Drama

  • Alan Gibson – Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980)

    1971-1980Alan GibsonDramaSci-FiThe Wednesday Play & Play for TodayUnited Kingdom

    Dominick is a London suburbanite of the year 2130, who “goes flipside” by stepping into his flying saucer and landing on the London of 1980. Both centuries, he finds, have their advantages. Dominick’s 2130 environment is a stress-free society, but antiseptic and colourless.

    Though people have lost inhibitions about nudity, sex itself is dispassionate. No one smokes cigarettes, and the air is not polluted. But then, no one has ever smelled a rose, and cooking is less tasty than nowadays.Read More »

  • Alan Gibson – Play for Today: Another Flip for Dominick (1982)

    1981-1990Alan GibsonDramaSci-FiThe Wednesday Play & Play for TodayUnited Kingdom

    Now a respected teacher of temporal observers, Dominick has not visited the past for several years. He is content with his lot, resigned to the idea that he will never again see Jane, the lover he left in 1980, or their son. Then his boss gives him a new mission: to find out what has become of one of Dominick’s students, Pyrus Bonnington, who has gone missing in 1982.Read More »

  • Carlos Iglesias – Un Franco, 14 pesetas AKA Crossing Borders (2006)

    2001-2010Carlos IglesiasComedyDramaSpain

    Spain 1960, the dawn of the country’s economic development. Industrial “reorganization” means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. Martin, his wife Pilar and their son Pablito live with Mart’n’s parents in a basement apartment that comes with their job as superintendents of the building. Encouraged by Marcos, his friend and co-worker, Martin decides to emigrate to Switzerland. The whole family has to admit that for the time being this is the most promising plan. Unable to obtain a work contract from the Swiss Consulate, Martin and Marcos decide to go anyway, pretending they are tourists to get past the border police. Pablito will experience drastic changes in a short period of time: his father’s departure, a new way of life in a different country with a different environment and learning another language. But afterwards, in Switzerland, they will face new experiences which will allow them to live with renewed happiness.Read More »

  • Kjell Grede – Hip hip hurra! (1987)

    1981-1990DramaKjell GredeSweden

    The life and times of the Scandinavian artists’ colony who lived in Skagen on the Danish coast during the 1890s. Not so much a biographical account, rather a portrait of a way of life. The painters became famous for the way they used the light in their work, and this has also been mirrored in the cinematography. Written by Mattias ThuressonRead More »

  • Andrew L. Stone – Julie (1956)

    1951-1960Andrew L. StoneDramaThrillerUSA

    Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson
    Julie is most enjoyable if one doesn’t take it too seriously. Doris Day plays Julie Benton, whose off-the-coop musician husband Lyle Benton (Louis Jourdan) confesses that he in fact killed Julie’s first husband. She immediately recognizes that he is so possessive of her that he would sooner rub her out than lose her altogether, and leaves Lyle, seeking protection under the wing of a country club acquaintance, Cliff Henderson (Barry Sullivan).Read More »

  • Hae-sung Song – Failan AKA Pairan (2001)

    2001-2010AsianDramaHae-sung SongSouth Korea

    Synopsis:
    After losing both her parents, Failan (Cecilia Cheung) emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and make a living in Korea, Failan is forced to have an arranged marriage through a match-making agency. Kang Jae (Choi Min Shik) is an old and outdated gangster who has no respect from his peers. Short on money, Kang Jae decides to take on the arranged marriage. Having nothing more than a picture of Kang Jae, Failan spends her days dreaming and wishing that Kang Jae would come to visit her. Failan often writes to Kang Jae in sorrow about how much she misses and thinks about him, but never has the nerve to give the letters to Kang Jae. Things take a turn when Kang Jae is asked by his boss to take the fall for a murder in exchange for some money. The only hope in his worthless life is the wife he never met.
    — IMDb.Read More »

  • Devyn Waitt – Not Waving But Drowning (2012)

    2011-2020Devyn WaittDramaUSA

    Leaving small town life in her dust, Adele (Vanessa Ray) moves wide eyed to New York City, and her best friend Sara (Megan Guinan) stuck in their hometown. Separate for the first time in their lives, the film charts new relationships with boys, girls and eccentric old ladies (Adam Driver, Isabelle McNally, and Lynn Cohen). Beautiful music sequences capture fleeting emotions as their lives move in unexpected directions. “Not Waving But Drowning” is paired with “The Most Girl Part of You” a dark, but sweet short film. This piece stars newcomers Lili Reinhart and Ryan Munzert and is also directed by Devyn Waitt. “The Most Girl Part of You” is based on a short story of the same name by acclaimed author Amy HempelRead More »

  • Walter Lang – Mother Wore Tights (1947)

    1941-1950DramaMusicalUSAWalter Lang

    In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank Burt notices her talent, hires her for a “two-act”, then marries her. Incidents of the marriage and the growing pains of eldest daughter Miriam are followed, interspersed with nostalgic musical numbers.Read More »

  • Billy Woodberry – Bless Their Little Hearts (1983) (HD)

    1981-1990Billy WoodberryDramaL.A. RebellionUSA

    “[On BLESS THEIR LITTLE HEARTS] Some people have said, “But, oh, it’s not a black film. It’s a film about the working class.” Good — the working class is a universal class. It’s a bigger social identity than the particulars. That’s the kind of politics we hope that people can realize.”
    Billy WoodberryRead More »

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