Posts Tagged ‘culture-clash’

Little Big Man (1970)

Friday, October 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Hoffman, Dustin | Dunaway, Faye | George, Chief Dan | Balsam, Martin | Mulligan, Richard | Corey, Jeff | Eccles, Aimée | Peters, Kelly Jean | Androsky, Carole | Little Star, Robert | Bellini, Cal | Moreno, Ruben | Shemayne, Steve | Hickey, William | Anderson, James
Directors: Penn, Arthur
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Jack Crabb is about 100 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little Big Horn.

Beverly Hillbillies, The (1993)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Varney, Jim | Bader, Diedrich | Eleniak, Erika | Leachman, Cloris | Tomlin, Lily | Thompson, Lea | Schneider, Rob | Parton, Dolly | Coleman, Dabney | Fuller, Penny | Connolly, Kevin | Carlson, Linda | Ward, Lyman | Hunley, Leann | Lively, Ernie
Directors: Spheeris, Penelope
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Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck.

Cabaret (1972)

Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Minnelli, Liza | York, Michael | Griem, Helmut | Joel Grey | Wepper, Fritz | Berenson, Marisa | Neumann-Viertel, Elisabeth | Vita, Helen | von Richthofen, Sigrid | Vespermann, Gerd | Wolter, Ralf | Hartmann, Georg | Renée, Ricky | Nachama, Estrongo | Doby, Kathryn
Directors: Fosse, Bob
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Sally Bowles, an American singer in 1930s Berlin, fall in love with bi-sexual Brian. They are both then seduced by Max, a rich playboy. Sally becomes pregnant, and Brian offers to marry her… All the characters are linked by the Kit-Kat club, a nightspot where Sally sings.

Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006)

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Beaudry, Michel | Bélanger, Patrice | Boudreau, Pierre | Boylan, Sarain | Brunelle, Manon | Canuel, Nicolas | Chevrette-Landesque, Hugolin | Jean, Fayolle | Feore, Colm | Fournier, Ron | Goulem, Alain | Grenier, Amélie | Houde, Louis-José | Houde, Pierre | Howland, Richard
Directors: Canuel, Erik
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When a crime is committed on the border of Quebec and Ontario, everyone is forced to come together, whether they want to or not. As the investigation gets underway, we meet David Bouchard and Martin Ward, members of their respective provincial police forces who are forced to work together. The two men couldn’t be more different. In fact, the only thing they appear to have in common is that they are both cops, albeit cops with totally different styles.

Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Pitt, Brad | Thewlis, David | Wong, B. D. | Mako | Denzongpa, Danny | Wong, Victor | Dapkunaite, Ingeborga | Wangchuk, Jamyang Jamtsho | Tsamchoe, Lhakpa | Pema, Jetsun | Dongtse, Ama Ashe
Directors: Annaud, Jean-Jacques
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Heinrich Harrer runs from trouble at home in WWII Austria to climb Mt. Nanga Parbat. After meeting unforseen obstacles, he comes into contact with the forbidden city of Lhasa.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cusack, John | Spacey, Kevin | Thompson, Jack | Hall, Irma P. | Law, Jude | Alison Eastwood | Hipp, Paul | Chablis, Lady | Loudon, Dorothy | Haney, Anne | Hunter, Kim | Lewis, Geoffrey | Herd, Richard | Rippy, Leon | Gunton, Bob
Directors: Eastwood, Clint
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This panoramic tale of Savannah’s eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William’s famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim’s violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim’s buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy’s murder, Kelso has his hands full.

Namesake, The (2006)

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: India | USA
Actors: Khan, Irfan | Penn, Kal | Guha, Jagannath | Guha Thakurta, Ruma | Tabu | Deb, Sandip | Sukanya | Shankar, Tanusree | Chakravarthy, Sabyasachi | Sengupta, Tamal | Mookerji, Dhruv | Choudhury, Supriya | Rudin, Stuart | MacRae, Heather | Kanti, Sumitra
Directors: Nair, Mira
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While traveling by train to visit his grandfather in Jamshedpur, Calcutta born, Bengali-speaking Ashoke Ganguli meets with fellow-traveler, Ghosh, who impresses upon him to travel, while Ashoke is deep into a book authored by Nicholai Gogol. The train meets with an accident, and after recuperating, Ashoke re-locates to America, settles down, returns home in 1977 to get married to aspiring singer, Ashima, and returns home to New York. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy, who they initially name Gogol, and a few years later both give birth to Sonia. The family then buy their own house in the suburbs and travel to India for the first time after their marriage. The second time they travel to India is when Gogol and Sonia are in their late teens, and after a memorable visit to Kolkata and then to the Taj Mahal, they return home. Gogol falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, while Ashoke spends time traveling, and Sonia moves to California, leaving Ashima all her by herself. The Ganguli family will be destined to travel to India again soon - this time under very different circumstances - and after all have endured life-changing events.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Baron Cohen, Sacha | Davitian, Ken | Luenell | Barr, Bob | Ciorobea, Spirea | Keyes, Alan | Psenicksa, Michael | Rowe, Bobby | Sell, Jim | Walker, Larry | Äliyev, Ilham | Anderson, Pamela | Behar, Mariam | Stein, Linda
Directors: Charles, Larry
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Kazakhstani TV personality Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the “greatest country in the world.” With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson than on his assignment.

Blast from the Past (1999)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Fraser, Brendan | Silverstone, Alicia | Walken, Christopher | Spacek, Sissy | Foley, Dave | Slotnick, Joey | Raoul, Dale | Tank, Hayden | Smith, Douglas | Sparks, Ryan | Yesso, Don | Thomson, Scott | Kairys, Ted | Linn, Rex | Mace, Cynthia
Directors: Wilson, Hugh
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Brandon Fraser is Adam Weber, the child of an eccentric inventor and his wife. Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webers in their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam Weber must venture out into Los Angeles and obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself. He meets Eve (Alicia Silverstone), who reluctantly agrees to help him out.

Black Rain (1989)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Douglas, Michael | Garcia, Andy | Takakura, Ken | Capshaw, Kate | Matsuda, Yusaku | Kôyama, Shigeru | Spencer, John | Ishimatsu, Guts | Uchida, Yuya | Wakayama, Tomisaburo | Ono, Miyuki | Guzmán, Luis | Costelloe, John | Root, Stephen | Riehle, Richard
Directors: Scott, Ridley
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Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.