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Velvet Buzzsaw(2019)

1h 53min | Thriller, Mystery, Horror
2.7/5 (with 860 votes)

Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art.

Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful(1972)

1h 45min | Comedy, Music
3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvelles ondes avec "Radio plus près de la Vérité".

Directed by Jean Yanne - With André Gaillard, Annie Kerani, Bernard Blier, Chantal Nobel, Daniel Prévost, Gabriel Rodriguez, ...

The Storyteller(1977)

A television writer is troubled by accusations that a young boy's death resulted from actions the boy copied from the writer's teleplay.

I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs(1979)

1h 39min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of finding his man, he is trapped into becoming a contestant on a children's quiz show. What's worse is that he becomes a very successful contestant.

Ways of Seeing(1972)

4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The series is partially a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon.

Beyond Borders(2021)

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Pilot JP Schulze and filmmaker Louis Cole set off to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine, 1974 Cessna T210L airplane named Balloo. They had 90 days to complete the journey, and as they traveled they met people from many different cultures and asked them - is what divides us greater than what brings us together?

The Denigration of Carl Skiln(2021)

11min | Comedy

Up against a deadline, a narcissistic screenwriter forces two of his worst critics to delete their reviews of his work at gunpoint.

The Enchanting Porkers(2015)

1h 35min | Comedy

The movie "Swineherds" is a satirical anti-musical which deals with the phenomena of the media sensationalism that trivializes even the most serious and the most painful subjects. The movie depicts the phenomenon of media manipulation, mass hysteria, thirst for fame and people that will, more than ever, do whatever it takes to keep their fifteen minutes of fame.

Game Over: Gender, Race & Violence in Video Games(2000)

41min | Documentary

Video and computer games represent a $6 billion a year industry. One out of every ten households in American owns a Sony Playstation. Children who own video game equipment play an average of ten hours per week. And yet, despite capturing the attention of millions of children worldwide, video games remain one of the least scrutinized cultural industries. Game Over is the first educational documentary to address the fastest growing segment of the media through engaging questions of gender, race and violence. Game Over offers a refreshing dialogue about the complex and controversial topic of video game violence, and is designed to encourage high school and college students to think critically about the video games they play. - See more at: http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=205#sthash.f6Cram5T.dpuf.