"Safar Barlik" / "The Exile" by Henry Barakat with Fairuz ... Lyrics and Musical Score: Rahbani Brothers Lebanon 1967
Plot
The events of this film take place in Lebanon at a time prior to the First World War when most of the Arab countries were under the domination of the Ottoman Empire. These were very difficult days for the local population who had to endure injustice and cruelty, their crops were confiscated to feed the army and young men were recruited by force into the invaders' army.
"Der Blaue Engel" / "The Blue Angel" by Josef von Sternberg with Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Hans Albers, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, ... Germany 1930
Plot
Immanuel Rath, an old bachelor, is a teacher at the town's high school. When he discovers that some of his pupils often go into a speakeasy, The Blue Angel, to visit a dancer, Lola Lola, he comes there to confront them.
Alfred Hitchcock's successful screen thrillers earned him the nickname "Master of Suspense," but he is also considered one of the greatest film directors in the history of cinema. He started out in British productions as a title and set designer, working his way up to the position of screenwriter and director by the mid-1920s. His notable early movies include The Lodger (1926), Blackmail (1929, the first British feature to use synchronous sound) and The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934).
He had commercial and critical success while still in Britain, and thrillers such as The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938) solidified his reputation for combining mystery and suspense with dashes of humor.
In the '40s Hitchcock began making movies in the United States, hits such as Rebecca (1940), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Spellbound (1945, featuring a memorable dream sequence by Salvador Dali) as well as less successful but still technically daring films like Lifeboat (1944) and Rope (1948). He was in top form in the 1950s, and his movies from the era are still popular, including Strangers on a Train (1951), Rear Window (1954, with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly), Vertigo (1958), and North by Northwest (1959, starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint).
Madeleine Carroll (February 26, 1906 - October 2, 1987) was a British actress, who was popular in the 1930s and 1940s. She was born as Edith Madeleine Carroll in West Bromwich, England, and she graduated from the University of Birmingham, England. She became an American citizen in 1943.
During World War II, Madeleine Carroll was an American Red Cross voluntary worker. She served in the 61st Field Hospital, Bari, Italy in 1944, where many wounded American airmen flying out of air bases around Foggia were hospitalized.
She appeared in two Alfred Hitchcock movies The 39 Steps and Secret Agent. She also appeared in The Prisoner of Zenda, One Night in Lisbon, and My Favourite Blonde (with Bob Hope).
Madeleine Carroll was married four times: 1) Captain Philip Astley (1931-1940) 2) Sterling Hayden (1942-1946) 3) Andrew Heiskell (1950-1965) 4) Henri Lavorel
"À bout de souffle" ("Breathless" / "Außer Atem") by Jean-Luc Godard with Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Henri-Jaques Huet, Daniel Boulanger, ... France 1960
"Alphaville" by Jean-Luc Godard with Eddi Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Howard Vernon, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó, ... France / Italy 1965
Lemmy Caution alias Ivan Johnson and Natasha von Braun discuss the meaning of love
Johnson: No, when I talked about falling in love Natasha: In love? What’s that? [Johnson walks around Natasha] Johnson: This Natasha: No, I know what that is: it’s sensuality Johnson: No, sensuality flows from it It cannot exist without love Natasha: So what is love, then? [Natasha’s voice:] Your voice, your eyes... ...your hands, your lips... Our silences, our words... Light that goes... ...light that returns A single smile between us both In quest of knowledge... ...I watched night create day... ...while we seemed unchanged O beloved of all, beloved of one alone... ...your mouth silently promised to be happy Away, away, says hate; never, never, says love A caress leads us from our childhood Increasingly I see the human form... ...as a lover’s dialogue The heart has but one mouth Everything ordered by chance All words without aforethought Sentiments adrift Men roam the city A glance, a word Because I love you Everything moves To live, only advance! Aim straight for those you love I went towards you, endlessly towards the light If you smile, it is to enfold me all the better The rays of your arms pierce the mist
"Bowling For Columbine" by Michael Moore with Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson, George W. Bush, Jacobo Arbenz, Mike Bradley, ... USA 2002
Plot
The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humour, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage.
"Les Amants du Pont-Neuf" ("The Lovers on the Bridge") by Leos Carax with Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus-Michael Gruber, Daniel Buain, Edith Scob, ... France 1991
Plot
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind. The film portrays the harsh existence of the homeless as Alex, Michele and Hans, an older vagrant survive on the streets with their wits.
"Frida" by Julie Taymor with Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, ... (USA 2002)
Plot
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm.
"Lumumba" by Raoul Peck with Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Théophile Sowié, Maka Kotto, ... (France / Belgium / Haiti / Germany 2000)
Plot
The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords.
"Der Zinker" ("The Squeaker") by Alfred Vohrer with Heinz Drache, Barbara Rütting, Günther Pfitzmann, Jan Hendriks, Inge Langen, Agnes Windeck, Wolfgang Wahl, Siegfried Wischnewski, ... (Germany 1963)
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