FILM DATABASE SUBMISSION JUNE 2010

petit astronaute

almost 3 years ago

Love Among the Ruins (George Cukor, UK, 1975)

petit astronaute

almost 3 years ago

Sweet Bird of Youth (Richard Brooks, USA, 1962)

branduponthebrain

almost 3 years ago

Incident At Loch Ness (Zak Penn. 2004)

starring Werner Herzog

branduponthebrain

almost 3 years ago

The Grand (Zak Penn, 2007)

featuring Werner Herzog

petit astronaute

almost 3 years ago

História Trágica com Final Feliz (Regina Pessoa, PT, 2006, aka Tragic Story with Happy Ending)

etienne carsoux

almost 3 years ago

When the Cat’s Away (Chacun cherche son chat) – France, 1996.
91 Minutes, Color, French, Subtitled in English.

DIR/SCR Cédric Klapisch
PROD Aïssa Djabri, Farid Lahouassa, Manuel Munz
DP Benoît Delhomme
CAST Garance Clavel, Zinedine Soualem, Olivier Py, Renée Le Calm, Romain Duris, Joël Brisse
ED Francine Sandberg
PROD DES François Emmanuelli
SOUND Olivier Le Vacon

When the Cat’s Away is a gentle French comedy that explores the problems and anxieties of contemporary urbanites. When Chloe (Garance Clavel), a young Parisian, decides to take a long-overdue vacation, she has to find someone to look after Gris-Gris, her beloved cat. Everyone, including her gay male roommate, refuses to help her, but she finally makes an arrangement with the elderly Madame Renée (Renée Le Calm), who often watches over other peoples’ cats and dogs. However, when Chloe comes back, Madame Renée tells her that unfortunately the cat has been lost, and the unlucky owner goes on a search for her dear animal friend. While looking for the cat, she meets many colorful characters who populate the neighborhood. —allmovie guide.

etienne carsoux

almost 3 years ago

Plaza Suite – USA, 1971.
114 Minutes, Color, English.

DIR Arthur Hiller
PROD Howard W. Koch
SCR Neil Simon
DP Jack Marta
CAST Walter Matthau, Lee Grant, Barbara Harris, Maureen Stapleton
ED Frank Bracht
PROD DES Arthur Lonergan
MUSIC Maurice Jarre
SOUND David Dockendorf, Ben Winkler

It is not uncommon for actors to double and triple in roles while appearing in the “omnibus” plays of Neil Simon. Plaza Suite was the first film version of a Simon play to carry over the multiple-role device to the screen. Walter Matthau appears in all three one-act playlets comprising Plaza Suite, with a different leading lady in each. First we see Matthau as the husband of Maureen Stapleton, nostalgically returning to the same hotel suite where they’d spent their honeymoon 24 years earlier. Times have changed, however, and the twosome spend more timing sniping at one another than pitching woo. The second vignette casts Matthau as an effusive movie producer (lavish toupee and all) who hopes to seduce his old sweetheart Barbara Harris. The third and best sequence finds Matthau and Lee Grant playing the parents of a bride who steadfastly refuses to leave her locked room to attend her own wedding. —allmovie guide.

etienne carsoux

almost 3 years ago

I Went Down – Ireland, 1997.
107 Minutes, Color, English.

DIR Paddy Breathnach
PROD Robert Walpole
SCR Conor McPherson
DP Cian de Buitléar
CAST Peter McDonald, Brendan Gleeson, Tony Doyle, Michael McElhatton
ED Emer Reynolds
PROD DES Zoe MacLeod
MUSIC Dario Marianelli
SOUND Simon J. Willis

This Irish road movie follows the misadventures of some Irish ex-cons. When Dublin hood Tom French (Tony Doyle) comes down hard on slow-witted Anto (David Wilmot), Git (Peter McDonald) intervenes and then is assigned a mission. He is ordered to travel to Cork to bring back French’s friend Frank Grogan (Peter Caffrey) and the money Frank in holding. Along for the ride is French’s associate Bunny (Brendan Gleeson). The two rescue Grogan from gunmen, but Grogan claims to know nothing about any money, only about his 18-month affair with French’s wife. Thus, uncertainty looms on the horizon as the three drive back to Dublin. Shown at the 1997 Edinburgh Film Festival. —allmovie guide.