http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descendants_%28film%29

Blue Gold: World Water Wars?

Is this MUBI worthy?: The Conductor/Dyrygent. Andrzej Wajda, 1980, 102 min. Shooting in the U.S. for the first time, Wajda tells the story of John/Jan Lasocki (John Gielgud), an internationally famous orchestra conductor who emigrated from his native Poland 50 years ago. Marta (Krystyna Janda), the daughter of his first love, seeks him out, creating an interest Lasocki has not known in years. He even agrees to return to Poland and conduct the provincial orchestra in which Marta was a featured soloist. That’s hardly welcome news to Adam (Andrzej Seweryn), Marta’s husband and the orchestra’s regular conductor, who’s rumored to have gotten his position thanks to party connections. A meditation on the grey area between art and life.

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2012/04/02/120402crci_cinema_denby?currentPage=2

A fine adaptation of the novel it is based on...

I found it difficult to watch the scene where the boy takes his disappointment and anger out on the fox he had tamed. Hope that what I saw was somehow simulated and that all these animals didn't really have to die, "art for art"'s sake.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/01/06/how-murakami-helped-with-the-norwegian-wood-film/

A disappointment, in comparison to the wonderful novel it is based on.

A modern fairy tale with its dark streak and a supernatural twist? It lends itself well to a philosophical discussion.

One Stormy Night http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arashi_no_Yoru_Ni

Rosenbaum and Ebert said interesting things about this film. Top critics rating is 6.5/10 or 83% on Rotten Tomatoes web site. Hmm. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1005199-dangerous_liaisons/#!reviews=top_critics

NPR link http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/133999157/without-intervention-lions-heading-for-extinction?sc=fb&cc=fp

The Mistress of Spices (2005) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpzV0HLaIrI&feature=related

Dionysus Award 2011: "about odyssey, ambiguity and darkness"

Dionysus Award 2011: "about love, loyalty and dysfunction"

Dionysus Award 2011 "symbology of the bee is used by a political theorist for human society-- public virtues and private vices-- on the theme of meaning and nothingness"

"Acclaimed South Korean film director Park Chan-wook is wielding a new cinematic tool: the iPhone." http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g2nb9zCmPtXu7k4WjtlFmVPb3lcA?docId=5b5c049cf1694f0e920ff0338ab06118

Sachi Parker grew up in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. She has a role as the English grandmother of the 14-year-old main character in a tender Japanese film called The Witch of the West is Dead. http://www.mysoju.com/the-witch-of-the-west-is-dead/

Why isn't his "La Chanson de Roland" on this site? It sounds like a Criterion worthy project. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/147489/La-Chanson-de-Roland/overview

This film is not about racism, it's about the importance of communication between two life partners.

This film is interesting in a parallel universe sort of way because the main character is dead and alive at the same time like the Schrödinger’s cat. It’s almost as if she had to know what it would be like to survive the accident before her soul could really let go or let go enough to succumb to death. Too bad for her she had to go through the ordeal of dying twice…or maybe it was her dead soul dreaming.

"Conversations with History":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVss-csGF8 an hour-long interview with Ken Jacobs...

"Conversations with History":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVss-csGF8 an hour-long interview with Ken Jacobs...

Found something interesting on Il Grido in the "Film Analysis Guide":http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/ from Yale Film Studies website. (Under Part 6: Analysis)

This poetic film is a beautiful offspring of Theater and Film. It has retained what is good about theater without giving up what is good about film. (If you are a fan of the song Stormy Weather, its melody airs twice for an interesting and contrasted effect.)

According to an interview, Miyazaki's staff of around 70 people spent one year and a half to produce 170,000 pages of pencil drawings without resorting to computer graphics (as he had done for his earlier works like Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle). Miyazaki said he was motivated to create a world that is moving everywhere (an effect that is inherent in hand-drawn anime.)

This 1955 film noir thriller in black and white by Charles Laughton is a cinematographic achievement worth discovering. I watched it on television more than sixteen years ago and I still remember the haunting image of a murdered woman's hair moving in the depths of the water as her children flee downriver hiding inside a row boat.

Beautiful cinematography breathes life into the scenes of New York, the city which is just as much a heroine in this film as is the sound and the art of Charlie Parker. His acquaintances and his intimates talk of him joyously one second, then painfully the next, as if they had finally come to terms with his premature death and are prepared to hold his vigil in a benevolent spirit.

It is a brutal coming-of-age for the older of the two sons who follow their father (whom they barely know -- the father in question having been recently released from prison) on "vacation" to a remote island, the "purpose" being that of getting to know each other. Beautiful photography. Also, terrifying.