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)




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)
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
Niger, in French, with English subs (.srt)