25th HOUR

SPRING 1999

2.9. EISENSTEIN: THE MASTER’S HOUSE (105 min)

Directors Marianna Kirejewa and Alexander Iskin , Profit, Russia, 1998
A feature documentary to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth and 50th anniversary of the death of Sergey Mikhailovich Eisenstein, one of the greatest film directors ever.

10.1.MODULATIONS (75 min)

Director Iara Lee, Caipirinha Productions, USA, 1998

17.1. PASOLINI-WHOEVER DAYS THE TRUTH SHALL DIE (60 min)

Director Philo Bregstein, VPRO TV, Netherland, 1981

24.1. MACBETH ON THE ESTATE (83 min) 553-81322

Director Penny Woolcock, BBC, UK, 1997
In a unigue performance, Shakespeare's tragedy is updated to the present day by documentarymaker Penny Woolcock and set on an inner-city estate. The play, filmed on Birmingham's Ladywood Estate, features 130 local people alongside some of Britain's most promising young actors.

31.1. PAIN IS... (80 min)

Director: Stephen Dwoskin, ZDF/ARTE, France, 1997
Going beyond the external display Stephen Dwoskin distills the essence of pain. How can we pin it down, circumscribe it? Pain is fascinating, so mysterious and so puzzling. It seems to escape all definitions Where and what is the true nature of pain?

7.2. MEASURE FOR MEASURE (111 min)

Director David Thacker, BBC, UK
A satirical tale of power and corruption, Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare's problem plays. It invokes difficulties of interpretation of character, as it invokes difficulties of moral relevance. But the central problem is the sheer complexcity of the plot.

14.2.MOON OVER BROADWAY (94 min)

Directors D.A. Pennebaker ja Chris Hegedus, Pennebaker Hegedus Film, USA, 1997
Veteran documentarian D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus take us behind the scene and before the curtain. Through the playwright's snits, the director's posturing and the star's overcasting, the film builds its own suspenseful momentum towards the crucil opening night.

21.2. OFF THE MENU: THE LAST DAYS OF CHASEN'S (90 min)

Directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, Lobo Grande Pictures, USA, 1997
In 1936 the Chasen family started a restaurant on Beverly Boulevard in Hollywood which during the heyday of American cinematography developed into a reputable dining room for film stars and politicians. In this documentry the clock counts the days,and on 1 April 1995, the very last bowl of chili has been served.

28.2.MUSICALS GREAT MUSICALS - The Arthur Freed Story (87 min)

Director David Thompson, BBC, UK, 1998
Arthur Freed was the man responsible for many of Hollywood's most memorable musicals during the Golden Era. This documentary is a portrait of how these great musicals were made, with extensive use of film extracts and new interviews with many of those who took part in them, both on front of and behind the camera.

7.3. ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER (85 min)

Director Donna Deitch, D.D.Productions, USA, 1998
Gwen Wells was a young actress well known to film audience primarily for her exquisite performance in Robert Altman's classic film Nashville. In 1992, at the age of only 42, Gwen developed cancer. In the informal sessions together with the director the camera, Gwen talks with extraordinary clarity and candour about her agonising choices in the face of death.

14.3. SWOON (94 min)

Director Tom Kalin, Intolerance Prductions, USA, 1992
Swoon is a story of Nathan Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb, two teenaged Jewish intellectuals made famous for the kidnapping and murder of a boy named Bobby Franks. These brilliant, precocious boys developed a tangled relatioship revolving around criminal activities in exchange for sex.

28.3. ANNIE LEIBOVITZ (49 min)

4.4. FRAGMENTS JERUSALEM 3 hours

Director and producer Ron Havilio, Israel, 1997

11.4. MILLHOUSE: A WHITE COMEDY (93 min)

Director Emile de Antonio, 1971

18.4. UNDERGROUND (88 min)

Director Emile de Antonio, 1974

25.4. MR. HOOVER AND I (90 min)

Director Emile de Antonio, 1989

2.5. SOME NUDITY REQUIRED

Director Odette Springer, USA, 1985
The documentary examines the evolution of starry-eyed ingues arriving in Hollywood and then discovering the harsh reality of getting into pictures. Actors and actresses bare their souls on camera. Some Nudity Required is a powerful portrait of the fragility on fame and the cost of stardom.

9.5. LA MOINDRE DES CHOSES/EVERY LITTLE THING (104 min)

Director Nicolas Philibert, Les Films d'ici, 1996
During the summer of 1998, the patients and staff of La Borde psychiatric clinic work together on their annual theatrical perfromance. The film records the ups and downs of the venture as rehearsals go by. Yet, it captures the day-to-day existence, the loneliness and the fatique but also the collective merriment and the close attention all devote to one another.

16.5. SHOOTING DAYS (73 min)

Director Aleksandar Manic
Shooting Say is a docu-essay on the working methods of one of today's most artistic filmmakers: Emir Kusturica. This documentary observes him during the making of Underground (winner of Palme d'Or at Cannes, 1995)

23.5. SAY GOODBYE TO THE PRESIDENT (80 min)

Director Christopher Olgiati, BBC
Marilyn Monroe is one of the most enduring and enigmatic figures of the 20th Century, thirty years after her death, she remains one of the greatest icons and the circumstances of her death are still one of Hollywood's best-kept secrets. In Marilyn Monroe: Say Goodbye To The President startling new evidence about her death is revealed for the first time.