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)

воскресенье, 23 февраля 2020 г.

La Canta delle marane (1961)



La Canta delle marane / The song of the marane

Director: Cecilia Mangini
Text: Pier Paolo Pasolini

On a hot summer day, a gang of boys from the Roman suburbs play and laugh in one of the many streams that surround the city. The camera scrutinizes them, approaches them, reveals gestures and looks, and wraps them in a kind of visual dance, while the words of the commentary – entrusted to the poetic sensibility of Pier Paolo Pasolini – tell their stories, desires, dreams, their future.

Short
Italy, in Italian, with French hardsubs & English subs (.srt in the archive)

суббота, 22 февраля 2020 г.

Till Eulenspiegel (1974)



Director: Rainer Simon
Stars: Winfried Glatzeder (Till), Cox Habbema, Franciszek Pieczka, Eberhard Esche, Jürgen Gosch, Hans Teuscher, Walter Bechstein, Michael Gwisdek

In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.

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

пятница, 21 февраля 2020 г.

Tom et Lola (1990)




Tom et Lola / Tom and Lola

Director: Bertrand Arthuys
Stars: Neil Stubbs, Mélodie Collin, Cécile Magnet, Marc Berman, Catherine Frot, Celian Varini

Their immune systems tragically damaged at birth, TOM AND LOLA are two beautiful children forever isolated in plastic bubbles. But neither cold urethane nor chillier hospital technicians can keep down the beguiling spirit of these indomitable siblings. Nor can anything stop their quest to one day run naked and truly free, unbound from the medical shackles that bind them. Magnifique!

France
In French, with English subs (embed)

понедельник, 17 февраля 2020 г.

Kocicí princ (1979)



Kocicí princ / Der Katzenprinz / The Cat Prince

Director: Ota Koval
Stars: Pavel Hachle, Zaneta Fuchsová, Winfried Glatzeder, Jana Andrsová-Vectomová,
Vlastimil Hasek, Bohumil Vávra, Alena Kreuzmannová, Jana Andresíková, Tereza Brodská

A brother and sister, approximately eight- and five-years-old, move into a mysterious and 
magical castle with their parents and there discover a portal to a fantasy world which 
allows them to address and deal with some of the frustrations found in their “real” lives.

Czechoslovakia | East Germany
In Czech, with English subs (.srt in the archive)

воскресенье, 16 февраля 2020 г.

Odessa in fiamme (1942)



Odessa in fiamme / Odessa în flăcări / Odessa in Flames

Director: Carmine Gallone
Stars: Maria Cebotari, Carlo Ninchi, Filippo Scelzo, Olga Solbelli, Rubi D'Alma, George Timica, Silvia Dumitrescu-Timica, Mircea Axente, Maurizio Romitelli, Paolo Ferrari

The occupation of Bessarabia by the Russians in 1940 separates an opera singer from her family, leaving her under Bolshevik rule until Romanian troops enter Odessa.

Italy | Romania
In Italian, with English subs (embed)

суббота, 8 февраля 2020 г.

Barn Burning (1980)



Director: Peter Werner
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Diane Kagan, Shawn Whittington, Carolyn Coates, Michael Riney, Jennie Hughes, Julie Kaye Fanton, Al Scott, Henry Fonda (narrator)

Ab Snopes (Tommy Lee Jones) is a Southern tenant farmer whose unrelenting and violent nature proves to be his undoing in William Faulkner's BARN BURNING. Snopes sets his employer's barn on fire when he thinks he's been treated unfairly. His son, Sarty, is horrified. Snope escapes justice for lack of proof, but he and his family are told to move on. No sooner do they move than Snopes is offended by his new rich employer. Torn between trying to win his father's acceptance and his aversion to what his father will do, Sarty must make a decision and act quickly.

USA
In English

среда, 5 февраля 2020 г.

José Martí: el ojo del canario (2010 Cuba)



José Martí: el ojo del canario / Martí, the Eye of the Canary

Director & Writer: Fernando Pérez
Stars: Daniel Romero Pildaín, Damián Rodríguez, Broselianda Hernández, Rolando Brito, Manuel Porto, Julio César Ramírez, Enrique Lázaro Piedra, Francisco López-Ruiz, Eugenio Torroella, Carlos Enrique Almirante, Hector David Rosales

The story of the boyhood and youth of the writer, revolutionary and "Apostle of Cuban Independence" José Martí, narrated in four 'movements'. In the first two, we see nine-year-old Martí (Damián Antonio Rodríguez in a much-praised performance) being bullied in school by schoolmates and abused by his schoolmaster, whilst he learns notions of justice and oppression from his father. In the last two movements, Martí (Daniel Romero Pildaín), now an intense and taciturn adolescent, is a budding Romantic poet who becomes a militant for the liberation of Cuba from Spanish tyranny.

Cuba
In Spanish, with English subs (.srt)
 

воскресенье, 2 февраля 2020 г.

Amexica (2010)



Director & Writer: Ron Krauss
Stars: Joseph Ferrante, AnnaLynne McCord, Jordan Stavola, Anthony Keyvan, Gloria Sandoval, Bernadette Wysocki, Cary Joseph, David Schroeder

A couple of con artists buy a young boy from a child trafficking ring and use him for a get-rich scheme in a series of false roads accidents.

Short
USA, in English, with English subs (muxed)