"Audacious, often rather beautiful comedy satirizing Riefenstahlian pomposity."01 March 200715 mins
In 2005 London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. Optimistic’s story began in Hackney Wick on the edges of what would become this vast regeneration site. ‘The Games’ (2007) was a short film that staged a DIY Olympics amid the sites soon to be erased. It was commissioned by Urbis Manchester for the exhibition Play: Experience the Adventures of Our City and went on to screen widely, winning Audience Award at the East End Film Festival. The film is part of the BFI’s ‘London Calling’ collection.
The story follows the manhunt for the Zodiac Killer, a serial killer who terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and early 1970s, taunting police with letters, bloodstained clothing, and ciphers mailed to newspapers.
A struggling songwriter named Dave Seville finds success when he comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainy Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore.
Four lonely and disenfranchised urbanites in contemporary Mexico City: a preteen boy under tremendous emotional strain, the pretty cashier with whom he is infatuated, an enraged and embittered cabbie, and the estranged daughter of one of his fares.
Kristina, a beautiful young lady who sells fresh fruits at her province, only wants a simple life. And her father, Ronaldo, manages a large hectre of Mango farm.
The first part filmed in 1999, completed in 2000, up until the liberation of the South of Lebanon in May 2000, it was impossible to go to Khiam detention camp, located in an area under israeli occupation and its proxy militia, the South Lebanon Army.
An account of the professional and personal life of renowned American photographer Annie Leibovitz, from her early artistic endeavors to her international success as a photojournalist, war reporter, and pop culture chronicler.
