Director Billy Wilder is interviewed by German critic Hellmut Karasek and director Volker Schlndorff about his movies.
A documentary about the making of Billy Wilder's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes".
"Metropolis", "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", M, "Nosferatu", "People on Sunday", "Berlin, Symphony of a Metropolis" all rank among the classics and most influential films of European Cinema. FROM CALIGARI TO HITLER tells the story of early German Cinema as the story of social and cultural upheaval in the first republic, between 1918 and 1933. Siegfried Kracauer, who wrote the g...
In 1988, Oscar-winning German filmmaker Volker Schlondorff ("The Tin Drum") sat down with legendary director Billy Wilder at his office in Beverly Hills, California and turned on his camera for a series of filmed interviews. The conversation went on for two weeks. The results were aired on German TV in 1992 and debuted on U.S. television when it was shown on Turner Classic Movi...
1941年的北非战场，英德两军激战正酣，英军节节败退。布兰保下士（Franchot Tone 饰）被坦克遗落，蹒跚进入埃及人法瑞德的女王酒店，而几乎同时，德意联军指挥部进驻此处。布兰保乔装酒店服务生达沃斯伺机逃脱，意外发现隆美尔元帅居然近在咫尺，而他所假扮的达沃斯更是德军间谍，布兰保决定留下以便探听德军补给计划的“五墓行动”详情，同时也对酒店的法国女招待姆丝（Anne Baxter 饰）产生情愫。
不久女王酒店又迎来了一批英军俘虏，布兰保与对方取得联系并最终打探到“五墓行动”的真相，然而一直对姆丝有所企图的德军军官施威格（Peter van Eyck 饰）对他产生了怀疑，布兰保情报在手，却因姆丝要面对国家命运与个人情感的沉重考验。
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and then try to sell their songs under their own name. The problem is every song publisher thinks they're copying Courtney's style.
《蓝胡子的第八任妻子》整个故事是对清教徒社会风气的嘲讽：既然影坛的清洁运动如火如荼，连在婚姻注册署办了正式手续的结发夫妻也被剥夺同睡一张床的权利，那干脆拍部太太不肯圆房的戏好了，包保没有触犯禁忌的危险。拥有七次辉煌婚姻纪录的富贵男主角，终于排除万难把心仪的女子追到手，但疑神疑鬼的第八任妻子虽然愿意结婚，却觉得他无论如何不会相信自己嫁入豪门为的不是钱，于是坚持守身如玉，要直到证实他不再对自己的真心存疑，才肯在床上尽做妻子的义务。脱了裤子放屁的桥段，由别的导演处理大概凶多吉少，然而由刘别谦烹调，就是一道色香味俱全的佳肴——“多此一举”甚至成了对可怜复可笑的男主角的挖苦。
