Escape to the 50's

  • Big Bill Blues

    Big Bill Blues

    Classics, Music, Dance, Theater

    1956

    18min

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    The film shows Big Bill (William) Broonzy singing and playing the blues in a Brussels cellar. This short essay is the only film about Big Bill.


  • Calling all lovers Eva

    Calling all lovers Eva

    Classics

    1959

    28min

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    Jerry Jones, a manager, tells Jane, his secretary, that he is in love with an ideal woman. In a dream he meets Eva: the ideal woman and he falls in love ...


  • Hiroshima mon amour

    Hiroshima mon amour

    Classics

    1959

    1h.31min

    -12

    A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war. A ...


  • Night and Fog

    Night and Fog

    Classics

    1955

    32min

    -12

    Night and Fog represents the peak of director Alain Resnais' activities as a short-subject filmmaker. Framed as a documentary, the film is an unsettling ...


  • Seagulls Die in the Harbour

    Seagulls Die in the Harbour

    Classics

    1955

    1h.22min

    -12

    A pessimistic urban drama, with a musical score by Jack Sels and Max Damasse, charts in strongly expressionistically lit black-and-white images the wanderings ...