среда, 30 мая 2018 г.

Todos somos estrellas (1993)



Todos somos estrellas / We're All Stars

Director: Felipe Degregori
Stars: Milena Alva, Dante Herrera, Ivonne Barriga, Élide Brero, Julián Legaspi, Rebeca Ráez, Mariella Balbi, Katia Condos, Hernán Romero

This Peruvian comedy takes a poke at Latin living and at the power of the media. The story centers around the troubled family of Carmen Huambachano, who never miss Lima's popular weekly TV series "We Are All Stars." In this show, a typical family is first interviewed and then given the opportunity to win prizes. The Huambachano family is chosen, a TV crew is at the door, and now the family must decide how they are going to present themselves on national television. They rally together and quickly begin repainting and redecorating the house, finding their best clothing, and finally looking for a suitable "husband" for Carmen. Her real husband, a "no good rat" left her years before...

Peru
In Spanish, with English hardsubs

вторник, 29 мая 2018 г.

Een idee van de zee (2016)


Een idee van de zee / A Sea Change

Director & Writer: Nina de Vroome

A Sea Change takes its audience to the IBIS maritime boarding school in Ostend (BE). Boys learn how to read the sea and work on a fishing boat. They are confronted with a capricious and constantly changing sea.

Documentary
Belgium, in Dutch, with English hardsubs

пятница, 25 мая 2018 г.

Fisherman's Wharf (1939)




Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Stars: Bobby Breen, Leo Carrillo, Henry Armetta, Tommy Bupp, Lee Patrick, Rosina Galli, Slicker the Seal, Leon Belasco

In this musical drama, a child is abandoned upon the San Francisco docks but is found by some kindly fisherman who take him in and raise him. His life is happy until the fisherman's sister-in-law moves in after her husband dies. She brings her bratty son with her. This duplicitous duo upsets the orphan so much that he runs away. The fisherman launches a huge city-wide search, finds the sad lad, and finally brings him back home.

USA, Sol Lesser Productions
In English

вторник, 22 мая 2018 г.

BBC Play of the Month: The Winslow Boy (1977)




Director: David Giles
Stars: Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Simon Chandler, Ann Beach, Eric Porter, Diana Fairfax, Michele Dotrice, David Robb, Jonathan Adams, Alan Badel

In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial. Based on the play from 1946 by Terence Rattigan.

First aired 16 January 1977.

UK
In English, with English hardsubs