The Eyes of the Scissors

When an old friend brings filmmaker Enrique Goded a semi-autobiographical script chronicling their adolescence, Enrique is forced to relive his youth spent at a Catholic boarding school. Weaving through past and present, the script follows a transvestite performer who reconnects with a grade school sweetheart. Spurred on by this chance...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Pedro Almodóvar

Cast

Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Daniel Giménez Cacho

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.

Runtime

3h 8m

Director

Peter Jackson

Cast

Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black

Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rif...

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Jean-Luc Godard

Cast

Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Cast

John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis

Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Wim Wenders

Cast

Rüdiger Vogler, Patrick Bauchau, Teresa Salgueiro