie comes from three (inter) title cards and a few sentences of...

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...

Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who...

The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...