- published: 25 Jul 2012
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Beauty (also called prettiness, loveliness or comeliness) is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.[citation needed]
The experience of "beauty" often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being.[citation needed] Because this is a subjective experience, it is often said that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
There is evidence that perceptions of beauty are evolutionarily determined, that things, aspects of people and landscapes considered beautiful are typically found in situations likely to give enhanced survival of the perceiving human's genes.
The classical Greek noun for "beauty" was κάλλος, kallos, and the adjective for "beautiful" was καλός, kalos. The Koine Greek word for beautiful was ὡραῖος, hōraios, an adjective etymologically coming from the word ὥρα, hōra, meaning "hour". In Koine Greek, beauty was thus associated with "being of one's hour". Thus, a ripe fruit (of its time) was considered beautiful, whereas a young woman trying to appear older or an older woman trying to appear younger would not be considered beautiful. In Attic Greek, hōraios had many meanings, including "youthful" and "ripe old age".
Actors: Robbie Reilly (director), Robbie Reilly (actor), Robbie Reilly (producer), Robbie Reilly (writer), Robbie Reilly (composer), Robbie Reilly (producer), Robbie Reilly (editor), Hyewon Yi (miscellaneous crew), John Charles (actor), Rye Dano (actor), Ruth Butler (actress), Yuji Tsuboi (actor), Michael Kauppi (actor), Chiai Kambara (actor), Peter Paluska (actor),
Plot: In New Tokyo City suicides have spiked, even for the suicide capital of the world. An ex-pat American's been told his ex-girlfriend, a British national, has added herself to the list of recent victims. He returns to the city he loathes to find out why. His past is filled with mistakes and jobs undone. But this time he's determined to finish what he starts. Even if it kills him.
Keywords: brainwashing, computer, dystopia, high-tech, hospital, japan, korea, medical, metadata, nightmareActors: Djilali Rez-Kallah (actor), Alex Michael Harris (writer), Alex Michael Harris (editor), Alex Michael Harris (director), Alex Michael Harris (producer), Isidor Pollak (actor), Arden Tse (editor), Brent Pella (producer), Zach Sandberg (actor), Larry D. Hughes (actor), Carly Hollander (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance, Short, Sport,Actors: Marya Ignacio (editor), Gina Pareño (actress), June T. Rufino (producer), Hermie Go (producer), Mel Mendoza-Del Rosario (writer), Wenn V. Deramas (director), Veronique Del Rosario-Corpus (producer), Vicente G. del Rosario III (producer), Josie Tagle (actress), Cherry Pie Picache (actress), Tonton Gutierrez (actor), Vic del Rosario Jr. (producer), Judy Ann Santos (actress), Vincent de Jesus (composer), Kathy Despa (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Comedy, Romance,Actors: Dennis Evangelista (producer), Dennis Evangelista (producer), Rona Lean Sales (miscellaneous crew), Bong Ramos (writer), Bong Ramos (director), Marco Morales (actor), Alfredo Ongleo (composer), J.C. Parker (actress), Bien Ojeda (actor), Bien Ojeda (miscellaneous crew), Cesar Aquino (producer), John Lawrence Uy (miscellaneous crew), Jigs Recto (actor), Jordan Herrera (actor), Althea Vega (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Antonio Sarte (actor), Patrick Barry (editor), Patrick Barry (writer), Patrick Barry (director), Gerald Jackson Jr. (actor), Mary Lawlor (producer), Mary Lawlor (actress), Joseph Epinette (actor), Eric C. Wood (producer), Bob Clifford (actor), Michael Smithgall (actor), Travis Sauter (actor), Michael Smithgall (producer), Blake Fitzhugh (actor), Jeff Larsen (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Short,Actors: Ryun Yu (writer), Ryun Yu (director), Jeff Liu (actor), Jeff Liu (writer),
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Isaac Julien (director), Isaac Julien (writer), Nadine Marsh-Edwards (producer), Robert Hargreaves (editor), Jimmy Somerville (actor), Langston Hughes (actor), Trevor Mathison (composer), Mark Nash (miscellaneous crew), Stuart Hall (actor), Robert Worley (costume designer), John Wilson (actor), Akim Mogaji (actor), Peter Spencer (composer), Harry Donaldson (actor), Guy Burgess (actor),
Plot: A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.
Keywords: gay-interest, independent-film, queer-cinemaActors: Bryan Brown (actor), Norman Kaye (actor), Frank Gallacher (actor), Ray Meagher (actor), Noni Hazlehurst (actress), Lynette Curran (actress), Chris Neal (composer), Tony Morphett (writer), Denise Haratzis (editor), Reg Evans (actor), William Zappa (actor), Lewis Fitz-Gerald (actor), Guy Doleman (actor), Simon Chilvers (actor), Elizabeth S. Barton (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of bloke but when he gets landed with his daughter after his drunken play-girl wife in Adelaide makes him face up to what she believes are his responsibilities, neither he nor his daughter are ready for each other. But in the beginning he's all she's got, and at the end, she's all he's got.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, affair, australia, australian-outback, based-on-novel, boxer, boxing, braided-hairActors: Byron Robinson (editor), Paul Hurst (actor), Gladden James (actor), Ethan Laidlaw (actor), Victor Potel (actor), Tom Santschi (actor), Will Stanton (actor), Marceline Day (actress), Monte M. Katterjohn (writer), Kenneth Harlan (actor), Betty Boyd (actress), Bert Glennon (director), M.B. Deering (writer),
Plot: Ellen Bradford comes to the south sea island of Tonga to marry her fiancée and finds out he is a drunk. She also finds out that she is the only white woman on the island and, as such, has three men taking a deep interest in her. She has written off her fiancée, and has learned real quick like that "Dutch Mike" Lutze is not to be trusted in any way. That leaves Jim Thorne, the only man who has ever bested Lutze in anything and, while Jim is an adventurer and pirate-at-heart, he knows how to be a gentleman, especially to the only white woman in town or on the island. Lutze is offended. They play poker for a plantation, Ellen, and all the pearls in the Pacific. Loser gets Poppi. Lutz has a marked deck of cards.
Keywords: 1920s, alcoholic, american, archive-footage, b-movie, barroom, beachcomber, crook, crooked-gambler, damsel-in-distressActors: W.W. Jacobs (writer), Johnny Butt (actor), Wallace Bosco (actor), Moore Marriott (actor), H. Manning Haynes (director), Toby Cooper (actor), Lydia Hayward (writer), Gladys Hamer (actress), George Redman (producer),
Genres: Comedy,