The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
"Quarantines" is a collective film made at the time of the first confinement of 2020. Ten international directors, ten perspectives that intersect in the same period, with their authentic and more atypical universes than each other. A work that unites in isolation and expresses the impalpable. This film is a challenge, a bet: that of creation which persists despite everything within the constraints of the health crisis.
Viva la risa
Batman learns he has a violent, unruly pre-teen son, secretly raised by the terrorist group known as The League of Assassins.
An aardvark named Gilbert lands the job of shepherding all the animals onto Noah's Ark.
Ghosts sing and wash.
It's apple time, and all the strange little Fleischer bugs waste no time getting the apples to ferment so that they can immediately get drunk.
Fleischer Studios giving "Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time)" the 'Screen Song' bouncing ball treatment.
Stranded on a tropical island, Willie meets a topless hula-dancing girl! There's also some rather politically incorrect fun with black native cannibals. Both Willie and the cannibal king have eyes for the girl.
Braggart Willie Whopper pictures himself in the Stone Age, swinging on vines like Tarzan and vanquishing a dinosaur to save his girl.
After the notorious pint-sized fibber Willie Whopper claims to have been Robin Hood, the cartoon segues into an adventure in which Willie is the singing-dancing Robin of Sherwood Forest. Maid Marion, imprisoned in Ill Manor and soon to be forced to marry the evil Prince John, writes asking Robin for his help. Robin disguises himself as a jester, comically disrupts the wedding and battles Prince John.
Willie Whooper, doused in reducing creme, shrinks to the size of a mouse and is chased by a cat throughout a house. Finally Willie returns to normal size and angrily covers the cat in reducing creme. The cat now shrinks to mouse size, and gets a black eye from the mouse he habitually torments.
Flown away to the land of the story books, Jack and Jill, aided by Mother Goose, watch a fairland revue complete with chorus girls and marching soldiers.
A homeless waif, staggering through a roaring snow storm, wanders into a small town. and no one except a poor shoemaker will give the little boy shelter from the storm. That night, the elves come in with their equipment and material, and make a new supply of shoes for the old man. In the morning, see what has happened, the old man tells the boy he has brought him luck, and can stay with him as his adopted son.
Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese, and this provides an excellent excuse for the duo to take their holiday to the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Wallace rents out Gromit's former bedroom to a penguin, who takes up an interest in the techno pants created by Wallace. However, Gromit later learns that the penguin is a wanted criminal. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Wallace's whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
À l'époque...
Endou, a night guard, was patrolling the mall as usual. But this night was going to be different from usual...