Last Movie Watched: September 2014
*National Theater Live: Coriolanus (Josie Rouke, UK, 2014)
SYNOPSIS: When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But famine threatens the city, the citizens hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march of realpolitik and the voice of an angry people. (SOURCE: IMDB)
STARS: Tom Hiddleston, Mark Gatiss, Hadley Fraser
RATING: 4.5/5
Wish I Was Here (Zach Braff, USA, 2014)
SYNOPSIS: Aidan Bloom is a 35-year-old man who finds himself at major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his career, and his family. (SOURCE: IMDB)
STARS: Zach Braff, Joey King, Kate Hudson, Josh Gad
RATING: 4/5
Tick Tock (Ien Chi, USA, 2011)
SYNOPSIS: What would you do if you had only five minutes to live? Trace a young man's few minutes of trying to fulfill his life's highest potential. (SOURCE: IMDB)
If you want to watch the short, click this link.
STARS: Morgan Ayres, Valee Gallant, Steve Warren, Maurice Winsell
RATING: 3.5/5
Inseparable (Nick White, UK, 2007)
SYNOPSIS: When young dad, Joe, discovers he's dying, drifter Charlie is given a unique opportunity to turn his life around. (SOURCE: IMDB)
If you want to watch the short, click this link.
STARS: Benedict Cumberbatch, Natalie Press, Dylan Byrne
RATING: 3.5/5
This is A Film About Tom and Maddy (Dylan Stephen Levers, USA, 2013)
SYNOPSIS: Tom and Maddy are a horribly mismatched young couple. How far will they go to hold their relationship together?
STARS: Madeline Chilese, Tom Littman
RATING: 3/5
Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark, 1924)
SYNOPSIS: Master painter Claude Zoret's close relationship with his "adopted son," the handsome Eugene Michael, is threatened when a displaced aristocrat, Princess Zamikow from Russia, attracts the young man's attention. Zoret refuses to see the problem even though Michael is spending large sums of money and even selling valuable paintings by Zoret to keep her. This story is paralleled by Mrs. Adelsskjold's adulterous affair with the dissolute young Duke de Monthieu. Even as Zoret paints what he intends to be his last great masterpiece, he finds himself increasingly isolated and despairing. (SOURCE: TCM)
STARS: Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor
RATING: 4.5/5
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, USA, 1942)
SYNOPSIS: During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy. (SOURCE: IMDB)
STARS: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
RATING: 4/5
Sex is Comedy (Catherine Breillat, France, 2002)
SYNOPSIS: A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other. (SOURCE: IMDB)
STARS: Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida
RATING: 4.5/5
* To be honest, I don't know if I consider this as a film, but I watched this at Greenbelt and I have no idea where am I going to put this. Right now, I post this in here.
PHOTO: Johan Persson |
STARS: Tom Hiddleston, Mark Gatiss, Hadley Fraser
RATING: 4.5/5
Wish I Was Here (Zach Braff, USA, 2014)
STARS: Zach Braff, Joey King, Kate Hudson, Josh Gad
RATING: 4/5
Tick Tock (Ien Chi, USA, 2011)
SYNOPSIS: What would you do if you had only five minutes to live? Trace a young man's few minutes of trying to fulfill his life's highest potential. (SOURCE: IMDB)
If you want to watch the short, click this link.
STARS: Morgan Ayres, Valee Gallant, Steve Warren, Maurice Winsell
RATING: 3.5/5
Inseparable (Nick White, UK, 2007)
SYNOPSIS: When young dad, Joe, discovers he's dying, drifter Charlie is given a unique opportunity to turn his life around. (SOURCE: IMDB)
If you want to watch the short, click this link.
STARS: Benedict Cumberbatch, Natalie Press, Dylan Byrne
RATING: 3.5/5
This is A Film About Tom and Maddy (Dylan Stephen Levers, USA, 2013)
SYNOPSIS: Tom and Maddy are a horribly mismatched young couple. How far will they go to hold their relationship together?
STARS: Madeline Chilese, Tom Littman
RATING: 3/5
Michael (Carl Theodor Dreyer, Denmark, 1924)
SYNOPSIS: Master painter Claude Zoret's close relationship with his "adopted son," the handsome Eugene Michael, is threatened when a displaced aristocrat, Princess Zamikow from Russia, attracts the young man's attention. Zoret refuses to see the problem even though Michael is spending large sums of money and even selling valuable paintings by Zoret to keep her. This story is paralleled by Mrs. Adelsskjold's adulterous affair with the dissolute young Duke de Monthieu. Even as Zoret paints what he intends to be his last great masterpiece, he finds himself increasingly isolated and despairing. (SOURCE: TCM)
STARS: Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor
RATING: 4.5/5
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, USA, 1942)
SYNOPSIS: During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy. (SOURCE: IMDB)
STARS: Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack
RATING: 4/5
Sex is Comedy (Catherine Breillat, France, 2002)
SYNOPSIS: A director struggles to film a difficult, intimate sex scene between two actors who happen to hate each other. (SOURCE: IMDB)
STARS: Anne Parillaud, Grégoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida
RATING: 4.5/5
* To be honest, I don't know if I consider this as a film, but I watched this at Greenbelt and I have no idea where am I going to put this. Right now, I post this in here.
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