Posts Tagged ‘violence’

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.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Modine | Adam Baldwin | Vincent D'Onofrio | R. Lee Ermey | Dorian Harewood | Kevyn Major Howard | Arliss Howard | Ed O'Ross | John Terry | Kieron Jecchinis | Kirk Taylor | Tim Colceri | Jon Stafford | Bruce Boa | Ian Tyler
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Joker. We see Pyle grow into an instrument of death as Hartman has forseen of all of his recruits. Through Pyle’s torment and Joker’s unwillingness to stand up against it the climax of part one is achieved with all three main characters deciding their fates by their action or inaction. The second chapter of Full Metal Jacket delves into Joker’s psyche and the repeated referal to the fact that he joined the Corps to become a killer. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a combat correspondant is interfered with by the Tet offensive he is thrust into real combat and ultimately must choose if he really is a killer.

Escaflowne (2000)

Saturday, November 29th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Japan
Actors: Maaya Sakamoto | Tomokazu Seki | Jôji Nakata | Mayumi Iizuka | Minami Takayama | Kôji Tsujitani | Shinichirô Miki | Ikue Ootani | Trevor Devall | Brian Dobson | Michael Dobson | Paul Dobson | Brian Drummond | Andrew Francis | Nobuyuki Hiyama
Directors: Kazuki Akane
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High school student Hitomi Kanzaki, depressed and despondent, wishes to disappear from her world. Her wishes are heard in the alternate world of Gaea where a battle for absolute control is raging! Magically, Hitomi is suddenly transported to this other world and is bestowed with the power to decide its ultimate fate!

Blood Work (2002)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeff Daniels | Anjelica Huston | Wanda De Jesus | Tina Lifford | Paul Rodriguez | Dylan Walsh | Mason Lucero | Gerry Becker | Rick Hoffman | Alix Koromzay | Igor Jijikine | Dina Eastwood | Beverly Leech | June Kyoto Lu
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb (Eastwood), who has recently had a heart transplant, is hired by Graciela Rivers (De Jesus), to investigate the death of her sister, Gloria, who happens to have given McCaleb his heart. On the case, he soon deducts that the killer, who staged the murder to look like a random robbery, may actually be a serial killer Terry was trailing for years in the FBI. Can the elderly and feeble McCaleb, who had intended to spend his retirement living on his boat in the Los Angeles harbor, and who can’t drive, and has to nap regularly, muster up the endurance to find the killer?

Babylon A.D. (2008)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Vin Diesel | Michelle Yeoh | Mélanie Thierry | Gérard Depardieu | Charlotte Rampling | Lambert Wilson | Mark Strong | Jérôme Le Banner | Chris Astoyan | Abraham Belaga | Radek Bruna | Justin Rodgers Hall
Directors: Mathieu Kassovitz
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Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

The Dark Knight (2008)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Bale | Michael Caine | Heath Ledger | Aaron Eckhart | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Gary Oldman | Morgan Freeman | Eric Roberts | Cillian Murphy | Anthony Michael Hall | Monique Curnen | Nestor Carbonell | Joshua Harto | Michael Jai White | Colin McFarlane
Directors: Christopher Nolan
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Right after taking out Ra’s Al Ghul’s plan and the mysterious disappearance of Dr. Jonathan Crane AKA Scarecrow, Batman continues his seemingly-endless effort to bring justice to Gotham’s crime and corrupt with the help of Lt. James Gordon and new appointed District Attorney Harvey Dent. But this time, The Dark Knight faces a rising psychopathic criminal called The Joker, who’s eerie grin makes him more dangerous than what he has yet to unleash. It becomes an agenda to both enemies that only one of them remains and are willing to break every part of what they believe in to stop the other.

The Salton Sea (2002)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Val Kilmer | Vincent D'Onofrio | Adam Goldberg | Luis Guzmán | Doug Hutchison | Anthony LaPaglia | Glenn Plummer | Peter Sarsgaard | Deborah Kara Unger | Chandra West | B.D. Wong | R. Lee Ermey | Shalom Harlow | Shirley Knight | Meat Loaf
Directors: D.J. Caruso
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After the murder of his beloved wife, Danny Parker (Val Kilmer) is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey he befriends slacker Jimmy the Fin (Peter Sarsgaard) and becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette (Debra Kara Unger) from her own demons. Danny is antagonized by undercover narcotics agents (Anthony Lapaglia and Doug Hutchison) and sadistic dealer Pooh Bear (Vincent D’Onfronio).

Borstal Boy (2000)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Shawn Hatosy | Danny Dyer | Lee Ingleby | Robin Laing | Eva Birthistle | Michael York | Mark Huberman | Jim Byrne | Garret Deady | Darren Donohue | Ronnie Drew | William Fitzpatrick | Luke Griffin | Trevor Hanly | Lukas Hassel
Directors: Peter Sheridan
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Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old republican, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceived as “the enemy,” a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing. Events take an unexpected turn and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth.

Kids (1995)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Leo Fitzpatrick | Sarah Henderson | Justin Pierce | Joseph Chan | Johnathan Staci Kim | Adriane Brown | Sajan Bhagat | Billy Valdes | Billy Waldeman | Javier Núñez | Luis Núñez | Christian Bruna | Alex Glen | Chloë Sevigny | Rosario Dawson
Directors: Larry Clark
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Disturbing, dark, low-budget independent film about teen-agers growing up in poverty in New York City. The story focuses on Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), a teen who has a goal to de-flower as many virgins as he can. When one of his old encounters discovers that she is H.I.V.-positive, after only one encounter with a guy, Telly remains undaunted.

Vice (2008)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael Madsen | Daryl Hannah | Mykelti Williamson | Mark Boone Junior | Kurupt | John Cassini | Nicholas Lea | Aaron Pearl | Matthew Robert Kelly | Peter LaCroix | Emy Aneke | Betty Linde | Justine Warrington | Martin Cummins | Frank Cassini
Directors: Raul Inglis
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Detective Walker is a deeply flawed hero fighting to redeem himself while solving, and simultaneously trying to prevent, a string of murders following a drug deal gone bad. As in other gritty, gripping urban dramas, such as The Usual Suspects, Vice takes the viewer by the throat and doesn t let go until the final plot twist reveals the truth about Walker and the hard cost of making tough choices.