Donatello & Fosco Dubini / Barbara Obermaier - Hedy Lamarr – Secrets Of A Hollywood Star
MGM-tycoon Louis B. Mayer called Hedy Lamarr “the most beautiful girl of the century.” A psychological portrait of glamour star Hedy Lamarr who became scandalously famous in 1933 as the first nude on the screen with her appearance in the Austrian/Czech film Ecstasy. She then had an extraordinary career in more than 25 Hollywood films. But.. she also invented a torpedo guided system which was patented in 1942 and serves today as the basis for mobile phones.
The documentary (2006, 85 mins) contains interviews with Mickey Rooney, Lupita Kohner, Kenneth Anger and many other personal friends of Hedy. Also featured is the trailer “Jean Seberg – American Actress (5 mins), the trailer “Thomas Pynchon – A Journey Into The Mind (3 mins) – several documents and photos in ROM-format. Finally, the 2-disc DVD offers Hedy Lamarr’s legendary scandal film Ekstase (1933, 79 mins) in an uncut version.
Languages English and German, subtitles English and German.
€29.50

The Baffler - # 39 (May/June 2018): The Organization Of Hatreds
Henry Adams defined politics as “the systematic organization of hatreds.” Behold Baffler no. 39, plumbing the depths of the ever-destabilizing, digitally de..(read more)
Publisher: The Baffler / 39
Author: The Baffler
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Criticism, Magazines, Politics, USA.

Kirby Dick - Sick
Bob Flanagan was an American performance artist, stand-up comic, poet, and lifelong sufferer of cystic fibrosis. He was also a masochist, who found that his S&a..(read more)
Label: British Film Institute / BFIVD877
Artist: Kirby Dick
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Masochism, Performance Art, Portrait, USA.

Alvin Lucier - Music 109 – Notes on Experimental Music
Composer and performer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a hundred groundbreaking musical ..(read more)
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press / ISBN: 978-0-8195-7429-3
Author: Alvin Lucier
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, USA.
