вторник, 17 декабря 2019 г.

George Washington (2000)



Director: David Gordon Green
Stars: Candace Evanofski, Donald Holden, Damian Jewan Lee, Curtis Cotton III, Rachael Handy, Paul Schneider, Eddie Rouse, Janet Taylor, Derricka Rolle, Ebony Jones

A group of children, in a depressed small town, band together to cover up a tragic mistake one summer.

USA
In English, with English subs (embed)

воскресенье, 15 декабря 2019 г.

Kevade (1969)



Kevade / Spring

Director: Arvo Kruusement
Stars: Arno Liiver, Riina Hein, Aare Laanemets, Margus Lepa, Leonhard Merzin, Ain Lutsepp, Rein Aedma, Kalle Eomois, Raul Haaristo, Heiki Koort, Endel Ani

Semi-autobiographical story by Oskar Luts about friendship, love and life in a small Estonian country boarding school in the turn of the the 20th century.

Soviet Union - Estonia
In Estonian
Subtitles: English, Estonian, German, Russian, Finnish, Swedish (embed)

четверг, 12 декабря 2019 г.

The Winslow Boy (1948)




Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Robert Donat, Neil North, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Margaret Leighton, Kathleen Harrison, Francis L. Sullivan, Marie Lohr, Jack Watling, Walter Fitzgerald, Frank Lawton, Nicholas Hannen

First adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play by the same name (1946). In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

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

понедельник, 9 декабря 2019 г.

Si Muero Antes de Despertar (1952)



Si Muero Antes de Despertar / If I Should Die Before I Wake

Director: Carlos Hugo Christensen
Stars: Néstor Zavarce, Blanca del Prado, Floren Delbene, Homero Cárpena, Enrique de Pedro, Virginia Romay, Marisa Núñez, Maria A. Troncoso, Marta Quintela

The plot centers on Lucio Santana, a lovable prankster and class clown whose dad happens to be a detective working on the serial killings of local children. When Lucho makes friends with a girl in his class, she divulges to him that a man who lives in the woods near the park has been giving her free lollipops, and plans to take her to his candy house. But she makes Lucho vow never to tell anyone. When the girl winds up murdered, Lucho is torn between honoring his word to his slain friend, or telling his father that he knows who the man is.

Argentina
In Spanish, with English subs (embed)

суббота, 7 декабря 2019 г.

Genesi: La creazione e il diluvio (1994)



Genesi: La creazione e il diluvio / Genesis: The Creation and the Flood

Director & Writer: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Paul Scofield (voice), Annabi Abdelialil, Omero Antonutti, Sabir Aziz, B. Haddan Mohammed, Haddou Zoubida

Genesis: The Creation and the Flood is a 1994 television film shot in Morocco, directed by an Italian film director, renowned Ermanno Olmi. It is based on the Book of Genesis, first book of the Hebrew Bible, where creation of the world and Great Flood are described. This film utilizes a cast of native Bedouins. Text of Genesis is read by a narrator, who at times appears as an elderly desert nomad telling the story to his extended Bedouin family.

Italy
English dubbed, with English and Spanish subs (.sub/idx in the archive)

среда, 4 декабря 2019 г.

A kis lord (1918)



A kis lord / The Little Lord

Director: Alexander Antalffy (as Antalffy Sándor)
Stars: Alexander Antalffy, Tibor Lubinszky, Giza Báthory, József Hajdú, Jenõ Horváth, Ernõ Kenessey

The outskirts of New York: Cedrik Errol, 8 years old, lives in miserable conditions with his widowed mother. Refined features, charming demeanour, and always neatly dressed, he earns the nickname "The Little Lord." One day a lawyer comes saying he is the grandson (and only heir) of Lord Fauntleroy. Cedric travels to England and quickly gets friendly with the grumpy old gentleman.
Another adaptation of the famous Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel.

Hungary
Dutch intertitles + English subs (.srt in the archive)

суббота, 30 ноября 2019 г.

La circostanza (1973)



La circostanza / The Circumstance

Director & Writer: Ermanno Olmi
Stars: Ada Savelli, Gaetano Porro, Raffaella Bianchi, Giorgio Roncaglia, Mario Sireci, Massimo Tabak, Enrico Bertoni, Barbara Pezzuto

Laura, a woman of a certain age with full grown children who, by all indications should be leading a great life, but actually, she appears to have none. She comes from a wealthy family. Laura has made herself a lawyer with a nice practice. Her placid existence comes to an abrupt stop when a young motorcyclist suffers an accident almost in front o her. Laura is made to take the youth to the hospital. The incident will change the way she looks at things. Laura becomes obsessed with the young man that was almost killed.

Italy
In Italian
Subtitles, all in the archive: Italian (.sub/idx) + English (.srt)

четверг, 28 ноября 2019 г.

Peesua lae dokmai (1985)



Peesua lae dokmai / Butterfly and Flowers / ผีเสื้อและดอกไม้

Director & Writer: Euthana Mukdasanit
Stars: Suriya Yaowasang, Daungjai Hathaikarn, Rome Isara, Wasana Pholyiam, Suchao Pongwilai, Attaporn Thihirun

Hujan, an elementary school student, lived with his father and younger brother and sister since his mother died of illness. One day he learns that his father is about to loose his job. Hujan decided to quit school and become an ice candy peddler. He met a girl named Mimpi who is in the same school. Mimpi often goes to visit a town on the Thai-Malaysian border to help in her family business. Hujan hears from Mimpi that the work of bearing white rice is dangerous and against the law but it pays very well.

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

среда, 27 ноября 2019 г.

Braguino (2017)



Director & Writer: Clément Cogitore

In this documentary directed by the French artist, filmmaker and photographer Clément Cogitore, two feuding families, the Braguines and the Kilines, live in adjoining but otherwise isolated compounds deep in Siberia's boreal forest, their settlement completely unreachable by road. The families are part of an ancient Russian Orthodox Church sect who sought isolation in order to live according to their beliefs, but the immense pristine forest is both a resource and a threat.

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

суббота, 23 ноября 2019 г.

Lacrimosa (1970)



Director: Aloysio Raulino

Through the Marginal Tietê and other roads of the city, lies a parade of waste lands, construction sites, factories and slums, in a desolate landscape. The itinerary is captured by the cameras until the depths of urban misery, where children, men and women live surrounded by trash.

Documentary, short
Brazil, in Portuguese, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

четверг, 21 ноября 2019 г.

Jirô monogatari (1955)



Jirô monogatari / The Tale of Jiro

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Stars: Michiyo Kogure, Ichirô Ryûzaki, Junko Ikeuchi, Shôji Nakayama, Koji Ozawa, Yukio Tomoyama, Shirô Watanabe, Natsuko Kahara, Kôtarô Sugiyama, Sadako Fujimura, Matsuko Shiga

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. A Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother.

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

понедельник, 18 ноября 2019 г.

L'inconnue n° 13 (1949)



Director: Jean-Paul Paulin
Stars: René Dary, Marcelle Derrien, Pierre-Louis, Christian Fourcade, Mady Berry, Robert Lussac, Janine Miller, Paulette Andrieux

While investigating the world of Parisian tramps, journalist René Savary, himself disguised as a poor beggar, notices the strange behavior of a little boy. He follows the brat after he has sneaked out of a barge, catches up with him and takes him to his home. There, the kid tells him about himself: his name is Jean, his mother has disappeared and since then he has been left to fend for himself. Moved by the lot of the wretched boy, Savary, with the aid of his friend Pierrot, undertakes to solve the mystery...

France
In French

суббота, 16 ноября 2019 г.

La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes (2017)




La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes AKA The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

Director: Simon Lavoie
Stars: Marine Johnson, Antoine L'Écuyer, Jean-François Casabonne, Alex Godbout, Laurie Babin

An adaptation of Gaétan Soucy's novel of the same name, the film centres on Alice Soissons (Marine Johnson), a girl raised to believe she is a boy, who lives in with her father and brother in oppressive and secluded conditions. When her father dies, she ventures into the village, where outsiders tell her she is female, and she fears the family home is now under threat.

Canada
In French, with English subs (embed)

пятница, 15 ноября 2019 г.

Boy Who Caught a Crook (1961)



Director: Edward L. Cahn
Stars: Wanda Hendrix, Don Beddoe, Roger Mobley, Richard Crane, Johnny Seven, Robert Stevenson, Bill Walker, Henry Hunter

A young boy finds a briefcase full of money stashed by a fleeing crook. A kindly tramp and an eager puppy help him lead police to the criminal.

USA
In English, with English subs (muxed)

четверг, 14 ноября 2019 г.

Nakimushi kozo (1938)



Nakimushi kozo / Crybaby Apprentice

Director: Shirô Toyoda
Stars: Sumiko Kurishima, Haruyo Ichikawa, Mitsugu Fujii, Fumio Hayashi, Isamu Yamaguchi, Yumeko Aizome, Ryuko Umezono, Reiji Ichiki

Story about a little boy who, after his widowed mother decides to remarry, is shuffled about, from relative to relative.

Japan
In Japanese, with English subs (.srt)

воскресенье, 27 октября 2019 г.

суббота, 26 октября 2019 г.

Hammer House of Horror - Children of the Full Moon (1980)




Director: Tom Clegg
Stars: Christopher Cazenove, Celia Gregory, Diana Dors, Adrian Mann, Robert Urquhart, Matthew Dorman, Daniel Payne, Daniel Kipling, Jacob Witkin, Victoria Wood, Sophie Kind, Wilhelmina Green, Jason Dors Lake

A married couple, lost in the woods, stumble across a creepy mansion and its inhabitants - an overly-kind old women and deadly wolf children that scour the country-side looking for victims.

Episode aired 1 November 1980

UK, Hammer Films
In English

четверг, 24 октября 2019 г.

Hammer House of Horror - Growing Pains (1980)




Director: Francis Megahy
Stars: Barbara Kellerman, Gary Bond, Matthew Blakstad, Norman Beaton, Tariq Yunus, Christopher Reilly, Daphne Anderson, Michael Hughes, Anna Simone Scott, Geoffrey Beevers

After the death of their young son, a scientist and his wife adopt a new son, but it coincides with a series of odd events and disasters for the father's research.

From the TV anthology Hammer House of Horror, this episode was aired 4 October 1980

UK, Hammer Films
In English

понедельник, 21 октября 2019 г.

Shônen bidan: Kiyoki kokoro (1925)



Director: Tomu Uchida
Stars: Takehiko Kojima, Hiromitsu Kunie, Michitarô Mizushima

This is another Tomu Uchida film (fragmentary?) from 1925 called "Shonen Bidan Kiyoki Kokoro" which means it is a moral fable which translates as something like 'A shining example of a boy's good morals'. This film was included in the DVD release of 'Tasogare sakaba' and is one of the many 'kyouiku eiga' films that were made in the 20s . Uchida's first couple of projects were of this kind. The film is a weird mix of current and historical, with a time slip insert to an older historical period and scene. It's about discovering money that somebody has dropped and is a curious experience to watch.

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

четверг, 17 октября 2019 г.

Shin-san Tankoumachi no serenâde (2010)




Shin-san Tankoumachi no serenâde / Shinsan: A Serenade in a Coalmine Town / Forget Me Not / 信さん・炭坑町のセレナーデ

Director: Hideyuki Hirayama
Stars: Tokio Emoto, Taichi Nakamura, Ren Kobayashi, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Takuya Ishida, Koyuki, Daichi Nakamura, Fusako Urabe, Shinobu Ôtake

Set in a declining coal-mining town in 1950s Fukuoka, the story depicts a rambunctious but pure-hearted young boy in love with an older woman. Michiyo has left Tokyo for Fukuoka with her son Mamoru after divorcing her husband. The story follows Mamoru's memories of his time spent with the notorious rebel Shinichi, who stood up for him against bullies.

Japan
In Japanese with English subs (embed)

понедельник, 14 октября 2019 г.

Los náufragos (1994)



Los náufragos / The Shipwrecked

Director: Miguel Littin
Stars: Valentina Vargas, Marcelo Romo, Bastián Bodenhöfer, Luis Alarcón, Damián Bodenhöfer, Benjamin Littin, Patricio Bunster, Gregory Cohen, Cristo Cucumides

After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory.

Chile
In Spanish, with Spanish and English subs (.srt in the archive)

суббота, 12 октября 2019 г.

Around the Bay (2008)



Director: Alejandro Adams
Stars: Steve Voldseth, Katherine Celio, Connor Maselli, Katherine Darling, Michael Umansky, Larry Kitagawa, Valerie Weak

When a wealthy businessman loses his job and his girlfriend on the same day, he asks his estranged college-aged daughter to live with him temporarily and care for his young son from a failed second marriage.

USA
In English, with English subs (.SDH)

четверг, 10 октября 2019 г.

Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche (1973)




Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche / The House on Chelouche Street

Director: Moshé Mizrahi
Stars: Gila Almagor, Ofer Shalhin, Shaike Ophir, Joseph Shiloach, Michal Bat-Adam,
Rolf Brin, Avner Hizkiyahu, Etti Grotes, Yossi Pollak

The film tells the story of a family of Egyptian immigrants that settle in 1947 Tel 
Aviv. The family consists of a widowed wife and her four children. The plot centers on 
the firstborn, Sami, his transition from a shy 15 year old to a working man and an 
activist in the "Haganah", and the romantic attachment he develops with a 25 year old 
Russian immigrant librarian.

Israel
In Hebrew with English subs (.srt in archive)

понедельник, 7 октября 2019 г.

Rangha (1976)




Rangha / رنگ‌ها / The Colours

Director & Writer: Abbas Kiarostami

By showing a series of different-coloured objects, the film aims to familiarize very young children with the various colours, and ends with a shot of a blackboard, a symbol of learning.

Short
Iran, in Persian, with French & English subs (embed)
 

суббота, 5 октября 2019 г.

Song of Granite (2017)




Director: Pat Collins
Stars: Michael O'Chonfhlaola, Colm Seoighe, Macdara Ó Fátharta, Jaren Cerf, Pól Ó Ceannabháin, Kate Nic Chonaonaigh, Peadar Cox, Griogair Labhruidh, Lisa O'Neill, Damien Dempsey, Marcelo Arroyo, Alain Goulem

The origins and rise of Irish folk singer Joe Heaney (1919-1984) are charted.

Ireland | Canada
Language: Gaelic (Irish) | English
English hardsubs for the Gaelic parts

четверг, 3 октября 2019 г.

Egy fiúnak a fele (1924)



Egy fiúnak a fele / The Half of a Boy

Director: Géza von Bolváry (as Bolváry Géza)
Stars: Paul Lukas, Helene von Bolvary, Ferenc Vendrey, Gusztáv Vándory, Teréz Kürti, Gyula Kompóthy, Soma Szarvasi, Tibor Hegedüs

After his wife’s death Gáthy Lörinc (in Croatian version: Mr. Wickfield) remarries and in secret he takes his son born from this second marriage to the same foster parents who take care his first son born from his first marriage and left without mother. Five years later, when both boys return home, his wife does not know which is her own child, and which is the child of the previous wife, so the husband's desire is fulfilled, his orphaned son doesn’t have step-mother, because his wife loves both boys equally, as her sweet children.

Hungary
Croatian intertitles + English subtitles (.srt in the archive)

вторник, 1 октября 2019 г.

Oprosti za kung fu (2004)



Oprosti za kung fu / Sorry for Kung Fu

Director & Writer: Ognjen Svilicic
Stars: Daria Lorenci, Filip Rados, Vera Zima, Luka Petrusic, Vedran Mlikota, Ivica Basic, Yong Long Dai

Pregnant unmarried woman returns to her village in Croatia after living in Germany during the Croatian War of Independence. Her family labors to find her a husband to avoid a local scandal, not knowing the father is Asian.

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

воскресенье, 22 сентября 2019 г.

Osloboduvanje na Skopje (2016)



Osloboduvanje na Skopje / The Liberation of Skopje

Directors: Danilo Serbedzija, Rade Serbedzija
Stars: Rade Serbedzija, David Todosovski, Mikko Nousiainen, Lucija Serbedzija, Silvija Stojanovska, Nebojsa Glogovac, Nikola Jovanovic, Hristina Dimovska, Ratka Radmanovic, Dejan Zafirov

The horrors and suffering of the Second World War are portrayed in bittersweet terms through the eyes of 11-year-old Zoran whose father has joined the partisans to fight the German occupiers and whose mother becomes involved with a German officer.

Country: Republic of Macedonia | Croatia | Finland
Language: Macedonian | German | Bulgarian
With Croatian (?) hardsubs

четверг, 19 сентября 2019 г.

Our Boy (1997)



Director: David Evans
Stars: Ray Winstone, Pauline Quirke, Neil Dudgeon, Philip Jackson, Perry Fenwick, Rowena Cooper, Thomas Aldridge, Nicola Duffett, Annette Ekblom

Sonia and Woody are forced to come to terms with the loss of their only son who was killed in a hit-and-run accident and the driver did not stop. Woody's grief knows no bounds and refuses to believe that the man accused of the crime is actually responsible. Over the Christmas holidays his loss becomes unbearable and his marriage starts to crumble. However, the real culprits of the crime start to feel guilty and volunteer information about the real criminals which puts the investigating officers in a dilemma about what should be done.

TV movie
UK, in English

среда, 18 сентября 2019 г.

La maison de Nina (2005)



La maison de Nina / Nina's House

Director & Writer: Richard Dembo
Stars: Agnès Jaoui, Sarah Adler, Katia Lewkowicz, Arié Elmaleh, Sébastien Knafo, Adèle Csech, Jérémy Sitbon, Vincent Rottiers, Alexis Pivot, Max Levy, Lola Naymark, Gaspard Ulliel

During WWII a group of Jewish children is sent to a castle outside Paris to hide there until things cool down, but it eventually becomes their new home. Later, children from the liberated concentration camps arrive there as well.

France
In French, with English subs (embed)

воскресенье, 15 сентября 2019 г.

Köpek (2015)



Köpek / Koepek

Director & Writer: Esen Isik
Stars: Çagla Akalin, Baris Atay, Salih Bademci, Ibrahim Iris, Hakan Karsak, Oguzhan Sancar, Bekir Sevenkan, Cemal Toktas, Beren Tuna

An ordinary day in the mega-city of Istanbul: Ten-year-old Cemo sells paper tissues in the streets, Hayat is controlled by her husband and transsexual Ebru sells her body. All three have a secret love and they do everything to satisfy their longing, if only for a moment. An authentic, delicate and unsettling story about love and death and the Turkish society at the beginning of the 21st century.

Turkey
In Turkish, with English subs (embed)

воскресенье, 8 сентября 2019 г.

Funky Road: Lindsay Kemp (1975)


No imdb

Very rare extended footage of Kemp produced for an ABC TV show in the 1970s.  In 1976, the music show GTK was reincarnated on the ABC as a the longer, later Funky Road. This episode profiles Lindsay Kemp, the director, performer and muse of David Bowie, during the production of his brilliantly bizarre show, "Flowers", produced in the inner Sydney suburb of Glebe.

Guy who taught Bowie his moves.

Australia
In English

понедельник, 5 августа 2019 г.

Homo sapiens (2004)



Directors: Jacques Malaterre, Chip Proser
Stars: Philippe Torreton (Narrator), Mourad Ben Nefla, Natasha Rees-Davies

This educational film focuses on the rise of the modern man and his predecessors.

Country: France | Belgium | Switzerland | Germany | Canada
Original language: French (barely audible)
Russian voiceover

пятница, 12 июля 2019 г.

Performance: Six Characters in Search of an Author (1992)



Director: Bill Bryden
Stars: John Hurt, Brian Cox, Tara Fitzgerald, Susan Fleetwood, Keith Baxter, Nicholas Gatt, Brian Glover, Patricia Hayes

Six fictional characters in an unwritten play appear to a theatrical company and demand that the company act out the characters' tragic story; TV adaptation of an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921.

UK, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
In English

воскресенье, 7 июля 2019 г.

Treasure Island (1950)




Director: Byron Haskin
Stars: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Finlay Currie, Ralph Truman, Geoffrey Keen, Geoffrey Wilkinson, John Laurie, Francis De Wolff

Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.

UK | USA (Walt Disney Productions)
In English

пятница, 5 июля 2019 г.

Karíus og Baktus (1970)



Karíus og Baktus / Karius and Bactus

Director: Helgi Skúlason
Starring: Sigríður Hagalín, Borgar Garðarson, Sculi Helgason

The little tooth trolls Karius and Bactus live inside cavities in the teeth of a boy named Jens. They have a very good life, especially when Jens eats white bread with syrup and fails to brush his teeth afterwards. Eventually their homes are destroyed by the work of a dentist and they are rinsed out of Jens' mouth through proper dental care.
The film is based on a popular children’s book by the Norwegian author Thorbjørn Egner that was first published in 1949. This is the Icelandic version of the story.

Iceland
In Icelandic

четверг, 4 июля 2019 г.

Angelo (2018, Austria)



Director: Markus Schleinzer
Stars: Makita Samba, Alba Rohrwacher, Larisa Faber, Kenny Nzogang, Lukas Miko, Gerti Drassl, Michael Rotschopf, Jean-Baptiste Tiémélé, Nancy Mensah-Offei

In early 18th century an African slave boy is chosen by a European Comtesse to be baptized and educated. Reaching adulthood, Angelo achieves prominence and becomes the Viennese court mascot until he decides to secretly marry a white woman.

Austria | Luxembourg
Language: German | French
With English subs (.srt in the archive)
Also French embed subs for German speech

среда, 3 июля 2019 г.

Teremos Infância (1974)


No imdb entry

Teremos Infância / We Shall Have a Childhood

Director: Aloysio Raulino

Arnulfo Silva, a former abandoned child, retells his childhood difficulties living on the streets.

Short, documentary
Brazil, in Portuguese, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

понедельник, 1 июля 2019 г.

La Cina è vicina (1967)



La Cina è vicina / China Is Near

Director: Marco Bellocchio
Stars: Glauco Mauri, Elda Tattoli, Paolo Graziosi, Daniela Surina, Pierluigi Aprà, Alessandro Haber, Claudio Trionfi, Claudio Cassinelli, Laura De Marchi

A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry. Their targets are a professor, Vittorio Gordini Malvezzi ,(Glauco Mauri), who is running for municipal office as a Socialist candidate, and his sister Elena, (Elda Tattoli), a great lady who lets every man in town climb on top of her but won't marry because socially they're all beneath her. Vittorio doesn't get what is going on. Their little brother Camillo, a seventeen year old seminary student turned Maoist provides the title of the film when he scrawls 'China is Near' on the walls of the Socialist Party building, his brother's campaign headquarters.

Italy
In Italian, with English subs (embed)

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