четверг, 30 июня 2016 г.

Padre padrone (1977)

Padre padrone / My Father My Master

Directors: Paolo & Vittorio Taviani
Stars: Omero Antonutti, Saverio Marconi, Marcella Michelangeli, Fabrizio Forte, Marino Cenna, Stanko Molnar, Nanni Moretti, Pierluigi Alvau, Giuseppino Angioni
 
The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself, despite violent opposition from his brutal father.

Italy
In Italian, with English hardsubs

среда, 29 июня 2016 г.

Sugar Creek Gang: Great Canoe Fish (2004)


Director & Writer: Joy Chapman
Stars: Levi Bonilla, Lexi Johnson, Kody Brown, Samuel Hodge, Luke Garmon, Josh Garmon, Jay St. Onge, Jacob Velcoff, Tim McIntosh, Parks Stamper, Drew Dyer, Ben Johnson III

Does the Great Canoe Fish actually exist? Or is he a two hundred year old canoe-size legend? The Sugar Creek Gang packs their fishing gear and sleeping bags for a canoe trip to find out. But they aren´t alone. Dragonfly spills the beans to the local town bullies who follow the gang in hopes of beating them to the catch. A gift from Old Man Paddler gives the gang an advantage, but the bullies keep their presence a secret long enough to nearly shatter the gang´s hopes. Join the gang on their journey to the pregnant pig rock, help them catch waterfall worms, and find out if the Great Canoe Fish exists!

Second episode from five.

USA
In English
 

среда, 22 июня 2016 г.

Sugar Creek Gang: Swamp Robber (2004)


Director & Writer: Owen Smith
Stars: Levi Bonilla, Lexi Johnson, Kody Brown, Samuel Hodge, Luke Garmon, Josh Garmon, Samuel Hodge, Jay St. Onge, Jacob Velcoff, Jeff Rose, Parks Stamper, Stephen O. Martin

The unexpected discovery of a secret map in the swamp leads the Sugar Creek Gang on a wild adventure as they try to outwit a thief in a heart-stopping race to uncover a hidden treasure.

USA
In English
 

Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (1987)


Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan / L'iniziazione / Exploits of a Young Don Juan / What Every Frenchwoman Wants

Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi
Stars: Serena Grandi, Fabrice Josso, Claudine Auger, Marina Vlady, François Perrot, Aurélien Recoing, Rosette, Laurent Spielvogel, Alexandra Vandernoot, Marion Peterson, Virginie Ledoyen, Rufus

Roger is a 16-year-old who seeks to lose his virginity in this softcore erotic drama. His initial efforts are unsuccessful, but World War I breaks out and men are seen marching off to battle. Roger goes overboard when he is presented with several amorous opportunities. He soon impregnates the maid, his aunt, and his sister in quick succession. Roger desperately tries to marry off the women to other men to avoid a lurid scandal.

France | Italy
In Italian, with English subs (.srt)
 

вторник, 21 июня 2016 г.

Yue guang shao nian (1993)


Yue guang shao nian / Moonlight Boy

Director: Wei-yen Yu
Stars: Qi-zan Wang, Te-Chien Hou, Elaine Jin, Yuan-chi Lu, Shu-Chun Ni, Eric Tsang, Dun Wu, Kao-hsiung Wu

13-year-old boy wandering the streets of the big city. But after 30-years, he is still 13-years-old and still afraid to go home.

Taiwan
In Chinese with English subs (.srt)
 

понедельник, 20 июня 2016 г.

Remember the Day (1941)


Director: Henry King
Stars: Claudette Colbert, Douglas Croft, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick, Billy Dawson, Ann E. Todd, Jane Seymour, Anne Revere, Selmer Jackson, Frieda Inescort, Harry Hayden, Marie Blake,  David Holt,  William Henderson, Chick Chandler

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

USA
In English
 

четверг, 16 июня 2016 г.

Jack and the Beanstalk (1967)


Director: Gene Kelly
Stars: Gene Kelly, Bobby Riha, Marian McKnight, Ted Cassidy, Marni Nixon

A retelling of the popular fairy tale that mixes live action and animation. The adventure begins when Jack trades his cow for some magic beans from peddler Jeremy Keen. The beans sprout a beanstalk high into the clouds, and Jack and Jeremy climb it to discover a giant, a goose that lays golden eggs, and Princess Serena who is trapped in a harp by a magic spell and can only be released by a kiss.

USA
In English
 

среда, 15 июня 2016 г.

Sicario (1995)


Sicario / Assassin for Hire

Director: Joseph Novoa (as José Novoa)
Stars: Laureano Olivares, Herman Gil, Néstor Terán, Melissa Ponce, Daniel Benítez, Gledys Ibarra, William Moreno, Paco Hernández, Hugo Márquez, Johan Andrade

The harsh reality of one kid's life as a criminal on the inner-city streets is the focus of this film from director Jose Novoa. Searching for an escape from the lowest rungs of society, young Jairo falls in with a local drug ring, working as a hitman. Despite the lucrative aspects of the business, Jairo eventually wants out of the world of crime. Unfortunately, his boss doesn't take kindly to that decision.

Venezuela
In Spanish, with English hardsubs

La finestra sul Luna Park (1957)


La finestra sul Luna Park / The Window to Luna Park

Director: Luigi Comencini
Stars: Giulia Rubini, Giancarlo Damiani, Gastone Renzelli, Pierre Trabaud, Calina Classy, Gisella Mancinotti, Luigi Russo, Remo Galli, Lina Galli, Primo Raschi, Vittoria Marone, Silvana Jachino

Young Mario loses his mother, Ada, when she's hit by a truck, and so his father, Aldo, a mechanic, must leave his job in Kenya and return to Italy. The father and son have nothing in common, and Mario shies away from him. Aldo must return to Africa and so puts his son in an orphanage, but the boy escapes on the eve of his father's departure and takes refuge with his friend Richetto. Aldo finds Mario, and Richetto explains that he had been only a helping friend to Ada -- and that, as a woman alone in the city with a child, she needed help. He urges Aldo to be there for the son who needs him, and Aldo decides not to go back to Kenya but to stay and raise Mario.

Italy
In Italian, with English and Italian subs (.srt)

понедельник, 13 июня 2016 г.

Cornflakes for Tea (1981)


Director: John Colquhoun
Stars: Linda Hartley, Howard Kloester, Tamblyn Lord, Beverley Dunn, Bunney Brooke, Bruce Kerr, Max Cullen, Kerry Armstrong, Vince D'Amico, Jan Friedl

Richard, Trish and Chris, deserted first by their mother, then by their father, use their ingenuity to hide their situation both from the authorities and the people living in the same block of flats.

This film marked at imdb as 6 episodes TV series, but it looks like a movie.

Australia
In English
 

суббота, 11 июня 2016 г.

Courage of Black Beauty (1957)


Director: Harold D. Schuster
Stars: Johnny Crawford, Mimi Gibson, John Bryant, Diane Brewster, J. Pat O'Malley, Russell Johnson, Ziva Rodann

After some hesitation, 10-year-old Bobby accepts the gift of a magnificent black foal from his severe, thoughtless and overprotective father.

USA
In English
 

четверг, 9 июня 2016 г.

Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer (1996)


Quand les étoiles rencontrent la mer / When the Stars Meet the Sea

Director: Raymond Rajaonarivelo
Stars: Jean Rabenjamina, Joseph Rainizatilehy, Aimée Razatindrataranoa, Louis Vahandanitra

The film traces the destiny of Kapila, an outcast child who had been deemed by his fellow villagers to have supernatural powers of destruction, because of the timing of his solar eclipse birth.

Madagascar
French | Malagasy
With English hardsubs
 

вторник, 7 июня 2016 г.

Tombés du ciel (1993)



Tombés du ciel / Fallen from the Sky / Lost in Transit

Director: Philippe Lioret
Stars: Jean Rochefort, Ismaïla Meite, Marisa Paredes, Ticky Holgado, Laura del Sol, Sotigui Kouyaté, Jean-Louis Richard

A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive.

France
In French, with English subs (.srt)
 

понедельник, 6 июня 2016 г.

My Magic (2008)


Director: Eric Khoo
Stars: Francis Bosco, Jathisweran, Keng Yew Seet, Jason Lim, Grace Kalaiselvi, Sway Ah Ng, Sunny Pang, Preetha Damodaran, Krishnamurthi A.L. Shanmugam, Sanwan Bin Rais

A single dad looks to give up drinking and his bartender job in order to impress his son and find work as a magician.

Singapore
In Tamil, with English subs (.srt)
 

воскресенье, 5 июня 2016 г.

Mizu no tabibito: Samurai kizzu (1993)


Mizu no tabibito: Samurai kizzu / Samurai Kids

Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
Stars: Jun Fubuki, Ryou Yoshida, Tomoyo Harada, Ishirô Honda, Ayumi Itô, Ittoku Kishibe, Kikunosuke Onoe, Tsutomu Yamazaki
 
Veteran director Nobuhiko Obayashi directs this children's fantasy about a wacky travails of a pint-sized samurai. When a lonely young lad named Satoru (Ryo Yoshida) fishes around in a polluted stream for his errant baseball, he pulls out an aging water sprite warrior who goes by the name of Suminoe Sukunahiko (Tsutomu Yamazaki). The supernatural samurai is ailing after sucking up too much polluted water. If he doesn't reach the sea soon, he will never be reborn. Satoru takes the sword-wielding imp home and puts him in his desk drawer. There, Sukunahiko has to adapt to a new domestic geography with new dangers. At one point he slashes a cockroach in two; at another he has a disastrous encounter with an electric knife; and in still another, he is almost carried away by a raven. Taking refuge from his short-tempered mother (Jun Fubuki), his distant father (Ittoku Kishibe), and sister (Ayumi Ito), Satoru and his Lilliputian samurai become fast friends. Later, when Satoru is imperiled by a rockslide, Suminahiko -- riding the family cat -- comes to the rescue.

Japan
In Japanese, with English subs (.srt)
 

четверг, 2 июня 2016 г.

Renoir (2012)


Director: Gilles Bourdos
Stars: Michel Bouquet, Christa Théret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret, Romane Bohringer, Michèle Gleizer, Laurent Poitrenaux, Annelise Heimburger, Sylviane Goudal
 
Set on the French Riviera in the summer of 1915, Jean Renoir -- son of the Impressionist painter, Pierre-Auguste -- returns home to convalesce after being wounded in World War I. At his side is Andrée, a young woman who rejuvenates, enchants, and inspires both father and son.

France
In French, with French and English subs (in .mkv)