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Tag Archives: 2006
The Situation (2006) Philip Haas, Connie Nielsen, Damian Lewis, Mido Hamada
Americans in Iraq, insurgency rising, truth illusive. U.S. soldiers in Samarra throw boys Read More »
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006) Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Pakak Innuksuk, Leah Angutimarik, Neeve Irngaut
The last great shaman of the Inuit Avva and his beautiful and headstrong daughter Apak Read More »
Driftwood (2006) Tim Sullivan, Raviv Ullman, Dallas Page, Talan Torriero
Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16-year-old David Forrester Read More »
Jasminum (2006) Jan Jakub Kolski, Justyna Bartoszewicz, Grazyna Blecka-Kolska, Marta Dabrowska
The peaceful world of a monastery, in a small town Jasmine, is destroyed by the arrival of monument restorers Read More »
Priceless AKA Hors de prix (2006) Pierre Salvadori, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Marie-Christine Adam
In Biarritz with her elderly provider to celebrate her birthday, Irene slips down Read More »
Broken Trail (2006) Walter Hill, Robert Duvall, Thomas Haden Church, Greta Scacchi
Set in 1898, Print Ritter and his estranged nephew Tom Harte become the reluctant Read More »
Jar City AKA Mýrin (2006) Baltasar Kormákur, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson
Örn’s daughter is dead because of a rare genetic disease. Read More »
Day Is Done (2006) Mike Kelley, Melissa Sills, Max Shippee, Oscar Avalos
Day Is Done is a carnivalesque opus, a genre-smashing epic in which vampires Read More »
Monkey Warfare (2006) Reg Harkema, Don McKellar, Tracy Wright, Nadia Litz
Two stoners (Don McKellar, Tracy Wright) find a new marijuana Read More »
Combat Diary: The Marines of Lima Company (2006) Michael Epstein
Everyone nods and agrees that war is brutal; rarely is that brutality glimpsed as vividly Read More »
Libero AKA Anche libero va bene (2006) Kim Rossi Stuart, Alessandro Morace, Barbora Bobulova
Tommi (11) and his slightly older sister Viola live in the city with their father. Read More »
Mirrored Mind (2005) Gakuryû Ishii, Miwako Ichikawa, Yuki Inomata, Kou Machida, Drama
Renowned cyber-punk director ISHII Sogo strays from his roots, entering the realm of the subconscious with Mirrored Mind, a composed, contemplative and also a very personal film. Read More »
Fantasma (2006) Lisandro Alonso, Argentino Vargas, Misael Saavedra, Carlos Landini, Drama
La faute à Fidel! / Blame it on Fidel (2006) Julie Gavras, Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Drama, History
Hello, my name is Anna and I am nine years old. I wish you had known me before – I mean before my aunt Marga and my cousin Pilar came to my parents’house -, I was such a happy little girl. Before their coming life was a bed of roses. Of course my little brother could be a pain in the neck – little brothers always are, aren’t they? – but there was that wonderful big house, there was my Cuban-born nanny who cooked so well, there was the bath before dinner, not to mention this wonderful catechism class at the catholic school. But they did come, those Spanish intruders. And now never heard before names like “Franco”, “Allende”, “Women’s Lib”, “abortion”, the lot, have got into my life. Daddy and Mummy have suddenly become “communists”, although this a term that Bon Papa and Bonne Maman (my grandparents from Bordeaux, in fact) just hate. Because of the intruders not only did we move to a tiny apartment but the place is invaded day and night by “barbudos” (bearded men). No more bath before …
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