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Filmdation
Filmdation in 2012
146 days
by Chris D
in Filmdation
Between “The Mission” in January and “It’s a Wonderful Life” in December we watched a number of other films including:
Roman Holiday (IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/
Annie Hall (IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/
Manhattan (IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/
Crimes and Misdemeanors (IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/
Chinatown (IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/)
Filmdation (December 2012)
147 days
by Chris D
in Filmdation
December’s film was a “It’s a Wonderful Life”. This is a heartwarming 1946 Christmas classic featuring the great James Stewart.
Filmdation
472 days
by RobT
in Filmdation
January’s Filmdation was ‘The Mission’, a 1986 film describing how ’18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal’.
Filmdation, Friday 25th March 2011
786 days
by RobT
in Filmdation
The March Filmdation was Cool Hand Luke and was chosen by Shaun Hennessy.
Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American drama film starring Paul Newman and directed by Stuart Rosenburg. Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, “You’re an original, that’s what you are!” Nevertheless, the camp staff actively work to crush Luke until he finally breaks.’
Filmdation, Friday 28th January 2011
850 days
by RobT
in Filmdation
The January Filmdation is on Friday 28th January!
The film choice is Mononoke Hime (English: Princess Mononoke) and was chosen by Anna McColl.
Mononoke Hime is the first of Hayao Miyazaki’s weird and beautiful animated features to gain mainstream attention in the West. It is an epic ecological fable showing three elements of the Japanese psyche warring for supremacy. A young warrior receives a cursed wound in a battle with a demon possessed beast and travels to the forest in the west where spirit gods and the restless drive for modern civilisation bare their destructive powers.
Filmdation, Friday 26th November 2010
909 days
by RobT
in Filmdation
The November Filmdation is on Friday 26th November!
The film choice is Bob Roberts and was chosen by Adam Bond.
Bob Roberts is a 1992 film written and directed by Tim Robbins. It is a satirical mockumentary, chronicling the rise of Bob Roberts, a conservative politician who is a candidate for an upcoming United States Senate election. Roberts is well financed, due mainly to past business dealings, and is well known for his music, which presents conservative ideas as rebellious. The film suggests that shady deals, hypocrisy, and deceit are mainstays of US politics.
Filmdation, Friday 22nd October 2010
943 days
by RobT
in Filmdation
The October Filmdation is on Friday 22nd September!
The film choice is Se7en and was chosen by Laura Barrow.
Se7en is a a 1995 American crime film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, R. Lee Ermey and Kevin Spacey.
David Mills (Pitt) and William Somerset (Freeman) are police detectives working in a crime-filled city, who become deeply involved in a case involving a series of sadistic murders. The murders are all in correspondence to each of the seven deadly sins: Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Pride, Sloth, Greed and Wrath.
Filmdation, Friday 10th September 2010
996 days
by RobT
in Filmdation
The September Filmdation is on Friday 10th September!
The film choice is The Matrix and was chosen by Pauline Shaw.
The Matrix is a 1999 Australian-American science-fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski; starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving. It was first released on March 31, 1999, and is the first installment in the Matrix series of films, comic books, video games, and animation.
Filmdation, Friday 30th July 2010
1024 days
by RobT
in Filmdation
The July Filmdation is on Friday 30th July!
The film choice is The Road and was chosen by Iain McColl.
The Road stars Viggo Mortensen and is directed by John Hillcoat. It is based on a 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father and his young son over a period of several months, across a landscape blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and, apparently, almost all life on earth. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
STOP PRESS! Apparently, the Road is too depressing for this exact moment, so Filmdation will instead be a viewing of that sartorial classic Rambo: First Blood instead. Philistines…
Filmdation, Friday 25th June 2010
1067 days
by RobT
in Filmdation
The June Filmdation is on Friday 25th June!
The film choice is House Of Sand And Fog and was chosen by Adam Bond.
The story concerns the battle between a young woman and an immigrant Iranian family over the ownership of a house in Northern California.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, “Here is a film that seizes us with its first scene and never lets go, and we feel sympathy all the way through for everyone in it . . . it stands with integrity and breaks our hearts.”