пятница, 27 октября 2017 г.

Mukhsin (2006)




Director & Writer: Yasmin Ahmad
Stars: Mohd Syafie Naswip, Sharifah Aryana, Salehuddin Abu Bakar, Sharifah Aleya, Yuhang Ho, Choo Seong Ng, Adibah Noor

The story takes place in Sekinchan, Sabak Bernam in 1993, revolving around the first love of a 10-year-old Orked when a 12-year-old boy, Mukhsin, comes with his elder brother and aunt to spend the school holidays in her village. Around this relatively simple plotline of a blossoming young romance between the film's two young protagonists, are interweaved scenes of Malaysian village life and the dynamics of different types of families. Most of the family scenes revolve around Orked and her mother (Mak Inom), father (Pak Atan), and the family's close maid who is almost like a family member (Kak Yam). The other families which are given attention in the movie are Mukhsin's family (with his elder brother who has lost his way in life and is trying desperately to find their mother who abandoned them at a young age, and their Aunty who is trying to take care of the two boys as though they were her own), and Orked's neighbours (with the young daughter and pregnant mother who are critical of the western ways of Orked's family, while they themselves are hurt by the father who wants to abandon them to take on a second wife).

Malaysia
In Malay, with English subs (.srt)

понедельник, 23 октября 2017 г.

Vyshe radugi (1986)



Vyshe radugi / Higher Than Rainbow / Above the Rainbow

Director: Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich
Stars: Dmitriy Maryanov, Yekaterina Parfyonova, Yuri Kuklachyov, Olga Mashnaya, Galina Polskikh, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Elena Aminova, Tatyana Basova, Yury Khoroshilov, Anatoly Krasnik

Very dreamy boy who is also a young poet, met a fairy who gave him the ability to do good in PE (specifically high jumping) with a condition that he will not say lies; once he commits a smallest lie, his abilities are gone...

Two-parts TV movie

Soviet Union
In Russian, with English subs (.srt)

пятница, 20 октября 2017 г.

Después de la tormenta (1990)



Después de la tormenta / After the Storm

Director: Tristán Bauer
Stars: Lorenzo Quinteros, Ana María Picchio, Javier Nunez, José Andrada, Franklin Caicedo, Paola Cardozo, Víctor Hugo Carrizo, Lidia Catalano, Patricio Contreras

A married couple with two children living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires have economical troubles. The father returns to his rural birthplace, where he finds that his father and brother are out of work, so he decides to go back the city.

Argentina
In Spanish, with English subs

среда, 18 октября 2017 г.

Scouting for Boys (2007)



Scouting for Boys / Ian Hislop's Scouting for Boys

Director: Deborah Lee
Stars: Ian Hislop, John Rowe, Robert Crause Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer, Lesley Hall, Tim Jeal, David Lammy, Paul Moynihan

Lord Baden-Powell's 1908 handbook Scouting for Boys is one of the most influential and best-selling books of all time. In the 20th century, only the Bible, the Koran and the Thoughts of Chairman Mao sold more. But they had fewer jokes, no pictures and were useless at important stuff like tying knots. In this entertaining and affectionate film, Ian Hislop uncovers the story behind the book which kick-started the Scout Movement - a work which is very eccentric, very Edwardian and very English. Hislop discovers that the book is also very radical and addresses a variety of modern issues, such as citizenship, disaffected youth and social responsibility. He explores the maverick brilliance of Baden-Powell, a national celebrity after his heroism in the Boer War, and considers the book's candid focus on health and well-being. Contributors include his grandson Lord Baden-Powell, minister for culture and former cub scout David Lammy, biographer Tim Jeal and Elleke Boehmer, editor of the re-issue of the original Scouting for Boys.

Documentary
UK, in English, with English and other subs (.srt)

суббота, 14 октября 2017 г.

A Haunting Harmony (1993)



Director: Alvin Rakoff
Stars: Nathaniel Moreau, Jean Marc Perret, Francesca Annis, Michael Ford, John Hallam, Marilyn Le Conte, Frank Middlemass, Hayward Morse, Tim Wylton

A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral.

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Haunting Harmony tells the story of the friendship which develops between a Canadian Choirboy at a modern-day English cathedral school in 1989 and the ghost of a Welsh choirboy who has been haunting the cathedral for 400 years, using flashbacks to 1595 to draw out the parallels in their lives. Conflicting career pressures bring about the separation of the parents of 12-year old David Fabry and he is sent to school in England where his opera singing mother visits him occasionally, but it is David's father, a busy lawyer, that he really misses. Lonely and homesick, David is befriended by the ghost of Huw Pritchard whose tragic life ended abruptly when he was kidnapped to join the South Minster cathedral choir. In between choir practices for the Christmas carol service, David and Huw plot to re-unite his parents-and it becomes crucial for David to sing the solo at the service. However, Huw reveals that singing the same solo is the only way he can free himself from the supernatural ties that bind his soul to the cathedral...

Canada | UK
In English

суббота, 7 октября 2017 г.

I Want to Be Famous (1976)



Director & Writer: Roger Lambert
Stars: Stephen Bratt, Stuart Elliot, Andy Gough, Joyce Pemberton, Keith Groom, Ted Gray, Steve Handforth

Steve is the smallest eleven year old in his class, thinks girls are soppy and prefers painting. He creates an exciting but violent fantasy world of his own, but in reality he is lonely and introspective. Stuart, his best mate, is the most solid thing thing about a comfortless world where people argue too much - usually about him - and, with studied indifference, both boys establish and re-establish their devotion to each other.

Short

UK
In English with German hardsubs