3/11/09

AFTERSCHOOL


USA, 2008

Director: Antonio Campos

Producer: Josh Mond, T. Sean Durkin

Writer: Antonio Campos

Cast: Ezra Miller, Danielle Baum


Synopsis:

Robert is a young American student at an elite East Coast preparatory school who accidentally captures on camera the tragic death of two classmates. Their lives become memorialized as part of an audio-visual assignment designed to speed up the campus-wide healing process. But the video memorial assignment results in an atmosphere of paranoia and unease among students and teachers.


SHOOT THE PIANO PLAYER

(Tirez Sur Le Pianiste)
1960, France

Director: Francois Truffaut
Writer: Francois Truffaut, Marcel Moussy, David Goodys (novel)
Producer: Pierre Braunberger
Cast: Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Albert Remy

Plot Summary:
Charlie Kohler is a piano player in a bar. The waitress Lena is in love with him. One of Charlie's brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar because he is chased by two gangsters, Momo and Ernest. We will discover that Charlie's real name is Edouard Saroyan, once a virtuose who gives up after his wife's suicide. Charlie now has to deal wih Chico, Ernest, Momo, Fido (his youngest brother who lives with him), and Lena...