1. LIFE’S NO PIECE OF CAKE
YEAR: 2012
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: ANDRÉ ERKAU
CAST: WOTAN WILKE MÖHRING, HELEN WOIGK, CHRISTINE SCHORN
SHORT SUMMARY:
WHEN TEACHER BABETTE DIES IN AN ABSURD ACCIDENT, HUSBAND MARKUS (WOTAN WILKE MÖHRING)
AND 15-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER KIM (HELEN WOIGK) ARE LEFT TO PICK UP THE PIECES.
WHILE HE TRIES TO HIDE HIS PAIN BEHIND A BRAVE FACE AND INSISTS THAT LIFE WILL CONTINUE AS NORMAL,
HE CANNOT LET GO OF HER MEMORY. ALIENATED BY HIS BEHAVIOUR AS SHE STRUGGLES TO COPE WITH HER
OWN GRIEF, KIM RETREATS FURTHER INTO HER GOTH-GIRL PERSONA, EVENTUALLY RUNNING AWAY TO
DENMARK WITH HER BOYFRIEND.
2. WHERE I BELONG
YEAR: 2012
GENRE: ROMANCE
DIRECTOR: FRITZ URSCHITZ
CAST: KATY BARTROP, CHARIS-ELIZABETH DEIGHTON, KARL FISCHER
SHORT SUMMARY:
ROSEMARIE IS A HARD-WORKING YOUNG WOMAN LIVING IN A SMALL ENGLISH TOWN IN THE 1950'S. SHE
LEFT AUSTRIA WITH HER FATHER DURING THE WAR TO ESCAPE THE NAZI OPPRESSION AND SINCE THEN,
DESPITE POVERTY AND LONELINESS, SHE HAS ALWAYS KEPT THE FAITH THAT BETTER DAYS WOULD ARISE.
WHEN SHE MEETS ANTON, ONE OF HER FATHER'S FRIENDS, SHE IMMEDIATELY FALLS IN LOVE AND STARTS
BELIEVING IN A FORTUNATE DESTINY WITH HIM. AGAINST ALL IMPEDIMENTS, THEIR SECRET LOVE AFFAIR MAY
HELP ROSEMARIE TO FIND OUT WHERE SHE REALLY BELONGS.
3. THE CLOSED CIRCUIT
YEAR: 2012
GENRE: ACTION/CRIME
DIRECTOR: RYSZARD BUGAJSKI
CAST: JANUSZ GAJOS, KAZIMIERZ KACZOR, WOJCIECH ZOLADKOWICZ
SHORT SUMMARY:
INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS, “THE CLOSED CIRCUIT” IS A COMPELLING, STRONGLY PERFORMED POLITICAL
THRILLER ABOUT GREED AND CORRUPTION IN CONTEMPO GDANSK, POLAND, WHERE SOME HIGH-FLYING
NEW ENTREPRENEURS FALL VICTIM TO THE MACHINATIONS OF THE CITY’S ENTRENCHED POWERS. ONE OF
THE HIGHEST-GROSSING FILMS OF THE YEAR ON HOME TURF, THIS LATEST FILM FROM HELMER RYSZARD
BUGAJSKI (“INTERROGATION”)...
4. MIRAGE
ORIGIN: MAKEDONIJA
YEAR: 2004
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: SVETOZAR RISTOVSKI
STARS: VLADO JOVANOVSKI, MARKO KOVACEVIC, JORDANCO CEVREVSKI
SHORT SUMMARY:
INSPIRED BY TARKOVSKI’S THE CHILDHOOD YEARS OF IVAN, THE FILM TELLS THE STORY OF A PUPIL WHO IS
LED TO VIOLENCE AND REVENGE WHEN HE IS ROBBED OF ALL HOPE FOR A BETTER LIFE. LIVING WITHIN A
BROKEN DOWN SOCIAL AND FAMILY ENVIRONMENT, TWELVE-YEAR-OLD MARCO PINS ALL HIS HOPES ON A
POETRY COMPETITION THAT HIS TEACHER HAS SUGGESTED HE PARTICIPATE IN. BUT WHEN THAT SAME
TEACHER BETRAYS HIM AND THINGS AROUND HIM JUST KEEP GETTING WORSE, MARKO WILL TAKE HIS FATE
INTO HIS OWN HAND AND PUT INTO PRACTICE THE LESSONS HE WAS TAUGHT BY A LONE DESPERADO
5. THE LITTLE ONE
ORIGIN: SOUTH AFRICA
YEAR: 2012
GENRE: DRAMA
LITTLE ONE TELLS A STORY OF A SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL, PLAYED BY VUYELWA MSIMANG, WHO IS FOUND LEFT
FOR DEAD ON THE DUNES NEAR A TOWNSHIP IN JOHANNESBURG. SHE IS FOUND BY A MIDDLE-AGED
WOMAN, PAULINE (LINDIWE NDLOVU), WHO RUSHES HER TO HOSPITAL.
SAVING HER LIFE, IT TRANSPIRES THAT THE LITTLE GIRL HAS BEEN RAPED AND HER FACE BEATEN IN SO
BADLY THAT SHE DOESN'T EVEN LOOK HUMAN ANYMORE. THE STORY THEN FOLLOWS PAULINE'S JOURNEY
AS SHE
6. THE WEE MAN
ORIGIN: U.K.
YEAR: 2013
GENRE: CRIME/GANGSTER
SHORT SUMMARY:
1970’S BLACKHILL, GLASGOW: 11-YEAR-OLD PAUL FERRIS HAS LEARNED QUICKLY THAT LIFE ON THE STREET IS TOUGH. EVERYONE KNOWS THEIR PLACE. POVERTY BREEDS CORRUPTION, CRIME, VIOLENCE AND BULLYING.
GROWING UP IMMERSED IN A CULTURE OF CRIME, FERRIS FINALLY SNAPS WHEN TORMENTED ONE TOO MANY TIMES BY A VICIOUS GANG OF BULLYING NEIGHBOURHOOD BROTHERS WHO HAVE MADE HIS CHILDHOOD A LIVING HELL. NOW IN HIS LATE TEENS, DESPITE HIS FATHER’S ADVICE AND IN THE FRUSTRATED KNOWLEDGE THAT THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND POLICE DO NOTHING TO HELP, HE DECIDES TO TAKE ON HIS TORMENTORS ALONE AND SYSTEMATICALLY WREAK VENGEANCE ON THEM.
CONSEQUENTLY ATTRACTING A STREET REPUTATION, FERRIS IS SOUGHT OUT BY THE ‘GODFATHER’ OF THE GLASWEGIAN GANGSTER COMMUNITY, ARTHUR THOMPSON SNR. AGAIN IGNORING HIS FATHER’S ADVICE, HE STARTS TO WORK FOR THE GANGLAND BOSS THROUGHOUT THE '80S AND '90S, RISING THROUGH THE RANKS MUCH TO THE IRRITATION OF ARTHUR’S SON, 'FAT BOY' THOMPSON JR.
RIVAL MOB HONCHO TAM MCGRAW RECOGNISES THE WEAK LINK IN THE GODFATHER’S ARMOUR IS HIS SON’S EGO, AND IN A BID TO START A TURF-WAR HE FANS THE FLAMES OF FAT-BOY’S DRUG-FUELLED PARANOIA AGAINST THE GANG’S RISING STAR, FERRIS. MCGRAW’S VIOLENCE AND CLEVER MANIPULATION OF FAT BOY ESCALATE WITH PAUL CAUGHT IN AN INCREASING SPIRAL OF CRIME, WHILE THE POLICE - IN THE POCKET OF MCGRAW - SET OUT TO TAKE DOWN FERRIS. HAVING BEEN SET UP BY FAT BOY AND MCGRAW, FERRIS SERVES TIME IN PRISON. SAFELY OUT OF THE WAY, TAM MCGRAW ORDERS A HIT ON ‘FAT BOY’ THOMPSON POINTING THE FINGER TOWARDS FERRIS. DISTRAUGHT OVER HIS SON’S DEATH, ARTHUR ‘THE GODFATHER’ THOMPSON DECLARES OPEN WAR ON FERRIS AND HIS GANG, LEAVING A WAKE OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION THE LIKES OF WHICH GLASGOW HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
BASED ON THE LIFE AND MEMOIRS OF PAUL FERRIS, THE WEE MAN THROWS LIGHT ON THE WORLD OF CORRUPTION, CRIME, POLICING AND PRISON SERVICES DURING GLASGOW’S GANG-WAR HEYDAY AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM.
7. WAYS TO LIVE FOREVER
ORIGIN: SPAIN/U.K.
YEAR: 2010
GENRE: FAMILY
SHORT SUMMARY:
SAM LOVES FACTS. HE WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT UFOS AND HORROR MOVIES AND AIRSHIPS AND GHOSTS
AND SCIENTISTS, AND HOW IT FEELS TO KISS A GIRL. AND BECAUSE HE HAS LEUKEMIA HE WANTS TO KNOW
THE FACTS ABOUT DYING. SAM NEEDS ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS NOBODY WILL ANSWER.
8. BILL COLLECTOR
ORIGIN: U.S.A
YEAR: 2014
GENRE: THRILLER/COMEDY/ACTION
SHORT SUMMARY:
UNCLE FRANKIE (DANNY TREJO) IS NOT THE KIND OF GUY YOU WANT TO MEET IN A DARK ALLEY ESPECIALLY
WHEN YOU OWE HIM MONEY AND ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE BEEN GIVING HIM THE SLIP FOR A FEW
YEARS. SUCH IS THE FATE OF LORENZO ADAMS, TOP BILL COLLECTOR AT LUMP SUM COLLECTIONS, WHOSE
BOSS LEAVES HIM IN CHARGE OF THINGS WHILE HE GOES ON VACATION. ENTER UNCLE FRANKIE AND HIS
THUGS WHO TRACK LORENZO TO NORFOLK, VIRGINIA AND ARE COMING TO COLLECT. WITH HIS BACK TO THE
WALL, LORENZO SCHEMES DESPERATE DOWN-AND-OUTERS OF AN INNER-CITY MISSION TO SERVE AS
UNWITTING PAWNS IN LORENZO'S FAST-TRACK SCAM TO COME UP WITH THE NEEDED CASH
9. FREELOADERS
YEAR: 2012
GENRE: COMEDY
DIRECTOR: DAN ROSEN
CAST: JOSH LAWSON, CLIFTON COLLINS JR., BRIT MORGAN
SHORT SUMMARY:
A COMEDY ABOUT A CHEATING HUSBAND (RAY LIOTTA) AND AN INJURED HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL STAR
(SHAUN SIPOS) WHO BECOME COURT ORDERED ROOMMATES. EMOTIONAL CARNAGE LEADS TO UNLIKELY
ALLIANCES, AS THE TWO MEN SCRAMBLE FOR A SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE AND STARDOM. 10. INESCAPABLE
YEAR: 2012 GENRE: MYSTERY /ROMANCE/THRILLER DIRECTOR: RUBA NADDA CAST: ALEXANDER SIDDIG, JOSHUA JACKSON, MARISA TOMEI
SHORT SUMMARY:
IT IS JANUARY, 2011, BEFORE THE ARAB SPRING BEGINS TO TAKE HOLD IN SYRIA.
ADIB ABDEL KAREEM (SIDDIG) HAD MADE THE PERFECT LIFE FOR HIMSELF IN TORONTO: BEAUTIFUL WIFE, TWO
GROWN DAUGHTERS, GREAT JOB. HE IS A CONFIDENT MAN, AT EASE IN ANY SETTING - HIS SYRIAN BACKGROUND
BETRAYED ONLY BY A SLIGHT ACCENT AND HIS DAUGHTERS’ NAMES, MUNA AND LEILA. ADIB IS A MAN WHO HAS
SUCCESSFULLY BUILT A LIFE FROM SCRATCH – A MAN WHO HAD LEFT HIS PAST BEHIND.
UNTIL HIS DAUGHTER, MUNA, DISAPPEARS IN DAMASCUS AND HIS PAST CATCHES UP TO HIM ALL AT ONCE.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, ADIB, A PROMISING YOUNG OFFICER IN THE SYRIAN MILITARY POLICE, SUDDENLY LEFT
DAMASCUS UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES. HE LEFT HIS ENTIRE LIFE BEHIND, INCLUDING THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE,
FATIMA (TOMEI). HE MADE HIS WAY TO CANADA AND WIPED THE SLATE CLEAN. HE NEVER TOLD ANYONE ABOUT HIS
PAST.
SO WHEN HIS DAUGHTER MUNA, A YOUNG FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER, DECIDED TO VISIT DAMASCUS ON A WHIM,
SHE HAD NO IDEA WHAT SHE WAS WALKING INTO.
AS SOON AS HE LEARNS OF HER DISAPPEARANCE, ADIB KNOWS HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN GET HER OUT. HE
RETURNS TO RETRACE MUNA'S STEPS THROUGH SYRIA - A CLOSED AND PARANOID POLICE STATE. HE ENLISTS THE HELP OF FATIMA AND THEN PAUL, A CANADIAN CONSULAR OFFICIAL (JACKSON) WHO KNOWS MORE THAN HE LETS
ON.
IN ORDER TO FIND HIS DAUGHTER, HE MUST CONFRONT THE PAST THAT HE LEFT BEHIND. INESCAPABLE IS BOTH A
TENSE MYSTERY AND A CHARACTER DRAMA HELD TOGETHER BY THE UNIVERSAL THEME OF UNDYING AND
UNCOMPROMISING LOVE BETWEEN A FATHER AND A DAUGHTER.
11. NO CLUE
YEAR: 2013
GENRE: COMEDY
DIRECTOR: CARL BESSAI
CAST: BRENT BUTT, AMY SMART, DAVID KOECHNER
SHORT SUMMARY:
IN A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY, A SALESMAN IS HIRED AS A PRIVATE DETECTIVE BY A WOMAN TO FIND
HER MISSING BROTHER, AND COMPLICATIONS ENSUE.
12. MARINA
YEAR: 2013
GENRE: BIOGRAPHY (ROCCO GRANATA)| DRAMA | MUSIC
DIRECTOR: STIJN CONINX
CAST: MATTEO SIMONI, CRISTIAAN CAMPAGNA, LUIGI LO CASCIO
SHORT SUMMARY:
SALVATORE GRANATA IS A RATHER POOR MAN WHO LIVES WITH HIS WIFE, SON AND DAUGHTER IN
CALABRIA IN ITALY. ONE DAY SALVATORE DECIDES TO MOVE TO BELGIUM TO WORK IN THE COAL MINE OF
WATERSCHEI AS A "GASTARBEIDER," AN IMMIGRANT WORKER. HIS FAMILY WILL STAY IN ITALY AS
SALVATORE WILL ONLY BE IN BELGIUM FOR THREE YEARS. HE HOPES TO EARN MUCH MONEY IN A RATHER
SMALL TIME FRAME SO HE CAN BUY A FORGE FOR HIS SON ROCCO WHO IS NOW STILL A 9 YEAR OLD BOY.
AFTER A YEAR, SALVATORE DECIDES HIS FAMILY SHOULD BE WITH HIM, SO THEY ALSO MOVE TO BELGIUM.
THEY SOON DISCOVER THE LIFE OF A "GASTARBEIDER" IS DIFFICULT: THEY HAVE TO LIVE IN SOME KIND OF
BARRACKS, THEY ARE NEGLECTED BY THE BELGIAN PEOPLE AND THEY DO NOT EARN MUCH. THEY ARE
ASTONISHED WHEN THEY HEAR SALVATORE SIGNED A CONTRACT OF FIVE YEARS AND CHILDREN OF
"GASTARBEIDERS" OUGHT TO WORK IN THE MINES AS SOON THEY LEAVE HIGH SCHOOL. ROCCO MEETS
HELENA, THE DAUGHTER OF THE LOCAL GROCER. HOWEVER, THE MAN IS A RACIST AND FORBIDS HIS
DAUGHTER TO PLAY ... 13. VERDICT
YEAR: 2013 GENRE: TRUE STORY DIRECTOR: JAN VERHEYEN CAST: KOEN DE BOUW, JOHAN LEYSEN, VEERLE BAETENS
SHORT SUMMARY:
LUC SEGERS IS A HIGH-FLYING EXECUTIVE WITH A CHARMING WIFE AND BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTER, ON THE
CUSP OF BEING NAMED CEO OF AN IMPORTANT MULTINATIONAL. BUT ONE NIGHT AFTER A COMPANY
PARTY, LUC’S WORLD COMES CRASHING DOWN. WHEN HE STOPS FOR GAS, HIS WIFE IS BRUTALLY
MURDERED AND HIS PANICKED DAUGHTER RUNS INTO THE PATH OF A SPEEDING CAR. LUC IS ABLE TO
IDENTIFY THE KILLER, WHO IS QUICKLY APPREHENDED. BUT A LEGAL PROCEDURAL ERROR ALLOWS THE
SUSPECT TO GO FREE, AND THE CRIMINAL ACTION IS DISMISSED. SHOCK AND INDIGNATION TRAVEL
THROUGH THE MEDIA AND ON TELEVISION TALK SHOWS. BESIDE HIMSELF WITH GRIEF AND FURY, LUC
STALKS THE SUSPECT AND, TAKING THE ONLY ACTION POSSIBLE FOR HIM, SHOOTS HIM DOWN.
DELIBERATELY DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE FAILURE OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM, HE DEMANDS TO BE TRIED
BY A JURY. THE VERDICT IS BEAUTIFULLY ACTED AND SHOT, AN UNNERVING FILM THAT PITS THE LEGAL
PROFESSION AGAINST MOUNTING PUBLIC PRESSURE TO REFORM THE INSTITUTION.
14. THE SUSPECT
ORIGIN: U.S.A
YEAR: 2014
GENRE: TRILER
SHORT SUMMARY:
RACIAL POLITICS AND ARMED ROBBERY COLLIDE IN THIS TENSE, PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER WHERE NOTHING
IS QUITE WHAT IT SEEMS.
A SMALL SOUTHERN TOWN - CLOSE-KNIT AND ALL-WHITE - SUFFERS ITS FIRST-EVER ARMED BANK ROBBERY.
THE THIEF IS MASKED, BUT THE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SEEMS TO INDICATE THE CRIMINAL IS AFRICAN
AMERICAN. WITHIN MINUTES OF THE CRIME, A LONE BLACK MAN IS FOUND WALKING ALONG A NEARBY
RURAL ROAD. NO ID, WEARING A DIRT-STREAKED UNDERSHIRT AS IF HE'S RECENTLY BURIED SOMETHING.
NO EXPLANATION FOR HIS BEHAVIOR AND LITTLE COOPERATION. CASE CLOSED?
MAYBE...OR MAYBE IT'S JUST THE BEGINNING...
15. CITIZEN GANGSTER
YEAR: 2011
GENRE: CRIME/DRAMA
DIRECTOR: NATHAN MORLANDO
CAST: SCOTT SPEEDMAN, KELLY REILLY, KEVIN DURAND
SHORT SUMMARY:
CITIZEN GANGSTER IS BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF A WWII VET AND FAMILY MAN TURNED BANK ROBBER.
FRUSTRATED AND DISILLUSIONED BY HIS POST WAR CIRCUMSTANCES, EDDIE BOYD IS A MAN TORN BETWEEN THE
NEED TO PROVIDE FOR HIS YOUNG FAMILY AND AN UNFULFILLED DREAM TO HEAD TO HOLLYWOOD TO BECOME A
STAR. WHEN HE DISCOVERS A WAY TO SATISFY BOTH NEEDS – ROBBING BANKS "HOLLYWOOD STYLE” – HIS DREAM
FOR STARDOM LEADS HIM DOWN AN UNEXPECTED PATH OF GANGSTERISM, DANGER AND TRAGEDY. CITIZEN
GANGSTER IS A POWERFUL, INTIMATE TAKE ON THE TRUE CRIME DRAMA.
16. COMEBACK SEASON
YEAR: 2011
GENRE: COMEDY/ROMANCE
DIRECTOR: BRUCE MCCULLOCH
CAST: RAY LIOTTA, SHAUN SIPOS, GLENNE HEADLY
SHORT SUMMARY:
DEEP IN THE HEART OF FOOTBALL COUNTRY, SKYLAR ECKERMAN IS A STAR. AS QUARTERBACK OF HIS HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL TEAM, HE’S GOT THE SKILLS, THE LOOKS, AND THE GIRLS. BUT HE LOSES IT ALL IN ONE MISSTEP, INJURING
HIS KNEE, HIS FUTURE AND HIS STATUS AS A LOCAL STAR.
ALTHOUGH NOT QUITE THE HERO COMPARED TO HIS NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR, WALTER PEARCE IS A LOVING HUSBAND,
GOOD FATHER AND ALL-ROUND DECENT FAMILY MAN. HE TOO LOSES IT ALL WHEN AN INTER-OFFICE AFFAIR
CRUMBLES HIS WORLD AND HIS WIFE DEBORAH KICKS HIM OUT OF THE HOUSE.
BOTH MEN BEHAVE BADLY AND FIND THEMSELVES AT THE LOCAL JAIL. AS IT TURNS OUT, SKYLAR IS WALTER’S
NEIGHBOUR AND NOT WALTER’S FAVORITE PERSON. A YEAR EARLIER SKYLAR BROKE WALTER’S DAUGHTER,
CHRISTINE’S HEART AND SHE TOOK OFF TO PURSUE AN ALTRUISTIC TREE PLANTING LIFESTYLE IN THE STATES.
WALTER’S INFIDELITY HAS TAKEN PLACE ON THE EVE OF HIS OWN ANNIVERSARY AND JUST PRIOR TO HIS OTHER
DAUGHTER, CHLOE’S WEDDING. (“GOOD TIMING, DAD!”)
DEBORAH, WALTER’S WIFE, TRIES TO REBUILD HER LIFE AFTER STICKING PRETTY MUCH TO THE “ZERO TOLERANCE”
RULE. CHRISTINE AND CHLOE PROTECTIVELY CIRCLE THEIR MOTHER.
THE LINES ARE DRAWN WHEN WALTER INSTALLS HIMSELF RIGHT NEXT DOOR AT SKYLAR’S HOUSE AND ENLISTS
SKYLAR’S QUESTIONABLE HELP IN GETTING DEBORAH BACK.
THE PEARCE WOMEN MAKE IT CLEAR THAT SECOND CHANCES ARE EARNED… AND NOT THAT EASILY. 17. CHAINED
YEAR: 2012
GENRE: THRILLER
DIRECTOR: JENNIFER CHAMBERS LYNCH
CAST: VINCENT D'ONOFRIO, EAMON FARREN, EVAN BIRD
SHORT SUMMARY:
NINE-YEAR OLD TIM AND HIS MOTHER SARAH ARE BROUGHT TO THE CINEMA BY HIS FATHER BRAD (JAKE
WEBER) WHO URGES THEM TO TAKE A TAXI INSTEAD OF A BUS WHEN GOING HOME. AFTER THE SHOW, SARAH
WANTS TO CALL A TAXI BUT ONE IS ALREADY ARRIVING. THEY ENTER IT BUT INSTEAD OF BRINGING THEM HOME
THE DRIVER BOB (VINCENT D'ONOFRIO) ABDUCTS THEM INTO HIS HOME. THERE HE KILLS SARAH AND MAKES
TIM HIS SLAVE FOR HIS HOUSEWORK, THREATENING HIM WITH VIOLENCE IF HE DOES NOT OBEY, GIVING HIM THE
NEW NAME "RABBIT". TIM TRIES TO ESCAPE LATER, BOB EVEN ENCOURAGES HIM TO RUN AWAY BUT THEN TIM
IS AFRAID TO DO THIS WHEN HE NOTICES THAT NOBODY CAN HEAR HIM FAR AWAY FROM THE CITY. BOB
CONTINUES TO BE A SERIAL KILLER ABDUCTING YOUNG GIRLS, RAPING AND KILLING THEM AT HIS HOME.
18. TEXTUALITY
YEAR: 2011 GENRE: COMEDY STARS: JASON LEWIS, CARLY POPE, ERIC MCCORMACK |
SHORT SUMMARY:
A SUCCESSFUL FINANCIAL ADVISOR, BRESLIN (JASON LEWIS) HAD BRAVED THE STOCK MARKET AND WON. IN HIS
PRIVATE LIFE, HE THOUGHT HE HAD FOUND WHAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR - ERIN. SHE WAS PERFECT …RIGHT UP UNTIL
THE DAY OF THEIR WEDDING WHEN SHE DECIDED THAT MARRIAGE, AT LEAST TO BRESLIN, JUST WASN’T GOING TO
HAPPEN. SO SHE WALKED. AND BRESLIN FELL APART.
SIX MONTHS LATER, HE HAD PULLED HIMSELF TOGETHER AGAIN, IN A FASHION. UNDERSTANDABLY GUN SHY, HE
LAUNCHED HIMSELF BACK ON THE MARKET, BUT WAS HEDGING HIS BETS LITERALLY AND FIGURATIVELY. AT WORK THE
STOCK JOCKEY WAS REPLACED BY THE ZERO RISK, ZERO PROFIT PORTFOLIO MANAGER. EVERY STOCK PICK NOW FELT
LIKE HE WAS CRADLING A PINLESS GRENADE. EMOTIONALLY, HE OPTED FOR TIME-SHARING THE AFFECTION OF THREE
BEAUTIFUL, BUT LESS THAN IDEAL WOMEN. SUCCESSFULLY JUGGLING HIS “ROSTER” THROUGH AN ELABORATE SERIES
OF TEXTING, SCHEDULING, AND SYNCHING, BRESLIN’S DIVERSIFIED APPROACH TO DATING WAS MUCH SAFER THAN
RISKING IT ALL ON ONE WOMAN. NO PROFIT, BUT THEN AGAIN, NO LOSS.
TOO FRAGILE TO TAKE A CHANCE, CHANCE DECIDED TO TAKE HIM - BY SURPRISE. THAT IS HOW BRESLIN MEET SIMONE (CARLY POPE), THE CONFIDENT, INSIGHTFUL, AND STUNNINGLY BEAUTIFUL -
SIMONE APPEALS TO BRESLIN IN WAYS HE THOUGHT POSSIBLE ONLY THROUGH A MULTI-WOMAN APPROACH. AND AS
EACH WOMAN IN HIS ROSTER BEGINS TO HAVE NEEDS, DEMANDS, SUSPICIONS AND JEALOUSIES OF THEIR OWN,
BRESLIN FINDS HIMSELF STRUGGLING TO KEEP IT ALL TOGETHER WHILE CONTINUING TO PURSUE HIS FEELINGS FOR
SIMONE.
WHEN A SCORNED LOVER HACKS INTO HIS PDA, AND HIS HOUSE OF CARDS BEGINS TO FALL APART, BRESLIN
SUCCESSFULLY WOOS SIMONE – ONLY TO FIND THAT HE HAS BEEN PART OF HER ROSTER THE WHOLE TIME, AND
MUST NOW DEAL WITH THE SHOE BEING ON THE OTHER FOOT.
TEXTUALITY IS A HILARIOUS LOOK MODERN DAY RELATIONSHIPS – THE AMBIGUITY THAT DEFINES THEM, THE
FRUSTRATION AND HUMOR THAT ARISES FROM THEM, AND MOST RECENTLY - THE TECHNOLOGY THAT ENABLES THEM.
19. COMBAT GIRLS
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: DAVID WNENDT
CAST: ALINA LEVSHIN, JELLA HAASE AND SAYED AHMAD
LANGUAGE: GERMAN
YEAR: 2011.
SHORT SUMMARY: MARISA, A 20-YEAR-OLD GERMAN GIRL, HATES FOREIGNERS, JEWS, COPS, AND EVERYONE SHE FINDS GUILTY
FOR THE DECLINE OF HER COUNTRY. SHE PROVOKES, DRINKS, FIGHTS AND HER NEXT TATTOO WILL BE A
PORTRAIT OF ADOLF HITLER. THE ONLY PLACE SHE FEELS HOME IS THE NEO-NAZI GANG SHE BELONGS TO,
WHERE HATE, VIOLENCE, AND HEAVY PARTIES ARE THE DAILY RULES. WHEN 14-YEAR-OLD SVENJA JOINS THE
GROUP, MARISA APPEARS LIKE A ROLE MODEL TO HER: SHE FITS THE PUREST IDEA OF A COMBAT GIRL
FIGHTING FOR THE GROUP'S IDEOLOGY. BUT MARISA'S CONVICTIONS WILL SLOWLY EVOLVE WHEN SHE
ACCIDENTALLY MEETS A YOUNG AFGHAN REFUGEE. CONFRONTED TO HIM, SHE WILL LEARN THAT THE BLACK
AND WHITE PRINCIPLES OF HER GANG ARE NOT THE ONLY WAY. WILL MARISA EVER BE ABLE TO GET OUT OF
THIS GROUP?
20. GREEN STREET HOOLIGANS: UNDERGROUND
COUNTRY: UK
YEAR: 2013
DIRECTOR: JAMES NUNN
WRITER: RONNIE THOMPSON
STARS: SCOTT ADKINS, KACEY BARNFIELD, JOEY ANSAH
SHORT SYNOPSIS: AN OLD FIRM LEADER RETURNS TO GREEN STREET FOR REVENGE AFTER RECEIVING A CALL THAT HIS
LITTLE BROTHER WAS KILLED, BUT IS HE ABLE TO COPE WITH A NEW TYPE OF HOOLIGANISM AND CAN HE
FIND HIS KILLER?
21. AWAYDAYS
COUNTRY: UK
YEAR: 2009
DIRECTOR: JAMES NUNN
WRITER: KEVIN SAMPSON
STARS: NICKY BELL, LIAM BOYLE, STEPHEN GRAHAM
SHORT SYNOPSIS:
A YOUNG MAN MAKES SOME NEW AND DANGEROUS FRIENDS IN THIS KITCHEN-SINK DRAMA SET IN
NORTHERN ENGLAND IN 1979. 19-YEAR-OLD CARTY (NICKY BELL) LIVES WITH HIS FATHER (GED
MCKENNA) AND YOUNGER SISTER MOLLY (HOLLIDAY GRAINGER) AND HAS A GOOD JOB WORKING FOR
HIS UNCLE BOB (IAN PULESTON-DAVIES). DESPITE HIS LOVING FAMILY AND PROMISING FUTURE, CARTY
IS FASCINATED WITH "THE PACK," A GANG OF FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS LED BY JOHN (STEPHEN GRAHAM)
WHO ARE KNOWN IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR THEIR DRINKING AND RECKLESS VIOLENCE. CARTY STRIKES
UP A CASUAL FRIENDSHIP WITH MARK (LIAM BOYLE), A MEMBER OF THE PACK NICKNAMED "ELVIS,"
AND WHILE MARK ISN'T CONVINCED CARTY IS CUT OUT TO RUN WITH THEM AT FIRST, CARTY'S TENACITY
IN A FIGHT CHANGES HIS MIND. WHILE CARTY AND HIS NEW MATES USE THEIR MUSCLE TO KNOCK SOME SENSE INTO A SHORT-TERM BOYFRIEND WHO MISTREATS MOLLY, SHE DOESN'T TRUST THE PACK AND
TRIES TO PERSUADE HER BROTHER THAT HANGING OUT WITH THEM WILL LEAD TO A BAD END. CARTY
ISN'T EASILY PERSUADED, BUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PACK BECOMES COMPLICATED WHEN HIS
FRIENDSHIP WITH MARK TAKES AN UNEXPECTED TURN. AWAYDAYS WAS ADAPTED FROM A NOVEL BY
KEVIN SAMPSON, WHO ALSO WROTE THE FILM'S SCREENPLAY.
22. CASS
COUNTRY: UK
YEAR: 2008
DIRECTOR: JON S. BAIRD
WRITERS: JON S. BAIRD (SCREENPLAY), CASS PENNANT (BOOK),
STARS: NONSO ANOZIE, GAVIN BROCKER, LEO GREGORY |
SHORT SYNOPSIS:
CASS PENNANT IS A UK MEDIA SENSATION, A REFORMED FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN WHO WAS FORMERLY
THE LEADER OF ENGLAND’S MOST FEARED FOOTBALL GANG. ADOPTED INTO A WHITE FAMILY IN EAST
END LONDON, CASS LEARNS FROM A YOUNG AGE TO RIGHT RACIST TAUNTS WITH HIS FISTS AND
DEVELOPS A VIOLENT AND ABRASIVE MENTALITY IN AN ATTEMPT TO FAIN BOTH RESPECT AND STATUS.
THROUGH HIS AGGRESSION AND BRUTALITY, CASS RISES TO BECOME THE HEAD OF THE INTER CITY
FIRM, A NOTORIOUS GROUP OF VIOLENT DIE-HARD FOOTBALL FANS. WHEN A LONG RUNNING FEUD
WITH A RIVAL GANG LEAVES HIM WITH THREE BULLETS IN HIS CHEST, ONLY CASS’S IMMENSE
WILLPOWER ENSURES HIS SURVIVAL. BUT HE IS THEN FACED WITH A TERRIBLE DILEMMA: DOES HE OBEY THE CODE AND SEEK REVENGE, OR DOES HE LEAVE HIS VIOLENT WAYS BEHIND NOW THAT HE HAS BEEN
GIVEN A NEW CHANCE AT LIFE?
23. SCAPEGOAT
YEAR: 2012 GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: CHARLES STURRIDGE
CAST: MATTHEW RHYS, EILEEN ATKINS, ANTON LESSER
SHORT SUMMARY:
THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THIS ADAPTATION AND THE ORIGINAL NOVEL.
WHEREAS THE ACTION OF THE NOVEL TAKES PLACE IN FRANCE, THIS SCREEN VERSION IS SET IN THE
UK IN 1952 AS BRITAIN PREPARES FOR THE CORONATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II.
AS ENGLAND IS PREPARING FOR THE CORONATION OF ELIZABETH II, SCHOOLMASTER JOHN STANDING
COMES FACE TO FACE WITH JOHNNY SPENCE, HIS EXACT DOUBLE IN APPEARANCE. AFTER A NIGHT OF
DRINKING, STANDING AWAKES TO FIND SPENCE HAS STOLEN HIS IDENTITY. UNSUCCESSFUL AT
EXPLAINING THE UNUSUAL SITUATION, STANDING SETTLES INTO THE VACANCY LEFT BY JOHNNY SPENCE. YET WITH HIS NEW LIFE COMES NUMEROUS PROBLEMS, INCLUDING TRYING TO JUGGLE A
WIFE AND TWO MISTRESSES AND FAMILY SECRETS THAT COULD PROVE DEADLY...
24. UNDERDOG
ORIGINALNI NASLOV: SVENSKJÄVEL
GENRE: DRAMA
YEAR: 2014
ORIGIN : SWEDEN, NORWAY
SINOPSIS:
DINO IS DREAMING OF ANOTHER LIFE. JUST LIKE 80,000 OTHER YOUNG SWEDES SHE HAS FLED THE
MASS UNEMPLOYMENT OF SWEDEN TO FIND A NEW LIFE IN OSLO. BUT PRETTY SOON SHE IS CAUGHT
UP IN A DESTRUCTIVE SPIRAL SURVIVING ON LITTLE CASH, IRREGULAR WORK AND HARD PARTYING.
AFTER BREAKING HER ARM SHE GETS FIRED FROM ANOTHER JOB AND UNEXPECTEDLY LANDS WORK AS
A HOUSEKEEPER. ALL THREE OCCUPANTS OF THE HOUSE FALL UNDER HER RECKLESS CHARM. THE
YOUNG UNSUSPECTING DAUGHTER, THE TEENAGE GIRL DESPERATE FOR ATTENTION, AND THE FATHER
- ALONE AND LONELY DUE TO HIS WIFE’S WORKING ABROAD. WHAT DINO DOESN'T COUNT ON, IS
FALLING IN LOVE. IN FACT, NONE OF THEM COUNT ON IT. 25. SMALL TIMES
DIRECTOR: JOEL SURNOW
COUNTRY: USA
GENRE: DRAMA
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014
CAST: CHRISTOPHER MELONI, DEVON BOSTICK, DEAN NORRIS
SUMMARY:
AL KLEIN RUNS A USED CAR LOT IN THE VALLEY WITH HIS BUDDY, ASH MARTINI, WHILE HE PINES
AWAY FOR THE WIFE WHO LEFT HIM YEARS AGO FOR A MORE SUCCESSFUL MAN. KLEIN REGRETS
NOT SPENDING MORE TIME WITH HIS SON, FREDDY, SO HE’S THRILLED WHEN THE KID DECIDES TO
FOREGO COLLEGE IN FAVOR OF SELLING CARS WITH HIS OLD MAN. KLEIN IS EVEN HAPPIER WHEN
FREDDY MOVES IN WITH HIM. BUT WHAT’S GOOD FOR KLEIN MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST THING FOR
FREDDY, LEAVING KLEIN WITH A TOUGH DECISION TO MAKE.
26. RICKY
DIRECTOR: KEVIN WAGONER
COUNTRY: USA
GENRE: COMEDY
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010
CAST: MATT MARKEY, SABRINA BOLIN, JESSICA MANUEL
SUMMARY:
LIKEABLE LOSER RICKY MCDOWN IS A STRUGGLING ACTOR WITH A LIGHT WALLET, A BIG HEART AND
AN EVEN BIGGER “ROCKY” FIXATION. WHEN HIS GORGEOUS NEW GIRLFRIEND TRACY DUMPS HIM,
RICKY IS CRUSHED…UNTIL HIS FRIENDS CONVINCE HIM THAT TO WIN BACK THE HEART OF HIS SELF-
CENTERED SOUL MATE HE SIMPLY HAS TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HIS BOYHOOD IDOL…AND
TRANSFORM HIMSELF INTO THE MAN OF HER DREAMS. WITH THE HELP OF JANIE, A CUTE GIRL FROM HIS BOXING GYM, RICKY GETS THE EYE-OF-THE-TIGER
AND WHIPS HIMSELF INTO SHAPE – BODY AND MIND – FOR HIS BIG MOVE ON TRACY…AND AN EVEN
BIGGER CONFRONTATION WITH BRAD, THE SMOOTH-TALKING, ARROGANT PLAYBOY WHO’S
ALREADY TAKEN HIS PLACE.
BUT THE ROAD TO TRUE LOVE CAN BE A ROCKY PATH…IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE… AS RICKY
DISCOVERS IN THIS CHARMING AND DISARMING ROMANTIC COMEDY.
27. HOSTIGE AKA JUNCION
DIRECTOR: TONY GLAZER COUNTRY: USA GENRE: THRILLER YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012
CAST: DAVID ZAYAS, MICHAEL O'KEEFE, ANTHONY RAPP
SUMMARY:
JUNCTION FOLLOWS FOUR STRUNG-OUT METH-ADDICTS WHO DISCOVER A DARK SECRET ABOUT A
HOMEOWNER DURING A BURGLARY, PITTING THEM NOT ONLY AGAINST THE POLICE BUT AGAINST
EACH OTHER 28. SNOWMAN
DIRECTOR: ROBERT KIRBYSON
COUNTRY: USA
GENRE: FAMILY
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010
CAST: BOBBY COLEMAN, BOBB'E J. THOMPSON, CHRISTIAN MARTYN
SUMMARY:
SNOWMEN IS A HUMOROUS AND HEARTFELT COMING-OF-AGE STORY ABOUT THREE UNLIKELY
HEROES AND THE WINTER THAT CHANGED THEIR LIVES FOREVER. AFTER A SURPRISING DISCOVERY IN
THE SNOW CATAPULTS THREE SMALL-TOWN BOYS INTO THE SPOTLIGHT, THE BEST FRIENDS HATCH A
PLAN TO BE REMEMBERED FOREVER BY SETTING A GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSR TITLE. ALONG THE
WAY, THE TRIO BATTLES SCHOOLYARD BULLIES, UNITES THEIR COMMUNITY AND DISCOVERS THAT -
WHILE FAME MAY BE FLEETING - TRUE FRIENDSHIP LASTS FOREVER. THE FILM STARS BOBBY COLEMAN
(LAST SONG), RAY LIOTTA (WILD HOGS), BOBB'E J. THOMPSON (ROLE MODELS), JOSH FLITTER
(ACE VENTURA JR) AND CHRISTOPHER LLOYD (BACK TO THE FUTURE).
29. JERICHOW
YEAR: 2008
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD
CAST: BENNO FÜRMANN, NINA HOSS, HILMI SÖZER
COUNTRY: GERMANY
LANGUAGE: GERMAN | TURKISH
AWARDS: 1 WIN & 3 NOMINATIONS
SHORT SUMMARY:
THE DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED AFGHANISTAN VETERAN THOMAS RETURNS TO HIS HOME VILLAGE OF JERICHOW.
ALI, A LOCAL TURKISH-GERMAN BUSINESSMAN, OWNER OF A SNACK-BAR CHAIN, HIRES HIM AS A DRIVER. THAT'S
WHEN THOMAS MEETS LAURA, HIS TURKISH BOSS'S YOUNG AND ATTRACTIVE WIFE. A CLASSIC LOVE TRIANGLE IS
BORN, UNFOLDING IN DESOLATE NORTHEAST GERMANY, WHERE THICK FORESTS SUDDENLY END ON CLIFFS
OVERLOOKING THE BALTIC SEA. CAUGHT BETWEEN GUILT AND FREEDOM, BETWEEN PASSION AND REASON, THE
PROTAGONISTS HAVE NO HOPES FOR FULFILLMENT OF THEIR DREAMS.
30. YELLA
YEAR: 2007
GENRE: THRILLER
DIRECTOR: CHRISTIAN PETZOLD
CAST: NINA HOSS, DEVID STRIESOW, HINNERK SCHÖNEMANN
COUNTRY: GERMANY
LANGUAGE: GERMAN
AWARDS: 6 WINS & 7 NOMINATIONS
SHORT SUMMARY:
YELLA IS ESTRANGED FROM HER POSSESSIVE AND VIOLENT HUSBAND; BUT HE CAN'T QUITE BRING HIMSELF TO GIVE
HER UP. WHEN THEIR FRAUGHT INTERACTION FINALLY COMES TO DRAMATIC CONCLUSION, YELLA'S LIFE TAKES AN
ODD SHIFT.
31. HEAVEN ON EARTH
YEAR: 2008
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: DEEPA MEHTA
CAST: PREITY ZINTA, GICK GREWAL, VANSH BHARDWAJ
COUNTRY: CANADA
LANGUAGE: PANJABI | ENGLISH
AWARDS: 2 WINS & 10 NOMINATIONS
SHORT SUMMARY:
LUDIANA-BASED CHAND GETS MARRIED TO BRAMPTON-BASED ROCKY SINGH DHILLON AND RE-LOCATES TO CANADA,
TO LIVE WITH HIM AND HIS EXTENDED FAMILY, CONSISTING OF HIS MOM AND DAD; BROTHER BALDEV AND HIS WIFE,
AMAN, AND TWO CHILDREN, KABIR AND LOVELEEN. FROM THE HONEYMOON STAGE ITSELF, CHAND GETS PHYSICALLY
ABUSED BY ROCKY, AND DESPITE OF BRINGING IN $20K IN DOWRY, SHE IS IMMEDIATELY HIRED AS A LABORER EVEN
THOUGH SHE IS A GRADUATE AND HER WAGES ARE PAID TO HER HUSBAND, AND IS NOT EVEN PERMITTED TO CALL
BACK HOME. TENANTS OCCUPY THE HOUSE DURING THE DAYTIME, AND THE ENTIRE DHILLON FAMILY USUALLY STAY
PUT IN A SHOPPING MALL. THINGS ONLY GET WORSE AFTER ROCKY BRUTALLY ASSAULTS HER IN EVERYONE'S PRESENCE
AFTER SHE GETS INTO A PHYSICAL ALTERCATION WITH HER MOTHER-IN-LAW. SHE MANAGES TO CALL BACK HOME
WANTING TO RETURN BACK, ONLY TO FACE DISCOURAGEMENT, AS HER FAMILY WANT ROCKY TO SPONSOR HER
BROTHER, GURPREET. THINGS CHANGE DRAMATICALLY AFTER SHE CLAIMS SHE SPOTTED SHESHNAAG IN THE
BACKYARD, WHILE ... 32. JAPÓN
YEAR: 2002
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: CARLOS REYGADAS
CAST: ALEJANDRO FERRETIS, MAGDALENA FLORES, YOLANDA VILLA
COUNTRY: MEXICO, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS, SPAIN
LANGUAGE: SPANISH
AWARDS: 16 WINS & 8 NOMINATIONS
SHORT SUMMARY:
A PAINTER FROM THE BIG CITY GOES TO A REMOTE CANYON TO COMMIT SUICIDE. TO REACH SOME CALMNESS, HE
STAYS AT THE FARMSTEAD OF ASCEN, AN OLD, RELIGIOUS WOMAN. ALTHOUGH BUT A FEW WORDS ARE SPOKEN, LOVE
GROWS.
33. NATURAL SELECTION
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR:RYSZARD BUGAJSKI
CAST: KATHERINE MCNAMARA, ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
RUN: 120'
YEAR: 2016
RELEASE DATE: 2016
SHORT SUMMARY:
TEENAGER TYLER EVANS FEELS AS IF THE WORLD HAS LEFT HIM BEHIND. EVERYDAY AT HIS NEW SCHOOL, HE FIGHTS
FOR SURVIVAL AS HE IS EASY PREY AMONG THE BULLIES. SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS, HE LOOKS TO HIS MANIPULATIVE
FRIEND INDRID WHO APPEARS TO HAVE IT ALL FIGURED OUT. SOON, TYLER FINDS HIMSELF IN A MIDDLE OF THE
STORM AND GETS CAUGHT UP IN SOMETHING HE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO CHANGE.
34. ASTHMA
GENRE: ROMACE
DIRECTOR: JAKE HOFFMAN
CAST: GORAN VISNJIC, BENEDICT SAMUEL, NICK NOLTE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
RUN: 90'
YEAR: 2015
RELEASE DATE: 23 OCTOBER 2015
SHORT SUMMARY:
OUR FILTHY HERO GUS MUTTERS TO HIMSELF, JUST BEFORE STEALING A WHITE ROLLS ROYCE. HE HAPPENS UPON
RUBY, A STUNNING TATTOO ARTIST HE'S ALWAYS HAD A THING FOR, AND WAVES HER INTO THE CONVERTIBLE. THE
MISFITS ESCAPE THE CITY AND INTO NATURE, SHARING A JOINT, WONDERING WHY THINGS USED TO BE SO MUCH
COOLER IN THE '70S. ASTHMA IS A MODERN ROMANCE THAT EXPLORES ADDICTION IN A FRESH AND HONEST WAY.
SHE WARNS HIM NOT TO FALL IN LOVE WITH HER, BUT THE HIGHER YOU ARE THE HARDER YOU FALL. 35. BOOST
GENRE: ACTION/CRIME
DIRECTOR: NATHAN GABAEFF
CAST: DANNY TREJO, DANAY GARCIA, JONATHAN LAVALLEE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
RUN: 95'
YEAR: 2015
RELEASE DATE: 2015
SHORT SUMMERY:
WHEN JIMMY FINDS A MYSTERIOUS PACKAGE IN THE TRUNK OF HIS LATEST BOOST, HE IS THRUST INTO A VIOLENT
UNDERWORLD OF CRIMINALS, AND A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK TO SAVE A LITTLE GIRL'S LIFE.
36. KIDNAPPED IN ROMANIA
GENRE: ACTION/CRIME
DIRECTOR: CARLO FUSCO
CAST: MICHAEL MADSEN, ANDREA STEFANCIKOVA, PAUL SORVINO
LANGUAGE: ROMANIAN, ENGLISH
RUN: 95'
YEAR: 2016
RELEASE DATE: 2 APRIL 2016
SHORT SUMMERY: A COUPLE OF ITALO-AMERICAN JOURNALISTS GO MISSING DURING THEIR WORK ASSIGNMENT IN
ROMANIA.
37. NEXT GOAL WINS
DIRECTOTJ: MIKE BRETT, STEVE JAMISON
GENRE DOCUMENTARY, SPORT
YEAR: 2014
CAST: THOMAS RONGEN, JAIYAH SAELUA, NICKY SALAPU
ORIGIN: UK
SINOPSYS: IN 2001, THE TINY PACIFIC ISLAND OF AMERICAN SAMOA SUFFERED A WORLD RECORD 31-0 DEFEAT AT
THE HANDS OF AUSTRALIA, GARNERING HEADLINES ACROSS THE WORLD AS THE WORST SOCCER TEAM ON THE
PLANET. A DECADE AFTER THAT HUMILIATING NIGHT, THEY REMAIN ROOTED TO THE BOTTOM OF FIFA'S WORLD
RANKINGS, HAVING SCORED ONLY TWICE IN SEVENTEEN YEARS. THEY HAVE LOST EVERY COMPETITIVE GAME THEY
HAVE EVER PLAYED. AGAINST THIS BACKDROP OF SERIAL UNDERACHIEVEMENT, THE TEAM FACE THE DAUNTING
PROSPECT OF A QUALIFICATION CAMPAIGN FOR THE UPCOMING 2014 WORLD CUP IN BRAZIL. IT WOULD TAKE A
MIRACLE-MAKER OR A MADMAN TO TURN THE TEAM'S FORTUNES AROUND - AND IN MAVERICK DUTCH COACH
THOMAS RONGEN THE ISLANDERS SOMEHOW FIND BOTH. AS A LOAN APPOINTMENT FROM THE MIGHTY U.S. SOCCER
FEDERATION, WITH EXPERIENCE OF PLAYING ALONGSIDE FOOTBALL GREATS LIKE GEORGE BEST AND JOHANN CRUYFF,
RONGEN IS COMPLETELY UNPREPARED FOR WHAT GREETS HIM ON THE ISLAND - IN HIS OWN WORDS IT IS "BY FAR THE
LOWEST STANDARD" OF FOOTBALL HE'S EVER ... 38. HOMECOMING AKA ELÄMÄLTÄ KAIKEN SAIN
GENRE: COMEDY
DIRECTOR: MIKA KAURISMÄKI
CAST: VESA-MATTI LOIRI, ARMI TOIVANEN, PETER FRANZÉN
LANGUAGE: FINNISH
RUN:103'
YEAR: 2015
RELEASE DATE: 21 AUGUST 2015
SHORT SUMMERY:
TIINA DECIDES TO RECONNECT WITH HIS AGED AND BOHEMIAN FATHER LIVING ALONE. WITH HER RELUCTANT
DAUGHTER AND NEW HUSBAND, THEY MOVE IN AND START TO RENOVATE THE OLD HOUSE. HOWEVER, NEITHER THE
RENOVATION NOR FACING THE PAST IS EFFORTLESS.
39. INVINCIBLE
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: WERNER HERZOG
CAST: JOUKO AHOLA, TIM ROTH, ANNA GOURARI |
LANGUAGE:
RUN: 136'
YEAR: 2001
SHORT SUMMERY:
THE FILM IS BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF ZISHE BREITBART, A JEWISH BLACKSMITH'S SON FROM POLAND WHO
BECOMES A SENSATION IN WEIMAR, BERLIN AS A MYTHICAL STRONGMAN. HIS EMPLOYER HANUSSEN DREAMS OF
ESTABLISHING AN ALL-POWERFUL MINISTRY OF THE OCCULT IN HITLER'S GOVERNMENT. YET AS HITLER'S HOLD ON
POWER GROWS MORE SURE, AND BERLIN ERUPTS IN A FERMENT OF ANTI-SEMITISM, ZISHE MUST DECIDE HOW HE WILL
USE HIS STRENGTH. PLAGUED BY NIGHTMARES, HE TAKES COUNSEL FROM A LOCAL RABBI. HE BECOMES CONVINCED
THAT HE HAS BEEN CHOSEN BY GOD TO WARN HIS PEOPLE OF THE GRAVE DANGER THEY FACE. 40. KINETTA
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: YORGOS LANTHIMOS
CAST: EVANGELIA RANDOU, ARIS SERVETALIS, COSTAS XIKOMINOS |
LANGUAGE: GREEK
RUN: 95'
YEAR: 2005
SHORT SUMMERY:
AT A GREEK HOTEL IN THE OFF-SEASON, A CHAMBERMAID, A MAN OBSESSED WITH BMW CARS, AND A PHOTO-STORE
CLERK ATTEMPT TO FILM AND PHOTOGRAPH VARIOUS BADLY RE-ENACTED STRUGGLES BETWEEN A MAN AND A
WOMAN.
41. ALL THESE WOMEN AKA FÖR ATT INTE TALA OM ALLA DESSA KVINNOR
YEAR: 1964
GENRE: COMEDY
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: BIBI ANDERSSON, HARRIET ANDERSSON, EVA DAHLBECK
SHORT SUMMARY:
THE PRETENTIOUS CRITIC CORNELIUS IS WRITING A BIOGRAPHY ON A FAMOUS CELLIST AND TO DO SOME
RESEARCH HE GOES TO STAY IN HIS HOUSE FOR A FEW DAYS. HE DOESN'T MANAGE TO GET AN INTERVIEW
WITH THE MAN, BUT BY TALKING TO ALL THE WOMEN WHO LIVE WITH HIM, HE COMES TO LEARN A LOT
ABOUT THE MUSICIAN'S PRIVATE LIFE NONE THE LESS. CORNELIUS THEN DECIDES TO USE THIS INFORMATION
AND TRIES TO BLACKMAIL THE CELLIST INTO PERFORMING A COMPOSITION THAT HE, CORNELIUS, HAS
WRITTEN.
42. AUTUMN SONATA AKA HÖSTSONATEN
YEAR: 1978
GENRE: DRAMA, MUSIC
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: INGRID BERGMAN, LIV ULLMANN, LENA NYMAN
SHORT SUMMARY:
A MARRIED DAUGHTER WHO LONGS FOR HER MOTHER'S LOVE GETS VISITED BY THE LATTER, A SUCCESSFUL
CONCERT PIANIST..
43. CRIES & WHISPERS AKA VISKNINGAR OCH ROP
YEAR: 1972
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: HARRIET ANDERSSON, LIV ULLMANN, KARI SYLWAN
SHORT SUMMARY:
WHEN A WOMAN DYING OF CANCER IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY SWEDEN IS VISITED BY HER TWO
SISTERS, LONG-REPRESSED FEELINGS BETWEEN THE SIBLINGS RISE TO THE SURFACE.
44. THE DEVIL'S EYE AKA DJÄVULENS ÖGA
YEAR: 1960
GENRE: COMEDY
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: JARL KULLE, BIBI ANDERSSON, STIG JÄRREL
SHORT SUMMARY:
THE DEVIL HAS A STYE IN HIS EYE, CAUSED BY THE PURITY OF A VICAR'S DAUGHTER. TO GET RID OF IT, HE
SENDS DON JUAN UP FROM HELL TO SEDUCE THE 20 YEAR OLD BRITT-MARIE AND TO ROB HER OF HER
VIRGINITY AND HER BELIEF IN LOVE. SHE HOWEVER CAN RESIST HIM AND THINGS GET EVEN TURNED AROUND
WHEN DON JUAN FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER. THE FACT THAT HE FEELS LOVE FOR THE FIRST TIME NOW, MAKES
HIM EVEN LESS ATTRACTIVE TO HER AND DON JUAN RETURNS TO HELL.
45. A LESSON IN LOVE AKA EN LEKTION I KÄRLEK
YEAR: 1954
GENRE: COMEDY, ROMANCE
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: EVA DAHLBECK, GUNNAR BJÖRNSTRAND, YVONNE LOMBARD
SHORT SUMMARY:
AFTER 15 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, DAVID AND MARIANNE HAVE GROWN APART. DAVID HAS HAD AN AFFAIR
WITH A PATIENT OF HIS AND MARIANNE HAS GOT HERSELF INVOLVED WITH HER FORMER LOVER CARL-
ADAM, WHO'S ALSO DAVID'S BEST FRIEND. WHEN SHE TRAVELS TO COPENHAGEN TO MEET CARL-ADAM, DAVID TAKES THE SAME TRAIN AS SHE DOES, MAKING IT LOOK COINCIDENTAL. SPENDING TIME TOGETHER
REMEMBERING THEIR PAST AND TALKING ABOUT THEIR FUTURE, THEY COME TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER
AGAIN, WHICH LEADS TO A RECONCILIATION.
46. MUSIC IN THE DARK AKA MUSIK I MÖRKER
YEAR: 1948
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: MAI ZETTERLING, BIRGER MALMSTEN, OLOF WINNERSTRAND
SHORT SUMMARY:
IN SWEDEN, THE UPPER-CLASS PIANIST BENGT VYLDEKE SUFFERS AN ACCIDENT IN THE MILITARY DRILL AND
BECOMES BLIND. HE RETURNS TO THE HOUSE OF HIS AUNT BEATRICE SCHRÖDER AND IS INITIALLY
SUPPORTED BY HIS SISTER AGNETA SINCE HIS FIANCÉE BLANCHE HAS CALLED OFF THEIR ENGAGEMENT AND
HIS FRIENDS HAVE ABANDONED HIM. WHEN AGNETA GOES TO THE UNIVERSITY, THE YOUNG SERVANT
INGRID HELPS BENGT IN HIS DAILY LIFE AND FALLS IN LOVE WITH HIM. BUT SHE OVERHEARS A CONVERSATION BETWEEN BENGT AND BEATRICE WHEN HIS MASTER BELITTLES HER CALLING INGRID OF
"LITTLE MAID". BENGT TRAVELS TO PLAY PIANO IN THE RESTAURANT OF A CUNNING MANAGER AND FINDS
HUMILIATION AND LONELINESS. YEARS LATER HE MEETS INGRID, WHO HAS STUDIED AND IS NEAR TO
GRADUATE AND HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH HER. BUT INGRID HAS A BOYFRIEND EBBE (BENGT EKLUND), STRONG
AND HANDSOME, AND BENGT HAS TO FIGHT WITH HIS INFERIORITY COMPLEX FIRST TO WIN THE LOVE OF
INGRID.
47. PERSONA
YEAR: 1966
GENRE: THRILLER
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: BIBI ANDERSSON, LIV ULLMANN, MARGARETHA KROOK
SHORT SUMMARY:
A NURSE IS PUT IN CHARGE OF AN ACTRESS WHO CAN'T TALK AND FINDS THAT THE ACTRESS'S PERSONA IS
MELDING WITH HERS. 48. SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE AKA SCENER UR ETT ÄKTENSKAP
YEAR: 1973
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: LIV ULLMANN, ERLAND JOSEPHSON, BIBI ANDERSSON
SHORT SUMMARY:
TEN YEARS OF MARIANNE AND JOHAN'S RELATIONSHIP ARE PRESENTED. WE FIRST MEET THEM TEN YEARS
INTO THEIR MARRIAGE. HE IS A COLLEGE PROFESSOR, SHE A DIVORCE LAWYER. THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE
HAPPILY MARRIED - UNLIKE THEIR FRIENDS KATARINA AND PETER WHO OPENLY FIGHT, ESPECIALLY WHEN
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL - BUT THERE IS A CERTAIN DETACHED ALOOFNESS IN THE WAY THEY
TREAT EACH OTHER. IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, AS THEY CONTEMPLATE OR EMBARK UPON DIVORCE AND/OR
KNOWN EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIRS, THEY COME TO DIFFERING UNDERSTANDINGS AT EACH PHASE OF THEIR
RELATIONSHIP OF WHAT THEY TRULY MEAN TO EACH OTHER. REGARDLESS OF IF IT'S LOVE OR HATE - BETWEEN WHICH THERE IS A FINE LINE - THEY ALSO COME TO CERTAIN UNDERSTANDINGS OF HOW THEY CAN
BEST RELATE TO EACH OTHER, WHETHER THAT BE AS HUSBAND AND WIFE, FRIENDS, LOVERS OR NONE OF THE
ABOVE.
49. THE SEVENTH SEAL AKA DET SJUNDE INSEGLET
YEAR: 1957
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: MAX VON SYDOW, GUNNAR BJÖRNSTRAND, BENGT EKEROT
SHORT SUMMARY: A MAN SEEKS ANSWERS ABOUT LIFE, DEATH, AND THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AS HE PLAYS CHESS AGAINST THE
GRIM REAPER DURING THE BLACK PLAGUE.
50. THE SILENCE AKA TYSTNADEN
YEAR: 1963
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: INGRID THULIN, GUNNEL LINDBLOM, BIRGER MALMSTEN
SHORT SUMMARY: TWO SISTERS AND 13-YEAR OLD BOY TRAVEL IN A FICTITIOUS FOREIGN COUNTRY. THE OLDER SISTER GETS
SICK AND THE THREE MOVE INTO A HOTEL..
51. SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT AKA SOMMARNATTENS LEENDE
YEAR: 1955
GENRE: COMEDY, ROMANCE
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: ULLA JACOBSSON, EVA DAHLBECK, HARRIET ANDERSSON
SHORT SUMMARY:
IN A STORY OF MISMATCHED COUPLES. MIDDLE-AGED LAWYER FREDRIK EGERMAN IS MARRIED TO THE
LOVELY 19 YEAR-OLD ANNE. THE MARRIAGE HAS NEVER BEEN CONSUMMATED HOWEVER WITH FREDRIK
THINKING SHE IS STILL TOO YOUNG TO TRULY ENJOY MARITAL LIFE. FREDRIK'S FEELINGS FOR A FORMER
LOVER, THE ACTRESS DESIREE ARMFELDT, ARE REKINDLED HOWEVER BUT HE FINDS HIMSELF HAVING TO DEAL WITH COUNT CARL MAGNUS MALCOLM, A PREDATORY MALE WHO THINKS HE CAN CONQUER ALL WOMEN.
WHEN DESIREE HOSTS A WEEKEND PARTY AT HER MOTHER'S ESTATE SHE INVITES BOTH OF HER ADMIRERS
AND THEIR WIVES. ADD FREDRIK'S SON AND HIS FLIRTY MAID TO THE MIX AND IT'S CLEAR MANY LIVES WILL
BE CHANGED.
52. SUMMER INTERLUDE AKA SOMMARLEK
YEAR: 1951
GENRE: ROMANCE
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: MAJ-BRITT NILSSON, BIRGER MALMSTEN, ALF KJELLIN
SHORT SUMMARY:
WHILE WAITING FOR THE NIGHT REHEARSAL OF THE BALLET SWAN LAKE, THE LONELY TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR-
OLD BALLERINA MARIE RECEIVES A DIARY THROUGH THE MAIL. SHE TRAVELS BY FERRY TO AN ISLAND NEARBY
STOCKHOLM, WHERE SHE RECALLS HER FIRST LOVE HENRIK. THIRTEEN YEARS AGO, WHILE TRAVELING TO
SPEND HER SUMMER VACATION WITH HER AUNT ELISABETH AND HER UNCLE ERLAND, MARIE MEETS HENRIK
IN THE FERRY AND SOONER THEY FALL IN LOVE FOR EACH OTHER. THEY SPEND SUMMER VACATION TOGETHER
WHEN A TRAGEDY SEPARATES THEM AND MARIE BUILDS A WALL AFFECTING HER SENTIMENTAL LIFE.
53. SUMMER WITH MONIKA AKA SOMMAREN MED MONIKA
YEAR: 1953 GENRE: ROMANCE
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: HARRIET ANDERSSON, LARS EKBORG, DAGMAR EBBESEN
SHORT SUMMARY:
HARRY LUND, 19 YEARS OLD, WORKS AT A STOCK-ROOM FOR GLASS AND PORCELAIN. IN THE VICINITY
WORKS 17-YEAR-OLD MONIKA AT A STOCK-ROOM FOR VEGETABLES. MONIKA IS A CHEERFUL AND HAPPY
YOUNG WOMAN AND WHEN SHE SEES HARRY AT A CAFÉ SHE STARTS TO SPEAK WITH HIM. THEY FALL IN LOVE
WITH EACH OTHER. BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE, THEY ARE BOTH HARASSED AT THEIR RESPECTIVE PLACES OF
WORK. MONIKA HAS AN ARGUMENT WITH HER FATHER AND LEAVES HER HOME; HARRY HAS AN ARGUMENT
WITH HIS BOSS AND QUITS. SINCE THEY HAVE NOTHING THAT TIES THEM TO THE CITY, THEY TAKE HARRY'S
SMALL BOAT TO THE ARCHIPELAGO TO BE ALONE FOR A FEW WEEKS.
54. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY AKA SÅSOM I EN SPEGEL
YEAR: 1961
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN CAST: HARRIET ANDERSSON, GUNNAR BJÖRNSTRAND, MAX VON SYDOW
SHORT SUMMARY:
RECENTLY RELEASED FROM A MENTAL HOSPITAL; KARIN REJOINS HER EMOTIONALLY DISCONNECTED FAMILY
AND THEIR ISLAND HOME, ONLY TO SLIP FROM REALITY AS SHE BEGINS TO BELIEVE SHE IS BEING VISITED BY
GOD.
55. THE VIRGIN SPRING AKA JUNGFRUKÄLLAN
YEAR: 1960
GENRE: THRILLER
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: MAX VON SYDOW, BIRGITTA VALBERG, GUNNEL LINDBLOM
SHORT SUMMARY: A KIND BUT PAMPERED BEAUTIFUL YOUNG VIRGIN AND HER FAMILY'S PREGNANT AND JEALOUS SERVANT SET
OUT TO DELIVER CANDLES TO CHURCH, BUT ONLY ONE RETURNS FROM EVENTS THAT TRANSPIRE IN THE
WOODS ALONG THE WAY.
56. WAITING WOMEN AKA KVINNORS VÄNTAN
YEAR: 1952
GENRE: COMEDY
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: ANITA BJÖRK, EVA DAHLBECK, MAJ-BRITT NILSSON
SHORT SUMMARY:
A RAKEL, MARTA, KARIN AND ANNETTE ARE MARRIED TO FOUR BROTHERS. WHILE WAITING IN A SUMMER
COTTAGE FOR THEIR HUSBANDS TO COME HOME, THEY TELL EACH OTHER STORIES ABOUT THEIR MARRIAGES.
RAKEL TELLS ABOUT THE TIME SHE HAD AN AFFAIR AND CONFRONTED HER HUSBAND WITH IT. MARTA'S
STORY IS ABOUT HOW SHE AT FIRST REFUSED TO MARRY AND HAD HER CHILD BY HERSELF. KARIN TELLS
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ONE TIME SHE AND HER HUSBAND GOT STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR TOGETHER.
WHILE THE WOMEN TELL THEIR STORIES, MARTA'S YOUNGER SISTER MAJ IS PLANNING TO ELOPE.
57. WILD STRAWBERRIES AKA SMULTRONSTÄLLET
YEAR: 1957
GENRE: ROMANCE
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: VICTOR SJÖSTRÖM, BIBI ANDERSSON, INGRID THULIN
SHORT SUMMARY:
AFTER LIVING A LIFE MARKED BY COLDNESS, AN AGING PROFESSOR IS FORCED TO CONFRONT THE EMPTINESS
OF HIS EXISTENCE.
58. WINTER LIGHT AKA NATTVARDSGÄSTERNA
YEAR: 1963
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: INGRID THULIN, GUNNAR BJÖRNSTRAND, GUNNEL LINDBLOM
SHORT SUMMARY:
“GOD, WHY DID YOU DESERT ME?” WITH WINTER LIGHT, MASTER CRAFTSMAN INGMAR BERGMAN
EXPLORES THE SEARCH FOR REDEMPTION IN A MEANINGLESS EXISTENCE. IN THIS STARK DEPICTION OF
SPIRITUAL CRISIS, SMALL-TOWN PASTOR TOMAS ERICSSON (GUNNAR BJÖRNSTRAND) PERFORMS HIS DUTIES
MECHANICALLY BEFORE A DWINDLING CONGREGATION. WHEN HE IS ASKED TO ASSIST WITH A TROUBLED
PARISHIONER’S (MAX VON SYDOW) DEBILITATING FEAR OF NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION, TOMAS IS TERRIFIED TO
FIND THAT HE CAN PROVIDE NOTHING BUT HIS OWN UNCERTAINTY. BEAUTIFULLY PHOTOGRAPHED BY SVEN NYKVIST, WINTER LIGHT IS AN UNSETTLING LOOK AT THE HUMAN CRAVING FOR PERSONAL VALIDATION IN A
WORLDSEEMINGLYABANDONEDBYGOD.
59. AFTER THE REHEARSAL AKA EFTER REPETITIONEN
YEAR: 1984
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: ERLAND JOSEPHSON, INGRID THULIN, LENA OLIN
SHORT SUMMARY:
RATIONAL, EXACTING, AND SELF-CONTROLLED THEATER DIRECTOR, HENRIK VOGLER, OFTEN STAYS AFTER
REHEARSAL TO THINK AND PLAN. ON THIS DAY, ANNA COMES BACK, OSTENSIBLY LOOKING FOR A BRACELET.
SHE IS THE LEAD IN HIS NEW PRODUCTION OF STINDBERG'S "A DREAM PLAY." SHE TALKS OF HER HATRED
FOR HER MOTHER, NOW DEAD, AN ALCOHOLIC ACTRESS, WHO WAS VOGLER'S STAR AND LOVER. VOGLER
FALLS INTO A REVERIE, REMEMBERING A DAY ANNA'S MOTHER, RAKEL, LATE IN LIFE, CAME AFTER
REHEARSAL TO BEG HIM TO COME TO HER APARTMENT. HE AWAKES AND ANNA REVEALS THE REASON SHE HAS RETURNED: SHE JOLTS HIM INTO AN EMOTIONAL RESPONSE, RARE FOR HIM, AND THE FEELINGS OF A
YOUNG WOMAN AND AN OLDER MAN PLAY OUT.
60. CRISIS AKA KRIS
YEAR: 1946
GENRE: DRAMA, ROMANCE
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: WIKTOR ANDERSSON, ANNA-LISA BAUDE, ALLAN BOHLIN, LANDGRÉ, STIG OLIN, MARIANNE
LÖFGREN
SHORT SUMMARY:
A SMALL-TOWN PIANO TEACHER IS SHOCKED BY THE ARRIVAL OF HER FOSTER DAUGHTER'S REAL MOTHER,
WHOSE YOUNG LOVER SOON FOLLOWS AND CAUSES FURTHER DISRUPTION.
61. FANNY AND ALEXANDER AKA FANNY OCH ALEXANDER
YEAR: 1982
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: BERTIL GUVE, PERNILLA ALLWIN, KRISTINA ADOLPHSON
SHORT SUMMARY:
TWO YOUNG SWEDISH CHILDREN EXPERIENCE THE MANY COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES OF THEIR FAMILY, THE
EKDAHLS.
62. FROM THE LIFE OF THE MARIONETTES AKA AUS DEM LEBEN DER MARIONETTEN
YEAR: 1980
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: ROBERT ATZORN, CHRISTINE BUCHEGGER, MARTIN BENRATH
SHORT SUMMARY: MADE DURING BERGMAN'S TAX-RELATED EXILE IN GERMANY, THE FILM CONTINUES THE STORY OF
KATARINA AND PETER EGERMANN, THE FEUDING, CHILDLESS, PROFESSIONAL COUPLE WHO APPEAR IN ONE
EPISODE OF "SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE." AFTER PETER PERPETRATES A HORRENDOUS CRIME IN ITS FIRST
SCENE, THE REST OF THE FILM CONSISTS OF A NON-LINEAR EXAMINATION OF HIS MOTIVATIONS,
INCORPORATING A POLICE PSYCHOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION, SCENES FROM THE EGERMANNS' MARRIED LIFE,
AND DREAM SEQUENCES.
63. THE MAGICIAN AKA ANSIKTET
YEAR: 1958
GENRE: COMEDY
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN CAST: MAX VON SYDOW, INGRID THULIN, GUNNAR BJÖRNSTRAND
SHORT SUMMARY:
WHEN 'VOGLER'S MAGNETIC HEALTH THEATER' COMES TO TOWN, THERE'S BOUND TO BE A SPECTACLE.
READING REPORTS OF A VARIETY OF SUPERNATURAL DISTURBANCES AT VOGLER'S PRIOR PERFORMANCES
ABROAD, THE LEADING TOWNSPEOPLE (INCLUDING THE POLICE CHIEF AND MEDICAL EXAMINER) REQUEST
THAT THEIR TROUPE PROVIDE THEM A SAMPLE OF THEIR ACT, BEFORE ALLOWING THEM PUBLIC AUDIENCES.
THE SCIENTIFIC-MINDED DISBELIEVERS TRY TO EXPOSE THEM AS CHARLATANS, BUT VOGLER AND HIS CREW
PROVE TOO CLEVER FOR THEM.
64. PORT OF CALL AKA HAMNSTAD
YEAR: 1948
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: NINE-CHRISTINE JÖNSSON, BENGT EKLUND, MIMI NELSON
SHORT SUMMARY:
A SUICIDAL FACTORY GIRL OUT OF REFORMATORY SCHOOL, ANXIOUS TO ESCAPE HER OVERBEARING MOTHER,
FALLS IN LOVE WITH A SAILOR WHO CAN'T FORGIVE HER PAST.
65. PRISON AKA FÄNGELSE
YEAR: 1949
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: DORIS SVEDLUND, BIRGER MALMSTEN, EVA HENNING
SHORT SUMMARY: A MOVIE DIRECTOR IS APPROACHED BY HIS OLD MATH TEACHER WITH A GREAT MOVIE IDEA: THE DEVIL
DECLARES THAT THE EARTH IS HELL. THE DIRECTOR REJECTS THE IDEA, BUT SUBSEQUENT EVENTS IN THE LIFE
OF A WRITER, A FRIEND OF THE DIRECTOR'S, AND A YOUNG PROSTITUTE HE LOVES SEEM TO PROVE THE MATH
TEACHER'S IDEA.
66. THE RITE AKA RITEN
YEAR: 1969
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: INGRID THULIN, ANDERS EK, GUNNAR BJÖRNSTRAND
SHORT SUMMARY: A JUDGE IN AN UNNAMED COUNTRY INTERVIEWS THREE ACTORS, TOGETHER AND SINGLY, PROVOKING THEM
WHILE INVESTIGATING A PORNOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE FOR WHICH THEY MAY FACE A FINE. THEIR
RELATIONSHIPS ARE COMPLICATED: SEBASTIAN, VOLATILE, A HEAVY DRINKER, IN DEBT, GUILTY OF KILLING
HIS FORMER PARTNER, IS HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH THAT MAN'S WIFE. SHE IS THEA, HIGH STRUNG, PRONE
TO FITS, AND SEEMINGLY FRAGILE, CURRENTLY MARRIED TO SEBASTIAN'S NEW PARTNER, HANS. HANS IS THE
TROUPE LEADER, WEALTHY, SELF-CONTAINED, GROWING TIRED. THE JUDGE PLAYS ON THE TRIO'S
INSECURITIES, BUT WHEN THEY FINALLY, IN A PRIVATE SESSION WITH HIM, PERFORM THE MASQUE CALLED
THE RITE, THEY MAY HAVE THEIR REVENGE...
67. THIRST AKA THREE STRANGE LOVES AKA TÖRST
YEAR: 1949 GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: EVA HENNING, BIRGER MALMSTEN, BIRGIT TENGROTH
SHORT SUMMARY:
A NEEDY COUPLE IN A BAD MARRIAGE TRAVEL BACK TO STOCKHOLM AFTER A TRIP TO ITALY. MEANWHILE, A
WIDOW RESISTS SEDUCTIONS FROM TWO DIFFERENT PERSONS - HER PSYCHIATRIST AND A LESBIAN FRIEND.
68. TO JOY AKA TILL GLÄDJE
YEAR: 1950
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: MAJ-BRITT NILSSON, STIG OLIN, BIRGER MALMSTEN
SHORT SUMMARY:
TWO VIOLINISTS PLAYING IN THE SAME ORCHESTRA FALL IN LOVE AND GET MARRIED, BUT THEY CAN'T GET
ALONG.
69. TORMENT AKA HETS
YEAR: 1944 GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: STIG JÄRREL, ALF KJELLIN, MAI ZETTERLING
SHORT SUMMARY:
AN IDEALISTIC ADOLESCENT, SUFFERING UNDER THE THUMB OF A SADISTIC SCHOOLMASTER, FALLS IN LOVE
WITH A LOOSE GIRL WHO IS BULLIED AND TORMENTED BY ANOTHER LOVER.
70. FANNY AND ALEXANDER AKA FANNY OCH ALEXANDER – TV SERIES (312')
YEAR: 1982
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: BERTIL GUVE, PERNILLA ALLWIN, KRISTINA ADOLPHSON
SHORT SUMMARY:
TWO YOUNG SWEDISH CHILDREN EXPERIENCE THE MANY COMEDIES AND TRAGEDIES OF THEIR FAMILY, THE
EKDAHLS.
71. SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE AKA SCENER UR ETT ÄKTENSKAP – TV SERIES (6X60')
YEAR: 1973
GENRE: DRAMA
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: LIV ULLMANN, ERLAND JOSEPHSON, BIBI ANDERSSON
SHORT SUMMARY:
TEN YEARS OF MARIANNE AND JOHAN'S RELATIONSHIP ARE PRESENTED. WE FIRST MEET THEM TEN YEARS
INTO THEIR MARRIAGE. HE IS A COLLEGE PROFESSOR, SHE A DIVORCE LAWYER. THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE
HAPPILY MARRIED - UNLIKE THEIR FRIENDS KATARINA AND PETER WHO OPENLY FIGHT, ESPECIALLY WHEN
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL - BUT THERE IS A CERTAIN DETACHED ALOOFNESS IN THE WAY THEY
TREAT EACH OTHER. IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, AS THEY CONTEMPLATE OR EMBARK UPON DIVORCE AND/OR
KNOWN EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIRS, THEY COME TO DIFFERING UNDERSTANDINGS AT EACH PHASE OF THEIR
RELATIONSHIP OF WHAT THEY TRULY MEAN TO EACH OTHER. REGARDLESS OF IF IT'S LOVE OR HATE -
BETWEEN WHICH THERE IS A FINE LINE - THEY ALSO COME TO CERTAIN UNDERSTANDINGS OF HOW THEY CAN
BEST RELATE TO EACH OTHER, WHETHER THAT BE AS HUSBAND AND WIFE, FRIENDS, LOVERS OR NONE OF THE
ABOVE.
72. FÅRÖ-DOKUMENT 1979
YEAR: 1979
GENRE: DOCUMENTARY
DIRECTOR: INGMAR BERGMAN
CAST: ANNELIE NYSTRÖM
SHORT SUMMARY:
FÅRÖ DOCUMENT 1979 IS THE TEN-YEAR FOLLOWUP TO THE FIRST DOCUMENTARY BERGMAN MADE ABOUT
HIS ADOPTED HOME, FÅRÖ, WHERE HE FILMED MANY OF HIS BEST WORKS AND LIVED UNTIL THE END OF HIS
LIFE.
73. BUT FILM IS MY MISTRESS AKA ...MEN FILMEN ÄR MIN ÄLSKARINNA
YEAR: 2010
GENRE: DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR: STIG BJÖRKMAN
CAST: WOODY ALLEN, OLIVIER ASSAYAS, BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI
SHORT SUMMARY:
GUIDED BY LIV ULLMANN AND WITH COMMENTARIES FROM A NUMBER OF PROMINENT FILMMAKERS FOR
WHOM BERGMAN IS AND REMAINS AN IMPORTANT INFLUENCE - SUCH AS WOODY ALLEN, OLIVIER ASSAYAS,
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI, ARNAUD DESPLECHIN, JOHN SAYLES, MARTIN SCORSESE AND LARS VON TRIER,
THE FILM PROVIDES A VIVID PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST WHO IN EACH NEW PROJECT FOUND A CHALLENGE FOR
HIMSELF AND FOR THE PEOPLE HE WORKED WITH - BOTH ACTORS AND COLLEAGUES BEHIND THE CAMERA.
74. IMAGES FROM THE PLAYGROUND AKA BILDER FRÅN LEKSTUGAN
YEAR: 2009 GENRE: DOCUMENTARY
DIRECTOR: STIG BJÖRKMAN
CAST: BIBI ANDERSSON, HARRIET ANDERSSON, INGMAR BERGMAN
SHORT SUMMARY:
IN THE EARLY FIFTIES INGMAR BERGMAN GOT HIMSELF A CINE-CAMERA, A 9.5 MM BELL & HOWELL, WHICH
HE OFTEN USED BOTH PRIVATELY AND IN HIS WORK. "BILDER FRÅN LEKSTUGAN" ("IMAGES FROM THE
PLAYGROUND") EMBARK ON THESE FILMS, GIVING A DIVERSE REPRESENTATION OF ONE OF THE GREATEST
ARTISTS IN CINEMA.
75. AIR AMERICA
DIRECTOR: ROGER SPOTTISWOODE WRITERS: CHRISTOPHER ROBBINS (BOOK), JOHN ESKOW GENRE: ACTION/COMEDY
IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE'S WAR. BUT IT WAS THEIR SKY. IN 1969, INNOCUOUS AIRLINE UPSTART AIR AMERICA IS, AS A MATTER OF FACT, A CIA FRONT RUNNING COVERT OPERATIONS, SUPPLY DROPS, SMUGGLING RUNS, AND ALL MANNER OF NAUGHTINESS INTO AND OUT OF LAOS—A PLACE THAT PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON ASSURES THE WORLD AMERICANS ARE NOT, AS A MATTER OF FACT, IN. GIVEN THE DANGEROUS WORK, AIR AMERICA NEEDS PILOTS, SO THEY RECRUIT RECKLESS HELICOPTER PILOT BILLY COVINGTON WHO HAS A HARD TIME ADAPTING TO THE LIFESTYLE. HIS MENTOR, GENE RYACK, HAS SEEN IT ALL, AND COVINGTON SOON LEARNS THAT AIR AMERICA HAS MANY FUNCTIONS—INCLUDING MAKING RYACK A TIDY PROFIT ON THE SIDE SMUGGLING GUNS AND WEAPONS INTO LAOS. HOWEVER, WHEN A SENATOR ARRIVES ON A FACT-FINDING MISSION FROM THE UNITED STATES, THE ENTIRE AIR AMERICA OPERATION IS IN JEOPARDY AND THE CIA NEEDS TO FIND A PATSY, FAST. IT WOULDN'T BE FETCHING FOR THE CIA TO BE CAUGHT IN CAHOOTS WITH A LOCAL WARLORD SMUGGLING HEROIN, NOW WOULD IT? IT'S PERFECT TIMING—A NEW PILOT JUST ARRIVED TO FRAME THE CRIME ON!
“SPECTACULAR ACTION SEQUENCES AND ENGAGING PERFORMANCES BY MEL GIBSON AND ROBERT DOWNEY JR MAKE THIS BIG-BUDGETER ENTERTAINING AND PROVOCATIVE.” - VARIETY
“DIRECTOR, ROGER SPOTTISWOODE GIVES THE FILM A SUMPTUOUS LOOK THAT CAPTURES VIETNAM LAOS IN BOTH BEAUTIFUL REALISM AND HARSHER SURROUNDINGS, IN ADDITION OFFERING SOME SUPERB AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND STUNTS THAT INCLUDE AN AMAZING CRASH LANDING SEQUENCE THAT I HAVE NEVER SEEN BETTERED SINCE ON FILM.” – THE DIGITAL FIX CAST RUNTIME: 113 MIN MEL GIBSON (GENE) COUNTRY: USA ROBERT DOWNEY JR. (BILLY) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/LAO NANCY TRAVIS (CORINNE LANDREAUX) YEAR: 1990 KEN JENKINS (MAJOR DONALD LEMOND) DAVID MARSHALL GRANT (ROB DIEHL) LANE SMITH (SENATOR DAVENPORT) ART LAFLEUR (JACK NEELY) NED EISENBERG (PIRELLI) MARSHALL BELL (O.V.) DAVID BOWE (SAUNDERS) BURT KWOUK (GENERAL LU SOONG) TIM THOMERSON (BABO)
76. ANGEL HEART
DIRECTOR: ALAN PARKER WRITERS: ALAN PARKER, WILLIAM HJORTSBERG (NOVEL) GENRE: HORROR/MYSTERY/THRILLER
IT WILL SCARE YOU TO YOUR VERY SOUL. IT'S 1955. SMALL TIME NEW YORK CITY GUMSHOE HARRY ANGEL IS HIRED THROUGH A LAW FIRM BY A MYSTERIOUS MAN NAMED LOUIS CYPHRE. CYPHRE TELLS HARRY THAT CHOOSING HIM AS THE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR FOR THIS CASE WAS BY NO ACCIDENT DESPITE HARRY NOT KNOWING WHO CYPHRE IS OR IN TURN CYPHRE NOT DIRECTLY STATING WHY HE CHOSE HARRY. THE CASE IS TO LOCATE A MAN BY THE NAME OF JOHNNY FAVORITE, A POPULAR SINGER BEFORE WORLD WAR II, WHO SERVED IN THE WAR AND SUPPOSEDLY WAS INSTITUTIONALIZED DUE TO HIS INJURIES SINCE, ALTHOUGH CYPHRE HAS NOT SEEN FAVORITE DURING THAT TIME. AS HARRY PROGRESSES THROUGH THE CASE, HE DOESN'T QUITE TRUST CYPHRE AS EVERY STEP HARRY TAKES LEADS TO PEOPLE ANGRY ABOUT HIS QUESTIONS AND/OR WHO WANT TO BEAT HIM. JOHNNY'S ASSOCIATES ARE HIGHLY POPULATED BY THOSE INTO MYSTICISM AND PARTICULARLY VOODOO, WHICH TAKES HARRY TO NEW ORLEANS. AS HARRY CONTINUES HIS INVESTIGATION, ONE BY ONE, THE PEOPLE HE INTERVIEWS TURN UP DEAD. ALTHOUGH HARRY ISN'T SURE IF HE WANTS TO CONTINUE WITH THE CASE, HE DOES SO IF ONLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN CURIOSITY AS TO JOHNNY'S WHEREABOUTS AND WHY CYPHRE WANTS TO FIND HIM. ALAN PARKER'S ATMOSPHERIC AND CONTROVERSIAL THRILLER STARS MICKEY ROURKE AS HARRY ANGEL, AND ROBERT DE NIRO AS LOUIS CYPHRE. “EROTIC, TWISTY AND INCREDIBLY DISTURBED. SPLENDID!” – NEEDCOFFEE.COM “ALAN PARKER'S PULP SENSIBILITIES ARE BEAUTIFULLY HONED BY THIS RAZOR-SHARP PIECE OF OCCULT NOIR.” - FLIPSIDE MOVIE EMPORIUM “SERIOUSLY CREEPY BAYOU NOIR WITH MORE TWISTS THAN YOU CAN SHAKE A CHICKEN BONE AT.” - EFILMCRITIC.COM
CAST RUNTIME: 113 MIN MICKEY ROURKE (HARRY ANGEL) COUNTRY: USA/CANADA/UK ROBERT DE NIRO (LOUIS CYPHRE) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/FRENCH LISA BONET (EPIPHANY PROUDFOOT) YEAR: 1987 CHARLOTTE RAMPLING (MARGARET KRUSEMARK) STOCKER FONTELIEU (ETHAN KRUSEMARK) AWARDS BROWNIE MCGHEE (TOOTS SWEET) ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR FILMS, USA 1988 MICHAEL HIGGINS (DR. ALBERT FOWLER) NOMINATED SATURN AWARD BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - ROBERT DE NIRO ELIZABETH WHITCRAFT (CONNIE) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - LISA BONET; BEST WRITING - ALAN PARKER ELIOTT KEENER (DET. STERNE) JUPITER AWARD 1987 CHARLES GORDONE (SPIDER SIMPSON) WON JUPITER AWARD BEST INTERNATIONAL ACTOR - MICKEY ROURKE DANN FLOREK (HERMAN WINESAP) YOUNG ARTIST AWARDS 1988 KATHLEEN WILHOITE (NURSE) WON YOUNG ARTIST AWARD BEST YOUNG FEMALE SUPERSTAR IN MOTION PICTURES - LISA BONET
77. BADEN BADEN
DIRECTOR: RACHEL LANG WRITER: RACHEL LANG GENRE: COMEDY/DRAMA
AFTER A FAILED ATTEMPT AT WORKING ON A FOREIGN FILM SET, 26 YEAR-OLD ANA RETURNS TO HER HOMETOWN OF STRASBOURG. OVER THE SCORCHING SUMMER THAT FOLLOWS, SHE DECIDES TO REPLACE HER GRANDMOTHER’S BATHTUB WITH A WALK-IN SHOWER, EAT PEAS AND CARROTS WITH KETCHUP, DRIVE A PORSCHE, HARVEST PLUMS, LOSE HER DRIVER’S LICENSE, SLEEP WITH HER BEST FRIEND AND GET BACK TOGETHER WITH HER EX. IN SHORT, OVER THIS PARTICULAR SUMMER, ANA TRIES TO GET HER LIFE TOGETHER. "WRITER-DIRECTOR RACHEL LANG AND STAR SALOME RICHARD MANAGE TO CRAFT AN INTRIGUING FEATURE DEBUT FILLED WITH KEEN OBSERVATIONS AND SLICES OF DARK HUMOR" - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER "A VERY INTERESTING FILM ON MULTIPLE LEVELS, BUT WHAT IMPRESSES THE MOST COMING FROM THIS FIRST-TIME FEATURE DIRECTOR IS HOW SHE BALANCES AND COMBINES ORDER AND CHAOS, IN TERMS OF BOTH SUBJECT MATTER AND STYLISTIC APPROACH. LANG AND RICHARD SHOW GREAT PROMISE" - CINEUROPA "UNIFIED BY A DISTINCTIVE HUMOUR AND INTELLIGENCE, CRISP VISUALS, AND RICHARD’S INTENSELY CHARISMATIC PRESENCE." - SCREEN DAILY
CAST RUNTIME: 96 MIN SALOMÉ RICHARD (ANA) COUNTRY: BELGIUM/FRANCE CLAUDE GENSAC (LA GRAND-MÈRE) LANGUAGE: FRENCH LAZARE GOUSSEAU (GRÉGOIRE) YEAR: 2016 SWANN ARLAUD (SIMON) OLIVIER CHANTREAU (BORIS) JORIJN VRIESENDORP (MIRA) NOÉMIE ROSSET (MERIEM) ZABOU BREITMAN (LA MÈRE D'ANA) THOMAS SILBERSTEIN (SAMSON) KRIS PORTIER DE BELLAIR (LA MÈRE DE BORIS) RÉGIS LANG (LE PÈRE D'ANA) KATE MORAN (LOIS) MATHIEU MORTELMANS (L'ASSISTANT DE PRODUCTION) FESTIVALS SAM LOUWYCK (ANDREW) BERLINALE 2016 (WORLD PREMIERE) DRISS RAMDI (AMAR)
78. CHANGELING, THE
DIRECTOR: PETER MEDAK WRITERS: RUSSELL HUNTER (STORY), WILLIAM GRAY GENRE: HORROR/MYSTERY
AN EXPERIENCE BEYOND TOTAL FEAR. PETER MEDAK DIRECTED THIS CREEPY TALE OF HORROR WITH GEORGE C. SCOTT AS JOHN RUSSELL, A WIDOWED MUSIC PROFESSOR WHO MOVES INTO A HAUNTED MANSION IN SEATTLE. HE HIRES CLAIRE NORMAN (TRISH VAN DEVERE), A LOCAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY WORKER, TO HELP HIM INVESTIGATE THE STORY BEHIND THE OLD HOUSE. CLAIRE AND JOHN DISCOVER THAT THE SPIRIT INHABITING THE HOUSE BELONGS TO A BOY MURDERED BY HIS FATHER IN AN EFFORT TO COLLECT AN INHERITANCE. WHEN THE FATHER FOUND OUT THAT HE COULDN'T COLLECT ON THE INHERITANCE UNTIL HIS SON BECAME TWENTY-ONE, HE REPLACED HIS MURDERED SON WITH A SUBSTITUTE. THE FATHER'S REPLACEMENT HAS NOW GROWN INTO A WEALTHY SENATOR, JOE CARMICHAEL (MELVYN DOUGLAS). JOHN CONTACTS HIM TO WARN HIM ABOUT THE CHILD SPIRIT, WHO WANTS REVENGE UPON CARMICHAEL. BUT CARMICHAEL THINKS THAT JOHN IS TRYING TO BLACKMAIL HIM ABOUT HIS PAST LIFE. “THE CHANGELING IS A SUPERIOR HAUNTED HOUSE THRILLER.” - VARIETY “ONE OF THE VERY FEW FILMS THAT TRULY, TERRIBLY HORRIFIES. A CLASSIC.” - NEEDCOFFEE.COM “RISES ABOVE CONVENTION WITH SOME FANTASTIC ACTING AND A CAREFUL LAYERING OF SUPERNATURAL RUMBLINGS AND CLUE-GATHERING THAT MAKES FOR A COMPELLING TWO HOURS.” - EFILMCRITIC.COM
CAST RUNTIME: 107 MIN GEORGE C. SCOTT (JOHN RUSSELL) COUNTRY: CANADA TRISH VAN DEVERE (CLAIRE NORMAN) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH MELVYN DOUGLAS (SENATOR CARMICHAEL) YEAR: 1980 JEAN MARSH (JOANNA RUSSELL) JOHN COLICOS (CAPTAIN DEWITT) AWARDS BARRY MORSE (PARAPSYCHOLOGIST) FANTAFESTIVAL 1982 MADELEINE SHERWOOD (MRS. NORMAN) WON BEST ACTOR - GEORGE C. SCOTT HELEN BURNS (LEAH HARMON) GENIE AWARDS 1981 FRANCES HYLAND (MRS. GREY) WON GENIE GOLDEN REEL AWARD; GENIE BEST MOTION PICTURE RUTH SPRINGFORD (MINNIE HUXLEY) BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FOREIGN ACTRESS - TRISH VAN DEVERE ERIC CHRISTMAS (ALBERT HARMON) BEST PERFORMANCE BY A FOREIGN ACTOR - GEORGE C. SCOTT ROBERTA MAXWELL (EVA LINGSTROM) BEST SCREENPLAY ADAPTED FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM BERNARD BEHRENS (ROBERT LINGSTROM) BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY - JOHN COQUILLON JAMES B. DOUGLAS (EUGENE CARMICHAEL) BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN ART DIRECTION/PRODUCTION DESIGN - TREVOR WILLIAMS
79. CLIFFHANGER
DIRECTOR: RENNY HARLIN WRITERS: JOHN LONG (PREMISE), MICHAEL FRANCE (SCREEN STORY), MICHAEL FRANCE, SYLVESTER STALLONE GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLER HANG ON! GABRIEL "GABE" WALKER IS A SKILLED RESCUE CLIMBER LEADING A PEACEFUL LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS ALONG WITH HIS FIANCÉE AND A COUPLE OF FRIENDS. HOWEVER, EVERYTHING CHANGES RADICALLY WHEN A BELOVED FRIEND DIES ACCIDENTALLY. GABE CAN NOT CLIMB ANYMORE BECAUSE HE BLAMES HIMSELF FOR THE ACCIDENT AND HE DECIDES TO QUIT TO ANOTHER PLACE, LEAVING BEHIND ALL THE PEOPLE HE STILL LOVES, IN ORDER TO FORGET HIS PAST. EIGHT MONTHS LATER GABE RETURNS INTENDING TO RESUME WITH HIS FIANCÉE BUT HIS PLANS MUST BE DEFERRED AS A GROUP OF THIEVES IS IN THE MOUNTAINS SEARCHING FOR TWO SUITCASES CONTAINING HUNDREDS OF MILLION DOLLARS THAT WERE OCCASIONALLY DROPPED OFF FROM A PLANE. THEY ARE WILLING TO DO ANYTHING TO RECOVER IT AND GABE MUST FACE HIS PAINFUL PAST TO FORECLOSE THE BANDITS TO ACHIEVE THEIR AIM. “WHERE MOST RUGGED HE-MAN FILMS FEATURE A FEW ACTION SEQUENCES SCATTERED THROUGHOUT, DIRECTOR RENNY HARLIN KEEPS THE ADVENTURE STUFF IN THIS REPUTED $ 65 MILLION PRODUCTION COMING AT AN ASTONISHING PACE.” – VARIETY “ACTION FILMMAKING AT ITS BEST; A CAREER HIGH FOR DIRECTOR HARLIN AND ARGUABLY STALLONE AS WELL.” – EMPIRE “HIGH ADVENTURE AND VERTIGO BLEND WITH BLOOD AND BULLETS TO MAKE THIS TENSION-PACKED TALL TALE A SPECTACULAR AVALANCHE OF DIZZYING ESCAPISM.” - RADIO TIMES
CAST RUNTIME: 112 MIN SYLVESTER STALLONE (GABE WALKER) COUNTRY: USA/ITALY/FRANCE JOHN LITHGOW (ERIC QUALEN) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH MICHAEL ROOKER (HAL TUCKER) YEAR: 1993 JANINE TURNER (JESSIE DEIGHAN) REX LINN (RICHARD TRAVERS) CAROLINE GOODALL (KRISTEL) AWARDS LEON (KYNETTE) ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 1994 CRAIG FAIRBRASS (DELMAR) NOMINATED OSCAR BEST SOUND; BEST EFFECTS, SOUND EFFECTS EDITING; BEST EFFECTS, VISUAL EFFECTS GREGORY SCOTT CUMMINS (RYAN) ASCAP FILM AND TELEVISION MUSIC AWARDS 1994 DENIS FOREST (HELDON) WON ASCAP AWARD TOP BOX OFFICE FILMS MICHELLE JOYNER (SARAH) MTV MOVIE AWARDS 1994 MAX PERLICH (EVAN) NOMINATED MTV MOVIE AWARD BEST ACTION SEQUENCE (OPENING CATWALK SEQUENCE)
80. DOORS, THE
DIRECTOR: OLIVER STONE WRITERS: RANDALL JAHNSON, OLIVER STONE GENRE: BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA/MUSIC THE ULTIMATE STORY OF SEX, DRUGS & ROCK 'N' ROLL OLIVER STONE'S HOMAGE TO 1960S ROCK GROUP THE DOORS ALSO DOUBLES AS A BIOGRAPHY OF THE GROUP'S LATE SINGER, THE "ELECTRIC POET" JIM MORRISON. THE MOVIE FOLLOWS MORRISON FROM HIS DAYS AS A FILM STUDENT IN LOS ANGELES TO HIS DEATH IN PARIS, FRANCE AT AGE 27 IN 1971. THE MOVIE FEATURES A TOUR-DE-FORCE PERFORMANCE BY VAL KILMER, WHO NOT ONLY LOOKS LIKE JIM MORRISON'S LONG-LOST TWIN BROTHER, BUT ALSO SOUNDS SO MUCH LIKE HIM THAT HE DID MUCH OF HIS OWN SINGING. IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN THAT EVEN THE SURVIVING DOORS HAD TROUBLE DISTINGUISHING KILMER'S VOCALS FROM MORRISON'S ORIGINALS. "THE WHOLE MOVIE IS WHITE HOT, LAPPED IN HONEYED GOLDS, EVILLY BLUE AND BLACK OR DRENCHED IN THOSE SWOONY, FIERY REDS. THE DOORS BLASTS YOUR EARS AND SCORCHES YOUR EYES." - LOS ANGELES TIMES "WHATEVER RESERVATIONS ONE MAY HAVE ABOUT THIS EXHAUSTING, DARK-SIDE-OF-THE-'60S EPIC, THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT THAT STONE HAS CAPTURED A PARTICULAR, BOMBS-AWAY BRAND OF ROCK & ROLL EXCESS WITH DEFINITIVE CANDOR." - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "STONE IS NOT THE MOST SUBTLE OF DIRECTORS, BUT HE HAS THE ABILITY TO TRANSLATE HIS PASSION FOR SUBJECT MATTER (HE'S AN UNABASHED ADMIRER OF MORRISON) TO THE SCREEN WITH A STRONG VISUAL FLAIR. THAT TALENT IN EVIDENCE HERE." - PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS
CAST RUNTIME: 140 MIN VAL KILMER (JIM MORRISON) COUNTRY: USA MEG RYAN (PAMELA COURSON) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH KYLE MACLACHLAN (RAY MANZAREK) YEAR: 1991 FRANK WHALEY (ROBBY KRIEGER) KEVIN DILLON (JOHN DENSMORE) MICHAEL WINCOTT (PAUL ROTHCHILD) AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS MICHAEL MADSEN (TOM BAKER) CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS 1992 JOSH EVANS (BILL SIDDONS) NOMINATED CFCA AWARD BEST ACTOR - VAL KILMER DENNIS BURKLEY (DOG) MTV MOVIE AWARDS 1992 BILLY IDOL (CAT) NOMINATED MTV MOVIE AWARD BEST MALE PERFORMANCE - VAL KILMER KATHLEEN QUINLAN (PATRICIA KENNEALY) MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1991 SEAN STONE (YOUNG JIM) NOMINATED GOLDEN ST. GEORGE - OLIVER STONE
81. ELVIS AND ANABELLE
DIRECTOR: WILL GEIGER WRITER: WILL GEIGER GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE A SMALL-TOWN BEAUTY QUEEN AND AN UNLICENSED MORTICIAN SET OUT ACROSS THE TEXAS PLAINS ON A JOURNEY OF SELF-DISCOVERY. ANNABELLE HAS NEVER KNOWN WHAT LIFE IS LIKE OUTSIDE THE FIERCELY COMPETITIVE WORLD OF BEAUTY PAGEANTS; HER MOTHER'S CONSTANT DEMANDS OF PHYSICAL PERFECTION A NEVER-ENDING STREAM OF ACUTE, SOUL-CRUSHING CRITICISM. ELVIS DOESN'T HAVE HIS MORTICIAN'S LICENSE, BUT THAT DOESN'T STOP HIS ECCENTRIC FATHER FROM PUTTING HIM TO WORK IN THE FAMILY MORTUARY. WHEN THE STING OF HER MOTHER'S WORDS BECOMES TOO PAINFUL TO ENDURE, ANNABELLE FLEES TO THE TOWN MORTUARY KNOWING THAT IS THE LAST PLACE HER MOTHER WOULD COME LOOKING FOR HER. WHEN ELVIS DISCOVERS THE BEAUTIFUL ANNABELLE COWERING AMONG THE CORPSES, HE SWEEPS HER AWAY ON AN IMPROMPTU ROAD TRIP SO THAT THE PAIR MAY FREE THEMSELVES FROM THEIR DAILY DRUDGERY LONG ENOUGH TO DISCOVER THEIR OWN IDENTITIES AND REALIZE WHAT THEY REALLY WANT OUT OF LIFE. "A DARK AND DREAMY SLICE OF SOUTHERN GOTHIC ROMANCE, HAVING ALL THE HALLMARKS OF A CULT FILM IN THE MAKING." – MOVIELINE MAGAZINE "OFFBEAT LOVE STORY, WITH A HINT OF THE OTHERWORLDLY ABOUT IT WITH THE SCRIPT AND THE ACTING DECIDEDLY ABOVE-PAR." – SCREEN DAILY "ONE OF THE QUINTESSENTIAL ROMANCE FILMS; I ACTUALLY FOUND MYSELF APPRECIATING EVEN MORE THE NEXT DAY AS I STILL FIND IT MILLING AROUND IN MY BRAIN." – COMMON SENSE MOVIE REVIEWS
CAST RUNTIME: 106 MIN MAX MINGHELLA (ELVIS) COUNTRY: UK/USA BLAKE LIVELY (ANABELLE) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH JOE MANTEGNA (CHARLIE) YEAR: 2007 MARY STEENBURGEN (GENEVA) AWARDS KEITH CARRADINE (JIMMY) NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2008 ELOISE DEJORIA (HERSELF) WON ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BREAKOUT PERFORMANCE - BLAKE LIVELY JOHN FRANKLIN (HOST) OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN FILMMAKING - WILL GEIGER EVERETT SIFUENTES (MAYOR) OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN ACTING - JOE MANTEGNA JENNI LEE (TV REPORTER #1) JACQUELINE JOURNEY (TV REPORTER #2) OFFICIAL SITE: HTTP://WWW.ELVISANDANABELLE.COM/
82. EXTREME PREJUDICE
DIRECTOR: WALTER HILL WRITERS: JOHN MILIUS (STORY), FRED REXER (STORY), DERIC WASHBURN, HARRY KLEINER GENRE: ACTION/CRIME AN ARMY OF FORGOTTEN HEROES, ALL OFFICIALLY DEAD. THEY LIVE FOR COMBAT. NOW THEY'VE MET THE WRONG MAN. WHEN THEY WERE KIDS TEXAS RANGER JACK BENTEEN USED TO BE BEST FRIENDS WITH DRUG KINGPIN CASH BAILEY. AT PRESENT, HOWEVER, THE ONLY ELEMENT LINKING THEM TOGETHER IS JACK'S GIRLFRIEND SARITA, WHO USED TO BE WITH CASH. SHE RETURNS TO CASH AS A VOLUNTARY HOSTAGE TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT JACK KEEPS HIS HANDS OFF THE DRUG LORD'S OPERATION. ON TOP OF THAT, THERE IS A METICULOUSLY PLANNED DRUG BUST, IN WHICH BOTH JACK AND CASH BUTT HEADS WITH CIA-FUNDED PARAMILITARY MAJ. PAUL HACKETT, FOLLOWING HIS OWN AGENDA. “VINTAGE WALTER HILL. MEAN AND TOUGH WITH VIVID CHARACTERIZATIONS, INTENSE CONFRONTATIONS AND HARD-EDGED ACTION GALORE.” - FANTASTICA DAILY “THE GRITTY AND GRIM WALTER HILL DOIN' HIS THING.” - EFILMCRITIC.COM “THROW IN THE INVALUABLE CLANCY BROWN, WILLIAM FORSYTHE AND RIP TORN; COAT EVERYONE IN RECORD AMOUNTS OF PERSPIRATION; AND CLIMAX WITH A STRAIGHT-UP BULLET-RIDDEN HOMAGE TO THE WILD BUNCH, AND YOU’VE GOT A TESTOSTERONE-FUELED ’80S ACTIONER THAT THE EXPENDABLES COULD ONLY DREAM OF REPLICATING.” – FLICK ATTACK
CAST RUNTIME: 104 MIN NICK NOLTE (JACK BENTEEN) COUNTRY: USA POWERS BOOTHE (CASH BAILEY) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SPANISH MICHAEL IRONSIDE (MAJ. PAUL HACKETT) YEAR: 1987 MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO (SARITA CISNEROS) RIP TORN (SHERIFF HANK PEARSON) CLANCY BROWN (MSGT. LARRY MCROSE) WILLIAM FORSYTHE (SGT. BUCK ATWATER) MATT MULHERN (SSGT. DECLAN PATRICK COKER) LARRY B. SCOTT (SGT. CHARLES BIDDLE) DAN TULLIS JR. (SGT. LUTHER FRY) JOHN DENNIS JOHNSTON (MERV) LUIS CONTRERAS (LUPO) GARY CARLOS CERVANTES (HECTOR) TOMMY 'TINY' LISTER (MONDAY) MARCO RODRÍGUEZ (DEPUTY CORTEZ) 83. FIRST BLOOD
DIRECTOR: TED KOTCHEFF WRITERS: DAVID MORRELL (NOVEL), MICHAEL KOZOLL, WILLIAM SACKHEIM, SYLVESTER STALLONE GENRE: ACTION/THRILLER ONE WAR AGAINST ONE MAN. WANDERING INTO A SMALL TOWN IN OREGON, VIETNAM VETERAN JOHN RAMBO IS ARRESTED FOR VAGRANCY BY CORRUPT, ABUSIVE SHERIFF WILL TEASLE. WHEN RAMBO CAN'T STAND ANYMORE ABUSE AT THE HANDS OF TEASLE AND HIS DEPUTIES, HE GOES CRAZY, KILLING A DEPUTY AND ESCAPING INTO THE SURROUNDING HILLS, MASSIVELY ARMED WITH EVERY WEAPON HE NEEDS. THE LOCAL AUTHORITIES BRING IN RAMBO'S FORMER COMMANDING OFFICER, COLONEL SAMUEL TRAUTMAN, AND ALL TRAUTMAN DOES IS TELL THE LOCALS THAT THEY HAD BETTER GET A LOT OF BODY BAGS READY… THIS IS THE SYLVESTER STALLONE FILM THAT INTRODUCED THE WORLD TO THE RAMBO CHARACTER WHO WOULD GO ON TO HEADLINE A COUPLE OF SEQUELS. “THE DARKER TONE, SOMBER SUBTEXT, AND GENERALLY NON-EXPLOITATIVE VIOLENCE ALLOW VIEWERS TO ENJOY THE FILM NOT ONLY AS AN ACTION/THRILLER BUT AS SOMETHING WITH A DEGREE OF INTELLIGENCE AND SUBSTANCE.” - REELVIEWS “ONE OF THE ALL TIME MOST KICK ASS MOVIE.” - SBS “STALLONE'S DOGGED TALE OF SURVIVAL SEEMS SO FRESH YOU'D SWEAR IT WAS MADE LAST WEEK... EXCEPT FOR THE SAD TRUTH THAT THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM LIKE THAT ANYMORE.” - ARIZONA DAILY STAR
CAST RUNTIME: 93 MIN SYLVESTER STALLONE (RAMBO) COUNTRY: USA RICHARD CRENNA (TRAUTMAN) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH BRIAN DENNEHY (TEASLE) YEAR: 1982 BILL MCKINNEY (KERN) JACK STARRETT (GALT) MICHAEL TALBOTT (BALFORD) CHRIS MULKEY (WARD) JOHN MCLIAM (ORVAL) ALF HUMPHREYS (LESTER) DAVID CARUSO (MITCH) DAVID L. CROWLEY (SHINGLETON) DON MACKAY (PRESTON) CHARLES A. TAMBURRO (PILOT) DAVID PETERSEN (TROOPER)
84. RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II
DIRECTOR: GEORGE P. COSMATOS WRITERS: DAVID MORRELL (CHARACTERS), KEVIN JARRE (STORY), SYLVESTER STALLONE, JAMES CAMERON GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE/WAR WHAT MOST PEOPLE CALL HELL, HE CALLS HOME. A SEQUEL TO 1982'S FIRST BLOOD, IT IS THE SECOND INSTALLMENT IN THE RAMBO SERIES, WITH STALLONE REPRISING HIS ROLE AS VIETNAM VETERAN JOHN RAMBO. A MAJOR BOX-OFFICE HIT, AND A FILM THAT FOREVER ESTABLISHED RAMBO AS A BUZZ-WORD FOR THE SUPER-HUMAN MACHO HERO. FORMER GREEN BERET JOHN RAMBO IS SERVING TIME IN A FEDERAL PRISON. WHEN THE US MILITARY HEARS OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS MISSING IN ACTION FROM THE VIETNAM WAR POSSIBLY STILL BEING ALIVE AND HELD CAPTIVE, COLONEL TRAUTMAN IS AUTHORIZED TO SEND RAMBO IN TO RESCUE THEM. FOR RAMBO, THIS IS WHAT HE WOULD DO BEST. IF ONLY THE PENCIL-PUSHERS WOULD STOP GETTING IN HIS WAY. MOST RECOGNIZED AND MEMORABLE INSTALLMENT IN THE SERIES, ONE THAT INSPIRED COUNTLESS RIP-OFFS, PARODIES, VIDEO GAMES, AND IMITATIONS. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY RANKED THE MOVIE NUMBER 23 ON ITS LIST OF THE BEST ROCK-'EM, SOCK-'EM MOVIES OF THE PAST 25 YEARS. “...PRECISELY THE SORT OF UNAPOLOGETICALLY BRUTAL PIECE OF WORK THAT'S SORELY MISSING FROM CONTEMPORARY MULTIPLEXES.” - REEL FILM REVIEWS “A HELL OF A LOT OF FUN...” - MOVIEHOLE “THE ONE MAN DEMOLITION SQUAD BLASTS AWAY AGAIN!” - VIDEO-REVIEWMASTER.COM
CAST RUNTIME: 96 MIN SYLVESTER STALLONE (RAMBO) COUNTRY: USA RICHARD CRENNA (COL. SAMUEL TRAUTMAN) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/VIETNAMESE CHARLES NAPIER (MARSHALL MURDOCK) YEAR: 1985 STEVEN BERKOFF (LT. COL. PODOVSKY) JULIA NICKSON (CO) MARTIN KOVE (ERICSON) GEORGE CHEUNG (TAY) ANDY WOOD (BANKS) WILLIAM GHENT (CAPTAIN VINH) VOYO GORIC (SERGEANT YUSHIN) AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS DANA LEE (CAPTAIN KINH) ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 1986 BAOAN COLEMAN (GUNBOAT CAPTAIN) NOMINATED OSCAR BEST EFFECTS, SOUND EFFECTS EDITING DON COLLINS (P.O.W. #1) GOLDEN SCREEN, GERMANY 1986 CHRISTOPHER GRANT (P.O.W. #2) WON GOLDEN SCREEN
85. RAMBO III
DIRECTOR: PETER MACDONALD WRITERS: DAVID MORRELL (CHARACTERS), SYLVESTER STALLONE, SHELDON LETTICH GENRE: ACTION/ADVENTURE/WAR GOD WOULD HAVE MERCY, JOHN RAMBO WON'T! JOHN RAMBO (SYLVESTER STALLONE) LEAVES A BUDDHIST MONASTERY WHEN HE FINDS THAT HIS FORMER GREEN BERET LEADER HAS BEEN CAPTURED BY RUSSIANS AND IS BEING HELD IN AFGHANISTAN. AT FIRST HE'S HESITANT TO RETURN TO HIS MACHO MANNER, BUT BEFORE HE'S BARELY PAST THE AFGHANISTAN BORDER HE'S BACK TO BALLISTICS WITH A VENGEANCE. HE SINGLE-HANDEDLY ANNIHILATES SCORES OF COMMIES IN HIS QUEST TO FREE HIS FRIEND AND FORMER COMMANDER. AT THE TIME IT WAS FILMED (1988), IT WAS SAID TO BE THE COSTLIEST FILM TO DATE ($63 MILLION). THE 1990 GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS DEEMED RAMBO III THE MOST VIOLENT FILM EVER MADE, WITH 221 ACTS OF VIOLENCE, AT LEAST 70 EXPLOSIONS, AND OVER 108 CHARACTERS KILLED ON-SCREEN. “THE BATTLE SCENES IN RAMBO III ARE EXPLOSIVE… ALWAYS AT GROUND ZERO IN THE CHAOS IS RAMBO - GLORIOUSLY, INHUMANLY IMPERVIOUS TO FEAR AND DANGER - WHOSE CHARACTER IS INHABITED BY STALLONE WITH MESSIANIC INTENSITY.” – VARIETY “REAL-LIFE EVENTS HAVE RENDERED THIS THIRD RAMBO ADVENTURE THE MOST DATED OF THE SERIES. STILL, THOUGH, IT REMAINS AN EXCITING PIECE OF HARDCORE ACTION.” - FULVUEDRIVE-IN.COM “MORE OF THE SAME...BUT BOY IT'S COOL!” - MOVIEHOLE
CAST RUNTIME: 102 MIN SYLVESTER STALLONE (RAMBO) COUNTRY: USA RICHARD CRENNA (COL. SAMUEL TRAUTMAN) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/RUSSIAN MARC DE JONGE (COLONEL ZAYSEN) YEAR: 1988 KURTWOOD SMITH (GRIGGS) SPIROS FOCÁS (MASOUD) SASSON GABAI (MOUSA) DOUDI SHOUA (HAMID) RANDY RANEY (KOUROV) MARCUS GILBERT (TOMASK) ALON ABOUTBOUL (NISSEM) AWARDS MAHMOUD ASSADOLLAHI (RAHIM) BMI FILM & TV AWARDS 1989 JOSEPH SHILOACH (KHALID) WON BMI FILM MUSIC AWARD - JERRY GOLDSMITH HAROLD DIAMOND (STICK FIGHTER) YOUNG ARTIST AWARDS 1989 MATTI SERI (GUN DEALER) NOMINATED YOUNG ARTIST AWARD BEST YOUNG ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - DOUDI SHOUA
86. THE GIRL
DIRECTOR: DAVID RIKER WRITER: DAVID RIKER GENRE: DRAMA/MYSTERY/THRILLER
THE JOURNEY WILL CHANGE HER FOREVER. FOR TWO YEARS ASHLEY COLTON, A ROUGH, RAGGED BEAUTY IN HER MID-TWENTIES, HAS WALKED A TIGHTROPE, TRYING TO PROVE THAT SHE IS FIT TO BE A MOTHER AND REGAIN CUSTODY OF HER SON. SHE HAS SURVIVED ON A SERIES OF MINIMUM WAGE JOBS AND ENDURED THE PROBING SCRUTINY OF HOME VISITS FROM SOCIAL SERVICES. A SURPRISE VISIT FROM HER FATHER, A TRUCK DRIVER LIVING IN MEXICO, BRINGS ASHLEY BACK INTO A TURBULENT AND UNRESOLVED RELATIONSHIP. ON A TRIP TO NUEVO LAREDO, SHE DISCOVERS THAT HER FATHER IS SMUGGLING IMMIGRANTS ACROSS THE BORDER. SUDDENLY, IN THE VAST, UNFORGIVING LANDSCAPE OF SOUTH TEXAS, ASHLEY GLIMPSES A SOLUTION TO HER PROBLEMS AND IS LURED BY THE PROSPECT OF EASY MONEY INTO THE ROLE OF A COYOTE. HER IMPROVISED PLAN QUICKLY GOES AWRY… "OBSERVED WITH A PIERCING EYE FOR DETAIL AND A REFINED GRASP OF VISUAL STORYTELLING." – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER "DEEPLY FELT AND CONVINCING." – BLU-RAY.COM "THANKS TO ITS LEADING ACTRESS THE GIRL PROVES TO BE REVELATORY." – POP MATTERS
CAST RUNTIME: 95 MIN ABBIE CORNISH (ASHLEY) COUNTRY: USA/MEXICO GEOFFREY RIVAS (MANAGER) LANGUAGE: SPANISH/ENGLISH AUSTIN WEST (GEORGIE) YEAR: 2012 ANNALEE JEFFERIES (GLORIA) WILL PATTON (TOMMY) GIOVANNA ZACARÍAS (ENRIQUETA) LUCI CHRISTIAN (SALLY) AWARDS HAROLD TORRES (ISIDRO) MANNHEIM-HEIDELBERG INTERNATIONAL FILMFESTIVAL 2012 JAVIER ZARAGOZA (FELIX) WON RECOMMENDATIONS OF CINEMA OWNERS ABEL LOPEZ MARROQUIN (PANCHO) SAN ANTONIO CINEFESTIVAL 2013 ANGELES CRUZ (ROSA'S MOTHER) WON PREMIO MESQUITE AWARD BEST FEATURE FILM MARITZA SANTIAGO HERNANDEZ (ROSA) TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2012 RAÚL CASTILLO (BORDER AGENT) NOMINATED BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE
87. HARD RAIN
DIRECTOR: MIKAEL SALOMON WRITER: GRAHAM YOST GENRE: ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER IN THE WORST STORM IN LIVING MEMORY, ONE GUARD STANDS BETWEEN FIVE MEN AND THREE MILLION DOLLARS. SEVERE FLOODING THREATENS AN INDIANA TOWN AFTER A MASSIVE RAINSTORM TAXES DAMS TO THE BREAKING POINT. AS PART OF AN EMERGENCY EVACUATION EFFORT, ARMORED CAR DRIVER TOM AND HIS UNCLE CHARLIE ARE RECRUITED TO COLLECT CASH FROM THE TOWN'S BANKS AND DRIVE IT TO SAFETY. HOWEVER, A GANG OF THIEVES LED BY JIM PLAN TO LAY SIEGE TO THE TRUCK AND STEAL THE $3 MILLION ON BOARD. AFTER JIM ATTEMPTS TO AMBUSH THE TRUCK, TOM HIDES THE CASH AND REPORTS THE ATTEMPTED THEFT TO THE LOCAL SHERIFF. HOWEVER, THE SHERIFF'S LACK OF HONESTY SOON BECOMES APPARENT; HE PUTS TOM IN A LOCKUP AND SETS OUT TO TAKE THE MONEY FOR HIMSELF. AS THE FLOOD WATERS RISE, TOM HAS TO ESCAPE FROM JAIL IF HE IS TO SAVE BOTH THE TOWNSPEOPLE'S SAVINGS AND HIS OWN LIFE. MEANWHILE, JIM AND THE SHERIFF ARE LOCKED IN A RACE TO SEE WHO CAN FIND THE $3 MILLION FIRST. "THE FINISHED FEATURE HAS A CERTAIN MERRY SWAGGER ABOUT IT THAT KEEPS EVERYTHING MOTORING RIGHT ALONG, AND THE HOOK OF THE FILM IS IMMACULATELY PRESENTED." - DVDTALK.COM "GREAT OPENING SHOT THAT LEADS TO AN ACTION FLICK THAT'S ALL WET." - YOUR MOVIES "IT'S FAST-MOVING, IT'S GOT FINE SPECIAL EFFECTS, THE HERO AND HEROINE ARE PURE AND QUICK-THINKING, THE BAD PEOPLE DIE BADLY…" – SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
CAST RUNTIME: 97 MIN MORGAN FREEMAN (JIM) COUNTRY: USA CHRISTIAN SLATER (TOM) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RANDY QUAID (SHERIFF MIKE COLLINS) YEAR: 1998 MINNIE DRIVER (KAREN) EDWARD ASNER (UNCLE CHARLIE) MICHAEL A. GOORJIAN (KENNY) DANN FLOREK (MR. MEHLOR) RICKY HARRIS (RAY) MARK ROLSTON (WAYNE BRYCE) PETER MURNIK (PHIL) WAYNE DUVALL (HANK) RICHARD DYSART (HENRY SEARS) BETTY WHITE (DOREEN SEARS)
88. I WON’T COME BACK
DIRECTOR: ILMAR RAAG WRITERS: YAROSLAVA PULINOVICH, OLEG GAZE GENRE: DRAMA
IN I WON’T COME BACK, ILMAR RAAG, DIRECTOR OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED THE CLASS, DRAMATIZES THE ODYSSEY OF TWO CHILDREN WHO HAVE TO GROW UP TOO QUICKLY. ANYA IS A GOOD-LOOKING, SUCCESSFUL YOUNG GRADUATE STUDENT. SHE GIVES LECTURES ON BYRON AND HAS A RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE OF THE PROFESSORS. ONE DAY HER LIFE TAKES AN UNEXPECTED TURN FOR THE WORSE. A VICTIM OF FALSE ACCUSATIONS, SHE HAS TO FLEE, DISGUISED AS A TEENAGED HOMELESS GIRL. WHILE ON THE RUN, ANYA MEETS TWELVE-YEAR-OLD CHRISTINE, AN ORPHAN WHO IS AS DESPERATE AND RECKLESS AS ANYA HERSELF. THIS FRIENDSHIP BECOMES A TURNING POINT FOR ANYA — RELIVING HER ADOLESCENCE FOR THE SECOND TIME, SHE NOW IS FORCED TO REWRITE HER LIFE. “…A TERRIFIC FILM ABOUT GIRLS, RELATIONSHIPS, AND ABANDONMENT, AND HOW PAIN AND LONELINESS CAN DRAW SOME PEOPLE INTO CYNICISM, WHILE MAKING OTHERS MORE OPEN AND WILLING TO ACCEPT ANY CRUMB OF AFFECTION. EVEN WHEN IT'S PROBLEMATIC, IT'S MEMORABLE.” - LETTERBOXED “A RESONANT, POIGNANT DRAMA” – SOUND ON SIGHT "STRAIGHTFORWARD AND NATURAL." - THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CAST ANDREY ASTRAKHANTSEV (ANDREY LYUTSIUS) FESTIVALS AND AWARDS OLGA BELINSKAYA (TEACHER) 2014 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL – WON NORA EPHRON PRIZE - SPECIAL MENTION ILMAR RAAG ALLA EMINTSEVA (MARINA) 2014 TRAVERSE CITY FILM FESTIVAL VIKA LOBACHOVA (KRISTINA) 2014 HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL GALINA MOCHALOVA (GRANDMOTHER) 2014 FILM BY THE SEA FESTIVAL – WON DIORAPHTE FILM & LITERATURE AWARD YURIY ORLOV (INVESTIGATOR) 2014 TAOYUAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL POLINA PUSHKARUK (ANYA) 2014 SCOTTSDALE FILM FESTIVAL LAINA SERGEEVA (VERKA) 2014 LET'S CEE FILM FESTIVAL - MAIN PRIZE, FEATURE FILM SERGEY YATSENYUK (DIMA MOROZOV) 2014 THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TATYANA ZYKOVA (KOSHKA) 2014 CINEWORLD FILM FESTIVAL 2014 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDIA RUNTIME: 110 MIN 2014 MINSK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LISTAPAD - BELARUSIAN PRESIDENT SPECIAL AWARD COUNTRY: KAZAKHSTAN/RUSSIA/ESTONIA/FINLAND/BELARUS LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN YEAR: 2014
89. IN BLOOM
DIRECTORS: NANA EKVTIMISHVILI, SIMON GROß WRITER: NANA EKVTIMISHVILI GENRE: DRAMA TBILISI, GEORGIA, 1992: THE SOVIET ERA IS OVER AND GEORGIA MUST FEND FOR ITSELF. CIVIL WAR IS RAGING IN THE PROVINCE OF ABKHAZIA. FOR NATIA AND EKA, THE BARELY FOURTEENYEAR- OLD PROTAGONISTS OF GRZELI NATELI DGEEBI, CHILDHOOD IS COMING TO AN END. EKA IS GROWING UP WITHOUT HER FATHER, REBELLING AGAINST HER CONCERNED MOTHER AND HER OLDER SISTER. AND NATIA’S FATHER, A CHOLERIC ALCOHOLIC, TERRORISES THE ENTIRE FAMILY. THE TWO FRIENDS CANNOT FIND PEACE OUTSIDE OF THE FAMILY EITHER – NOT IN SCHOOL, NOT ON THE STREET, AND NOT IN THE BREAD LINES. CHAOS, INSECURITY, AND FEAR OF WHAT THE FUTURE MIGHT BRING HOLD SWAY IN EVERYDAY LIFE. AN ADMIRER GIVES NATIA A PISTOL WITH ONE SINGLE BULLET. A LITTLE LATER, SHE’S ABDUCTED BY ANOTHER ADMIRER… “FIRST FEATURE FILM BY NANA EKVTIMISHVILI AND SIMON GROß TAKES UP THE BURIED TRADITIONS OF GEORGIAN CINEMA, WEAVING TOGETHER LOUD AND SOFT, MELANCHOLY AND MISSING LOVE, ERUPTIONS OF VIOLENCE AND A SENSE OF THE IDYLLIC, PRECOCIOUS COLDBLOODEDNESS AND CHILDLIKE NAÏVETÉ INTO A WONDERFULLY RHYTHMIC, EXCITING CINEMATIC COMPOSITION.” – BERLINALE 2013 “GEORGIA’S REPUTATION AS THE LATEST CINEMATIC HOTSPOT FOR EMERGING TALENT IS ENHANCED FURTHER BY “IN BLOOM,” AN ABSORBING, INTELLIGENTLY ASSEMBLED COMING-OF-AGER THAT REVOLVES AROUND TWO PUBESCENT GAL-PALS…” – VARIETY “AN EYE-PLEASING AESTHETIC FOR A CLASSY AND ABSORBING DEBUT.” – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CAST LIKA BABLUANI (EKA) RUNTIME: 102 MIN MARIAM BOKERIA (NATIA) COUNTRY: GEORGIA/GERMANY/FRANCE ZURAB GOGALADZE (KOTE) LANGUAGE: GEORGIAN DATA ZAKAREISHVILI (LADO) YEAR: 2013 GIORGI ALADASHVILI (KOPLA) GIA SHONIA (WAKHO) ANA NIJARADZE (ANA) MAIKO NINUA (SOPHIKO) TAMAR BUKHNIKASHVILI (NATIA'S MOTHER) AWARDS TEMIKO CHICHINADZE (NATIA'S FATHER) BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL BERTA KHAPAVA (NATIA'S GRANDMOTHER) 2013 - C.I.C.A.E. AWARD - FORUM ENDI DZIDZAVA (KOTE'S MOTHER)
90. JACOB'S LADDER
DIRECTOR: ADRIAN LYNE WRITER: BRUCE JOEL RUBIN GENRE: MYSTERY/HORROR
THE MOST FRIGHTENING THING ABOUT JACOB SINGER'S NIGHTMARE IS THAT HE ISN'T DREAMING. ON 06 OCT 1971, IN VIETNAM, THE AMERICAN SOLDIER JACOB SINGER IS WOUNDED BY A BAYONET DURING AN ATTACK TO HIS PLATOON. HE WAKES UP IN A NEW YORK SUBWAY WHILE GOING HOME LATE AT NIGHT AFTER WORKING OVERTIME IN THE POST OFFICE. HE IS DIVORCED FROM SARAH, LIVES WITH HIS COLLEAGUE AND LOVER JEZEBEL IN A SMALL BROOKLYN APARTMENT AND MISSES HIS YOUNG SON GABE, WHO DIED IN AN ACCIDENT FOR WHICH JACOB FEELS RESPONSIBLE. DURING THE NEXT DAYS, JACOB IS CHASED BY DEMONS AND FINDS THE ARMY CONSPIRACY AGAINST HIM, WHILE HAVING STRANGE VISIONS DURING DIFFERENT MOMENTS OF HIS LIFE. THE FILM GARNERED A CULT FOLLOWING AND BECAME A SOURCE OF INFLUENCE FOR VARIOUS OTHER WORKS SUCH AS THE HORROR FRANCHISE SILENT HILL. "FOR HOURS AND DAYS AFTER YOU'VE SEEN IT, YOU'LL STILL BE PUTTING IT TOGETHER IN YOUR HEAD. WHILE ALL OF IT IS GRIPPING, IT DOESN'T COME TOGETHER UNTIL THE FINAL SCENE, WHICH IS JOLTING, TRANSCENDENT, UNEXPECTED YET INEVITABLE." - SEATTLE TIMES "HAUNTING AND TRULY CHILLING THRILLER-MELODRAMA." - SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL "TIM ROBBINS GIVES A STRONG PERFORMANCE IN THIS FIRST-CLASS HORROR YARN, WHICH HAS A SURPRISINGLY STRONG POLITICAL EDGE." - CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
CAST RUNTIME: 113 MIN TIM ROBBINS (JACOB) COUNTRY: USA ELIZABETH PEÑA (JEZZIE) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH DANNY AIELLO (LOUIS) YEAR: 1990 MATT CRAVEN (MICHAEL) PRUITT TAYLOR VINCE (PAUL) JASON ALEXANDER (GEARY) PATRICIA KALEMBER (SARAH) ERIQ LA SALLE (FRANK) VING RHAMES (GEORGE) BRIAN TARANTINA (DOUG) AWARDS ANTHONY ALESSANDRO (ROD) AVORIAZ FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL 1991 BRENT HINKLEY (JERRY) WON AUDIENCE AWARD ADRIAN S. EPATHA MERKERSON (ELSA) WON CRITICS AWARD SUZANNE SHEPHERD (HOSPITAL RECEPTIONIST)
91. JOHNNY HANDSOME
DIRECTOR: WALTER HILL WRITERS: JOHN GODEY (NOVEL), KEN FRIEDMAN GENRE: CRIME/THRILLER
REVENGE HAS A NEW FACE! ROURKE STARS AS THE TITLE CHARACTER, A HIDEOUSLY DISFIGURED CROOK WHO TEAMS UP WITH HIS BEST FRIEND MIKEY (SCOTT WILSON) AND TWO VOLATILE LOWLIFES, RAFE (LANCE HENRIKSEN) AND SUNNY (ELLEN BARKIN), TO KNOCK OVER A COIN SHOP. THE ROBBERY GOES BAD; RAFE SHOOTS AND KILLS MIKEY AND LEAVES JOHNNY WOUNDED. IN PRISON, A DOCTOR (FOREST WHITAKER) GIVES HIM PLASTIC SURGERY IN THE HOPES OF REFORMING HIM. JOHNNY EVEN GETS A WORK FURLOUGH AND BEGINS SEEING A PRETTY ACCOUNTANT (ELIZABETH MCGOVERN). BUT A NEW ORLEANS POLICE LIEUTENANT (MORGAN FREEMAN) KNOWS WHAT NO ONE ELSE WILL ADMIT: THAT JOHNNY WILL BE LOOKING FOR REVENGE. "A STYLISH AND TOUGH CRIME-THRILLER WITH THAT UNDERLYING MOURNFULNESS WHICH CHARACTERIZES HILL'S BEST WORK." - FANTASTICA DAILY "EXCELLENT ACTION DRAMA WITH AN AMAZING CAST." - COMBUSTIBLE CELLULOID "THIS IS A MOVIE IN THE TRUE TRADITION OF FILM NOIR." – ROGER EBERT
CAST RUNTIME: 94 MIN MICKEY ROURKE (JOHN 'JOHNNY HANDSOME' SEDLEY/JOHNNY MITCHELL) COUNTRY: USA ELLEN BARKIN (SUNNY BOYD) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH ELIZABETH MCGOVERN (DONNA MCCARTY) YEAR: 1989 MORGAN FREEMAN (LT. A.Z. DRONES) FOREST WHITAKER (DR. STEVEN FISHER) LANCE HENRIKSEN (RAFE GARRETT) SCOTT WILSON (MIKEY CHALMETTE) DAVID SCHRAMM (VIC DUMASK) YVONNE BRYCELAND (SISTER LUKE) PETER JASON (MR. BONET) AWARDS J.W. SMITH (LARRY) CHICAGO FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS 1990 JEFFREY MEEK (EARL) NOMINATED CFCA AWARD BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - LANCE HENRIKSEN ALLAN GRAF (BOB LEMOYNE) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - ELLEN BARKIN ED ZANG (PRESTIGE MANAGER) LOS ANGELES FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION AWARDS 1989 JOHN P. FERTITTA (PRESTIGE SALESMAN) 2ND PLACE LAFCA AWARD BEST ACTOR - MORGAN FREEMAN
92. L.A. STORY
DIRECTOR: MICK JACKSON WRITER: STEVE MARTIN GENRE: COMEDY/FANTASY/ROMANCE SOMETHING FUNNY IS HAPPENING IN L.A. HARRIS K TELEMACHER IS A 'WACKY WEEKEND WEATHERMAN' FOR A LOCAL LOS ANGELES TELEVISION STATION WHO IS SEARCHING FOR MEANING IN HIS OTHERWISE CLICHE RIDDEN LOS ANGELES LIFE. WITH THE HELP OF AN INSIGHTFUL AND TALKATIVE FREEWAY SIGN, HARRIS EMBARKS ON A JOURNEY THROUGH LOS ANGELES IN PURSUIT OF SARAH, AN ENGLISH REPORTER WHO HAS BEEN SENT TO THE CITY OF ANGELS TO RESEARCH AN ARTICLE FOR THE LONDON TIMES. THE FILM WAS A BOX OFFICE SUCCESS. IT WAS ALSO CRITICALLY WELL RECEIVED. L.A. STORY WAS VOTED BY A GROUP OF LOS ANGELES TIMES WRITERS AND EDITORS AS THE 20TH BEST FILM SET IN LOS ANGELES IN THE LAST 25 YEARS. "GOOFY AND SWEET, L.A. STORY CONSTITUTES STEVE MARTIN'S SATIRIC VALENTINE TO HIS HOMETOWN AND A PRETTY FUNNY COMEDY IN THE BARGAIN." - VARIETY "A DELIGHTFULLY SCATTY ACCOUNT OF LIFE IN THE CITY OF ANGELS, EXPOSES ROMANCE LURKING BEYOND THE SNOBBISH RESTAURANTS AND ROUTINE MUGGINGS..." - TIME OUT "THE FILM IS ASTONISHING IN THE AMOUNT OF MATERIAL IT CONTAINS. IT ISN'T THIN OR SUPERFICIAL; THERE IS AN ABUNDANCE OF OBSERVATION AND INVENTION HERE." – ROGER EBERT
CAST RUNTIME: 95 MIN STEVE MARTIN (HARRIS K. TELEMACHER) COUNTRY: USA VICTORIA TENNANT (SARA MCDOWEL) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH RICHARD E. GRANT (ROLAND MACKEY) YEAR: 1991 MARILU HENNER (TRUDI) SARAH JESSICA PARKER (SANDY) SUSAN FORRISTAL (ARIEL) KEVIN POLLAK (FRANK SWAN) SAM MCMURRAY (MORRIS FROST) PATRICK STEWART (MR. PERDUE, MAITRE D' AT L'IDIOT) GAIL GRATE (GAIL, NEWS ANCHOR) EDDIE DE HARP (MAITRE D' AT BRUNCH) M.C. SHAN (RAP WAITER AT L'IDIOT) FRANCES FISHER (JUNE) IMAN (CYNTHIA)
93. LIGHT SLEEPER
DIRECTOR: PAUL SCHRADER WRITER: PAUL SCHRADER GENRE: CRIME/DRAMA
A STORY ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE SPIRIT, THE LURE OF DECADENCE, AND THE CHANCE FOR ESCAPE. LONER, INSOMNIAC AND REFORMED JUNKIE, JOHN LETOUR (WILLEM DAFOE) DELIVERS DRUGS FOR A LIVING-- COKE AND ECSTASY AND QUAALUDES ("WHITE DRUGS FOR WHITE PEOPLE") FOR THE UPPER-CLASS CLIENTS OF THE GLAMOROUS ANN (SUSAN SARANDON), AND WRITES IN HIS DIARY DURING HIS SLEEPLESS OFF HOURS. ONE EVENING, HE SPOTS HIS OLD GIRLFRIEND, MARIANNE (DANA DELANEY), AND GIVES HER A LIFT, BUT SHE CLEARLY WANTS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM; SHE'S CLEAN AND DOESN'T TRUST THAT HE IS. AFTER ANOTHER ACCIDENTAL MEETING, THIS TIME AT THE HOSPITAL WHERE HER MOTHER IS DYING, THEY BRIEFLY RESUME THEIR TROUBLED AFFAIR. HIS SHOCK WHEN SHE APPARENTLY JUMPS FROM THE WINDOW OF ONE OF HIS CLIENTS DRIVES LETOUR TO A NEAR-FATAL ENCOUNTER WITH THE MAN. "A SUPERB DAFOE CONTRIBUTES CRUCIALLY TO THE DEGREE OF SUCCESS THE FILM ACHIEVES." - VARIETY "LIGHT SLEEPER IS EMBLEMATIC OF AN ERA, AND IS RECOMMENDED ON THAT BASIS AND ON THE EXCELLENT QUALITY OF IT ACTING." - GENE SISKEL, CHICAGO TRIBUNE "SUSAN SARANDON IS SO GOOD AS DAFOE'S BOSS, AND THE DIALOGUE IS SO LITERATE FOR SUCH A FAMILIAR STORY, THAT THERE'S A LOT TO ADMIRE - IT'S SCHRADER'S BEST FILM." - CHICAGO READER
CAST RUNTIME: 103 MIN WILLEM DAFOE (JOHN LETOUR) COUNTRY: USA SUSAN SARANDON (ANN) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH DANA DELANY (MARIANNE JOST) YEAR: 1992 DAVID CLENNON (ROBERT) AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS MARY BETH HURT (TERESA ARANOW) BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1992 VICTOR GARBER (TIS BROOKE) NOMINATED GOLDEN BERLIN BEAR - PAUL SCHRADER JANE ADAMS (RANDI JOST) INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS 1993 PAUL JABARA (EDDIE) NOMINATED INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD BEST SCREENPLAY; BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY ROBERT CICCHINI (BILL GUIDONE) MYSTFEST 1993 SAM ROCKWELL (JEALOUS) NOMINATED BEST FILM RENE RIVERA (MANUEL) SANT JORDI AWARDS 1995 DAVID SPADE (THEOLOGICAL COKEHEAD) WON SANT JORDI BEST FOREIGN ACTOR - WILLEM DAFOE
94. LOCK UP
DIRECTOR: JOHN FLYNN WRITERS: RICHARD SMITH, JEB STUART, HENRY ROSENBAUM GENRE: ACTION/THRILLER
HOW MUCH CAN A MAN TAKE...BEFORE HE GIVES BACK? FRANK LEONE IS AN AUTO MECHANIC WHO JUST WANTS TO PLAY WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS AND MARRY HIS SWEETHEART MELISSA. BUT WHEN A BUNCH OF PUNKS KILL THE OLD MAN WHO TOOK FRANK OFF THE STREETS AND ACTED AS HIS MENTOR WHEN HE WAS FOURTEEN, FRANK SEEKS OUT THE CRIMINALS AND BEATS THEM UP. FRANK IS ARRESTED AND SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IN A MINIMUM-SECURITY PRISON. FRANK FIGURES HE'LL SERVE OUT HIS TIME AND MARRY MELISSA, BUT THE FATES ARE AGAINST HIM. HATEFUL WARDEN DRUMGOOLE, WHO HAS AN OLD SCORE TO SETTLE WITH FRANK, HAS HIM TRANSFERRED FROM THE MINIMUM-SECURITY PRISON TO A MAXIMUM-SECURITY HELLHOLE, GATEWAY PRISON. DRUMGOOLE WALKS OMINOUSLY THROUGH A FETID MIST TO GREET FRANK WITH THE WORDS, "WELCOME TO GATEWAY, LEONE. THIS IS HELL AND I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A GUIDED TOUR"… "FOR TORTURE AND VIOLENCE FREAKS, EVERY CLANK AND THUD IS DULY AND HYPERBOLICALLY REGISTERED." – CHICAGO READER "A HARD-BOILED VERSION OF ROCKY." – EMPIRE "VICIOUS, VIOLENT STORY SET IN CORRUPT PRISON, STARRING STALLONE AND SUTHERLAND." - VIDEO- REVIEWMASTER.COM
CAST RUNTIME: 109 MIN SYLVESTER STALLONE (FRANK LEONE) COUNTRY: USA DONALD SUTHERLAND (WARDEN DRUMGOOLE) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH JOHN AMOS (CAPTAIN MEISSNER) YEAR: 1989 SONNY LANDHAM (CHINK WEBER) TOM SIZEMORE (DALLAS) FRANK MCRAE (ECLIPSE) DARLANNE FLUEGEL (MELISSA) WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG (BRADEN) LARRY ROMANO (FIRST BASE) JORDAN LUND (MANLY) JOHN LILLA (WILEY) DEAN RADER-DUVAL (ERNIE) JERRY STRIVELLI (LOUIE MUNAFO) DAVID ANTHONY MARSHALL (MASTRONE) KUREK ASHLEY (CHINK'S GANG MEMBER)
95. MAN ON THE MOON
DIRECTOR: MILOS FORMAN WRITERS: SCOTT ALEXANDER, LARRY KARASZEWSKI GENRE: BIOGRAPHY/COMEDY
JIM CARREY STARS AS THE LATE ANDY KAUFMAN, WHO WAS CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE, ECCENTRIC AND ENIGMATIC PERFORMERS OF HIS TIME. A MASTER AT PROVOKING AUDIENCES, KAUFMAN COULD GENERATE BELLY LAUGHS, STONY SILENCE, TEARS OR BRAWLS. DANNY DEVITO ALSO STARS IN MAN ON THE MOON AS KAUFMAN'S MANAGER, GEORGE SHAPIRO, WITH COURTNEY LOVE CO-STARRING AS LYNNE MARGULIES, THE WOMAN WHO BEFRIENDS AND EVENTUALLY FALLS IN LOVE WITH THE COMIC. PAUL GIAMATTI PORTRAYS KAUFMAN'S BEST FRIEND AN D WRITER, BOB ZMUDA. WELLKNOWN VEGAS LOUNGE SINGER TONY CLIFTON STARS AS HIMSELF. "JIM CARREY'S PERFORMANCE IS AN IMPERSONATION ON THE LEVEL OF GENIUS." - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "WHAT IS MOST WONDERFUL ABOUT MAN ON THE MOON, A VERY GOOD FILM, IS THAT IT REMAINS TRUE TO KAUFMAN'S STUBBORN VISION." - ROGER EBERT, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES "THE MAIN PROBLEM WITH THIS FILM THOUGH IS THE RUNNING TIME - IT'S TOO SHORT." - DARK HORIZONS
CAST RUNTIME: 118 MIN JIM CARREY (ANDY KAUFMAN) COUNTRY: USA/UK/GERMANY DANNY DEVITO (GEORGE SHAPIRO) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH GERRY BECKER (STANLEY KAUFMAN - ANDY'S FATHER) YEAR: 1999 GREYSON ERIK PENDRY (LITTLE MICHAEL KAUFMAN) BRITTANY COLONNA (BABY CAROL KAUFMAN) AWARDS LESLIE LYLES (JANICE KAUFMAN - ANDY'S MOTHER) GOLDEN GLOBES, USA 2000 BOBBY BORIELLO (LITTLE ANDY KAUFMAN) WON GOLDEN GLOBE BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - JIM CARREY GEORGE SHAPIRO (MR. BESSERMAN) BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2000 BUDD FRIEDMAN (BUDD FRIEDMAN) WON SILVER BERLIN BEAR BEST DIRECTOR - MILOS FORMAN TOM DREESEN (WISEASS COMIC) BOSTON SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS AWARDS 1999 THOMAS ARMBRUSTER (IMPROV PIANO PLAYER) WON BSFC AWARD BEST ACTOR - JIM CARREY PAMELA ABDY (DIANE BARNETT) ONLINE FILM & TELEVISION ASSOCIATION 2000 WENDY POLLAND (LITTLE WENDY) WON OFTA FILM AWARD BEST TITLES SEQUENCE CASH OSHMAN (YOGI) PRISM AWARDS 2000 MATT PRICE (MEDITATION STUDENT) WON PRISM COMMENDATION THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
96. MELLOW MUD
DIRECTOR: RENARS VIMBA WRITER: RENARS VIMBA GENRE: DRAMA
LONELINESS, DISILLUSIONMENT AND THE EXPERIENCE OF FIRST LOVE NO ONE SHALL KNOW THAT THEIR GRANDMOTHER HAS DIED. TO AVOID BEING TAKEN INTO THE CARE OF THE AUTHORITIES, 17-YEAR-OLD RAYA AND HER YOUNGER BROTHER BURY THE OLD WOMAN THEY GREW UP WITH IN THE GARDEN BY THE APPLE ORCHARD. WITH NO ONE ELSE TO DEPEND ON, RAYA HAS TO ORGANIZE DAILY SURVIVAL FOR HERSELF AND HER BROTHER. SHE’S PINNING ALL HER HOPES ON THEIR MOTHER, WHO HAS EMIGRATED TO ENGLAND. THE FILM DESCRIBES THE DIFFICULT SITUATION OF THOSE LEFT BEHIND IN A COUNTRY THAT MANY PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY ABANDONED. IT IS A PORTRAIT OF A RESOURCEFUL AND DETERMINED YOUNG WOMAN WHO REFUSES TO GIVE UP HER DREAMS DESPITE THE HARDSHIPS LIFE HAS THROWN AT HER. IN HER CONSTANT STRUGGLE TO EVADE THE AUTHORITIES, SHE TRIES TO FIND HER OWN HAPPINESS WHILE TAKING CARE OF HER BROTHER. "COMPELLING, BITTERSWEET COMING-OF-AGER FROM FIRST-TIME FEATURE HELMER-WRITER RENARS VIMBA. THIS EVOCATIVELY SHOT REALIST TALE BENEFITS FROM A SPARE YET CREDIBLE SCRIPT AND A KNOCKOUT PERFORMANCE FROM BIG-SCREEN DEBUTANT ELINA VASKA... THIS IS A TITLE THAT WILL BE APPRECIATED BY ARTHOUSE FANS OF ALL AGES." – VARIETY "THERE IS A SPARE BEAUTY TO THIS PICTURE. IT IS LEAN, ECONOMIC STORYTELLING WITH NO WASTED SCENES, AND YET, LARGELY THANKS TO A BRAVURA PERFORMANCE FROM IMPRESSIVE NEWCOMER VASKA, THERE IS A REAL EMOTIONAL DEPTH HERE." – SCREEN DAILY "(MELLOW MUD) MARKS THE ASSURED FEATURE DEBUT OF WRITER-DIRECTOR RENARS VIMBA... IT HAS SUFFICIENT HIGH-ART POLISH TO GRAB MORE FESTIVAL PLATFORMS, WHERE IT WILL SERVE AS A CALLING CARD FOR VIMBA AND HIS QUIETLY MAGNETIC YOUNG STAR ELINA VASKA." – HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
CAST NASLOV ORIGINALA: ES ESMU ŠEIT ELINA VASKA (RAJA) RUNTIME: 106 MIN ANDZEJS LILIENTALS (ROBIS) COUNTRY: LATVIA EDGARS SAMITIS (OSKARS) LANGUAGE: LATVIAN RUTA BIRGERE (GRANDMOTHER) YEAR: 2016 INDRA BRIKE AWARDS ZANE JANCEVSKA (DAINA) BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2016 REZIJA KALNINA WON - CRYSTAL BEAR GENERATION 14PLUS - BEST FEATURE FILM JANIS KIRMUSKA CYPRUS FILM DAYS INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2016 SANDRA KLAVINA BEST DIRECTOR AWARD
97. MUSIC BOX
DIRECTOR: COSTA-GAVRAS WRITER: JOE ESZTERHAS GENRE: DRAMA/THRILLER
AS A LAWYER ALL SHE WANTED WAS THE TRUTH. AS A DAUGHTER ALL SHE WANTED WAS HIS INNOCENCE. JESSICA LANGE PLAYS AN ATTORNEY WHOSE AFFABLE HUNGARIAN- IMMIGRANT FATHER ARMIN MUELLER-STAHL IS ARRESTED. HE IS THREATENED WITH DEPORTATION FOR LYING ABOUT HIS ACTIVITIES DURING WORLD WAR II; PART OF THE CHARGE IS THAT MUELLER-STAHL WAS A NAZI COLLABORATIONIST, GUILTY OF WARTIME ATROCITIES. ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED THAT HER FATHER IS BEING RAILROADED BY A REVENGE-SEEKING HUNGARIAN COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT, LANGE HANDLES MUELLER-STAHL'S DEFENSE, EXPERTLY BLOWING HUGE HOLES IN PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FREDERIC FORREST'S CASE. BUT IN DOING HER OWN RESEARCH, LANGE DISCOVERS THAT HER FATHER HAS SPENT A LIFETIME PAYING OFF A BLACKMAILER. WHY? "THE SCRIPT BY HOLLYWOOD'S CONTROVERSIAL WRITER JOE ESZTERHAS ("BASIC INSTINCT") IS STRICTLY EDGE OF THE SEAT MATERIAL." - INTERNET REVIEWS "AN EFFECTIVE COURTROOM DRAMA WHICH RETURNED GAVRAS TO CRITICAL AND COMMERCIAL FAVOUR, "MUSIC BOX" GETS BY ON THE STRENGTH OF SOME VERY COMMITTED PERFORMANCES." - BBC "INTELLIGENT PIECE OF FILM-MAKING WHICH OFFERS A PURELY CHARACTER-DRIVEN STORY AND PACKS A POWERFUL EMOTIONAL PUNCH." – EYE FOR FILM
CAST RUNTIME: 124 MIN JESSICA LANGE (ANN TALBOT) COUNTRY: USA ARMIN MUELLER-STAHL (MIKE LASZLO) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/HUNGARIAN FREDERIC FORREST (JACK BURKE) YEAR: 1989 DONALD MOFFAT (HARRY TALBOT) LUKAS HAAS (MIKEY TALBOT) CHERYL LYNN BRUCE (GEORGINE WHEELER) AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS MARI TÖRÖCSIK (MAGDA ZOLDAN) ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 1990 J.S. BLOCK (JUDGE SILVER) NOMINATED OSCAR BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE - JESSICA LANGE SOL FRIEDER (ISTVAN BODAY GOLDEN GLOBES, USA 1990 MICHAEL ROOKER (KARCHY LASZLO) NOMINATED GOLDEN GLOBE BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE - JESSICA LANGE ELZBIETA CZYZEWSKA (MELINDA KALMAN) BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 1990 MAGDA SZEKELY MARBURG (JUDIT HOLLO) WON GOLDEN BERLIN BEAR - COSTA-GAVRAS FELIX SHUMAN (JAMES NATHANSON) YOUNG ARTIST AWARDS 1990 MICHAEL SHILLO (GEZA VAMOS) NOMINATED YOUNG ARTIST AWARD BEST YOUNG ACTOR SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE - LUKAS HAAS
98. NARROW MARGIN
DIRECTOR: PETER HYAMS WRITERS: PETER HYAMS, EARL FELTON (EARLIER SCREENPLAY) GENRE: ACTION/CRIME/THRILLER
SOMETIMES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH CAN BE A NARROW MARGIN A REMAKE OF A POPULAR THRILLER FROM 1952, NARROW MARGIN CENTERS ON THE ATTEMPTS OF A DISTRICT ATTORNEY TO KEEP ALIVE A RELUCTANT WITNESS WHO CAN TESTIFY AGAINST THE MAFIA. A WOMAN SECRETLY WITNESSES THE MURDER OF HER BLIND DATE FOR THE EVENING BY A TOP MAFIA BOSS. SHE IMMEDIATELY GOES INTO HIDING WITHOUT INFORMING THE AUTHORITIES. WHEN THEY FINALLY CATCH UP WITH HER, SHE IS UNWILLING TO TESTIFY TO WHAT SHE HAS SEEN, BUT THE MAFIA ARE ON HER TRAIL. ACCOMPANIED BY A DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, THE WOMAN BOARDS A TRAIN TRAVELLING THROUGH A REMOTE PART OF CANADA. THE MAFIA KNOW HIM BUT THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN HER. "THIS REMAKE IS A TERRIFIC SUSPENSE-THRILLER IN ITS OWN RIGHT." - FANTASTICA DAILY "TAUT, TERRIFIC THRILLER" – EFILMCRITIC.COM "A TRAIN-SET SUSPENSE FILM WORTHY OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S DEFINITIVE THE LADY VANISHES." – AT A GLANCE FILM REVIEWS
CAST GENE HACKMAN (CAULFIELD) RUNTIME: 97 MIN ANNE ARCHER (HUNNICUT) COUNTRY: USA JAMES SIKKING (NELSON) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH J.T. WALSH (MICHAEL TARLOW) YEAR: 1990 M. EMMET WALSH (SGT. DOMINICK BENTI) SUSAN HOGAN (KATHRYN WELLER) NIGEL BENNETT (JACK WOOTTON) J.A. PRESTON (MARTIN LARNER) B.A. 'SMITTY' SMITH (KELLER) CODIE LUCAS WILBEE (NICHOLAS) BARBARA RUSSELL (NICHOLAS' MOTHER) ANTONY HOLLAND (ELDERLY MAN) DOREEN RAMOS (ELDERLY WOMAN) KEVIN MCNULTY (JAMES DAHLBECK) ANDREW RHODES (NIGRO)
99. PIONEER HEROES (PIONERY-GEROI)
DIRECTOR: NATALYA KUDRYASHOVA WRITER: NATALYA KUDRYASHOVA GENRE: DRAMA
VELIKY NOVGOROD, 1987. OLGA MAKES A STAND AGAINST HER TEACHER'S AUTHORITARIAN TEACHING METHODS, ANDREY IS PROPAGATING AN "ANTI-DEATH PILL" IN A JAM JAR AND KATYA OBSERVES HER FATHER DISTILLING BOOZE ILLEGALLY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. THESE THREE YOUNG SCHOOLMATES ARE ALL MEMBERS OF THE "VLADIMIR ILLYICH LENIN" YOUNG PIONEER ORGANISATION AND ARE FULL OF CHILDLIKE VISIONS OF THE FUTURE. OVER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ON, ALL THREE HAVE NOW ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES PROFESSIONALLY IN MOSCOW, AND YET THEY HAVE NOT REALLY FOUND THEIR BEARINGS IN PRESENT DAY RUSSIA. OLGA SUFFERS FROM PANIC ATTACKS, ANDREY TRIES TO FILL HIS INNER VOID WITH COMPUTER GAMES, AND KATYA IS PURSUED BY UNSETTLING DREAMS. MOVING POETICALLY BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT, NATALIA KUDRYASHOVA SHOWS THE GULF BETWEEN THE VISIONS OF YESTERYEAR AND TODAY'S REALITY WHICH THE DISSOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION HAS LEFT BEHIND FOR ITS FINAL GENERATION OF YOUNG PIONEERS. IMPRESSIVELY DENSE AND ATMOSPHERIC IMAGES DESCRIBE THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARDS LIFE. DERELICT CONCRETE BUILDINGS, IMPOSING AND KAFKAESQUE, GIVE SHAPE TO THE OPPRESSIVE SHADOWS OF THEIR ORIGINAL DREAMS THAT NOW THREATEN TO ENGULF THEM. "A POIGNANT AND FUNNY FILM" – DOG AND WOLF "A VISUALLY STUNNING FANTASY ABOUT THE LOSS OF ORIENTATION AND THE NEW ARTIFICIAL WORLDS OF POST-SOCIALIST LIFE." - BERLINER ZEITUNG "A LOT OF THINGS IN THIS BEAUTIFUL FILM LIVE FROM THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TIMES." - TAGESSPIEGEL
CAST RUNTIME: 116 MIN NATALYA KUDRYASHOVA (OLGA) COUNTRY: RUSSIA DARYA MOROZ (KATYA) LANGUAGE: RUSSIAN/ENGLISH ALEKSEY MITIN (ANDREY) YEAR: 2015 VARYA SHABLAKOVA (OLGA AS A CHILD) SIMA VYBORNOVA (KATYA AS A CHILD) NIKITA YAKOVLEV (ANDREY AS A CHILD) YURIY KUZNETSOV FESTIVALS AND AWARDS ALEKSANDR USERDIN (PSYCHOANALYTIC) 2014 LES ARCS – WON BEST WORK IN PROGRESS SVETLANA SMIRNOVA-MARTSINKEVICH (ANDREY’S GIRLFRIEND) 2015 BERLINALE PANORAMA 2015 – NOMINATED BEST FIRST FEATURE AWARD ANATOLIY BELYY 2015 KINO PAVASARIS, VILNIUS LITHUANIA – COMPETITION ZHANETTA DEMIKHOVA (TEACHER) ALESYA GUZKO (ANGEL) OFFICIAL SITE: HTTP://CTB.RU/EN/FILMS/PIONEER-HEROES/
100. PRIMARY COLORS
DIRECTOR: MIKE NICHOLS WRITERS: JOE KLEIN (NOVEL), ELAINE MAY GENRE: COMEDY/DRAMA
WHAT WENT DOWN ON THE WAY TO THE TOP? THIS POLITICAL SATIRE, BASED ON A BOOK BY AN (ORIGINALLY) ANONYMOUS INSIDER (NOW KNOWN TO BE JOE KLEIN) WHO WORKED ON BILL CLINTON'S 1992 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, CENTERS ON THE CHARISMATIC, PHILANDERING, POWER-HUNGRY SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR JACK STANTON (JOHN TRAVOLTA). TOGETHER WITH HIS EQUALLY HEADSTRONG WIFE (EMMA THOMPSON), STANTON RISES FROM OBSCURITY TO BECOME A MAIN PLAYER ON THE POLITICAL MAP, BUT VARIOUS SEXUAL SCANDALS IN HIS PRIVATE LIFE THREATEN TO DERAIL HIS ASCENT TO POWER. ADRIAN LESTER, BILLY BOB THORNTON AND KATHY BATES FEATURE AS PART OF HIS ECCENTRIC CAMPAIGN TEAM. FILM GENERATED CONTROVERSY FOR ITS DEPICTION OF A CLINTON-LIKE CHARACTER AS IT WAS RELEASED CLOSE TO THE LEWINSKY SCANDAL. "IT'S A SUPERB FILM - FUNNY, INSIGHTFUL AND VERY WISE ABOUT THE REALITIES OF POLITICAL LIFE." – ROGER EBERT, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES "MIKE NICHOLS AND SCREENWRITER ELAINE MAY HAVE PRODUCED ONE OF THE SMARTEST, FUNNIEST POLITICAL MOVIES OF THE PAST 20 YEARS." - CINCINNATI ENQUIRER "A SMART AND SAVVY PIECE OF WORK." - LOS ANGELES TIMES
CAST RUNTIME: 143 MIN JOHN TRAVOLTA (GOVERNOR JACK STANTON) COUNTRY: USA/FRANCE/UK/GERMANY EMMA THOMPSON (SUSAN STANTON) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH BILLY BOB THORNTON (RICHARD JEMMONS) YEAR: 1998 KATHY BATES (LIBBY HOLDEN) AWARDS ADRIAN LESTER (HENRY BURTON) 13 WINS AND 24 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING MAURA TIERNEY (DAISY GREEN) ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 1999 LARRY HAGMAN (GOV. FRED PICKER) NOMINATED OSCAR BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - KATHY BATES DIANE LADD (MAMMA STANTON) BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY PRODUCED OR PUBLISHED - ELAINE MAY PAUL GUILFOYLE (HOWARD FERGUSON) GOLDEN GLOBES, USA 1999 REBECCA WALKER (MARCH) NOMINATED CAROLINE AARON (LUCILLE KAUFMAN) GOLDEN GLOBE BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE - JOHN TRAVOLTA TOMMY HOLLIS (WILLIAM MCCULLISON) BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE - KATHY BATES ROB REINER (IZZY ROSENBLATT) BAFTA AWARDS 1999 BEN JONES (ARLEN SPORKEN) WON J.C. QUINN (UNCLE CHARLIE) BAFTA FILM AWARD BEST SCREENPLAY, ADAPTED - ELAINE MAY
101. PRINCE OF DARKNESS
DIRECTOR: JOHN CARPENTER WRITER: JOHN CARPENTER GENRE: HORROR
PROVING THAT YOU CAN NEVER GUESS WHAT YOU'LL FIND WHEN YOU CLEAN OUT THE BASEMENT, A MAN OF THE CLOTH DISCOVERS THAT ULTIMATE EVIL HAS MADE A HIDING PLACE IN HIS CELLAR IN THIS TALE OF TERROR. FATHER LOOMIS IS A PRIEST WHO DISCOVERS A STRANGE OBJECT IN A CHURCH BASEMENT - A CANISTER FILLED WITH A SWIRLING AND VOLATILE GREEN SUBSTANCE. WITH THE HELP OF PROFESSOR BIRACK, LOOMIS DISCOVERS THE STARTLING TRUTH ABOUT HIS FIND - IT SEEMS THAT SATAN, WHO IS ACTUALLY AN ALIEN LIFE FORM, HAD A SON, AND THE ESSENCE OF THE DEVIL'S SPAWN IS TRAPPED INSIDE THE CANISTER. THE EVIL SPIRIT HAS BEEN GUARDED BY A GROUP CALLING THEMSELVES "THE BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEP," BUT THE SPIRIT HAS THE ABILITY TO FREE ITSELF WHENEVER IT DECIDES THE TIME IS RIGHT...AND IT SEEMS THAT TIME IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. PRINCE OF DARKNESS WAS DIRECTED BY HORROR MASTER JOHN CARPENTER; HE ALSO WROTE THE SCREENPLAY UNDER THE PSEUDONYM MARTIN QUATERMASS. "STILL HOLDS UP AS A CREEPY AND ATMOSPHERIC GEM..." - CINEMA CRAZED "PRINCE OF DARKNESS IS A REAL TOUR DE FORCE, AND A WELCOME RETURN." – CHICAGO TRIBUNE "GORY, GRIM AND GOOD." - KFOR CHANNEL 4 NEWS
CAST RUNTIME: 102 MIN DONALD PLEASENCE (PRIEST) COUNTRY: USA JAMESON PARKER (BRIAN MARSH) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/LATIN VICTOR WONG (PROF. HOWARD BIRACK) YEAR: 1987 LISA BLOUNT (CATHERINE DANFORTH) DENNIS DUN (WALTER) SUSAN BLANCHARD (KELLY) ANNE MARIE HOWARD (SUSAN CABOT) ANN YEN (LISA) KEN WRIGHT (LOMAX) DIRK BLOCKER (MULLINS) JESSIE LAWRENCE FERGUSON (CALDER) AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS PETER JASON (DR. PAUL LEAHY) ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR FILMS, USA 1988 ROBERT GRASMERE (FRANK WYNDHAM) NOMINATED SATURN AWARD BEST MUSIC - JOHN CARPENTER THOM BRAY (ETCHINSON) AVORIAZ FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL 1988 JOANNA MERLIN (BAG LADY) WON CRITICS AWARD
102. PRIVATE PEACEFUL
DIRECTOR: PAT O'CONNOR WRITERS: MICHAEL MORPURGO (NOVEL), SIMON READE GENRE: DRAMA/WAR
DIVIDED BY LOVE. UNITED BY WAR. TORN APART BY INJUSTICE. PRIVATE PEACEFUL IS THE STORY OF THE UNBREAKABLE BOND BETWEEN TWO BROTHERS FROM THEIR CHILDHOOD IN RURAL DEVON TO THE BATTLE FIELDS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR, BASED ON THE BESTSELLING NOVEL BY WAR HORSE WRITER MICHAEL MORGPURGO. WHEN YOUNG TOMMO PEACEFUL VOLUNTEERS TO FIGHT, HIS PROTECTIVE OLDER BROTHER CHARLIE FOLLOWS HIM TO FLANDERS. BUT IT IS HERE THAT BOTH EXPERIENCE THE BRUTAL NATURE OF WAR, FAR REMOVED FROM FAMILY LIFE AND THEIR RIVALRY FOR THE LOVE OF MOLLY MONKS. FEATURING AN ALL-STAR BRITISH CAST INCLUDING THE LATE, INCOMPARABLE RICHARD GRIFFITHS (HARRY POTTER, THE HISTORY BOYS) IN HIS LAST FILM, FRANCES DE LA TOUR (ALICE IN WONDERLAND, HUGO), JOHN LYNCH (SLIDING DOORS) AND MAXINE PEAKE (SILK), PRIVATE PEACEFUL IS A SEARINGLY POWERFUL AND EMOTIONAL TALE OF ADOLESCENCE, HEROISM AND FIERCE FAMILY LOYALTIES WHICH WOULD NEVER BE BROKEN. "A BEAUTIFUL FILM… FEW OTHER CINEMATIC EFFORTS ARE SO WELL CONSTRUCTED AND SHREWDLY CHARACTERISED - ****" – EVENING STANDARD "…IT'S NICELY DONE, SWEET AND MOVING" - EMPIRE "A DELICATE AND WARM PORTRAYAL OF LOVE FOR FAMILY, FOR FRIENDS, AND FOR ONE'S COUNTRY, WITHOUT THE USUAL FAÇADE OF OVER-EXUBERANT JINGOISM" - CINEVUE
CAST RUNTIME: 100 MIN JACK O'CONNELL (CHARLIE PEACEFUL) COUNTRY: UK RICHARD GRIFFITHS (THE COLONEL) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH GEORGE MACKAY (TOMMO PEACEFUL) YEAR: 2012 FRANCES DE LA TOUR (GRANDMA WOLF) IZZY MEIKLE-SMALL (YOUNG MOLLY) ALEXANDRA ROACH (MOLLY MONKS) MAXINE PEAKE (HAZEL PEACEFUL) JOHN LYNCH (SERGEANT HANLEY) GREGG LOWE (SOLDIER) OFFICIAL SITE: HTTP://WWW.PRIVATEPEACEFUL.CO.UK/ HERO FIENNES-TIFFIN (YOUNG CHARLIE) OFFICIAL FACEBOOK: HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/PRIVATEPEACEFULFILM ELINE POWELL (ANNA) OFFICIAL TWITTER: HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/PRIVATEPEACEFUL ANTHONY FLANAGAN (RECRUITING SERGEANT)
103. RED HEAT
DIRECTOR: WALTER HILL WRITERS: WALTER HILL, HARRY KLEINER, TROY KENNEDY-MARTIN GENRE: ACTION/COMEDY/CRIME/THRILLER
MOSCOW'S TOUGHEST DETECTIVE. CHICAGO'S CRAZIEST COP. THERE'S ONLY ONE THING WORSE THAN MAKING THEM MAD. MAKING THEM PARTNERS. CAPTAIN IVAN DANKO OF THE MOSCOW POLICE SETS A TRAP FOR VIKTOR ROSTAVILI, A GEORGIAN DRUG KINGPIN AND CRIME LORD. THE AMBUSH SEVERELY BACKFIRES; VIKTOR FLEES THE SOVIET UNION AND COMES TO THE USA, AFTER GUNNING DOWN SEVERAL OTHER MOSCOW COPS, INCLUDING DANKO'S PARTNER. LOUDMOUTHED CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT DETECTIVE-SERGEANT ART RIDZIK, INVESTIGATES SEVERAL LOCAL MURDERS COMMITTED BY VIKTOR'S CARTEL. WHEN VIKTOR IS ARRESTED IN CHICAGO, DANKO IS DISPATCHED TO ESCORT HIM BACK TO MOSCOW TO FACE JUSTICE IN THE SOVIET UNION. UNEXPECTEDLY, DANKO AND RIDZIK FIND THEMSELVES PARTNERED TOGETHER WHEN VIKTOR ESCAPES CUSTODY, GUNNING DOWN RIDZIK'S PARTNER IN THE PROCESS. DANKO AND RIDZIK PURSUE VIKTOR AND HIS HENCHMEN AROUND CHICAGO… "'RED HEAT' IS NOT THE FIRST MOVIE ABOUT A COUPLE OF VERY DIFFERENT COPS, AND IT WILL NOT BE THE LAST, BUT AS THE FORMULA GOES THIS IS A SUPERIOR EXAMPLE." - ROGER EBERT, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES "HILL'S MUSCULAR, ENERGETIC DIRECTION MAKES WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN JUST ANOTHER BUDDY-COP THRILLER INTO AN ELECTRIFYING PIECE OF ESCAPISM." - FANTASTICA DAILY "IF YOU STILL PINE FOR THE 80S WHERE EAST VS WEST DOMINATED ACTION FILMS, THEN THIS IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF YOUR EDUCATION." - BBC.COM
CAST RUNTIME: 104 MIN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (CAPT. IVAN DANKO) COUNTRY: USA JAMES BELUSHI (DET. SGT. ART RIDZIK) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/RUSSIAN PETER BOYLE (CMDR. LOU DONNELLY) YEAR: 1988 ED O'ROSS (VIKTOR 'ROSTA' ROSTAVILI) LAURENCE FISHBURNE (LT. CHARLIE STOBBS) GINA GERSHON (CATHERINE 'CAT' MANZETTI) RICHARD BRIGHT (DET. SGT. GALLAGHER) J.W. SMITH (SALIM) BRENT JENNINGS (ABDUL ELIJAH) GRETCHEN PALMER (HOOKER) PRUITT TAYLOR VINCE (NIGHT CLERK) MIKE HAGERTY (PAT NUNN) BRION JAMES (STREAK) GLORIA DELANEY (INTERN)
104. SIMPLE PLAN, A
DIRECTOR: SAM RAIMI WRITERS: SCOTT B. SMITH (NOVEL AND SCREENPLAY) GENRE: CRIME/THRILLER
SOMETIMES GOOD PEOPLE DO EVIL THINGS. WHEN HANK, JACOB AND LOU FIND $4.4 MILLION INSIDE A CRASHED PLANE IN A NATURE PRESERVE, THEY QUICKLY COME UP WITH THE PLAN TO KEEP THE MONEY SAFE UNTIL THE PLANE HAS BEEN FOUND BY OTHERS AND THE DUST HAS SETTLED. BUT JACOB, HANK'S BROTHER, AND LOU, A FRIEND, DO NOT BEHAVE THE WAY THEY DECIDED TO. LOU, CONSTANTLY IN FINANCIAL DEBT, WANTS HIS SHARE SOON AND JACOB WISHES TO RENOVATE THEIR PARENTS' FARM. THE TRUSTY ATMOSPHERE BETWEEN THE UNEQUAL PARTNERS DISSOLVES SLOWLY, AND INTRIGUES ARE SPUN. ALSO, ACCIDENTS START HAPPENING AND WHEN AN FBI AGENT COMES INTO TOWN, LOOKING FOR A CRASHED PLANE, HANK AND HIS PARTNERS GET INTO VERY DEEP WATER... A SIMPLE PLAN WAS NAMED ONE OF THE "TOP TEN FILMS" OF 1998 BY THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW. "ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST FILMS FOR A LOT OF REASONS, INCLUDING ITS ABILITY TO INVOLVE THE AUDIENCE ALMOST BREATHLESSLY IN A STORY OF MOUNTING TRAGEDY." - ROGER EBERT, CHICAGO SUN- TIMES "PERFECT CAPERS GONE HORRIBLY, INEXORABLY AWRY HAVE ALWAYS KEPT AUDIENCES SQUIRMING. BUT JUST WHEN WE THINK WE'VE SEEN IT ALL, RAIMI OFFERS A FEW NEW WRINKLES." - VARIETY "A VERY SPECIAL AND UNCOMPROMISING PIECE OF WORK. WRAP UP WARM." - EMPIRE MAGAZINE
CAST RUNTIME: 121 MIN BILL PAXTON (HANK) COUNTRY: USA/UK/GERMANY/FRANCE BRIDGET FONDA (SARAH) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH BILLY BOB THORNTON (JACOB) YEAR: 1998 BRENT BRISCOE (LOU) JACK WALSH (TOM BUTLER) AWARDS CHELCIE ROSS (CARL) 18 WINS AND 18 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING BECKY ANN BAKER (NANCY CHAMBERS) ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 1999 GARY COLE (BAXTER) NOMINATED OSCAR BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - BILLY BOB THORNTON BOB DAVIS (FBI AGENT RENKINS) BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED - SCOTT B. SMITH PETER SYVERTSEN (FBI AGENT FREEMONT) GOLDEN GLOBES, USA 1999 TOM CAREY (DWIGHT STEPHANSON) NOMINATED JOHN PAXTON (MR. SCHMITT) GOLDEN GLOBE BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE - BILLY BOB THORNTON MARIE MATHAY (NEWS REPORTER) NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW, USA 1998 PAUL MAGERS (ANCHORMAN) WON NBR AWARD BEST SCREENPLAY; TOP TEN FILMS
105. SUNTAN
DIRECTOR: ARGYRIS PAPADIMITROPOULOS WRITERS: SYLLAS TZOUMERKAS, ARGYRIS PAPADIMITROPOULOS GENRE: DRAMA/ROMANCE/THRILLER
PARTIES, SEX, DANCING, DRINKING AND SLEEPING IT OFF ON THE BEACH: A TYPICAL YOUNG PEOPLE'S HOLIDAY. IN SUNTAN, THE DOCTOR ON A TOURIST GREEK ISLAND FALLS FOR 19-YEAR-OLD ANNA. HE TRIES TO CONNECT WITH HER AND HER FRIENDS. BUT HOW WILD ARE YOU AT THE AGE OF 40? KOSTIS IS A 40-YEAR-OLD DOCTOR THAT FINDS HIMSELF IN THE SMALL ISLAND OF ANTIPAROS, IN ORDER TO TAKE OVER THE LOCAL CLINIC. HIS WHOLE LIFE AND ROUTINE WILL TURN UPSIDE DOWN WHEN HE MEETS AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL TOURISTS AND HE FALLS IN LOVE WITH ANNA, A 19-YEAR-OLD GODDESS. "SUNTAN" IS A COMING-OF-MIDDLE-AGE FILM THAT EXPLORES GROWING UP THROUGH A YOUTH NEVER LIVED. "IT'S AN UNFLINCHING DEPICTION OF ONE MAN’S DESCENT INTO AN EMBARRASSING VORTEX OF DESIRE, PAIRED WITH A SPECTACULAR LACK OF SELF-AWARENESS. HELMER ARGYRIS PAPADIMITROPOULOS SCORES A BULL'S-EYE, IN ALL SENSES, MAKING "SUNTAN" A FESTIVAL MUSTHAVE" - VARIETY "THIS IS CONFIDENT, UNFLINCHING FILMMAKING WHICH MANAGES TO SHOW US THINGS WE MAY NOT HAVE SEEN - OR WANTED TO SEE - BEFORE." - SCREEN DAILY "VITAL AND IMPRESSIVE... "SUNTAN" IS AN ABSORBING, DISCOMFITING DRAMA FROM GREEK DIRECTOR ARGYRIS PAPADIMITROPOULOS. WHAT STARTS AS A KEENLY OBSERVED, ALMOST CHEKHOVIAN ACCOUNT OF A COUNTRY DOCTOR, TURNS INTO A DARK, ALMOST EXCRUCIATINGLY UNBLINKING DEPICTION OF VIOLENT MALE OBSESSION" - SIGHT AND SOUND
CAST RUNTIME: 104 MIN MAKIS PAPADIMITRIOU (KOSTIS) COUNTRY: GREECE ELLI TRINGOU (ANNA) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/GREEK DIMI HART (JASON) YEAR: 2016 HARA KOTSALI (ALIN) MILOU VAN GROESEN (MILA) FESTIVALS AND AWARDS MARCUS COLLEN (MORTEN) 2016 ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL YANNIS TSORTEKIS (TAKIS) NOMINATION BIG SCREEN AWARD PAVLOS ORKOPOULOS (MAYOR) 2016 SXSW MARIA KALLIMANI (TZINA) OFFICIAL SITES MARISSA TRIANDAFYLLIDOU (TOURIST MOTHER) HTTP://WWW.VISITFILMS.COM/FILM.ASP?MOVIEID=1564 SYLLAS TZOUMERKAS (ORESTIS) HTTP://MARNIFILMS.GR/EN/PORTFOLIO/SUNTAN-2015-IN-PRODUCTION-2/
106. TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY
DIRECTOR: JAMES CAMERON WRITERS: JAMES CAMERON, WILLIAM WISHER JR. GENRE: ACTION/SCI-FI
IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL. ALMOST 10 YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE FIRST CYBORG CALLED THE TERMINATOR TRIED TO KILL SARAH CONNOR AND HER UNBORN SON, JOHN CONNOR. JOHN CONNOR, THE FUTURE LEADER OF THE HUMAN RESISTANCE, IS NOW A HEALTHY YOUNG BOY. HOWEVER ANOTHER TERMINATOR IS SENT BACK THROUGH TIME CALLED THE T-1000, WHICH IS MORE ADVANCED AND MORE POWERFUL THAN ITS PREDECESSOR. THE MISSION: TO KILL JOHN CONNOR WHEN HE'S STILL A CHILD. HOWEVER, SARAH AND JOHN DO NOT HAVE TO FACE THIS THREAT OF A TERMINATOR ALONE. ANOTHER TERMINATOR IS ALSO SENT BACK THROUGH TIME. THE MISSION: TO PROTECT JOHN AND SARAH CONNOR AT ALL COSTS. THE BATTLE FOR TOMORROW HAS BEGUN... THE FILM'S PRODUCTION COSTS WAS $102 MILLION, WHICH, AT THE TIME, WAS THE HIGHEST EVER. IT WAS THE HIGHEST GROSSING FILM OF 1991, BEATING ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES, AND IS TRISTAR PICTURES' HIGHEST GROSSING FILM TO DATE. “A GREAT MOVIE... A POP EPIPHANY, MARKING THAT COMMERCIALLY CREATIVE POINT WHERE THE POWER OF HOLLYWOOD MEETS THE PURITY OF MYTH.” - THE GLOBE AND MAIL “TERMINATOR 2 IMAGINES THINGS YOU WOULDN'T EVEN BE LIKELY TO DREAM AND GETS THESE VISIONS ONTO THE SCREEN WITH A SEAMLESSNESS THAT'S MIND-BOGGLING.” - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE “SET THE STANDARD FOR MODERN HOLLYWOOD'S F/X-DRIVEN MEGA-PRODUCTIONS AND CEMENTED JAMES CAMERON'S DYSTOPIAN VISION AS MODERN SCIENCE-FICTION'S SAGA PAR EXCELLENCE.” - SLANT MAGAZINE
CAST RUNTIME: 137 MIN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (THE TERMINATOR) COUNTRY: USA/FRANCE LINDA HAMILTON (SARAH CONNOR) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/SPANISH EDWARD FURLONG (JOHN CONNOR) YEAR: 1991 ROBERT PATRICK (T-1000) AWARDS EARL BOEN (DR. SILBERMAN) 24 WINS AND 21 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING JOE MORTON (MILES DYSON) ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 1992 S. EPATHA MERKERSON (TARISSA DYSON) WON OSCAR BEST SOUND; BEST EFFECTS, SOUND EFFECTS EDITING; BEST EFFECTS, VISUAL EFFECTS CASTULO GUERRA (ENRIQUE SALCEDA) NOMINATED OSCAR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY DANNY COOKSEY (TIM) ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR FILMS, USA 1992 JENETTE GOLDSTEIN (JANELLE VOIGHT) SATURN AWARD BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM; BEST ACTRESS – L. HAMILTON; BEST DIRECTOR – J. CAMERON XANDER BERKELEY (TODD VOIGHT) MTV MOVIE AWARDS 1992 LESLIE HAMILTON GEARREN (TWIN SARAH) WON MTV MOVIE AWARD BEST MOVIE; BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE - LINDA HAMILTON; KEN GIBBEL (DOUGLAS) BEST MALE PERFORMANCE - ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER; BEST ACTION SEQUENCE - L.A. FREEWAY CHASE.
107. THEY LIVE
DIRECTOR: JOHN CARPENTER WRITERS: RAY NELSON (SHORT STORY "EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING"), JOHN CARPENTER GENRE: ACTION/SCI-FI
"I HAVE COME HERE TO CHEW BUBBLEGUM AND KICK ASS...AND I'M ALL OUT OF BUBBLEGUM." A HOMELESS DRIFTER DISCOVERS A REASON FOR THE EVER-WIDENING GAP BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR: A CONSPIRACY BY NON-HUMAN ALIENS WHO HAVE INFILTRATED AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE GUISE OF WEALTHY YUPPIES. WITH THE HELP OF SPECIAL SUNGLASSES THAT REVEAL THE ALIENS' TRUE FACES AND THEIR SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES ("MARRY AND REPRODUCE," "SUBMIT TO AUTHORITY"), OUR HERO TRIES TO STOP THE INVASION. THIS SATIRE OF REAGANOMICS AND THE "GREED IS GOOD" ERA ALSO HAS ONE OF THE FUNNIEST (AND LONGEST) FIGHT SCENES IN AMERICAN CINEMA. “A FANTASTICALLY SUBVERSIVE FILM, A NIFTY LITTLE CONFECTION PITTING US VS THEM, THE HAVES VS THE HAVE-NOTS.” - VARIETY “CARPENTER'S ABILITY TO FUSE THE BAWDY HUMOR AND ACTION WITH AN INTELLIGENT SCRIPT MAKE FOR A GENRE FILM THAT IS BOTH THOUGHTFUL AND ENTERTAINING” - CINEMATIC REFLECTIONS “JOHN CARPENTER'S THEY LIVE HAS CULT FAVORITE WRITTEN ALL OVER IT, AND PART OF THE REASON IS THE WAY IT REGENERATES THE CHEAP, JUICY, SURPRISINGLY POTENT SCI-FI OF THE 1950S.” - BOSTON GLOBE
CAST RUNTIME: 93 MIN RODDY PIPER (NADA) COUNTRY: USA KEITH DAVID (FRANK) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH MEG FOSTER (HOLLY) YEAR: 1988 GEORGE 'BUCK' FLOWER (DRIFTER) PETER JASON (GILBERT) RAYMOND ST. JACQUES (STREET PREACHER) JASON ROBARDS III (FAMILY MAN) JOHN LAWRENCE (BEARDED MAN) SUSAN BARNES (BROWN HAIRED WOMAN) SY RICHARDSON (BLACK REVOLUTIONARY) WENDY BRAINARD (FAMILY MAN'S DAUGHTER) AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS LUCILLE MEREDITH (FEMALE INTERVIEWER) ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR FILMS, USA 1990 SUSAN BLANCHARD (INGENUE) NOMINATED SATURN AWARD BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM; BEST MUSIC NORMAN ALDEN (FOREMAN) FANTASPORTO 1989 DANA BRATTON (BLACK JUNKIE) NOMINATED INTERNATIONAL FANTASY FILM AWARD BEST FILM
108. THIRST
DIRECTOR: SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA WRITERS: SVETOSLAV OVTCHAROV, SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA GENRE: DRAMA
IN THE STRUGGLE OF DAILY EXISTENCE, THE THIRST FOR LOVE MAY BE GREATER THAN THAT FOR LIFE ITSELF. A COUPLE AND THEIR TEENAGE SON EKE OUT A LIVING ON A HILLTOP, DOING THE LAUNDRY FOR LOCAL HOTELS, DESPITE THE INTERMITTENT WATER SUPPLY. THEIR SIMPLE LIFE IS OVERTURNED BY THE ARRIVAL OF A FATHER- ANDDAUGHTER TEAM OF DIVINER AND WELL-DIGGER, WHO PROMISE TO BRING AN END TO THIS PRECARIOUS EXISTENCE BY FINDING A SOURCE ON THEIR ARID HILL. BUT ULTIMATELY, THESE NEWCOMERS QUENCH A THIRST THAT IS MUCH STRONGER THAN THAT FOR MERE WATER. "RARELY DOES A DEBUT FEATURE COME ALONG WITH THE VISUAL AND NARRATIVE CONFIDENCE OF "THIRST" A BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED, SUBTLY TOLD STORY OF TWO VERY DIFFERENT TEENS HESITANTLY COMING TOGETHER IN BULGARIA'S RURAL SOUTHWEST. DIRECTED WITH ARRESTING YET SUBTLE FLAIR BY SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA, WHOSE AFFINITY FOR MINIMAL DIALOGUE ELIDES WITH HER CAREFUL ATTENTION TO HOW PEOPLE OBSERVE EACH OTHER, THE FILM COMBINES CHAMBER-PIECE ELEMENTS WITH SENSITIVITY TO LANDSCAPE, LIGHT AND SHADOW." - VARIETY "A REMARKABLY CONFIDENT FEATURE DEBUT" – SCREEN DAILY "NO DOUBT ACTRESS SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA HAS A MADE A STRONG DIRECTORIAL DEBUT HERE" - POPOPTIQ
CAST MONIKA NAYDENOVA (THE GIRL) ALEXANDER BENEV (THE BOY) NOMINATIONS AND AWARDS SVETLA YANCHEVA (THE MOTHER OF THE BOY) GOLDEN ROSE 2015 IVAYLO HRISTOV (THE FATHER OF THE BOY) WON GOLDEN ROSE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - VESSELIN HRISTOV VASSIL MIHAJLOV (THE FATHER OF THE GIRL) HAMBURG FILM FESTIVAL 2015 STEFAN MAVRODIYEV (THE SHOPKEEPER) NOMINATED - YOUNG TALENT AWARD - SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA IVAN BARNEV (THE MINI BUS DRIVER) ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL 2015 NOMINATED GOLDEN EYE - BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM ORIGINAL TITLE: ЖАЖДА MINSK IFF (LISTAPAD), BELARUS 2015 RUNTIME: 90 MIN BEST CAST AWARD, JURY PRIZE COUNTRY: BULGARIA FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM D'ARRAS 2015 LANGUAGE: BULGARIAN BEST MISE EN SCÈNE – DIRECTION AWARD YEAR: 2015
109. TO MY BELOVED
DIRECTOR: ALY MURITIBA WRITERS: ALY MURITIBA GENRE: ACTION/DRAMA/THRILLER
FERNANDO LOVES HIS DEAD WIFE. TOO MUCH. AFTER THE LOSS OF HIS WIFE ANA, FERNANDO BECOMES A QUIET AND INTROSPECTIVE MAN, WHO RAISES HIS SON DANIEL BY HIMSELF. EVERY NIGHT, WHILE THE BOY SLEEPS, HE RECALLS HIS LOVE BY ORGANISING HER PERSONAL BELONGINGS. HIS LIFE IS TURNED AROUND WHEN HE DISCOVERS A HANDFUL OF SEX TAPES IN HIS DECEASED WIFE'S HOMEMADE VHS COLLECTION. OBSESSED WITH THE IDEA OF TRACKING THE UNNAMED LOVER, FERNANDO LEAVES EVERYTHING BEHIND - INCLUDING HIS SON - TO INSERT HIMSELF INTO THE LIFE OF SALVADOR, AN EX-CON AND THE MAN FROM THE VIDEOTAPES. AN EXHIBITION OF REMARKABLE CINEMATIC CONTROL, TO MY BELOVED IS A FILM RIFE WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL TENSION AND SUBTLETY. "STRONG, BEAUTIFUL AND FULL OF SYMBOLISMS" – CINEMA EM CENA "A THRILLER THAT WILL SURPRISE MANY!" – CARTA CAPITAL "TRIUMPHANTLY SUSPENSEFUL!" – CINE POP
CAST FERNANDO ALVES PINTO (FERNANDO) MAYANA NEIVA (RAQUEL) LOURINELSON VLADMIR (SALVADOR) GIULY BIANCATO (ESTELA) ORIGINAL TITLE: PARA MINHA AMADA MORTA MICHELLE PUCCI (ANA) RUNTIME: 123 MIN VINICIUS SABBAG (DANIEL) COUNTRY: BRAZIL LANGUAGE: PORTUGUESE AWARDS YEAR: 2015 BRAZILIA FESTIVAL OF BRAZILIAN CINEMA 2015 WON CANDANGO TROPHY BEST DIRECTOR - ALY MURITIBA OFFICIAL SITE: HTTP://WWW.PARAMINHAAMADAMORTA.COM.BR/ BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - LOURINELSON VLADMIR BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - GIULY BIANCATO BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - PABLO BAIÃO WON SPECIAL JURY AWARD BEST FILM BEST ART DIRECTION - MONICA PALAZZO MONTRÉAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL 2015 BEST EDITING - JOÃO MENNA BARRETO WON SILVER ZENITH FESTIVAL DE CINEMA LUSO-BRASILEIRO DE SANTA MARIA DA FEIRA 2015 SAN SEBASTIÁN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2015 WON JURY AWARD BEST ACTOR - FERNANDO ALVES PINTO NOMINATED - HORIZONS AWARD
110. TOTAL RECALL
DIRECTOR: PAUL VERHOEVEN WRITERS: PHILIP K. DICK (SHORT STORY "WE CAN REMEMBER IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE"), RONALD SHUSETT (SCREEN STORY), DAN O'BANNON (SCREEN STORY), JON POVILL (SCREEN STORY), RONALD SHUSETT, DAN O'BANNON, GARY GOLDMAN GENRE: ACTION/SCI-FI
THEY STOLE HIS MIND, NOW HE WANTS IT BACK. IN PAUL VERHOEVEN'S WILD SCI-FI ACTION MOVIE TOTAL RECALL, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER PLAYS A 21STCENTURY CONSTRUCTION WORKER WHO DISCOVERS THAT HIS ENTIRE MEMORY OF THE PAST DERIVES FROM A MEMORY CHIP IMPLANTED IN HIS BRAIN. SCHWARZENEGGER LEARNS THAT HE'S ACTUALLY A SECRET AGENT WHO HAD BECOME A THREAT TO THE GOVERNMENT, SO THOSE IN POWER PLANTED THE CHIP AND INVENTED A DOMESTIC LIFESTYLE FOR HIM. ONCE HE HAS REALIZED HIS TRUE IDENTITY, HE TRAVELS TO MARS TO PIECE TOGETHER THE REST OF HIS IDENTITY, AS WELL AS TO FIND THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS IMPLANTED MEMORY. VERHOEVEN HAS CREATED A FAST, FURIOUS ACTION FILM WITH TOTAL RECALL, FILLED WITH IMPRESSIVE STUNTS AND (LITERALLY) EYE-POPPING VISUALS. "ONE OF THE MOST COMPLEX AND VISUALLY INTERESTING SCIENCE FICTION MOVIES IN A LONG TIME." – ROGER EBERT, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES "A WICKEDLY VIOLENT, ACTION-PACKED OLD SCHOOL PIECE OF WARPED, TWIST-FILLED SCI-FI AND SCHWARZENEGGER CHEESE. YOU'LL WISH YOU HAD THREE HANDS TO HOLD THIS ONE." - IGN DVD "IT'S A BLOCKBUSTER FROM ANOTHER ERA, WHEN A BIG IDEA, RATHER THAN A PAIR OF 3D GOGGLES, GAVE THE FILM ITS EXTRA DIMENSION." - OBSERVER
CAST RUNTIME: 113 MIN ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (DOUGLAS QUAID/HAUSER) COUNTRY: USA RACHEL TICOTIN (MELINA) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH SHARON STONE (LORI) YEAR: 1990 RONNY COX (VILOS COHAAGEN) AWARDS MICHAEL IRONSIDE (RICHTER) 7 WINS AND 15 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING MARSHALL BELL (GEORGE/KUATO) ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 1991 MEL JOHNSON JR. (BENNY) WON SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (FOR VISUAL EFFECTS) MICHAEL CHAMPION (HELM) NOMINATED OSCAR BEST SOUND; BEST EFFECTS, SOUND EFFECTS EDITING ROY BROCKSMITH (DR. EDGEMAR) ACADEMY OF SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY & HORROR FILMS, USA 1991 RAY BAKER (BOB MCCLANE) WON SATURN AWARD BEST SCIENCE FICTION FILM; BEST COSTUMES ROSEMARY DUNSMORE (DR. LULL) NOMINATED SATURN AWARD BEST ACTOR - ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER DAVID KNELL (ERNIE) BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - RACHEL TICOTIN; BEST DIRECTOR - PAUL VERHOEVEN
111. TWIN DRAGONS (SHUANG LONG HUI)
DIRECTORS: RINGO LAM, HARK TSUI WRITERS: BARRY WONG AND HARK TSUI GENRE: ACTION/COMEDY
TWICE THE ACTION! INTERNATIONAL ACTION STAR JACKIE CHAN STARS OPPOSITE KNOCKABOUT COMEDY SENSATION JACKIE CHAN IN THIS STORY ABOUT IDENTICAL TWINS SEPARATED IN CHILDHOODS, WHO ARE UNEXPECTEDLY REUNITED YEARS LATER. WHILE ON THE RUN FROM A HONG KONG HOSPITAL, AN ESCAPED CONVICT TAKES AN INFANT HOSTAGE, LEAVING THE BABY'S IDENTICAL TWIN BROTHER BEHIND. WHILE THE CRIMINAL IS SOON BACK BEHIND BARS, THE POLICE CAN'T FIND THE BABY, WHO WAS HIDDEN IN THE WOODS. THE CHILD IS FOUND BY A WELL-MEANING BUT HARD-DRINKING WOMAN WHO RAISES HIM ON HER OWN, WHILE HIS BROTHER MOVES TO THE UNITED STATES WITH HIS PARENTS. YEARS LATER, THE BROTHER RAISED IN AMERICA, JOHN, IS A WORLD-RENOWNED CLASSICAL MUSICIAN, WHILE THE OTHER, BOOMER, IS A ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE AUTO MECHANIC WHO LIKES TO RACE CARS AND START FIGHTS. WHEN BOOMER'S BEST FRIEND HATCHES A DUBIOUS SCHEME TO WIN THE FREEDOM OF A NIGHTCLUB SINGER IN DUTCH WITH GANGSTERS, HE FINDS HIMSELF INVOLVED AND IN DANGER, JUST IN TIME FOR JOHN TO ARRIVE IN HONG KONG FOR A CONCERT APPEARANCE. THE TWO BROTHERS SOON MEET BY ACCIDENT, AND SUDDENLY FIND THEMSELVES MISTAKEN FOR EACH OTHER… TWO OF HONG KONG'S LEADING DIRECTORS, RINGO LAM AND TSUI HARK, TEAMED FOR THIS ACTION COMEDY, WHICH WAS A MAJOR HIT IN HONG KONG.
“AMUSING ALL THE WAY AND NOT SOMETHING CHAN FANS SHOULD SKIP.” – MICK LA SALLE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRINICLE “HIGH-SPIRITED ENTERTAINMENT!” – LAWRENCE VAN GELDER, NEW YORK TIMES “CLIMACTIC FIGHT SCENE IS A CHAN CLASSIC.” – ROB THOMAS, CAPITAL TIMES CAST JACKIE CHAN (MA YAU/DIE HARD) RUNTIME: 100 MIN MAGGIE CHEUNG (BARBARA) COUNTRY: HONG KONG TEDDY ROBIN KWAN (TARZAN) LANGUAGE: CANTONESE ANTHONY CHAN (HOTEL STAFFER CHAN) YEAR: 1992 PHILIP CHAN (HOTEL MANAGER) SYLVIA CHANG (TWINS' MOTHER) ALFRED CHEUNG (BOSS WING) CHI LEUNG 'JACOB' CHEUNG (CASHIER) TUNG CHO 'JOE' CHEUNG (ORCHESTRA MEMBER) DAVID CHIANG (HOTEL SECURITY)
112. VIRUS
DIRECTOR: JOHN BRUNO WRITERS: CHUCK PFARRERD, DENNIS FELDMAN GENRE: ACTION/THRILLER
LIFE ON EARTH IS IN FOR A SHOCK. AFTER LOSING THEIR PAYLOAD, THE CREW OF A RAMSHACKLE, SINKING, OCEAN-GOING SALVAGE TUG "SEA STAR" TAKE REFUGE IN THE EYE OF A TYPHOON IN AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE REPAIRS. WHILST TRYING TO FIND HELP THE TUG, CAPTAINED BY ROBERT EVERTON, THEY DISCOVER A RUSSIAN SCIENCE VESSEL ADRIFT IN THE EYE. THE CREW BELIEVES THEIR TROUBLES ARE OVER, AND THAT THEY ARE SET FOR LIFE, AFTER THE CAPTAIN INFORMS THEM OF THE VALUE OF SALVAGING THIS APPARENT GHOST SHIP. HOWEVER, THE NAVIGATOR KIT FOSTER AND THE CHIEF ENGINEER STEVE BAKER ARE NOT CONVINCED THAT IT WILL BE THAT EASY. ONCE POWER IS RESTORED TO THE SHIP, STRANGE THINGS START TO HAPPEN AND THE CREW MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEAR ONE BY ONE. IT ISN'T UNTIL THE DISCOVERY OF THE LAST REMAINING RUSSIAN CREW MEMBER, THE CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER NADIA VINOGRADIYA, THAT THE CREW REALIZE THE ENEMY RANGED AGAINST THEM ISN'T THE RUSSIANS BUT SOMETHING FAR MORE MALEVOLENT. “AMUSING THRILL-A-MINUTE SCI-FI HORROR THRILLER / MONSTER MOVIE THAT PLUGS RIGHT INTO FEARS OF A Y2K CRISIS.” – LOS ANGELES TIMES “A RESPECTABLE THRILLER THAT PACKS A COUPLE OF GENUINE JOLTS AND GALLON UPON GALLON OF GORE INTO A SUSPENSEFUL YARN.” – KALAMAZOO GAZETTE “GOOD SCI FI HORROR FLICK. THE SCARES ARE THERE AND SO IS THE ACTION.” – ROTTEN TOMATOES
CAST RUNTIME: 99 MIN JAMIE LEE CURTIS (KIT FOSTER) COUNTRY: USA/UK/GERMANY/JAPAN/FRANCE WILLIAM BALDWIN (STEVE BAKER) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/RUSSIAN DONALD SUTHERLAND (CAPTAIN ROBERT EVERTON) YEAR: 1999 JOANNA PACULA (NADIA) MARSHALL BELL (J.W. WOODS JR.) SHERMAN AUGUSTUS (RICHIE) CLIFF CURTIS (HIKO) JULIO OSCAR MECHOSO (SQUEAKY) YURI CHERVOTKIN (COLONEL KOMINSKI) KEITH FLIPPEN (CAPTAIN LONYA ROSTOV) OLGA RZHEPETSKAYA-RETCHIN (FEMALE COSMONAUT) LEVAN UCHANEYSHVILI (CAPTAIN ALEXI) DAVID EGGBY (NORFOLK CAPTAIN)
113. WONDER BOYS
DIRECTOR: CURTIS HANSON WRITERS: MICHAEL CHABON (NOVEL), STEVE KLOVES GENRE: DRAMA/COMEDY
UNDEPENDABLE. UNPREDICTABLE. UNFORGETTABLE. ON THE DAY HIS THIRD WIFE LEAVES HIM AND HIS LITERARY AGENT ARRIVES TO PRESSURE HIM TO FINISH A NOVEL SEVEN YEARS IN THE WRITING, CARNEGIE MELLON PROFESSOR, GRADY TRIPP, ALSO LEARNS THAT HIS MARRIED MISTRESS IS PREGNANT. SEVEN YEARS BEFORE, WITH HIS FIRST NOVEL, HE WAS A WONDER BOY. SO WAS HIS AGENT. BOTH NOW NEED SOMETHING. OVER THE WEEKEND, INSTEAD OF MAKING CHOICES, HE VACILLATES IN A POT-INDUCED HAZE. ONE OF HIS STUDENTS, JAMES LEER, PERHAPS STIRS PATERNAL FEELINGS IN GRADY AND RAISES HOMO-EROTIC URGES IN THE AGENT. ACADEMIC POLITICS COMPLICATE THINGS: GRADY'S MISTRESS IS THE COLLEGE CHANCELLOR, HER HUSBAND CHAIRS GRADY'S DEPARTMENT, JAMES HAS JUST SHOT THE HUSBAND'S DOG. WHAT TO DO? “THE MOST ACCURATE MOVIE ABOUT CAMPUS LIFE THAT I CAN REMEMBER.” – ROGER EBERT, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES “A HANDSOMELY MOUNTED, GRACEFUL PRODUCTION THAT IS WELL-PLAYED ACROSS THE BOARD.” – LOS ANGELES TIMES “MICHAEL DOUGLAS GIVES THE BEST PERFROMANCE OF HIS CAREER IN THIS SCREWBALL COMEDY ABOUT A COLLEGE PROFESSOR WHO'S PUSHED INTO MATURITY BY FORCES BEYOND HIS CONTROL; A WELL-ACTED COMING-OF-AGE SAGA FOR ADULTS.” – VARIETY
CAST RUNTIME: 107 MIN MICHAEL DOUGLAS (PROF. GRADY TRIPP) COUNTRY: USA/GERMANY/UK TOBEY MAGUIRE (JAMES LEER) LANGUAGE: ENGLISH FRANCES MCDORMAND (DEAN SARA GASKELL) YEAR: 2000 ROBERT DOWNEY JR. (TERRY CRABTREE) AWARDS KATIE HOLMES (HANNAH GREEN) 24 WINS AND 40 NOMINATIONS INCLUDING RIP TORN (QUENTIN 'Q' MOREWOOD) ACADEMY AWARDS, USA 2001 RICHARD KNOX (VERNON HARDAPPLE) WON OSCAR BEST MUSIC, ORIGINAL SONG - BOB DYLAN ("THINGS HAVE CHANGED") JANE ADAMS (OOLA) NOMINATED OSCAR BEST WRITING, SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED; BEST FILM EDITING MICHAEL CAVADIAS (MISS ANTONIA) GOLDEN GLOBES, USA 2001 RICHARD THOMAS (WALTER GASKELL) WON GOLDEN GLOBE BEST ORIGINAL SONG - MOTION PICTURE BOB DYLAN ("THINGS HAVE CHANGED") ALAN TUDYK (SAM TRAXLER) NOMINATED GOLDEN GLOBE BEST MOTION PICTURE; BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR - MICHAEL DOUGLAS PHILIP BOSCO (EMILY'S FATHER) BEST SCREENPLAY GEORGE GRIZZARD (FRED LEER) AFI AWARDS, USA 2001 - WON AFI AWARD MOVIE OF THE YEAR KELLY BISHOP (AMANDA LEER) NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW, USA 2000 - WON NBR AWARD - TOP TEN FILMS