Life of Pi (2012)

Actors: Sal Lopez (miscellaneous crew), Lee Tucker (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Patrick Joseph (miscellaneous crew), Ang Lee (director), Joy Ellison (miscellaneous crew), Paul 'Sled' Reynolds (miscellaneous crew), Jessica Drake (miscellaneous crew), Susan Hegarty (miscellaneous crew), Irrfan Khan (actor), Mychael Danna (composer), Gérard Depardieu (actor), Tabu (actress), Ang Lee (producer), Garson Yu (miscellaneous crew), Jean-Francois Hall (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In Canada, a writer visits the Indian storyteller Pi Patel and asks him to tell his life story. Pi tells the story of his childhood in Pondicherry, India, and the origin of his nickname. One day, his father, a zoo owner, explains that the municipality is no longer supporting the zoo and he has hence decided to move to Canada, where the animals the family owns would also be sold. They board on a Japanese cargo ship with the animals and out of the blue, there is a storm, followed by a shipwrecking. Pi survives in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a male Bengal tiger nicknamed Richard Parker. They are adrift in the Pacific Ocean, with aggressive hyena and Rickard Parker getting hungry. Pi needs to find a way to survive.

Keywords: 11-year-old, 12-year-old, 1970s, adrift, animal, animal-attack, animal-cage, animal-fight, animated-sequence, apology
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy,

Quotes:

Santosh Patel: You think tiger is your friend, he is an animal, not a playmate.::Pi Patel: Animals have souls... I have seen it in their eyes.

Adult Pi Patel: With one word, my name went from an elegant French swimming pool to a stinking Indian latrine - I was pissing everywhere.

Adult Pi Patel: What has mamaji already told you?::Writer: He said you had a story that would make me believe in God.::Adult Pi Patel: [laughs] He would say that about a nice meal.

Adult Pi Patel: [after describing what the priest in the Church told him about Jesus] That made no sense!

Pi Patel (11: Thank you Vishnu, for introducing me to Christ.

Adult Pi Patel: Faith is a house with many rooms.::Writer: But no room for doubt?::Adult Pi Patel: Oh plenty, on every floor. Doubt is useful, it keeps faith a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it is tested.

Santosh Patel: We will sail like Columbus.::Pi Patel: But Columbus was looking for India!

Adult Pi Patel: Now we have to send our little boy to the middle of the Pacific.::Writer: And make me believe in God.::Adult Pi Patel: Yes, we will get there.

Pi Patel: I can eat the biscuits, but God made tigers carnivorous, so I must learn to catch fish. If I don't, I'm afraid his last meal would be a skinny vegetarian boy.

Pi Patel: [on killing a fish] Thank you Lord Vishnu. Thank you for coming in the form of a fish and saving our lives.

A Hawk Once Told Me (2012)

Actors: Rod Ball (actor), Michael Ruiz-Unger (writer), Michael Ruiz-Unger (producer), Michael Ruiz-Unger (director), Michael Ruiz-Unger (editor), Jamil J. Gonzalez (miscellaneous crew), Michael Maryanoff (writer), Paula Barros (actor), Michael Maryanoff (producer), Tristan Hernandez (actor), Adrian Molina (costume designer), Mickey Degrand IV (composer), Matthew Gossman (miscellaneous crew), Randy Garcia (actor),

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Short,

Deep Gold (2011)

Actors: Joel Torre (actor), Frederick Bailey (writer), Michael Gleissner (actor), Michael Gleissner (writer), Michael Gleissner (director), Michael Gleissner (producer), Erik Godal (composer), Amelia Jackson-Gray (actress), Matthew Lubetich (miscellaneous crew), Kacy Andrews (producer), Steve Aalam (producer), George Acebu (miscellaneous crew), Olive de Leon (miscellaneous crew), Viktoria Hedberg (actress), Marketa Belonoha (actress),

Plot: Deep Gold follows Amy Sanchez, a champion free diver who, along with her sister Jess, find themselves thrown into the middle of a deadly conspiracy. After a government plane carrying a fortune in gold goes missing over Philippine waters, Amy and Jess struggle to investigate the disappearance with help from Lulu and the mysterious Benny Simpson. Soon, the girls learn they are in over their heads.

Keywords: airforce, cebu-philippines, conspiracy, explosion, free-diving, girls-in-action, gold, government, military, tropical-island
Genres: Action,

El tagrubah el danemarkiyyah (2003)

Actors: Ahmed Rateb (actor), Adel Imam (actor), Ahmed Helmy (actor), Said Tarabeek (actor), Mona Zaki (actress), Talaat Zakaria (actor), Youssef Eid (actor), Magdy Kamel (actor), Raga El Geddaoui (actress), Youssef Maaty (writer), Sami Sarhan (actor), Mohamed El Dafrawy (actor), Hassan Abdel Fattah (actor), Khaled Sarhan (actor), Sayed Sadek (actor),

Plot: Qadry Al-Minyawi is a widowed husband and a father of four adult sons Mahmoud, Ibrahim, Abdulrahman and Hussien. When he is later appointed as the new minister of youth and sports, his old friend asks him to host his Danish sister-in-law Anita who is studying for her P.Hd. and visiting Egypt for the first time. Qadry feels concerned about Anita's presence and how her attractiveness and sex appeal drive all men crazy especially his sons.

Keywords: alcohol, beer, belly-dancing, bellydance, body-building, boxing, breakfast, brother-brother-relationship, convertible, cultural-difference
Genres: Comedy, Drama,

Quotes:

Qadry: [There are lots of food on the dinning table] Where's breakfast?

Mahmoud: Dad, Nizar Qabbani's a great poet have you read "Childhood of a Breast"?::Qadry: Childhood of a what?::Mahmoud: And I made a cloak out of women's skin and built pyramids of znipples...::Qadry: Znipples? Nizar said znipples?::Mahmoud: That's a typo.

Qadry: [Qadry is at his son's graduation ceremony] That's my son.::Raga El Geddaoui: How sweet.::Qadry: [He pinches the woman's thigh and she looks at him in shock] The eldest.

The Ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002)

Actors: Charlie Hofheimer (actor), Sasha Andreev (actor), Paul F. Bernard (producer), Martin Apelbaum (editor), Heather Rose Dominic (producer), Alexa Davalos (actress), Jessica Lancaster (actress), James Scura (producer), Tony Lyons (producer), David Kausch (editor), Latarsha Rose (actress), Charles Lyons (director), Charles Lyons (writer), Jane Elizabeth Mendez (actress), Magie Dominic (costume designer),

Genres: Drama, Romance, Short,

Va savoir (2001)

Actors: Christine Laurent (writer), Christine Laurent (writer), Pascal Bonitzer (writer), Valeria Cavalli (actress), Martine Marignac (producer), Catherine Rouvel (actress), Pascal Bonitzer (writer), Jeanne Balibar (actress), Sergio Castellitto (actor), Hélène de Fougerolles (actress), Claude Berri (actor), Bruno Todeschini (actor), Jacques Bonnaffé (actor), Marianne Basler (actress), Luigi Pirandello (writer),

Plot: The theatre world is a familiar setting for the films of Rivette. In Va savoir, the characters, all quick-witted, well-read and cultured types, revolve around each other in a delightful potpourri of theatre, romance and theft. In the end, everything lands on its feet and they all get the partner they deserve, but before then, long filmer Rivette takes two and a half hours to dwell lightly on the vicissitudes around the six protagonists. Camille is an actress with an Italian company that is in Paris to perform a play by Pirandello, Come tu mi vuoi. Her boyfriend Ugo is the director and the company's most important actor. Both have a hidden agenda for their trip to Paris: Camille meets her ex Pierre, a professor of philosophy, while Ugo is secretly researching a supposedly lost play by Goldoni. In the archives, he is assisted by the charming student Do, who steals his heart. In turn, Do has a link with Pierre: her stepbrother, the playwright Arthur, namely steals an expensive ring from Pierre's wife Sonia. After many sophisticated conversations, secret rendezvous and references to Pirandello, events reach a hilarious climax when Pierre and Ugo challenge each other to an old-fashioned duel for life and death.

Keywords: absurdism, actress, adultery, backstage, ballet, ballet-class, ballet-teacher, bare-breasts, based-on-play, bench
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Cammille B.: I really should calm down. I knew this would happen. It was coming. I should have said no, not a chance, not Paris. Even three years later, I can't.

Ugo: Cammille, what's wrong?::Cammille B.: Forgive me.::Ugo: That's all you can say? I've never seen this, leaving before the bow on opening night. Even if you didn't like it, it's insulting!::Cammille B.: To who?::Ugo: To the public, to me, to the company, to everyone!::Cammille B.: I didn't mean to insult anyone. I feel bad that it happened.::Ugo: That's not enough. I want an explanation.::Cammille B.: I can't explain.

Cammille B.: Hello, Pierre.::Pierre: Hello, Cammille.::Cammille B.: In three years, I thought that you'd have changed your habits.::Pierre: No, no, same morning prayer on the same bench. What's wrong?::Cammille B.: Nothing. As you can see, I'm back in Paris, but I'm not staying. We leave for Vienna next week.::Pierre: I see. You still like that life, I guess.::Cammille B.: I like that life, absolutely.

Sonia: Someone came to see you. A woman.::Pierre: What did see want?::Sonia: She didn't say. To see you. I think she was your ex.::Pierre: Cammille?::Sonia: Yes, Cammille. I'm sure of it.::Pierre: Did she say anything?::Sonia: She didn't have a chance to talk. You don't look surprised.

Pierre: I never forgot you. Three years, and not one day without thinking of you.::Cammille B.: I don't want to know.::Pierre: We'd like to have you for dinner. It was Sonia's idea. Is it possible?::Cammille B.: Maybe Monday, our night off. I'll have to talk to Ugo.::Pierre: Perfect. Ugo, he's the director?::Cammille B.: Yes, he directs the company.::Pierre: And you live with him?::Cammille B.: Yes. Monday at what time?::Pierre: Eight or nine. Come with Ugo.

Ugo: What is he to you, this Pierre?::Cammille B.: I lived with him before, before I - I lived with him when I was in Paris. He liked the play. He's not a bore, you know.::Ugo: No, he's a good man. How long did you live with him?::Cammille B.: Two years. Almost two years. But not quite.::Ugo: What did it do to you to see him? Do you still love him?::Cammille B.: No.

Ugo: Why are you staring at me?::Dominique 'Do': I think you're handsome. I'm just joking. Well, no. You have shadows under your eyes. Tired?::Ugo: This play is harder and harder.::Dominique 'Do': Mother and I plan to go tomorrow. It's not full?::Ugo: Far from it, unfortunately. I'm delighted you're coming.::Dominique 'Do': Mother will ask me to translate and explain everything. There will be "shhs" all around us.

Arthur: You know each other?::Dominique 'Do': What's it to you?::Arthur: [leaving] I'm going to the kitchen. I'll need to talk to you.::Dominique 'Do': He bugs me.::Ugo: I think I bug him, too.::Dominique 'Do': It's not you. It's you being with me.::Ugo: Really?::Dominique 'Do': He's not my brother. He's my half-brother. He has no rights over me.

Sonia: How's the play going?::Cammille B.: All right.::Sonia: It's been awhile since you've been in Paris.::Cammille B.: Three years.::Sonia: It must seem strange.::Cammille B.: Yes. Your ring is beautiful.::Sonia: It's my engagement ring.::Cammille B.: With Pierre?::Sonia: No. My previous life. Another life. Very different.

Ugo: I find that Sonia most appealing.::Cammille B.: I don't doubt it. Thanks to you, that dinner was a catastrophe.::Ugo: I don't agree. I had a good time.::Cammille B.: Not me.::Ugo: Why not?::Cammille B.: I was ashamed of you. I was ashamed all evening.::Ugo: I'm sorry. I'm an actor, not a university professor.::Cammille B.: Don't be a hypocrite. Taking that superior air, it's unbearable!

Necronomicon (1993)

Actors: Takashige Ichise (producer), Maria Ford (actress), Samuel Hadida (producer), Obba Babatundé (actor), Juan Fernández (actor), Don Calfa (actor), Millie Perkins (actress), Brian Yuzna (actor), Jeffrey Combs (actor), David Warner (actor), Curt Lowens (actor), Richard Lynch (actor), Gary Graham (actor), Bruce Payne (actor), Brian Yuzna (producer),

Plot: H.P. Lovecraft, the well-known horror writer, is looking in the late thirties after the book 'Necronomicon'. He finds it guarded by monks in an old library. He then copies some stories from it, which unfold for our eyes- and his...

Keywords: abusive-stepfather, anthology, basement, blood-spatter, bloodletting, book, cold, dead, death, dying
Genres: Horror,
Taglines: From the master of terror comes a chilling tale of unspeakable evil.

Quotes:

Mr. Benedict: There is one thing I have always maintained. If a man's shoe is dirty, you got to wonder about his sole.

Facklorna (1991)

Actors: Björn Granath (actor), Sven Lindberg (actor), Tomas Norström (actor), Sven Wollter (actor), Gunvor Pontén (actress), Krister Henriksson (actor), Jonas Karlsson (actor), Tomas Bolme (actor), Stig Ossian Ericson (actor), Mats Bergman (actor), Bert Sundberg (producer), Thomas Krag (editor), Thorsten Flinck (actor), Åke Sandgren (director), Loa Falkman (actor),

Genres: Drama, Thriller,

Flight of the Intruder (1991)

Actors: Mace Neufeld (producer), Fred Dalton Thompson (actor), John Corbett (actor), Rosanna Arquette (actress), Peter Sherayko (actor), Tom Sizemore (actor), Ving Rhames (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Madison Mason (actor), Richard Fancy (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor), David Schwimmer (actor), Danny Glover (actor), Basil Poledouris (composer), Ralph Winter (producer),

Plot: After his bombardier is killed, Jake Grafton, a carrier-based Intruder pilot, questions the purpose of Navy bombing missions. He finds an ally for his cynicism in Virgil Cole, a bombardier on his third tour of duty, and together they ponder the notion of one unsanctioned mission "downtown", to "Sam City" in North Vietnam.

Keywords: 1970s, air-strike, aircraft-carrier, aviation, bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, bombardier, bomber, bombing, disillusionment
Genres: Action, Romance, War,
Taglines: The only thing they can count on is each other.

Quotes:

Boxman: [preparing to go into Po City] Preflight, kid: money?::Razor: Yeah, I got some.::Boxman: Prophylactics?::Razor: I got two!::Boxman: Oh yeah? I always carry twenty-six myself. [Razor giggles] That's not a joke!

[In the briefing room]::Cdr. Camparelli: "Movie officer, what's the film tonite?"::Pilot: "They Shoot horses, Don't They, Sir!"::Cdr. Camparelli: "Any skin?"::Pilot: "No Sir."::Cdr. Camparelli: "Cancel it!"

[at the bar in Po city]::Lt. Jake Grafton: "Fighter pukes make movies. Bomber pilots make... HISTORY!"

Razor: You're third Generation Mafia, sir!

[before leading the daylight raid to North Vietnam]::Cdr. Camparelli: This is a daylight raid, gentlemen. Air Force, Marines, Navy, everything we got. They've had three years to get ready for us. The most formidable air defenses in the history of warfare. Our job, the task of the Intruder, is to kill SAMs. Make no mistake about it, gentlemen, SAMs are where your ordnance goes. Otherwise, those B-52's will be dead meat. We can expect a forest of SAMs and flak you can lay down on. We've got to cut a path through for the Air Force. We'll be going in broad daylight with nothing to hide behind. We'll be easy targets up there, gentlemen, but they're counting on us. Lean into it. Let's go downtown!::Pilots: [all cheer]

Lt. Grafton: Well, this is the end of Devil Five- O - Five. Say goodbye, asshole!::Cole: Goodbye Asshole!::Lt. Grafton: Eject, Eject, Eject!

Court-Martial Captain: You took an oath, Mr. Cole. You, too, Mr. Grafton. You took an oath to defend the constitution and obey the orders of the officers appointed over you. It's the same oath that every officer in the navy has taken for damn near 200 years. And during all that time, the military has obeyed the civilian elected government. Now, they might not have always been right, or wise... or even smart, but they were elected. Any other way and the United States would be nothing more than another two-bit military dictatorship.::Admiral: Why did you do this, Cole? An officer with your fine record? Did you think you were going to win the war?::Cole: Frankly, sir, I think we're going to lose this one. But I do love the work.::Court-Martial Captain: Mr. Cole, you may find that amusing, but we don't. Gentlemen, this is our country you're messing with. Well, Mr. Grafton, you have an attentive audience here. Perhaps you can explain to us why you thought a one-plane war was the way to go.::Lt. Jake Grafton: Well, sir, we bomb worthless targets night after night - I mean, three tents under a tree... sampan repair yards that have been hit ten times already. Sir, you know the list better than I do. My first bombardier and 50,000 other Americans are dead and... can anyone tell me why? I realize that I'm Lieutenant Nobody. I'm... I'm not really sure about anything anymore. This war's become very confusing. Nobody... nobody wants to fight in it. Nobody seems to want to win it. Maybe it never should have happened, but people do die in it. Maybe for me, it got personal, because I do know the difference between dying for something and dying for nothing. I know that's no excuse. I... I know that. And I broke the faith, and for that, I am truly wrong. Perhaps I should hang.::Court-Martial Captain: Hanging, Mr. Grafton, is no longer a punishment much in use. But a prison term in Leavenworth is, or a dishonorable discharge if a court-martial should so decide. But whatever happens,I think it's safe to say that your career in the navy is over. The only question's how.

Admiral: What we're going to tell you Commander, may come as a surprise, but it must be held in the utmost secrecy, and its importance will become obvious. I think you'll understand.::Court-Martial Captain: All charges against your boys have been dropped.::Cdr. Camparelli: Sir?::Court-Martial Captain: They're gone, dropped, never happened.::Cdr. Camparelli: What do you want me to do, Captain?::Court-Martial Captain: Cover it up, sweep it under the rug. Take your men back to your carrier first thing in the morning, keep their mouths shut. Beyond that, you can do what you want to with them, but this affair's over.::Cdr. Camparelli: May I ask the captain, why?::Admiral: Because the President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon is quite irritated at the opposition for leaving the peace table. He has just ordered Operation Linebacker II; the unrestricted bombing of all military targets in North Vietnam.::Court-Martial Captain: We'd look like real idiots if we court-martialed an A-6 crew for doing what the President of the United States just told us to do. If even a rumor got back to the press, you can understand the ramifications.::Cdr. Camparelli: Yes. Yes, sir.

Cdr. Camparelli: [Reprimanding the men after a barfight] Now what's this crap about you attempting to feed a merchant seaman to some alligators?::Lt. Jake Grafton: They were crocodiles, sir.::Cdr. Camparelli: I don't give a damn! Now go on.::Lt. Jake Grafton: Well, I attempted to throw the aforementioned puke to the crocodiles, sir, when his belt caught on the railing and I, failed. An altercation then ensued, sir!::Cdr. Camparelli: Seven hundred bucks damage, thirty men in the brig and... an alligator injured. And you got away?::Lt. Jake Grafton: Using escape and evasion techniques, sir, I was able to avoid being captured. And sir? We didn't hurt that crocodile. He was fine when we left.::Razor: Yeah, he was okay, Skipper!

Cdr. Camparelli: [Grafton has just been shot down while trying to rescue Camparelli] You think this changes anything, you hoodlum? You disobeyed another order! I grounded you!::Lt. Jake Grafton: Hey, I AM on the ground!

Georgia (1988)

Actors: Judy Davis (actress), Judy Davis (actress), Marshall Napier (actor), John Bach (actor), Jim Hajicosta (miscellaneous crew), Julia Blake (actress), Paul Grabowsky (composer), Edward McQueen-Mason (editor), Alex Menglet (actor), Tommy Dysart (actor), Nick Lathouris (actor), Bob Weis (producer), Bob Weis (writer), Lewis Fiander (actor), Ben Lewin (director),

Plot: A young woman investigates the death of her mother, who drowned when her daughter was still a baby. The question is: was it murder, suicide or merely an accident?

Keywords: australia, independent-film
Genres: Mystery, Thriller,
Taglines: Did she fall or was she pushed? Finding out could be murder.