Posts Tagged ‘literature’

Borstal Boy (2000)

Friday, November 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Shawn Hatosy | Danny Dyer | Lee Ingleby | Robin Laing | Eva Birthistle | Michael York | Mark Huberman | Jim Byrne | Garret Deady | Darren Donohue | Ronnie Drew | William Fitzpatrick | Luke Griffin | Trevor Hanly | Lukas Hassel
Directors: Peter Sheridan
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Brendan Behan, a sixteen-year-old republican, continues a mission of bombing of Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is frustrated when he is detained, accused and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young delinquents in Anglia of this one, England. In Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face to face with those he perceived like “the enemy,” a confrontation that reveals a deep interior conflict in young Brendan and forces an introspection that is both traumatic and revealing. The events take an unexpected return and Brendan is thrown in a finished return. In the emotional whirlpool, he finally confronts the truth.

Brendan Behan, un republicano de dieciséis años, continúa una misión de bombardeo de Irlanda a Liverpool durante la segunda guerra mundial. Su misión es frustrada cuando él es detenido, acusado y encarcelado en Borstal, una institución de reforma para delincuentes jóvenes en Anglia del este, Inglaterra. En Borstal, Brendan es obligado a vivir cara a cara con aquellos él percibió como “el enemigo,” una confrontación que revela un conflicto interior profundo en Brendan joven y fuerza una introspección que es tanto traumática como reveladora. Los acontecimientos toman una vuelta inesperada y Brendan es lanzado en una vuelta completa. En el vórtice emocional, él finalmente afronta la verdad.

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Robert Sean Leonard | Ethan Hawke | Josh Charles | Gale Hansen | Dylan Kussman | Allelon Ruggiero | James Waterston | Norman Lloyd | Kurtwood Smith | Carla Belver | Leon Pownall | George Martin | Joe Aufiery | Matt Carey
Directors: Peter Weir
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Grievously timid Todd Anderson to the school was sent where his popular older brother was the major of a promotion. His roommate, Neil, well that extremely bright and popular, is under the thumb of his domineering father a lot. Two, with their other friends, meet professor Keating, their new English teacher, who says to them about the Society of poets Morte and encourages them to go against status quo. Each, of their own way, fact and is changed for life.

On a envoyé Todd Anderson douloureusement timide à l’école où son frère plus vieux populaire était le major d’une promotion. Son camarade de chambre, Neil, bien qu’extrêmement brillant et populaire, est beaucoup sous le pouce de son père dominateur. Les deux, avec leurs autres amis, rencontrent Professeur Keating, leur nouvel enseignant anglais, qui leur dit de la Société de Poètes Morte et les encourage à aller contre le statu quo. Chacun, de leur propre façon, le fait et est changé pour la vie.

The Razor’s Edge (1946)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Tyrone Power | Gene Tierney | John Payne | Anne Baxter | Clifton Webb | Herbert Marshall | Lucile Watson | Frank Latimore | Elsa Lanchester | Fritz Kortner | John Wengraf | Cecil Humphreys | Harry Pilcer | Cobina Wright Sr. | George Adrian
Directors: Edmund Goulding
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Well-off Chicagoan, Larry Darrell, breaks his commitment with Elizabeth and the clarification of world search travels, finally finding his guru India. Elizabeth marries the Gray, and after accident of 1929, she is invited to live in Paris with his rich, social mountaineering, the Uncle Elliot. During a sojurn there, Larry, there being reached his target, is assembled by Elizabeth. While it is startled that slumming one night Larry, Elizabeth and company discovers Sophie, a friend of Chicago. Having lost his husband and child in a tragic accident, Sophie lives through the low funds with the help of medicines an excessive brute. Larry tries to rehabilitate it, but his efforts are sabotaged by Elizabeth who has tried to light in vain again the interest of Larry to her.

Chicagoan acomodado, Larry Darrell, rompe su compromiso con Isabel y viaja la aclaración de busca mundial, finalmente encontrando a su gurú India. Isabel se casa con el Gris, y después de accidente de 1929, es invitada a vivir en París con su montañismo rico, social, el Tío Elliot. Durante un sojurn allí, Larry, habiendo alcanzado su objetivo, es reunido con Isabel. Mientras se sobresalta que slumming una noche Larry, Isabel y compañía descubre a Sophie, un amigo de Chicago. Habiendo perdido a su marido y niño en un accidente trágico, Sophie vive los bajos fondos con la ayuda de medicinas un bruto abusivo. Larry trata de rehabilitarla, pero sus esfuerzos son saboteados por Isabel que ha tratado en vano de encender de nuevo el interés de Larry a ella.

American History X (1998)

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Edward Norton | Edward Furlong | Beverly D'Angelo | Avery Brooks | Jennifer Lien | Ethan Suplee | Stacy Keach | Fairuza Balk | Elliott Gould | Guy Torry | William Russ | Joseph Cortese | Jason Bose Smith | Antonio David Lyons | Alex Sol
Directors: Tony Kaye
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A skinhead Neonazi, conscript Derek Vineyard (Edward Norton) goes to the prison for 3 years after fact to make a murder of 2 black guys. In the meantime his younger brother, Danny Vineyard (Edward Furlong) goes similarly and makes the same errors (racism and hate) his oldest brother made (it is the result of Neonazi environment he grows in and influence outdistanced Derek). While Derek is in the prison he realizes that he chooses the wrong track. after the return of the prison, the try of Derek to persuade his brother not to enter his own way.

Un skinhead Néo-Nazi, appelé Derek Vineyard (Edward Norton) va à la prison depuis 3 ans après le fait de commettre un meurtre de 2 gars noirs. En attendant, son frère plus jeune, Danny Vineyard (Edward Furlong) va de la même façon et fait les mêmes erreurs (le racisme et la haine) son frère le plus vieil a fait (c’est le résultat de l’environnement Néo-Nazi il grandit dans et l’influence Derek distancé). Pendant que Derek est dans la prison il se rend compte qu’il choisit le sentier faux. après le retour de la prison, l’essai de Derek de convaincre son frère pour ne pas entrer dans sa propre voie.

Lolita (1962)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jeremy Irons | Melanie Griffith | Frank Langella | Dominique Swain | Suzanne Shepherd | Keith Reddin | Erin J. Dean | Joan Glover | Pat Pierre Perkins | Ed Grady | Michael Goodwin | Angela Paton | Ben Silverstone | Emma Griffiths Malin | Ronald Pickup
Directors: Adrian Lyne
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Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of the French literature, travels to small-urban America for a teaching position. He allows himself, in a respect with Charlotte Haze to be turned his widowed and sexually in starving landlady whom he marries, so that he could hunt the 14-year-old flirty daughter of the woman, Lolita with whom he has liked hopelessly fallen in love, but his affections should be crossed by a sinuous swindler called Clare Quilty.

Humbert Humbert, ein geschiedener britischer Professor der französischen Literatur, reist nach dem kleinstädtischen Amerika für eine lehrende Position. Er erlaubt sich, in eine Beziehung mit Charlotte Haze, seiner verwitweten und sexuell am Verhungern Hauswirtin gekehrt zu werden, die er heiratet, damit er die 14-jährige kokette Tochter der Frau, Lolita jagen könnte, mit der er hoffnungslos verliebt gefallen ist, aber dessen Zuneigungen von einem gewundenen Betrüger genannt Clare Quilty durchgekreuzt werden sollen.

Love Song for Bobby Long, A (2004)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Scarlett Johansson | Gabriel Macht | Deborah Kara Unger | Dane Rhodes | David Jensen | Clayne Crawford | Sonny Shroyer | Walter Breaux | Carol Sutton | Warren Kole | Bernard Johnson | Gina 'Ginger' Bernal | Douglas M. Griffin | Earl Maddox
Directors: Shainee Gabel
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On hearing the death of her mother to claim back tired more lonesome teenager purslane cornmeal turnover to New Orleans for the first time during years, ready, her childhood home. Accepting, to find given up house of her late mother is shaken Pursy to discover that it is inhabited of two of the friends of her mother: Bobby Long, a former literature professor, and his young prot Ð and *185; g Ð and *185;, Lawson Languishing. These broken men whose lives took a wrong rotation few years before have firmly been taken root in the dilapidated house for many years, promoted only by the fluctuating attempts of Lawson to write a novel about the life about Bobby Long. To depart no intention having, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson everything are made live together. And, nevertheless, as time passports her fine, makeshift classification digs out a row of buried personal secrets which challenges her bonds, and just reveals how inextricably her lives are interwined.

Auf das Hören des Todes ihrer Mutter erschöpftes einsameres Teenagerportulak-Maismehl Umsatz nach New Orleans zum ersten Mal in Jahren, bereit, ihre Kindheit nach Hause zurückzufordern. Annehmend, das aufgegebenes Haus ihrer verstorbenen Mutter zu finden, wird Pursy erschüttert, um zu entdecken, dass es von zwei der Freunde ihrer Mutter bewohnt wird: Bobby Long, ein ehemaliger Literaturprofessor, und sein junger prot Ð ¹ g Ð ¹, Lawson Schmachtet. Diese gebrochenen Männer, deren Leben eine falsche Umdrehung wenige Jahre vorher nahmen, sind im verfallenen Haus seit Jahren, gefördert nur durch die schwankenden Bestrebungen von Lawson fest eingewurzelt worden, einen Roman über das Leben von Bobby Long zu schreiben. Keine Absicht habend, abzureisen, werden Pursy, Bobby Long und Lawson alle gezwungen, zusammen zu leben. Und doch als Zeitpässe gräbt ihre feine, behelfsmäßige Einordnung eine Reihe von begrabenen persönlichen Geheimnissen aus, die ihre Obligationen herausfordert, und gerade offenbart, wie unentwirrbar ihre Leben verflochten werden.

Back to School (1986)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Rodney Dangerfield | Sally Kellerman | Burt Young | Keith Gordon | Robert Downey Jr. | Paxton Whitehead | Terry Farrell | M. Emmet Walsh | Adrienne Barbeau | William Zabka | Ned Beatty | Severn Darden | Sam Kinison | Robert Picardo | Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Directors: Alan Metter
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The millionaire’s businessman Thornton Melon is disliked when his son Jason announces that he is not sure on going to the university. Thornton insists that the school should be the best thing that he never had for him, and to demonstrate his point, he consents in registering in the school together with his son. Thornton is a big blow in the campus: throwing the biggest parties, meeting all the right people, but is always this the way of spending the school?.

El hombre de negocios de millonario Thornton Melon está disgustado cuando su hijo Jason anuncia que él no está seguro sobre ir a la universidad. Thornton insiste que el colegio sea la mejor cosa que él nunca tenía para él, y demostrar su punto, él consiente en matricularse en la escuela junto con su hijo. Thornton es un golpe grande en el campus: ¿siempre lanzando los partidos más grandes, conociendo a toda la gente derecha, pero este es el modo de pasar el colegio?.