Laurel & Hardy - Their Lives And Magic - Documentary - 2011

The international documentary is presenting - besides a lot of funny clips from the best Laurel and Hardy movies

Director & Writer Andreas Baum

Stars

Stan Laurel(archive footage) Oliver Hardy(archive footage), Chuck McCann.

After leaving Hal Roach in 1940 Stan and Ollie performed in a special benefit for the Red Cross in a sketch written by Stan. They then did a 4 month tour covering 12 cities starting on the 27th September in Omaha and ending in Buffalo in mid December. The show called The Laurel and Hardy Revue with The Driving Licence Sketch as the finale. In Buffalo they were given the key to the city. In 1941 they did a show at Camp Roberts, California, appearing with Red Skelton, Jane Withers, Joan Leslie, Chico Marx and Larry Adler. The show was a great success for the Boys showing that they were still a great comedy team. Following the success for the Boys showing that they were still a great comedy team. Following the film Great Guns they joined the Flying Show Boat - a revue that toured US military bases in the Carribean for 2 weeks with John Garfield, Ray Bolger and Chico Marx with L&H doing the Driving Licence Sketch again ,In 42 after filming A Haunting We Will Go they joined The Hollywood Victory Caravan on a cross country fund raising tour with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, James Cagney, Groucho Marx, Cary Grant and many others. The tour called Hell a Balloo began in Washington DC at the end of March 1947

No subtitles. Just a mention of the names of speakers.

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/n2OACdjQgQQ

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Stone Years (Petrina hronia), by Pantelis Voulgaris, 1985

Be prepared. It is a dark Greek movie, at least cinematography speaking, but it is well rated on IMDb and got several awards.

It is 1954, Thessaly, Greece. In the wake of the destructive Greek Civil War, 18-year-old Eleni and 22-year-old Babis face trying times. Against the backdrop of illicit political activity, persecution, arrests, and incarceration, the star-crossed lovers are always short of time, struggling to make the most of their brief clandestine meetings. After a long decade, the estranged couple reunites during the Greek junta, only to discover that fate has other plans in store for them. 

Director & Writer

Pantelis Voulgaris

Stars

Themis Bazaka, Dimitris Katalifos, Maria Martika, Eirini Inglesi.

Subs: English & Portuguese.

YouTube link:  https://youtu.be/48dc_Vr7Ef8

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Welcome To The Dollhouse , by Todd Solondz (1995)

An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.

Director & Writer

Todd Solondz

Stars

Heather Matarazzo,Christina Brucato, Victoria Davis.

Subs: English & Portuguese

YouTube Link:  https://youtu.be/bGkzN71McK4

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La Commune (Paris1871) - PART 1 & 2 , by Peter Watkins - 2000

A war drama film mix between documentary and reportage and fiction which turned over common sense, a unique where people in the 19th century was interviewed and covered on television, many of them are working class but the bourgeoisie had not escaped from camera's observation, each recorded their speech and gestures even the revolt that led to extreme and radical and heartbreaking for the working class. One of the most important French film at 21st century.

In December 2002 Peter Watkins started the editing of an abridged theatrical version. In a prologue he expresses his views on discovering that the production company, 13 Production, has financial links with the Lagardère Group (which sells Military Weapons through Matra), then he warns the audience about how much of the sequence shots and live debates from the original full-length movie have been lost in the process of reducing the running time by more than 2 hours to 3 hrs 1/2.

Director

Peter Watkins

Writers

Agathe Bluysen, Peter Watkins

Stars: Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau.

Subtitles in English

YouTube link for Part 1: https://youtu.be/fXfFwnGb6oE

YouTube link for Part 2: https://youtu.be/wo2ZbU6mb8U

On the Silver Globe (Na srebrnym globie), 1988

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to find freedom and start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They eventually die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god. Some time later, a space bureaucrat, running from a broken heart, arrives and finds the colonizer's descendants enslaved by bird-monsters called Cherns. Society is divided into numerous classes, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of a messiah. The newcomer is considered a suitable candidate, and for some time he lives as a god.

Director

Andrzej Zulawski

Writers

Andrzej Zulawski, Jerzy Zulawski (books)

Stars

Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Grazyna Dylag

A Polish film

Andrzej Zulawski began filming after the success of The Most Important Thing: Love (1975), completing around three-quarters of film before the Polish ministry of culture halted production in 1978. After the democratization of Poland in 1986 Zulawski completed the film. Because production was interrupted from 1978 until 1986, the final film was released in an "amputated" form, with voice-over narration covering missing scenes.

The film is based on a novel of the same name written around 1900 by Andrej Zulawski's granduncle Jerzy Zulawski. The novel is part of a trilogy known as The Lunar Trilogy.

Subs: English & Portuguese

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/mVMYqvEZDE0

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Henry VIII - a TV mini-series - PART 1 & 2 (2003)

Two part mini-series documenting the stormy thirty-eight-year reign of King Henry VIII. 

Made for TV.

Director

Pete Travis

Writer

Peter Morgan (The Crown)

Stars

Ray Winstone, Joss Ackland, Sid Mitchell, Charles Dance, Mark Strong, David Suchet, Helena Bonham Carter, Sean Bean, Emily Blunt.

Derek Jacobi is the narrator.

Marsha Fitzalan (Duchess of Norfolk) is, in real-life, the daughter of the 17th Duke and Duchess of Norfolk.

Helena Bonham Carter was pregnant with her first child at the time of filming.

This is the second time that Helena Bonham Carter has played a Queen of England. The first time was as Lady Jane Grey in Lady Jane (1986). Lady Jane was the Queen after Henry VIII's son Edward VI by his third wife Jane Seymour, and before Henry VIII's daughter Mary I by his first wife Catherine of Aragon. She has also played Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech (2010). Elizabeth was Queen Consort to King George VI and mother to Queen Elizabeth II.

Andrew Garfield played the role of a servant in the court. He had one line and is uncredited.

Subs: English & Portuguese

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/KQb1QxyTC5o  - PART 1

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/YfhFzRYXr1c - PART 2

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The Bohemian Life (La vie de bohème) - 1992

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise

Director

Aki Kaurismäki

Writers

Henri Murger (based on the novel by: "Scènes de la vie de bohème"), Aki Kaurismäki

Stars

Matti Pellonpää, Evelyne Didi, André Wilms, Jean-Pierre Lèaud

Cameos: Louis Malle and Samuel Fuller.

Neither Matti Pellonpää or Kari Väänänen could speak any French in real life. The script contained instructions how to pronounce the lines. The phonetically written lines were regularly taped on the forehead of the actor opposite of Matti Pellonpää where he could read them.

The filming on the Paris Central Train Station would have cost so much that avoiding to spend too much money, director Aki Kaurismäki decided to create an illusion of the train station: he reflected a shadow of a train wagon against garage doors.

Aki Kaurismäki spend years trying to write an adaptation of Henri Murger's novel with Helsinki in mind as a shooting-location. But finally he came to a conclusion that Paris is the only place where the film could be made.

There is a continual audio-visual mismatch in the movie.

Subs: English & Spanish

Link: https://youtu.be/DaOFdJu2kCQ

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape, by Lasse Hallström (1993)

A young man in a small Midwestern town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness.

Director

Lasse Hallström

Writer

Peter Hedges(novel "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?")

Stars

Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen, John C. Reilly

Leonardo DiCaprio was nominated for the Academy for Best Supporting Actor.

Martin Scorsese first became aware of Leonardo DiCaprio after seeing him in this film one night when watching TV. He had also been told about him by his friend and frequent collaborator Robert DeNiro, who worked with DiCaprio on This Boy's Life (1993). Scorsese and DiCaprio would later go on to work together on five films, starting with Gangs Of New York (2002).

The movie that the family watches on television is Quando a Mulher Erra (1953) starring Montgomery Clift and Jennifer Jones, and directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Subs: English & Portuguese

Movie Link: https://youtu.be/rDlRUU4E6hE

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Strange Voyage (El extraño viaje) - 1964

Paquita and her brother Venancio, both single and childish, live in a small town near Madrid. Their bossy eldest sister Ignacia, also an old maid, dominates them. One night, Paquita hears her sister tell somebody about her intention to sell all the family wealth. Once the money is gathered, she wishes to travel to Paris with the mysterious person and get rid of her brother and sister.

Director

Fernando Fernán Gómez

Stars

Carlos Larrañaga,Tota Alba, Lina Canalejas

Voted seventh best Spanish film by professionals and critics in 1996 Spanish cinema centenary.

Subtitles: English & Spanish

MOVIE LINK:  https://youtu.be/r_J42EdL-90

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Judex, by Georges Franju (1963)

Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast at his masked ball. However, he is only drugged by Judex and locked away. Judex spares his life when the banker's widowed daughter, Jacqueline, rejects the inheritance. Meanwhile Diana Monti, the former governess, kidnaps Jacqueline to try to get the banker's money. But Judex is hot on her trail.

Director

Georges Franju

Stars

Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob, Sylva Koscina

Music by Maurice Jarre

Subs: English, Spanish and Portuguese

LINK: https://youtu.be/n8wzBxItz_A

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The South (Sur), by Fernando E. Solanas (1988)

The movie starts while Floreal, the main protagonist, was being released from the prison when the military coup ended in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few years in prison and especially discovering his wife has cheated on him soured their relation. He is not sure if he wants to go back to his old life and family. Wandering through the night his old friend "El-Negro" appears in the dark. He announces that he was assassinated during the military coup and he is a dead man now. But he has a special mission this night and he is back for this special occasion: To help Floreal catch up fast and face with his life and his time in prison. 

Director & Writer Fernando E. Solanas

Stars: Susú Pecoraro, Miguel Ángel Solá, Philippe Léotard.

Music by Astor Piazzola and Fernando Solanas.

Subtitles: English

This film's dedicated to great Kurdish filmmaker Yilmaz Güney. Besides Güney means "south" in Turkish.

LINK: https://youtu.be/sTirQz_isaw