Posts Tagged ‘ku-klux-klan’

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Troy Aikman | The Beatles | Osama Bin Laden | Marlon Brando | Fidel Castro | Warren Christopher | Bill Clinton | Thomas A. Edison | Albert Einstein | Adolf Hitler | Elton John | Nikita Khrushchev | Martin Luther King | Henry Kissinger | Dalai Lama
Directors: Godfrey Reggio
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dan Aykroyd | Albert Brooks | Vic Morrow | Doug McGrath | Charles Hallahan | Rainer Peets | Kai Wulff | Sue Dugan | Debby Porter | Steven Williams | Annette Claudier | Joseph Hieu | Al Leong | Stephen Bishop
Directors: Joe Dante
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Four horror/science-fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood’s famous directors based on TV’s most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. In the first story directed by John Landis (a vague remake of the Twilight Zone episode “A Quality of Mercy”) a loud-mouthed bigotted businessman (Vic Morrow) with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks, and Asians, gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably transported back in time to being pursued by Nazis in 1940’s France, then as an African-American at a KKK rally in the 1950s Deep South, and as a Vietnamese in 1960s Vietnam. The second story directed by Stephen Spielberg (a remake of ‘Kick the Can’) an old man (Scatman Crothers) arrives at a retirement home and makes the wishes of the residents come true when he magically transforms them into youthful incarnations of their days gone by. The third story directed by Joe Dante (a remake of ‘It’s a Good Life’) a young woman on the road (Kathleen Quinlan) gives a ride to a mysterous 10-year-old boy (Jeremy Licth) to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy’s imagination. The fourth story directed by George Miller (a remake of ‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) stars John Lithgow as an passenger on an airline whom sees, but cannot convince anyone, a mysterious creature on the outside wing of the airplane trying to sabotage the aircraft.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Music
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: George Clooney | Holly Hunter | John Turturro | Stephen Root | John Goodman | Charles Durning
Directors: Joel Coen
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Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.”

Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cho | Kal Penn | Rob Corddry | Jack Conley | Roger Bart | Neil Patrick Harris | Eric Winter | Jon Reep | Mark Munoz | James Adomian | Todd Voltz | Richard Christy | Adam Herschman | Jackson Beals | Amir Talai
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Follows the cross-country adventures of the pot-smoking duo as they try to outrun authorities who suspect them of being terrorists when they try to sneak a bong on board their flight to Amsterdam.

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Cleavon Little | Gene Wilder | Slim Pickens | David Huddleston | Liam Dunn | Alex Karras | John Hillerman | George Furth | Jack Starrett | Harvey Korman | Madeline Kahn | Carol Arthur | Richard Collier | Charles McGregor
Directors: Mel Brooks
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The Ultimate Western Spoof. A town where everyone seems to be named Johnson is in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, Hedley Lemar, a politically connected nasty person, sends in his henchmen to make the town unlivable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor. Hedley convinces him to send the town the first Black sheriff in the west. Bart is a sophisticated urbanite who will have some difficulty winning over the townspeople.

Bad Boys II (2003)

Sunday, February 18th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin Lawrence | Will Smith | Jordi MollĂ  | Gabrielle Union | Peter Stormare | Theresa Randle | Joe Pantoliano | Michael Shannon | Jon Seda | Yolanda Vazquez | Jason Manuel Olazabal | Otto Sanchez | Henry Rollins | Antoni Corone | Gary Nickens
Directors: Michael Bay
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Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city’s drug traffic has touched off an underground war. Meanwhile, things get sexy between Mike and Syd (Union), Marcus’s sister.

Forrest Gump (1994)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Robin Wright Penn | Gary Sinise | Mykelti Williamson | Sally Field | Rebecca Williams | Michael Conner Humphreys | Harold G. Herthum | George Kelly | Bob Penny | John Randall | Sam Anderson | Margo Moorer | Ione M. Telech | Christine Seabrook
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950’s through the 1970’s including a meeting with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, fighting in Vietnam, etc. The problem is, he’s too stupid to realize the significance of his actions. Forrest becomes representative of the baby boomer generation having walked through life blindly.