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Alois Randa, the manager of the mountain hotel, is overwhelmed with worries: he is expecting a large number of tourists, he cannot cook and his only employee, Miluska, the maid, is packing her bags. She won’t stand Bohous any longer. Bohous is Randa’s giant St. Bernard who refuses to respect Miluska’s privacy. So the maid is gone, but the first guest arrives, hungry as a St. Bernard. The proud owner of the St. Bernard makes a bizarre bet with him – if the guest manage to eat more courses than Bohous, he will be guaranteed a free week’s stay. If he fails, he’ll be hotel’s new maid for a week.Read More »

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s musical retelling of the classic fairy tale. Cinderella is a teenage girl forced to do all of the menial tasks in the home she shares with her coldhearted stepmother and homely stepsisters. One day when home alone, Cinderella shares a cup of water with a thirsty and handsome traveler, not realizing until he continues on his journey that he is the crown prince of the kingdom. Shortly thereafter, the king and queen invite every young maiden in the kingdom to a royal ball so that the crown prince can find a girl to marry. Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsisters go to the ball, leaving Cinderella behind to wish about how her life could be. While she is daydreaming, she is visited by her fairy godmother, who makes it possible for her wishes to come true.Read More »

Here are the two documentaries about Jerry Lewis from the collection Cinéastes de notre temps. The first part (1968) is directed by André Labarthe, and the second part (1971) by Robert Benayoun.Read More »

Valerie Steffan is a mysterious woman with dark hair and eyes, who talks like Adolph Hitler and likes to pick up men in bars. Only problem is instead of having a fab time, the guys end up drained of blood and wrapped in a webbed cocoon. And it’s because she’s actually a giant black widow spider! Several of the victims are former fiances or lovers of star Donna Mills. Is the killer jealous of her perfectly feathered blonde locks or white flare pant suits? Or is it just the nature of the “freak-o human fly?”Read More »

Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs abound as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues of Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.Read More »

Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England’s throne.Read More »

Filmed in his studio in 1988, in front of Benoît Jacquot’s camera, the painter Robert Motherwell, then aged 73, retraces the main creative stages of his work and describes very precisely his way of working: the importance of the choice of brush , of the support, of the paint used, the accidents which occur and which determine the work… He engages in a discourse on art in the serene atmosphere of his studio in Greenwich. He describes the principles of psychic automatism and comments on the different periods of his work to which dozens of retrospectives, including one in Paris in 1977, have been devoted throughout the world. A rigorous portrait that reveals the painter with his doubts and convictions.Read More »

Following the phenomenal success of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Michael Palin and Terry Jones created this unforgettable, BAFTA-winning series of comic plays for the BBC. Gleefully parodying the conventions of Boy’s Own-style adventure, Ripping Yarns sees Palin taking the protagonist’s role in nine rip-roaring stories – from stirring tales of sporting endeavour, intrepid exploration and wartime heroism to skulduggery, supernatural mystery and murder… and, of course, the notorious exploits of Eric Olthwaite – Yorkshire’s most interesting outlaw.Read More »

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A recently-widowed father of five finds himself overwhelmed when he’s left to play father and mother to a group of kids in whose lives he hadn’t taken a whole lot of interest in a long time, if ever.Read More »