воскресенье, 27 декабря 2020 г.

5x Favela, Agora por Nós Mesmos (2010)

 



5x Favela, Agora por Nós Mesmos / 5x Favela, Now by Ourselves

Directors: Cacau Amaral, Cadu Barcellos, Luciana Bezerra, Manaira Carneiro, Rodrigo Felha, Wagner Novais & Luciano Vidigal
Stars: Vilson Almeida, João Carlos Artigos, Flavio Bauraqui, Pablo Vinicius, Juan Paiva, Vitor Carvalho, Samuel de Assis, Edyr de Castro, Gregório Duvivier, Luis Fernando

The project 5 x slum, now by ourselves gathered over 80 young people from Rio's favelas (slums), selected through workshops on script and filmmaking techniques to create a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities -- with the promise of avoiding stereotypical representations. This was inspired by Leon Hirszman's 5 x favela, an important movie in the "Cinema Novo" Brazilian film tradition.

Brazil
In Portuguese
With French, Spanish, Portuguese & English subs (embed)
 

вторник, 22 декабря 2020 г.

The Chinese Typewriter (1978)

 


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5597370/

Director: Daniel Barnett

The Chinese Typewriter was the first American film shot in China after the end of the Cultural Revolution, an extraordinary time that marked the opening of Chinese society and began China’s modernization.

Documentary, short
USA, in English
 

суббота, 19 декабря 2020 г.

Walk that Dog (1974)

 


No imdb entry

Director: Tyler Turkle

A classic piece of Americana.  In this 1974 documentary,  filmmaker Tyler Turkle  ambushes Duncan Yo-Yo champion Lance Lynch in a drugstore parking lot in Tallmadge, Ohio.  Lynch is there on a promo tour of the Midwest and proceeds to teach a few kids some tricks.  Turkle "interviews" Lynch while he shows the kids how to skin-the-cat, rock-the-baby and walk-the-dog.  Lynch then conducts a hurried contest with about ten of the kids, awards some yo-yos and patches to the winners, gets in his car and drives off to the next destination.

Short, documentary
USA, in English
 

среда, 9 декабря 2020 г.

Жива ватра (2015)

 



Жива ватра / The Living Fire

Director & Writer: Ostap Kostyuk

A four-year-long project documenting three generations of Ukrainian Carpathian shepherds in their struggle to keep the age-old trade alive in the face of contemporary changes.

Documentary
Ukraine
In Ukrainian, with Ukrainian and English subs (embed)

понедельник, 7 декабря 2020 г.

Little Men (1940)

 




Director: Norman Z. McLeod
Stars: Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft, Jimmy Lydon (Dan), Ann Gillis, Carl Esmond, Richard Nichols (Teddy), Casey Johnson, Francesca Santoro, Johnny Burke, Lillian Randolph, Sammy McKim, Edward Rice, Sidney Kibrick, Schuyler Standish, Jimmy Zahner

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.

USA
In English

воскресенье, 29 ноября 2020 г.

Pez (2004)

 



Director: Petr Krava
Stars: Filip Falcnik, Simon Herman, Kluci Janzuraci

The film’s main protagonist is a young teenage boy who is addicted to video games and hard core music. He immensely enjoys  the virtual reality into which he slips every time he has a chance. One day he loses a sense of reality and fantasy and goes out determined that he can, in reality, be just as strong and “clever” as the virtual people he encounters in the games.

Short
Czech Republic
Some dialogue in Czech; you can watch it without translation
 

вторник, 17 ноября 2020 г.

Da se (1980) Lost Souls

 



Da se / 打蛇 / Lost Souls

Director: Tun Fei Mou (as T.F. Mous)
Stars: Hung Yen, Feng Chi, Ming Chen, Shen Chan, Jenny Liang, Han Chiang, Hsiang Lin Yin, Kin Ping Chow, Tun Fei Mou, Fei Ai

Illegal immigrants from mainland China are smuggled into Hong Kong. They are captured by a gang, then raped, tortured, and murdered.

Hong Kong
In Cantonese, with English subs (VobSub)
 

четверг, 12 ноября 2020 г.

Avetik (1992)

 


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103741/

Avetik / Ավետիք

Director & Writer: Don Askarian
Stars: Alik Asatryan, Mikhail Stepanyan, Karen Dzhanibekyan, Eduard Saribekyan, Samvel Ovazaryan, Geno Lechner

Set around the central figure of an Armenian trying to forge a life in the West the film offers a series of impressions of Armenian history.

Armenia / Germany
In Armenian, some German - with English hardsubs
 

среда, 14 октября 2020 г.

Welcome to Sodom (2018)

 



Directors & Writers: Christian Krönes, Florian Weigensamer
Stars: Mohammed Abubakar, Awal Mohammed, Kwasi Yefter

An examination of the worlds largest electrical waste dump in Accra, Ghana, where children dismantle electronics for recycling.

Documentary

Austria | Ghana
Language: English, German and some African dialects
With English subs (VobSub)
 

воскресенье, 27 сентября 2020 г.

Hvor bjergene sejler (1955)

 



Hvor bjergene sejler / Where Mountains Float

Director & Writer: Bjarne Henning-Jensen
Stars: Lars Henning-Jensen (Narrator), Hannibal Mathiasen, Frederikke Fly, Hans Henningsen

Depicts an Eskimo family in Greenland, particularly the story of a boy who goes to hospital in the nearest town and there discovers the advantages of civilisation.

Documentary

Denmark
Language: Danish | Greenlandic
 

среда, 16 сентября 2020 г.

Das Gaesschen zum Paradies (1936)




Das Gaesschen zum Paradies / Paradise Lane

Director: Martin Fric
Stars: Hans Moser, Peter Bosse, Mady Rahl, Willi Schur, Hilde Maroff, F.W. Schröder-Schrom, Zoya Valevskaya, Karl Hellmer

Tobias Haslinger is a poor dog catcher in Prague, who, ironically, resides on a street named "To Paradise".  The street kids hate him and try again and again to rescue the dogs he has caught.  One of these street boys is Peter, who has been put into an orphanage by his hard-hearted foster parents.  Now Haslinger has caught Peter's dog and when Peter runs away from the orphanage to save his dog, he ends up at Haslinger's, who allows him to overnight in his apartment.  The cheeky boy grows on the poor man's heart and together, they'll go through thick and thin.

Germany
In German

воскресенье, 6 сентября 2020 г.

Ben (1972)




Director: Phil Karlson
Stars: Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O'Connell, Rosemary Murphy, Meredith Baxter, Kaz Garas, Paul Carr, Richard Van Vleet, Scott Garrett, Arlen Stuart

Danny Garrison, a lonely young boy with a heart condition finds a friend in Ben, a rat once trained by misfit Willard Stiles. Danny's new best friend protects him from bullying and keeps his spirits up through hard times. But all is not well in Ben's colony and the other rodents terrify the town with a series of violent attacks. The police are determined to wipe them out. Can Ben survive?

USA
In English, with English subs (VobSub) and Russian subs (.srt in the archive)

среда, 19 августа 2020 г.

Dogs In Space (1987)




Director & Writer: Richard Lowenstein
Stars: Michael Hutchence, Saskia Post, Nique Needles, Deanna Bond, Tony Helou, Chris Haywood, Peter Walsh

Set against the backdrop of Melbourne’s late ‘70s punk rock scene, Dogs in Space chronicles life in a chaotic, squalid share-house. Hippies, addicts, students and radicals fill their days and nights with sex, drugs, parties and television. Writer/director Richard Lowenstein balances a series of chaotic vignettes with the central story of the romance between housemates Sam (Michael Hutchence), the lead singer of the band, Dogs in Space and his lover Anna (Saskia Post) as it spirals out of control.

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

пятница, 14 августа 2020 г.

Tasogare (2008)

 



Ikutsu ni natte mo yaritai otoko to onna / Tasogare / The Tender Throbbing Twilight

Director: Shinji Imaoka
Stars: Masaru Taga, Yasuko Namikibashi, Kyôko Hayami, Kenji Yoshioka, Kanako Kotani, Yoshiharu Fukuda, Kunîchi Takami, Yasuko Minamibashi

Funakichi is a 65 year old man who meets his high school sweetheart at a class reunion.

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

понедельник, 10 августа 2020 г.

Délibáb (2014)




Délibáb / Mirage

Director: Szabolcs Hajdu
Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Razvan Vasilescu, Orsolya Török-Illyés, Dragos Bucur, Tamás Polgár

Mirage tells the story of an African football player in a small Hungarian town, who commits a crime and has to flee. He finds refuge on a farm deep in the Hungarian flatland. Soon he realizes that the farm is a modern slave camp where he is forced to fight for his freedom and ultimately his life.

Hungary
In Hungarian, with Hungarian & English subs (.srt in the archive)

среда, 5 августа 2020 г.

Amici per la pelle (1955)



Amici per la pelle / Friends for Life / The Woman in the Painting

Director: Franco Rossi
Stars: Geronimo Meynier, Andrea Sciré, Vera Carmi, Luigi Tosi, Carlo Tamberlani, Paolo Ferrara, Marcella Rovena, Leonilde Montesi, Ignazio Leone

Mario and the new kid Franco gradually become the best of friends, but their friendship is tested when one of them wins a competition.

Italy
In Italian, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

пятница, 26 июня 2020 г.

Hol volt, hol nem volt (1987)



Hol volt, hol nem volt / A Hungarian Fairy Tale

Director: Gyula Gazdag
Stars: Dávid Vermes, Pál Hetényi, Frantisek Husák, Mária Varga, Eszter Csákányi, Péter Trokán, Szilvia Tóth, Judit Pogány, Géza Balkay, Gábor Reviczky

Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.

Hungary
In Hungarian, with English hardsubs

пятница, 19 июня 2020 г.

Claudine à l'école (1937)



Claudine à l'école / Claudine at School

Director: Serge de Poligny
Stars: Max Dearly, Pierre Brasseur, Suzet Maïs, Blanchette Brunoy, Marcel Mouloudji, Zélie Yzelle, Katia Lova, Jacqueline Dumonceau, Yvonne Broussard

"Claudine à l'école" is a 1900 novel by the French writer Colette. The narrative recounts the final year of secondary school of 16-year-old Claudine, her brazen confrontations with her headmistress, Mlle Sergent, and her fellow students.

France
In French

понедельник, 15 июня 2020 г.

Vtáckovia, siroty a blázni (1969)



Vtackovia, siroty a blazni / Birds, Orphans and Fools

Director: Juraj Jakubisko
Stars: Philippe Avron, Jirí Sýkora, Magda Vásáryová, Francoise Goldité, Míla Beran, Mikulás Ladizinský, Jana Stehnová, Augustín Kubán

Three adolescent war orphans seclude themselves in an anarchic and playful existence of denial and juvenile joy.

Czechoslovakia | France
In Slovak
With English subs (VobSub)

воскресенье, 14 июня 2020 г.

Death Among the Relics (1952)



Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Joseph Walsh, Edward Binns, Tom Gorman, Walter Hill, Alice Hill

Sidney Lumet's episode for "Danger" TV anthology - a street urchin is embroiled in a museum burglary.

Short
USA, CBS Television Network
In English

вторник, 9 июня 2020 г.

Merlusse (1935)



Director & Writer: Marcel Pagnol
Stars: Henri Poupon, André Pollack, Annie Toinon, Le Petit Jacques, John Dubrou, Molinard, Thommeray, Jean Castan, d'Armans, Fernand Bruno, Robert Aviérinos, Robert Chaux, Dernard, Le-Van-Kim, Rellys, André Robert, Armando Rossi

A tough teacher charged with looking after the students left behind at a boarding school during the Christmas holidays rises to the challenge and comes to better understand the boys in his care.

France
In French, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

воскресенье, 7 июня 2020 г.

Taiyo no kisetsu (1956)




Taiyo no kisetsu / 太陽の季節 / Season of the Sun

Director: Takumi Furukawa
Stars: Yôko Minamida, Hiroyuki Nagato, Kô Mishima, Asao Sano, Masumi Okada, Masao Shimizu, Yûjirô Ishihara, Shintarô Ishihara

Based on a prize-winning novel by Shintaro Ishihara, Season of the Sun was a drama of contemporary youth starring Hiroyuki Nagato as an amoral high school boy and Yoko Minamida as a girl he meets in the Ginza, seduces and , when she starts to become serious, abandons.

Japan
In Japanese

пятница, 5 июня 2020 г.

Demain les mômes (1976)



Demain les mômes / Tomorrow's Children

Director: Jean Pourtalé
Stars: Niels Arestrup, Brigitte Roüan, Michel Esposito, Emmanuelle Béart, Olivier Guespin, Pascal Dufaux, Guillaume Mortreux, Sylvaine Kameneff, Tatiannia Kameneff

The hero of this science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the mysterious destruction of the world. After his wife dies, he makes plans to seek out whatever remnants of civilization exist. However, the arrival of a group of children and their older mentor changes his plans.

France, in French
Subtitles: French (embed) + English (.srt in the archive)

вторник, 2 июня 2020 г.

Oliver Twist (1985 TV Serie)




Director: Gareth Davies
Stars: Ben Rodska (Oliver), Scott Funnell (Little Oliver), Eric Porter, Michael Attwell, Pip Donaghy, Amanda Harris, Nicholas Bond-Owen, Godfrey James, Lysette Anthony, David King, David Garlick, Frank Middlemass

In a storm, in a workhouse, to a nameless woman, young Oliver Twist is born into parish care where he's overworked and underfed. As he grows older his adventures take him from the countryside to London, through harsh treatment, kindness, an undertaker, and a thieves' dens, where he makes friends and enemies. But all the time he is pursued by the mysterious Monks, who hires Fagin to turn Oliver into a thief. Oliver is rescued by chance and kind friends. But it's a puzzle of legitimacy, inheritance, and identity that Oliver's friends must attempt to unravel before Monks can destroy Oliver.

Adapted from the 1838 novel by Charles Dickens; this version follows the book more closely than any of the other film adaptions. The series premiered on Sun Oct 13, 1985 on BBC One and Episode Twelve last aired on Sun Dec 29, 1985.

UK, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
In English

понедельник, 1 июня 2020 г.

Coming of Age (2015)



Director & Writer: Teboho Edkins
With: Lefa Letsie, Senate Mosothoane, Retabile Lehselo, Mosaku Lehselo

Follows four teenagers over the course of two years as they grow up deep in the southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho. Very little happens in the village of Ha Sekake, but from their perspective, a lot is at stake.

Lesotho | South Africa | Germany
Language: Southern Sotho
With English hardsubs

пятница, 29 мая 2020 г.

Liberian Boy (2015)



Directors: Mati Diop, Manon Lutanie
Star: Jules Langlade

A boy channels his inner Michael Jackson in this experimental dance film set to a pulsing electro-pop beat.

Short, music video
Canada, no dialogue

среда, 27 мая 2020 г.

Little Lady Fauntleroy (2004)




Director: Roger Pomphrey
Stars: Keith Allen, Lauren Harries

Documentary presented by Keith Allen about James Harries, the precocious and eccentric child prodigy who was a fixture on television chat shows in the 1980s, discussing his wide-ranging knowledge of antiques and his desire to become Prime Minister. After tracking down the Harries family in the present-day, on a run-down Cardiff housing estate, Allen discovers the bizarre reality behind their facade of intellectual superiority. All of the family possess fake PhDs in Metaphysics, while the family itself comprises of a convicted arsonist, a former Bunny girl, and a part-time private detective. James himself has had a sex-change to become Lauren, and most disturbingly, the Harries still believe their own mythology, that they are morally and intellectually superior to the rest of society.

UK
In English

понедельник, 25 мая 2020 г.

The Sea Children (1973)



Director: David Andrews
Stars: Simon Fisher-Turner, Perry Balfour, Lesley Dunlop, Stephen Garlick, Earl Younger

A group of English kids skin diving in Malta discover a fantastic undersea kingdom beneath the waves populated by a race of ancient but wrinkle-free children clad in neo-Aztec attire, who speak English at ultra-high speed. However, they also find that the civilisation of these sea children is threatened by human activities on land.

UK, Children's Film Foundation (CFF)
In English

пятница, 22 мая 2020 г.

To hroniko mias Kyriakis (1975)



To hroniko mias Kyriakis / Memories of a Sunday / Το χρονικό μιας Κυριακής

Director & Writer: Takis Kanellopoulos
Stars: Thanasis Tzeneralis, Popi Alva, Georgios Domouzis, Renos Fesas, Giorgos Fourniadis, Afroditi Govani, Tasso Kavadia

This film narrates six different stories in a very lyrical way: a coachman wanders around town; two elderly people go to the park every Sunday; a man leaves flowers in various neighborhoods in memory of a friend who was killed during the war; a boy narrates how they celebrated his father's name-day; a member of the resistance lives his last moments; a woman keeps waiting for a letter which never arrives.

Greece
In Greek, with English subs (VobSub)

среда, 20 мая 2020 г.

Isabel auf der Treppe (1983)



Isabel auf der Treppe / Isabel on the Stairs

Director: Hannelore Unterberg
Stars: Irina Gallardo, Mario Krüger, Jenny Gröllmann, Horst Hiemer, Ruth Kommerell, Francisco Medina, Teresa Polle, Jaecki Schwarz

Isabel and her mother Rosita flee to East Germany from Chile after the Pinochet coup. Amidst the prejudice many of their new neighbors harbor, Isabel waits on the stairs in hopes of intercepting news of her father.

East Germany (DEFA)
In German, with English subs (embed)

воскресенье, 17 мая 2020 г.

четверг, 14 мая 2020 г.

Dandan-e-mar (1990)




Dandan-e-mar / Snake Fang

Director: Masud Kimiai
Stars: Faramarz Sadighi, Golchehre Sajadieh, Ahmad Najafi, Shahed Ahmadloo, Hassan Rafi'i, Jalal Moghadam, Reza Khandan, Nersi Korkia, Fariba Kowsari, Hossein Memarzade, Saeed Pirdust

Set in Khorramshahr, a town in Southern Iran left devastated by the eight year long Iran/Iraq war, a writer and a black marketeer try to do something about the violence and corruption of the world in which they live.

Iran
In Persian, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

вторник, 12 мая 2020 г.

La petite Aurore l'enfant martyre (1952)




La petite Aurore l'enfant martyre / Little Aurore's Tragedy

Director: Jean-Yves Bigras
Stars: Yvonne Laflamme, Lucie Mitchell, Paul Desmarteaux, Janette Bertrand, Jean Lajeunesse, J. Léo Gagnon, Marc Forrez, Therese McKinnon, Nana de Varennes, Rolland D'Amour, Roch Poulin

A little girl, Aurore, witnesses the death of her invalid mother through the negligence of the woman supposedly nursing her. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father, becoming the little girl's stepmother. Unwisely revealing to her that she knows the reason for her mother's death, Aurore starts being abused and tortured by her stepmother in the hope she will keep her secret. The father will look away until the tragic end. Based on the true story.

Canada
In French, with English subs (embed)

четверг, 7 мая 2020 г.

The Dark End of the Street (1981)



Director & Writer: Jan Egleson
Stars: Laura Harrington, Henry Tomaszewski, Michele Greene, Lance Henriksen, Pamela Payton-Wright, Terence Grey, Albert Eaton, Gustave Johnson, George Martin, Kevin O'Rourke, Ben Affleck

If a teen couple doesn't confess what they know about a friend's death, an innocent man might hang for a death he didn't cause.

USA
In English

понедельник, 4 мая 2020 г.

Hayate Poshti Madreseye Adl-e-Afagh (1980)



Hayate Poshti Madreseye Adl-e-Afagh / The School We Went To

Director: Dariush Mehrjui
Stars: Ali Nassirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Amrollah Saberi, Ghassem Seif, Kamalodin Ashraf, Jamaledin Ashraf, Farshid Hastei, Farhad Majidian

A group of students tries to stage a play, but the new school principal bans the performance and punishes Kaveh, the director. The rebellion of some high school students against school authority, staged by star director Mehrjui, was often interpreted at the time as an allegory of the revolution. The film was supported by “Kanoon”, the “Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults”, whose film department Abbas Kiarostami co-founded.

Iran
In Persian

среда, 22 апреля 2020 г.

Mon oncle Antoine (1971)



Mon oncle Antoine / My Uncle Antoine

Director: Claude Jutra
Stars: Jacques Gagnon, Lyne Champagne, Jean Duceppe, Olivette Thibault, Claude Jutra, Lionel Villeneuve, Hélène Loiselle, Monique Mercure

Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.

Canada
In French, with Russian & English subs (.srt in the archive)

среда, 15 апреля 2020 г.

B'Shivim Ushtayim Lo Hayta Milhama (1995)



B'Shivim Ushtayim Lo Hayta Milhama / There Was No War in 72

Director & Writer: David Kreiner
Stars: Adam Abulafia, Tova Ascher, Nataly Attiya, Maya Dunietz, Shmuel Edelman, Elon Eysh, Didi Gat, Bahat Kalachi

An affectionate portrait of a family whose members are behaving at their worst. The story of There Was No War in ’72 begins from the point of view of Yoni (Adam Abulafia), the beleaguered son of an overbearing businessman (Shmuel Edelman). To the disappointment of his father, Yoni has just been kicked out of his private school for poor grades. His American mother (Ava Haddad) is trying to get him to go to the boarding school she has cajoled into accepting him, but Yoni would rather spend his time on other pursuits. The film speaks to the struggles of adolescence and the restless nature of youth, as well as the complexities of being a family.

Israel
In Hebrew, with Hebrew and English subs (embed)

вторник, 14 апреля 2020 г.

Pinocchio (1911)


Director: Giulio Antamoro
Stars: Polidor, Augusto Mastripietri, Natalino Guillaume, Lea Giunchi

First cinematographic transposition of the famous story by Carlo Collodi. The old carpenter Geppeto manufactures in his workshop a wooden puppet that will soon come alive. For an hour the doll will live a thousand and one adventures: he will be judged, hanged, swallowed by a whale, taken prisoner by the Indians, saved by Canadian soldiers and, even, returned home mounted on a cannonball that flies through the sky.
Music by Spanish group Miclono (2018)

Italy
Italian intertitles & English subtitles (embed)

воскресенье, 12 апреля 2020 г.

Der kleine Prinz (1966)



Der kleine Prinz / The Little Prince

Director: Konrad Wolf
Stars: Christel Bodenstein, Eberhard Esche, Inge Keller, Klaus Piontek, Anna-Katharina Franck, Wolfgang Heinz, Horst Schulze

East German adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.

East Germany
In German, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

пятница, 10 апреля 2020 г.

Alex Holeh Ahavah (1986)




Alex Holeh Ahavah / Alex is Lovesick

Director & Writer: Boaz Davidson
Stars: Eitan Sneh (as Eitan Anshel), Joseph Shiloach, Batya Barak, Rolf Brin, Sharon Hacohen, Uri Kabiri, Avi Kushnir, Jupiter Leonid, Anat Mesner, Avraham Mor, Shmuel Rodensky, Hana Rot, Hinna Rozovska

When he's not running from his overbearing mother and avoiding his henpecked father, thirteen-year-old Alex spends most of his time fawning over comely classmate Mimi. His teenage love fantasies soon interrupted by the arrival beautiful Polish relative Lola, Alex finds that love is best kept in the family when Lola is more receptive to his awkward advances than he anticipated.

Israel
In Hebrew, with some Polish and Russian
Subtitles: English, Hebrew (both VobSub), Russian (.srt in the archive)

четверг, 9 апреля 2020 г.

Après la guerre (1989)



Après la guerre / The War Is Over

Director & Writer: Jean-Loup Hubert
Stars: Richard Bohringer, Antoine Hubert, Julien Hubert, Martin Lamotte, Isabelle Sadoyan, Raoul Billerey, Jean-François Dérec, Jacques Mathou, Roger Miremont, Olivier Nembi

The film is set in France in August 1944 at the end of the war. German troops are in retreat as the allies are coming in. Two French boys run from home and on their journey they stumble upon a German soldier. Soon they become friends and together they head towards Lyon.

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

вторник, 7 апреля 2020 г.

Goodbye, Miss Turlock (1948)



Director: Edward L. Cahn
Stars: John Nesbitt (narrator), Nana Bryant, Fred Fisher, Norman Ollestad

Oscar-winning short film has an adult looking back fondly at his childhood when he was taught in a one-room schoolhouse by Miss Turlock, a stern, but caring and respected teacher.

Short
USA, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
In English

пятница, 3 апреля 2020 г.

Mob Town (1941)



Director: William Nigh
Stars: Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne, Billy Halop, Darryl Hickman, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Samuel S. Hinds, Victor Kilian

A young street kid idolizes his brother, a gangster who was sent to death row for murder. Frank, a local cop, tries to ensure that the boy and his gang don't wind up the same way as his brother, and enrolls them in a recreational program and gets them jobs. All seems to go well until the dead gangster's brother finds out that the cop who arrested his brother for murder, which resulted in his being executed, was Frank.

USA, Universal Pictures
In English

среда, 1 апреля 2020 г.

Il sapore del grano (1986)



Il sapore del grano / The Flavor of Corn

Director & Writer: Gianni Da Campo
Stars: Lorenzo Lena, Marco Mestriner, Alba Mottura, Egidio Termine, Mattia Pinoli, Paolo Garlato, Elena Barbalich, Marina Vlady

Lorenzo, a handsome first-year professor in an isolated Italian village, falls under the spell of his most beguiling pupil, a dark-haired, starry-eyed 12-year-old named Duilio. As Lorenzo's relationship with his heartless girlfriend deteriorates, he finds himself walking the fields with his loving student. When their idyllic friendship is questioned by Duilio's suspicious stepmother, Lorenzo is brought to a crisis of conscience.

Italy
In Italian, with English subs (VobSub)

воскресенье, 29 марта 2020 г.

La passante du Sans-Souci (1982)




La passante du Sans-Souci / The Passerby

Director: Jacques Rouffio
Stars: Romy Schneider, Wendelin Werner, Michel Piccoli, Helmut Griem, Jacques Martin, Maria Schell, Dominique Labourier, Gérard Klein, Mathieu Carrière, Jean Reno

Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience - he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? Eventually, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his younger wife Lina, and that in a roundabout way concerns her as well. It is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier, when Elsa Wiener, a German singer exiled in Paris, without money or relations, a refugee among many others, faced two daunting problems: surviving in a foreign city, and saving her husband Michel from the clutches of the Nazis.

France | West Germany
In French, with English subs (.srt in the archives)

пятница, 28 февраля 2020 г.

Yuli (2018)



Director: Icíar Bollaín
Stars: Carlos Acosta, Santiago Alfonso, Keyvin Martínez, Edlison Manuel Olbera Núñez, Laura De la Uz, Yerlín Pérez, Mario Elias, Yailene Sierra

The film follows Carlos Acosta - nicknamed Yuli by his father - from growing up on the streets of his native Cuba, through his time at the country's National Dance School, to performing at London's prestigious Royal Ballet.

Spain | Cuba
In Spanish, with German (embed) & English subs (.srt in the archive)

вторник, 25 февраля 2020 г.

Betty: They Say I'm Different (2017)



Directors: Philip Cox (as Phil Cox), Philip Cox
Stars: Mike Canton, Oliver Wang, Al Gee, Miles Davis, Philip Cox, Militia Vox, Tamar-kali

Pioneering funk singer and "bold soul sister" Betty Davis shook up the 70s music scene—then she disappeared. This film tells her story.

Documentary
USA, in English
 

понедельник, 24 февраля 2020 г.

Ice Cream Man (1995)




Director: Paul Norman (as Norman Apstein)
Stars: Clint Howard, Justin Isfeld, Anndi McAfee, JoJo Adams, Mikey LeBeau, Sandahl Bergman, Andrea Evans, Matthew McCurley, Justin Isfeld, Zachary Benjamin

Poor Gregory. After being released from the Wishing Well Sanatorium, all he wants to do is make the children happy. So Gregory reopens the old ice cream factory, and all the unappreciative brats are reprocessed into the flavor of the day.

USA
In English, with English subs (VobSub)