Archive for the ‘Netherlands’ Category
Classic Albums: Bob Marley & the Wailers – Catch a Fire (1999)Friday, February 26th, 2010 |
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In the late ’60s, the notion that reggae would become more than just a novelty act would have been laughed at. To break into the mainstream, the movement needed a powerful voice of prophetic proportions. This voice emerged from the collective work of three pioneering friends from Jamaica, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Robert Nesta Marley, who sought to bring about an ideological revolution through deeply meditative, hypnotic, and spiritual music. Catch a Fire was the Wailers’ and reggae’s introduction to the world and turned Bob Marley into a mega-icon of enormous proportions. It was the first album to remain true to the traditions of reggae music while having enough elements that were accessible to popular culture. This documentary, Bob Marley and the Wailers: Catch a Fire, returns to Dynamic Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, shedding light on the development of the album, the thought process of Bob, Peter, and Bunny, and the importance of the music on a song-by-song basis. The story of Catch a Fire is presented through interviews with the band members, studio musicians, and former head of Island Records Chris Blackwell. Throughout are raw studio rehearsal footage, BBC TV footage, and home movies that include performances of “Concrete Jungle,” “Slave Driver,” “Stir It Up,” and “Stop That Train.” The documentary wraps up with rare black-and-white footage of the Wailers’ tour in Edmonton, London, in 1973 with an electrifying performance of the Burnin’ song “Get Up, Stand Up.” Search keywords |
Ben X (2007)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Ben is different. His life is a universe to itself, where he plays his favorite on line computer game Archlord avidly, trying hard to train himself for the real world he lives in. The harsh world of a technical school is for him a daily kind of hell. As the horror of being a daily subject to bullying grows, Ben devises a plan. Then Scarlite comes into his life, the girl he has met in his on-line game. That wasn’t part of the plan… |
Mindhunters (2004)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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On a remote island, the FBI has a training program for their psychological profiling division, called “Mindhunters”, used to track down serial killers. The training goes horribly wrong, however, when a group of seven young agents discover that one of them is a serial killer, and is setting about slaying the others. Can the few that are left figure out who the killer is in time? |
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (1997)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in Tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first fancy car they find, a 60’s Mercedes convertible. The car happens to belong to a bunch of gangsters, which immediately start to chase it, since it contains more than the pistol Martin finds in the glove box. |
Julius Caesar (2002)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Epic look at Julius Caesar, Rome’s last dictator, whose death also signaled the end of the Roman Republic. Chronicles his campaigns in Gaul and Egypt, his rivalry with General Pompey, and his eventual assassination at the hands of Brutus and Cassius. |
The Good Girl (2002)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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The plot revolves around a young married woman whose mundane life takes a turn for the worse when she strikes up a passionate and illicit affair with an oddball discount-store stock boy who thinks he’s Holden Caulfield. |
Dancer in the Dark (2000)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Selma has emigrated with her son from Central Europe to America. The year is 1964. Selma works day and night to save her son from the same disease she suffers from, a disease that inevitably will make her blind. But Selma has the energy to live because of her secret! She loves musicals. When life feels tough she can pretend that she is in the wonderful world of musicals…just for a short moment. All happiness life is not able to give her she finds there… |
The Little Vampire (2000)Monday, February 8th, 2010 |
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Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with a good appietite. The two end up inseperable, but their fun is cut short when all the hopes of the vampire race could be gone forever in single night. With Tony’s access to the daytime world, he helps them to find what they’ve always wanted. |
Red Sonja (1985)Monday, November 2nd, 2009 |
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After her family is murdered a young woman named Red Sonja becomes a master of the sword and seeks revenge on the evil queen responsible for the mayhem that has befallen her. Also, it seems the queen has stolen a powerful, carefully guarded, glowing orb right before it was meant to be destroyed, one that has powers of its’ own, allowing for the possessor to control elemental forces and call down storms and earthquakes, if they so wish. Kalidor, one of the individuals in place to oversee the destruction of the orb, joins forces with Red Sonja, as their paths may differ, but they ultimately lead to the same place. An impudent, young prince named Tarn and his guard/manservant Falkon, whose kingdom was unceremoniously wiped out by Gerden as a test for her newfound powers, soon joins them. |
Pleasure Factory (2007)Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 |
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The lives of pleasure seekers and pleasure providers intertwine one night in Singapore’s red light district. Search keywords |
Orlando (1992)Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 |
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Orlando, a man of ideal nobility starts his search for love, poetry, a place in society and a meaning in life, in and around the court of historical England in the late 16th century. The blessing of eternal life from Queen Elizabeth I enables him a long and deep philosophical quest, accompanied by the features of “noble” English life with a good taste for irony. Both sides of the coin are shown when Orlando, partly fed up and disgusted with how men think and act, returns from his ambassadorship in the Far East as exactly the same person, let alone his sex. Orlando, a woman of ideal nobility continues her journey to realize the truth about life, love, and approaching one’s own sex in the late 18th century England. For one who lived four hundred years and haven’t aged a day, finding humanity’s forgotten need for androgynity as the key to the happiness of her own as well as her daughter’s. Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando not only tells the story on film with brilliant visual design, but also tries to extend the plot as Woolf would have, had she lived to the end of the twentieth century. Search keywords |
Wit licht (2008)Friday, September 4th, 2009 |
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Mysterious Skin (2004)Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 |
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“The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace…” These are the words of Brian Lackey (‘Brady Corbet’ (qv)), a troubled 18 year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Local Neil McCormick (‘Joseph Gordon-Levitt’ (qv)) however, is the ultimate beautiful outsider. With a loving but promiscuous mother (‘Elisabeth Shue’ (qv)), Neil is wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality, having found what he perceived to be love from his Little League baseball coach (played by ‘Hal Hartley’ (qv) veteran ‘Bill Sage’ (qv)) at a very early age. Now, ten years later, Neil is a teenage hustler, nonchalant about the dangerous path his life is taking. Neil’s pursuit of love leads him to New York City, while Brian’s voyage of self discovery leads him to Neil – who helps him to unlock the dark secrets of their past. Based on the acclaimed novel by ‘Scott Heim (II)’ (qv), “Mysterious Skin” explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who come to find the key to their future happiness lies in the exorcism of their collective demons. Search keywords |
The Butterfly Tattoo (2008)Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 |
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“Chris Marshall met the girl he was going to kill on a warm night in early June, when of the colleges in Oxford was holding its summer ball.” A chance meeting with Jenny at an Oxford party leaves seventeen-year-old Chris with hope for a summer romance – and no premonition of trouble. Busy with his job and soon in love with Jenny, whose cheerful surface belies the dark uncertainty of her past, Chris misses all the signs of danger. Before he knows it, he’s caught in the sinister web of a criminal whose desire for revenge crushes those who stand in his way. |
Black Book (2006)Monday, June 8th, 2009 |
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In 1944, in the occupied Holland, the Jewish Rachel Stein is hiding from the Nazis in a house of a Christian family. When her hiding place is bombed, Rachel escapes by chance, but she is found by a stranger called Van Gein that invites her to join a group of Jews in a boat to escape to Belgium on the next night. He advises her to bring money and jewels for her survival and very few luggage. Rachel visits lawyer and friend of her family Wim Small that gives her a large amount for her travel. When she meets the refugees, she finds that her family is in the group. While crossing the swamp, a Nazi patrol boat arrives and kills the fugitives, but Rachel is the only one to survive. Later she joins a cell of resistance leaded by the Dutch Gerben Kuipers under the identity of Ellis de Vries; after meeting the Nazi Officer Ludwig Müntze in a train, Kuipers proposes Ellis to work as a spy seducing Müntze. During her assignment, Rachel recognizes Günther Franken as the commander of the attack to the boat of refugees and later she discovers that the murders are part of a scheme with a traitor in the resistance team. |
The Narrow Margin ()Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 |
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When a woman decides to testify against his mob wrongdoing is hidden to avoid being killed. Now that comes to trial must be escourted throughout the country via train, to provide testimony. Police Walter Brown and his partner are assigned the task, but the mob are on their way. Cuando una mujer decide mafiosos a testificar contra sus malas acciones va encubierto para evitar ser asesinados. Ahora que llega a juicio tiene que ser escourted todo el país a través de tren, a fin de prestar testimonio. Walter Brown policía y su pareja se les asigna la tarea, pero la mafia se encuentran en su camino. |
Miami Vice ()Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 |
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Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) is urbane and clever dead. He lives with the Bronx-born analyst on Intel Trudy (Naomie Harris) because they work confidential fish oil doorkeeper’s narcotic loads in southern Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) [to the untrained eye can seem unorthodox his presentation, but procedure-juridically, he is] healthy is charismatic and until flirty – while the confidential work with the supplier of the south group of Florida – he with Isabella (gong Li), the Chinese-Cuban woman of an arms dealer and drug dealer will work romantically. The best confidential identity is turned even with the volume upwards and pulled out self-control. The intensity of the case knocks Crockett and Tubbs on the edge where identity and production become blurred where policeman and player become – particularly for Crockett in his novel with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an attack on that he loves. Ricardo Tubbs (Jamie Foxx) ist urban und toter klug. Er lebt mit dem Bronx-geborenen Analytiker von Intel Trudy (Naomie Harris), weil sie Geheimtransportieren-Rauschgift-Lasten ins Südliche Florida arbeiten, um eine für drei Morde verantwortliche Gruppe zu identifizieren. Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell) [zum ungeschulten Auge kann seine Präsentation unorthodox, aber verfahrensrechtlich scheinen, er ist] gesund ist charismatisch und bis kokett – während das Geheimarbeiten mit dem Lieferanten der Südgruppe von Florida – er mit Isabella (Gong Li), die Chinesisch-kubanische Frau eines Waffen- und Rauschgift-Händlers romantisch verfangen wird. Die beste Geheimidentität ist selbst mit dem Volumen nach oben gedreht und herausgezogene Selbstbeherrschung. Die Intensität des Falls stößt Crockett und Tubbs auf den Rand, wo Identität und Herstellung verschwimmen, wo Polizist und Spieler ein – besonders für Crockett in seinem Roman mit Isabella werden und für Tubbs in der Provokation eines Angriffs auf denjenigen er liebt. |
Eastern Promises ()Thursday, April 17th, 2008 |
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Nikolai Luzhin born by the mysterious and charismatic Russians is a driver for one of the most well-known organised families of crime of London of origin of Eastern Europe. The family himself is part of Vory V criminal brotherhood Zakone. Led by Semyon, elegant charm of which as the owner of reception of the sumptuous restaurant Trans-Sibérien conceals impeccably a cold and violent heart, destiny of the family is assessed by the volatile son of Semyon and enforcer, Kirill, who is more firmly tied to Nikolai than to his own father. But existence carefully supported of Nikolai is shaken as soon as he crosses tracks in Christmas with Anna Khitrova, a midwife in a hospital of London north. Anna is deeply affected by the situation despaired of a teenager who dies by giving birth to a baby. Anna solves to try to locate the lineage of the baby and the parents. The personal newspaper of the girl also survives her; it is written in Russian and Anna searches answers there. The mother Helen d’ Anna does not discourage her, but the caution of desires of uncle born by the Russians bad-tempered Stepan d’ Anna. He has every reason to make so; by digging in the newspaper, Anna dropped incidentally the full rage of Vory. With Semyon and Kirill final ranks and Anna pressing on his investigations, Nikolai finds accidentally his divided fidelity. The family grips its catch on him; who can, or should, him to trust? Several lives – by including own sound – are in game as a dreadful chain of murder, deceit and the punishment resounds by the darkest corners so much family as London itself. Nikolai Luzhin né par les Russes mystérieux et charismatique est un conducteur pour une des familles de crime organisées les plus notoires de Londres d’origine de L’Europe de l’Est. La famille lui-même fait partie du Vory V fraternité criminelle Zakone. Mené par Semyon, dont le charme élégant comme le propriétaire d’accueil du restaurant Trans-sibérien somptueux masque impeccablement un coeur froid et brutal, les fortunes de la famille sont évaluées par le fils volatil de Semyon et enforcer, Kirill, qui est attaché plus fermement à Nikolai qu’à son propre père. Mais l’existence soigneusement maintenue de Nikolai est secouée dès qu’il traverse des sentiers aux Fêtes de Noël avec Anna Khitrova, une sage-femme à un hôpital de Londres Nord. Anna est profondément affectée par la situation désespérée d’un jeune adolescent qui meurt en donnant naissance à un bébé. Anna résout d’essayer de localiser le lignage du bébé et les parents. Le journal personnel de la fille lui survit aussi; il est écrit en russe et Anna y cherche des réponses. La mère Helen d’Anna ne décourage pas elle, mais la prudence de désirs d’oncle née par les Russes irascible Stepan d’Anna. Il a raison de faire ainsi; en creusant dans le journal, Anna a lâché par hasard la pleine fureur du Vory. Avec Semyon et Kirill les grades finaux et Anna appuyant sur ses investigations, Nikolai trouve à l’improviste ses loyautés divisées. La famille serre sa prise sur lui; qui peut, ou devrait, il se fier ? Plusieurs vies – en incluant son propre – sont en jeu comme une chaîne atroce de meurtre, tromperie et le châtiment résonne par les coins les plus sombres tant de la famille que de Londres lui-même. |
Reservoir Dogs ()Friday, March 21st, 2008 |
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Six criminals, who are foreigners mutually, are hired by a boss of crime Joe Cabot to accomplish a flight of diamonds. Directly at the beginning, wrong names with an intention are given them that they will not arrive too much near and will concentrate on job rather. They are completely sure that flight is going to be a success. But when the policemen manifest themselves directly in this time and in the site of flight, spreads of panic among the members of group and one of them is killed in subsequent shootout with some policemen and civilians. When remaining people meet so as to premeditated appointment (a warehouse), they begin thinking that one of them is a secret cop. Six criminels, qui sont des étrangers l’un à l’autre, sont engagés par un patron de crime Joe Cabot pour réaliser un vol de diamants. Directement au début, on leur donne de faux noms avec une intention qu’ils n’arriveront pas trop près et se concentreront sur le travail plutôt. Ils sont sûrs complètement que le vol va être un succès. Mais quand les policiers se manifestent directement à ce temps et au site du vol, les propagations de panique parmi les membres de groupe et un d’entre eux est tué dans shootout ultérieur avec quelques agents de police et civils. Quand les gens restants se réunissent au point de rendez-vous prémédité (un entrepôt), ils commencent à penser qu’un d’entre eux est un flic secret. |
We Own the Night ()Friday, February 22nd, 2008 |
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A manager of nightclub of New York tries to save his brother and father of the Russian hired killers of mafia. Un directeur de boîte de nuit de New York essaie de sauver son frère et père des tueurs à gages de mafia russes. |



















