Friday, February 25, 2011

The Dreamers

















A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.

Drive, He Said













Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel, who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam. Written by Jack Gattanella

Lennon Naked









In 1964 a reluctant John Lennon is persuaded by manager Brian Epstein to meet Freddie, the father who abandoned him 17 years earlier, with the press in attendance. The meeting is short and bitter. Three years later Epstein is dead and John invites Freddie to his mansion but again things turn sour,due to Freddie's drinking and insulting Mimi,the aunt who raised John. The Beatles set up Apple records but the press are hostile and Lennon's comment that 'we're more popular than Jesus' doesn't help. Rows with long-suffering wife Cynthia lead to marital breakdown and John's meeting Japanese performance artist Yoko Ono. Family history is repeated as Lennon leaves Cynthia and their son Julian for Ono, by whom he has a second son,Sean. In 1969 John returns his M.B.E. in protest at England's support for the Vietnam War while his stunts with Yoko Ono to promote peace alienate the press. Some months later he disbands the Beatles to the other members' annoyance and,after arguments with Paul McCartney,sees a therapist,who regresses him to the day Freddie left him. He learns that Freddie needs his help to write a biography, leading to one last showdown between father and son. Written by don 

Friday, October 8, 2010

Drowning by Numbers (1988, Director: Peter Greenaway)

"Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly duplicitous. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to 100."...Ed Sutton, IMDB




















Cast


Joan Plowright ...
Cissie Colpitts 1

Juliet Stevenson ...
Cissie Colpitts 2

Joely Richardson ...
Cissie Colpitts 3

Bernard Hill ...
Madgett

Jason Edwards ...
Smut

Bryan Pringle ...
Jake

Trevor Cooper ...
Hardy

David Morrissey ...
Bellamy