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The Starfish is a french film of genre Drama directed by Man Ray with Kiki de Montparnasse
The Starfish (1928)
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Add to a movie listL'Étoile de mer (English: The Sea Star) is a 1928 film directed by Man Ray. The film is based on a script by Robert Desnos and depicts a couple (Alice Prin and André de la Rivière) acting through scenes that are shot out of focus.
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Almost all of the scenes in this film are shot either off a mirror like the final shot, or through diffused and textured glass.Actors
Kiki de Montparnasse
(une femme (au générique, comme Alice (Kiki) Prin))
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Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Kiki de Montparnasse, Man Ray
Rating68%
Emak-Bakia shows elements of fluid mechanical motion in parts, rotating artifacts showing his ideas of everyday objects being extended and rendered useless. Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin) is shown driving a car in a scene through a town. Towards the middle of the film Jacques Rigaut appears dressed in female clothing and make-up. Later in the film a caption appears: "La raison de cette extravagance" (the reason for this extravagance). The film then cuts to a car arriving and a passenger leaving with briefcase entering a building, opening the case revealing men's shirt collars which he proceeds to tear in half. The collars are then used as a focus for the film, rotating through double exposures.
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, 1h39Directed by Man Ray, Hans Richter (artiste), Marcel Duchamp
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Genres Drama, Fantasy
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Rating66%
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Origin France
Genres Drama
Rating63%
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, 27minutesDirected by Man Ray
Genres Drama, Documentary
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To the Viscountess of Noailles. I dedicate these pictures which can never reveal the extent of her kindness and charm. How two travellers arrived in St. Bernard, what they saw in the ruins of an old castle on top of which a modern-time castle stands. The travellers: MAN RAY, J.-A. Boiffard.
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Origin France
Genres Documentary, Fantasy
Themes Dance films
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Rating66%
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Tyrannosaur (2011)
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Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about domestic violence, Rape and revenge films
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Rating74%
One night, unemployed widower Joseph (Peter Mullan) drunkenly kicks his dog Bluey to death. He buries the dog and goes to the post office, where he mocks some Asian workers then throws a brick through the window when they tell him to leave. At the pub, Joseph attacks two young men playing pool one of whom threatened and mocked him. He then hides in a second-hand shop, where employee Hannah (Olivia Colman) offers to pray for him. That night, Joseph goes to his home and is attacked by the men from the post office. The next morning, Joseph wakes up and goes to the shop, where Hannah looks after him. He begins to berate and insult her, before leaving.
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Directed by Harry Garson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors J. Warren Kerrigan, Anna Q. Nilsson, Tom Santschi, Winter Hall, Charles Clary, Edmund Burns
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Little Vera (1988)
, 1h50Directed by Vassili Pitchoul
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Yuriy Nazarov, Natalia Negoda, Alexander Lenkov
Rating68%
Young Vera lives with her mother and her alcoholic father, Kolya, who are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with her choice of friends and what they consider her decadent lifestyle. They wonder why she can’t be more like her brother Victor, a doctor living in Moscow. At an underground dance party that is broken up by police, she meets Sergei, and they immediately fall in love. It turns out Sergei is an old friend of Victor, who, in town for a visit, calls on his friend only to find him alone with his sister.
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Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
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Rating67%
The official plot synopsis, as provided by the Fox Film Corporation to the copyright registration office and then entered at the Library of Congress:
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