Paul Ramírez Jonas’ Longer Day (1997) is an attempt to make a summer day longer as he drives west into the sunset, racing against the dying light. In Michael Stanley’s words, a “sense of futile endeavour pervades the work and an almost perverse celebration of ‘failure’, as the unwritten history of technological progression provides a platform for the discussion of much broader concerns such as time, memory and loss.”
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter.
Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel.
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties.
