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 - # 35 (Summer 2017)
The Baffler is America’s leading voice of interesting and unexpected left-wing political criticism, cultural analysis, short stories, poems and art. About # 3..(read more)
Publisher: The Baffler / 35
Author: The Baffler
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Magazines, Politics, USA.

Gerd Kroske - La Villette
Only two months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, in January 1990, almost two hundred controversial East German visual and performance artists, including Jürg..(read more)
Label: DEFA
Artist: Gerd Kroske
Medium: DVD
Category: Films.
Tags: Art, Documentary, Eastern Europe, History.

Timothy Corrigan - The Essay Film
Essay films are arguably the most innovative and popular forms of filmmaking since the 1990s”, Timothy Corrigan claims in his diligent new study, The Essay Fi..(read more)
Publisher: Oxford University Press / ISBN 0199781699
Author: Timothy Corrigan
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Cinema, Documentary.
