Posts Tagged ‘time-lapse-photography’

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
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.

Dark City (1998)

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Rufus Sewell | William Hurt | Kiefer Sutherland | Jennifer Connelly | Richard O'Brien | Ian Richardson | Bruce Spence | Colin Friels | John Bluthal | Mitchell Butel | Melissa George | Frank Gallacher | Ritchie Singer | Justin Monjo | Nicholas Bell
Directors: Alex Proyas
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John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability to put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him.

Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicolas Cage | John Goodman | Ving Rhames | Tom Sizemore | Marc Anthony | Cliff Curtis | Nestor Serrano | Afemo Omilami | Cullen O. Johnson | Arthur J. Nascarella | Martin Scorsese | Tom Riis Farrell | Aleks Shaklin | Leonid Citer | Jesus A. Del Rosario Jr.
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48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn’t help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

The Living and the Dead (2006)

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Roger Lloyd-Pack | Leo Bill | Neil Conrich
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A descent into Hell is triggered when “Ex-Lord” Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Diane Lane | Sandra Oh | Lindsay Duncan | Raoul Bova | Vincent Riotta | Mario Monicelli | Roberto Nobile | Anita Zagaria | Evelina Gori | Giulia Steigerwalt | Pawel Szajda | Valentine Pelka | Sasa Vulicevic | Massimo Sarchielli | Claudia Gerini
Directors: Audrey Wells
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Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think she might never recover. Frances decides to take a break and she buys a villa in the beautiful Tuscan countryside and decides to begin anew. Restoring her new home, she eventually finds the fulfillment she was searching for, including love. Based on ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv)’ memoir of the same name.

House of Sand and Fog (2003)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Jennifer Connelly | Ben Kingsley | Ron Eldard | Frances Fisher | Kim Dickens | Shohreh Aghdashloo | Jonathan Ahdout | Navi Rawat | Carlos Gómez | Kia Jam | Jaleh Modjallal | Samira Damavandi | Matthew Simonian | Namrata Singh Gujral | Al Faris
Directors: Vadim Perelman
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Massoud Amir Behrani, an Iranian immigrant, has spent most of his savings trying to enhance his daughter’s chances of a good marriage. Once she is married, he spends the remaining funds on a house at an auction, unwittingly putting himself and his family in the middle of a legal tussle with the house’s former owner. What begins as a legal struggle turns into a personal confrontation, with tragic results.

Trainspotting (1996)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Ewan McGregor | Ewen Bremner | Jonny Lee Miller | Kevin McKidd | Robert Carlyle | Kelly Macdonald | Peter Mullan | James Cosmo | Eileen Nicholas | Susan Vidler | Pauline Lynch | Shirley Henderson | Stuart McQuarrie | Irvine Welsh | Dale Winton
Directors: Danny Boyle
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A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian trip through the darkest recesses of Edinburgh low-life, focusing on Mark Renton and his attempt to give up his heroin habit, and how the latter affects his relationship with family and friends: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, 14-year-old girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who’s never touched drugs but can’t help being curious about them…

Spun (2002)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: Sweden | USA
Actors: Jason Schwartzman | Mickey Rourke | Brittany Murphy | John Leguizamo | Patrick Fugit | Mena Suvari | Chloe Hunter | Elisa Bocanegra | Julia Mendoza | China Chow | Nicholas Gonzalez | Deborah Harry | Josh Peck | Charlotte Ayanna | Eric Roberts
Directors: Jonas Åkerlund
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An out-of-control speed freak (Schwartzman) is introduced his drug of choice’s creator (Rourke) by his dealer (Leguizamo). A massive three-day adventure ensues (with Fugit, Murphy, and Suvari in tow).

Donnie Darko (2001)

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Drew Barrymore | Jena Malone | Jake Gyllenhaal | Holmes Osborne | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Daveigh Chase | Mary McDonnell | James Duval | Arthur Taxier | Patrick Swayze | Mark Hoffman | David St. James | Tom Tangen | Jazzie Mahannah | Jolene Purdy | Stuart Stone | Gary Lundy
Directors: Richard Kelly
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Donnie Darko gets along badly with his family, with his teachers and with his classmates; but he does manage to find a sympathetic friend in Gretchen, who agrees to date him; and he has a compassionate psychiatrist, who discovers hypnosis is the means to unlock hidden secrets. His other companion may not be a true ally. Donnie has a friend named Frank, who is either a large purple bunny, or man in a large purple bunny costume. Either way, Donnie is the only one who can see him. When an engine falls off a plane and destroys his room, Donnie is not there. Both the event, and Donnie’s escape, seem to have been caused by supernatural events. Donnie’s mental illness, if such it is, may never allow him to find out for sure.

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ellen Burstyn | Jared Leto | Jennifer Connelly | Marlon Wayans | Christopher McDonald | Louise Lasser | Marcia Jean Kurtz | Janet Sarno | Suzanne Shepherd | Joanne Gordon | Charlotte Aronofsky | Mark Margolis | Michael Kaycheck | Jack O'Connell | Chas Mastin
Directors: Darren Aronofsky
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Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you’re hooked, you’re hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Doing their best to succeed in the world, but failing miserably, four people get hooked on various drugs. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.