2007 Film

August 15, 2007

Everything’s Cool

(2007, 95 mins)
Directed by Daniel B. Gold & Judith Helfand

This Sundance featured documentary presents the stories of seven courageous Americans who are struggling in different ways to counter media disinformation and public complacency about global warming.

August 16, 2007

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

(1964, 96 mins)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick

Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the “precious bodily fluids” of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a “Doomsday Machine” which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Premier and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that “such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious”. Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world? (from imdb.com)

August 17, 2007

After Hours

(1985, 97 mins)
Directed by Martin Scorcese

Paul meets Marcy at a coffee shop after work, and gets her phone number. He calls her, she asks him to come over, and things take a turn for the bizarre. Paul spends the rest of the night trying to get home, dealing with angry cabbies, dead women (and their bartender husbands), clumsy catburglars, quirky sculptresses, unstable waitresses, condescending bouncers, and irate mobs led by ice cream truck drivers along the way. (from imdb.com)

August 22, 2007

The Day the Earth Stood Still

(1951, 92 mins)
Directed by David Wise

An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Cold War-era Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message to the planet that Klaatu wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, communication turns out to be difficult, so, after learning something about the natives, Klaatu decides on an alternative approach. (from imdb.com)

August 23, 2007

What’s Happening!

The Beatles in the U.S.A.
(1964, 81 mins)
Directed by Albert and David Maysles
Followed by a Q&A session with director Albert Maysles.

This documentary offers one of the only non-scripted glimpses of the young Beatles during one of their first visits to America. Filmed with the goal of capturing the Beatles “as they were” in the midst of media and fan mayhem, the Maysles brothers remind us that these Fab Four started out small, carefree and almost-too human. (from imdb.com)

August 24, 2007

Young Frankenstein

(1974, 106 mins)
Directed by Mel Brooks

A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder) inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback called Igor, a pretty lab assistant named Inga and the old housekeeper, frau Blucher -iiiiihhh!-. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather is only crap, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind…