Max Ernst
Actor · 1891 – 1976 · Brühl, Germany
Max Ernst was born on April 2, 1891 in Brühl, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for The Golden Age (1930), Maximiliana oder die widerrechtliche Ausübung der Astronomie (1966) and Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947). He was married to Dorothea Tanning, Peggy Guggenheim, Marie-Berthe Aurenche and Luise Straus. He died on April 1, 1976 in Paris, France.
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Movie6.8RomanceComedyThe film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
L'Âge d'or
1930 · 352 votes
Movie9.0DramaMiss Annemarie Tessmer is a clerk in the house of the manufacturer Herman Schilling and she is indispensable. She is exploited by all the family members and her own life is completely in the background. Herman Schilling wants his daughter Thea merry with the representative for foreign affairs Dr. Richard Rauch. However, after a number of dramatic complications, Richard chooses for the good, selfless and hardworking Annemarie.
Fräulein
1939 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyCrimeA pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
Coup de torchon
1981 · 224 votes
Movie6.0DocumentaryThe inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal founders of Surrealism, Max Ernst explores the nature of materials and the emotional significance of shapes to combine with his collages and netherworld canvases. The director and Ernst together use the film creatively as a medium to explain the artist's own development.
Movie7.2DocumentaryThis documentary celebrates Max Ernst, one of the most influential and visionary artists of the past century. The film covers the highlights of Ernst's fascinating career via a format that mirrors the restless reality of his life. An inveterate traveler and always on the move, Ernst lived and worked in Germany, France and America. His nomadic way of life kept him searching: "A painter is lost if he finds himself."
Movie6.2Fantasy8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by Richter as "part Freud, part Lewis Carroll" and filmed partially on the lawn of Duchamp's summer house in Southbury, Connecticut.
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957 · 14 votes
- Movie9.0Drama
The great Franz Liszt helps a struggling, unworldly piano tutor advance to a position in Munich, and ward off a villainous foreign competitor for his lady love.
- Movie5.3DramaComedy
Curt serenades his wife Charlott from the garden without her recognizing him. When she later doesn't refer to the incident he assumes that she is falling for the 'unknown' suitor and deliberately puts a notorious womanizer on her trail.
Movie6.0DramaFantasyAn attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his customer's lives. This frame story serves as a link between several avant-garde sequences created by leading visual artists of their day, most of whom were emigres to the US during WWII.
Dreams That Money Can Buy
1947 · 22 votes
- Movie5.0Documentary
A surreal film about surrealism.
tvSSFBM EHKL
2001 · 2 votes
Movie4.3DocumentaryDada came out of the craziness of World War One. "The birth of Dada was not the beginning of art but of disgust." Surrealism tried to systematize Dada's anarchy into an artistic blend of Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxist provocation. In the interests of conquering the irrational, Salvador Dali opened exhibitions dressed in a diving suit, Marcel Duchamp turned himself into woman, Benjamin Peret assaulted priests, and Yves Tanguy ate spiders. Andre Breton, nicknamed "the Pope of Surrealism", led an inspired gang of artists, lunatics and writers. By the 1950s they were denouncing each other for betraying the movement, but their ideas had infected Hollywood, advertising agencies and were turning up as TV humor and album covers.
Europe After the Rain
1978 · 4 votes
Movie7.9DocumentaryAn overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker.
Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
1964 · 6 votes
Movie6.4DramaOnce upon a time there was a country known by the name of Laura Molloy. Laura Molloy was the name of this country. Only women lived in Laura MolloyEsmeralda del Rio was a woman. One day Esmeralda del Rio had the idea to undergo a series of transformations, which were to take her very far. So far did she go that she had no way of knowing how far she had gone. Two things were certain: Esmeralda del Rio was blond and in her own way she practiced a kind of magic which I would like to call 'blond magic'.
Laokoon & Söhne - Die Verwandlungsgeschichte der Esmeralda del Rio
Laocoon & Sons: The Story of the Transformation of Esmeralda del Rio
1975 · 4 votes
Movie7.0Max Ernst on amateur astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel.
Die widerrechtliche Ausübung der Astronomie
1967 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Documentary
A film about and with Max Ernst.