Small Animals (2011)

Actors: Tatyana Marfenko (actress), Julie-Anne Bayliss (producer), Julie-Anne Bayliss (director), Julie-Anne Bayliss (writer), Melissa Day (actress), David Cassat (actor), Eli Saad (actor), Matthew Mylne (composer), Sam Cleary (actor), Linh Chung (editor), Izzie Weerasooriya (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Drama, Short,

Foulard (2007)

Actors: Allel Aimiche (actor), Elina Loukas (producer), Maxime Alvarez de Toledo (actor), Kris Kato (editor), Kris Kato (producer), Kris Kato (writer), Kris Kato (director), Azalee Dan (actress), Jessy Chenal (actor), Samantha Grassian (actress), Elina Louka (producer),

Plot: Aminah is a young Muslim girl living in France. Aminah's life is turned upside down when France announces a ban on the wearing of Muslim head scarves in school. Aminah first seeks the advice of a local imam named Youseff. The imam tells Aminah to keep her head scarf on. Youseff tells Aminah her friends will drop out on account of the ban. The imam suggests Aminah leave school and find a private tutor. Aminah tries a compromise by wearing a beret instead. The school rejects it. The imam and Aminah's father confront the school. Despite a meeting with the school principal nothing can be done about the ban on head scarves. Until Aminah decides to take matters into her own hands leading to the film's shocking conclusion.

Genres: Drama, Short,
Taglines: The identity of a young Muslim girl named Aminah is challenged when a ban on head scarves in France forces her to choose between her faith and her country.

The Brave One (2007)

Actors: Dario Marianelli (composer), Jodie Foster (producer), Kevin Cannon (actor), Joel Silver (producer), Jaime Tirelli (actor), Bruce Berman (producer), Nicky Katt (actor), Naveen Andrews (actor), Terrence Howard (actor), Mary Steenburgen (actress), David Boston (actor), Larry Fessenden (actor), Jodie Foster (actress), Al Cerullo (miscellaneous crew), Neil Jordan (director),

Plot: David Kirmani,a medical professional, lives in an apartment with his sweetheart, Erica Bain, a radio host, and his dog. They usually take the dog out for a stroll in nearby Central Park and let him run and fetch. One day while at the park they let the dog run without a leash, and when he does not return or respond to their calls, they frantically search for him. They eventually find him being held by three men who want a reward. When David refuses, they start to molest Erica and David intervenes. Two of the men assault the couple, while the third uses a camcorder to film this incident. Erica is knocked unconscious, and regains her senses several days later in a hospital. She is told the shocking news that David was killed and the dog is missing. A traumatized Erica returns home to try and regain her life. She also visits the police station but does not get much help. Fearful of a repeat of this type of incident, she gets an unlicensed gun and carries it with her all the time. One day she witnesses some youths terrorizing subway passengers, forcing them to get off at the next station. When they approach her, she shoots them dead. She uses her gun several more times, always gunning down people committing violent crimes. One day she is summoned to the police station to identify a man who may have been responsible for David's death and the assault on herself. She does recognize him, but refuses to identify him. Subsequently she finds out his whereabouts and plans to avenge her lover's death, not realizing that Detective Mercer has her as a suspect in the recent killings and is set to apprehend her. The question remains: will Erica be able to avenge David's death and her attack before being arrested herself?

Keywords: african-american, answering-machine, apartment-building, aquarium, art-gallery, assault, assuming-a-new-personality, bar, bare-breasts, beaten-to-death
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: How many wrongs to make it right?

Quotes:

[from trailer]::Erica: I want my dog back!

Detective Mercer: Most everybody lies. Dead can't.

Detective Vitale: Guy had a rap sheet longer than my dick.::Detective Mercer: So, in other words, no priors.::Detective Vitale: Easy.

Elevator Man #1: Gross. Who's he gonna shoot next, Donald Trump?

Detective Vitale: I'd say it was probably the fall that killed this guy... or it could be the crowbar embedded in his skull. I'd say it's about 50-50. [pause as he looks up] Maybe 70-30.

Erica: Now, who's the bitch?

[first lines]::Erica: [voiceover, doing her radio show] I'm Erica Bain. And as *you* know, I walk the city. I bitch and moan about it. I walk and watch and listen, a witness to all the beauty and ugliness that is disappearing from our beloved city. Last week took me to the gray depths of the East River where Dmitri Panchenko swims his morning laps, like he has every morning since the 1960s. And today I walked by the acres of scaffolding outside what used to be the Plaza Hotel. And I thought about Eloise. Remember Kay Thompson's Eloise? Eloise who lived in the Plaza Hotel with her dog Weenie, and her parents were always away, and her English nanny who had eight hair pins made out of bones. That Eloise. The adored brat of my childhood. [indistinct overdubs for a few lines here]... li'l punk kids... Sid Vicious spewing beer from his teeth in the Chelsea Hotel... Andy Warhol, his sunglasses reflecting... Edgar Allan Poe, freeing live monkeys from the crates of a crumbling schooner on the oily slips of South Street. Stories of a city that is disappearing before our eyes, its people swept over the Williamsburg of those stories. So what are we left of those stories? Are we going to have to construct an imaginary city to house our memories? Because when you love something, every time a bit goes, you lose a piece of yourself. Where's Eloise going to sleep tonight? Can you hear her ghost wandering around the collapsing corridors of her beloved Plaza, trying to find her nanny's room? Calling out to the construction workers, in a voice that nobody hears, "Has anyone seen my turtle, Skipperdee?" This is Erica Bain, and you've been listening to Streetwalk, on WKNW.

Erica: I always believed that fear belonged to other people. Weaker people. It never touched me. And then it did. And when it touches you, you know... that it's been there all along. Waiting beneath the surfaces of everything you loved.

Erica: Open the door.::Crazy in the car: Uh-oh. We got us a super-cunt here.::Erica: Open the door, or I'll be the last super-cunt you'll ever see.

Detective Vitale: Women kill the kids, the boyfriend, the husband. Shit they love. They don't do this.

Extreme Close-Up (1990)

Actors: Edward Zwick (producer), James Horner (composer), Bibi Besch (actress), Marshall Herskovitz (producer), Marshall Herskovitz (writer), Marshall Herskovitz (writer), Richard Libertini (actor), Blair Brown (actress), Craig T. Nelson (actor), Edward Zwick (writer), Samantha Mathis (actress), Peter Horton (director), Maddie Corman (actress), Sara Burton (miscellaneous crew), Victor Du Bois (editor),

Plot: A 16 year old boy disturbed by the recent death of his mother and alienated from his father begins to assemble film clips taken of his mother which clearly show her emotional disintegration. He then begins to make tapes of his own life that record his own instabilities and his attempts at connecting with his father.

Keywords: boy, death-of-mother, depression
Genres: Drama,

Fu gui bi ren (1987)

Actors: Clifton Ko (director), Clifton Ko (actor), Joe Ma (writer), Clifton Ko (writer), Ronny Yu (miscellaneous crew), Loletta Lee (actress), Ying-Ying Hui (actress), David Chiang (actor), Lydia Shum (actress), Eric Tsang (actor), Bill Tung (actor), Wing-Cho Yip (actor), Hak Shun Leung (actor), Siu Ping Cheng (actress), Dickson Poon (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Bill, a TV news reporter, tries to make ends meet to support himself, his wife and three daughters in urban Hong Kong. In the mist of the misadventures of Bill and his family, their luck and lives ultimately change when Bill's wife suddenly wins the lottery.

Keywords: adultery, bank-closed, cancer, chinese-new-year, family-relationships, hong-kong-estate, journalist, kidnapped-child, lottery, lottery-winner
Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy,

On Their Own (1940)

Actors: Chick Chandler (actor), John Qualen (actor), Abe Dinovitch (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor), William B. Davidson (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Forrester Harvey (actor), Kenneth Howell (actor), George Irving (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), Charles Judels (actor), Edward Earle (actor), Charles Lane (actor), George Ernest (actor), Walter Soderling (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Easy to Take (1936)

Actors: Jack Gardner (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Richard Carle (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Robert Greig (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Kenneth Harlan (actor), William Hopper (actor), John Howard (actor), Billy Engle (actor), Charles Lane (actor), James C. Morton (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Easy to Take (1936)

Actors: Jack Gardner (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Harry C. Bradley (actor), Frank Darien (actor), Harry Depp (actor), Richard Carle (actor), Heinie Conklin (actor), Robert Greig (actor), Jonathan Hale (actor), Kenneth Harlan (actor), William Hopper (actor), John Howard (actor), Billy Engle (actor), Charles Lane (actor), James C. Morton (actor),

Genres: Comedy,

Three Kids and a Queen (1935)

Actors: Robert Dudley (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Ward Bond (actor), Frankie Darro (actor), Henry Armetta (actor), Herman Bing (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), King Baggot (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Edward Cecil (actor), E.E. Clive (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Eddie Fetherston (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Daddy Boy (1927)

Actors: William Hornbeck (editor), William McCall (actor), John A. Waldron (producer), Al Giebler (writer), Jefferson Moffitt (writer), Phil Whitman (writer), Harry Edwards (director), Ben Turpin (actor), Alma Bennett (actress), Mack Sennett (producer), William Searby (actor), Ruth Taylor (actress), Mary Mayberry (actress), Alice Ward (actress), Jimmy Starr (writer),

Genres: Comedy, Short,