понедельник, 29 мая 2023 г.

La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 (1994)




La vie sexuelle des Belges 1950-1978 / The Sexual Life of the Belgians

Director & Writer: Jan Bucquoy
Stars: Jean-Henri Compère, Noe Francq, Isabelle Legros, Sophie Schneider, Jacques Druaux, Boris Bucquoy, Pascale Binnert, Michel Angely, Michele Shor, Stefan Lernous, Kathleen Joye

A semi-autobiography of the first 28 years of the director, the Flemish anarchist Jan Bucquoy.

Belgium
In French, with Dutch & English subs (VobSub)
 

пятница, 26 мая 2023 г.

Starik Khottabych (1957)

 



Старик Хоттабыч / Starik Khottabych / The Flying Carpet

Director: Gennadiy Kazanskiy
Stars: Nikolay Volkov, Aleksei Litvinov, Gennadi Khudyakov, Lev Kovalchuk, Olga Cherkasova, Maya Blinova, Yefim Kopelyan, Evgeniy Vesnik

A boy named Volka discovers an ancient vessel on the bottom of a river. When he opens it, a genie emerges from there. He calls himself Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Khottab, or in Russian style Khottabych. Grateful Khottabych is ready to fulfill any of Volka's wishes. But it appears that Volka should use the powers of the genie carefully, for they can have undesirable results.

Soviet Union
In Russian, with English subs (embed)
 

среда, 24 мая 2023 г.

Snezhnaya koroleva (1967)

 




Снежная королева / Snezhnaya koroleva / The Snow Queen

Director: Gennadiy Kazanskiy
Stars: Valeri Nikitenko, Elena Proklova, Slawa Zjupa, Yevgeniya Melnikova, Natalya Klimova, Nikolay Boyarskiy, Evgeniy Leonov, Irina Gubanova, Georgiy Korolchuk, Olga Viklandt

The Snow Queen is a Hans Christian Andersen fable about a cold-hearted queen of the frozen north who steals away young Kay and takes him to her ice palace. Kay’s friend Gerda gets worried when Kay does not come home, and so she sets out to find him. Along the way, she meets an eccentric flower woman, a prince and a princess, a magical reindeer, a talking court raven, and many other fantastic characters. Once Gerda discovers that Kay is in the Snow Queen’s palace, she has to find some way to save him in spite of the formidable queen.
One of the classics of Soviet cinema for children - this fairy tale strays somewhat from the classic version of the story, basing itself instead on the screenplay by a well-known Russian playwright Evgeny Schwartz.

Soviet Union
In Russian, with English subs (embed)
 

понедельник, 22 мая 2023 г.

Trás-os-Montes (1976)




Directors & Writers: Margarida Cordeiro & António Reis
Stars: Albino S. Pedro, Carlos Margarido, Mariana Margarido, Luis Ferreira, Armando Manuel, Rosalía Comba, Rui Ferreira

It's a docudrama with a poetic writing and non-linear narrative. Specifically, it's an "etnofiction": portraits the typical characters of Terra Fria, the North-east of Portugal, showing secular habits, in a majestic rural ambient. It's one of the works that represents the New Cinema (Novo Cinema) portuguese movement, and one of the first portuguese docudrama.

Portugal
In Portuguese, with English hardsubs
 

суббота, 20 мая 2023 г.

The Toy (1982)




Director: Richard Donner
Stars: Richard Pryor, Scott Schwartz, Jackie Gleason, Ned Beatty, Teresa Ganzel, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Annazette Chase, Tony King, Don Hood

An underemployed reporter finds himself literally purchased as a toy for a rich spoiled brat.

USA
In English, with English subs (embed)
 

пятница, 19 мая 2023 г.

Siblings (2004)

 



Director: David Weaver
Starring: Alex Campbell, Paul Soles, Andrew Chalmers, Samantha Weinstein, Sarah Gadon, Rocket the Dog, Nicholas Campbell, Sonja Smits, Aaron Abrams

Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.

Canada
In English
 

вторник, 16 мая 2023 г.

New Year's Adventures of Masha and Vitia (1975)

 


Directors: Gennadiy Kazanskiy & Igor Usov
Stars: Natalya Simonova, Yuriy Nahratov, Irina Borisova, Mikhail Boyarskiy, Nikolay Boyarskiy, Igor Efimov, Valentina Kosobutskaya, Georgiy Shtil, Boris Smolkin

Vitya believes in science and technology, Masha believes in miracles. In Christmes Eve, a sculpture of Ded Moroz (Russian Santa Clause) gets in live and tells "Koschey kidnapped my grand child". So the kids help Ded Moroz to save his grand child.

USSR
In Russian, with embed Russian & English subs; also English .srt subs include songs
 

воскресенье, 14 мая 2023 г.

Valahol Európában (1947)

 



Valahol Európában / Somewhere in Europe

Director: Géza von Radványi
Stars: Artúr Somlay, Miklós Gábor, Zsuzsa Bánki, György Bárdy, László Horváth, István Rozsos, László Kemény, Abraham Ronai, György Bodó

A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They are taken in by a former concert pianist who’s hiding out in a ruined castle.

Hungary
In Hungarian, with Hungarian & English subs (embed)
 

среда, 10 мая 2023 г.

Ellos Volvieron (2015)

 


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3894340/

Ellos Volvieron / They Returned

Director & Writer: Iván Noel
Stars: Valentina Sartorelli, Juan Ignacio Molina, Lauro Veron, Camila Cruz, Julio Mendez, Rosana Rossotti, German de Goycoechea, Edmee Aran, Romina Pinto, Jorge Booth, Oscar Mira, Facundo Ezequiel Cordoba Noceta, Candelaria Lopez Bellina, Thomas Lopez Bellina

"They Returned" is a beautifully touching and unnerving story about the unexplained disappearance of three children, two boys and one girl, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. Not even the children themselves are able to help anyone understand what happened.

Argentina
In Spanish, with English & French subs (embed)