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Browse 11 movies from Première Heure
In a Paris hotel room, Jack Whitman lies on a bed. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. She arrives and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. Will they make love? Is their relationship over? (A prequel to The Darjeeling Limited, 2007.)
Oct 2007
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts. After the unique beginning to their love affair, the well-connected and volatile artist assimilates Dyer into his circle of eccentric friends, as Dyer's struggle with addiction strains their bond.
Sep 1998
Portrait of the last year of the life of famous New York drag queen Consuela Cosmetic.
Sep 1996
Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother's leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. In both halting and wild ways, he tries to court Marie, a neighbor girl. Simon, with a pocketknife and an intractable will, seems more dangerous to others. What, on earth, is there for these children-becoming-men?
Nov 1993
A group of women in a techno-metallic world are using pleasure machines... and condoms.
Jan 1998
The story of three characters who lead their lives as if they were running a store, day by day. Three inseparable characters who would not exist if they had not met each other, who make life impossible for themselves and turn their daily lives into a series of improbable numbers.
Jun 2000
Vincent and Claire are in their thirty's. They meet at Vincent's flat where he starts playing a perverse game.
Jan 1996
Carl Herickson, a big American film star, unwillingly upsets a Parisian trio: a newspaper editor, his theater actress wife, and their fiery journalist best friend.
Apr 1997
Ellen von Unwerth, a legendary fashion photographer, was able to slip backstage at the Azzedine Alaïa Fall Winter 1990 show. Supermodels such as Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen play and reveal themselves under the photographer’s lens.
Nov 2020
A mock documentary about an American filmmaker who wants to produce a film about the real-life story of Merhan "Alfred" Nasseri, a refugee from Iran who, through a series of bureaucratic snafus and the theft of his identification papers, has been stranded in Charles de Gaulle airport since 1988. Nasseri is reluctant to take part, but the pushy director will stop at nothing to see his vision come to life.
Aug 2001
Created by AnOther Magazine and Swarovski with artist and filmmaker Baillie Walsh, KM3D-1 is a pioneering collaboration bringing together fashion, art and film in glorious 3D. The original work was presented as an immersive video art installation at the renowned London gallery Haunch of Venison over London Fashion Week, September 2010. The film reunites Kate Moss and Baillie Walsh for the first time since their holographic film, which famously screened at the end of Alexander McQueen's autumn/winter 2006 show. Featuring a performance by Moss as a mythological goddess who shatters her self-image through an explosion of hundreds of tiny crystals, the film was shot using state-of-the-art Phantom cameras specially built for the project to create a beautiful 3D effect in super-slow motion.
Jul 2011