The peninsula of Araya in northeastern Venezuela, is one of the most arid places on earth. For five hundred years, since its discovery by the Spanish, the region's salt has been exploited manually. A 17th-century fortress built to protect against pirate raids stands as a reminder of the days when salt was worth almost as much as gold and great fortunes were made. This documentary captures the life of the salineros and their back-breaking work in breathtaking images.
Le Fils de Gascogne is a French film in which boy hears that his father may still be alive and sets out to find him, meeting many of his father's acquaintances and friends along the way and making some of his own.
A film sci-fi comedy in which the adventurer, brain surgeon, and rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth.
Violets are Blue is a movie with Sissy Spacek. After fifteen years of traveling around the world Gussie, a famous photographer, returns to the Maryland coastal resort where she grew up. She meets her high school sweetheart Henry, now married and running the local newspaper he's inherited from his father. An awkward and tension-filled romance ensues.
The world's most fabled agent, Lazar was just over five feet tall. Humphrey Bogart (who dubbed him Swifty, after Lazar made five movie deals for him in as many hours), once said his agent was the only man alive who cheated at croquet by walking through the hoop after the ball. Bogart was one of the few actors Lazar represented; he preferred writers, who liked working in solitude, whereas actors needed constant, time-consuming reassurance. He conducted most of his business over the telephone. "Some day he'll have to have an operation to have the phone removed from his ear," his client Garson Kanin said. The dapper agent's clientele also included Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Billy Wilder, Neil Simon, Richard Rodgers, Lerner and Loewe, Lillian Hellman and Ernest Hemingway.
In Pulp, Michael Caine plays Mickey King, a seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels under a half dozen sensational pseudonyms whose ambition is to dictate 10,000 words per minute to stenographers. He's recruited by the agent of Preston Gilbert, a quirky ex-Hollywood star currently living reclusively in exile in Malta, to help him write his biography. Despite being pursued by an enigmatic hitman, Gilbert has a large entourage of eccentrics and remains an inveterate practical joker. After Gilbert is eventually murdered by an apparent priest, King tries to stay alive himself while interacting with a variety of idiosyncratic characters including an ersatz princess, a henpecked clairvoyant, and a cross-dressing hitman.
Tallulah Bankhead was an actress known for her husky voice, outrageous personality, and devastating wit. Bankhead became an icon of the tempestuous, flamboyant actress, and her unique voice and mannerisms are often subject to imitation and parody.
Klaus Kinski was an ill-tempered German actor who famously walked out of a Cannes press conference.
The movie Reversal of Fortune recounts the true story of the unexplained coma of socialite Sunny von Bülow, the subsequent attempted murder trial, and the eventual acquittal of her husband, Claus von Bülow, who had Dershowitz acting as his defense.
Rondo Hatton was an American actor who had a brief, but prolific career playing thuggish bit parts in many Hollywood B-movies. He was known for his brutish facial features which were the result of acromegaly.