Ein einzigartiges Actionspektakel, das in einer dystopischen Alptraum-Realität spielt. Boy ist taubstumm und hat eine blühende Fantasie. Als seine Familie ermordet wird, flieht Boy in den Dschungel und wird von einem mysteriösen Schamanen ausgebildet, um seine kindliche Fantasie loszulassen und ein ausgewachsener Killer zu werden.
Als der junge Devon aus Harlem ein Musik-Stipendium an der Atlanta A&T University erhält, geht für den ehrgeizigen Hip-Hop-Drummer ein Traum in Erfüllung. Doch schon bald muß er erfahren, daß Talent nicht alles ist. Will man in der Marschmusik-Band von Dr. Lee Erfolg haben, muß man sich seinem Konzept “Eine Band, ein Sound” unterordnen. Doch genau das fällt dem Heißsporn unglaublich schwer. Immer wieder eckt er bei seinem Sektionsleiter Sean an und versucht, sich bei diversen Sportveranstaltungen in den Vordergrund zu spielen. Dem Publikum und dem Präsidenten der Uni gefällt Devons unkonventioneller Stil außerordentlich gut, doch Dr. Lee hält an seinen Prinzipien fest. Eines aber steht fest: wenn Devon nicht bereit ist sich anzupassen, kann er seine Karriere als Musiker vergessen!
Sally Field ist der Star dieser Komödie, in der Filmwelt und Wirklichkeit miteinander verschmelzen. Zusammen mit Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Cathy Moriarty und Elisabeth Shue ist sie der Star der beliebten und skandalträchtigen TV-Serie „The Sun Also Sets“. Sie alle liefern sich in dem TV-Quotenrenner erbarmungslose Wortgefechte und knallharte Intrigen. Doch nicht nur, wenn sie vor der Kamera stehen, fliegen untereinander die Fetzen. Auch ihr Privatleben ist eine echte Soap-Opera! „In diesem Film wird so viel schmutzige Wäsche gewaschen, dass jeder heiß ist auf diesen sauberen Comedyhit mit Lachfaktor 100.“
A gang of innocent but feisty kids who lead carefree lives in Chandan Nagar colony, take on the big bad world of politics when one of their friend's life is endangered.
A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.
Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in accordance with Marcel Bluwal's wishes, is in keeping with the age and character of the characters, to give it rhythm. At once "a comic baroque play, a bourgeois drama, a chansonnier's number, a social satire, a farce and a very pretty love story" according to Marcel Bluwal, it can also be summed up, according to Beaumarchais, as "the most bantering of intrigues".
When Grace comes to live with her daughter and son-in-law, she is eager to find a way to be useful in the community. She loves to read stories to children, and decides to read one on public access television. The response is so strong that a large company hears about it and offers her a television series. Her life becomes complicated as she is forced to make some serious decisions. Through it all, Grace is able to help a young mother realize that time is the most valuable gift she could give to her daughter.
Boston's V66 music video station came and went in the mid-1980s but in the 18 months on the air, it was one of the only over-the-air music video channels ever created. But even popular success didn't mean it was going to last...
Der Siegeszug des Fernsehens begann nicht - wie oft angenommen - im Amerika der 1950er Jahre, sondern schon Mitte der 30er Jahre in Deutschland. Um jeden Preis wollten die Nazis den TV-Konkurrenten voraus sein.
A disgraced Television presenter forms a pact with a desperate stranger.
A television cameraman and his subject find themselves in the middle of an intertwined professional and personal dilemma.
The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge (John Heard) recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback 'Dandy' Don Meredith (Brad Beyer), along with Keith Jackson (Shuler Hensley), and the combative Howard Cosell (John Turturro) as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd trio events to millions of viewers. Jackson departs the show after the first year to take over the network's focus on college football, and former New York Giants star Frank Gifford (Kevin Anderson) takes his place, ruffling Cosell's feathers. Then things get really crazy!
This Shiver (ITV Studios) documentary reveals what happened behind-the-scenes on some of the most momentous breaking news events in our lifetime - as told by those caught up in the real-life drama, those in the newsrooms and those responsible for delivering these newsflashes into millions of people's homes. News stories covered include the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997); the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas (1963); the coal-tip landslide in Aberfan (1966); the Lockerbie Air Disaster (1988); the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York (2001); the start of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War (1991); the dramatic end of the Iranian Embassy siege in London (1980); and the announcement of the death of the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (2002).
A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with condition at home and at the theater, suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes to Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a settlement of poor people to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reasons for the actor’s odd behavior and to hear when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that only known what he does not want! The young director, who earlier started work on filming a portrait of the actor, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.
"Impressões" rescues the history of the Brazilian press since 1808, when the "Correio Brasiliense" clandestinely reached Rio de Janeiro after being edited in London by Hipólito José da Costa, and spans until 1986. It's the first documentary to depict the history of the Brazilian journalistic press.
After experiencing CASUAL FRIDAYS, you'll hug Mondays and saucily pat Wednesday's (hump days.) It's like a 110 minute Mocha Java. (For those of you who don't know that's where Ethiopia meets Java for a wild blend.) THAT'S RIGHT! This TV Carnage DVD is dedicated to the throngs of exceptional men and women who care about and enforce the rules of CASUAL FRIDAYS. The Randy Rivers, and Suzie Shiers, the beige khakis and sensible earth tones, sensible haircuts and a 24-7/365 totally extreme attitude, suitable for shopping!
A live TV special of Harry Nilsson performing his album of standards "A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night".
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province. He has already hired Turkmen tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diegetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.
The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented by many tv reportages of removals of monumental public sculptures, but the citizens of Vilnius in Lithuania did the unexpected!