Cinema

[jason]

Ex-Lemmingworks. ##.

Welcome to the Lemmingworks » Cinema is a new page I’ve set up on my blog.

I’ve been thinking about putting together a film series on the topic of children around the world, and present this at Ryerson for ECE students, and others who might be interested. SO I’m making up a list of films here, with annotations and links as I find them. Thoughts and comments appreciated.

1 - Alice in den Städten (Alice in the Cities) - Wenders, Dir.- German (1974)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0069687/
2 - Rabbit Proof Fence - Noyce, Dir. Australia (Aboriginal / English) (2002) http://imdb.com/title/tt0252444/
3 - La Cité des enfants perdus/City of Lost Children - Jeunet, Dir. - France (1995)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0112682/
4 - Io speriamo che me la cavo / Ciao, Professore! - Vertmuller, Dir. - Italian (1992)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0107225/
5 - The Secret Garden - Holland, Dir. - US/UK (1993)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0108071/
6 - Luna Papa - Khudojnazarov, Dir. - [Russian language] Germany / Japan / Tajikistan / Uzbekistan / Austria / Switzerland / France / Russia (1999)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0170259/
7 - Kikujirô no natsu (Kikujiro), Takeshi, Dir. - Japanese (1999)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0199683/
8 - Zamani barayé masti asbha (Time for Drunken Horses) - Ghobadi, Dir. - Iran (Persian/Kurdish) (2000)
http://imdb.com/title/tt0259072/
9 - Istgah-Matrouk (The Deserted Station) - Raisian, Dir. - Iran (2002) -
http://imdb.com/title/tt0333645/
10 - The Incredibles - Bird, Dir. - USA (2004) http://imdb.com/title/tt0317705/
11 - The River - Renoir, Dir. - (English) France/India (1951) http://imdb.com/title/tt0043972/
12 - Natsu no niwa (The Friends) - Shinji Sômai, Dir. - Japan (1994) http://imdb.com/title/tt0110630/
13 - IP5: L’île aux pachydermes (IP5: The Island of Pachyderms) - Beineix, Dir. - French (1995) http://imdb.com/title/tt0104473/
14 - The Wooden Camera - Ntshaveni Wa Luruli, Dir. - France / UK / South Africa (English) (2003) http://imdb.com/title/tt0402590/
15 - Hideous Kinky - MacKinnon, Dir. - UK / France / Morocco (English / French / Arabic )(1998) http://imdb.com/title/tt0136244/
16 - Paddle to the Sea - Bill Mason, Dir. - Canada http://imdb.com/title/tt0060810/
17 - The Great Toy Robbery - Hale Dir. - Canada (1963) http://imdb.com/title/tt0223400/
18 - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (Dr. Seuss) - Rowland, Dir. - US (1953) http://imdb.com/title/tt0045464/

Comments

[jumpinjulia.livejournal.com]

a couple of my favourites are:

Salaam Bombay
http://imdb.com/title/tt0096028/

Born into Brothels
http://imdb.com/title/tt0388789/

My life as a Dog
http://imdb.com/title/tt0089606/

and there was about a little Afghan boy who gets smuggled to the UK with his cousin, but I can't remember the title & searches couldn't find it ... dang dang dang.... fairly recent too.

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

thanks. should have thought of those three. let me know if you remember the other.

[jumpinjulia.livejournal.com]

I remember!!!

In This World.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310154/

It's actually based on a real life 12 year old Afghan's story.

Now I am trying to remember the title of this wonderful fictional movie with great cinematography which I think was Italian. Dang. I had all this in Flailing in the Surf. Damned Hackers.

Oh and did you get that one where the boy dreamed of running the movie theatre in his town? That one is Italian. From the 1980s Dang... I'll get back to you. I suck at titles.

Another recent movie is The Cider House Rules (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124315/), but honestly the book was much much much better than the movie. Still though, it won all sorts of aclaim, so I thought I'd mention it.

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

anytime you feel like it, ZCC can be resurrected. Told you that. Just takes sweat.

[jumpinjulia.livejournal.com]

*nod*

It's just not worth the sweat atm since I don't have time to take on a sixth blog. Let alone to really work on that topic. but if that situation should change in the next 6 months, and it might, i'll definitely let you know.

xo J.

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

exactly my thoughts. I might just get it so you can drag it into your blog as a category if you'd like. but not now. I've got a dissertation to evaluate, and an an MEd as well.

[jumpinjulia.livejournal.com]

Oh and did you get that one where the boy dreamed of running the movie theatre in his town? That one is Italian. From the 1980s Dang... I'll get back to you. I suck at titles.

Cinema Paradiso (1989)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0095765/

[jumpinjulia.livejournal.com]

Last one for a few hours, I promise...

The Gravel Road
http://www.reelasian.com/festival/index.html (scroll down it showed on Fri Nov 25th click on the title and read the details there. they give more than the imdb... holy cow what an excellent film.)

http://imdb.com/title/tt0445283/

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

Thanks for everything. I'm going to be able to build up a great collection.

[jumpinjulia.livejournal.com]

I haven't remembered the names of the others yet, but I will...

In the meantime

Baran
http://imdb.com/title/tt0233841/

It's about an Afghan refugee girl who dresses up like a boy so she can work on a construction site in Iran. one of the best films I've seen during the PhD.

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a great movie. A little older than I was thinking, but in the end, not really.