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.

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

Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol's mammoth film follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in ...

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

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

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...

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

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

Short film produced by the BBC about JG Ballard's Crash. “The film was a product of the most experim...

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

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

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

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

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

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of...

A Yugoslav stage actor marries an American girl in Belgrade and has a child with her, when his caree...

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her f...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

Corinne d'Alys (Daniels) achieves sudden success on the stage and among her many admirers is noted a...

A struggling actress is cast in her last off (off) Broadway show - a modern take on “A Christmas Car...