Iris (2001)Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends). |
He Was a Quiet Man (2007)Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. His supervisor picks on him. As he’s screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet; while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him? |
Class Action (1991)Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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Jeb Ward is an attorney who specializes in whistle blower, David vs. Goliath, type cases. He finds a client who is suing an auto company over a safety problem that has had a severe effect on his life after the accident. He must replace the current atorney and be ready for trial quickly, and then he finds that the defense atorney will be his estranged daughter. |
Enough (2002)Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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An abused woman (Lopez) discovers that the dream man (Campbell) she married isn’t who she thought he was. She and her daughter try to escape (aided by her previous boyfriend, played by Futterman), but he pursues her relentlessly. Fearing also for the safety of her daughter, she decides that there’s only one way out of the marriage: kill him. ‘Fred Ward (I)’ (qv) has a guest-starring role. |
Bone Dry (2007)Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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Eddie (Goss) finds himself being forced at a gunpoint, by an unseen assailant, on a dark and brutal journey through the harsh terrain of Texas. His nemesis is Jimmy (Henriksen), a man with an aberrant agenda; armed with a rifle, a scope, walkie-talkies and a truck, he has organized a series of ambushes and mantraps designed to push Eddie to the limits of his humanity and beyond. |
Notes on a Scandal (2006)Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined. |
Поговори со мной (2007)Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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Название: Поговори со мной О фильме: |
Черная гвоздика (2007)Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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Название: Черная гвоздика О фильме: В 1972 г. Харальда Эдельстама (Микаэль Нюквист) назначают на пост Посла Швеции в Чили. Он открыто поддерживает всенародного избранного президента от социал-демократов Сальвадора Алленде и принимает участие в ряде социальных проектов страны. Но в один день изменилось все. Военные, под руководством Августа Пиночета, смещают Алленде и начинают кровавую охоту за своими политическими оппонентами. Сотни активистов подверглись пыткам, а затем были казнены на государственном стадионе в Сантьяго. Рискуя своей собственной жизнью, Эдельстам принимает решение использовать все возможные свои дипломатические привилегии и предоставляет политическое убежище для активистов, чьей жизни угрожает опасность. Неординарный дипломат играет по-крупному. В это тревожное время Эдельстам начинает любовные отношения с молодой активисткой по имени Консуэло… Фильм номинирован на кинофестивалях: |
Правда и ничего кроме (2007)Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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Название: Правда и ничего кроме О фильме: Главный герой — мальчик, который переходит в новую школу. Для того, чтобы найти друзей и стать популярным в школе он начинает всем врать и рассказывать сумасшедшие истории про себя и свою семью.Какого же его удивление, когда зеркало в его комнате разбивается и вся ложь, которую он говорил раньше, теперь становится правдой. Теперь у него есть красный порш, он может забивать в баскетболе с любого места, его хотят самая популярная девушка в школе и учительница по математике, а его собака каждый день сжирает его домашнюю работу. |
First Snow (2006)Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 |
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Wound tight and cocky, Jimmy Starks (Pearce) is a smooth-talking salesman certain he’s on the verge of a big break. Even when his car stalls in the middle of nowhere, a roadside soothsayer (Simmons) assures him a windfall is on its way. But although Jimmy should be happy when his boss suddenly agrees to financially back his business venture, he starts to become paranoid instead. As his girlfriend Deirdre (Perabo) and his best friend/ business partner Ed (Fichtner) watch him slowly come unwound, Jimmy wonders if a past betrayal of his friend, newly paroled Vince (Whigham), could be catching up to him. And, as the weather turns cold, Jimmy can’t help but fear the mysterious seer’s other prediction… that they’ll be no tomorrow after the first snow. |
