Posts Tagged ‘canoe’

Without a Paddle (2004)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Price | Andrew Hampton | Jarred Rumbold | Carl Snell | Antony Starr | Dax Shepard | Matthew Lillard | Seth Green | Nadine Bernecker | Danielle Cormack | David Stott | Bonnie Somerville | Scott Adsit | Morgan Reese Fairhead | Liddy Holloway
Directors: Steven Brill
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The legendary high jacker is actually Dan Cooper. DB Cooper is the name of the man arrested shortly after the real high jacker jumped from the plane but was quickly cleared by the authorities. Unfortunately, the newspapers picked up DB Cooper’s name instead of Dan Cooper and the name stuck.

The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jessica Alba | Brenda Blethyn | Hugh Dancy | Bob Hoskins | Christopher Ling Lee Ian | Junix Inocian | Michael Jessing Langgi | Mano Maniam | K.K. Moggie | Emily Mortimer | Cicilia Anak Richard | Malcolm Rogers | Eugene Salleh | Noah Taylor | Kate Helen White
Directors: Guy Jenkin
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In 1936, the expatriated young and naive just-graduated British John Truscott (Hugh Dancy) arrives to the Sarawak, a British colony, to work in the Iban society. The beautiful Selima (Jessica Alba) is assigned to be his “sleeping dictionary”, to live and sleep with him and teach him the language and habits of the locals. The reluctant John and Selima fall in love for each other in a forbidden romance.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: William Holden | Jack Hawkins | Alec Guinness | Sessue Hayakawa | James Donald | Geoffrey Horne | André Morell | Peter Williams | John Boxer | Percy Herbert | Harold Goodwin | Ann Sears | Heihachiro Okawa | Keiichiro Katsumoto | M.R.B. Chakrabandhu
Directors: David Lean
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Romance | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis | Madeleine Stowe | Russell Means | Eric Schweig | Jodhi May | Steven Waddington | Wes Studi | Maurice Roëves | Patrice Chéreau | Edward Blatchford | Terry Kinney | Tracey Ellis | Justin M. Rice | Dennis Banks | Pete Postlethwaite
Directors: Michael Mann
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In 18th century North America during the French and Indian War, a white man adopted by the last members of a dying tribe called the Mohicans unwittingly becomes the protector of the two daughters of a British colonel, who have been targeted by Magua, a sadistic and vengeful Huron warrior who has dedicated his life to destroying the girls’ father for a past injustice.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeffrey Wright | Pablo Schreiber | Anthony Mackie | Dorian Missick | Jose Pablo Cantillo | Teddy Dunn | Joaquin Perez-Campbell | Tim Artz | Denzel Washington | Robyn Hitchcock | Liev Schreiber | Antoine Taylor | Joseph Alessi | Raymond Anthony Thomas | Bill Irwin
Directors: Jonathan Demme
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn’t happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

The Mission (1986)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: Robert De Niro | Jeremy Irons | Ray McAnally | Aidan Quinn | Cherie Lunghi | Ronald Pickup | Chuck Low | Liam Neeson | Bercelio Moya | Sigifredo Ismare | Asuncion Ontiveros | Alejandrino Moya | Daniel Berrigan | Rolf Gray | Álvaro Guerrero
Directors: Roland Joffé
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Father Gabriel ascends the mountains of Brazil to bring christianity to the natives. He is successful and brings about a golden age among them. Mendoza, a slaver, kills his brother in a fit of rage, and only Fr. Gabriel’s guidance prevents his suicide. Gabriel brings Mendoza to work at his mission with the natives, and Mendoza finds peace and asks to become a priest. The church , under pressure, cedes the land to the Portuguese which will allow slavers in again. Mendoza breaks his vows and organizes the natives to resist while Gabriel warns him to help them as a priest.

The Edge (1997)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Alec Baldwin | Elle Macpherson | Harold Perrineau | Bart the Bear | L. Q. Jones | Kathleen Wilhoite | David Lindstedt | Mark Kiely | Eli Gabay | Larry Musser | Brian Arnold | Bob Boyd | Kelsa Kinsly | Gordon Tootoosis
Directors: Lee Tamahori
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Billionaire Charles Morse accompanies his supermodel wife Mickey to photo shoot at Alaska. The shoot is to be made by fashion photographer Robert Green. To find specific Indian for the shoot, they fly to even more distant location, where their small plane crashes into a lake. To survive in the woods full of man-killing bears they need each other, but the smarter of the men - Charles is suspicious that Robert is having an affair with his wife.

The River Wild (1994)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Meryl Streep | Stephanie Sawyer | Joseph Mazzello | David Strathairn | Elizabeth Hoffman | Victor Galloway | Kevin Bacon | John C. Reilly | William Lucking | Diane Delano | Thomas F. Duffy | Benjamin Bratt | Paul Cantelon | Glenn Morshower
Directors: Curtis Hanson
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Gail (Meryl Streep) is a professional at water rafting. She twigs every day, and she is in a very good shape. She takes her family, one day, to a rafting trip down the river, but she has no idea that the planed trip is about to become a nightmare. Two escaping robbers with a handgun, meet the family in the way, and join them to the trip. Only later the Gail realize that their new friends are dangerous criminals, but it’s too late. The two men force them to stay together, and to keep cruising down the river. The family’s life are risked not only by the 2 men, but also by the river which becomes more stormy and wilder.

Whale Rider (2002)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Germany | New Zealand
Actors: Keisha Castle-Hughes | Rawiri Paratene | Vicky Haughton | Cliff Curtis | Grant Roa | Mana Taumaunu | Rachel House | Taungaroa Emile | Tammy Davis | Mabel Wharekawa | Rawinia Clarke | Tahei Simpson | Roi Taimana | Elizabeth Skeen | Tyronne White
Directors: Niki Caro
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On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea’s direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

Dead Man (1995)

Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Iggy Pop | Johnny Depp | Crispin Glover | Gibby Haynes | Richard Boes | George Duckworth | John Hurt | John North | Robert Mitchum | Mili Avital | Peter Schrum | Gabriel Byrne | Gary Farmer | Lance Henriksen | Michael Wincott | Eugene Byrd
Directors: Jim Jarmusch
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Dead Man is the story of a young man’s journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named “Nobody,” who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody’s help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.