Drama

  • Isabel Coixet – Map of the Sounds of Tokyo aka Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio (2009)

    Drama2001-2010Isabel CoixetSpain


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    [SPOILER]

    Ryu is a solitary girl whose fragile appearance is in stark contrast with the double life she leads, working nights at a Tokyo fishmarket and sporadically taking on jobs as a hit-woman.

    Mr Nagara is a powerful impresario mourning the loss of his daughter Midori, who has committed suicide. He blames David, a Spaniard who runs a wine business in Tokyo.

    Mr Nagara’s employee, Ishida, was silently in love with Midori and hires Ryu to murder David.

    A sound engineer, obsessed with the sounds of the Japanese city and fascinated with Ryu, witnesses this love story which searches the shadows of the human soul, reaching deep into places where only silence has the power of eloquence.Read More »

  • Frank V. Ross – Quietly on By (2005)

    2001-2010DramaFrank V. RossMumblecoreUSA


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    “Two months ago, his girlfriend left him. One month ago, he lost both of his jobs after a nervous breakdown. He can’t work in his mom’s flower shop because he’s allergic to pollen and paperwork. Single, lonely, and jobless, Aaron expends his time and energy nurturing a long standing crush on his best friend Sara. Meanwhile, his other best friend, Erik, sells pot to his kid sister Erin (behind his back, naturally). If he manages to get out of bed, Aaron may mow the lawn, or he may reconstruct Stonehenge with a set of encyclopedias. To avoid embarrassing himself, he makes sure to rehearse all of his conversations in advance. Aaron sees something approaching on the horizon. Whether it’s his future or his doom, apparently it drives a white SUV ” Written by Frank V. Ross ( IMDB)Read More »

  • Atif Yilmaz – Degirmen AKA The Windmill (1986)

    1981-1990Atif YilmazComedyDramaTurkey


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    In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a telegraph sent to the central government exaggerates the situation and mentions that the governor of the town has been severely wounded, making the event a nationwide matter. Written by baddahRead More »

  • Robert Hamer – It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

    Drama1941-1950Robert HamerThrillerUnited Kingdom

    ‘A married woman shelters her former lover in her London home after he has escaped from prison. Discontented with her dull marriage, she begins to rediscover her former love for him.’
    – ScreenonlineRead More »

  • Thanos Anastopoulos – All the weight of the world aka Olo to varos tou kosmou (2003)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaGreeceThanos Anastopoulos

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    Quote:
    Everyone carries something, some burden that weighs him down.
    Some are crushed, others are freed, others just carry on.
    Eleven characters cross each others paths, unveiling their fears and desires, during the world weightlifting championship.
    A thousand kilos story, light as a summer breeze?

    Kάθε άνθρωπος κάτι κουβαλά, κάποιο φορτίο τον βαραίνει.
    Άλλοι ισοπεδώνονται απ’ αυτό, άλλοι απελευθερώνονται, άλλοι απλά συνεχίζουν.
    Έντεκα χαρακτήρες, που οι διαδρομές τους διασταυρώνονται, αποκαλύπτοντας τους φόβους και τις επιθυμίες τους, στη διάρκεια του παγκοσμίου πρωταθλήματος Άρσης Βαρών.
    Μια ιστορία χιλίων κιλών, ανάλαφρη σαν αεράκι…Read More »

  • Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach AKA The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968)

    1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtArthouseDanièle Huillet and Jean-Marie StraubDramaGermany

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    Plot Synopsis by Sandra Brennan

    The widow of Bach reminisces in this biography. Her life with the great composer was not easy. He seldom spoke to her. When he did, it was only to read letters of complaint. Included are performances of Bach’s works including the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Prelude 6 from the “Little Clavier Book for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Minuet 2 of the Suite in D Minor from the “Little Clavier Book for Anna Magdalena Bach, Sonata No. 2 in D Major for Viola and Harpsichord, Partita in E Minor from the “Little Clavier Book for Anna Magdalena Bach, Trio-sonata No. 2 in C Minor, Magnificat in D Major, “St. Matthew Passion, Prelude in B Minor for Organ, Mass in B Minor, Ascension Oratorio, Clavier-Uebung Italian Concerto, Goldberg Variations, Musical Offering, Art of the Fugue Corale for Organ, and Cantatas No. 205, 198, 244, 42, 215, 140, 82. Read More »

  • Woody Allen – Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)

    Drama1981-1990ComedyUSAWoody Allen

    Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah’s husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.Read More »

  • Woody Allen – Cassandra’s Dream (2007)

    Drama2001-2010CrimeUSAWoody Allen

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    Woody Allen wrote and directed this London-set feature, a modern noir with black comic trimmings. Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor play working class brothers who dream of better things than their respective mechanic and restaurant jobs. Hard-drinking Terry (Farrell) has a weakness for gambling, while brother Ian (McGregor) hankers for the finer things when he starts dating a very ambitious actress (Hayley Atwell). Fate deals a hand when their rich American uncle (Tom Wilkinson) slinks into London with a murderous proposition. Named for the boat the lads buy during a rare flush moment–a symbol of the morally compromising power of money and the inevitability, perhaps, of fate–CASSANDRA’S DREAM is another of Allen’s loving looks at moneyed urbanites and their penchant for living out Greek tragedy, a la MATCH POINT and CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS. This time around, it’s a bit darker, but with Farrell and McGregor in the leads, there’s plenty of star power. The lads are clearly having a ball acting under Allen’s direction, and they’re allowed to develop a charming, rapid-fire fraternal rapport that carries the film–along with Wilkinson’s old-school gravitas and Atwell’s luminous charisma. Phillip Glass composed the score.Read More »

  • Woody Allen – Match Point (2005)

    Drama2001-2010ThrillerUnited KingdomWoody Allen

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    Description: Tennis pro Chris Wilton takes a job as a tennis instructor and hits it off immediately with one of his students, wealthy young Tom Hewitt. Tom introduces Chris to his family and Chris falls quickly into a romance with Tom’s sister Chloe. But despite the growing certainty that Chris and Chloe will marry, and the enormous professional and financial advantages that come Chris’s way through his relationship with the delighted Hewitt family, Chris becomes increasingly intrigued and eventually romantically involved with Tom’s fiancée, Nola Rice, a struggling American actress. Their passionate trysts leave Chris in danger of losing the wealth and position he has now come to enjoy. The only solution to the dilemma seems unthinkable…Read More »

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