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- 29World-La Vie En Rose
(11mb)
Wed, 30 May 2007 09:14:56 -0700
Writer-director Olivier Dahan (Crimson Rivers 2) helmed La Vie en rose (AKA La Môme), the premier screen biopic of tragic French songstress Edith Piaf. - 29World-Golden Door (22mb)
Fri, 18 May 2007 10:34:04 -0700
An original mix of both magical and provocatively authentic visuals, turns the classic tale of coming to America into a wondrous and soulful experience. It is a romantic fable that takes audiences into the very heart of this quintessential American experience ? as one man, driven by fantastic dreams and confronted with shocking realities, makes an epic odyssey in search of a brand new world - 29World-Once (27mb)
Tue, 15 May 2007 14:41:58 -0700
The Guy (Glen Hansard) works part-time helping his father run a small, vacuum cleaner repair business, but dreams of one day having his songs recorded and landing a record deal. Emotionally vulnerable, he is still coming to terms with the recent departure of his girlfriend and lacks the conviction and passion to move on in his pedestrian life. - 29World-Duck (21mb)
Fri, 11 May 2007 10:52:23 -0700
"Duck" is a sad-funny story of hope and survival, set in Los Angeles' as-of-yet avertable future. In 2009, when Los Angeles' last city park is closed to the public, a dispossessed man (Philip Baker Hall)-and the duck who follows him as a mother-quest west, on foot, in search of water and meaning, in the desert that is L.A. - 29World-Moliere (26mb)
Fri, 04 May 2007 10:53:56 -0700
644, Paris, and 22-year-old Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known as Molière, is not yet the writer that history recognizes as the father and true master of comic satire, author of The Misanthrope and Tartuffe, and a dramatist to rank alongside Shakespeare and Sophocles. Far from it. He is, in fact, a failed actor. - 29World-Poison Friends (20mb)
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:36:44 -0700
At the start of the new college semester, Eloi and Alexandre encounter André, the most brilliant student in the lecture hall. Fascinated by his ease and charisma, they quickly fall under his spell. André then offers them his friendship in exchange for complete loyalty to him. Lost in admiration, Eloi and Alexandre devotedly submit to this rigorous discipline - up until the day that André abandons them. Eloi and Alexandre now have no other choice than to stand on their own. - 29World-Private Fears in Public Places (25mb)
Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:53:49 -0700
A solider recently discharged from the army, takes refuge in alcohol to escape from life and other people. Despite his tortured state, his fiancee Nicole still believes their a solid couple. Gaelle is desperately looking for love, but without any success. Her brother Thierry, an realestate agent, is very attracted to his colleague Charlotte. Her pious and devoted attitude masks the perverse game that she is playing with him. And, finally, there is Lionel. He combats his loneliness by dividing his life between his work as a barman and caring for his sickly father, Arthur. - 29World-The Black Book (12mb)
Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:31:58 -0700
Black Book" is based on true events that span nearly a year around Rachel Stein (Carice van Houten) a young, pretty Jewish woman who falls for a high?ranking Gestapo officer (Sebastian Koch) while seeking revenge for her family?s murders. - 29World-Journey From The Fall (30mb)
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:57:13 -0700
The true story of the Vietnamese refugees who fled their land after the fall of Saigon -- and those who were forced to stay behind -- sets the stage for this powerful drama from independent filmmaker Ham Tran. - 29World-Eagle vs. Shark (29mb)
Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:06:44 -0700
Two lonely misfits embark on a bizarre journey of romance and revenge after meeting at a "come as your favorite animal" costume party in Academy Award nominee Taika Waititi's quirky romantic comedy. Jarrod (Jemaine Clement) is a clerk at the local electronics store. Lily (Loren Horsley) is a shy cashier who earns her keep at the local Meaty Boy. After getting fired from her job, an emboldened Lily determines to put on her favorite shark, shed her inhibitions, and attend Jarrod's annual "come as your favorite" animal bash. In the following days a tentative romance begins to develop between Lily and Jarrod, and when Jarrod announces plans to travel back to his hometown and seek revenge on an old nemesis, Lily decides to follow along for the ride. As Jarrod begins to set his diabolical plan into motion, Lily finds herself stranded in an unfamiliar new town and surrounded by a disorienting collection of eccentrics. - 29World-Nomad (19mb)
Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:48:35 -0700
Penned by Russian screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov, Nomad tells the tale of 18th-century Kazak military strategist Ablai Khan -- a forward-thinking visionary whose efforts to unify his country eventually helped to define Kazakhstan's borders. - 29World-Avenue Montaigne (13mb)
Sun, 11 Mar 2007 08:19:39 -0700
Jessica's customers include a popular TV actress (Valérie Lemercier) who is courting a major Hollywood director (Sydney Pollack) for her first serious film role; a wealthy art collector (Claude Brasseur) who is about to liquidate a lifetime's worth of treasures at auction; and an illustrious classical pianist (Albert Dupontel) who is at odds with his manager/wife (Laura Morante) as to where his career is headed. Precisely because Jessica doesn't know how celebrated these people are, her guileless and completely unintimidated engagement in their lives has a transforming effect on them ? and ultimately her. - 29World-Paprika (18mb)
Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:04:08 -0800
29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old ?dream detective,? code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people?s dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis. - 29World-Romantico (29mb)
Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:52:52 -0800
Romántico is a feature-length documentary portrait of Mexican musician Carmelo Muñiz. The film follows Carmelo as the troubadour returns home to scratch out a living after years of trying to get ahead in San Francisco - 29World-After The Wedding (14mb)
Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:44:52 -0800
Jacob Petersen has dedicated his life to helping street children in India. When the orphanage he heads is threatened by closure, he receives an unusual offer. A Danish businessman, Jørgen, offers him a donation of $4 million dollars. There are, however, certain conditions... Not only must Jacob return to Denmark, he must also take part in the wedding of Jørgen?s daughter. The wedding proves to be a critical juncture between past and future and catapults Jacob into the most intense dilemma of his life. - 29World-Iraq In Fragments (14mb)
Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:22:58 -0800
An opus in three parts, Iraq In Fragments offers a series of intimate, passionately-felt portraits: A fatherless 11-year-old is apprenticed to the domineering owner of a Baghdad garage; Sadr followers in two Shiite cities rally for regional elections while enforcing Islamic law at the point of a gun; a family of Kurdish farmers welcomes the US presence, which has allowed them a measure of freedom previously denied. - 29World-Close To Home (11mb)
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:48:42 -0800
In this critically acclaimed study of Israeli women and compulsory military service, two diametrically opposed women are thrown together on patrol in Jerusalem: Mirit is respectful of her military superiors, while Smadar barely conceals her desires for rebellion. When a bomb explodes, the two reconcile their differences, and a tenuous friendship is forged - 29World-Beyond The Gates (13mb)
Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:46:41 -0800
Two outsiders become witnesses to bloody genocide in Rwanda in this fact-based drama from director Michael Caton-Jones. - 29World-The Valet (11mb)
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:13:00 -0800
Francis Veber ("The Dinner Game" and "The Closet"), the living master of French farce, has combined his classic elements of hilarious slapstick with quick-witted dialogue in the new film THE VALET. The tale begins when François Pignon, (Gad Elmaleh) a restaurant car service valet at a posh Paris hotel gets caught-up in a billionaire industrialist's sneaky infidelities. Veber's plot quickly turns on the fall guy, when François - an innocent passerby - is photographed by a paparazzo leaving the hotel along with Pierre Levasseur (Daniel Auteuil), the wealthy tycoon and his beautiful supermodel mistress Elena (Alice Taglioni). - 29World-The Host (14mb)
Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:40:58 -0800
As Gang-du walks out to the riverbank with a delivery, he notices that a large crowd of people has gathered, taking pictures and talking about something hanging from the Han River Bridge. The otherwise idyllic landscape turns suddenly to bedlam when a terrifying creature climbs up onto the riverbank and begins to crush and eat people - 29World-Clint Eastwood Interview On "Letters From Iwo Jima" (35mb)
Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:37:44 -0800
Clint Eastwood is interviewed about his Academy Award Nominated film "Letters from Iwo Jima". Two exclusive clips from the film follow this interview. - 29World-Angela A (11mb)
Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:11:08 -0800
André, a down-on-his-luck con man who owes way too much money to a smoother, more fashionable criminal that André can only dream of emulating, is ready to end it all by leaping off a bridge into the Seine. Fate intervenes, however, in the form of Angela, a leggy blonde in a minidress, who jumps into the river before André. He saves her, and then blames her for thwarting his own suicide attempt. As an apology, Angela agrees to help André with his financial problems. So begins the tale of Angela and André as they eat, drink, and dance their way through Paris. Before he knows it, Angela makes André see that he is stronger, braver, and smarter than he thinks and even that he is capable of love. All he needs is someone to love him back. Luc Besson delivers a fresh, visually rich take on a story that has captured human imagination for generations--the idea that someday a guardian angel may come down to rescue you from your problems. - 29World-French Animated Short, " SEBASTIEN, UN AUTRE FILM DE GOBELINS" (10mb)
Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:30:59 -0800
From Gobelins (the French school that brought the world Le Building last year) comes the new animated short Sébastien, Le Film. Directed, designed and adorably animated by Mourad Seddiki, Carole Carrion, Samuel Wambre and Geneviève Godbout all 3rd year students at Gobelins. - 29World-Best Foreign Picture Nominee "Water" (13mb)
Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:09:43 -0800
Set in the 1930s during the rise of the independence struggles against British colonial rule, the film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi. It focuses on a relationship between one of the widows, who wants to escape the social restrictions imposed on widows, and a man who is from a lower caste and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. - 29World-Best Foreign Picture Nominee "Lives of Others" (11mb)
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:10:26 -0800
A man who has devoted his life to ferreting out "dangerous" characters is thrown into a quandary when he investigates a man who poses no threat in this drama, the first feature from German filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. - 29World - Ihara Interview "Letters from Iwo Jima" (15mb)
Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:17:28 -0800
Actor Ihara is interviewed about the importance of the film "Letters from Iwo Jima" directed by Clint Eastwood. An exclusive clip follows. - 29World-Tears of the Black Tiger (15mb)
Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:49:17 -0800
A highly stylised Thai movie that has been winning fans at film festivals across the globe that combines the retro style of 60s Thai movies, with graphic violence and the look of a western pop video. - 29World-The Italian (10mb)
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:03:17 -0800
In his feature directorial debut, director Andrei Kravchuk addresses with intelligence and poignancy the urgent issue of illegal adoption in Russia, which has become a well-documented international crisis. THE ITALIAN is based on the true story of a small Russian boy abandoned in an orphanage who goes in search of his birth mother. - 29World-Helen Mirren is "The Queen" (15mb)
Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:34:35 -0800
Helen Mirren stars as Queen Elizabeth II who retreats unable to comprehend the public response to the tragedy if Diana. For Tony Blair, the people need reassurance from their leaders. Blair reconnect the Queen with the British public. - 29World-Three Times, Love in Three Time Periods (12mb)
Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:51:25 -0800
This beautiful Chinese film features three different stories of love and memory through three time periods, 1966, 1911 and 2006. - 29World-Mafioso, A Must See Classic (12mb)
Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:47:40 -0800
A 1963 Italian classic about a Sicilian family and the corrupt world around them. - 29Guide-Eastwood on Letters From Iwo Jima Interview (23mb)
Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:08:09 -0800
Clint Eastwood is interviewed about his work on Letters From Iwo Jima - 29World-Offside (10mb)
Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:54:42 -0800
From the director of "The Circle" and "Crimson Gold" comes a smart comedy illustrating the fight for women's rights in Iran. - 29World-Family Law (12mb)
Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:03:26 -0800
Centers around a father and his son, both of whom are lawyers. The son can't put together his own identity because he works with his father, who is a perfect lawyer. He can't reproach his parents on anything: they are perfect. Having such high expectations hinders the son from discovering his identity, really getting out of adolescence and growing up - 29World-The Architect (15mb)
Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:58:08 -0800
A harrowing and ultimately human story of two very different families. Leo Waters (Lapaglia) is an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent, suburban Chicago family. Tonya Neeley (Davis) is a pragmatic activist who is trying to keep her family together while living in one of the city?s most drug and crime-infested public housing projects. As part of her ongoing campaign to have the projects torn down and decent housing built in its place, Tonya decides that the one signature she needs more than any other on her petition is that of the projects? original architect, Leo Waters. - 29World-Gong Li in "Curse Of The Golden Flower" (5mb)
Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:40:31 -0800
The ill-fated romance between an imperial bodyguard and a prince takes the lovers on a dangerous journey where royal family secrets are revealed. - 29World-Preview of "Climates" (12mb)
Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:03:57 -0800
CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan?s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. - 29World - Reincarnation (13mb)
Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:52:52 -0800
Takashi Shimizu, the director of "The Grudge" and "The Grudge 2" comes Reincarnation, a suspenseful psychological horror film that deals with the topic of reincarnation. - 29World-The Aura (12mb)
Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:44:43 -0800
Espinoza is a shy taxidermist who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery. On his first ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, his dreams are made reality with one squeeze of the trigger. Espinoza accidentally kills a man who turns out to be a real criminal and inherits his scheme: the heist of an armored van carrying casino profits - 29World-The Painted Veil (15mb)
Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:49:32 -0800
Adapted from the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, John Curran's The Painted Veil stars Naomi Watts and Edward Norton as Kitty and Walter, a couple living in China in the 1920's. When Walter discovers that Kitty has been unfaithful, she makes him join her on a trip to a small town that is suffering through a cholera epidemic. - 29World-The Requiem (12mb)
Sat, 18 Nov 2006 14:11:10 -0800
In the 1970s, Michaela Klingler (Sandra Hueller) leaves her strict Catholic parents' house to go to a boarding school. At first, Michaela enjoys her newfound freedom, but she soon believes she is possessed by the devil after she has strange hallucinations and hears phantom voices. Ultimately, she finds a priest and tries to convince him to perform an exorcism... - 29World-Tideland (14mb)
Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:34:35 -0800
Following the death of her drug-addicted mother, a whimsical young girl follows her chemically dependent father to a remote prairie house to discover a wondrous world of magical fireflies and nocturnal bog men in this hallucinatory childhood fantasy from visionary filmmaker Terry Gilliam. - 29World-For Your Consideration (16mb)
Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:56:18 -0700
Mockumentary mastermind Christopher Guest turns his satirical eye away from dog shows, small town theater, and folk music to offer a hilarious take on Hollywood award season in this comedy focusing on trio of actors whose lives turn upside-own when they discover that their performances are generating a sizable buzz within the film industry. Guest newcomer Ricky Gervais joins a cast of familiar faces that finds Catherine O' Hara, Eugene Levy, Bob Balaban, Parker Posey, Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge, Harry Shearer, and Michael McKean all returning for another round of irreverent fun - 29World- Almodovar's "Volver" Featuring Penelope Cruz (11mb)
Sun, 22 Oct 2006 11:32:52 -0700
Set in Spain, this is a generational story of three women: a good mother who is desperately in love with a man who is far from being a saint. - 29World-Infamous (15mb)
Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:12:03 -0700
"Infamous" is a compelling study of the complex and tortured relationship that resulted between Truman Capote and convicted murderer Perry Smith (Daniel Craig), a bond formed in a prison cell that brought the destruction of Capote's career, as well as his soul. - 29World- Almodovar's "Volver" starring Penelope Cruz (11mb)
Mon, 09 Oct 2006 09:23:40 -0700
Set in Spain, this is a generational story of three women: a good mother who is desperately in love with a man who is far from being a saint. - 29World-Sweet Land (18mb)
Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:43:38 -0700
As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Norway in 1920 as Olaf's postal bride and of the epic obstacles they overcame in order to marry... - 29World-Al Franken: God Spoke (15mb)
Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:13:02 -0700
This hilarious doc about one man's unceasing battle against the Right tracks Al Franken's transformation from mild-mannered comedy writer to full-on political player. Featuring Ann Coulter, Michael Moore, Al Gore, John Kerry, and Henry Kissinger. - 29World-A Conversation with Gong Li (9mb)
Mon, 25 Sep 2006 12:08:55 -0700
A revealing interview with actress Gong Li and insight to the mastery of her craft. - 29World-Zhang Yimou's "Curse Of The Golden Flower" (9mb)
Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:08:34 -0700
Another fascinating look at director Zhang Yimou's visually stunning epic featuring Gong Li and Chow Yun-Fat. - 29World-Almodovar Insight in "Viva Pedro" (9mb)
Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:02:51 -0700
A documentary which celebrates the work of Pedro Amoldovar. - 29World-Darshan The Embrace (13mb)
Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:16:00 -0700
Throughout its history, India has kept a profound sense of the sacred. Hindu tradition offers a privileged place to 'great souls' (Mahatma), to spiritual guides. As a travel diary deep inside the heart of India and Hinduism, 'Darshan' focuses on one of the most important Mahatmas still alive : Amma. This woman has won a very important place in the Indian community today. Her fight for peace, against poverty and illiteracy earned her the Gandhi King Prize in 2002 (previously awarded to great personalities such as Khofi Annan or Nelson Mandela). - 29World-Rolling Family (10mb)
Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:50:51 -0700
A warm, vivacious comedy about love, life, laughter and the compromises we make for family. When Emila, (Gracina) an Argentinian grandmother is invited to be the 'matron of honor' at the wedding of a distant niece she invites her whole family to accompany her. - 29World-Azumi (10mb)
Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:15:53 -0700
A young orphan is raised to be a deadly assassin in AZUMI. With Japan at war the only hope is for the murder of the deadly warlords who wreak havoc on the country, leading to some fearsome battle scenes as the young, female assassin goes to work. - 29World-Princesas (14mb)
Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:33:35 -0700
A sometimes hilarious, sometimes emotionally gripping, realistic look at the world of prostitution that convincingly demonstraes that we are all looking for the same things--self-respect, love and happiness. - 29World-The Protector (13mb)
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:00:32 -0700
THE PROTECTOR is the highly anticipated full bodied action film starring International Martial Arts superstar, Tony Jaa (Ong Bak). His world shaped by ancient traditions, a young Thai fighter (Jaa) is called to defend his people and their honor after outsiders ruin all that is sacred. Fueled by desire to protect a way of life and avenge the wrong done to his family, he will bring the fight to their city. - 29World-Catch A Fire (16mb)
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:56:48 -0700
An apolitical South African oil-refinery worker and soccer player is forced into terrorism as a means of fighting back against the brutality of the apartheid regime in director Phillip Noyce's dramatic look at the life of one-time political prisoner and freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso. - 29World-The Pusher (9mb)
Fri, 25 Aug 2006 11:57:44 -0700
Filled with easy money, fast cars and beautiful women, Frank's life as a drug dealer is perfect until the police catch him en route to deliver a large bag of heroin. Just before he is arrested, Frank dumps the smack into a lake. But even though the police release him, his troubles are not over, for now the buyer demands his money back. He gives Frank, who already spent the cash, a few days to return it. If the pusher fails, he will be killed.
