A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at some distance, and eventually stops at the platform. Doors of the railway-cars open and attendants help passengers off and on. Popular legend has it that, when this film was shown, the first-night audience fled the café in terror, fearing being run over by the "approaching" train. This legend has since been identified as promotional embellishment, though there is evidence to suggest that people were astounded at the capabilities of the Lumières' cinématographe.

Óscar Peyrou is a veteran Spanish film critic who writes his reviews according to a very peculiar me...

A story about several beaver families in their wild surroundings. The interesting process of buildin...

An insider's look into Francis Ford Coppola's latest Live Cinema project, Distant Vision.

A documentary that explores the natural world of the sea, from the single-celled organism to more co...

Using his failed attempts at creating profitable stock footage, a filmmaker reflects on the absurd, ...

Erik Satie’s work is at the heart of modern music. However, who was Satie? An elusive genius or a vi...
Pentrex takes you back in time to the late 1950s and 1960s for a close-up look at the waning years o...

Spain, 1970s. A Clockwork Orange, a film considered by critics and audiences as one of the best work...

A Tibetan Lama. His disciple. The disciple's wife, young boy and terrier. An old tugboat crossing th...

Life in a rural area in Spain where the sole source of income is the physically gruelling labour of ...

This documentary depicts the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky talking about his life, his loves, his c...

A documentary about the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order in London.

A film about winter railroading in the Canadian Rockies and the men who keep the lines clear. The st...

In 1933, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, two audacious and visionary directors, dared to ...
The film depicts young people at various socioeconomic levels presenting their views on the use of m...

Johan van der Keuken's first film is a uniquely beautiful portrait of Paris at dawn.

A film crew trails Philbert Powell through his morning, from the supermarket to his job at a video s...

Documentary of Daniel Schubert's grandmother, Martha Katz, a Holocaust survivor.