Joan the Maid 2 – The Prisons (2004)
Original title: Jeanne la Pucelle II – Les prisons
Year: 1994
Runtime: 104 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast:
Sandrine Bonnaire … Jeanne d’Arc
André Marcon … Charles, Dauphin de France
Jean-Louis Richard … La Trémoille
Marcel Bozonnet … Regnault de Chartres
Patrick Le Mauff … Jean Batard d’Orléans
Didier Sauvegrain … Raoul de Gaucourt
Jean-Pierre Lorit … Jean d’Alencon
Bruno Wolkowitch … Gilles de Laval
Romain Lagarde … Nicolas
Florence Darel … Jeanne d’Orléans
Pierre Baillot … Jacques Boucher
Germain Rousseau … Le confesseur du Dauphin
Emmanuel de Chauvigny … Gros-Garrau
Mathias Jung … Jean Pasquerel
Mathieu Busson … Louis de Coutes
Plot/Synopsis:
The second portion of Rivette’s masterful Joan of Arc saga depicts Joan’s occupation of Compeigne, her desertion by her men, and her subsequent imprisonment and death sentence.
After a futile attempt to reclaim Paris, Joan of Arc (Sandrine Bonnaire) is captured at Compiegne, sold to the British and turned over to the ecclesiastical court in the second half of director Jacques Rivette’s epic biography of the legendary French icon. Bonnaire’s poignant and thoroughly human portrait of martyrdom scored her a César nomination for Best Actress in 1995. André Marcon also stars as Charles, Dauphin de France.
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Edvard Munch (1974)
Original title: Edvard Munch
Year: 1974
Runtime: 3 hours, 31 minutes
Country: Sweden | Norway
Language: French | English | Norwegian | German | Swedish | Danish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Biography | Drama | Fantasy | History | Mystery
Director: Peter Watkins
Cast:
Geir Westby … Edvard Munch
Gro Fraas … Fru Heiberg
Kerstii Allum … Sophie Munch – 1868
Eric Allum … Edvard Munch – 1868
Susan Troldmyr … Laura Munch – 1868
Ragnvald Caspari… Peter Andreas Munch – 1868
Katja Pedersen … Inger Munch – 1868
Hjordis Ulriksen… Housemaid – 1868
Inger-Berit Oland… Sophie Munch – 1875
Amund Berge … Edvard Munch – 1875
Camilla Falk … Laura Munch – 1875
Erik Kristiansen… Peter Andreas Munch – 1875
Anne-Marie Daehli… Inger Munch – 1875
Johan Halsborg … Dr. Christian Munch – 1884
Gro Jarto … Laura Catherine Munch – 1884
Plot/Synopsis:
Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe’s most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes back to the death from consumption of his mother, when he was five, his sister’s death, and his near death at 13 from pulmonary disease. The film finds enduring significance in Munch’s brief affair with “Mrs. Heiberg” and his participation in the café society of anarchist Hans Jaeger in Christiania and later in Berlin with Strindberg. Through it all comes Munch’s melancholy and his desire to render on canvas, cardboard, paper, stone, and wood his innermost feelings.
Famously described by the late Ingmar Bergman as ‘a work of genius’, Peter Watkins’ multi-faceted masterwork is more than just a biopic of the iconic Norwegian Expressionist painter, it is one of the best films ever made about the artistic process. Focusing initially on Munch’s formative years in late 19th century Kristiania (now Oslo), Watkins uses his trademark style to create a vivid picture of the emotional, political, and social upheavals that would have such an effect on his art.
The young artist (Geir Westby) has an affair with ‘Mrs. Heiberg’ (Gro Fraas), a devastating experience that will haunt him for the rest of his life. His work is viciously attacked by critics and public alike and he is forced to leave his home country for Berlin, where, along with the notorious Swedish playwright August Strindberg, he becomes part of the cultural storm that is to sweep Europe.
There have been countless film biographies of famous artists, but only a handful can be considered major works in their own right. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Watkins’ extended 221-minute version, originally made for television.
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Edvard Munch (1974)
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Joan the Maid 1 – The Battles (1994)
Original title: Jeanne la Pucelle I – Les batailles
Year: 1994
Runtime: 160 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (hard-subbed) | Chinese (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Biography | Drama
Director: Jacques Rivette
Cast:
Tatiana Moukhine … Isabelle Romée
Sandrine Bonnaire … Jeanne d’Arc
Jean-Marie Richier … Durand Laxart
Baptiste Roussillon … Baudricourt
Jean-Luc Petit … Henri Le Royer
Bernadette Giraud … Catherine Le Royer
Jean-Claude Jay … Jacques Alain
Olivier Cruveiller … Jean de Metz
Benjamin Rataud … Bertrand de Poulengy
Cyril Haouzi … Jean de Honnecourt
Réginald Huguenin … Colet de Vienne
Patrick Adomian … Richard l’archer
Nicolas Vian … Julien
André Marcon … Charles, Dauphin de France
Jean-Louis Richard … La Trémoille
Plot/Synopsis:
Upon hearing a message from God, a young French maid, Jeanne, feels compelled to leave her home in Domremy. She finally manages to get an audience with Charles, the dauphin of France, and she persuades him that it is her destiny to lead the French to victory against the English. Reluctantly, Charles puts her in charge of his troops and, at a decisive battle, Jeanne’s courage and faith in God win her a first historic victory.
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The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela (2010)
Original title: The Amazing Truth About Queen Raquela
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hour, 23 minutes
Country: Iceland | Philippines | France | Thailand
Language: Icelandic | Visayan | English | Thai
Subtitles: English (.srt throughout and hard-subbed in spots)
Genre: Biography | Drama
Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
Cast:
Raquela Rios … Herself
Stefan C. Schaefer … Ardilo, Michael
Olivia Galudo … Olivia
Brax Villa … Aubrey
Valerie Grand Einarsson … Vala Einarsson
Plot/Synopsis:
A fictional story serves as the foundation of this pseudo-documentary concerning a Filipina lady-boy prostitute who longs to explore Paris and find a successful soul mate who can make all of her wildest dreams come true. Raquela Rios is a transsexual prostitute who serves a discerning clientele in Cebu City. But Philippine Manila is a long way from the City of Lights, and in order to earn the cash needed to fund her trip, Raquela enters into the lucrative world of Internet pornography. With a little help from an Icelandic friend and a wealthy American web-porn entrepreneur, Raquela may even raise enough money to realize her goal of becoming a real woman. But while it often feels as if the odds are stacked against her, this infectiously optimistic lady-boy knows that it won’t be long before she’s wandering the streets of Paris with the one man who accepts her unconditionally, and loves her for who she really is. — Allmovie.com
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Eight Miles High (2007)
Original title: Das wilde Leben
Year: 2007
Runtime: 114 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: German | English | Italian
Subtitles: English (.srt) | Polish (.txt)
Genre: Biography | Comedy | Drama | Music
Director: Achim Bornhak
Cast:
Natalia Avelon … Uschi Obermaier
David Scheller … Dieter Bockhorn
Matthias Schweighöfer…Rainer Langhans
Friederike Kempter… Sabine
Alexander Scheer… Keith Richards
Victor Norén … Mick Jagger
Milan Peschel … Freiberg
Georg Friedrich … Lurchi
Plot/Synopsis:
Achim Bornhak’s movie focuses on the restless life of Uschi Obermaier, the icon of the 1968 movement in Germany and groupie. At the age of 16, Uschi is bored by her job in a photo lab, but soon becomes the “it girl” of Munich’s club scene. When she gets to know Rainer Langhans, they move to Berlin and live in “Kommune 1″, the first politically-motivated commune in Germany. While the other occupants claim she isn’t political enough, Uschi just wants to have fun, works as fashion model and leads international music stars in temptation
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Eight Miles High (Das wilde Leben)
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The Wolf at the Door (1986)
Original title: Oviri
Year: 1986
Runtime: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Country: Denmark | France
Language: English
Subtitles: NONE
Genre: Biography | Drama
Director: Henning Carlsen
Cast:
Donald Sutherland – Paul Gauguin
Jean Yanne – William Molard
Fanny Bastien Juliette Huet
Sofie Grabøl – Judith Molard
Max von Sydow – August Strindberg
Merete Voldstedlund – Mette Gauguin
Jorgen Reenberg – Edward Brandes
Yves Barsacq – Edgar Degas
Thomas Antoni – Jourdan
Bill Dunn
Morten Grunwald
Jean-Claude Flamant
Solbjørg Højfeldt
Jesper Bruun Rasmussen
Anthony Michael
Chili Turell
Kristina Dubin – Aline Gauguin
Henrik Larsen – Julien Leclercq
Hans Henrik Legrfeldt
Valerie Morea – Annah-la-Javanaise
Ghita Nørby – Ida Molard
Plot/Synopsis:
This drama looks into the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. Donald Sutherland plays Gauguin as he struggles through a few years in the 1890s in Montmartre after he has come back from his first stay in Tahiti. His new and radical painting style is not amenable to easy acceptance, as witnessed by August Strindberg’s rejection of it here. The best segments of this film show the artist at work and talking with his friends, other less successful moments show him in amorous liaisons or in one case, in a fight sequence. Most of all, his dedication to his artistic vision as well as the depth of his personality are elements which maintain interest throughout, in a large part due to Sutherland’s insightful portrayal of the artist.
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The Wolf at the Door (1986)
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Napoleon (1927) [Abel Gance]
Year: 1927 (restored 1981)
Runtime: 3 hours, 42 minutes
Country: France
Language: Silent. Music by Carmine Coppola
Subtitles: English inter-titles
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War
Director: Abel Gance
Cast:
Albert Dieudonne … Napoleon Bonaparte
Vladimir Roudenko … Napoleon Bonaparte enfant
Edmond Van Daele … Maximilien Robespierre
Alexandre Koubitzky … Danton
Antonin Artaud … Marat
Abel Gance … Louis Saint-Just
Gina Manes … Josephine de Beauharnais
Suzanne Bianchetti … Marie-Antoinette
Marguerite Gance … Charlotte Corday
Yvette Dieudonne … Elisa Bonaparte
Philippe Heriat … Antonio Salicetti
Pierre Batcheff … Le general Lazare Hoche
Eugenie Buffet … Laetizia Bonaparte
Plot/Synopsis:
A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film’s legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
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Danton (1983)
Original title: Danton
Year: 1983
Runtime: 2 hours, 16 minutes
Country: France | Poland | West Germany
Language: French | Polish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Cast:
Gérard Depardieu … Danton
Wojciech Pszoniak … Robespierre
Anne Alvaro … Eleonore
Roland Blanche … Lacroix
Patrice Chéreau … Camille Desmoulins
Emmanuelle Debever … Louison Danton
Krzysztof Globisz … Amar
Ronald Guttman … Herman
Gérard Hardy … Tallien
Tadeusz Huk … Couthon
Stéphane Jobert … Panis
Marian Kociniak … Lindet
Marek Kondrat … Barere de Vieuzac
Boguslaw Linda … Saint Just
Alain Macé … Héron
Plot/Synopsis:
In 1982, legendary Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda fled his homeland and relocated in France to direct this powerful story about the ethical boundaries of power and leadership, which had many parallels to Poland’s volatile political situation in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Danton (Gérard Depardieu) and Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak) were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France’s ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre’s violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies. Wajda remained in France until 1989, when the collapse of Communist rule made it possible for him to return to his homeland.
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Colonel Redl (1985)
Original title: Oberst Redl
AKA: The fiancés
Year: 1985
Runtime: 2 hours, 3 minutes
Country: Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Germany
Language: German
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Biography | Drama | History
Director: István Szabó
Cast:
Klaus Maria Brandauer … Alfred Redl
Hans Christian Blech … von Roden
Armin Mueller-Stahl … Trónörökös
Gudrun Landgrebe … Kubinyi Katalin
Jan Niklas … Kubinyi Kristóf
László Mensáros … Ruzitska ezredes
András Bálint … Dr. Gustav Sonnenschein
László Gálffi … Alfredo Velocchio
Dorottya Udvaros … Clarissa
Plot/Synopsis:
The second film in the trilogy made by director Istvan Szabo and actor Klaus Maria Brandauer — hammocked between Mephisto and Hanussen — Colonel Redl continues Mephisto’s fascination with a man overwhelmed by history. In that film, Brandauer played an actor who tried to ignore the rise of the Third Reich, and here he’s an ambitious military officer in pre-World War I Austria whose career path is set early on. In military school, he’s forced to inform on a student who’s the source of a practical joke; though he beats himself up for being a Judas, he soon realizes that to rise in the ranks he must overcome his peasant background and hide his homosexuality by ingratiating himself with his superiors.
In time, he becomes Chief of Military Intelligence for the Austro-Hungarian empire. Though he professes to hate politics and politicians, Redl also can’t avoid them. When the leader for whom Redl is supposedly spying among the officer corps, draws up a list of who can’t be exposed for traitorous activities (including Austrian nobles, Hungarians, Czechs, Serbs, Croatians, and even the usual scapegoats, Jews — the aftershocks of the Dreyfuss affair are still rumbling), he tells Redl that he must find a double of himself, a Ukrainian. Now certain that he will be exposed, Redl surrenders to fate, quoting to his wife from Montaigne: “It’s no sin to be involved. It’s a sin to remain involved.” Brandauer is a wonder as the self-loathing Redl, and Szabo’s camera picks up every nuance on his expressive face. The film eschews music except for several party scenes, and the absence of a score is most effective in the final shots of Redl’s fellow officers awaiting his fate.
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Oberst Redl [Colonel Redl] (1985)
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Mad Love (2001)
Original title: Juana la Loca
Year: 2001
Runtime: 109 minutes
Country: Spain | Italy | Portugal
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English (.txt)
Genre: Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Director: Vicente Aranda
Cast:
Pilar López de Ayala … Juana
Daniele Liotti … Felipe
Rosana Pastor … Elvira
Giuliano Gemma … De Veyre
Roberto Álvarez … Admiral
Eloy Azorín … Álvaro de Estúñiga
Guillermo Toledo … Capitán Corrales
Susi Sánchez … Reina Isabel (as Susy Sánchez)
Chema de Miguel … Don Juan Manuel
Andrés Lima … Marqués de Villena
Cipriano Lodosa … Marliano
Manuela Arcuri … Aixa-Beatriz
Carolina Bona … Inés
Jorge Monje … Hernán
Sol Abad … Mucama
Plot/Synopsis:
In 1496, Juana de Castilla, daughter of the Catholic Kings, travels to Flandes to marry the Archduke Felipe de Austria, known as ‘El Hermoso’ (The Handsome) and son of the emperor Maximiliano. Even though at the beginning this marriage obeys a political decision, later on passion and desire appear beneath the couple. Juana becomes queen of Spain when her mother and her older brothers die in 1504. However, due to the pressure of being queen and the discovery that her husband has many lovers, her mental health starts getting worse. Felipe, seeing his wife in these circumstances, makes the Burgos Court to declare the insanity of Juana and recludes her in the Monastry of Las Huelgas, proclaiming himself as the king.
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Mad Love (Juana la Loca) [2001]
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