The IMAX team delivers yet another captivating film shot entirely with its 1,300- pound IMAX 3D cameras. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Howard Hall returns after creating “Deep Sea 3D” and “Into The Deep 3D” and brings us his most stunning and stylistic work yet. Taking us down into beautiful briny sea of the world’s awe inspiring underwater locations, we are catapulted into a wonderland of color. Filmed in both remote and exotic locations of Indonesia, Southern Australia and The Great Barrier Reef, and Papua New Guinea for example, we embark upon a world not seen by many.An entire universe is below…
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Ang lee’s follow up to his Academy Award winning Brokeback Mountain is the controversial Lust, Caution. The film delivers an intense portrayal of sex, politics, loyalty and the hardships that are endured by those that are caught in the savagery of war. Wong Chia Chi (Tang Wei) is a young girl who is living in china during the Japanese occupation that occurred during WWII. She is seemingly lost and has no real family seeing as how her father left her behind when he fled to England. During her time at University she meets Kuang Yumin (Wang Lee-Hom) a handsome young…
Three women is a production directed by Manijeh Hekmat (Director of Women Prison) starring Iranian actress Niki Karimi (Minou-the mother), Pegah Ahangarani (Pegah-The daughter) and Maryam Boubani (The grandmother) as three generations of women linked not only by blood but have the symbol of a rug as a common binding theme.The story begins with Minou, a Persian rug restorer who is in a struggle. A museum that she does work for has given reason for a patron to sell his valuable carpet because of delinquent payments. She inadvertently steals the carpet from the buyer and with her mother, who has…
Lonely people, desolate urban landscapes, and moral dilemmas are at the core of Michael Klier’s Alter und Schönheit (Age and Beauty) – as found in all films of his self-styled Berlin cycle, a collection of simple stories with penetrating observations by a genuine auteur with a style and vision to match, each lensed by the same French cinematographer, Sophie Maintigneaux. To some extent, these tales reflect the director’s own wanderlust ways. Born in Karlovy Vary in 1943, Klier was driven out of Czechoslovakia with his family, settled later in the German Democratic Republic, where he once served a prison sentence…
Taking place on the once war torn borders of Iraq and Iran the film tells the story of Niloofar (Mobina Aynehdar), a twelve year old girl who has high ambitions to learn how to read and write and become a doctor due to the teachings of a local modern woman, Banoo (Fatemeh Motamed Aria). Her mother, on the other hand, Salmah (Roya Nownahali) a midwife, insists she follows her footsteps.The story becomes more complicated when Sheikh Abbas (Tooraj Faramarzian) approaches Niloofar’s father, Abdoullah (Sadegh Safai) and asks for his daughter’s hand in marriage as soon as she becomes a woman.…
Masahiro Takeda’s debut film Honey and Clover (based on the popular Japanese Manga by Chica Umino), follows the lives of five young art students over the course of one year. The main themes of the film are love and rejection, and we see the five students confront these issues in the hopes that they will one day have the peace and comfort of a stable and loving relationship. Takemoto (Sho Sakurai) is a young and naïve student who seems to have a very idealistic and romantic outlook on life and love. During a birthday party for one of his Professors,…
Korean writer-director Kwak Jae-Yong with past trademark films like- “My Sassy Girl”, to “Cyborg Girl”, the trend of strong female leads (with weaker men) are evident. “My Mighty Princess” is a quirky and cute romantic comedy with enough martial arts wire-fu to keep your interest. The film seems to be influenced by other successful films of the genre (Crouching Tiger, The Stormriders, Shaolin Soccer for ex.), taking pieces from one film to the next, but still maintains its own identity however jigsaw as it may seem.We begin with our heroine, a likeable seemingly normal college girl named, So Hui (Shin…
Flower children, crazy mystics, artists en tout genre, eccentrics and dissidents, strange healing rituals and prayers… you’re in for a beatnik treat.“Malibu Song” by Natalie Lettner and Werner Hanak, produced between 2002 and 2006 just had its US premiere at the Goethe Institute on October 30th 2008, as part of the Made in Austria series, presented in collaboration with the Austrian Consulate.It chronicles the eviction process of a tight community of artists living on the Rodeo Grounds in Lower Topanga, whose land is purchased by the California State Parks. It draws affectionate portraits of many different and unique characters going…
The sequel to the highly successful film based on the Japanese manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, “Death Note”, catapults us back into the forefront of the cat and mouse game of L and Light. Helmed once again by Shusuke Kaneko, the plot makes for a wildly engaging, nail biting experience. The manga, which is a hit, sold 26 million copies worldwide and has finally made the transition to the silver screen to unprecedented success.On one side, we have top of his class, college student, Light Yagami (played viciously by Tatsuya Fujiwara), popular, athletic and intelligent. Only issue with…
Explores the historical roots and family ties of Director Reaghan Tarbell, who takes us to two places: first to her Kahnawake community in Quebec and then to the small community known as “Little Caughnawaga” in Brooklyn, NY. A fact that should be of definite mention is that Mohawk ironworkers historically have placed their sweat, tenacity and heart into many of the metropolitan structures we see and are in contact with today. Kahnawake iron workers have assisted for instance in the construction of Rockefeller Center, The Verrazano bridge, the Empire State Building, and The United Nations among others. A small area…