A hundred and fourteen famous Iranian theater and cinema actresses and a French star: mute spectators at a theatrical representation of Khosrow and Shirin, a Persian poem from the twelfth century, put on stage by Kiarostami. The development of the text -- long a favorite in Persia and the Middle East -- remains invisible to the viewer of the film, the whole story is told by the faces of the women watching the show.

Exploring the duality between friendship and loneliness, this intimate narrative short tells the sto...

A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks a...

Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev is not that young of an actor. For many years he plays in the provincial the...

This is a time when we learn afresh that nothing lasts forever and that the variability is an integr...

Avant-garde homage to pre-revolution Russian silent movies, and to the poet Aleksandr Blok.

In 17th-century Tuscany, a church play is performed for the benefit of young aristocrat Cosimo. In t...

A filmmaker recalls his youth in the town of Onomichi. In the present, he shoots a film in Onomichi ...

A group of dancers congregate on the stage of a Broadway theatre to audition for a new musical produ...

Traveling rainmaker Starbuck arrives at the drought-ridden Curry place, promising rain for the farm ...

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater...

Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, to give it its full title, by Christopher Marlowe, was first...

Young Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return to t...
Sometimes the drama backstage is better than anything on it... Sometimes the drama backstage threate...

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...

In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe ...

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by mod...

Italian immigrant kidnaps a wealthy British woman, and they fall in love.

This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape,...

Rosso Fiorentino's painting "The Deposition of the Cross" comes to life. The Christ is gradually rem...