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Alan George Heywood Melly (17 August 1926 – 5 July 2007) was an English jazz and blues singer, critic, writer and lecturer. From 1965 to 1973 he was a film and television critic for The Observer and lectured on art history, with an emphasis on surrealism.
He was born in Liverpool and was educated at Stowe school, where he discovered his interest in modern art, jazz and blues, and started coming to terms with his sexuality.
Melly once stated that he may have been drawn to surrealism by a particular experience he had during his teenage years. A frequent visitor to Liverpool's Sefton Park near his home, he often entered its tropical Palm House and there chatted to wounded soldiers from a nearby military hospital. It was the incongruity of this sight, men smoking among the exotic plants, dressed in their hospital uniforms and usually deficient a limb, that he felt he later recognised in the work of the Surrealists.
He joined the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War because, as he quipped to the recruiting officer, the uniforms were 'so much nicer'. As he related in his autobiography, Rum, Bum and Concertina, he was crestfallen to discover that he would not be sent to a ship and was thus denied the "bell-bottom" uniform he desired. Instead he received desk duty and wore the other Navy uniform, described as "the dreaded fore-and-aft". Later, however, he did see ship duty. He never saw active combat, but was almost court-martialled for distributing anarchist literature.
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Plot: A man awakes in a room handcuffed and with his head capped. His captors want to negotiate his release in exchange for a good sum of money but they are unable to contact his wife. The situation gets tense bit by bit with a latent violence that could have fatal consequences.
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Genres: Action, Drama,Actors: Cesa David Luckmansyah (editor), Hanung Bramantyo (director), Andi A. Manoppo (producer), Mathias Muchus (actor), Tya Subiakto Satrio (composer), Agus Kuncoro (actor), Sujiwo Tejo (actor), Yatti Surachman (actress), Torro Margens (actor), Leo Sutanto (producer), Elly Yanti Noor (producer), Maudy Ayunda (actress), Fajar Nugros (writer), Joshua Suherman (actor), Jordi Onsu (actor),
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Plot: Alex and Anna are college sweethearts; Alex is going to meet Anna's family over the Christmas holiday for the first time. He is an obvious outsider to the family and they make sure his stay is rather uncomfortable. He tries his best to fit in until he discovers Anna's family's horrible secret tradition. 'Leftovers' is a satirical look at 'Christmas traditions' and gives new meaning to the holiday feast.
Keywords: cage, cannibal, christmas, death, dinner, family-relationships, father-daughter-relationship, knife, mother-daughter-relationship, satireActors: Angelique Ophelia Adell (writer), Angelique Ophelia Adell (director), Angelique Ophelia Adell (actress), Sissi Kugler (writer), Salvatore Pascale (actor), Ralf Siebig (producer), Ralf Siebig (director), Momi von Fintel (actor),
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Plot: When Sam and Melly are forced to move to a town inhabited by monsters, they are quickly befriended by the neighborhood kids known as 'the lil Creepers'. There's Bela, the young teething vampire; Boris, a miniature Frankenstein's Monster; Vinnie, a spunky tough-talking werewolf; Elsa, a cute devil girl with a fiery hot temper; and Lonnie, a groaning mummy who drags around his dead pet dog, Blister. The first episode 'Tricks or Tricks' follows Sam and Melly as they go trick or treating with their new friends, only to be terrorized by the local bully, a zombie named Eddie. In the second episode 'Bela's Bash', the gang celebrates Bela's birthday at his Transylvania-style mansion with morbid games like Pin the Tail on the Ogre. Eddie the Zombie tries once again to ruin the lil Creepers' fun, but he gets a taste of his own evil medicine instead.
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Plot: Epic tale about two generations of men in a wealthy Finnish family, spanning from the 1960s all the way through the early 1990s. The father has achieved his position as director of the family business through marrying the heiress. Their eldest son Dani, hoped to succeed his father, succumbs to drugs while pursuing a career in rock music. Younger Riku grows up under the shadow of his more talented big brother and slowly drifts into the late 1980s, noticing then how many of his friends have managed to take advantage of the economic upswing.
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