Name: La Pieuvre
Director: Jean Painlevé
Released: 1928
Duration: 13 min

Underwater photography presents the octopus: breathing, swimming, eating, dying.

La Pieuvre

FR - HD 

Freebox - VF - SD

Freebox - VF - HD

Max Schreck

A short look at the vampire bat sucking blood from a guinea pig.

The vampire

Français

VOST - HD

VF - SD

Examines the sea horse, the only fish that swims upright.&nbsp;We see a female place her eggs in a male&#x27;s pouch where they are fertilized and nurtured until birth in violent contractions.

The Seahorse

&quot;Le m&eacute;tier comporte ses joies pour ceux qui aiment la mer, pour ceux qui l&rsquo;aiment jusqu&rsquo;&agrave; l&rsquo;exclusion de toute autre possibilit&eacute; de joie naturelle.&nbsp;Patauger jour et nuit par n&rsquo;importe quel temps m&ecirc;me o&ugrave; l&rsquo;on sait ne rien trouver, de l&rsquo;eau au nombril ou aux chevilles, fouiller partout, algue ou pieuvre, s&rsquo;hypnotiser sur une mare sinistre o&ugrave; tout vous guette alors que rien n&rsquo;y vit &mdash; extase de n&rsquo;importe quel intoxiqu&eacute; y compris le chien de chasse kilom&eacute;trant en tous sens avec un plaisir infini le champ dont chaque repli cache, au plus, une vieille patate.&quot; 
 
Jean Painlev&eacute;, &quot;Les Pieds dans l&rsquo;Eau&quot;,&nbsp;Voil&agrave;,&nbsp;4 mai 1935.

Ce programme r&eacute;unit 5&nbsp;courts m&eacute;trages r&eacute;alis&eacute;s par Jean Painlev&eacute; : Le Vampire, La Pieuvre, L&#x27;Hippocampe, Comment naissent les m&eacute;duses,&nbsp;Ac&eacute;ra ou le bal des sorci&egrave;res.

Collection Painlevé

FR - HD

At a marine biology station, a clump of algae reveals polyps, stomachs with limbs, limbs with buds, buds with poison cells. This animal reproduces by buds, which we watch close up in time-lapse images. In another kind of jellyfish, the buds grow inside then live outside for a few days until being on their own. Another produces eggs, sometimes self-fertilized. Some single eggs become buds with colonies. Another clump gathered at low tide consists of filaments of a colony - plumes with poison ends. In images taking 72 hours, we see filaments grow and produce a feeding organ from which a plume emerges. New jellyfish emerge from buds twice a day at set times to form a new colonies.

Comment naissent des méduses

english

In mud flats along the coast of Brittany we watch acera, small ball-shaped mollusks that are about two inches in diameter. They rest in mud; then, in water, they dance, their skirt-like hood spreading like a dervish&#x27;s cassock. They spin and spin. The film adds musical accompaniment. We watch them mate and secrete eggs: acera are both male and female, and can form chains with other acera in which they simultaneously mate as a male and as a female. The eggs hatch, and the cycle begins again.

Acera, or the Witches' Dance

A close-up look at sand urchins and rock urchins. At the seashore, a man digs up a sand urchin. We look closely. He sets it back in the sand, and it burrows out of sight. Its intestines take nutrients out of sand. Using magnification 200,000 times normal size, we see a rock urchin&#x27;s spines with suckers on the end; a drawing illustrates how they work. A sea urchin walks toward a rock. We see three-fingered jaws - pedicellaria at the end of flexible stems - take in algae and other bits. We also see cilia less than 0.001 ml in length; their motion constant, creating whirlpools. On the shore again, we watch the setting sun. Occasional titles in French tell us what to watch for.

Sea Urchins

An octopus slithers into a narrow crack near the shore; we see its eye up close; blowing water propels it through water. It feeds on a crab. In spring it&#x27;s time to mate. A male grabs a female; he inserts his third arm in her respiratory cavity. We watch another pair: a larger female is the aggressor here. Mating is repeated over hours and days. With high magnification, we see many sperm; she releases strings of fertilized eggs that hang from the roof of a nest. She guards it for a month, fanning the strings to circulate water for oxygen and cleanliness. We watch the eggs up close develop at 1,400 times nature&#x27;s rate. Then they&#x27;re born and propel away.

The Love Life of the Octopus

A short overview on the life and importance of diatoms, shown through a microscope.

Diatoms

Freebox - VOST - SD

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Nikolai Popov

Vassili Nikandrov

Boris Livanov

Nikolai Padvoisky

 Smelsky

 Layaschenko

 Chibisov

 Mikholev

Edouard Tisse

A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.

École soviétique

October

Oktyabr

Russian

VOST - SD

Lillian Gish

Lars Hanson

Montagu Love

Dorothy Cumming

Edward Earle

A frail young woman from the east moves in with her cousin in the west, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.

L’âge d’or des studios américains 

The Wind

English

Nadia Sibirskaïa

A woman--a pained expression on her face--burns letters in a stove.

Brumes d'automne

Buster Keaton

Tom McGuire

Ernest Torrence

Marion Byron

Tom Lewis

James T. Mack

Michel Hazanavicius

Following through on a promise to his mother, William Canning Jr. goes to River Junction to meet his father who has not seen him since he was a child. The younger Canning isn&#x27;t quite what the elder was expecting but the old man has bigger problems. He&#x27;s being put out of business by J.J. King, who not only owns the local hotel and bank, but has recently introduced a new paddle wheel steamer that puts Cannings older boat, the Stonewall Jackson, to shame. Bill Jr. and Kitty King take a liking to each other much to the dismay of both of their fathers. When a fierce storm hits River Junction, Bill Jr. is forced to save Kitty, her father and his father.

Steamboat Bill, Jr

Salvador Dali

Pierre Batcheff

Simone Mareuil

Jaume Miravitlles

Fano Messan

Luis Buñuel

Jean-Claude Carrière à propos de Luis Buñuel et de son cinéma

Luis Bu&ntilde;uel and Salvador Dal&iacute; present 21 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

Les Surréalistes

An Andalusian Dog

Brigitte Helm

Jules Berry

Raymond Rouleau

Antonin Artaud

Pierre Alcover

Marie Glory

Alfred Abel

Yvette Guilbert

Marcelle Pradot

Pierre Juvenet

Henry Victor

Alexandre Mihalesco

The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin flying across the Atlantic to Guyana and drilling for oil there, much to the dismay of Hamelin&#x27;s wife Line. While Hamelin is away, Saccard tries to seduce Line. Line finally realizes that she and her husband were pawns in Saccard&#x27;s scheme, and she accuses him of stock fraud.&nbsp;

Money

VF - HD

Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Paul Hörbiger

Gerda Maurus

Willy Fritsch

Lien Deyers

Louis Ralph

Craighall Sherry

Lang / Godard 1965

Cinéma cinémas

Marcel Brion à propos de Fritz Lang et des personnages du film Les Espions

Ciné club

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government&#x27;s secret service.

Expressionnisme allemand

Spies

Spione

German

Jean Debucourt

Marguerite Gance

Charles Lamy

 Fournez-Goffard

Luc Dartagnan

Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.

The Fall of the House of Usher

Gloria Swanson

Walter Byron

Seena Owen

A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.

Queen Kelly

Victor McLaglen

Robert Armstrong

Louise Brooks

Gladys Brockwell

Myrna Loy

Maria Casajuana

Sally Rand

William Demarest

Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?

A Girl in Every Port

Marceline Day

Harold Goodwin

Sidney Bracy

Harry Gribbon

Jacques Tati présente L'Opérateur de Buster Keaton

Ciné club - 25/11/1973 - Jacques Tati présente L'Opérateur de Buster Keaton

Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.

The Cameraman

Georgi Astafyev

Nikolai Nademsky

Vladimir Uralsky

Les Podorozhnij

Semyon Svashenko

I. Selyuk

An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.

Zvenigora

Звени́гора

Geymond Vital

Jane Pierson

Janine Parini

Isabelle Kloucowski

About &#x27;The Zone&#x27;, a wasteland just outside Paris and a refuge to lower classes from the middle of the 19th century to the 1940&#x27;s where they could build shelters and live mostly out of sight from the society.

La Zone

Dell Henderson

Marion Davies

William Haines

Paul Ralli

Tenen Holtz

Polly Moran

Claude-Jean Philippe et Patrick Brion présentent Mirages de King Vidor

Ciné club - 25/11/1973 - Claude-Jean Philippe et Patrick Brion présentent Mirages de King Vidor

<div class="summary_text">A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.</div>

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Show People

Henry Bergman

George Davis

Charlie Chaplin

Merna Kennedy

Harry Crocker

Tiny Sanford

Al Ernest Garcia

The Little Tramp is hired by a circus and soon becomes the main attraction when his comedic blunders drive the crowd wild. Having fallen in love with the ringmaster&rsquo;s daughter, he doesn&rsquo;t even realize he is the show&rsquo;s main feature. In this high-flying comedy, we are quickly caught up in Chaplin&rsquo;s whirlwind of gags, where even the acrobats and clowns watch his show-stopping stunts from the sidelines.

The Circus

french

William Powell

Emil Jannings

Evelyn Brent

Nicholas Soussanin

Michael Visaroff

Jack Raymond

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

The Last Command

Erich von Stroheim

Zasu Pitts

Fay Wray

Matthew Betz

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.

The Wedding March

Tsukie Matsuura

Komei Minami

Shinpei Takagi

Tōroku Makino

Keinosuke Sawada

A story based on a real incident (revenge of two brothers for killing their younger brother) was turned into a rakugo (comic story) and a joruri (comic drama).

Sozenji Baba

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Stan Laurel

Oliver Hardy

James Finlayson

Edna Marion

Dorothy Coburn

Laurel &amp; Hardy, in pre-historic times, vie for the hand of the same Stone Age beauty.

Laurel et Hardy

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