Notes on the Popular Arts
An exploration of American escapism through dream sequences. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
- Year: 1978
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- Keyword: preserved film
- Director: Saul Bass, Elaine Bass
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8.30 1968 HD
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the...
6.60 1979 HD
A symbolic reflection on issues of female sexuality, art and identity constructs.
6.50 1963 HD
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
4.80 1943 HD
Begins with a three beat announcement drawn out in time which thereafter serves as a figure to divide the four sections. Each return of this figure...
6.50 1953 HD
A greedy King Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches to gold. He learns his lesson...
5.80 1999 HD
Dark blood red slow shifting tones (often embedded in dark) / (often shot-thru with parallel wave-like lines) composed of all previous shapes and...
7.72 1965 HD
In the years before the Second World War, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain...
7.50 1979 HD
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly...
1 1966 HD
Addresses the age-old problem of two men vying for the same woman. Includes an unconventional, contemporary duel between them, with a wineglass and a...
7.50 1958 HD
An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices his wealth in order to compete with the...
6.71 2021 HD
In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two...
7.00 2023 HD
Fearless alpine climbers Ueli Steck and Dani Arnold enter into a death-defying rivalry to set speed records on the Swiss Alps' great north faces.
6.60 1983 HD
This comedy has everyone's favorite 6 Swedish gals enjoying their stay in the alps. When the girls aren't enjoying the pleasure of their own company...
5.10 2016 HD
Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However,...
6.90 2023 HD
A flight attendant and her boyfriend must steal a cache of diamonds to clear an old debt — but the plan spins into a mayhem when the plane gets...
6.80 2023 HD
When her good tenants go bad, a landlord finds herself terrorized by a cult that seemingly has her husband enthralled — and her daughter in its...
6.59 1998 HD
Roughly chronological, from 3/96 to 11/96, with a coda in spring of 1997: inside compounds of Aum Shinrikyo, a Buddhist sect led by Shoko Asahara....
6.50 2020 HD
Stanley manages his boxer brother Lion but when a devastating loss in the ring leaves the pair in debt, an opportunity to recoup the cash leads to a...
7.40 2009 HD
After the events of the first movie, Yagami Light faces two new adversaries as he is trying to create a perfect world without crime or criminals....
6.42 2022 HD
To fulfill his mother’s dying wish and avoid being removed from her will, an inflexible bachelor hires an actress to play his fiancée.