пятница, 29 мая 2020 г.

Liberian Boy (2015)



Directors: Mati Diop, Manon Lutanie
Star: Jules Langlade

A boy channels his inner Michael Jackson in this experimental dance film set to a pulsing electro-pop beat.

Short, music video
Canada, no dialogue

среда, 27 мая 2020 г.

Little Lady Fauntleroy (2004)




Director: Roger Pomphrey
Stars: Keith Allen, Lauren Harries

Documentary presented by Keith Allen about James Harries, the precocious and eccentric child prodigy who was a fixture on television chat shows in the 1980s, discussing his wide-ranging knowledge of antiques and his desire to become Prime Minister. After tracking down the Harries family in the present-day, on a run-down Cardiff housing estate, Allen discovers the bizarre reality behind their facade of intellectual superiority. All of the family possess fake PhDs in Metaphysics, while the family itself comprises of a convicted arsonist, a former Bunny girl, and a part-time private detective. James himself has had a sex-change to become Lauren, and most disturbingly, the Harries still believe their own mythology, that they are morally and intellectually superior to the rest of society.

UK
In English

понедельник, 25 мая 2020 г.

The Sea Children (1973)



Director: David Andrews
Stars: Simon Fisher-Turner, Perry Balfour, Lesley Dunlop, Stephen Garlick, Earl Younger

A group of English kids skin diving in Malta discover a fantastic undersea kingdom beneath the waves populated by a race of ancient but wrinkle-free children clad in neo-Aztec attire, who speak English at ultra-high speed. However, they also find that the civilisation of these sea children is threatened by human activities on land.

UK, Children's Film Foundation (CFF)
In English

пятница, 22 мая 2020 г.

To hroniko mias Kyriakis (1975)



To hroniko mias Kyriakis / Memories of a Sunday / Το χρονικό μιας Κυριακής

Director & Writer: Takis Kanellopoulos
Stars: Thanasis Tzeneralis, Popi Alva, Georgios Domouzis, Renos Fesas, Giorgos Fourniadis, Afroditi Govani, Tasso Kavadia

This film narrates six different stories in a very lyrical way: a coachman wanders around town; two elderly people go to the park every Sunday; a man leaves flowers in various neighborhoods in memory of a friend who was killed during the war; a boy narrates how they celebrated his father's name-day; a member of the resistance lives his last moments; a woman keeps waiting for a letter which never arrives.

Greece
In Greek, with English subs (VobSub)

среда, 20 мая 2020 г.

Isabel auf der Treppe (1983)



Isabel auf der Treppe / Isabel on the Stairs

Director: Hannelore Unterberg
Stars: Irina Gallardo, Mario Krüger, Jenny Gröllmann, Horst Hiemer, Ruth Kommerell, Francisco Medina, Teresa Polle, Jaecki Schwarz

Isabel and her mother Rosita flee to East Germany from Chile after the Pinochet coup. Amidst the prejudice many of their new neighbors harbor, Isabel waits on the stairs in hopes of intercepting news of her father.

East Germany (DEFA)
In German, with English subs (embed)

воскресенье, 17 мая 2020 г.

четверг, 14 мая 2020 г.

Dandan-e-mar (1990)




Dandan-e-mar / Snake Fang

Director: Masud Kimiai
Stars: Faramarz Sadighi, Golchehre Sajadieh, Ahmad Najafi, Shahed Ahmadloo, Hassan Rafi'i, Jalal Moghadam, Reza Khandan, Nersi Korkia, Fariba Kowsari, Hossein Memarzade, Saeed Pirdust

Set in Khorramshahr, a town in Southern Iran left devastated by the eight year long Iran/Iraq war, a writer and a black marketeer try to do something about the violence and corruption of the world in which they live.

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

вторник, 12 мая 2020 г.

La petite Aurore l'enfant martyre (1952)




La petite Aurore l'enfant martyre / Little Aurore's Tragedy

Director: Jean-Yves Bigras
Stars: Yvonne Laflamme, Lucie Mitchell, Paul Desmarteaux, Janette Bertrand, Jean Lajeunesse, J. Léo Gagnon, Marc Forrez, Therese McKinnon, Nana de Varennes, Rolland D'Amour, Roch Poulin

A little girl, Aurore, witnesses the death of her invalid mother through the negligence of the woman supposedly nursing her. The coniving nurse in turn marries the child's father, becoming the little girl's stepmother. Unwisely revealing to her that she knows the reason for her mother's death, Aurore starts being abused and tortured by her stepmother in the hope she will keep her secret. The father will look away until the tragic end. Based on the true story.

Canada
In French, with English subs (embed)

четверг, 7 мая 2020 г.

The Dark End of the Street (1981)



Director & Writer: Jan Egleson
Stars: Laura Harrington, Henry Tomaszewski, Michele Greene, Lance Henriksen, Pamela Payton-Wright, Terence Grey, Albert Eaton, Gustave Johnson, George Martin, Kevin O'Rourke, Ben Affleck

If a teen couple doesn't confess what they know about a friend's death, an innocent man might hang for a death he didn't cause.

USA
In English

понедельник, 4 мая 2020 г.

Hayate Poshti Madreseye Adl-e-Afagh (1980)



Hayate Poshti Madreseye Adl-e-Afagh / The School We Went To

Director: Dariush Mehrjui
Stars: Ali Nassirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Amrollah Saberi, Ghassem Seif, Kamalodin Ashraf, Jamaledin Ashraf, Farshid Hastei, Farhad Majidian

A group of students tries to stage a play, but the new school principal bans the performance and punishes Kaveh, the director. The rebellion of some high school students against school authority, staged by star director Mehrjui, was often interpreted at the time as an allegory of the revolution. The film was supported by “Kanoon”, the “Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults”, whose film department Abbas Kiarostami co-founded.

Iran
In Persian