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
Morton Feldman - Last Pieces
Performed by Stephane Ginsburgh: Palais de Mari for piano / Intermission 6 for two pianos / Last Pieces for piano. From Sub Rosa’s Unclassical series.
Label: Sub Rosa / SR189
Artist: Morton Feldman
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde, Composers, USA.
Cécile Déroudille - L’Affaire Dubuffet
The Dubuffet Case tells the story of art critic René Deroudille’s struggle to convince the Lyon Fine Arts Museum (France) to buy a Jean Dubuffet painting..(read more)
Label: Re:voir
Artist: Cécile Déroudille
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tag: Documentary.
Andrey Paounov - Georgi and the Butterflies
The resourceful director of an underfunded home for “psychologically challenged” men in Bulgaria searches for ways to simultaneously keep the patien..(read more)
Label: IDFA's Delicatessen / FFDOC24
Artist: Andrey Paounov
Medium: DVD
Categories: Films, Second Hand.
Tag: Documentary.
