вторник, 28 декабря 2021 г.

Rahaee (1971)

 


Rahaee / Release

Director: Naser Taghvai
Stars: Shahbaz Parsipoor, Mashaollah Ghassemi, Mehri Mehrnia

One morning, a boy named 'Dada' catches a red fish in one of the ports of south sea in Iran. His friend 'Masho' seems to like the fish and steals it. They fight, and the result is broken head for 'Masho'. His mother comes to complain to Dada's parents, and Dada's father imprisons him in a tiny room. Dada and the fish together in the room, makes him think of their identification as prisoners who long for release.

Short
Iran, in Persian 
 

суббота, 25 декабря 2021 г.

El último tren (2002)

 



El último tren / The Last Train

Director: Diego Arsuaga
Stars: Héctor Alterio, Federico Luppi, Pepe Soriano, Gastón Pauls, Balaram Dinard, Eduardo Miglionico, Elisa Contreras, Saturnino García, Jenny Goldstein

A powerful Hollywood studio has purchased a historic 19th century Uruguayan locomotive for its next film. The news is not well received by the veteran members of the Friends of the Rail Association. Determined to boycott the transfer of the locomotive to the United States, three of them and a child, moved by the slogan "Our national heritage is not for sale", hijack the machine and set out to travel the abandoned tracks of the interior of the country, pursued by the authorities.

Uruguay
In Spanish, with Russian & English subs (.srt in the archive)
 

четверг, 23 декабря 2021 г.

The Learning Tree (1969)

 



Director: Gordon Parks
Stars: Kyle Johnson, Alex Clarke, Estelle Evans, Dana Elcar, Mira Waters, Joel Fluellen, Malcolm Atterbury, Richard Ward, Russell Thorson, Peggy Rea

A bittersweet and idyllic story about a year in the life of a 14-year-old Newt Winger, born into a poor black family in Kansas, who learns about love, fear, racial injustice, immorality.

USA
In English, with English subs (VobSub)
 

среда, 22 декабря 2021 г.

Omuretsu (1992)

 


Omuretsu / オムレツ / Omelette

Director & Writer: Shunji Iwai
Stars: Junji Takada, Yûta Yamazaki, Aya Nakagawa, Aya Katsuragi

Two children, a boy and a girl, are in a coffee shop. They are living apart since their parents divorced. The boy tells his sister how their father's life had been ruined after the divorce. And 'the horrifying case of an omelet'...

Short
Japan, in Japanese, with English subs (embed) 
 

понедельник, 20 декабря 2021 г.

Blue Jeans (1977)

 


Blue Jeans / Du beurre aux Allemands

Director: Hugues Burin des Roziers
Stars: Gilles Budin, Michel Gibet, Daniel Véry, Thierry Dolon, Jérôme Cadiou, Eric Noël, Eric Bourcier, Pierre Bident, Pierre Marichal

First love and the fickleness of adolescence is the theme in this charming drama. The story follows a pretty blonde French youth who is sent with his classmates to an English seaside resort for the summer to study English. It is there that he first meets and "falls in love" with a girl, but when the girl spurns him for an older teenager, his attentions and affections are soon shifted to him.

France
In French, with German & English subs (embed)
 

пятница, 17 декабря 2021 г.

The Black Hand Gang (1930)

 



Director: Monty Banks
Stars: Wee Georgie Wood, Dolly Harmer, Violet Young, Lionel Hoare, Junior Banks, Viola Compton, Alfred Wood, Molly Lamont, Eric Pavitt, John Singer

Wee Georgie Wood leads his gang of ragamuffins through a series of comic vignettes, including disrupting a well-to-do children's party, fighting a rival gang and thwarting a robbery.
This film was an extended version of the play "Black Hand George" by stage songwriters Bert Lee and R.P. Weston. Both the play and the film starred the variety and music hall actor 'Wee Georgie Wood' (the stage name of George Wood Bamlett, 1895-1979, who had dwarfism) as the leader of the gang of boys.

United Kingdom
In English
 

воскресенье, 12 декабря 2021 г.

El planeta de los niños (1992)

 




El planeta de los niños / Planet of the Children

Director: Valeria Sarmiento

In a modern city children go about their lives -- singing, playing, bottling beverages, operating heavy machinery, running restaurants, performing surgery, fighting a war. This is a world of children, no one here is looks older than fourteen or fifteen. Where are we?
Documentary about Cuban education.

Cuba
In Spanish
 

среда, 8 декабря 2021 г.

Mon maître d'école (2015)

 


Mon maître d'école / Farewell My Teacher

Director: Emilie Thérond

In St Just-and-Vacquières, Jean-Michel Burel, a schoolmaster of a multilevel class, begins his last school year before retirement. The teacher teaches tolerance and wisdom in the same way as spelling and mathematics. He leads his program with determination. He strives to support students to give them confidence and elevate them higher. Through the eyes of a former student, now a director, there is a timeless school where rigor is combined with good humor, a school where freedom begins with respect for others. A school that belongs to everyone and to the universal domain of childhood.

Documentary
France, in French, with French subs (VobSub)
 

воскресенье, 5 декабря 2021 г.

среда, 1 декабря 2021 г.

Beleet parus odinokiy (1937)

 



Beleet parus odinokiy / The Lonely White Sail

Director: Vladimir Legoshin
Stars: Igor But, Boris Runge, Aleksandr Melnikov, Nikolai Plotnikov, Aleksandr Chekayevskiy, Ivan Pelttser, Fyodor Nikitin, Irina Bolshakova, Svetlana Pryadilova, Olga Pyzhova

Based on a Valentin Kataev's novel of the same name, The Lonely White Sail shows, with both comic and dramatic overtones, the 1905 Revolution from the perspective of two Odessa schoolboys.

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

пятница, 12 ноября 2021 г.

L'adolescente (1979)

 



L'adolescente / The Adolescent

Director: Jeanne Moreau
Stars: Simone Signoret, Francis Huster, Laetitia Chauveau, Edith Clever, Jacques Weber, Jean-François Balmer, Hugues Quester, Michel Blanc

In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place, and Marie's parents are constantly making love. Surrounded by sexual frankness, Marie fancies herself a woman and develops a crush on Alexander, the town's young Jewish doctor, and is despondent when he treats her like a child. When her father abruptly leaves for a few weeks to help with a relative's harvest, her mother and the doctor disappear into the woods for hours at a time. Marie tries to spy on them. When Papa returns, what will the family and the doctor do?

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

среда, 10 ноября 2021 г.

Himmel und Erde (1983)

 


Himmel und Erde / Heaven and Earth

Director: Michael Pilz

Heaven and Earth is the fascinating portrait of a mountain village fighting to survive against the powers of nature as well as against economic pressures from outside. A profound reflection on the meaning of life and work, the necessity for relationships and the definite character of our world. Slow and lengthy, this film stands out for its beauty and poetry.

Documentary
Austria, in German, with German, French & English subs (embed)
 

воскресенье, 7 ноября 2021 г.

Zir-e Noor-e Maah (2001)

 


Zir-e Noor-e Maah / Under the Moonlight

Director & Writer: Reza Mirkarimi
Stars: Hossein Parastar, Hamed Rajabali, Mehran Rajabi, Mahmoud Nazaralian, Fereshteh Sadre Orafaiy, Asghar Heidari, Ali Bakanian, Shaghayegh Dehghan, Ali Asghar Heydari Karimzadeh

Completing his theological studies in a richly appointed Islamic seminary in Teheran, country-bred Seyyed Hassan hesitates to don the turban and robes that would make him a mullah. One day a street boy, Joujeh, providentially steals the material Hassan bought to have the clothes made. His search for the boy leads him to a community of homeless men living under a heavily trafficked bridge. His contact with these wretched but spiritually honest outcasts fulfills him in a way that religious life cannot.

Iran
In Persian, with English subs (VobSub)

Another rip of Siroko je lisce

Another rip of  Siroko je lisce (1981) now available, HDTV 2.91 Gb - not sure it's better quality but anyway



пятница, 5 ноября 2021 г.

Los niños de la Cruz (2016)

 



Los niños de la Cruz / Kids from Nowhere

Director & Writer: Jaime Villa

Gabriel and Esther are two children who live in a boarding school for low-income families. Between games, lessons, dreams, fights and friends who become brothers, they learn that being away from their family is their only chance to have an education and shape a future.

Documentary
Mexico, in Spanish, with English hardsubs

вторник, 2 ноября 2021 г.

Green Days by the River (2017)

 



Director: Michael Mooleedhar
Stars: Sudai Tafari as Shellie, Vanessa Bartholomew, Dara Healy, Nadia Kandhai, Anand Lawkaran, Che Rodriguez, Kernell Alexander, Renaldo Bachan

A Caribbean coming-of-age classic in the tradition of Sugar Cane Alley, Green Days by the River is adapted from Michael Anthony's acclaimed 1967 novel by the same name. Set in 1952 in a remote coastal village in Trinidad, 15-yeard-old Shellie follows a kindhearted Indian planter to work on his plantation along the river as he pursues the affection of two girls in a lasting tale of young love and loss.

Trinidad and Tobago
In English, with English hardsubs
 

понедельник, 1 ноября 2021 г.

Un Traductor (2018)

 



Un Traductor / A Translator

Directors: Rodrigo Barriuso & Sebastián Barriuso
Stars: Rodrigo Santoro, Maricel Álvarez, Yoandra Suárez, Jorge Carlos Perez Herrera, Nikita Semenov, Genadijs Dolganovs, Milda Gecaite, Eslinda Núñez, Osvaldo Doimeadiós

Based on the true story of the father of the two directors of the film, who was a professor for Russian Literature at the University of Havana and who did act as translator when children affected by the Chernobyl disaster arrived in Cuba for medical treatment.

Cuba | Canada
In Spanish & Russian, with English subs (VobSub)
 

понедельник, 25 октября 2021 г.

Hotel Dallas (2016)

 


Directors & Writers: Sherng-Lee Huang, Livia Ungur
Stars: Livia Ungur, Larry Hagman, Razvan Hîncu, Sherng-Lee Huang, Patrick Duffy, Crenguta Hariton, Dumitru Pop Tincu, Neculai Predica, Maria Croitoru

In communist Romania in the 1980s the population collectively watches “Dallas”, their only window into capitalism. Inspired by the US TV show, a young woman decides to emigrate to America. “Hotel Dallas” mixes documentary scenes with staged and experimental sequences.

Documentary
Romania, USA
In Romanian, with English subs (embed)
 

среда, 20 октября 2021 г.

Storm Center (1956)

 



Director: Daniel Taradash
Stars: Bette Davis, Brian Keith, Kim Hunter, Paul Kelly, Joe Mantell, Kevin Coughlin, Sally Brophy, Edward Platt, Kathryn Grant

Alicia Hull is a widowed small town librarian dedicated to introducing children to the joy of reading. In exchange for fulfilling her request for a children's wing, the city council asks her to withdraw the book The Communist Dream from the library's collection. When she refuses to comply with their demand, she is fired, and branded as a subversive. Especially upset by this is young Freddie Slater, a boy with a deep love of books whom Alicia has closely mentored.

USA 
In English (2nd audio)
 

воскресенье, 17 октября 2021 г.

El camino (2008)

 


El camino / The Path

Director & Writer: Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez
Stars: Sherlin Paola Velásquez, Marcos Ulises Jiménez, Juan Borda, Morena Guadalupe Espinoza, Cornelio Flores Meza, Germán Pomares, Jean-François Stévenin

Two young Nicaraguan children, Saslaya and her mute brother Dario, must travel to Costa Rica to find their long-lost mother.

Costa Rica
In Spanish, with  Spanish, German, French, Arabic & English subs (embed)
 

четверг, 14 октября 2021 г.

Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi (1950)

 


Shirayuki sensei to kodomo tachi / 白雪先生と子供たち

Director: Ren Yoshimura
Stars: Setsuko Hara, Takashi Kohama, Jun Miyazaki, Sachio Mozaki, Chieko Seki, Hisako Takihana, Isamu Yamaguchi, Kôichirô Yoshikawa

A grade school in Tokyo, where students curse and gamble, has a pond on-premises with one particular teacher who is in charge and takes care of it. The pond holds a number of carp, but someone is snatching them. Amidst the student, one lives with his mother in poverty. The mother works at a factory whose owner is a member of the parent-teacher association and asks her son to help her employer's son to help with homework. Her son is not happy spending time doing this. Finally one day the teacher finds out who is stealing the carp when the poor boy finds out and reports it. It is a child who is not attending the school.

Japan
In Japanese
 

суббота, 9 октября 2021 г.

Village Rockstars (2017)

 



Director & Writer: Rima Das
Stars: Bhanita Das, Basanti Das, Boloram Das, Rinku Das, Bishnu Kalita, Manabendra Das, Kulada Bhattacharya

Residing in a gorgeous remote village in Assam, Dhunu a young girl, loves to climb the trees, go fishing with the boys and flaunt her thermocol guitar when she isn’t helping her widowed mother with her daily chores. She wishes to own a real guitar someday, but can people of limited means dare to dream?

India
In Assamese (Kamrupi dialect)
With English subs (embed)
 

пятница, 8 октября 2021 г.

Son of Man (2006)

 



Director: Mark Dornford-May
Stars: Noluthando Boqwana, Andile Kosi, Pauline Malefane, Andries Mbali, Mvuyisi Mjali, Gwebile Jim Ngxabaze, Zorro Sidloyi

One man's journey of love, deception and betrayal in contemporary South Africa. Based on the New Testament.

South Africa
In Xhosa
With English hardsubs
 

вторник, 5 октября 2021 г.

Coto de caza (1983)

 


Coto de caza / Code of Hunting / Hunting Ground

Director: Jorge Grau
Stars: Assumpta Serna, Víctor Valverde, Luis Hostalot, Alejandro Hernández, Montserrat Salvador, Paloma Lorena, Sahli Mimoun Amar El, José Antonio García Romeu, Manuel Rodríguez 

A pacifist lawyer's husband is accidentally killed during a home invasion. One of the culprits is caught, and his deranged brother begins to threaten the lawyer that if his brother isn't released, he will violently retaliate.

Spain
In Spanish + English dubbing
With English subs (embed), more at opensubtitles

воскресенье, 3 октября 2021 г.

Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916)

 




Director: Rex Wilson
Stars: Joyce Templeton, Jack Coleman, Miss Marley, Evelyn Boucher, Wilfred Benson, Mr. Daniels, Mr. Johnson, Laurie Leslie, Eric Barker

Based on Thomas Hughes 1857 novel, "Tom Brown's Schooldays" recounts the adventures of a boy's youth, with three actors playing Tom at different ages. The film follows the young Tom as he begins life at Rugby School, confronting school bully Flashman and befriending Harry East. Later, the older Tom enters his final year of school, finds himself guardian of the timid boy Arthur and becomes an upstanding young man.

UK
English intertitles
 

суббота, 2 октября 2021 г.

Kurôn wa kokyô wo mezasu (2008)



Kurôn wa kokyô wo mezasu / The Clone Returns Home

Director & Writer: Kanji Nakajima
Stars: Mitsuhiro Oikawa, Eri Ishida, Hiromi Nagasaku, Kyûsaku Shimada, Ryô Tsukamoto, Shô Tsukamoto, Ken'ichi Yajima

Kohei Takahara, an astronaut who dies in the line of duty, is legally resurrected as a clone: however, contrary to the scientists’ expectations, he reverts to his childhood memories when his twin brother drowned sacrificing his life for Kohei. Kohei’s clone discovers the body of his former self mistakenly believing that it is his deceased twin. Reliving his tragic past, he sets off carrying his corpse body to the beautiful hometown where he lived with his now dead mother.

Japan
In Japanese
With English subs (embed), other subs at opensubtitles
 

понедельник, 27 сентября 2021 г.

Oliver Twist (1922)

 



Director: Frank Lloyd
Stars: Jackie Coogan, Edouard Trebaol, Lon Chaney, Taylor Graves, George Siegmann, Gladys Brockwell, Lionel Belmore, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Lewis Sargent

An adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1838 novel of the same name. The orphaned Oliver, labelled a "troublemaker" because he dares to ask for more food, is farmed out to work as an undertaker's assistant. Escaping his cruel master, Oliver falls in with a gang of pickpockets, headed by the colorful Fagin. Kindly Mr. Brownlow, Oliver's real grandfather, tries to help the lad, but the evil Bill Sikes complicates matters. 
Long believed to be a lost film, Oliver Twist was painstakingly restored in the early 1970s, using bits and pieces from various foreign prints and negatives.

USA, Jackie Coogan Productions
English Intertitles
 

воскресенье, 5 сентября 2021 г.

Horas Fatais (1987)

 


Horas Fatais / Fatal Hours

Directors: Francisco Cavalcanti, Clery Cunha
Stars: Farah Abdala, Regina Andrion, Angélica Belmont, Nereide Bravo, Fabricio Cavalcanti, Francisco Cavalcanti, Oswaldo Cirillo

Two rapists rape and kill two sisters, but are covered up by the city police, who sell themselves to the father of one of them. Despite being arrested and tortured by the bandits, the husband of one of the victims does not give up doing justice and plans revenge.

Brazil
In Portuguese
 

четверг, 2 сентября 2021 г.

Barber Yoshino (2004)

 




Barber Yoshino / Yoshino's Barber Shop / バーバー吉野

Director & Writer: Naoko Ogigami
Stars: Kazuyuki Asano, Hôshi Ishida, Masaki Miura, Shinnosuke Miyao, Yoshiyuki Morishita, Masako Motai, Ryo Muramatsu, Natsuki Okamoto, Shota Okawa

In a small town on the countryside, every young boy is forced to have the same bowl-head haircut known as the "Yoshino-gari" hairstyle. Then one day, a drastic change occurs when a transfer student with bleached hair comes from Tokyo.

In Japanese
With Italian & English subs (embed), also Russian subs (.srt in the archive)
 

суббота, 17 июля 2021 г.

The Green Pastures (1936)

 



Directors: Marc Connelly, William Keighley
Stars: Rex Ingram, Oscar Polk, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Frank H. Wilson, George Reed, Abraham Gleaves, Myrtle Anderson, Al Stokes, Dudley Dickerson

God, heaven, and several Old Testament stories, including the Creation and Noah's Ark, are described supposedly using the perspective of rural, black Americans.

USA
In English, with English subs (muxed)
 

среда, 14 июля 2021 г.

Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo (2017)

 



Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo / Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle

Director: Gustavo Salmerón
Stars: Julita Salmerón, Antonio García Cabanes, Ramón García Salmerón, Paloma García Salmerón, Gustavo Salmerón

Spanish actor Gustavo Salmerón steps behind the camera to capture the winsome eccentricities of his extraordinary mother Julita, who had three dreams: having lots of kids, owning a monkey, and living in a castle.

Documentary

Spain, in Spanish
With English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese subtitles (.srt in The archive)

суббота, 10 июля 2021 г.

Víctimas del pecado (1951)



Víctimas del pecado / Victims of Sin

Director: Emilio Fernández
Stars: Ninón Sevilla, Tito Junco, Rodolfo Acosta, Ismael Pérez (as Poncianito), Rita Montaner, Margarita Ceballos, Arturo Soto Rangel, Francisco Reiguera, Lupe Carriles

In México City, a Cuban dancer from "Cabaret Changó" rescues a baby from a garbage can and decides to raise him, but her pachuco pimp gets in her way.

Mexico
In Spanish, with English subs (embed)
 

среда, 7 июля 2021 г.

Goroohban (1992)

 



Goroohban / گروهبان / The Sergeant

Director: Masud Kimiai
Stars: Ahmad Najafi, Golchehre Sajadieh, Shahed Ahmadloo, Mir Mohammad Tajaddod, Mohammad Abdollahi, Mohammad Vali Ahmadloo, Abbas Ghajar, Hossein Maleki, Hossein Memarzade, Saeed Pirdust, Aghdas Sehhatbakhsh

Ravaged physically and psychologically by the war, sergeant Rostam Darre Kalaye is retired to go back to his family in the northern part of Iran. During his long absence, his wife Golbakht and their son had to work in sergeant brother's auto service. Initially delighted by return of his husband, Golbakht gradually finds his husband a handful stranger. Sergeant hears from his old friend , a retired major sergeant, that his piece of land has been taken by Nasser khan. Sergeant is bent on retrieving what he believes to be still belonging to him, but aside from his son and friend, nobody stands by him and when begins to work in his land, he is harshly thrashed by Nasser's men. It's around the time The Soviet Union has opened its borders just before its downfall, and Golbakht's old mother, originally an immigrant from Caucasus decides to cross the borders to revisit her homeland. Golbakht that finds his silent husband beyond her tolerance decides to leave him and their son and accompany...

Iran
In Persian, with English subs (embed)
 

воскресенье, 4 июля 2021 г.

Louisiana (1984)

 



Directors: Philippe de Broca, Jacques Demy, Etienne Périer
Stars: Margot Kidder, Ian Charleson, Andréa Ferréol, Lloyd Bochner, Victor Lanoux, Len Cariou, Hilly Hicks, Raymond Pellegrin, Ken Pogue, Akosua Busia, Alex Liggett, Matthew Breeding, Davis Hotard

The action is located in Louisiana in the mid-nineteenth century; Virginia will fight to get possession of the Bagatelle estate after it was lost during the Civil War.

Canada | France | Italy | United States
In English, with English subs (embed)
 

четверг, 29 апреля 2021 г.

Zemlya Ottsov (1966)

 


Zemlya Ottsov / Земля отцов / The Land of The Fathers

Director: Shaken Ajmanov
Stars: Yeleubai Umurzakov, Murat Akhmadiev, Viktor Shevtsov, Yuri Pomerantsev, Tamara Kokova, Yaragi Zubayrayev, Lyubov Malinovskaya, Amina Umurzakova, Viktor Perevalov, Radner Muratov

An old man decides to find the body of his son, a Kazakh soldier who died fighting somewhere in Russia, to bury him in the land of his ancestors. Traveling across the land with his grandson, they discover the harsh reality of war, and when they finally find the coveted grave, they realize that many brothers-in-arms are buried with the soldier.

Soviet Union (Kazakhfilm Studios)
In Russian, with English subs (VobSub)
 

понедельник, 19 апреля 2021 г.

Kiviuq (2007)




Director & Writer: John Houston
Cast: Lamech Kadloo, Laila Hansen, June Shappa, Annie Peterloosie

Kiviuq is a legendary hero of the epic stories of the Inuit of the Arctic regions of northern Canada, Alaska and Greenland. Filmmaker John Houston, who was raised among Inuit in the territory and speaks Inuktitut fluently, travelled across the Arctic seeking out elders who remembered the legend; hishe film features elders, who know the myth, local actors, drummers and a troupe of Inuvialuit dancers from Cambridge Bay.

Canada
In English & Inuktitut
Subtitles: Danish, English, French, German
 

суббота, 17 апреля 2021 г.

Podarok od Veseliot Moler (1957)

 


Podarok od Veseliot Moler / Подарок од Веселиот Молер / The Happy House Painter

Director: Dimitar Kostarov (as Dimitar Kjostarov)
Stars: Ivan Icmarev, Kole Sinjkievikj, Mishko Nestorovski, Solunka Nestorovska

Children play painting on the wall of the room. There comes a painter to redecorate the flat. He paints on the wall and amuses the children. But even after he is done redecorating the wall, the children continue seeing and enjoying the painting in their fantasy. Nobody is aware of their secret painting -- a gift from the painter.

Short
Yugoslavia, in Macedonian, with English subs (.srt in the archive)
 

четверг, 15 апреля 2021 г.

Furankenshutain tai chitei kaijû Baragon (1965)

 



Furankenshutain tai chitei kaijû Baragon / Frankenstein Conquers The World

Director: Ishirô Honda
Stars: Nick Adams, Kumi Mizuno, Tadao Takashima, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kôji Furuhata, Jun Tazaki, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Nobuo Nakamura

Near the end of WWII, Germans transport the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster to Japan, where it is seeming lost in the bombing of Hiroshima. Years later a wild boy is found, born from the immortal heart.

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

среда, 14 апреля 2021 г.

La vie est à nous (1936)

 



La vie est à nous / Life Is Ours / The People of France

Directors: Jean Renoir, Jacques Becker, Jacques B. Brunius, Jean-Paul Le Chanois etc
Stars: Jean Dasté, Jacques B. Brunius, Simone Guisin, Teddy Michaud, Pierre Unik, Charles Blavette, Gaston Clamamus

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing who the comrades help the proletarian people against the capitalists. Parts of the film were taken from newsreels, and are mixed with new sketches about working people, peasants and intellectuals. It also features propagandistic speeches of leading members of the party.

France
In French, with English subs (embed)
 

понедельник, 12 апреля 2021 г.

Ruchome piaski (1969)

 


Ruchome piaski / Shifting Sands

Director: Wladyslaw Slesicki
Stars: Malgorzata Braunek, Marek Walczewski, Grzegorz Zuchowicz, Henryk Borowski, Stefan Friedmann, Jerzy Zelnik

A lyrical story about a holiday adventure of a man camping with his son at a lake: the unexpected appearance of a girl shatters the previously carefree mood.
 
Poland
In Polish, with English subs (.srt)

воскресенье, 11 апреля 2021 г.

Play of the Week - My Heart's in the Highlands (1960)

 


Director: Kirk Browning
Stars: Walter Matthau, Eddie Hodges, Orson Bean, Joe Boland, Terry Carter, Kevin Coughlin, Tamara Daykarhanova, Griff Evans, Nathaniel Frey, Larry Hagman, Allan Lindstrom

Two plays by William Saroyan; in the second, "My Heart's in the Highlands", Matthau is a working-class poet struggling to provide for son Eddie Hodges.

s2e7 first aired 7 November 1960

USA
In English
 

четверг, 8 апреля 2021 г.

Mi mi jin yu (2016)

 


Mi mi jin yu / 秘密金鱼 / Secret Goldfish

Director & Writer: Bi Gan (as Gan Bi)
Star: Feiyang Luo 

Poetic short by the director of Long Day's Journey Into Night—fans will notice the ping pong paddle. Shot on 16mm, as part of the commercial shorts collection for the 53th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

Taiwan | China
In Chinese, with Chinese hardsubs & English subs (.srt in the archive)
 

среда, 7 апреля 2021 г.

Ravel / Jiri Kylian - L'enfant et les sortileges (1986)

 


Director: Hans Hulscher
Choreographer: Jiří Kylián
Stars: Marly Knoben, Roslyn Anderson, Stephen Sheriff, Leigh Matthews, Sabine Kupferberg

Maurice Ravel's one act opera, a fantasy about a naughty child whose temper brings to life his surroundings. Production by Nederlands Dans Theater.

In French, with some French hardsubs
 

понедельник, 5 апреля 2021 г.

Le château de ma mère (1990)

 



Le Château de ma mère / My Mother's Castle

Director: Yves Robert
Stars: Julien Ciamaca, Philippe Caubère, Nathalie Roussel, Thérèse Liotard, Didier Pain, Victorien Delamare, Joris Molinas, Julie Timmerman, Paul Crauchet, Philippe Uchan, Jean Rochefort

Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage near Marseilles. During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited girl... Adapted from the cult classic novel from Marcel Pagnol.

France
In French, with English & French subs (muxed)
 

воскресенье, 4 апреля 2021 г.

La gloire de mon père (1990)

 




La gloire de mon père / My Father's Glory

Director: Yves Robert
Stars: Philippe Caubère, Julien Ciamaca, Nathalie Roussel, Joris Molinas, Victorien Delamare, Didier Pain, Thérèse Liotard, Benoît Martin, Paul Crauchet, Pierre Maguelon

A young boy's life in turn-of-the-century France. Marcel, witnesses the success of his teacher father, as well as the success of his arrogant Uncle Jules. Marcel and family spend their summer vacation in a cottage in Provence, and Marcel befriends a local boy who teaches him the secrets of the hills in Provence. Based on the autobiographical novel by Marcel Pagnol.

France
In French, with English & French subs (muxed)
 

суббота, 3 апреля 2021 г.

Apian way (2002)

 


No imdb entry

Director: Amayo Uzo Philips
Stars: Osita Iheme, Chinedu Ikedieze, Amechi Muonogor

Two little dwarfs try to get their father's property but instead fall in love with the commissioners twin daughters. Can they still follow their original quest with love blocking their way? Watch this funny comedy… as Osita Iheme and Chinedu Ihedieze do it again.

Nigeria
In English