Béla Bartók

Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle (2018)

Running through Bartók's disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc's monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciou ...

Nivose (2017)

Snow is suspended. It becomes rare. The wonder is in peril. The extraordinary atmosphere which it induces and which suspends the stifled daily life, moves away from our impatience. Snow is a curtain behind which capitalist issues are going on, the conseq ...

Tchaikovsky: Iolanta / Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle (2015)

Valery Gergiev conducts Mariusz Trelinski's thrilling new production of these rarely heard one-act operas. Anna Netrebko stars as the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky's lyrical work, opposite Piotr Beczala as Vaudémont, the man who wins her love ...

The Ghost Sonata (2007)

The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, ...

The Miraculous Mandarin (2001)

A modernized version of the famous ballet work by Bela Bartok ...

Der Eiskasten (1990)

In the beginning was the image of a refrigerator which had been left on the staircase of a tenement building. I needed an additional incentive to lure the tenants out of their apartments. An everyday object, ordinary like a refrigerator. Milkbottles. ...

Hoppla! (1988)

In Hoppla!, two choreographies by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker are brought together and performed to the music of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók: Mikrokosmos, seven short works for two pianos, and Quatuor no. 4, Bartók's fourth string quartet. The rea ...

Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company (1986)

Director Gaspard Bazin is working on a new feature film. For now, he's still looking at the fundraising and casting stage of the process. He calls upon Jean Almereyda, a once-fashionable producer who is now going through a bad patch, finding it increasingl ...

Bluebeard's Castle (1981)

The great Georg Solti conducts a spectacular studio production of this masterpiece of 20th century opera. Two internationally celebrated Hungarian opera stars perform Bartók's darkly psychological parable with searing dramatic intensity. ...

The Shining (1980)

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within. ...

Monsieur René Magritte (1978)

Documentary about the Belgian surrealist artist who died in 1967. ...

My Homeland (1976)

Perhaps this is Robert Vas' most personal film; a portrait of his country - Hungary - as seen through the eyes of an exile. Robert Vas escaped from his homeland after the brutal crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising by the Russians and he was never able ...

Prefácio a Vergílio Ferreira (1975)

Stick and Bone (1968)

An old man pays a woman to live with him as if she were his wife, until one day he discovers that she's sleeping with his son. ...

Doctor Who: The Enemy of the World (1968)

On Earth in 2018, the Doctor and his companions are enmeshed in a deadly web of intrigue thanks to his uncanny resemblance to the scientist/politician Salamander. He is hailed as the "shopkeeper of the world" for his efforts to relieve global famine, but w ...

De Tijd Geest (1968)

Protesting youngsters chant slogans such as "Johnson murderer" and sing "Murderer, many people are being killed". It is the late sixties. In his film, Van der Keuken presents his visual view of the changes in the mentality of a growing group of young peopl ...

The Illiac Passion (1967)

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personag ...

Bluebeard's Castle (1963)

Based on the Béla Bartók opera, Duke Bluebeard reluctantly and gradually uncovers the secrets of his psyche to his fourth wife, Judit, opening the seven doors of his castle to ultimately reveal his still living previous wives, among whom Judit must take ...

La battaglia (1962)

An early short film by Liliana Cavani that confronts the theme of discrimination. ...

Algerian Refugees (1958)

Directed by Pierre Clément and Djamel-Eddine Chanderli, produced by the FLN Information Service in 1958, this film is a rare document. Pierre Clément is considered one of the founders of Algerian cinema. In this film he shows images of Algerian refugee c ...

Impressions de New York (1956)

(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur Rimbaud, François Reichenbach offers a highly singular vision of the American megalopolis. (MIFF:) These are no ordinary travel n ...

Cantata (1963)

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home. ...