Twist of fate and the twists of mind of the characters (mostly couples) combine in just the right twinkled absurd way in the interweaving episodes of this comedy. Each of the characters gets a good shot at being sarcastic and each is a sorry loser at some point yet none is turned into the butt of the joke. The place is Prague and the time is August 6th, 1995, except for one episode, set 50 years earlier in unflyable rain in the city of Kokura, Japan.Read More »
Having fallen from grace at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll retreated to Columbia Pictures, known in 1935 as “the Port of Missing Stars.” Though Carroll does no singing in Columbia’s Atlantic Adventure, she is still a charming and delightful screen presence. The actress is cast as Helen, the oft-neglected fiancee of hotshot reporter Dan Miller (Lloyd Nolan). When he tries to keep his appointments with Helen, Dan is fired by his newspaper. Hoping to get back in the good graces of his boss, Dan boards an ocean liner in pursuit of the man responsible for the murder of the District Attorney. It must needs be that Helen is also on board this ship, as is a gang of jewel thieves, leading to more than a few perilous situations for the hero and heroine. Silent film comedian Harry Langdon, who like Nancy Carroll was considered a fading star in 1935, is hilarious as Dan’s photographer pal Snapper.Read More »
imdb:The story follows a group of women in a maternity ward for women with complicated pregnancies. The women have different ages and background, but in spite of their differences they develop a special bond. They go through ups and downs together, while each of them wait for their children to be born, with both hope and fear.Read More »
A surreal travel drama, shot on Sicility with Italian actors. Il Viaggio Clandestino is a film about saints and sinners. Whether you are blessed or doomed is often dependent on someone’s soul that on whether they pray or suffer. The kindred spirit of San Gil! the Holy Gil! is Ciccio Bavaria who, unlike the former, continues to seek sin. For Bavaria sin is liberating and dynamic. The film tells the story of the journey made by these two protagonists; a journey that leads to the demise of San Gil, while Bavaria is reincarnated as Buddha. There is another traveler, a clandestine traveler. Christ, always fleeing the angels. This Christ does not help humanity with miracles, but by keeping himself alive as best he can giving weather forecasts. In this strange sanity story, Ruiz allowed himself to be inspired by apocryphal books about saints of flesh and blood.Read More »
In Istenmezeje, a small village in the county of Heves, time appears to be standing still.
The majority of young people who have just finished local elementary school,
are willing to fall in line with pressure from the community,
and follow the paths taken by their parents and grandparents:
the boys go to work in the mine, the girls get married.Read More »
Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest, Toni Erdmann) won Theater Heute magazine’s actress of the year award in 2020 for her turn as Hamlet in this staging by Dutch director Johan Simons.
“As the melancholy Dane, Hüller … digs deep into the character’s grief and isolation in this spare yet faithful production, which originated at the Schauspielhaus Bochum.” —AJ Goldman, The New York TimesRead More »
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Sarajevo‘s Hotel Europe is bustling in preparation for tonight‘s European Union gala for the centennial of Archduke Franz Ferdinand‘s assassination. But the disgruntled staff plans to strike because they haven‘t been paid for two months.
If this prestigious political dinner fails, the already mortgaged hotel will be shut down by the bank. With no time to lose to stop the strike, hotel manager Omer must turn to tough guy Enzo, who runs the cellar strip club. The staff union rep soon goes missing.Read More »
A 10-year-old boy shares an intense bond with his mentally ill mother. The youth’s life is turned upside down when his mother lapses into violent psychosis. A former psychiatrist takes pity on, and then custody of, the child.Read More »
The game’s story village, which is in secret documents was listed as Degelen № 27. Speech on the Semipalatinsk test site, more precisely, about the people who live near the test site. But they have no idea what kind of tests are conducted on this test site.
The action takes place in the early 60’s. Residents of the remote, God-forgotten village know nothing about nuclear explosions, neither of radiation. That is why children love watching the beautiful large mushrooms that grow from the ground and rush to the heavens. They do not understand why people are dying so fast in the village, why die by their parents and relatives.Read More »