Posts Tagged ‘split-screen’

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Aikman, Troy | Beatles, The | Bin Laden, Osama | Brando, Marlon | Castro, Fidel | Christopher, Warren | Clinton, Bill | Edison, Thomas A. | Einstein, Albert | Hitler, Adolf | John, Elton | Khrushchev, Nikita | King, Martin Luther | Kissinger, Henry | Lama, Dalai
Directors: Reggio, Godfrey
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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.

11:14 (Eleven Fourteen, The Movie) (2003)

Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Thomas, Henry | Heron, Blake | Hershey, Barbara | Gregg, Clark | Swank, Hilary | Hatosy, Shawn | Sands, Stark | Hanks, Colin | Foster, Ben | Swayze, Patrick | Cook, Rachael Leigh | Segel, Jason | Gomez, Rick
Directors: Marcks, Greg
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In Middletown, at 11:14 PM, two cars accidents happen at the same time, affecting the lives of five different groups of people. A drunken driver hits a man in a lonely road near a bridge; three young men hits a woman with a van, one of the passenger has a severed penis while another man on the road shoots them; a young man robs a convenience store, with the support of the clerk; a man finds a body in a cemetery and gets rid off it; and a young woman pretending to be pregnant tries to raise money for an abortion. All of these characters and their fates are very connected.

Bad Girls from Valley High (2005)

Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Benz, Julie | Keena, Monica | Bilderback, Nicole | D'Elia, Chris | Paul, Aaron | Urszuly, Suzanna | Brandis, Jonathan | Leigh, Janet | Lloyd, Christopher | Morris, Terrance | Reichert, Tanja | Carmichael, Jennifer | Idlette, Patricia | Pleasure II, Frederick | Moore, Bobby Jo
Directors: Kretchmer, John T.
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Danielle (Julie Benz) is the leader of a clique of arrogant, mean high school girls; she and her rich friends Tiffany (Nicole Bilderback) and Brooke (Monica Keena) care only about their pampered selves (although Brooke has periodic misgivings). No one really hangs out with them except a dumb jock named Gavin, and the class nerd Jonathan, and poor Danielle is getting nowhere with the popular guy Drew (Jonathon Brandis), even after she and friends accidentally killed his last girlfriend. It’s been a year, and Drew still ignores her - but he doesn’t ignore the new foreign exchange student Katarina (Suzanna Urszuly). Since Katarina can’t take a hint, Danielle begins plotting her downfall. But there’s a slight problem: Danielle and her friends begin experiencing a level of high weirdness in which all three of them rapidly age. This serves to make Danielle more desperate than ever. She’ll sacrifice anything, even Drew, to get her youth and looks back.

Tracey Fragments, The (2007)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: Canada
Actors: Page, Ellen | Adams, Libby | Ahmed, Shawn | Amell, Stephen | Cohen, Ari | Cooley, Ryan | Fathers, Daniel | McCabe-Lokos, Maxwell | Richings, Julian | Sandomirsky, Todd | Scott, Derek | Souwand, Zie | Twig, Slim | Yeung, Norman | Brown, Jackie
Directors: McDonald, Bruce
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Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and teased. She develops a thing for Billy Zero, a new student, imagining he’s her boyfriend. We see the day she loses Sonny and we watch her try to find him. In bits and pieces, we see what leads up to her riding in the back of a city bus wrapped in a shower curtain. Coming of age, or just surviving?

House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Haig, Sid | Moseley, Bill | Zombie, Sheri Moon | Black, Karen | Hardwick, Chris | Daniels, Erin | Jostyn, Jennifer | Wilson, Rainn | Goggins, Walton | Towles, Tom | McGrory, Matthew | Mukes, Robert Allen | Fimple, Dennis | Young, Harrison | Bassett, William
Directors: Zombie, Rob
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Jerry, Bill, Mary, and Denise are two couples out on the road in hopes of writing a book on offbeat roadside attractions. When the four meet Captain Spaulding, they learn of the legend of Dr. Satan. When the four take off in search of finding the tree that Dr. Satan was hung from, they pick up hitchhiker Baby. When their car breaks down, Baby invites them into her house. This is where the two couples meet the Firefly family, a murderous clan of bizarre people. As the family attacks the unsuspecting couples, Jerry and his friends try to survive the house of 1000 corpses and it’s dark secrets.

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Willis, Bruce | Rubinek, Saul | Freeman, Morgan | Hancock, John | Dunn, Kevin | James, Clifton | Giambalvo, Louis | Heyman, Barton | Parker, Norman | Moffat, Donald | King, Alan | Fuller, Kurt | LeFevre, Adam | Libertini, Richard
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

MirrorMask (2005)

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Barry, Jason | Brydon, Rob | Fry, Stephen | Hamilton, Andy | Harvey, Simon | Henry, Lenny | Llewellyn, Robert | Robson, Nik | Allen, Rick | Schofield, Simon | Tate, Mark | Thompson, Richard | Thompson, Robin | Ballamy, Iain | Batchelor, Chris
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Helena, a 15-year-old girl in a family of circus entertainers, often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite ill and Helena is convinced that it is all her fault. On the eve of her mother’s major surgery, she dreams that she is in a strange world with two opposing queens, bizarre creatures, and masked inhabitants. All is not well in this new world - the white queen has fallen ill and can only be restored by the MirrorMask, and it’s up to Helena to find it. But as her adventures continue, she begins to wonder whether she’s in a dream, or something far more sinister.

Machinist, The (2004)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Spain
Actors: Bale, Christian | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Sánchez-Gijón, Aitana | Sharian, John | Ironside, Michael | Gilliard Jr., Larry | Cathey, Reg E. | Massey, Anna | Romero Moore, Matthew | Long, Robert | Stinton, Colin | Stevenson, Craig | Lahoz, Ferran | Xidu, Jeremy | Bell, Norman
Directors: Anderson, Brad
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“The Machinist” is a film about a man who hasn’t slept in a year, and he starts thinking that he’s losing his mind, when he starts seeing hallucinations, and his perception of reality becomes twisted. He’s haunted by a co-worker that no one else can see, and keeps finding post-it notes with secret messages on his fridge…

Creepshow (1982)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Holbrook, Hal | Weaver, Fritz | Nielsen, Leslie | Marshall, E.G. | Harris, Ed | Danson, Ted | King, Stephen | Shook, Warner | Harper, Robert | Lormer, Jon | Keefer, Don | O'Malley, Bingo | Amplas, John | Early, David | King, Joe
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Cult classic anthology from two of horrors big wigs, Romero and Stephen King, the film contains 5 sections, held together with 50’s style comic images. A murdered man returns from the grave demanding his Father’s Day cake and death ensues, a meteor’s space ooze causes anything and anyone that comes in contact with it to grow (special appearance by Stephen King himself), a scheming vengeful husband buries his wife and her lover in sand to await death at high tide, a professor selects his nagging negative wife to become a tasty snack for a strange crated creature, and finally, a mean ole millionaire with an intense insect phobia becomes the prey of an army of cockroaches.

Narc (2002)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Leis, Dan | Patric, Jason | Adams, Lloyd | Issa, Meagan | Giornofelice, Lina | Peterson, Alan C. | Robinson, Karen | McBride, Chi | Savage, Booth | Van Sprang, Alan | Donaldson, Gavyn | Donaldson, Myles | Bridges, Krista | Liotta, Ray | Patrice, Thomas
Directors: Carnahan, Joe
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An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly under the scrutiny of internal affairs. They follow leads, informants turn up dead, Nick’s wife is unhappy he’s back on the street, Henry’s protective of the dead cop’s wife. Nick reads and re-reads the case file, broods, watches Oak’s heavy-handed style, sometimes joining in. The brass want to close out the case, Nick and Henry stay on it, and bits of evidence point them to an auto body shop. What actually happened; will Nick ever know?