12/11/09

EL ANGEL EXTERMINADOR

Mexico, 1962

Director: Luis Bunuel
Writer: Luis Bunuel
Producer: Gustavo Alatriste
Cast: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal

Plot Summary:
After a lavish dinner party, the guests find themselves mysteriously unable to leave the room... and over the next few days all the elaborate pretenses and facades that they've built up by virtue of their position in society collapse completely as they become reduced to living like animals...

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...

26/10/09

THE UNDERSTUDY

USA, 2008

Directors: David Conolly, Hanna Davis
Writers: David Conolly, Hanna Davis
Producers: David Conolly, Hanna Davis
Cast: Marin Ireland, Paul Sparks, Aasif Mandvi, Richard Kind

Plot Summary:
A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.

LOFT

2008, Belgium
Genre: Crime

Director: Erik Van Looy
Producer: Hilde de Laere
Writer: Bart de Pauw
Budget: 3,2 M Euros
Cast: Koen de Bouw, Filip Peters, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruno Vanden Broucke, Koen De Graeve, Veerle Baetens

Plot Summary:
5 friends who are all married and know each other very well decide to rent a loft together. In this loft they meet their mistresses. Everything is OK until one morning the body of an unknown young woman is found in the loft. The 5 friends begin to suspect each other of murder. And it becomes clear that they don't know each other as good as they always thought.

THE BELGRADE PHANTOM

2009, Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria
Genre: Documentary

Director: Jovan B. Todorovic
Producers: Jovan B. Todorovic, Bodgan Petkovic
Writer: Jovan B. Todorovic, Bodgan Petkovic
Budget: 750.000 Euros
Cast: Milutin Milosevic, Marko Zivic, Radoslav Milenkovic

Plot Summary:
Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979. While Yugoslav president Tito is in Cuba settling international matters, a mysterious Phantom occupies the attention and hearts of Belgrade. Every night, he exhibits spectacular driving maneuvers using a stolen white Porsche car through the city streets. Through the radio the Phantom publicly challenges the police to try and catch him. More than 10.000 people are in the streets supporting their hero. The police are forced into a game where he sets the rules. The Phantom becomes a political threat. What started as a game turned into a political scandal and remained a myth that would never be forgot.

MOON INSIDE YOU

2009, Spain, France Slovakia
Genre: Documentary

Director: Diana Favianova
Writers: Diana Favianova

Cast: Diana Favianova

Plot Summary:
Like many other women, Diana has been suffering from problematic periods for years. With every new cycle, the same question arise: "Why the pain and annoyance if I am healthy?

ENTRE NOS

USA, 2009
Genre: Drama

Director: Paola Mendoza, Gloria La Morte
Producers: Joseph La Morte, Michael Skolnik
Writers: Paola Mendoza, Gloria La Morte
Budget: $500K
Cast: Paola Mendoza, Sebastian Villada, Laura Montana

Plot Summary:
A story based on facts which offers a fresh take on the issue of new immigrants in the United States. Mariana totes her two children from Colombia to reunite with her husband in Queens, New York. Her life is devastatingly turned around when her husband abandons the family. The woman and her kids have to fend for themselves in a foreign country. Mariana desperately searches for work. In the end, she resourcefully navigates a surprising avenue for making some money, the city's recycling.

E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL


USA, 1982
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Steven Spielberg
Producers: Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Melissa Mathison
Budget: $10.5M
Cast: Henry Thomas, Dee Walace, Robert MacNaugton, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote

Plot Summary:
A group of aliens visit earth and one of them is lost and left behind stranded on this planet. The alien is found by a 10 year old boy, Elliot. Soon the two begin to communicate, and start a different kind of friendship in which E.T learns about life on earth and Elliot learns about some new values for the true meaning of friendship. E.T. wants to go home, but if Elliot helps him, he'll lose a friend...


GERMANIA, ANNO ZERO



Italy, 1948
Genre: Drama
Director: Roberto Rosselini
Producer: Salvo D'Angelo, Roberto Rosselini
Writer: Roberto Rosselini, Max Colpet, Sergio Amidei
Cast: Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze, Franz-Otto Krüger, Erich Gühne

Plot Summary:
Edmund, a young boy who lives in the destructed Germany after the 2nd World War has to do all kinds of work and tricks to help his family in getting food and barely survive. One day he meets a man who used to be one of his teacher in school and hopes to get support from him, but the ideas of this man does not lead Edmund in a clearer or safer way of living...