Posts Tagged ‘wildlife’

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.

Fly Away Home (1996)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
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Actors: Jeff Daniels | Anna Paquin | Dana Delany | Terry Kinney | Holter Graham | Jeremy Ratchford | Deborah Verginella | Michael J. Reynolds | David Hemblen | Ken James | Nora Ballard | Sarena Paton | Carmen Lishman | Christi Hill | Judith Orban
Directors: Carroll Ballard
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Amy (Anna Paquin) is reunited with her father (Jeff Daniels) after her mother’s death. She withdraws from her new life, and life in general, until she finds a reason to participate in something: the preservation, parenting, and eventual migration-instruction of a flock of orphaned geese.

Doctor Dolittle (1967)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Ossie Davis | Oliver Platt | Peter Boyle | Richard Schiff | Kristen Wilson | Jeffrey Tambor | Kyla Pratt | Raven | Steven Gilborn | Erik Dellums | June Christopher | Cherie Franklin | Mark Adair-Rios | Don Calfa
Directors: Betty Thomas
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Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh, England, in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet such exotic creatures as the Pushme-Pullyu and the Giant Moon Moth. This musical is the source of the hit song, “If I Could Talk To The Animals.”

The Jungle Book 2 (2003)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Musical
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: John Goodman | Haley Joel Osment | Mae Whitman | Connor Funk | Bob Joles | Tony Jay | John Rhys-Davies | Jim Cummings | Phil Collins | Jeff Bennett | Veena Bidasha | Brian Cummings | Baron Davis | Bobby Edner | Jess Harnell
Directors: Steve Trenbirth
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Mowgli feels out of place in his new home, despite the efforts of his friend Shanti and his new little brother. So when Baloo arrives for a visit, the man-cub takes the opportunity to return for some fun in the jungle. However, Shanti, believing her friend was taken, follows them. With Shere Khan still on the hunt for him, Mowgli must protect himself and the ones he cares about from the dangers ahead. The new adventures make him reconsider his decisions and decide which he wants more - a life of laid back hilarity with Baloo in the jungle or a simpler existance in the man village with Shanti.

Rogue (2007)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Michael Vartan | Sam Worthington | Stephen Curry | John Jarratt | Geoff Morrell | Damien Richardson | Robert Taylor | Barry Otto
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An idyllic wildlife cruise disintegrates into terror when a party of tourists are stalked by a massive man-eating crocodile. Pete McKell, a cynical American travel writer, joins a disparate group of holiday-makers on a river cruise through the waters of Kakadu National Park. Initially Pete clashes with their tour captain, Kate, a feisty young woman who assumes he is just another ‘city-slicker’ in search of a quick thrill. After an uneventful day cruising the river, Kate is reluctantly persuaded to steer their boat into unexplored territory. They discover a secluded lake but terror strikes when their craft receives a powerful blow from beneath the murky depths and begins to sink. With little choice, she beaches the vessel on the closest dry land -a tiny mud island. With a rising tide and only half an hour of daylight left, fear grips the group as they realize they are trapped in the lair of a ‘rogue’ crocodile, governed only by its need to hunt and kill. Begrudgingly, Pete and Kate join forces to keep hysteria at bay and in the process start to see beyond their initial impressions. Their first attempt to escape fails, but then Pete has an idea - they must trap the crocodile to enable the group to flee to the other side of the island whilst Kate swims for help. Pete volunteers to stand guard, but without warning, the beast breaks free and targets Kate who fails to resurface. As darkness descends and the muddy waters rise, a terrifying struggle ensues with only one probable outcome death.

Finding Nemo (2003)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Albert Brooks | Ellen DeGeneres | Alexander Gould | Willem Dafoe | Brad Garrett | Allison Janney | Austin Pendleton | Stephen Root | Vicki Lewis | Joe Ranft | Geoffrey Rush | Elizabeth Perkins | Nicholas Bird | Bob Peterson
Directors: Andrew Stanton | Lee Unkrich
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Marlin (a clown fish) is a widower who only has his son Nemo left of his family after a predator attack. Years later, on Nemo’s first day of school, he’s captured by a scuba diver and taken to live in a dentist office’s fish tank. Marlin and his new absent-minded friend Dory set off across the ocean to find Nemo, while Nemo and his tankmates scheme on how to get out of the tank before he becomes the dentist’s niece’s new pet.

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell Crowe | Paul Bettany | James D'Arcy | Edward Woodall | Chris Larkin | Max Pirkis | Jack Randall | Max Benitz | Lee Ingleby | Richard Pates | Robert Pugh | Richard McCabe | Ian Mercer | Tony Dolan | David Threlfall
Directors: Peter Weir
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During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, HMS Surprise, and a much larger French warship, the Acheron, with greater fire power, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Russell Crowe brings great intensity to the role of Captain Jack Aubrey. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. While the naval battle sequences are quite fantastic, the film is successful because director Weir chose to build the story to get to know the men who are locked aboard the tight quarters of a small ship and how they interact everyday. The officers and the mates are well-known by the time the final battle comes. Paul Bettany offers a strong performance as the surgeon and naturalist who balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the scientist. He is the captain’s friend and confidant, the two frequently playing violin and cello duets together. The horrors of the injuries from the war are frequently implied, but vividly depicted in the reactions of the characters.

Jumanji (1995)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: | Robin Williams | Jonathan Hyde | Kirsten Dunst | Bradley Pierce | Bonnie Hunt | Bebe Neuwirth | David Alan Grier | Patricia Clarkson | Adam Hann-Byrd | Laura Bell Bundy | James Handy | Gillian Barber | Brandon Obray | Cyrus Thiedeke | Gary Joseph Thorup
Directors: Joe Johnston
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After being trapped in a jungle board game for 26 years, a Man- Child (Robin Williams) wins his release from the game. But, no sooner has he arrived that he is forced to play again, and this time sets the creatures of the jungle loose on the city. Now it is up to him to stop them.