среда, 31 октября 2018 г.

Invisible Boy (2010)



Director: Philippe Parreno

A portrait of an illegal immigrant Chinese child through the imaginary monsters that incarnate his fears and anxieties. A fiction tacked onto a reality. The reality of the illegal aliens in Manhattan’s Chinatown. People who are called ‘invisible’. This portrait gives an image to someone who doesn’t have one and, at the same time, a real person gains the social identity he’s missing by becoming a fictional character. High definition images make sensible impressions of a city as we cross over to the imaginary.

Short
France, no dialogue

понедельник, 29 октября 2018 г.

Les enfants du placard (1977)



Les enfants du placard / Closet Children

Director: Benoît Jacquot
Stars: Brigitte Fossey, Lou Castel, Jean Sorel, Georges Marchal, Sophie Baragnon, Vincent Balvet, Hassane Fall, Danièle Gégauff

Nicola (Lou Castel) bears the psychological scars of unbearable guilt. As a boy, he was given the job of looking after his mentally unstable mother and protecting her from herself. One day, he and his sister went instead into a large closet and enacted a childishly intensive "I dare you" bonding ritual, marking one another with the blade of their father's sword cane. While he was occupied in this manner, the boy's mother hung herself and died. Now an adult, he still has an unhealthily strong fixation on his sister. This is so obvious that a girlfriend of his sister's, with whom he has an affair, breaks it off, complaining that she is not interested in being a stand-in for the sister.

France
In French

пятница, 26 октября 2018 г.

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)




Director: Robert Redford
Stars: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, J. Michael Moncrief, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch, Peter Gerety

A disillusioned war veteran, Captain Rannulph Junuh, reluctantly agrees to play a game of golf. He finds the game futile until his caddy, Bagger Vance, teaches him the secret of the authentic golf stroke which turns out also to be the secret to mastering any challenge and finding meaning in life.

USA
In English (second audio), with English subs (in .mkv)

воскресенье, 21 октября 2018 г.

DuPont Show of the Month: Treasure Island (1960)



DuPont Show of the Month: Treasure Island

Director: Daniel Petrie
Stars: Hugh Griffith, Richard O'Sullivan, Max Adrian, Michael Gough, Barry Morse, Boris Karloff, Douglas Campbell, George Rose, John Colicos, George Mathews, Tim O'Connor, Tom Clancy, Betty Sinclair

A boy comes into possession of a map showing the way to buried treasure, and a ship-board expedition is mounted to find it. But the crew is really under the control of Long John Silver, and that scoundrel has plans of his own... A TV adaptation of the famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

USA
In English