четверг, 29 ноября 2012 г.

Bungala Boys (1961)


Director & Writer: Jim Jeffrey
Stars: Peter Couldwell, Alan Dearth and Terry Bentley

A Children's Film Foundation film set in Australia. When a child nearly drowns his friends decide to start a local lifesaving and surf rescue club. They first have to raise the money for a surf boat but there's some prize money at a local race. Then their enemies vandalise their boat. It's just one trauma after another.

In English

вторник, 27 ноября 2012 г.

Light and Shadows (2012)

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Свет и тени / Svet i teni / Light and Shadows

Director: Lubov Osipova
Stars: Mariya Stroganova, Boris Cherentsov

Based on the short story of Fedor Sologub Light and Shadows

Russia
In Russian


пятница, 23 ноября 2012 г.

Lansky (1999)


Director: John McNaughton
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Yosef Carmon, Eric Roberts, Anthony LaPaglia, Ryan Merriman, Anthony Medwetz, Joshua Praw, Christopher Marquette, Jeffrey Sharmat, Devon Michael and Mosko Alkalai

This is the telling of the life of organized crime boss, Meyer Lansky, as remembered by him as a very old man who is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the US courts have put out an extradition order for him to stand trial. It tells of a young man growing up in the Jewish ghettos of America's big cities at the turn of the century and of his bright intelligence which he used for moving into crime.

USA
In English (second audiostream)

среда, 21 ноября 2012 г.

The Butterfly Circus (2009)


Director: Joshua Weigel
Stars: Eduardo Verástegui, Nick Vujicic and Doug Jones

At the height of the Great Depression, the showman of a renowned circus leads his troupe through the devastated American landscape, lifting the spirits of audiences along the way. During their travels they discover a man without limbs at a carnival sideshow. However, after an intriguing encounter with the showman he becomes driven to hope against everything he has ever believed.

USA
In English (second audiostream)

вторник, 20 ноября 2012 г.

понедельник, 19 ноября 2012 г.

Soshedshiye s nebes (1986)


Soshedshiye s nebes / Сошедшие с небес

Director: Natalya Troshchenko
Stars: Vera Glagoleva, Aleksandr Abdulov and Yelena Popova

About after WWII life in the Soviet Union.

USSR
In Russian

четверг, 15 ноября 2012 г.

De jueves a domingo (2012)


De jueves a domingo / Thursday Through Sunday

Director & Writer: Dominga Sotomayor Castillo
Stars: Santi Ahumada, Emiliano Freifeld and Paola Giannini

Two children travel with their parents from Santiago Chile to the north of Chile for a family holiday. The landscape's loneliness and the car's confinement help bring out the couple's troubles and the children learn that this might turn out to be their father's farewell and their last family vacation.

Chile
In Spanish, with English subs (.srt)

среда, 14 ноября 2012 г.

Nagaya shinshiroku (1947)


Nagaya shinshiroku / Record of a Tenement Gentleman

Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Chôko Iida, Hohi Aoki and Eitarô Ozawa

In post-war Japan, a man brings a lost boy to his tenement. No one wants to take the child for even one night; finally, a sour widow, Tané, does. The next day, complaining, she takes the boy to his neighborhood and finds his father has gone to Tokyo; it seems the boy has been abandoned. Tané wants to leave him there, but he follows her home. The next morning he disappears fearing a scolding after wetting the bed. Tané realizes she likes having him there, searches for him, and keeps him when he's found that night. Within days, she considers him her son.

Japan
In Japanese, with English and other subs (.srt)

вторник, 13 ноября 2012 г.

La vendetta di Ursus (1961)



La vendetta di Ursus / Revenge of Ursus

Director: Luigi Capuano
Stars: Samson Burke, Wandisa Guida, Roberto Chevalier and Livio Lorenzon

The evil King Zagro has designs on the beautiful Princess Sira. He wants to marry her so he can take over her kingdom and add it to his own. When Sira is kidnapped, Ursus leaves his farm to rescue her and to eventually lead a revolt against King Zagro.

Italy
In Italian

пятница, 9 ноября 2012 г.

À cause d'elle (1993)


À cause d'elle / Because of Her

Director & Writer: Jean-Loup Hubert
Stars: Antoine Hubert, Olivia Muñoz, Thérèse Liotard, Renaud Ménager, Julien Hubert, Maxime Mansion, Julien Courbey

Shy working class 15 year-old Antoine, bored with life and school, breaks a leg and has young higher class Olivia help him with his studies. As he silently falls in love with her, he also falls in love with books and his will to become a writer.

France
In French

среда, 7 ноября 2012 г.

Young Bess (1953)


Director: George Sidney
Stars: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Rex Thompson

Chronicles the life of queen Elizabeth I, before she became the queen of England. Apart from taking part in the court intrigues, she has an unhappy love for admiral Thomas Seymour, and dreams of building a navy to match the Portuguese and the Spanish.

In English (second audiostream)

четверг, 1 ноября 2012 г.

Pelle erobreren (1987)




Pelle erobreren / Pelle the Conqueror

Director: Bille August
Stars: Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow and Erik Paaske

The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest form of life. Pelle starts to speak Danish but is still harassed as a foreigner. But none of them wants to give up their dream of finding a better life than the life they left in Sweden.

Denmark | Sweden
In Danish & some Swedish, with English subs (.srt)