суббота, 29 июня 2019 г.

Bloody Kids (1980)



Director: Stephen Frears
Stars: Derrick O'Connor, Gary Holton, Richard Thomas, Peter Clark, Gwyneth Strong, Caroline Embling, Billy Colvill

Two young boys enact a mock fight outside a football ground as a joke, but it goes wrong when one of them is injured. While the victim recovers in hospital, the other boy attempts to hide from the police.

UK
In English; Spanish subs available

пятница, 28 июня 2019 г.

All Day on the Sands (1979)



Director: Giles Foster
Stars: Marjorie Yates, Alun Armstrong, Gary Carp, Susan Hopkins, Jane Freeman, Ken Jones, Helene Palmer, Jonathan Coy, Stephen Greenwood

All Day on the Sands, directed by Giles Foster, is about a family holiday in a comically pretentious guest-house in Morecombe, during which a small boy's attempts to stave off boredom unwittingly bring down humiliation on his parents (Alun Armstrong and Marjorie Yates). The boy's incomprehension of anything but the fact that he's done wrong will be familiar to anybody who's been a child: a reminder that the equation comedy = tragedy + time doesn't always add up.

UK, London Weekend Television (LWT)
In English

четверг, 27 июня 2019 г.

La bague du roi Koda (1962)



La bague du roi Koda / King Koda's Ring

Director: Moustapha Alassane

This Djerma legend concerns a cruel king who cunningly puts the wife of one of his subjects to the test. Her humble fisherman spouse is sent away with a ruse and given a ring, to return in a year's time. Can the wife be faithful and the husband return the ring?

Short
Nigeria, in French, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

вторник, 25 июня 2019 г.

Just Charlie (2017)



Director: Rebekah Fortune
Stars: Harry Gilby, Scot Williams, Mark Carter, Travis Blake Hall, Jeff Alexander, Karen Bryson, Peter Machen, Elinor Machen-Fortune

Football star Charlie has the world at his feet. With a top club desperate to sign him, his future is seemingly mapped out. But the teenager only sees a nightmare. Trapped in the body of a boy, Charlie is torn between wanting to live up to her father's expectations and shedding this ill fitting skin. Charlie's next move will tear the family apart and threaten everything they hold dear.

UK
In English, with English subs (embed)

понедельник, 24 июня 2019 г.

Towers of Silence (1975)



Director & Writer: Jamil Dehlavi
Stars: Judy Van Hook, Jamil Dehlavi, Jalal Khan, Ajaz Ahmed, Zahoor Ahmad, Zakir Changezi, Tom Klunis

A surreal impression of a young boy's ritualistic obsession with death.

Pakistan
In Urdu, with English subs (embed)

суббота, 22 июня 2019 г.

Minna waga ko (1963)



Minna waga ko / All My Children

Director: Miyoji Ieki
Stars: Hitomi Nakahara, Chieko Misaki, Tomoko Mayama, Shinjiro Tomita, Tanie Kitabayashi, Sumio Takatsu

School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.

Japan
In Japanese, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

четверг, 20 июня 2019 г.

Madame Du Barry (1934)




Director: William Dieterle
Stars: Dolores del Rio, Reginald Owen, Victor Jory, Maynard Holmes, Jesse Scott, Osgood Perkins, Verree Teasdale, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Anita Louise

The film portrays the life of Madame Du Barry, the last mistress of King Louis XV of France.

USA
In English

среда, 19 июня 2019 г.

Man of Aran (1934)




Director & Writer: Robert J. Flaherty
Stars: Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dillane, Pat Mullin, Patch 'Red Beard' Ruadh, Patcheen Faherty, Tommy O'Rourke

In this blend of documentary and fictional narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to naturalistic beauty and historical detail.

UK
In English, with English subs (embed)
 

понедельник, 17 июня 2019 г.

Yom mor... yom helw (1988)



Yom mor... yom helw / Bitter Day, Sweet Day

Director: Khairy Beshara
Stars: Mahmood El-Gindi, Faten Hamamah, Mohamed Henedi, Ahmad Hussain, Abla Kamel, Lotfy Labib, Mohamed Mounir, Simone, Hanan Youssef

A poor family struggles to survive in the slums of Cairo in this depressing social melodrama. Aicha is the widowed matriarch who uses her savvy to avoid tragic calamities. Soon even her considerable efforts can't save her family from the inevitable problems of lower-class poverty, and her daughters resort to drawing up marriage contracts to find husbands. One women marries the oily Orabi, who later seduces his wife's sister. The youngest is a ten-year-old boy who runs away from home and becomes a beggar in the streets.

Egypt
In Arabic

суббота, 15 июня 2019 г.

Los pajaritos (1974)



Los pajaritos / The Little Birds

Director: Antonio Mercero
Stars: Julia Caba Alba, José Orjas, José Franco, Alberto Fernández, Blaki, José Montijano, Roberto Cruz

An elderly couple in Madrid each buy a pet bird. Weirdness abounds.

Short
Spain, in Spanish, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

четверг, 13 июня 2019 г.

Robby (1968)




Director & Writer: Ralph C. Bluemke
Stars: Warren Raum, Ryp Siani , John Garces, Rita Elliot, Norvin Baskerville, Ralph C. Bluemke, John Woodbridge

Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a young boy befriends an abandoned native youth, forcing him to reevaluate societal prejudice about race, religion and nudity.

USA
In English

пятница, 7 июня 2019 г.

Il segreto del bosco vecchio (1993)




Il segreto del bosco vecchio / The Secret of the Old Woods

Director: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Paolo Villaggio, Giulio Brogi, Riccardo Zannantonio, Lino Pais Marden, Antonio Vecelio, Pietro Berton, Renato Pais Bianco

Following the death of his uncle, a bull-headed army colonel (beloved Italian character actor Paolo Villaggio) inherits a storybook mountain estate with the stipulation that he preserve, at all costs, the ancient woodlands adjoining it. When, despite the warnings of the townspeople, the stubborn military man proceeds with a plan to cut down the trees and sell the lumber, he awakens the spirits that dwell within the forest who fight to save their home.

Italy
In Italian, with Italian and English subs (VobSub)

вторник, 4 июня 2019 г.

Harlequin (1980)




Harlequin / Dark Forces

Director: Simon Wincer
Stars: Robert Powell, David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan, Mark Spain, Broderick Crawford, Gus Mercurio, Alan Cassell, Alyson Best

An up-and-coming senator, Nick Rast, has a young son who is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster, Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.

Australia
In English, with English subs (VobSub)

понедельник, 3 июня 2019 г.

Tolko ostrov ne vozmesh s soboy (1980)



Tolko ostrov ne vozmesh s soboy / You Cannot Take the Island with You

Director: Gyulbeniz Yusuf Azimzade
Stars: Ayan Mirkasimova, Ketevan Bochorishvili, Kamal Xudaverdiyev, Kazim Abdullayev, Ramiz Melikov, Dzhavakhir Bairamova, Mammadsadiq Nuriyev

Little girl arrives on a reserved island and becomes fascinated by wild nature.

Soviet Union (Azerbaijanfilm studio)
Language: Russian | Azerbaijani