Intimate Semaphores (2013)

Actors: Martin Pfefferkorn (actor), Kate Lyn Sheil (actress), T.J. Misny (editor), Jocelin Donahue (actress), Abbi Jacobson (actress), T.J. Misny (writer), T.J. Misny (director), T.J. Misny (producer), Robert McKay (actor), Ilana Glazer (actress), Betsy Aidem (actress), Rob Michael Hugel (actor), Jennifer Kim (actress), Keith Poulson (actor), Feifei Ling (producer),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Blind Pass (2013)

Actors: Armand Assante (actor), Steve Warren (actor), Angel Soto (actor), Ed Lauter (actor), Michael McGlone (actor), Mary Rachel Dudley (actress), Bob Roe (actor), Ray Bouchard (miscellaneous crew), Jannette Sepwa (miscellaneous crew), Chris McKenna (actor), Tanya Christiansen (actress), Mattox Gardner (miscellaneous crew), Anthony Pizzo (miscellaneous crew), Steve Tatone (producer), Steve Tatone (writer),

Genres: Drama, Thriller,

Burning Blue (2013)

Actors: Chris von Hoffmann (actor), Olenka Denysenko (miscellaneous crew), Veronica Mulero (miscellaneous crew), Michael Jefferson (actor), Cotter Smith (actor), Tammy Blanchard (actress), Nathan Buffaloe (miscellaneous crew), William Lee Scott (actor), Brian Sutherland (actor), James Lavino (composer), Michael Cumpsty (actor), Haviland Morris (actress), Tristan Cowen (miscellaneous crew), Zach Warsavage (miscellaneous crew), Joe Mele (actor),

Plot: Following two fatal aircraft accidents aboard an Aircraft Carrier, a government agent is placed aboard the ship. His mission is to determine what may be at the root of these mishaps and prevent the inevitable third chain breaking accident which abruptly changes course when a sailor reports seeing one of the top ranking fighter pilots in a gay club. The aviator and three of his squadron mates and their spouses all become the subject of a deadly modern day witch hunt entangling them in a web of jealousy and deceit which tests their concept of love, friendship and honor and changes their lives forever.

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance, War,
Taglines: Deny nothing.

Chuen sing yit luen - yit lat lat (2010)

Actors: Jacky Cheung (actor), Fruit Chan (producer), Maggie Cheung (actress), Daniel Wu (actor), Wenders Li (editor), Nicholas Tse (actor), Chia-Hui Liu (actor), Fruit Chan (actor), Shawn Yue (actor), Charlene Choi (actress), Kwok-Choi Chiu (miscellaneous crew), Rene Liu (actress), Zhongjun Wang (producer), Conroy Chan Chi-Chung (actor), Jan Lamb (actor),

Plot: It is the hottest summer on record. A chauffeur and a foot masseuse romance through text messages, unaware of each other's identities. An innocent factory girl asks her admirer to stand outside in the heat for 100 days to prove his love. A sushi chef prepares the perfect meal so that the food critic he loves will stay with him forever. A blinded photographer must locate the beautiful model he insulted. An old man desperately searches for an antique light bulb for the shrine of his late wife. And each night, an air conditioner repairman challenges a mystery girl to a road race. When a blackout spreads across the city, the city turns to chaos. Can love shine through?

Keywords: first-love, heat, holiday, summer
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Romance,

Hardly Bear to Look at You (2009)

Actors: Paul Marc Davis (actor), Alex Claus (actor), Huck Melnick (director), Huck Melnick (producer), Huck Melnick (editor), Huck Melnick (actor), Mark Lobatto (actor), Mark Lobatto (miscellaneous crew), Jeremy Herman (actor), Jeremy Herman (producer), Jeremy Herman (writer), Keeley-Jo Jupp (actress), Beth Steel (actress), Isy Oliver (actress), Aubrey Wanliss-Orlebar (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: Love isn't blind, just extremely short-sighted.

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Actors: Samantha Morton (actress), Lynn Cohen (actress), Catherine Keener (actress), Jennifer Jason Leigh (actress), John Rothman (actor), Hope Davis (actress), Philip Seymour Hoffman (actor), Tim Guinee (actor), Kevin Cannon (actor), Alice Drummond (actress), Tom Noonan (actor), Josh Pais (actor), Michael Higgins (actor), Dianne Wiest (actress), Emily Watson (actress),

Plot: Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany's art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy Barnathan, the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel. Meanwhile, his therapist, Madeline Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. His is second daughter, Ariel, is disabled. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. As the years rapidly pass, Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. Populating the cast and crew with doppelgangers, he steadily blurs the line between the world of the play and that of his own deteriorating reality. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.

Keywords: abstract-art, absurdism, actor, actress, adultery, airliner, alienation, allegory, alternative-reality, anger
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Caden Cotard: I don't menstruate, so I don't know how I could smell like I'm menstruating.

Caden Cotard: I know how to do it now. There are nearly thirteen million people in the world. None of those people is an extra. They're all the leads of their own stories. They have to be given their due.

Minister: Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.

Caden Cotard: I don't think you should tell her she doesn't have blood...

Sammy Barnathan: I've watched you forever, Caden, but you've never really looked at anyone other than yourself. So watch me. Watch my heart break. Watch me jump. Watch me learn that after death there's nothing. There's no more watching. There's no more following. No love. Say goodbye to Hazel for me. And say it to yourself, too. None of us has much time.

[over radio]::Millicent Weems: What was once before you - an exciting, mysterious future - is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not special. You have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it. This is everyone's experience. Every single one. The specifics hardly matter. Everyone's everyone. So you are Adele, Hazel, Claire, Olive. You are Ellen. All her meager sadnesses are yours; all her loneliness; the gray, straw-like hair; her red raw hands. It's yours. It is time for you to understand this.::Millicent Weems: Walk.::Millicent Weems: As the people who adore you stop adoring you; as they die; as they move on; as you shed them; as you shed your beauty; your youth; as the world forgets you; as you recognize your transience; as you begin to lose your characteristics one by one; as you learn there is no-one watching you, and there never was, you think only about driving - not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time. Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are...::Millicent Weems: Gone.

Millicent Weems: [voice over] Now it is waiting and nobody cares. And when you're wait is over this room will still exist and it will continue to hold shoes and dress and boxes and maybe someday another waiting person. And maybe not. The room doesn't care either.

Millicent Weems: Glad to be weirdly close.

Tammy: I feel ok, mostly... fucking might help.

Caden Cotard: I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't

Moy svodnyy brat Frankenshteyn (2004)

Actors: Sergey Gazarov (actor), Elena Yakovleva (actress), Valeriy Todorovskiy (director), Leonid Yarmolnik (actor), Leonid Yarmolnik (producer), Sergey Garmash (actor), Ilya Neretin (producer), Aleksey Aygi (composer), Daniil Spivakovskiy (actor), Vladimir Bogdanov (actor), Gennadi Ostrovsky (writer), Irina Sokolova (actress), Alla Strelnikova (editor), Elena Kozhanova (miscellaneous crew), Aleksandr Osipov (costume designer),

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

[first lines]::[Rita slaps Yulik in the face]::[he speaks with long pauses between sentences]::Yulik Krymov: I'm surprised. Rita... How could you... treat this seriously? Some crazy woman wrote a letter. Isn't she raving? Nonsense, isn't it? Please... you're a mom... Okay, what if someone writes tomorrow that I have a triplet? I can swear I don't remember her at all! It was twenty years ago.::Rita Krymova: I just wonder how you are going to tell the kids about it.

Yulik Krymov: What's doing at school?::Anya: Pushkin.::Yulik Krymov: Pushkin what?::Anya: Poems.

[last lines]::Yulik Krymov: He just wanted to protect us, do you understand? Just to protect, nothing else.

Pavlik: [Pavlik and Yulik are in a mental hospital. They see a moaning man. His mother and wife are next to him and don't understand what's wrong with him] It's the wall pressing him! Don't you understand? Lieutenant, don't worry, it won't fall! Just move a bit to the side and that's it! Right, dad? [the lieutenant goes silent. Pause]::Yulik Krymov: Let's get out of here. [stands up] Come on.

Yegor: Wait a minute. He's coming. Just don't laugh.

Historias mínimas (2002)

Actors: José María Morales (producer), Carlos Sorin (director), Julia Solomonoff (actress), Javier Lombardo (actor), Ruth Fischerman (costume designer), María del Carmen Jiménez (actress), Pablo Solarz (writer), Enrique Otranto (actor), Nicolás Sorin (composer), Viviana Puerta (actress), Mohamed Rajid (editor), Mariela Díaz (actress), Ruben Von Der Thusen (actor), Roberto Trucco (actor), Ismael Gonzalez (actor),

Plot: Near the provincial town of San Julian, three vibrant characters undertake seemingly mundane journeys that turn out to be subtly life changing. A lonely, fastidious traveling salesman quests for the perfect cream cake to win the widow of his dreams. A grizzly grandfather hitchhikes to town to find his forgotten lost dog and seek forgiveness. A poor young mother hopes to win the grand prize--a microprocessor--as a contestant on a TV game show. In the end, the three will get more or less what they set out for, but it will come to them in ways that they never expected.

Keywords: argentina, birthday, buddy, cake-decorating, dog, old-man, patagonia, road-movie, rural, salesman
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Historias que se cruzan...

Golem (1980)

Actors: Ryszard Kotys (actor), Wojciech Pszoniak (actor), Grzegorz Warchol (actor), Krystyna Janda (actress), Emil Karewicz (actor), Zbigniew Buczkowski (actor), Henryk Bak (actor), Marek Walczewski (actor), Andrzej Seweryn (actor), Zofia Czerwinska (actress), Jan Nowicki (actor), Marian Opania (actor), Ryszard Pietruski (actor), Elzbieta Kurkowska (editor), Zygmunt Konieczny (composer),

Plot: The film is set in a terrorizing world of the future, where technology commands the movements of individuals, supervised by the doctors, carrying out a program to improve the human race. Thus, instead of doctors creating a monster, the monsters are already there as the species of the future - but one of them is suspected by the doctors of being a human being. That is Golem in reverse.

Keywords: apartment-building, argument, attic, bald-man, based-on-novel, bathroom, blood, book, cigarettes, coat
Genres: Sci-Fi,

Arashi o yobu yûjô (1959)

Actors: Akira Suzuki (editor), Ruriko Asaoka (actress), Umetsugu Inoue (director), Umetsugu Inoue (writer), Nobuo Kaneko (actor), Tamio Kawaji (actor), Seitaro Omori (composer), Keisuke Yukioka (actor), Jûkichi Uno (actor), Toshihiko Oda (actor), Shôichi Ozawa (actor), Ichirô Kijima (actor), Akira Kobayashi (actor), Mari Shiraki (actress), Shirô Yanase (actor),

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