Eyes Manouche (2010)

Actors: Ratko Momcilovic (director), Ratko Momcilovic (writer), Ratko Momcilovic (producer), Ratko Momcilovic (editor), Nikola Dokic (producer), Nikola Dokic (actor), Robert Palos (actor), Andrew Vogt (actor), Daniel Crane (actor), Adis Sirbubalo (actor),

Genres: Short,

Wie das Gefäß läuft es aus (2010)

Actors: Quan Yuan (actress), Min Eui Hong (producer), Min Eui Hong (editor), Min Eui Hong (actor), Min Eui Hong (composer), Min Eui Hong (director), Charlotte Kinateder (actress),

Plot: "A movement between the tranquility" The "Wie das Gefäß läuft es aus (It's empty like the vessel)" is a ceremony for meditation to enter into Toa or Nirvana. This film/video was inspired by the 4th chapter - "The Tao is an empty vessel; ..." of Toa Te Ching (by Lau-tzu). In this work, the culture of Eastern Asia will be interpreted newly in multimedia contents and in digital expression through immersed image and sound. Generally, a purpose of vessel put in something and it should be emptied itself. But if it is already fulled by something, it is not worth any more. It should be become every moment newly, otherwise some of the inside of vessel will be spoiled. Also, a man be born again every moment through this ceremony. When he is reached for a tranquil heart through the process, he will be recognized himself and attained Nirvana. The theme is "A movement between the tranquility". The sound expresses the movement between the tranquility. Also, the image shows the tranquility in the movement. Finally, it shows the process of attaining the Toa (Nirvana) through the medium between the sound and image.

Keywords: experimental-film, experimental-music, video-art
Genres: Music, Short,

In the Electric Mist (2009)

Actors: Bertrand Tavernier (director), Mary Steenburgen (actress), Pruitt Taylor Vince (actor), Marco Beltrami (composer), Ned Beatty (actor), Gary Grubbs (actor), Tommy Lee Jones (actor), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), John Sayles (actor), Peter Sarsgaard (actor), James Gammon (actor), John Goodman (actor), Louis Herthum (actor), Jeff Galpin (miscellaneous crew), Roberto Silvi (editor),

Plot: Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before.

Keywords: abduction, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, adopted-daughter, baseball, based-on-novel, bayou, cemetery, child-abduction, confederate-army, confederate-soldier
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: No one can escape the sins of the past.

Quotes:

[first Lines]::Dave Robicheaux: My name's Dave Robicheaux. I'm an alcoholic. Sometimes I'm tempted to have a drink. But I never do.

Dave Robicheaux: You don't want to go back out there. In fact, you don't want to go anywhere near this bus station again. From now on, you better treat this place like it is downtown Baghdad, because I will blow your god damned head off if you don't find a god damned line of honest god damned work.

Sam 'Hogman' Patin: A Blue Jay don't sit on a Mocking Bird's nest. The Mocking Bird will whoop the Blue Jay's ass every time.

Elrod Sykes: Ya ever see the lights in the cypress trees at night?::Dave Robicheaux: That's swamp gas. It'll ignite and all that across the water. It's like ball lightning.::Elrod Sykes: No sir, that's not what it is. It's these guys that are wounded by the lake. They have lanterns coming from some of the ambulances. A lot of the soldiers had maggots on there wounds. It's the only reason they lived. It's 'cause the maggots ate out the infection.::Dave Robicheaux: You been drunk a long time, Elrod. Pretty soon all the trees and alligators will be talking to you.::Elrod Sykes: Yeah... I wasn't drunk. This guy... a General... was standing on a crutch right by the water when he said to me, 'You and your friend, the Law Man, must repel them'.::Dave Robicheaux: I think you're delusional. You might wanna think about goin' to uh A-A meeting with me one time.::Elrod Sykes: Maybe I was a little drunk.

Dave Robicheaux: In the ancient world, people placed heavy stones on the graves of the dead so their souls would not wander and inflict the living. I always thought this was simply the practice of superstitious and primitive people. But I was about to learn that the dead can hover on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist, and their claim on the earth can be as legitimate and tenacious as our own.

Dave Robicheaux: Did you know Cherry LeBlanc, a little white girl about nineteen years old?::Old Woman: She work here, ain't she?::Dave Robicheaux: You know if she had a boyfriend Tawn?::Old Woman: If that's what you wanna call it. She in the business.::Dave Robicheaux: Mr. Prejean involved?::Old Woman: Ask him.::Dave Robicheaux: I don't think he was. Otherwise he wouldn't be tellin' me all these things.::Old Woman: She a sad girl. I told her, 'A pretty white girl like you could have anything you want'. When that girl dress up, she look just like a movie star.::Dave Robicheaux: Who was her pimp?::Old Woman: I don't know nothin' else, me. She wasn't about to give the name of some rich white man to a old black woman.::Dave Robicheaux: What rich white man?::Old Woman: Some rich white man, maybe, get her out the business of sellin' jellyroll. She said that just before somebody done them awful things to that girl.

Dave Robicheaux: Lou Girard always called at night. I have picked him out of the gutters from New Orleans to Lake Charles, held him when he had the shakes, and driven him to A-A meetings more times than I can remember. And he had done the same for me.

Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: What's goin' on Dave?::Dave Robicheaux: I'm investigatin' a murder Julie.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: No kiddin'. Still worried about me Dave?::Dave Robicheaux: Hell yeah. How many guys would burn down their own father's nightclub with their own father still in it?::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: You gotta forgive me if I get a little upset by these kinds of attitudes Dave. I come home to this shit hole. I'm a prominent man in the entertainment business. I talk on the phone, everyday to people in California you read about in Entertainment Weekly. They oughta have 'Welcome Back Balboni' Day. Instead, I get treated like sewer gas by you. You understand what I'm sayin' Dave. It hurts me. Sit down while I take a whiz. Cholo. Where's your hospitality? Get the man a soft drink.

Dave Robicheaux: Your meter's runnin' Julie. I wanna talk about that murdered girl we found south of town.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: Which girl is that?::Dave Robicheaux: Cherry LeBlanc.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: I guess I ain't heard about it.::Dave Robicheaux: You don't read the newspapers.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: I been busy.::Dave Robicheaux: Uhm hm. I can see that.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: We used to be friends Dave. I even maybe did you a favor once. I'm gonna line it out for you and for any locals that wanna get the wax out their ears. Louisiana is flat ass broke. New Orleans is a mortuary. The bottom of a toilet's got more appeal than this shit hole on the bayou. So they better wake up to the fact that we're droppin' close to 40 million dollars in Iberia Parish. They don't like the name 'Balboni' around here? We'll move the whole fuckin' movie over to Mississippi. See how that floats with all those coonass jack-offs in the Chamber of Commerce.::Dave Robicheaux: You in the movie business now.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: Yeah. I'm producin' 'White Doves' with Michael Goldman. Whatcha think about that?::Dave Robicheaux: I'm sure everybody wishes you success, Julie.::Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni: I'm a do a baseball movie next. You wanna part in it?

Dave Robicheaux: Mr. Sykes. You've been drivin' drunk and you come to a cop's house to buy more booze. Why don't you hand those keys to Miss Drummond before you hit the road.::Elrod Sykes: Hehe hehe. Where's that beer at?::Kelly Drummond: You're a good man.::Dave Robicheaux: Yaw'll need to be real careful.::Kelly Drummond: Elrod's a shitbird, but I love him.

Happy Hour (2003)

Actors: Eric Stoltz (actor), Mario Cantone (actor), Anthony LaPaglia (actor), John Davis (producer), Robert Vaughn (actor), Malachy McCourt (actor), J. Todd Harris (producer), Susan T. Parsons (miscellaneous crew), Nicholas Owen Langholff (miscellaneous crew), Pete Hamill (actor), Louis Katz (miscellaneous crew), Sandrine Holt (actress), Paul Gagné (actor), Seth Carmichael (miscellaneous crew), Reese Nanavati (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Set in present day New York City, "Happy Hour" is a literate and often funny story of love and how to receive it. Tulley, a once-promising literary star now biding his time as an advertising copy editor, moves from cynicism to acceptance as he secretly hopes to write a great novel only to learn that his life of booze will end all too soon. Levine, his best friend and Natalie, the woman who might have saved him, suffer the pain of Tulley's anger and rejection.

Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: A love story, straight up with a twist.

Quotes:

Levine: I don't suppose she has a sister.::Tulley: Three brothers.::Levine: I can't catch a break. What's her mother like?

Dr. Pitcoff: My star... my most promising... God! How did you grow so old?::Tulley: Day by day. Day by day...

The Badge (2002)

Actors: Julie Hagerty (actress), Patricia Arquette (actress), Marco St. John (actor), John McConnell (actor), Ray McKinnon (actor), Billy Bob Thornton (actor), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), Hill Harper (actor), Michael Hitchcock (actor), Thomas Haden Church (actor), Michael Arata (actor), William Devane (actor), Tom Bower (actor), Carol Sutton (actress), Jena Malone (actress),

Plot: A sheriff (Thornton) begins an investigation into the death of a local transsexual after hearing that high ranking politicians may have been involved. Although he is homophobic, his investigation causes him to be rejected by others, forcing him to seek help from the people he once despised.

Keywords: crooked-official, deep-south, election-campaign, gay-interest, hit-in-the-crotch, murder-investigation, neo-noir, new-orleans-louisiana, police-detective, transsexual
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: A small town sheriff. A big city murderer.

Quotes:

Sheriff Darl Hardwick: I'm beginnin' to think I liked you a lot better when you used to smoke all that reefer and we'd fuck in your Pinto.

Cradle Will Rock (1999)

Actors: Paul Giamatti (actor), Philip Baker Hall (actor), Kyle Gass (actor), Peter Fernandez (actor), Hank Azaria (actor), John Cusack (actor), Cary Elwes (actor), Bob Balaban (actor), Lee Arenberg (actor), Ned Bellamy (actor), Carl Burrows (actor), Jack Black (actor), Rubén Blades (actor), Angus Macfadyen (actor), Barnard Hughes (actor),

Plot: In 1930s New York Orson Welles tries to stage a musical on a steel strike under the Federal Theater Program despite pressure from an establishment fearful of industrial unrest and red activity. Meanwhile Nelson Rockefeller gets the foyer of his company headquarters decorated and an Italian countess sells paintings for Mussolini.

Keywords: 1930s, actor, actress, anti-communist, art, artist, bare-breasts, based-on-play, based-on-true-story, beaver
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Art is never dangerous -- unless it tells the truth.

Quotes:

Gray Mathers: Get in the car! Now!::Countess LaGrange: Perhaps you've mistaken me for a spaniel.

John Houseman: As the producer, I can fire anybody I want, and I am fucking fired!

John Houseman: I've always said the play would be better on a bare stage.::Orson Welles: Actually, Hallie said that.::John Houseman: No, I said it first.::Orson Welles: No you didn't.::John Houseman: Yes I did.::Orson Welles: No, you didn't!::John Houseman: Yes, I did!::Orson Welles: No, you DIDN'T!::John Houseman: Yes, I BLOODY WELL DID!::Orson Welles: Oh, *fine*, Jack! You win, you've got the biggest creative dick, okay?::John Houseman: Thank you.

Marc: I am faithful to the ideals of the party.::Orson Welles: I am faithful to the party of ideas.::John Houseman: You are faithful to the idea of a party.

Diego Rivera: You're a piece of work. A Jewish fascist!::Margherita Sarfatti: And you, a wealthy communist!

Bertolt Brecht: But where are the artists? Artists are the worst whores of all!

Security Guard: Mr Rivera, Mr Rockefeller has told us to give you your comission check. Your services are no longer required.

Tommy Crickshaw: If you guys are going to kill my joke at least kill it right.

Congressman Starnes: You are quoting from this Marlowe. Is he a Communist?::Hallie Flanagan: I am very sorry. I was quoting from Christopher Marlowe.::Congressman Starnes: Tell us who Marlowe is, so we can get the proper reference, because that is all we want to do.::Hallie Flanagan: Put in the record that he was the greatest dramatist in the period immediately preceding Shakespeare.

Orson Welles: No one should be afraid of an idea!

Alegría (1999)

Actors: Mako (actor), Whoopi Goldberg (actress), Chuck Shamata (actor), Frank Langella (actor), Hans De Weers (producer), Heathcote Williams (actor), Eva Dorrepaal (actress), Pierre Guevremont (miscellaneous crew), Marie La Haye (miscellaneous crew), Marcel Beaulieu (miscellaneous crew), Jean-François Bergeron (editor), Julie Cox (actress), Stéphane Reichel (producer), Chip Bray (actor), Joanne Barrington (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Frac, a mime who is suffering from a severe bout of depression, happens to meet a troupe of circus entertainers and immediately falls in love with one of the stars, Giulietta. But while his affection for Giulietta and admiration for the performers gives him a new lease on life, Giulietta's father, the leader of the troupe, opposes the relationship and is determined to keep them apart. Meanwhile, Frac and Giulietta discover a gang of children who are held prisoner by a criminal leader who forces them to do his bidding, and they devise a plan to win the kids their freedom.

Keywords: child-labor, children, circus, circus-performer, cirque-du-soleil, contortionist, exploitation, father-daughter-relationship, flower-vendor, independent-film
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance,
Taglines: If you have no voice: Scream. If you have no legs: Run. If you have no hope: Invent. What if anything were possible?

The Last Waltz (1978)

Actors: Frank Marshall (producer), Dan Perri (miscellaneous crew), Emmylou Harris (actress), Martin Scorsese (actor), Martin Scorsese (director), Robbie Robertson (producer), Ron Wood (actor), Robbie Robertson (actor), Neil Young (actor), Ringo Starr (actor), Neil Diamond (actor), Bob Dylan (actor), Eric Clapton (actor), Dr. John (actor), Joni Mitchell (actress),

Plot: Thanksgiving, 1976, San Francisco's Winterland: the Band performs its last concert after 16 years on the road. Some numbers they do alone, some songs include guest artists from Ronnie Hawkins (their first boss, when they were the Hawks) to Bob Dylan (their last, when as his backup and as a solo group, they came into their own). Scorsese's camera explores the interactions onstage in the making of music. Offstage, he interviews the Band's five members, focusing on the nature of life on the road. The friendships, the harmonies, the hijinks, and the wear and tear add up to a last waltz.

Keywords: 1970s, band, concert-film, farewell, final-concert, guitar, interview, live-in-concert-recording, microphone, musical-guest
Genres: Documentary, Music,
Taglines: It Started as a Concert. It Became a Celebration. [original theatrical] It Started as a Concert. It Became a Celebration. Now it's a Legend. [theatrical re-release]

Quotes:

[Speaking about Ronnie Hawkins]::Himself: He called me up, and I said, "Sure I'd like a job. What does it mean? What do I do?" And he said, "Well, son, you won't make much money, but you'll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra."

Neil Young: [walking on stage] Hey, Rob, thanks for letting me do this.::Robbie Robertson: Shit! Are you kidding?

[singing]::Eric Clapton: Further on up the road / Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me / Further on up the road / Someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me / Further on up the road / Baby, just you wait and see.

[while performing his guitar solo, his guitar strap comes undone]::Eric Clapton: Hold on.

Richard Manuel: [describing how The Band got its name] Well, we were The Hawks.::Robbie Robertson: And everything was fine, we were sailing along, and all of a sudden, one day The Hawks meant something else altogether.::Richard Manuel: And it was right in the middle of that whole psychedelia. Chocolate Subway, Marshmallow Overcoat. Those kind of names, you know?::Robbie Robertson: When we were working with Bob Dylan and we moved to Woodstock, everybody referred to us as the band. He called us the band, our friends called us the band, our neighbors called us the band.::Richard Manuel: We started out with The Crackers. We tried to call ourselves The Honkies. Everybody kind of backed off from that. It was too straight. So we decided just to call ourselves The Band.

Himself - Drums: New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.