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Fantastic Planet, The (1973)

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czechoslovakia | France
Actors: Drake, Jennifer | Baugin, Eric | Topart, Jean | Valmont, Jean | Lenoir, Sylvie | Chahan, Michèle | Barsacq, Yves | de Lapparent, Hubert | Hernandez, Gérard | Joseph, Claude | Ogouz, Philippe | Ruisseau, Jacques | Bostwick, Barry | Gruner, Mark | Miller, Marvin
Directors: Laloux, René
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them?

Lord of the Flies (1990)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Getty, Balthazar | Furrh, Chris | Pipoly, Danuel | Dale, James Badge | Taft, Andrew | Taft, Edward | Rule, Gary | Wells, Terry | MacDonald, Braden | Burgin, Angus | Zentz, Martin | Jacobs, Brian | Amabile, Vincent | Weinstein, David | Bell, Chuck
Directors: Hook, Harry
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After a plane crash in the ocean, a group of military students reach an island. Ralph organizes the boys, assigning responsibilities for each one. When the rebel Jack Merridew neglects the fire camp and they lose the chance to be seen by a helicopter, the group split under the leadership of Jack. While Ralph rationalizes the procedures, Jack returns to the primitivism, using the fear for the unknown (in a metaphor to the religion) to control the other boys, and hunting and chasing pigs, stealing the possession of Ralph’s group and even killing people.

Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The (1989)

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror
Countries: France | Netherlands | UK
Actors: Richard Bohringer | Gambon, Michael | Mirren, Helen | Howard, Alan | Roth, Tim | Hinds, Ciarán | Olsen, Gary | Stewart, Ewan | Ashton-Griffiths, Roger | Cook, Ron | Smith, Liz | Gillespie, Emer | Henfrey, Janet | Breeveld, Arnie | Alleff, Tony
Directors: Greenaway, Peter
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

Manderlay (2005)

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: Denmark | France | Germany | Netherlands | Sweden | UK
Actors: Howard, Bryce Dallas | De Bankolé, Isaach | Glover, Danny | Dafoe, Willem | Abiteboul, Michaël | Bacall, Lauren | Barr, Jean-Marc | Bateman, Geoffrey | Bramly, Virgile | Brinkmann, Ruben | Croll, Doña | Davies, Jeremy | Gideon, Llewella | Hammond, Mona | Ginny Holder
Directors: von Trier, Lars
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In 1933, after leaving Dogville, while traveling with her father (Willem Dafoe) and his gangsters to the south of USA, Grace Margaret Mulligan (Bryce Dallas Howard) sees a slave ready to be punished in a property called Manderlay. The slavery had been abolished seventy years ago, and Grace becomes revolted with the attitude of the owners of Manderlay, keeping slaves in their cotton fields and following predetermined despicable rules called “Mam’s Law”. Grace decides to stay with some gangsters in Manderlay and give notions of democracy to the slaves and to the white family. When harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economical reality of Manderlay.

Planet of the Apes (2001)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wahlberg, Mark | Roth, Tim | Bonham Carter, Helena | Duncan, Michael Clarke | Giamatti, Paul | Warren, Estella | Tagawa, Cary-Hiroyuki | Warner, David | Kristofferson, Kris | Avari, Erick | Elliott, Lucas | Parke, Evan | Shadix, Glenn | Shen, Freda Foh | Ellis, Chris
Directors: Burton, Tim
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It is the year 2029: Astronaut Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) boards a pod cruiser on a Space Station for a “routine” reconnaissance mission. But an aburupt detour through a space time wormhole lands him on a strange planet where talking apes rule over the human race. With the help of a sympathetic chimpanzee activist named Ari (Helena Bonham-Carter) and a small band of human rebels, Leo leads the effort to evade the advancing Gorilla Army led by General Thade (Tim Roth) and his most trusted warrior Attar (Michael Clarke Duncan). Now the race is on to reach a sacred temple within the planet’s Forbidden Zone to discover the shocking secrets of mankind’s past - and the key to its future.

Da Vinci Code, The (2006)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Tautou, Audrey | McKellen, Ian | Bettany, Paul | Reno, Jean | Chicot, Etienne | Molina, Alfred | Carter, Clive | Gabel, Seth | Doidge-Hill, Daisy
Directors: Howard, Ron
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Professor Robert Langdon is in Paris on business when he’s summoned to The Louvre. A dead body has been found, setting Langdon off on an adventure as he attempts to unravel an ancient code and uncover the greatest mystery of all time.