Barry Humphries

biography:
John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE (17 February 1934 - 22 April 2023) was an Australian comedian, satirist, dadaist, artist, author and character actor, perhaps best known for his on-stage and television alter egos Dame Edna Everage, a Melbourne housewife and "gigastar", and Sir Les Patterson, Australia's foul-mouthed cultural attaché to the Court of St. James's.

He was a film producer and script writer, a star of London's West End musical theatre, an award-winning writer and an accomplished landscape painter. For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only the most significant theatrical figure of our time … [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin. Humphries' characters, especially Dame Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he had appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows. Originally conceived as a dowdy Moonee Ponds housewife who caricatured Australian suburban complacency and insularity, Edna had evolved over four decades to become a satire of stardom, the gaudily dressed, acid-tongued, egomaniacal, internationally feted Housewife Gigastar, Dame Edna Everage. Humphries' other major satirical character creation was the archetypal Australian bloke Barry McKenzie, who originated as the hero of a comic strip about Australians in London (with drawings by Nicholas Garland) which was first published in Private Eye magazine.

The stories about "Bazza" (Humphries' nickname, as well as an Australian term of endearment for the name Barry) gave wide circulation to Australian slang, particularly jokes about drinking and its consequences (much of which was invented by Humphries), and the character went on to feature in two Australian films, in which he was portrayed by Barry Crocker. Humphries' other satirical characters include the "priapic and inebriated cultural attaché" Sir Les Patterson, who has "continued to bring worldwide discredit upon Australian arts and culture, while contributing as much to the Australian vernacular as he has borrowed from it", gentle, grandfatherly "returned gentleman" Sandy Stone, iconoclastic 1960s underground film-maker Martin Agrippa, Paddington socialist academic Neil Singleton, sleazy trade union official Lance Boyle, high-pressure art salesman Morrie O'Connor and failed tycoon Owen Steele.

Humphries died following complications from hip surgery at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney on 22 April 2023.

The Tony Danza Show

overview: The Tony Danza Show was a daytime variety talk show that premiered on September 13, 2004 in syndication and was distributed by Buena Vista Television.

character: Dame Edna

original_name: The Tony Danza Show

original_language: en

Ally McBeal

overview: Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish.  Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!

character: Claire Otoms

original_name: Ally McBeal

The One Show

overview: A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

character: Self

original_name: The One Show

QI

overview: Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.

original_name: QI

The View

overview: ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro discussing the most exciting events of the day. Hot topics in the news, the best experts in their field, celebrity interviews and general entertainment are all part of The View.

original_name: The View

The South Bank Show

overview: The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.

original_name: The South Bank Show

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

overview: Jay Leno hosts some of the biggest celebrities in the world.

original_name: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Dame Edna Treatment

overview: The Dame Edna Treatment was a British, ITV talk show created by Barry Humphries and starring his characters Dame Edna Everage and Sir Les Patterson. It aired on ITV at various times. The theme tune was written and performed by Robin Gibb. It was based upon the 1997 British talk show Dr Dame Edna Kisses It Better. It is set in Dame Edna's health-spa, where her celebrity guests have come for some "treatment". Viewing figures varied from 2.5m according to Digital Spy.

original_name: The Dame Edna Treatment

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

overview: Stepping into the late-late slot vacated by David Letterman, Conan O'Brien stars in a show that far outdoes its competition in sheer strangeness. Along with the celebrity interviews and musical numbers typical of late-night talk shows, this program make frequent use of odd walk-on characters and frequent "visits" from celebrity guests.

The Wednesday Play

overview: An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.

original_name: The Wednesday Play

Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch

overview: Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch was a comic game show created by Barry Humphries for ITV.

original_name: Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch

Pebble Mill

overview: Pebble Mill was a re-launched version of the 1970s daily chat show Pebble Mill (also known as Pebble Mill At One for a while) which aired on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The series premiered on October 14, 1991. The show was a mixture of celebrity guests and music. Alan Titchmarsh was a presenter on the show throughout it's complete run. Other presenters included Judi Spiers, Gloria Hunniford and Ross King.

original_name: Pebble Mill

The Dame Edna Experience

overview:
The Dame Edna Experience is a British television comedy talk-show hosted by Dame Edna Everage. It ran for twelve regular episodes on ITV, plus two Christmas specials. The first seven aired for the first time in 1987, the next seven in 1989. It was directed by Ian Hamilton and Alasdair MacMillan and produced by London Weekend Television.

Regulars on the program, besides Dame Edna, were her "bridesmaid" Madge Allsop and Robin Houston who was the announcer, with orchestra conducted and arranged by Laurie Holloway.

Each program featured several celebrity guests, usually three, but some programs included up to eight guests. There would also be other invited "guests" like Kurt Waldheim and Imelda Marcos who once introduced at stage right would fall victim to a trap door or something similar and fail to make it to their chair.

The entire series was released on DVD by BBC Video in June 2004, and can now also be purchased as a complete set including the Christmas specials and the three An Audience with Dame Edna specials, plus other material.

The series was released for Region 2 by Network DVD in the UK in 2007, as a 4-disc set. For reasons unknown, the Region 2 release does not include the 1989 Christmas special "The Dame Edna Satellite Experience" that ended the second series and featured Ursula Andress, Yehudi Menuhin, and Robert Kilroy-Silk. It does, however, include the one-off 1990 Christmas special A Night On Mount Edna with guests Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston, Gina Lollobrigida and Julio Iglesias.

original_name: The Dame Edna Experience

Russell Harty

original_name: Russell Harty

Betjeman and Me

original_name: Betjeman and Me

Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford

original_name: Comedy Rocks with Jason Manford

A Comedy Roast

overview: A Comedy Roast is a British comedy television show broadcast by Channel 4. After a series of failed attempts by various broadcasters over the years, it is the first adaptation of the American comedy institution of roasting to be produced as a television show in Britain. The first series premiered on 7 April 2010. Hosted by Jimmy Carr it saw Bruce Forsyth, Sharon Osbourne and Chris Tarrant get roasted by various colleagues, comedians and celebrities. The show returned on 15 October 2010 targeting Davina McCall.

original_name: A Comedy Roast

Saturday Night Live

overview: A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

character: Dame Edna Everage

original_name: Saturday Night Live

Brilliant Creatures

overview: Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson traces the footsteps of Germaine Greer, Barry Humphries, Clive James and Robert Hughes arguing these Australian giants didn't just join the cultural revolution in the 60s - they led it.

original_name: Brilliant Creatures

I'd Do Anything

overview:
I'd Do Anything was a 2008 talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom and broadcast on BBC One. It premièred on 15 March 2008. The show searched for a new, unknown lead to play Nancy and three young performers who will take it in turns to play Oliver in a West End revival of the British musical Oliver!.

The show, named after the song "I'd Do Anything", was hosted by Graham Norton with Andrew Lloyd Webber again overseeing the programme, together with theatrical producer Cameron Mackintosh. In January 2008, John Barrowman confirmed he would be taking part in the show. The BBC also confirmed in late February 2008 that Barry Humphries would join Barrowman and Denise Van Outen on the judging panel of the show.

Auditions for the show began in January 2008, with the show airing on BBC One throughout March, April and May 2008. In the final, on 31 May, Jodie Prenger was announced as the winner of the series.

character: Himself - Judge

original_name: I'd Do Anything

Dame Edna's Hollywood

overview: Dame Edna's Hollywood is an American series starring Barry Humphries as Dame Edna Everage in a spoof of Hollywood talk shows.

original_name: Dame Edna's Hollywood

Who Do You Think You Are?

overview: Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past. Along the way there will be scandal, adultery, pioneers, bushrangers, artists and royalty. Join the trail of discovery to uncover where these celebrities came from as they find out just who they think they are.

original_name: Who Do You Think You Are?

The Graham Norton Show

overview: Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

An Audience with...

overview: An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.

original_name: An Audience with...

character: Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson

Hollywood Squares

overview: On September 14, 1998, a Hollywood Squares revival debuted with Tom Bergeron as its host. In addition to her production duties, Whoopi Goldberg served as the permanent center square, with series head writer Bruce Vilanch, Gilbert Gottfried, Martin Mull, and Caroline Rhea as regular panelists and Brad Garrett, Bobcat Goldthwait, Jeffrey Tambor, George Wallace, Kathy Griffin and various others as semi-regular panelists. Shadoe Stevens returned to announce, although he was not given a square on the panel as he had been when John Davidson was host.

character: Self - Panelist

original_name: Hollywood Squares

Wogan

overview: Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

original_name: Wogan

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

overview: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

original_name: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

A Granny's Guide to the Modern World

overview: What's grime music? Do superfoods have to taste awful? What's the difference between Grindr and Tinder? Barry Humphries and a team of senior investigative reporters provide an outsider's perspective of life in 2016, through reports, hidden camera experiments and comedy sketches. The results provide a fresh take on the mechanics of British society and culture, and a comedic look at the modern world's attitude to the country's burgeoning OAP population.

original_name: A Granny's Guide to the Modern World

The Great Comic Relief Bake Off

overview: Comic Relief takes over the Great British Bake Off tent. Different celebrity faces battle it out with their baking skills to claim one of the coveted Comic Relief Star Baker titles.

character: Contestant (Dame Edna Everage)

original_name: The Great Comic Relief Bake Off

Micallef Tonight

overview: Micallef Tonight was a short-lived Aria Award–winning Australian variety show that aired on the Nine Network in 2003. It was hosted by comedian Shaun Micallef and also featured the talents of Francis Greenslade, Jason Geary, Livinia Nixon and Pete Smith.

original_name: Micallef Tonight

Magical Land of Oz

overview: A blue chip, continent-wide series ranging from Australia's highest snow peaks to the depths of the frigid and wild southern seas; from its last populations of wild numbats to its largest diorama of giant cuttlefish. It's a land of diverse beauty, that delights and surprises. The series both entertains and deepens our understanding of how the natural world is made up of not just unique species, but distinct individuals, whose lives are far from predictable.

character: Narrator (voice)

original_name: Magical Land of Oz

RTL Samstag Nacht

overview: RTL Samstag Nacht was a comedy show, which ran from 6 November 1993 to 23 May 1998 on the German TV network RTL. RTL Samstag Nacht was the first major comedy show in German television, created after the example of the long-running American show Saturday Night Live and broadcast late on Saturday night. It helped comedy in German television to a breakthrough and was a model for several later comedy shows. Karl Ranseier was a recurring character featured in fake news reports telling about his death at the end of each episode. The name Karl Ranseier has become a catchphrase in Germany that has led to its own joke category of Ranseiers which are in widespread usage outside of the comedy origin.

original_name: RTL Samstag Nacht

original_language: de

Q&A

overview: Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions.

character: Self - Panellist

original_name: Q&A

Parkinson

overview: Michael Parkinson returns for a second run of his iconic talk show.

original_name: Parkinson

The Team: A Season With McLaren

overview: The Team: A Season With McLaren is a 7 part TV series produced by John Gau Productions for the BBC during the 1993 Formula One season and first transmitted on BBC Two during November and December 1993. The series followed the team and regular drivers Ayrton Senna and Michael Andretti, as well as test driver Mika Häkkinen, giving a behind the scenes insight to the McLaren team.

Omnibus

overview: Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'.  It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards.  Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott.  For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman.  The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

The Osbournes

overview: The Osbournes is an American reality television program featuring the domestic life of heavy metal singer Ozzy Osbourne and his family. The series premiered on MTV on March 5, 2002, and in its first season, was cited as the most-viewed series ever on MTV. The final episode of the series aired March 21, 2005.

Friday Night, Saturday Morning

overview:
Friday Night, Saturday Morning was a television chat show with a revolving guest host. It ran on BBC2 from 28 September 1979 to 2 April 1982, broadcast live from the Greenwood Theatre, a part of Guy's Hospital. It was most notable for being the only television show to be hosted by a former British Prime Minister and for an argument about the blasphemy claims surrounding the movie Monty Python's Life of Brian.

The programme was the idea of Iain Johnstone and Will Wyatt, who insisted on a changing presenter every fortnight. Another innovation was that the presenters chose the guests they were to interview.

Dame Edna Rules The Waves

overview:
Following her sell-out farewell tour, Dame Edna Everage has been offshore, enjoying some luxury downtime on-board her enormous superyacht, The Ocean Widow.

She’s back, for one outrageous night of entertainment with a full celebrity crew and some very special guests.

普通话

巴里·汉弗莱斯

biography:
约翰·巴里·汉弗莱斯（John Barry Humphries，AO，CBE）（1934 年 2 月 17 日 - 2023 年 4 月 22 日）是一位澳大利亚喜剧演员、讽刺作家、达达主义者、艺术家、作家和性格演员，也许最出名的是他在舞台和电视上的另一个自我 Dame Edna Everage，墨尔本家庭主妇和“gigastar”，以及澳大利亚圣詹姆斯法院的脏话文化专员 Les Patterson 爵士。

他是电影制片人和编剧，伦敦西区音乐剧的明星，屡获殊荣的作家和多才多艺的风景画家。传记作家安妮·彭德 （Anne Pender） 在 2010 年将汉弗莱斯描述为我们这个时代最重要的戏剧人物，因为他向数百万人传递了达达主义和荒诞派的幽默......[但]自查理·卓别林（Charlie Chaplin）以来出现的最重要的喜剧演员。汉弗莱斯的角色，尤其是埃德娜·埃弗拉奇夫人，为他带来了国际声誉，他出现在许多电影、舞台剧和电视节目中。埃德娜最初被设想为一个讽刺澳大利亚郊区自满和孤立的 Moonee Ponds 家庭主妇，经过四十多年的发展，她成为了对明星的讽刺，衣着华丽、口齿伶俐、自负狂、国际上备受追捧的家庭主妇 Gigastar，埃德娜·埃弗拉奇夫人。汉弗莱斯的另一个主要讽刺人物创作是典型的澳大利亚小伙子巴里·麦肯齐（Barry McKenzie），他起源于一部关于伦敦澳大利亚人的漫画（尼古拉斯·加兰（Nicholas Garland）的画作）的主人公，该漫画首次发表在《私家侦探》杂志上。

关于“Bazza”（汉弗莱斯的昵称，以及澳大利亚人对巴里这个名字的爱称）的故事使澳大利亚俚语广泛流传，特别是关于饮酒及其后果的笑话（其中大部分是由汉弗莱斯发明的），这个角色继续出现在两部澳大利亚电影中，其中他由巴里·克罗克饰演。汉弗莱斯的其他讽刺人物包括“贪婪和醉酒的文化专员”莱斯·帕特森爵士，他“继续给澳大利亚的艺术和文化带来全世界的诋毁，同时对澳大利亚白话的贡献与他借鉴的一样多”，温柔、祖父般的“回归绅士”桑迪·斯通，1960 年代反传统的地下电影制片人马丁·阿格里帕，帕丁顿社会主义学者尼尔·辛格尔顿， 肮脏的工会官员兰斯·博伊尔（Lance Boyle）、高压艺术品推销员莫里·奥康纳（Morrie O'Connor）和失败的大亨欧文·斯蒂尔（Owen Steele）。

汉弗莱斯于 2023 年 4 月 22 日在悉尼圣文森特医院因髋关节手术并发症去世。

普通话

巴里·漢弗萊斯

biography:
約翰·巴里·漢弗萊斯（John Barry Humphries，AO，CBE）（1934 年 2 月 17 日 - 2023 年 4 月 22 日）是一位澳大利亞喜劇演員、諷刺作家、達達主義者、藝術家、作家和性格演員，也許最出名的是他在舞台和電視上的另一個自我 Dame Edna Everage，墨爾本家庭主婦和“gigastar”，以及澳大利亞聖詹姆斯法院的髒話文化專員 Les Patterson 爵士。

他是電影製片人和編劇，倫敦西區音樂劇的明星，屢獲殊榮的作家和多才多藝的風景畫家。傳記作家安妮·彭德 （Anne Pender） 在 2010 年將漢弗萊斯描述為我們這個時代最重要的戲劇人物，因為他向數百萬人傳遞了達達主義和荒誕派的幽默. . . . . . [但]自查理·卓別林（Charlie Chaplin）以來出現的最重要的喜劇演員。漢弗萊斯的角色，尤其是埃德娜·埃弗拉奇夫人，為他帶來了國際聲譽，他出現在許多電影、舞台劇和電視節目中。埃德娜最初被設想為一個諷刺澳大利亞郊區自滿和孤立的 Moonee Ponds 家庭主婦，經過四十多年的發展，她成為了對明星的諷刺，衣著華麗、口齒伶俐、自負狂、國際上備受追捧的家庭主婦 Gigastar，埃德娜·埃弗拉奇夫人。漢弗萊斯的另一個主要諷刺人物創作是典型的澳大利亞小夥子巴里·麥肯齊（Barry McKenzie），他起源於一部關於倫敦澳大利亞人的漫畫（尼古拉斯·加蘭（Nicholas Garland）的畫作）的主人公，該漫畫首次發表在《私家偵探》雜誌上。

關於“Bazza”（漢弗萊斯的暱稱，以及澳大利亞人對巴里這個名字的愛稱）的故事使澳大利亞俚語廣泛流傳，特別是關於飲酒及其後果的笑話（其中大部分是由漢弗萊斯發明的），這個角色繼續出現在兩部澳大利亞電影中，其中他由巴里·克羅克飾演。漢弗萊斯的其他諷刺人物包括“貪婪和醉酒的文化專員”萊斯·帕特森爵士，他“繼續給澳大利亞的藝術和文化帶來全世界的詆譭，同時對澳大利亞白話的貢獻與他借鑑的一樣多”，温柔、祖父般的“迴歸紳士”桑迪·斯通，1960 年代反傳統的地下電影製片人馬丁·阿格裏帕，帕丁頓社會主義學者尼爾·辛格爾頓， 骯髒的工會官員蘭斯·博伊爾（Lance Boyle）、高壓藝術品推銷員莫裏·奧康納（Morrie O'Connor）和失敗的大亨歐文·斯蒂爾（Owen Steele）。

漢弗萊斯於 2023 年 4 月 22 日在悉尼聖文森特醫院因髖關節手術併發症去世。

Deutsch

biography: John Barry Humphries, AO, CBE war ein australischer Komiker und Schauspieler sowie Satiriker und Autor. Insbesondere im englischsprachigen Raum erreichte er mit seiner Verkörperung verschiedener Kunstfiguren eine hohe Popularität; am bekanntesten wurde er mit der Travestierolle als Dame Edna Everage.

also_known_as:
Dame Edna Everage
John Barry Humphries
Edna Everage
Les Patterson
Barry McKenzie
Sandy Stone
Bazza McKenzie

title: Finding Nemo

overview: Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.

title: Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

overview: Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set out to rescue her and bring her back to Australia.

character: Aunt Edna Everage / Dr. Meyer Delamphrey / Offensive Buck-toothed Englishman / Senator Douglas Manton

title: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

overview: Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.

character: Aunt Edna Everage / Hoot / Dr. DeLamphrey

title: Welcome to Woop Woop

overview: A con artist escapes a deal gone wrong in New York and winds up in the Aussie outback in a strange town whose inhabitants are an oddball collection of misfits.

title: Mary and Max

overview: A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

title: Shock Treatment

overview: Brad and Janet Majors find their strained marriage put to the test on popular Denton TV show Marriage Maze. Poor Brad is heavily sedated and institutionalised, whilst Janet is given a radical makeover and primed for stardom. But what are the real motivations behind the kooky DTV crew and their enigmatic head-honcho, Farley Flavors?

title: Immortal Beloved

overview: A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.

title: Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

overview: The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performers then relatively unknown, like Rowan Atkinson. Narrated by Dawn French, the programme includes interviews with many of the comedians and musicians who took part: John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Sting, Lenny Henry and many more. The shows and their stars had a huge effect on modern British comedy. There are few comics today whose careers have not been heavily influenced by the anarchic and surreal humour of these events.

title: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

overview: A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.

title: The Leading Man

overview: Successful playwright Felix Webb has a new play, 'The Hit Man', in rehearsal. Directed by his old friend Humphrey, it is already being hailed as a masterpiece; but Felix can't enjoy his success. He has fallen passionately in love with Hilary, a beautiful, fiesty young actress, and is preparing to desert his perfect family, his wife Elena and three lively children. His intolerable situation is further complicated when Humphrey casts Hilary as one of the leads in 'The Hit Man'. Enter Robin Grange, a charismatic young Hollywood actor making his London theatre debut. Robin is attractive, charming and dangerous, and soon inveigles his way into everyone's life. He ingratiates himself with the cast and, quickly grasping Felix's dilemma, sets about weaving his web of mischief. He suggests that if he were to seduce Elena, she would be distracted from Felix's affair, regain her self respect, and perhaps even willingly part from the unfaithful husband to whom she clings...

title: Da Kath & Kim Code

overview: The squabbling mother and daughter, Kath and Kim, embark on an excursion into the unexplored crannies of life at Lagoon Court, Fountain Lakes.

title: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

overview: Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.

title: Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage

overview: Dame Edna shares her views and answers questions in front of a celebrity audience.

title: Bedazzled

overview: A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

title: Barry Humphries at the BBC

overview: Alex Jones looks back at the highlights of Barry’s career on a selection of BBC shows, featuring some of Barry’s funniest, rudest and most revealing moments from over the decades.

character: Self (archive material) / Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson

title: The Naked Bunyip

overview: A shy young man is hired by an ad agency to conduct a survey on sex in Australia. The somewhat clueless young man investigates homosexuality, transvestites, prostitution, and strip clubs along with every other variant on the "norm". While doing his interviews he meets celebrities, self proclaimed sex experts, prostitutes, female impersonators, pop stars, actors, and legislators as well as self appointed morals guardians.

title: Pleasure at Her Majesty's

overview: The first of the Amnesty International comedy benefit galas. The title is a play on the phrase at Her Majesty's pleasure (the show was performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, London). This show came to be considered part of the Secret Policeman's Ball series of shows that it inspired, although it pre-dated the first show in the series by three years. The event was organized by a team of three: Monty Python member John Cleese, Amnesty's Assistant Director Peter Luff and Transatlantic Records executive Martin Lewis. It featured the cream of Britain's comedic talent of the era, setting a precedent that would inspire many subsequent Amnesty galas...

title: The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

overview: Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event. Cleese focused on broadening the comedic talent to be presented at the show. In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge/Monty Python/Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson’s colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O'Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott. Lewis secured a return appearance by Billy Connolly and a debut appearance by "alternative" comedian Alexei Sayle who Lewis had recently discovered and was managing. Building on the success of Pete Townshend's 1979 appearance Lewis recruited other rock musicians to perform at the 1981 show including Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Donovan and Bob Geldof.

title: Percy's Progress

overview: Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.

title: Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook

overview: A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook.

title: Justin and the Knights of Valour

overview: A heart-warming tale about friendship, honor & courage, which sees a young boy become a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight.

title: Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers

overview: Recorded live at the State Theatre, Victorian Arts Centre on the 15th of August 2003. Contains the hilarious on-stage antics of Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson and Sandy Stone.

character: Sir Les Patterson/Owen Steele/Sandy Stone/Dame Edna Everage

original_title: Barry Humphries Presents Back to My Roots and Other Suckers

title: Parkinson at 50

overview: Sir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourite encounters.

title: Side by Side

overview: Glam Rock musical comedy about two clashing nightclubs

title: The Great MacArthy

overview: Macarthy is a country town football champ who is kidnapped in a neon lit helicopter by tyrant Colonel Ball-Miller, the tycoon president of the South Melbourne football club.

title: Salvation

overview: Aging artist and scholar Barry is disenchanted with his existence - disillusioned by his sexless marriage to a televangelist, and repulsed by her brand of easy-to-swallow self-help Christianity. In dire need of an outlet he turns to Irina, a Russian immigrant and prostitute. Seeking better lives, both Barry and Irina find strength in each other as they seek mutual salvation.

title: Jack Irish: Dead Point

overview: Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.

title: An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

overview: Dame Edna Everage takes questions from a celebrity audience about her life and career.

title: Selling Hitler

overview: In 1981, Gerd Heidemann, a war correspondent and reporter with the German magazine Stern, makes what he believes is the literary and historical scoop of the century: the personal diaries of Adolf Hitler. Over the next two years, Heidemann and the senior management figures at Stern secretly pay 10 million German marks to a mysterious 'Dr Fischer' for the sixty volumes of 'Hitler's diaries'.  However, to the dismay of all, it is discovered after the publication of first extract that the diaries are crude forgeries, faked by Stuttgart criminal Konrad Kujau.

title: One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

overview: The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special.

original_title: One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage

title: Les Patterson Saves the World

overview: Fat middle aged 24/7 drunkard Les Patterson represents Australia at the UN where his fart literally incinerates an Arab ambassador. Patterson is reassigned to the Middle East so he can be tortured to death by the country he insulted. Patterson's arrival is the prefect distract of a coup and he is spared. At a bar Patterson meets a bio weapons scientist who's developed a horrific disease for the KGB whom plan to distribute it to the Pentagon via toilet seats. Patterson of course is far too drunk to understand anything happening and teams up with Dane Edna to save the world.

title: Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh

overview: Intimate, upbeat and honest look back at the life and work of Barry Humphries - the legendary comic trailblazer behind Dame Edna Everage and other characters - with incredible tributes from friends.

title: Dame Edna Rules The Waves

overview: Filmed in front of an audience, Dame Edna will host a very exclusive evening with celebrity chat, staffed by some familiar faces.

title: Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills

overview: Pixie is cursed with turning into a Pterodactyl when her husband is caught messing with bones on an ancient burial ground. Her husband, children, friends, and neighbours must come to terms with Pixie's new "look". Her only chance to return to her normal state is to find the shaman who inflicted the curse on her.

title: We Are Most Amused

overview: We Are Most Amused was a gala event held at the New Wimbledon Theatre on 12 November 2008 in honour of the 60th birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales, in aid of The Prince's Trust. Prince Charles attended the event with his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and younger son Prince Harry.  The show had a similar format to the Royal Variety Show and showcased a variety of comedy acts. The performance was televised by ITV to the public on 15 November 2008.  Robin Williams made his first UK stage appearance in more than 25 years. Tickets were sold to the general public and the event sold out in one hour.

title: An Audience with Jackie Mason

overview: The great American comedian Jackie Mason entertains a celebrity audience including Bruce Forsyth, Barry Humphries, Henry Cooper and Michael Winner.

title: Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’

overview: First there was ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’, then ‘My Brilliant Career’, and now best of all ‘The Getting of Wisdom’. It is incomparably moving and powerful.

original_title: Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’

title: Blinky Bill the Movie

overview: Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little town of Green Patch and following in his missing father’s footsteps. When Blinky discovers a mysterious marker that hints at his Dad’s whereabouts, he embarks on a journey that takes him beyond the boundary of Green Patch and into the wild and dangerous Outback.

title: The Getting of Wisdom

overview: Based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson, thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Melbourne. A young girl, Laura Tweedle-Rambotham who grew up in the outback, and at around the age of 14, is sent off by her poor mother who has scrimped and saved for her to go to a prestigious women’s private college in Melbourne, the Presbyterian Ladies College.

title: An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna

character: Dame Edna Everage / Sir Les Patterson / Self

title: Nicholas Nickleby

overview: Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

title: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches

overview: This documentary showcases a number of new clips which have recently come to light from sketches which were thought to have been lost forever, some not seen for over 50 years, plus rare footage of routines performed in Australia when Cook and Moore made two episodes of their show, Not Only... But Also..., for the country back in 1971. Rob Brydon narrates this very special programme as Pete and Dud fans, friends and colleagues watch these newly discovered clips in the studio for the very first time. The programme includes contributions from Not Only... But Also... producer Dick Clement, Pete and Dud collaborator Barry Humphries, and long-time fans Richard Ayoade, Josie Lawrence, Will Sharpe and Ronnie Wood as they enjoy the sketches and reflect on the career of one of Britain's best-loved comedy partnerships.

original_title: Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches

title: Spice World

overview: World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their fans.

title: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

overview: Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamour, living the high life they're accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing around London's trendiest hotspots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!

title: A Toast to Melbourne

overview: Using archival film, aerial photography, stills, prints and contemporary footage, this documentary presents the city of Melbourne and its lifestyle. Looks at the unique Victorian architecture that transformed Melbourne from a tent city during the Gold Rush to a modern and prosperous city. Captures the vibrant streetscapes, the trams, the elaborate arcades and some of the institutions that cater to Melbourne's elite such as the Georges store and the Melbourne Club.

title: Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show

overview: In this Christmas Day special, Michael presents leading comedians including Dara O Briain, the fabulous Dame Edna Everage, and ventriloquist and winner of America's Got Talent Paul Zerdin.  Featuring music superstars Ellie Goulding and Tom Jones plus Michael's own inimitable style of comedy, the show promises a night packed with festive treats and surprises.

title: Joan Rivers: Abroad in London

overview: Joan delivers her biting tongue to the Queen and her country.

title: Standing Up for Sunny

overview: An isolated guy with cerebral palsy is railroaded into helping an unassertive comedienne, and finds love and acceptance through stand-up comedy.

title: A Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage

overview: As much a parody of the typical BBC documentary style as an extravagant curtsy to Dame Edna Everage, Housewife Superstar. The Dame is known mostly through her special broadcast in 1983; in Britain s/he is a household name. This 1984 birthday tribute is a deeply probing investigative profile of one of the world's spookiest celebrities.

title: Not Quite Hollywood

overview: As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.

title: The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

overview: Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's sewing machine breaks, so Robert sends a repairman, Ambrose, to fix it. It's lust at first sight for Harriet, who convinces Ambrose to hide out in the attic for a tryst. When her new beau shows no desire to leave, the pair begin a years-long love affair right under Robert's nose.

title: Dr. Fischer of Geneva

overview: Dr. Fischer has an unusual hobby — to expose human greed. How much humiliation will his fellow man endure enticed by valuable presents? Dignity for money! Death for money?

title: Kath & Kimderella

overview: Kath & Kim turn more than just heads when they go on an overseas trip and end up being the centre of their very own fairytale.

title: Napoleon

overview: The adventures of Golden Retriever pup Napoleon and his friend, the parrot Birdo Lucci.

title: The Marsupials: The Howling III

overview: A strange race of human-like marsupials appear suddenly in Australia, and a sociologist who studies these creatures falls in love with a female one. Is this a dangerous combination?

title: Making Mary and Max

overview: Comedic behind-the-scenes film for the production of Mary and Max, originally released as webisodes.

title: It Started with Swap Shop

overview: Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, John Craven and Maggie Philbin reunite for a one-off edition of the Saturday morning classic Swap Shop to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

title: The Rocky Horror Treatment

overview: A 1981 documentary looking at the Cult following of the Rocky Horror show and introducing the sequel "Shock Treatment".

title: Show of Titles

overview: An evening of celebrated stars performing the titles songs from Broadway’s best.

title: Little Britain Down Under

overview: Matt Lucas and David Walliams let the cameras accompany them as they take their successful Little Britain Live tour to Australia. There they encounter Barry Humphries, Kath & Kim, and a Little Britain tribute act.tt1169149

title: Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant

overview: YES! Sir Lesley Colin Patterson, international diplomat is back, and I’m letting it all hang out on my very own HARD-CORE, LIVE, SEX EDUCATION TAPE for troubled adults and dysfunctional drinkers.

original_title: Les Patterson 'Has A Stand Up' - Live & Rampant

title: The Man Inside Dame Edna

overview: A character portrait of the enigmatic comedian Barry Humphries on his most recent Australian tour and an examination of the connections to his two most famous alter egos, Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson. Interviews include Bruce Beresford and Geoffrey Rush.

title: Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs

overview: Liz Hayes hosts a retrospective special on comedy legend on Nine

title: Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway

overview: Australian cultural attaché Sir Les Patterson visits his old haunts in Hong Kong before its administrative rule is returned from Britain to China.

title: A Late Lunch With Sir Les

overview: Sir Les Patterson (Barry Humphries) as a people's show TV host, quizzing the studio audience and guests Marie Helvin and Claire Rayner, Kilroy style, about the compatability of sex and marriage. Sir Les was assisted by a busty bimbo, Christabel. It all ended in disarray, with members of the audience at loggerheads and throwing punches.

title: Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch

overview: Barry Humphries performance at The Hilton Hotel London for The Variety Club of Great Britain.

title: Gaybo Laughs Back

overview: Gaybo Laughs Back is an hour-long special, hosted by Gay Byrne who introduces some of the comedy highlights from his thirty-seven years at the helm of the long-running television series.

title: Royal Variety Performance 1984

overview: In the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother accompanied by Their Royal Highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales. From the stage of the Victoria Palace Theatre stars from the world of entertainment bring you comedy and music.

title: A Night on Mount Edna

overview: British TV-special with Barry Humphries, AKA Dame Edna

title: The Last Impresario

overview: Michael White might just be the most famous person you’ve never heard of. A notorious London theatre and film impresario, he produced over 300 shows and movies over the last 50 years. Bringing to the stage the risqué productions of Oh! Calcutta!, The Rocky Horror Show and to the screen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, as well as introducing Merce Cunningham, Pina Bausch and Yoko Ono to London audiences, he irrevocably shaped the cultural scene of the 1970s London.

title: Le Bain Vorace (Dial P for Plughole)

overview: A surreal spy spoof commissioned by the Melbourne University Film Club.

title: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

title: Les Patterson Saves the World

title: Dame Edna Rules The Waves

title: Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

title: Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage

title: An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna

title: Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway

title: Shock Treatment

title: Finding Nemo

title: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

title: Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

title: Welcome to Woop Woop

title: Mary and Max

title: Shock Treatment

title: Immortal Beloved

title: Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?

title: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

title: The Leading Man

title: Da Kath & Kim Code

title: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

title: Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage

title: Bedazzled

title: Barry Humphries at the BBC

title: The Naked Bunyip

title: Pleasure at Her Majesty's

title: The Secret Policeman's Other Ball

title: Percy's Progress

title: Some Interesting Facts About Peter Cook

title: Justin and the Knights of Valour

title: Parkinson at 50

title: Side by Side

title: The Great MacArthy

title: Salvation

title: Jack Irish: Dead Point

title: An Audience with Dame Edna Everage

title: Selling Hitler

title: Les Patterson Saves the World

title: Barry Humphries: The Last Laugh

title: Dame Edna Rules The Waves

title: Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills

title: We Are Most Amused

title: An Audience with Jackie Mason

title: Blinky Bill the Movie

title: The Getting of Wisdom

title: An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna

title: Nicholas Nickleby

title: Spice World

title: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

title: Michael McIntyre's Big Christmas Show

title: A Toast to Melbourne

title: Joan Rivers: Abroad in London

title: Standing Up for Sunny

title: A Birthday Tribute to Dame Edna Everage

title: Not Quite Hollywood

title: The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

title: Dr. Fischer of Geneva

title: Kath & Kimderella

title: Napoleon

title: The Marsupials: The Howling III

title: Making Mary and Max

title: It Started with Swap Shop

title: The Rocky Horror Treatment

title: Show of Titles

title: Little Britain Down Under

title: The Man Inside Dame Edna

title: Barry Humphries - A Life of Laughs

title: Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway

title: A Late Lunch With Sir Les

title: Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch

title: Gaybo Laughs Back

title: Royal Variety Performance 1984

title: A Night on Mount Edna

title: The Last Impresario

title: Le Bain Vorace (Dial P for Plughole)

title: The Adventures of Barry McKenzie

title: Les Patterson Saves the World

title: Dame Edna Rules The Waves

title: Barry McKenzie Holds His Own

title: An Aussie Audience with Dame Edna

title: Another Audience with Dame Edna Everage

title: Sir Les And The Great Chinese Takeaway


Robert Zemeckis

biography:
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American filmmaker known for directing and producing a range of successful and influential movies. He often blends cutting-edge visual effects with storytelling. He has received several accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for five British Academy Film Awards and a Daytime Emmy Award.

Zemeckis started his career directing the comedy films I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), Used Cars (1980), and Romancing the Stone (1984). He gained prominence directing the science-fiction comedy Back to the Future trilogy (1985–1990), the fantasy comedy Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and the comedy-drama Forrest Gump (1994), the latter of which won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director.

He has also directed the satirical black comedy Death Becomes Her (1992), the science fiction film Contact (1997), and the drama films Cast Away (2000), Flight (2012), The Walk (2015), and Allied (2016). His exploration of motion capture techniques can be seen in the animated films The Polar Express (2004) and A Christmas Carol (2009), as well as the action fantasy drama Beowulf (2007) and the drama Welcome to Marwen (2018). He has collaborated with film composer Alan Silvestri since 1984 and directed Tom Hanks in five films.

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MADtv

overview: MADtv is an American sketch comedy television series originally inspired by Mad magazine. The one-hour show aired Saturday nights on Fox.

original_name: MADtv

The Oscars

overview: An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

original_name: The Oscars

The Director's Chair

overview: Robert Rodriguez sits down with the industry's most iconic directors and engages in a revealing and unexpected exchange about the world of filmmaking.

original_name: The Director's Chair

Parker Lewis Can't Lose

overview: Parker Lewis is a teenager who apparently can't lose. He's cool, cute, popular, hip – and seems to get away with anything. That's not to say he's got no problems. His two primary nemeses are school principal Grace Musso, whose goal is getting Parker expelled; and his little sister Shelly, whose sole purpose seems to be tattling on Parker. However, with best friends Mikey and Jerry, Parker takes on the world and makes the best of high school.

character: Robert Zemeckis

original_name: Parker Lewis Can't Lose

Reunited Apart

overview: Josh Gad reunites the cast and crews of various classic movies, and discusses the the films in hilarious yet heartfelt conversations.

original_name: Reunited Apart

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

overview: Stephen Colbert brings his signature satire and comedy to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, the #1 show in late night, where he talks with an eclectic mix of guests about what is new and relevant in the worlds of politics, entertainment, business, music, technology, and more. Featuring bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human, the Emmy Award-nominated show is broadcast from the historic Ed Sullivan Theater.

original_name: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

LIGHT & MAGIC

overview: When George Lucas set out to make Star Wars, little did he know he would end up revolutionizing an industry. This is the story of a team of creative geniuses who put the magic in the movies we love.

character: Self - Director, Back to the Future

original_name: LIGHT & MAGIC

Amazing Stories

job: Director

overview: A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.

department: Directing

original_name: Amazing Stories

Tales from the Crypt

overview: Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

original_name: Tales from the Crypt

job: Producer

department: Production

Tales from the Cryptkeeper

overview: Tales from the Cryptkeeper is an animated series aimed at children made by Nelvana Limited, PeaceArch Entertainment, kaBOOM! Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television Animation. It was shown on TVO and ABC, and is still shown near Halloween on Teletoon. It was based on the live-action television show, Tales from the Crypt, which aired concurrently on HBO. Being directed at children, Tales From the Cryptkeeper was significantly milder than the live-action HBO version.

original_name: Tales from the Cryptkeeper

Johnny Bago

overview: Johnny Bago is a short-lived television series that aired in the summer of 1993. It stars Peter Dobson as ex-con Johnny Tenuti who, after being set up a second time, travels across America in a Winnebago under the name Johnny Bago to escape mobsters, cops and his former wife/parole officer.

original_name: Johnny Bago

Project Blue Book

job: Executive Producer

overview: A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”.

original_name: Project Blue Book

Manifest

overview: After landing from a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers of Montego Air Flight 828 discover five years have passed in what seemed like a few hours. As their new realities become clear, a deeper mystery unfolds and some of the returned passengers soon realize they may be meant for something greater than they ever thought possible.

original_name: Manifest

Back to the Future

job: Characters

overview:
An animated series for television based on the Back to the Future trilogy of feature films.

Based on the highly successful Back to the Future movie trilogy, this series is set, um, "after" the events of the last film, as the adventures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown in their DeLorean time machine continue. Joining the ride is Clara, (Doc's wife from Back To The Future Part III,) Jules and Verne (their sons) Einstein the dog and Jennifer (Marty's girlfriend). And apparently there's a Tannen in every time as relatives of Biff keep popping up, and creating conflict. Mary Steenburgen and Tom Wilson reprise their roles from the movies. During live portions of the show, Christopher Lloyd reprised his role as Doc Brown and was joined by Bill Nye, who conducted experiments that were used in the show.

department: Writing

original_name: Back to the Future

WHAT / IF

overview: A pair of cash-strapped newlyweds accept a lucrative but morally dubious offer from a mysterious female benefactor.

original_name: WHAT / IF

Perversions of Science

overview:
Perversions of Science is a science fiction/horror television series that ran on the cable channel HBO for one season in 1997.

It is a spin-off of popular horror series Tales from the Crypt also shown on HBO, and its episodes are based on EC's Weird Science comic book series.

The format of Perversions of Science is very similar to Tales From The Crypt, the show was introduced by a sexualized female robot named Chrome and then an individual episode would start. After the episode was complete, Chrome would conclude Perversions of Science.

Most episodes focused on a part of science fiction such as alien invasion or space/time travel.

The show featured a mix of established talent and young up-and-comers. "Panic", for instance, starred a young Jason Lee and Jamie Kennedy opposite Harvey Korman.

As of 2011 the series has not been released on DVD in the US. However in 2001 it was released in Japan by Pioneer Entertainment where it has since gone out of print subsequently becoming sought after by collectors.

original_name: Perversions of Science

name: Back to the Future: The Hill Valley Chronicles

overview: The Hill Valley Chronicles takes the enormously popular Back To The Future Trilogy and adapts it to a 'Quantum Leap' style 30 minute teatime TV show comprising of ten episodes. This new adaptation puts a fresh spin on the trilogy by reshaping the narrative so the parallel events of November 12 1955 in the trilogy collide with each other in action packed fashion.

original_name: Back to the Future: The Hill Valley Chronicles

job: Writer

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Deutsch

biography:
Robert Lee Zemeckis (* 14. Mai 1951) ist ein US-amerikanischer Filmregisseur, Produzent und Drehbuchautor. Zemeckis erlangte erstmals in den 1980er Jahren Bekanntheit als Regisseur der komödiantischen Zeitreise-Filmreihe „Zurück in die Zukunft“ sowie des mit einem Oscar ausgezeichneten Realfilm-/Animationsepos „Falsches Spiel mit Roger Rabbit“ (1988). In den 1990er Jahren widmete er sich jedoch auch dramatischeren Filmen, darunter „Forrest Gump“ (1994), für den er einen Oscar als bester Regisseur erhielt.

Seine Filme zeichnen sich durch ein Interesse an hochmodernen Spezialeffekten aus, darunter der frühe Einsatz von Streichholzbewegungen in „Zurück in die Zukunft II“ (1989) und die bahnbrechenden Performance-Capture-Techniken in „Der Polarexpress“ (2004), „Beowulf“ (2007) und „Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte“ (2009). Obwohl Zemeckis oft als Regisseur abgestempelt wurde, der sich nur für Effekte interessierte, wurde sein Werk von mehreren Kritikern in Schutz genommen, darunter David Thomson, der schrieb: „Kein anderer zeitgenössischer Regisseur hat Spezialeffekte für dramatischere und erzählerischere Zwecke eingesetzt.“

iso_639_1: de

iso_3166_1: DE

english_name: German

Pусский

Роберт Земекис

biography:
Роберт Земекис

Американский кинорежиссёр, сценарист и продюсер. Лауреат премии «Оскар» в категории «Лучший режиссёр». Постановщик знаковых картин: «Форрест Гамп», «Контакт», «Изгой», «Кто подставил кролика Роджера», «Прогулка» и трилогии «Назад в будущее»

iso_639_1: ru

iso_3166_1: RU

english_name: Russian

Italiano

biography: Robert Lee Zemeckis (nato il 14 maggio 1952) è un regista, produttore e sceneggiatore americano. Zemeckis è venuto all'attenzione del pubblico per la prima volta negli anni '80 come regista della serie di film comici Ritorno al futuro sul viaggio nel tempo, così come del film epico live-action / animazione vincitore di un Oscar Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit (1988), anche se nel Negli anni '90 si è diversificato in piatti più drammatici, incluso Forrest Gump del 1994, per il quale ha vinto un Academy Award come miglior regista.

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biography:
Robert Zemeckis est un réalisateur, producteur et scénariste américain, né le 14 mai 1951 à Chicago.

Découvert grâce au film d'aventures À la poursuite du diamant vert, il a entre autres réalisé la trilogie Retour vers le futur, Qui veut la peau de Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump (récompensé par six Oscars), et Seul au monde.

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罗伯特·泽米吉斯

biography:
罗伯特·泽米吉斯（Robert Zemeckis），1952年5月14日出生于美国芝加哥，毕业于北伊科诺斯州大学和南加州大学，美国电影导演、编剧、制片人。

1978年，执导音乐家庭片《一亲芳泽》，从而正式踏入演艺圈 。1980年，拍摄喜剧片《尔虞我诈》。1985年，执导科幻片《回到未来》，该片获得第58届奥斯卡金像奖最佳原创剧本奖。1990年，凭借喜剧动画片《谁陷害了兔子罗杰》获得了第16届土星奖最佳导演奖。1995年，凭借爱情励志片《阿甘正传》获得了第67届奥斯卡奖最佳导演奖。

2000年，执导冒险片《荒岛余生》。2004年，罗伯特·泽米吉斯第一次将CG动画真人捕捉技术用于动作片《极地特快》，该片作为第一部全部用数字捕捉技术的电影，被载入了《吉尼斯世界纪录》。2006年，监制悬疑动画片《怪兽屋》。2009年，拍摄魔幻喜剧片《圣诞颂歌》。2011年，担任家庭动画片《火星救母记》的制作人。2015年，执导3D传记剧情片《云中行走》，该片是第53届纽约电影节的开幕影片。

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羅伯特·澤米吉斯

biography:
羅伯特·澤米吉斯（Robert Zemeckis），1952 年 5 月 14 日出生於美國芝加哥，畢業於北伊科諾斯州大學和南加州大學，美國電影導演、編劇、製片人。

1978 年，執導音樂家庭片《一親芳澤》，從而正式踏入演藝圈 。1980 年，拍攝喜劇片《爾虞我詐》。1985 年，執導科幻片《回到未來》，該片獲得第 58 屆奧斯卡金像獎最佳原創劇本獎。1990 年，憑藉喜劇動畫片《夢城兔福星》獲得了第 16 屆土星獎最佳導演獎。1995 年，憑藉愛情勵志片《阿甘正傳》獲得了第 67 屆奧斯卡獎最佳導演獎。

2000 年，執導冒險片《劫後重生》。2004 年，羅伯特·澤米吉斯第一次將 CG 動畫真人捕捉技術用於動作片《北極快車》，該片作為第一部全部用數字捕捉技術的電影，被載入了《吉尼斯世界紀錄》。2006 年，監製懸疑動畫片《魔怪屋》。2009 年，拍攝魔幻喜劇片《魔幻聖誕頌》。2011 年，擔任家庭動畫片《火星搶走阿媽》的製作人。2015 年，執導 3D 傳記劇情片《命懸一線》，該片是第 53 屆紐約電影節的開幕影片。

Türkçe

biography:
Robert Lee Zemeckis, 14 Mayıs 1952 tarihinde Chicago, Illinois, ABD'de dünyaya gelmiştir. Litvanya ve İtalyan kökenli işçi sınıfı bir ailenin çocuğu olarak büyüyen Zemeckis, çocukluk yıllarında televizyona ve babasının 8mm kamerasına büyük bir ilgi duydu. Lisans eğitimine Northern Illinois Üniversitesi'nde başladıktan sonra, sinema tutkusunun peşinden giderek prestijli Güney Kaliforniya Üniversitesi (USC) Sinema Sanatları Okulu'na geçiş yaptı. Burada, ileride en büyük yaratıcı ortağı olacak Bob Gale ile tanıştı ve çektiği kısa filmlerle Öğrenci Akademi Ödülü'nü kazanarak efsanevi yönetmen Steven Spielberg'in dikkatini çekmeyi başardı. Spielberg'in kanatları altına girmesi, onun Hollywood kariyerinin kapılarını araladı.

Yönetmenlik kariyerine Spielberg'in yapımcılığını üstlendiği "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" (1978) ve "Used Cars" (1980) gibi komedi filmleriyle adım atsa da, bu yapımlar gişede beklenen başarıyı gösteremedi. Kariyerindeki asıl kırılma noktasını, başrollerini Michael Douglas ve Kathleen Turner'ın paylaştığı romantik macera filmi "Romancing the Stone" (1984) ile yaşadı. Filmin beklenmedik gişe başarısı, onun stüdyo sisteminde güvenilir ve yetenekli bir yönetmen olduğunu kanıtladı.

Bu başarının hemen ardından Zemeckis, sinema tarihinin en ikonik ve sevilen bilimkurgu serilerinden biri olan, Bob Gale ile birlikte yazdığı ve yönettiği "Geleceğe Dönüş" (Back to the Future) (1985) başyapıtına imza attı. Film, küresel bir fenomene dönüşerek iki başarılı devam filmiyle (1989, 1990) unutulmaz bir üçleme haline geldi. Görsel teknolojilere olan büyük merakıyla tanınan yönetmen, "Masum Sanık Roger Rabbit" (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) (1988) ile canlı çekim ve animasyonu kusursuz bir şekilde harmanlayarak efektlerde çığır açtı. "Ölüm Kadına Yakışır" (Death Becomes Her) (1992) filmiyle ise bilgisayar destekli görsel efektlerin (CGI) sinemadaki öncülerinden biri oldu. Kariyerinin mutlak zirvesini, Tom Hanks'in başrolünde yer aldığı ve popüler kültürde derin izler bırakan draması "Forrest Gump" (1994) filmiyle yaşadı; gişe rekorları kıran bu yapım ona En İyi Yönetmen dalında Akademi Ödülü (Oscar) kazandırdı.

Bilimkurgu draması "Mesaj" (Contact) (1997), "Gizli Gerçek" (What Lies Beneath) (2000) ve Tom Hanks ile yeniden bir araya geldiği hayatta kalma destanı "Yeni Hayat" (Cast Away) (2000) gibi başarılı yapımların ardından Zemeckis, 2000'li yıllarda tamamen hareket yakalama (motion capture) teknolojisine yöneldi. "Kutup Ekspresi" (The Polar Express) (2004), "Beowulf" (2007) ve "Yeni Yıl Şarkısı" (A Christmas Carol) (2009) gibi filmlerle animasyon sinemasının sınırlarını zorladı.

2012 yapımı övgü toplayan "Uçuş" (Flight) filmiyle geleneksel canlı çekim sinemasına güçlü bir geri dönüş yapan usta yönetmen; "Tehlikeli Yürüyüş" (The Walk) (2015), "Müttefik" (Allied) (2016) ve "Pinokyo" (Pinocchio) (2022) gibi projelerle üretkenliğini sürdürdü. Görsel efekt teknolojilerini hikaye anlatımının temel ve organik bir parçası haline getiren yenilikçi tarzıyla modern Amerikan sinemasının en önemli mimarlarından biri olarak kabul edilen Zemeckis, kendi kurduğu ImageMovers yapım şirketi aracılığıyla endüstriye yön vermeye devam etmektedir.

title: Citizen Steve

overview: On the occasion of the 40th birthday of the almighty filmmaker Steven Allan Spielberg, inquisitive reporter Clip Maxwell attempts to uncover the truth behind his undisputed rise to the throne of the Amblin Empire.

title: The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy

overview: The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy was a program hosted by Kirk Cameron. The show answered questions that Back to the Future fans sent in by letter.  It was released onto videocassette in 1990 and as a bonus feature on the disc for Back to the Future Part III in the 2002 release of the Back to the Future trilogy. It is also available in the 2010 Blu-Ray trilogy.

original_title: The Secrets of the 'Back to the Future' Trilogy

title: Persistence of Vision

overview: It was to be the greatest animated film of all time. Not just an eye-opener, but a game-changer. Richard Williams demanded nothing less, investing nearly three decades into his movie masterpiece. From as early as 1964 he ploughed most of the profits right back into his pet project, a feature inspired by the Arabian Nights and provisionally known as Mullah Nasruddin. He assembled a team of inspired young artists—and brought in the best Hollywood craftsmen to teach them—and devised what would be the most elaborate, kaleidoscopic, mind-boggling visual sequences ever committed to celluloid. Years passed. Potential financiers came and went. Work continued. But it was only after Roger Rabbit that Williams had a studio budget to corroborate the munificence of his imagination.

title: The Making of '1941'

overview: A non-narrated documentary, told mainly in interviews with the filmmakers, on the making of the cult comedy classic, featuring outtakes, rare behind-the-scenes home movies, and trivia facts.

title: Tom Hanks: The Nomad

overview: From humble beginnings to an aspiring thespian to acting as some of the world's most iconic and notable characters. He has picked up a reputation as 'America's Nice Guy', 'The Everyman' and a nomad of the arts. But we all know him... as Tom Hanks.

title: Milius

overview: The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.

title: Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

overview: A look behind the scenes of Robert Zemeckis' 1994 Oscar-winning film, 'Forrest Gump'.

title: Waking Sleeping Beauty

overview: By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to innovate and old timers not yet ready to relinquish control. These conditions produced a series of box-office flops and pessimistic forecasts: maybe the best days of animation were over. Maybe the public didn't care. Only a miracle or a magic spell could produce a happy ending. Waking Sleeping Beauty is no fairy tale. It's the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits - "Little Mermaid," "Beauty and the Beast ," "Aladdin," "The Lion King," and more - over a 10-year period.

title: The Making of 'The Frighteners'

overview: Documentary about the making of the 1996 horror-comedy.

title: Brian May's Brief History of 3D

overview: A look into the history of 3D by Brian May from Queen.

title: Back in Time

overview: Cast, crew and fans explore the "Back to the Future" time-travel trilogy's resonance throughout our culture, thirty years after Marty McFly went back in time.

title: Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit

overview: The complete documentary on the production of the movie "Who Framed Roger Rabbit".

original_title: Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit

title: Back To the Present: The Special

overview: Robert Zemeckis's Back To The Future was a huge box-office hit in 1985 that ultimately led to two sequels. In 1989, in Back To The Future Part II, Michael J. Fox aka Marty Mc Fly and Christopher Lloyd aka DOC, travel into the future to October 21st 2015. At the time, the movie's crazy inventions seemed far from achievable but little did we know they would actually be so close to reality!

title: Back to the Future: Making the Trilogy

overview: This is the making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by acclaimed documentary maker Laurent Bouzereau and appears on the Back to the Future DVD set.

title: Looking Back to the Future

overview: A 9-part retrospective documentary from 2009 on the trilogy’s legacy.

title: Spielberg

overview: A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.

title: Back to the Future (Part II): Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation

original_title: Back to the Future (Part II): Behind-the-Scenes Special Presentation

title: First Works

overview: It's a mixed bag in the age of illuminating DVD supplements, but First Works effectively demonstrates the early promise of 13 successful filmmakers. Culled from programs originally broadcast on Showtime in 1990, this crude compilation combines student films, early professional work, and interviews with now-famous directors at various stages of commercial and artistic achievement.

title: The Making of Back to the Future

title: From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic

overview: The incredible evolution of George Lucas' special effects dream factory, including an inside look at "Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace."

original_title: From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic

title: Tales from the Future

overview: Eight-part retrospective documentary on the making of "Back to the Future" (and its two sequels) for the film's 25th anniversary.

title: A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

overview: A behind the scenes look at the production of Beowulf

title: You Know: Uncovering What Lies Beneath

overview: A feature-length retrospective documentary on the making of “What Lies Beneath.”

title: Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

overview: The authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premiere. Featuring rare archival footage and interviews with acclaimed Hollywood directors alongside Steven Spielberg, top shark scientists, and conservationists, the film uncovers the behind-the-scenes chaos and how the film launched the summer blockbuster, inspired a new wave of filmmakers, and paved the way for shark conservation that continues today.

title: The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

overview: Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

original_title: The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

title: A Future on Stage

overview: A documentary on the making of the Broadway and West End musical stage adaptation of Back to the Future.

title: Back to the Future

overview: Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

title: Back to the Future Part II

overview: Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.

title: Forrest Gump

overview: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

title: Back to the Future Part III

overview: The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.

title: Beowulf

overview: A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.

title: Beowulf

title: Contact

overview: A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.

title: Contact

title: House of Wax

overview: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.

title: What Lies Beneath

overview: Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.

title: What Lies Beneath

title: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

overview: 'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

title: The Polar Express

overview: When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

title: The Polar Express

title: The Polar Express

title: Elemental: Hydrogen vs. Hindenburg

overview: "Elemental" is the groundbreaking television event from Academy Award-winning executive producer Robert Zemeckis that reveals how the elements of the periodic table have controlled the outcome of human history. This one-hour drama tells the harrowing story of the Hindenburg disaster. Sophisticated cinematography, animation and spectacular visual effects bring this fiery saga to life in a way no audience has seen before.

title: Gothika

overview: After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

title: House on Haunted Hill

overview: An amusement park mogul offers a random group of diverse people $1 million to spend the night in a decrepit former mental institution.

title: Cast Away

overview: Chuck Noland, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph.D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia crashes at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and finds himself marooned on a desolate island. With no way to escape, Chuck must find ways to survive in his new home.

title: Cast Away

title: Romancing the Stone

overview: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

title: Thir13en Ghosts

overview: Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

title: Death Becomes Her

overview: Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once her arch-rival Helen's fiancé. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and steal back Ernest. Unfortunately for everyone, the introduction of a magic potion causes things to be a great deal more complicated than a mere murder plot.

title: Death Becomes Her

title: Ghost Ship

overview: After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.

title: Ritual

overview: An American doctor encounters members of a voodoo cult when she is summoned to Jamaica to treat a wealthy man's brother.

title: Used Cars

overview: When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.

title: Used Cars

title: Finch

overview: On a post-apocalyptic Earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship, and what it means to be human.

title: Real Steel

overview: Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.

title: A Christmas Carol

overview: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

title: A Christmas Carol

title: I Wanna Hold Your Hand

overview: If they miss The Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A., they will hate themselves for the rest of their lives - so four young girls from New Jersey set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises and misfortunes but the young ladies are determined to reach their idols.

title: I Wanna Hold Your Hand

title: Flight

overview: Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

title: Flight

title: Looking Back to the Future

title: The Lift

overview: A businessman lives out his daily routine until he meets unexpected stress in the form of his apartment building's elevator.

title: Here

overview: An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

title: Two-Fisted Tales

overview: The foul-mouthed, wheelchair-bound Mr. Rush introduces three adventure tales inspired by the EC Comics of the 1950s: "Showdown," "King of the Road," and "Yellow."  This star-studded telefilm was an attempt to launch a second anthology series in the mold of "Tales from the Crypt."  When the film failed to generate sufficient interest, the three tales were re-edited and shown as "Crypt" episodes.

title: Bound by Flesh

overview: Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were once the cream of the sideshow crop. Taught to sing and dance at an early age, the winsome duo ascended through the early 20th-century vaudeville circuit as a side attraction (working alongside Bob Hope and Charlie Chaplin as well as a memorable turn in the Tod Browning classic "Freaks") before a cascade of unscrupulous management and harsh mistreatment brought their careers (and lives) tumbling down. This engrossing glimpse into a bygone era is filled with fascinating interviews and rare archival footage.

title: I'm Thinking of Ending Things

overview: Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

title: A Field of Honor

overview: An ex-soldier encounters many dangers in the small town he lives in.

title: A Field of Honor

title: The Reaping

overview: Katherine Morrissey, a former Christian missionary, lost her faith after the tragic deaths of her family. Now she applies her expertise to debunking religious phenomena. When a series of biblical plagues overrun a small town, Katherine arrives to prove that a supernatural force is not behind the occurrences, but soon finds that science cannot explain what is happening. Instead, she must regain her faith to combat the evil that waits in a Louisiana swamp.

title: The Public Eye

overview: A crime photographer gets involved in a conspiracy.

title: Back to the Future Part III

title: Back to the Future Part III

title: Back to the Future Part II

title: Back to the Future

title: Back to the Future Part II

title: The Walk

overview: The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

title: The Walk

title: Trespass

overview: Two Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, get hold of a map that leads to a cache of stolen gold in an abandoned factory in East St. Louis. What they don't know is that the factory is on the turf of a local gang, who come by to execute one of their enemies. Vince sees the shooting, the gang spots Vince, and extended mayhem ensues. As Vince and Don try to escape, gang leader King James argues with his subordinate Savon about how to get rid of the trespassers.

title: Le court des grands

overview: A program of debut shorts from some of cinema's greatest diectors. Curated by Emir Kusturica and Stephen Frears, featured auteurs include George Lucas' "1.42.08 to Qualify" (1966), Ridley Scott's "A Boy and a Bicycle" (1965), Robert Zemeckis' "The Lift" (1972), Tony Scott's "One of the Missing" (1969), Kusturica's "Guernica" (1978), Luc Besson's "L'avant dernier" (1981), Lars von Trier's "Nocturne" (1980), Terry Gilliam's "Storytime" (1968), Paul Verhoeven's "A Lizzard Too Much" (1960), Roman Polanski's "Le gros et le maigre" (1960), Jane Campion's "Peel" (1982), and Frears' "The Burning" (1967).

title: Trespass

title: Pinocchio

overview: A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.

title: Pinocchio

title: Here

title: Here

title: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

overview: Ex-soldier Frank Brayker is the guardian of an ancient key that can unlock tremendous evil; the sinister Collector is a demon who wants the key so he can initiate the apocalypse. On the run from wicked mercenaries for almost 90 years, Brayker finally stops in at a boarding house in New Mexico where — with the help of its residents — he plans to face off against the Collector and his band of ghouls, preventing them from ever seizing the key.

title: Monster House

overview: Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.

title: Welcome to Marwen

overview: When a devastating attack shatters Mark Hogancamp and wipes away all memories, no one expected recovery. Putting together pieces from his old and new life, Mark meticulously creates a wondrous town named Marwen where he can heal and be heroic. As he builds an astonishing art installation — a testament to the most powerful women he knows — through his fantasy world, he draws strength to triumph in the real one.

title: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

overview: A Midwestern housewife supports her large family by entering contests for ad slogans sponsored by consumer product companies, while dealing with abuse from her alcoholic husband. Based on a true story.

title: Allied

overview: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

title: The Walk

title: Bordello of Blood

overview: Private eye Rafe Guttman is hired by repressed, born-again Katherine to find her missing bad-boy brother. The trail leads him to a whorehouse run by a thousand-year-old vampire and secretly backed by Katherine's boss, televangelist Jimmy Current.

title: Plaga zombie: zona mutante: revolución tóxica

overview: An invasion alien threatens the fate of humanity and begins in a village where there are Bill Johnson, John West and Max Giggs. The friends escape from there with the purpose of finding and destroying the invading ship before it completes its evil plan of conquest.

original_title: Plaga zombie: zona mutante: revolución tóxica

title: DeGenerazione

overview: Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento.

title: Last Holiday

overview: The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Williams.

title: Allied

title: School for Scumbags

overview: An often-expelled student finds a home at the Gafin School for "misdirected" teens -- an institution run by professional thieves.

title: Welcome to Marwen

title: Matchstick Men

overview: A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

title: Two-Fisted Tales

title: Roald Dahl's The Witches

overview: In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

title: Roald Dahl's The Witches

title: Welcome to Marwen

title: Doc Brown Saves the World

overview: In order to save the world from a nuclear holocaust in 2045, Doc Brown must push the technological age back at least 50 years preventing Mattel Hoverboards and Mr. Fusion from being created.

title: Doc Brown Saves the World

title: Bordello of Blood

title: Amazing Stories

overview: A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy, and Go to the Head of the Class.

title: 1941

overview: In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

title: 1941

title: Pinocchio

title: The Frighteners

overview: Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.

title: Project 88: Back to the Future Too

overview: More than 300 fans from 9 different countries joined together to remake Back to the Future Part II during the COVID-19 quarantine. The film was split into 88 scenes with 88 teams producing their segment using available resources all while obeying local social distancing guidelines. The result is an absurdly fun, wild ride that sees everything from pro-level live action to killer animation to... bananas and potatoes used to bring Back to the Future Part II to life all over again.

title: Behind the Burly Q

overview: Dive into more than a century of decadence with this tantalizing look at the evolution of burlesque. Cabaret star Leslie Zemeckis traces the art form from vaudeville-style variety show through its extinction and contemporary rebirth. Vintage photos, film clips and ads illustrate burlesque's resilient history and how the public's sexual appetite kept it alive amid moral and legal ado.

title: Mars Needs Moms

overview: When Martians suddenly abduct his mom, mischievous Milo rushes to the rescue and discovers why all moms are so special.

title: A Christmas Carol

title: Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

overview: In "All Through the Night," perhaps the single most famous story from the original comic book series, a psychotic killer dressed as Santa escapes Christmas Eve and terrorizes a middle-class home where murder has already made a holiday appearance: a homicidal wife plunges a fireplace poker into her husband's skull. (It was also adapted in the 1972 British anthology movie Tales from the Crypt). Kirk Douglas stars as a blood-and-thunder World War I general who discovers his son is a coward in the grim "Yellow," the most dramatically acute of the trio. Digital magic morphs Humphrey Bogart into "You, Murderer," a high-concept, rather gimmicky tale of murder, double crosses, and poetic justice as seen through a dead man's eyes. Isabella Rossellini (daughter of Bogie's Casablanca costar Ingrid Bergman) and John Lithgow costar as plotting lovers.

original_title: Tales from the Crypt: The Robert Zemeckis Collection

title: Roald Dahl's The Witches

title: The Pursuit of Happiness

overview: Showtime's "In the 20th Century" is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major subjects of their choosing. In the fourth of the six films, "The Pursuit of Happiness," filmmaker Robert Zemeckis delves into the history of America's relationship with mind-altering substances over the past 100 years, presenting interviews with historians and professionals in the drug treatment field, interspersed with a treasure trove of film and television clips depicting the highs and lows of smoking, drinking and drugging in the 20th century.

title: W.E.I.R.D. World

overview: Greed, murder, sex - all appear to thrive at the Wilson Emery Institute for Research and Development, aka W.E.I.R.D., where brilliant, young, but emotionally unstable scientific geniuses are recruited to develop cutting-edge projects in such fields as virology, time-travel, rejuvenation and robotics.

title: The Last Mrs. Parrish

overview: A con artist targets a wealthy couple — the Parrishes — as her next victims. She infiltrates the pair by befriending the wife and seducing the husband, with the master plan of becoming the next Mrs. Parrish, only to discover that the wife’s life is far more complicated than she could have imagined.

title: Barracuda

overview: When Karl, a former smuggler with a haunted past, storms a nightclub in Mexico to rescue Jodie, a kidnapped teenage girl, he ignites a chain reaction of blood and bullets that burns across 100 miles of deadly roads toward the U.S. border. The breakout turns into a high-speed race when Karl kills the brother of the ruthless club owner and steals his prized 1973 Plymouth Barracuda. Now hunted by relentless criminals, Karl and Jodie tear across the desert with no way to slow down.

title: Citizen Steve

title: Persistence of Vision

title: The Making of '1941'

title: Tom Hanks: The Nomad

title: Milius

title: Through the Eyes of Forrest Gump

title: Waking Sleeping Beauty

title: The Making of 'The Frighteners'

title: Brian May's Brief History of 3D

title: Back in Time

title: Back To the Present: The Special

title: Back to the Future: Making the Trilogy

title: Looking Back to the Future

title: Spielberg

title: First Works

title: The Making of Back to the Future

title: Tales from the Future

title: A Hero's Journey: The Making of Beowulf

title: You Know: Uncovering What Lies Beneath

title: Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

title: A Future on Stage

title: Back to the Future

title: Back to the Future Part II

title: Forrest Gump

title: Back to the Future Part III

title: Beowulf

title: Beowulf

title: Contact

title: Contact

title: House of Wax

title: What Lies Beneath

title: What Lies Beneath

title: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

title: The Polar Express

title: The Polar Express

title: The Polar Express

title: Elemental: Hydrogen vs. Hindenburg

title: Gothika

title: House on Haunted Hill

title: Cast Away

title: Cast Away

title: Romancing the Stone

title: Thir13en Ghosts

title: Death Becomes Her

title: Death Becomes Her

title: Ghost Ship

title: Ritual

title: Used Cars

title: Used Cars

title: Finch

title: Real Steel

title: A Christmas Carol

title: A Christmas Carol

title: I Wanna Hold Your Hand

title: I Wanna Hold Your Hand

title: Flight

title: Flight

title: Looking Back to the Future

title: The Lift

title: Here

title: Two-Fisted Tales

title: Bound by Flesh

title: I'm Thinking of Ending Things

title: A Field of Honor

title: A Field of Honor

title: The Reaping

title: The Public Eye

title: Back to the Future Part III

title: Back to the Future Part III

title: Back to the Future Part II

title: Back to the Future

title: Back to the Future Part II

title: The Walk

title: The Walk

title: Trespass

title: Le court des grands

title: Trespass

title: Pinocchio

title: Pinocchio

title: Here

title: Here

title: Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight

title: Monster House

title: Welcome to Marwen

title: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

title: Allied

title: The Walk

title: Bordello of Blood

title: DeGenerazione

title: Last Holiday

title: Allied

title: School for Scumbags

title: Welcome to Marwen

title: Matchstick Men

title: Two-Fisted Tales

title: Roald Dahl's The Witches

title: Roald Dahl's The Witches

title: Welcome to Marwen

title: Doc Brown Saves the World

title: Doc Brown Saves the World

title: Bordello of Blood

title: Amazing Stories

title: 1941

title: 1941

title: Pinocchio

title: The Frighteners

title: Project 88: Back to the Future Too

title: Behind the Burly Q

title: Mars Needs Moms

title: A Christmas Carol

title: Roald Dahl's The Witches

title: The Pursuit of Happiness

title: W.E.I.R.D. World

title: The Last Mrs. Parrish

title: Barracuda