Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts

Sunday, May 5, 2013

The man from Earth.

(Information from IMDb)

By Richard Schenkman. 

With David Lee Smith, Tony Todd.

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 year


Sunday, April 21, 2013

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is a 1999 American crime action film written and directed by Jim JarmuschForest Whitaker stars as the title character, the mysterious "Ghost Dog", a hitman in the employ of the Mafia, who follows the ancient code of the samurai as outlined in the book ofYamamoto Tsunetomo's recorded sayings, Hagakure. The film is a homage to Jean-Pierre Melville's 1967 film Le Samouraï.



Sunday, April 14, 2013

The hunger.

(Information from IMDb): 

The Egyptian vampire lady Miriam subsists upon the blood of her lovers. In return the guys or girls don't age... until Miriam has enough of them. Unfortunately that's currently the case with John, so his life expectancy is below 24 hours. Desperately he seeks help from the famous Dr. Sarah Roberts. She doesn't really belive his story, but becomes curious and contacts Miriam ... and gets caught in her ban, too.



Saturday, January 12, 2013

The Shift


Information from IMDb




Information from IMDb. 

Director: 

Michael A. Goorjian

Writer: 

Kristen Lazarian

Stars:

 Wayne Dyer, Portia de Rossi and Edward Kerr.

Monday, December 31, 2012

How green was my valley.

1941.


Director: John Ford. 

Writers: Philip Dunne, Richard Llewellyn. 

Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee...

This story of a Welsh valley's turn-of-the-century descent from pristine paradise to despoiled coal mining region, is told in flashback form by Huw Morgan, an old man who has decided to leave the valley forever. Huw is the youngest in a family of 6 brothers and 1 sister and the film centers on his struggle toward manhood amid conflicting demands of faith, economics, education and family loyalty in a Wales caught in an irreversible shift from a pastoral to an industrialized society. The story, based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, is accented by an impressive background of Welsh choral music and quaint patterns of speech.



Monday, December 24, 2012

Love and death

Love and Death is a 1975 comedy film by Woody Allen. It is a satire on Russian literature starring Allen and Diane Keaton as Boris and Sonja, respectively, Russians living during the Napoleonic Era who engage in mock-serious philosophical debates.
Coming between Allen's Sleeper and Annie Hall, it is in many respects an artistic transition between the two. Allen considers it the funniest film he had made to that time.



Saturday, December 8, 2012

V/H/S


Directors:  Matt Bettinelli-OlpinDavid Bruckner
Writers:  Glenn McQuaidDavid Bruckner
Stars:  Calvin ReederLane Hughes and Adam Wingard 

When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.


Friday, November 30, 2012

An evening of Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell-Tale Heart


The Sphynx

The cask of Amontillado

The pit and the pendulum

The raven


Thursday, November 29, 2012

The last man on Earth.

1964

Director: Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow

Writers: William F. Leicester, Furio M. Monetti, Ubaldo Ragona, Richard Matheson (Novel)

Stars: Vincent Price. 


Sunday, November 25, 2012

The rise of evil.

Hitler: The Rise of Evil is a Canadian TV miniseries in two parts, directed by Christian Duguay and produced by Alliance Atlantis. It explores Adolf Hitler's rise and his early consolidation of power during the years after World War I and focuses on how the embittered, politically fragmented and economically buffeted state of German society following the war made that ascent possible. The film also focuses on Ernst Hanfstaengl's influence on Hitler's rise to power. The miniseries, which premiered simultaneously in May 2003 on CBC in Canada and CBS in the United States, received twoEmmy awards, for Art Direction and Sound Editing.


Saturday, November 24, 2012

Duel

1971. 

Director: Steven Spielberg. 

Writer: Richard Matheson. 

Stars: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott. 

A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by a malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. 


Saturday, November 17, 2012

The apartment.

1960. 


Director: 

Billy Wilder

Writers: 

Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond

Stars:

 Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray.

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Trainspotting


1996

Director: Danny Boyle
Writers: Irvine Welsh (novel), John Hodge (screenplay)
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner and Jonny Lee Miller 

Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean upand get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.





Saturday, October 27, 2012

Monty Python and the Holy Grail


1975


Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones

Writing credits: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Stars: Graham Chapman, John Cleese and Eric Idle

King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.


Sunday, October 21, 2012

"SIR! NO SIR!"



2005

Director: David Zeiger
Writer:  David Zeiger
Stars: Michael Alaimo, Edward Asner and Joe Bangert

This feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans, but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose war as stridently as any civilian, and at greater personal peril.



Saturday, October 20, 2012

This is England.



Director: Shane Meadows
Writer: Shane Meadows
Stars: Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham and Jo Hartley|See full cast and crew

A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows. 



Friday, October 12, 2012

The wicker man



Director:  Robin Hardy
Writer:  Anthony Shaffer (screenplay)
Stars: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee and Diane Cilento

A police sergeant is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.