Michael Heath

Au XIXème siècle, en Angleterre, Oliver Twist, un orphelin de 9 ans, est chassé de son hospice pour avoir demandé une ration supplémentaire de gruau. Pris comme apprenti par un croque-mort, le gamin est cependant maltraité et décide de s'enfuir. Arrivant à Londres après une longue marche à pied, Oliver rencontre Artful Dodger, un jeune voleur à la tire qui travaille pour le compte du hideux Fagin. Ce dernier ne tarde pas à prendre l'orphelin sous sa coupe, l'entraînant à voler les bourgeois dans la rue. C'est ainsi qu'Oliver tombe sur M. Brownlow, un vieil homme riche qui décide de le recueillir. Aussitôt, le fourbe Bill Sikes, un associé de Fagin, s'arrange pour enlever le garçon. Mais la maîtresse de Bill, la jeune Nancy, révèle à Brownlow où Oliver est retenu captif.

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy drinking and petty theft in the company of a debauched elderly knight, Sir John Falstaff. Hal must extricate himself from some legal problems, regain his father's good opinions and help suppress the uprising.

Anthropologist Max Scarry mysteriously disappears while doing excavation/research of a lost New Zealand tribe on a remote island. His wife and his twin brother Edward are clueless as to what could have happened, a situation complicated by their city's police suspecting that one of the brothers murdered a local prostitute who was found with a strange tribal charm on her body matching one found in Max's abandoned hut. What most certainly isn't helping matters is the strange behavior of Max's daughter as she seems to have visions beyond possibility, warnings of a supernatural threat and her uncle's fate - and she's the film's narrator, to boot. Edward decides to go to the island to find out exactly what happened, but the deeper he goes into the mystery the more perilous and unknowable his world becomes, leading towards a shocking fate that raises more questions than it answers. (cont. http://view-from-the-paperhouse.blogspot.de/2014/10/the-threat-of-ancient-echoes-lost-tribe.html)

Cannes is the town in France where Bergman meets bikinis, and the art of filmmaking meets the art of the deal. In 1975, a group of expat Kiwis managed to score interviews with some of the festival's emerging talents, indulging their own cinematic dreams in the process. Werner Herzog waxes lyrical on the trials and scars of directing; a boyish Steven Spielberg recalls the challenges of framing shots during Jaws; Martin Scorsese and Dustin Hoffman talk a gallon.

Film adapté de la série télévisée britannique Dad's Army. Alors que la Seconde Guerre Mondiale touche à sa fin, les hommes du Capitaine Mainwaring ont le moral en berne jusqu'à ce qu'une journaliste les rejoignent afin d'écrire sur leurs exploits...

Barnum the musical traces Phineas Taylor Barnum's career from 1835 to 1881 when he joined James A. Bailey to form the circus which was called The Greatest Show on Earth. Barnum is a defender of "the noble art of humbug" with a philosophy, and has a free wheeling ambition to make a fortune. He buys the oldest woman in the world, named Joyce Heath, as a sideshow attraction. Barnum builds a museum of curiosities supported by his wife Charity, who would like him to settle down.

Hellboy affronte Nimue, épouse de Merlin et Reine de Sang. Leur lutte amorcera la fin du monde, un sort que le héros devra éviter à tout prix.

A documentary taking its cues from children's imaginative flights of fancy.