среда, 30 мая 2018 г.

Todos somos estrellas (1993)



Todos somos estrellas / We're All Stars

Director: Felipe Degregori
Stars: Milena Alva, Dante Herrera, Ivonne Barriga, Élide Brero, Julián Legaspi, Rebeca Ráez, Mariella Balbi, Katia Condos, Hernán Romero

This Peruvian comedy takes a poke at Latin living and at the power of the media. The story centers around the troubled family of Carmen Huambachano, who never miss Lima's popular weekly TV series "We Are All Stars." In this show, a typical family is first interviewed and then given the opportunity to win prizes. The Huambachano family is chosen, a TV crew is at the door, and now the family must decide how they are going to present themselves on national television. They rally together and quickly begin repainting and redecorating the house, finding their best clothing, and finally looking for a suitable "husband" for Carmen. Her real husband, a "no good rat" left her years before...

Peru
In Spanish, with English hardsubs

вторник, 29 мая 2018 г.

Een idee van de zee (2016)


Een idee van de zee / A Sea Change

Director & Writer: Nina de Vroome

A Sea Change takes its audience to the IBIS maritime boarding school in Ostend (BE). Boys learn how to read the sea and work on a fishing boat. They are confronted with a capricious and constantly changing sea.

Documentary
Belgium, in Dutch, with English hardsubs

пятница, 25 мая 2018 г.

Fisherman's Wharf (1939)




Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Stars: Bobby Breen, Leo Carrillo, Henry Armetta, Tommy Bupp, Lee Patrick, Rosina Galli, Slicker the Seal, Leon Belasco

In this musical drama, a child is abandoned upon the San Francisco docks but is found by some kindly fisherman who take him in and raise him. His life is happy until the fisherman's sister-in-law moves in after her husband dies. She brings her bratty son with her. This duplicitous duo upsets the orphan so much that he runs away. The fisherman launches a huge city-wide search, finds the sad lad, and finally brings him back home.

USA, Sol Lesser Productions
In English

вторник, 22 мая 2018 г.

BBC Play of the Month: The Winslow Boy (1977)




Director: David Giles
Stars: Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Simon Chandler, Ann Beach, Eric Porter, Diana Fairfax, Michele Dotrice, David Robb, Jonathan Adams, Alan Badel

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial. Based on the play from 1946 by Terence Rattigan.

First aired 16 January 1977.

UK
In English, with English hardsubs

вторник, 24 апреля 2018 г.

The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)



Director: Charles Lamont
Stars: Frank Coghlan Jr. , Lloyd Hughes, Dickie Moore, Ann Doran, Corky, Richard Carle, Ralf Harolde, Frank Sheridan, Matthew Betz

Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse problems than going to his little red school house.

USA, Chesterfield Motion Pictures Corporation
In English

суббота, 21 апреля 2018 г.

Rachel and the Stranger (1948)




Director: Norman Foster
Stars: Loretta Young, William Holden, Robert Mitchum, Gary Gray, Tom Tully, Sara Haden, Frank Ferguson

A widowed farmer takes an indentured servant as his new wife, but the arrival of his old friend threatens their burgeoning relationship.

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David Harvey is a widower with a young son, Davey. They live on an isolated Ohio farm during the pioneer days. He wants his son to be raised in the manner his wife would have wanted - with proper schooling, Bible study and proper manners. Rachel, an indentured servant, is sold to David. David then marries her in order that little Davey would have a mother to properly raise him. David shows no real affection towards Rachel since this is a marriage of convenience. This all changes when Jim, a friend of the family comes for a visit. During his stay, David sees that there is more to Rachel than just being a "bonds woman", especially when Jim takes a liking to her. This awaken new feelings in David for Rachel.

USA, RKO Radio Pictures
In English

Frihet forutsetter at noen er fri (2011)




Frihet forutsetter at noen er fri / Freedom Requires Free People

Director: Ane Hjort Guttu

Frihet forutsetter at noen er fri (Freedom Requires Free People) presents an 8 year old boy at a primary school in Oslo. The film follows him through interviews and during school hours, and looks at the conflict between his strong desire for freedom and participation and the framework put forward by the school. Freedom Requires Free People questions the conditions of critical thinking within educational institutions and, in a broader sense, within society.

пятница, 20 апреля 2018 г.

Holiday Affair (1949)




Director: Don Hartman
Stars: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey, Gordon Gebert, Griff Barnett, Esther Dale, Henry O'Neill, Harry Morgan

Just before Christmas, department store clerk Steve Mason meets big spending customer Connie Ennis, really a commercial spy. He unmasks her but lets her go, which gets him fired. They end up on a date, which doesn't sit well with Connie's steady suitor, Carl, but delights her son Timmy, who doesn't want Carl for a step-dad. Standard (if sweet) romantic complications follow.

среда, 18 апреля 2018 г.

Sickfuckpeople (2013)




Director & Writer: Juri Rechinsky

A documentary triptych about a group of homeless kids, who have survived their drug-addicted childhood, grew up and start to live an adult life. It's a story about a boy facing the surreal, degenerated society of his native village full of hate and sadistic anger while searching for his mother. It's a story about a pregnant girl who wants to give birth to her child whose childhood probably will be even worse then hers. But her own sisters are forcing her to make an abortion.