Children Of Heaven
2011
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Director: Majid Majidi
Devoid of cynicism of post-modern dramas, this heart-warming film tells the story of nine year old Ali, who loses his sister Zahra’s newly repaired shoes. Frightened to tell their parents the truth, they devise a plan to share one pair of shoes between them.
Zahra wears them to school early morning, and then runs to meet Ali who wears them to his later classes. A very simple premise, its just the basis for what can be called as one of the most deceptively powerful films of recent times. Nominated for Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film cemented Iranian maestro Majid Majidi’s place in world cinema.
Devoid of cynicism of post-modern dramas, this heart-warming film tells the story of nine year old Ali, who loses his sister Zahra’s newly repaired shoes. Frightened to tell their parents the truth, they devise a plan to share one pair of shoes between them.
Zahra wears them to school early morning, and then runs to meet Ali who wears them to his later classes. A very simple premise, its just the basis for what can be called as one of the most deceptively powerful films of recent times. Nominated for Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film cemented Iranian maestro Majid Majidi’s place in world cinema.
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Yiu-Fai and Po-Wing arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiu-Fai starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Po-Wing reappears, Yiu-Fai is empathetic but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Po-Wing is not ready to settle down. Yiu-Fai now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yiu-Fai's life takes on a new spin, while Po-Wing's life shatters continually in contrast.Home Video2012 -
A disillusioned killer embarks on his last hit but first he has to overcome his affections for his cool, detached partner. Thinking it's dangerous and improper to become involved with a colleague he sets out to find a surrogate for his affections. Against the sordid and surreal urban nightscape (set in contemporary Hong Kong), he crosses path with a strange drifter looking for her mysterious ex-boyfriend and an amusing mute trying to get the world's attention in his own unconventional ways.Home Video2012 -
Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter.Home Video2012 -
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.Home Video2012 -
At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother and her sister Muriel, for whom she intends Claude. During these holidays, Claude, Ann and Muriel become very close and he gradually falls in love with Muriel. But both families lay down a one-year-long separation without any contact before agreeing to the marriage. So Claude goes back to Paris when he has many love affairs before sending Muriel a break-off letter.Home Video2012 -
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He meets an air hostess, Nicole. They start a love affair, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.Home Video2012 -
Some time after "Baisers Volés", Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Léaud) and Christine Darbon (Claude Jade) are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives private classes of violin. When Christine is near to have a baby, Antoine decides to find a new job, and he succeeds due to a misunderstanding of his employer. In a business meeting, he meets the Japanese Kyoko (Mademoiselle Hiroko) and they have an affair. When Christine accidentally discovers that Antoine has a lover, they separate. But later they miss each other and realize that they do love each other.Home Video2012 -
In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.Home Video2012 -
A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.Home Video2012 -
A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.Home Video2012 -
A ruthlessly ambitious lord, egged on by his wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become Emperor.Home Video2012 -
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.Home Video2012 -
In 19th century Japan, a rough tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.Home Video2012 -
An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.Home Video2012 -
Tsunami changed lives of many but in the most devastating way possible. Here an archetypal schoolteacher loses his students to the mighty ocean storm that hits the shores. He embarks on a journey to find them and it lands him on a forbidden island. Once a school teacherv- now an old man, living in an old dingy japanese binker, reminiscing the bygone days and unfailingly conducting classes under a solitary tree talking to the moon and the ocean. An outstanding performance by Tom Alter, this film is one under-rated gem.Home Video2012 -
Devoid of cynicism of post-modern dramas, this heart-warming film tells the story of nine year old Ali, who loses his sister Zahra’s newly repaired shoes. Frightened to tell their parents the truth, they devise a plan to share one pair of shoes between them. Zahra wears them to school early morning, and then runs to meet Ali who wears them to his later classes. A very simple premise, its just the basis for what can be called as one of the most deceptively powerful films of recent times. Nominated for Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film cemented Iranian maestro Majid Majidi’s place in world cinema.Home Video2012 -
This is a touching and somber journey of Lasya, who lives with her father Karma and younger brother Chomo in a remote village in the Himalayas. Pristine snow capped mountains surround their tiny hamlet and barren harsh land stretches for miles into nowhere. One day the army moves in and settles a hundred yards across their doorstep.The last bit of comfort the family draws from their familiar surrounding changes into a harsh ceaseless irreversible conflict. The film depicts the life of this family whose dream- like existence is interrupted by inevitable odds, one after the other…Home Video2012 -
Director: René Clair
On a remote and isolated island, ten people – 8 invited guests and two servants – findthemselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone records, that as they have all been responsible for someone’s death, they in turn will die before the weekends is out. There is no way for any of them to flee the island, so they set about trying to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding ( Popular Indian Film Gumnaam (1965) is inspired by this film.Home Video2011 -
Director: Archie Mayo
BIn their last film together, the Marx brothers give a laugh riot. The film focuses on the Marx brothers, who are employed at a hotel in post-war Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure. From surreal to slapstick, the plot races towards one of the silliest climaxes everHome Video2011 -
Director : Marx Brothers
Considered as one of the most influential science fiction films ever, it was also the most expensive film from the silent era. It gives a futuristic look at the schism created in mankind as industrialization and technological advancement serves to alienate the humans from one another. Metropolis features special effects and set designs that still impress modern audiences with their visual impact – the film contains cinematic and thematic links to German Expressionism.Home Video2011 -
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
A reflection of 19th century industrial capitalism, Charles Dickens’s timeless tale is about an old merchant scrooge who’s own disappointments in life shape his views that both life & men are not worthy of his notice or concern. And then learns how wonderful & fulfilling life can be with a little generosity at Christmas time from three specters who visit him the night before Christmas.Home Video2011 -
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Director: Alan Crosland
Usually considered the first sound feature, this 1927 film is pretty much silent except for a few lines of dialogue and Al Jolson's songs. This movie tells the story of young Jakie Rabinowitz , the son of a cantor who wants him to follow in his footsteps, but the singer prefers secular music. He attempts to build a career as an entertainer, but his professional ambitions ultimately come into conflict with the demands of his home and heritage.Home Video2011 -
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Director: Pankaj Butalia
Abandoned by their families to lives of penury, marked by the white veils which they wear, Bengali widows find solace and food in the ashrams of Vrindavan where they gather every morning and evening to sing religious songs. In this profoundly moving documentary on widowhood portrayed both as social institution and personal tradition, moments of astonishing sensuous beauty alternate with rhythms of anguish. In the best of the new ethnographic tradition, ‘Moksha’ de-centres the voices of authority and allows a plurality of voices to introduce contesting positions. Haunting in its evocation of grief and anger, the film transcends documentary and assumes its place in the great tradition of lamentation, the expression of the dark night of the human soul.Home Video2011 -
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Director : Leni Riefenstahl
Commissioned by Hitler, this is a documentary on 1934 Nazi party
convention in Nuremberg which glorified Hitler as the true leader who
will bring glory back to the nation and emphasized Germany as a great
power. One of the most infamous documentaries ever, it was hated by
millions who suffered because of the people glorified in the film.
However, it cemented Riefenstahl's status as a great filmmaker.Home Video2011 -
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Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Considered as one of the most influential science fiction films ever, it was also the most expensive film from the silent era. It gives a futuristic look at the schism created in mankind as industrialization and technological advancement serves to alienate the humans from one another. Metropolis features special effects and set designs that still impress modern audiences with their visual impact – the film contains cinematic and thematic links to German Expressionism.Home Video2011 -
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Director : Robert Siod Mak
Set in the early 1900’s, about a serial killer who targets women with disabilities. It reaches its climax when the killer terrorizes a mute servant (Dorothy McGuire) in the stately home of her employer (Ethel Barrymore in an Oscar-nominated performance). Is it possible that McGuire might be cinema’s original final girl?Home Video2011 -
Director: William A. Wellman
In the 1930’s, The public Enemy crystallized the theme of Little Caesar and delved even more deeply into the making of a gangster. Directed by William Wellman the film follows two young boys and their growth from shoplifters to hardened criminals. It stars James Cagney and Jean Harlow (whose role is minimal, yet billed on every poster). More coherent and focused than Little Caesar (it included dates to orient the audience when time passed); Public Enemy was also more violent, and helped to spur the cry for censorship.Home Video2011 -
Director: Stanley Kubrick
A veteran criminal Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden), is planning one last big heist before settling down to a respectable marriage with Fay (Colleen Gray). Teaming with several cohorts, Johnny masterminds a racetrack robbery. The basic flaw is that all the crooks involved are losers and small-timers who find themselves in way over their heads despite
their supposed cleverness. None of the participants is more pathetic than George Peatty (Elisha Cook Jr.), who is goaded into the robbery by his covetous and far-from-faithful wife (Marie Windsor). As in a Greek tragedy, Johnny's best-laid schemes go awry.Home Video2011 -
Director : Billy Wilder
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been "on the wagon" for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last...one way or the other.Home Video2011 -
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Director: Preston Sturges
The film is a satire of the conflict between art and commerce as well as the gap betweenthe privileged and the impoverished. It tells of the 'mission' of 'Sully' (Joel McCrea), a big-shot Hollywood director of lightweight comedies to experience suffering in the world before
producing his next about the common man. After some failed attempts dressed as a hobo and companionship on the road with an aspiring blonde actress simply called The Girl (Veronica
Lake) and wearing boy's clothes, he succeeds in losing his freedom, identity and name, health, pride and money. A classic comedy of the depression era, this is a must for Preston Sturges fans.Home Video2011 -
Director: Vittorio De Sica
It's a moving story of two mischievous youngsters in war torn Italy who wish to buy a horse from their savings. They get involved in black market as a means of survival and are sent to a horrifying 'reform school' - really a miniature prison. And tragedy ensues. One of the first major successes of Italian neorealist movement, this is the first picture to win Best Foreign Language Film Oscar..Home Video2011 -
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Director: Stanley Kubrick
In the third year of World War I, the erudite but morally bankrupt French general Broulard orders his troops to seize the heavily fortified "Ant Hill" from the Germans. General Mireau knows that this action will be suicidal, but he will sacrfice his men to enhance his own reputation.Home Video2011 -
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Director : Jacques Tourneur
Jeff Markham (Robert Mitchum), a retired private detective with a shady past is hoping for a fresh start with a new name, a new love, and a new job running a small gas station in a rural California town. But Jeff’s past comes back to haunt him in the guise of menacing gangster Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas) who had hired Markham to track down his double-crossing moll, Kathie (Jane Greer), after she had shot him and absconded with $40,000 of his money.Home Video2011 -
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Director: Gregory La Cava
Based on the Eric Hatch's novel 1101 Park Avenue, a scatterbrained socialite Hires Godfrey, a vagrant, as a family butler, but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. Featuring the dazzling performances by Carole Lombard and William Powell, this was the first film to receive Academy Award nominations in all four acting categories.Home Video2011 -
Director: John Ford
One Of the most spellbinding westerns ever, My Darling Clementine is John Ford’s retelling of the Earp/Clanton Feud, here the lawman of a rowdy frontier town where his brother’s killers have taken refuge ; Wyatt Earp (Henry Fonda)dedicates himself to bringing the evildoers to justice, a quest that leads to the famous shootout at the ok corral.Home Video2011 -
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Director : John Ford
After a night of revelry in the West Indies, the crew of the Glencairn return to the tramp steamerand set sail for Baltimore. They're a varied lot, from middle-aged Irishman Driscoll (Thomas Mitchell), to the young Swedish ex-farmer Ole Olsen (John Wayne), to the brooding lord Jim-like Englishman Smitty (Ian Hunter). After the ship picks up a load of dynamite in Baltimore, the rough seas they encounter become especially nerve-racking to the crew, specially when they are struggling between choosing the difficult livelihood and going back to their family life.Home Video2011 -
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Director: Max Ophüls
The film is about Joan Fontaine who is left by pianist Louis Jourdan, then romantically meets him again, but when he receives her last letter years later finds he cannot remember her. Based on the Stefan Zweig novella, it was dumped by the studio, but is now regarded as a classic. With a tour de force performance by Joan Fontaine, this saga of unrequited love is a classic tearjerker.Home Video2011 -
Director: Robert James Hamer
Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price), a man born with royal blood. Due to a scandal -- his mother ran off with a lowly Italian musician -- the family refuses to recognize his heritage, or even his existence. When his mother dies, Louis vows to restore himself to his rightful place by murdering the entire line of the D'ascoyne family, eight of them, so that he'll be next in line for the dukedom. Alec Guinness plays eight different roles in the film.Home Video2011 -
Director: Federico Fellini
Marcello is a writer whose work lies somewhere between journalism and celebrity gossip.He spends his evenings partying with the people he writes about, the movie stars and aristocrats of Rome. He has a fiancée, but he isn't faithful to her. His life explores his dissatisfaction in his work and his loves, ultimately a reflection on where one finds - or fails to find - meaning in life. One of the most widely seen European films ever, La Dolce Vita marked the split between Fellini's earlier neo-realist films and his later art films. Winner of Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival and nominated for four Oscars, La Dolce Vita is one of the greatest cinematic achievements in world cinema.Home Video2011 -
Director :Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack
An expedition exploring a remote island. Capture a gigantic ape & bring him back to New York for exhibition. A beautiful actress who accompanies them is menaced when the monster’s love for her causes him to break out. No film has captivated my imagination more than King Kong. I’m making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. It has been my sustained dream to reinterpret this classic story for a new age.Home Video2011 -
Director: D.W. Griffith
The birth of a nation (also known as The Clansman), directed by D.W.Griffith and released in 1915, is one of the most influential and controversial of American motion pictures. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon’s The Clansman, a novel and play. The Birth of a Nation is noted for its innovative technical and narrative achievement, and its status as the first Hollywood “blockbuster”. It has provoked great controversy for its treatment of white supremacy and sympathetic of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan.Home Video2011 -
Director: John Huston
Frank (Humphrey Bogort) visits a rundown hotel run by crippled James Temple (Lionel Barrymore) and his daughter-in-law Nora (Lauren Bacall), widow of Frank’s friend from the war. The hotel has been taken over by Johny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) and his mistress (Clair Trevor) and his murder of two Indians convinces Frank that Rocco must be stopped. His only chance comes when Rocco forces Frank to pilot the gang’s boat towards Cuba.Home Video2011 -
Director: Emeric Pressburger
Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) heads for a Scottish island where she plans to marry an old wealthy industrialist for his money. But bad weather prevents her reaching him, and she finds herself falling under the spell of Torquil MacNeil (Roger Livesey). Now she tries desperately to fight off those feelings because she wants to marry into money.Home Video2011 -
Director: George Cukor
Beautiful and trusting, Paula Anton (Ingrid Bergman) is slowly tormented by mysterious happenings in her luxurious Victorian home. The suspects is her devoted husbands Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer).But viewing the world through the dim glow of the gaslight, it is difficult to tell what is real and what is imagined. Magnificent performances from the stars in this powerfully guided study in obsession…Home Video2011 -
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Henry Van Cleve (Don Ameche), a wealthy member of New York’s elite, presents himself in front of the Satan (Laird Cregar). However, he doubts whether Van Cleve has sinned enough to be qualified to enter. To establish his case, Van Cleve proceeds to tell his life story, in all its dirty detail, focussed on his long relationship with his wife Martha, played by Gene Tierney. Ernst Lubitsch’s only completed technicolor film is a delightful and sophisticated comedy about the upper-class.Home Video2011 -
Director: John Ford
The first part of Ford’s celebrated cavalry trilogy, it depicts the story of an arrogant lieutenant Colonel’s disastrous succession to power at the eponymous military base, culminating in an ill-advised battle with Cochise’s apache warriors - is a frequently funny, pleasingly critical, and sadly convincing exploration of human and military fallibilities and virtues. John Wayne as Captain Kirby York and Henry Fonda as Custer Clone Lt. Col. Owen Thursday give astounding performances.Home Video2011 -
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Director: Billy Wilder
Double indemnity has been voted as one of the top 30 films of all time by the American Film Institute. Smooth talking insurance salesman Walter Neff meets attractive Phyllis Dietrichson when he calls to renew her husband’s automobile policy. The couple are immediately drawn to each other and an affair begins. They cook up a scheme to murder Mr. Dietrichson for life insurance money with a double indemnity clause. Unfortunately, all does not go to plan...Home Video2011 -
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Director: George Cukor
Based on Alexandre Dumas Fils' La Dame aux Camélias, the film depicts a doomed romance of a courtesan in 19th century Paris. Greta Garbo's portrayal of the beautiful but sickly Parisian courtesan, who fatefully falls in love with a young French nobleman (25 year-old Robert Taylor), is widely considered the definitive version of the romantic tragedy.Home Video2011 -
Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
A group of Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in an isolated Himalayan valley. As they face a series of obstacles from the villagers and a hostile environment, tensions begin to grow. In Michael Powell's own view, this film (starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons, David Farrar and Flora Robson) was the most erotic film he ever made.Home Video2011 -
Director : Robert Wiene
Dr. Caligari (Werner Krauss) plays the title character, a sinister hypnotist who travels the carnival circuit displaying a somnambulist named Cesare (Conrad Veidt). In one tiny German town, a series of murders coincides with Caligari’s visit. When the best friend of Herp Francis (Friedrich Feher) is killed, the deed seems to be the outgrowth of a romantic rivalry over the hand of the lovely Jane (Lil Dagover).Home Video2011 -
Director : David Lean
In this classic British drama, Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is a housewife whose marriage is not everything she desires it to be. When she meets Dr. Alec (Harvey) in a cafe at the railway station, their chance meeting turns into a full-blown love affair. He also has a wife and family, and is leaving the country, so their affair, while potent, is indeed, brief.Home Video2011 -
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Director: William Wyler
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) is an American drama film about three servicemen trying to piece their lives back together after coming home from World War II. Samuel Golwyn was motivated to produce the film after his wife Frances read an article in Time magazine about the difficulties experienced by war veterans returning to civilian life. Goldwyn hired former war correspondent MacKinlay Kantor to write the story, which was first published as a novella. Glory for Me, which was written in black verse, Robert Sherwood then wrote the screenplay. It was directed by William Wyler, with cinematography by Gregg Toland. The film won seven Academy Awards. It features Harold Russell, a U.S.Army instructor who had last both his hands in a training accident.Home Video2011 -
Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
A group of Anglo-Catholic nuns open a school and a hospital in an isolated Himalayan valley. As they face a series of obstacles from the villagers and a hostile environment, tensions begin to grow. In Michael Powell's own view, this film (starring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, Jean Simmons, David Farrar and Flora Robson) was the most erotic film he ever made.Home Video2011 -
Director: JEAN RENOIR
Jean Renoir’s ‘free exercise around an actor’ has Michel Simon playing the Calibanesque Boudu, a Parisian tramp who is rescued by the bourgeoisie book seller Monsieur Lestingois after a failed attempt at drowning in the Siene. Lestingois along with his wife Emma and servant Anne-Marie, are shaken by his derelict manner until they successfully drive out the beast in him. Arguably Renoir’s most important work from his first phase and testimony to the greatness of his vision, Boudu Saved From Drowning is fresh for audience and critical reassessment.Home Video2011 -
Director: Jean Cocteau
A half- ruined merchant lives in the country with his son Ludovic and his three daughters. Two of the daughters, Felicre and Adelaide, are real shrews: selfish, pretentions, and evil. They exploit the third daughter. Belle, as a servant, One day, on a business trip, on the way from, the merchant gets last in a forest and enters a strange castle. He picks up a rose for belle, and the castle’s appears. He is a monster, half-human, half-beast, and possesses magic powers. He sentences the merchant to death, unless he gives up one of his daughters. Belle sacrifices herself for her father and goes for the castle, discovering that the Beast is not so wild and inhuman as he seems.Home Video2011 -
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Regarded as one of the most significant works in the history of silent pictures, as well as possibly Eisenstein’s supreme work, Battleship Potemkin brought his theories of cinema art to the world in a powerful showcase; his emphasis on montage, his stress of intellectual contact, and his treatment of the mass instead of the individual as the protagonist. The film tells the story of the Russian ship Prince Potemkin where a horribly bloody mutiny took place during the 1905 uprising. Eisenstein signals this as the jumping off point for the revolution.Home Video2011 -
Director: MICHAEL POWELL & EMERIC PRESSBURGER
Flying back from a bombing raid over Germany, Squadron Leader Peter D. Carter (David Niven) is nursing a damaged plane. The crew, or that part of it left alive, has bailed out and only Peter is left -- with a shredded parachute. Knowing that death is near, Peter talks of life to June (Kim Hunter), the young radio operator trying to bring him in. Making the most of his last words, Peter prepares for eternity even as he celebrates the ephemeral. A connection born of extreme pressure forms between them; about to be separated forever, Peter and June fall in love. The twist comes when Conductor 71 (Marius Goring), a Heavenly emissary, makes a mistake; Peter survives his long plunge into the Channel.Home Video2011 -
Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Arriving in Kent by train, a Land Girl (Sheila Sim), an American GI (Bob Johnson) and a British soldier (Dennis Price) attempt to discover the identity of a mysterious figure who pours glue into the hair of local girls who date soldiers. And in the process begin a 'pilgrimage' which will lead each of them to self-discovery. One of Powell and Pressburger's most personal film, it puzzled critics and audiences alike on its release and has since come to be seen as one of their finest creations.Home Video2011 -
Director : Federico Fellini
Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of cinema. With utmost honesty spilled on screen, this is the perfect example of a film made on films. Acknowledged as a highly influential classic, the film frequently pops up in countless lists of best films ever made.Home Video2011 -
Director: WILLIAM WYLER
Dodsworth (1936) directed by William Wyler An adaptation of Lewis Sinclair’s novel of the same name about the difference in American and European values, William Wyler’s Dodsworth was chosen by Sight and Sound magazine as Best Movie of the 1930s. Automobile tycoon Sam Dodsworth sells his business and heads to Europe with his younger free-spirited wife Fran, where he realizes that she is having an affair. When cracks in his American dream of a stable marriage appear, he meets another woman Edith, who restores his faith and gives him a reason to live.Home Video2011 -
Director: René Clair
On a remote and isolated island, ten people – 8 invited guests and two servants – find themselves facing their own deaths. Their unidentified host informs them, via a gramophone records, that as they have all been responsible for someone’s death, they in turn will die before the weekends is out. There is no way for any of them to flee the island, so they set about trying to determine who their hidden host might be and where he might be hiding ( Popular Indian Film Gumnaam (1965) is inspired by this film.)Home Video2011 -
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