The adventures and tribulations of a group of students during the years following the II World War.
This film was Japan’s submission to the 61st Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee. It was also entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.Read More »
Tjoet Nja’ Dhien is an epic anti-colonial film about the Aceh war, the long and bloody struggle against the colonial Dutch rule in the sultanate of Aceh in Indonesia. This aesthetically shot film portrays the unique character of the female guerrilla fighter Tjoet Nja’ Dhien. After her husband and rebel leader Teuku Umar is killed in an ambush, she takes on the Dutch colonial army herself and starts leading the numerous guerrilla warriors of Aceh.Read More »
An old, bigoted Japanese-American traditionalist is unable to reconcile the needs of his wife and two daughters with his own conservative view on life, which forces them to leave him in pursuit of their own happiness.Read More »
SYNOPSIS
1947 Cairo. Washerwoman Lavandiere dreams of escaping reality through movies. A charming organ grinder offers excitement, but a cholera outbreak threatens her son. Desperate, she fights to save him.Read More »
Overview
Lo que le pasó a Santiago aka What Happened to Santiago (1989) is directed by Jacobo Morales, Puerto Rico’s most prominent director. It is the first (and so far only) Puerto Rican film to be nominated for an Academy Award for best Foreign Language Picture and, at the time of this upload, the earliest Puerto Rican movie on KG.Read More »
Summary:
From Samuel Sloan@IMDB:
The summer of 1936. Shirou was on the way to Paris as the honeymoon with Madoka. He could marry her on one condition: he gave up pursuing a career as jazz musician. But he planned to stay in Shanghai to enjoy the jazz life. When Madoka found out about it, they were already in trouble which made impossible to get out of Shanghai. They began working in a dance hall, enjoying jazz and freedom. But the war was coming near… (The term ‘bansu king’ in the title derived from ‘advance king’, which means a person who always gets advance of his/her payment.)Read More »
When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by an club attendant and his waitress girlfriend.Read More »
A young man decides one night to leave the woman he loves. He tells him by phone. All night, he calls her. They talk about this dead love. The young man is a painter. He meets a runaway teenager who prostitutes himself to eat. Strong bonds are created between the painter and the teenager.
“Au cours de son errance nocturne à Paris, Jean se souvient de sa passion pour Stella à laquelle il vient d’annoncer la fin de leur liaison. Il rencontre Jeannot, un jeune prostitué, devant la gare de Lyon : les deux hommes se racontent leurs tourments, poursuivant ensemble leur déambulation à travers la capitale…”Read More »
This most seminal of stories has given birth to many inferior versions too numerous to count, but it takes the BBC once again to be faithful to the original masterwork.
The underlying theme of which stresses that, not all scientific discoveries are beneficial to mankind.
The eponymous character is a brilliant but obsessive researcher, who’s experiments in Optical Densities lead him eventually into a downward spiral of crime, violence and Death.
Although made in 1984 the special effects are rather good, the scenes of Griffin becoming Invisible, layer by layer are worthy of a big budget film.
This is as close as you’ll get if you haven’t read the book.
And if not why not? it’s excellent.
Produced by Barry Letts, screenplay by Terrance Dicks.
Story first publised 1897. Review: Keith SnowdonRead More »