Actress Olivia Hussey has turned 60 today. It’s unbelievable! When you hear, Olivia Hussey, this name – you imidetely recoll her charming Juliet in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Franco Zeffirelli’s film produced in far 1968. She was just 15 when she won a Golden Globe award for her portrayal of “Juliet”.
Olivia was born in Argentina in Argentinean-British family.
Miracle on 34th Street
Kris Kringle: “Oh Christmas isn’t just a day, it’s a frame of mind… and that’s what’s been changing. That’s why I’m glad I’m here, maybe I can do something about it.”
Fred Gailey: “Is it true that you’re the owner of one of the biggest department stores in New York City?” Mr. R. H. Macy: “THE biggest!”
[Doris is trying to convince Susan there is no Santa Claus]
Susan Walker: “But when he spoke Dutch to that girl…”
Doris Walker: “Susan, I speak French, but that doesn’t make me Joan of Arc.”
Doris: “Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to. Don’t you see? It’s not just Kris that’s on trial, it’s everything he stands for. It’s kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles.”
Susan Walker: “You mean it’s like, ‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.’”
Doris Walker: “Yes.”
Susan Walker: “I thought so.”
Fred: “That baseball player sure looks like a giant to me.”
Susan: “Sometimes people grow very large, but that’s abnormal.”
Fred: “I’ll bet your mother told you that, too.”
Kris Kringle: “Now wait a minute, Susie. Just because every child can’t get his wish that doesn’t mean there isn’t a Santa Claus.”
Kris Kringle: “If that’s normal, I don’t want it!”
Kris Kringle: “You know what the imagination is?”
Susan Walker: “Oh, sure. That’s when you see things, but they’re not really there.”
Kris Kringle: “Well, that can be caused by other things, too.”
Doris Walker: “I was wrong when I told you that, Susie. You must believe in Mr. Kringle and keep right on doing it. You must have faith in him.”
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Schroeder: This is the music I’ve selected for the Christmas play. [Schroeder plays Fur Elise]
Lucy Van Pelt: What kind of Christmas music is ‘that’?
Schroeder: Beethoven Christmas music.
Lucy Van Pelt: What has Beethoven got to do with Christmas? Everyone talks about how “great” Beethoven was. Beethoven wasn’t so great.
[Schroeder stops playing]
Schroeder: What do you mean Beethoven wasn’t so great?
Lucy Van Pelt: He never got his picture on bubble gum cards, did he? Have you ever seen his picture on a bubble gum card? Hmmm? How can you say someone is great who’s never had his picture on bubble gum cards?
Schroeder: Good grief.
1. Mulholland Drive David Lynch, U.S. 2001 2808
2. Das Leben der Anderen Germany, 2006
3. Reconstruction Danish , (2003)
4. Syndromes and a Century Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/Austria/France 2006
5. There Will Be Blood P. T. Anderson, U.S. 2007 1664
6. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu Cristi Puiu, Romania 2005
7. A History of Violence David Cronenberg, U.S./Canada 2005
8. Tropical Malady Apichatpong Weerasethakul, France/Thailand/Italy/Germany 2004
9. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Cristi Mungiu, Romania 2007
10. The New World Terrence Malick, U.S. 2005
11. Non ti muovere, Italy (2004)
the list will be continuing:-) Just cat remind all of them right bow.
One of the best films I’ve watched this year are ‘Reconstruction’ and ‘Allegro’ by Christoffer Boe. “It is a film, it is all a construction. But even so, it hurts.” “It is very important that you understand the movie is actually playful. It likes being a movie, it’s playing with how you can tell a story, and it doesn’t really take itself too seriously.”
The movie about how people do not take seriously the things that may happen every day. Perhaps it’s nor right, perhaps it’s so. The film looks like reconstruction a dream – you sleep and you don’t. You make a choice and you cant do that.
Love is like a dream but it’s not in our power to change the way it goes. After graduating from the Danish Film School in 2001, Christoffer Boe’s student film Anxiety played at the 2002 festival, where it won a prize from French critics, and then Boe returned to the Croisette the following year with his debut feature, Reconstruction. A dazzlingly inventive and playful film, Reconstruction’s tale of love and parallel universes in Copenhagen beguiled critics and was awarded both the Camera D’Or and the Prix Regards Jeune. Boe was celebrated as international cinema’s most precocious wunderkind, and his film played all around the world, plundering prizes – including the prestigious FIPRESCI Director of the Year award at San Sebastian Film Festival – wherever it went.
Next his film ‘Allegro” is also coming the way of love but with a lot more melancholy. Ansering on the question – Were those films a reflection on what was going on in director’s life at the time, Christoffer Boe said: ‘My movies have gone in the exact opposite direction of my own life. I’ve become more and more happy, and my movies have become more and more depressive. Offscreen is off the charts in depression and hatred. I don’t know how the relationship works between that, but it seems like there is an outlet in my cinema for some feelings that I don’t have in my personal life.’
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If you could travel back in time are you sure you can ewmind all those you loved and all thoose who loved you.
- ‘What’s the meaning of this?… Do you remember this woman?…You remember something?
- I forgot it.
FM: Are you ever totally satisfied with your films? Reconstruction was such a huge success and seemed to be universally loved, but how did you feel about it?
Boe: I really don’t look back. When I make a movie, it’s a closure on something I want to deal with, but I don’t look back on when I was very successful. Obviously I tend to look at what people don’t like. There was a lot of stuff that people said about Reconstruction and even more so about Allegro. Obviously I try to listen to that because there might be something wrong with the way that I work with some of the ideas, but I don’t look back in the sense that it’s never Le Mépris. It’s never Godard.
Une femme douce / A Gentle Creature / 1969 / is the first color Robert Bresson’s film sees a marked change in the director’s style from the cold austerity and intensity of his earlier works, such as Au hasard Balthazar (1966) and Mouchette (1967). Although the film deals with familiar Bresson themes of suicide and domestic repression, his approach in this film is far more accessible, making the film attractive to a mainstream cinema audience (for perhaps for the last time in Bresson’s film-making career). Bresson cast a successful model Dominique Sanda in the role of the ill-fated heroine of the film, allegedly for the sound of her voice rather than her more obvious attributes. Sanda’s celebrity may have been another important factor which contributed to the film’s popularity.
Director: Robert Bresson
Script: Robert Bresson, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (novel)
Photo: Ghislain Cloquet
Music: Jean Wiener
Cast: Dominique Sanda (Elle), Guy Frangin (Luc, son mari), Jeanne Lobre (Anna, la bonne), Claude Ollier (Le médecin), Jacques Kébadian (Le dragueur), Gilles Sandier (Le maire), Dorothée Blank (L’infirmière)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 88 min
Aka: A Gentle Creature; A Gentle Woman
Summary
When his young wife commits suicide, leaving no explanation for her act, an introspective pawnbroker looks back on their life together and tries to understand why she had to kill herself.
Maybe all of us love Christmas Holidays the most. And frankly saying we can’t imagine miraculous Christmas Holidays without favorite Christmas films. No doubt that usually preparing to the celebration we don’t forget to lay the most loved Christmas movies up, such as
1.A Christmas Story (1983): Based on Jean Shepherd’s timeless classic, the film introduces us to Ralphie, who wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, in spite of the fact that every adult he knows is convinced that he’ll poke his eye out.
2.Miracle on 34th Street (1947): A single mother and her daughter in New York City, discover that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Santa Claus just might not be a myth. The 1994 sequel is a good option too.
3.How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966): Try watching the TV version and the movie version back-to-back!
4.A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965): The first of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, has aired annually since 1965.
5.The Polar Express (2004): An animated Christmas film about a young boy who is taken on a train ride to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus and discover the true meaning of Christmas.
6.Home Alone (1990): The misadventures of a young boy who has been stranded by his parents during the Christmas holidays.
7.Elf (2003): Will Ferrell is an orphan raised by Santa Claus and his elves.
8.Frosty the Snowman (1969): The half-hour animated Christmas special based on the classic Christmas song of the same name airs each December since its late-Sixties premiere. The sequel Frosty Returns usually runs immediately afterward.
9.Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964); The stop motion-animated Christmas classic is the longest-running holiday special on television.
10.The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974): In this claymation Christmas special, Santa Claus wakes up with a cold and decides to take a vacation.
11.Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983): Disney animated short retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
12.The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): Muppet adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel A Christmas Carol.
I love what Lars Von Trier does, I mean his movies and ways he offers to follow him. This horrific drama tells the story of a grieving couple who retreat to a cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course providing the shortest way from bad to worse.
In the initial press release, Von Trier said that the film would offer “a glimpse into the dark world of my imagination: into the nature of my fears, into the nature of Antichrist.”
Every time when you meet this little pathetic man he reminds you that you haven’t lost your smile at all, it’s here, right under your nose:-)! You just forgot it was there. whether you have problem with your money or you are in trouble with someone watch Charles Chaplin’s movie to get a smile. A day without laughter is a day wasted isn’t it? And on the way old kind movie can make your mood taking an effect much better than any medicine does. Smile! You’ll find that life is still worthwhile if you just smile.
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Have you recognized the voice? Yes, magnificent Michael Jackson sings.
Smile
Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by
If you smile with your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just
Light up your face with gladness
Hide every trace of sadness
Although a tear may be ever so near
That’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying?
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just
Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though its breaking
When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by
If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile
that’s the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what’s the use of crying?
You’ll find that life is still worthwhile
If you just smile