L’amour de loin (Love from Afar) is the first opera by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho from a five act French libretto by Amin Maalouf. The opera was given its world premiere performance on 15 August 2000 at the Salzburg Festival and its US premiere on 31 July 2002 at the Santa Fe Opera.
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Tag Archives: 2000s
Mask of the Ninja (2008) Bradford May, Casper Van Dien, Anthony Brandon Wong, Bellamy Young, Action, Crime, Thriller
Their vengeance is relentless, their method is ritual, their weapon is secret, and the motive is in their blood. In a heavily wooded private estate in the Malibu Hills, towering above the tumbling Pacific, millionaire CEO Kenji Takeo and his daughter, Miko, prepare for the arrival from Japan of Takeo’s wife, Kumiko. But the calm of Solstice Canyon is shattered by a meticulously planned stealth attack on the Takeo home by a masked band of ninja assassins. In a flash, Takeo’s guards are killed.
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Fort Tilden (2014) Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, Bridey Elliott, Clare McNulty, Neil Casey, Comedy
Fort Tilden: New York City’s secluded seaside nirvana where, like flies to honey, Brooklyn’s hip millennial set flocks on sweltering weekend afternoons for unbridled summertime indulgence. Amidst the vexing stagnation of quarter-life crises, Allie (Clare McNulty) struggles to prepare for the Peace Corps, while Harper (Bridey Elliot) awaits checks from her father to fund her artistic dreams. But the two friends quickly shun responsibilities for the day when a pair of good-looking guys invites them along for a carefree Fort Tilden afternoon.
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The Boy Who Cried Bitch: The Adolescent Years (2007) Mathew Levin II, Adam LaVorgna, Ronnie Farer, Baird Wallace, Drama
At it’s core, the story focuses around Steve, who upon reaching adulthood, is released from the mental health facility his un-milf of a mom sent him to. He returns back home, and brings the pain to ole Ma Dukes for the unjustice he feels he is subjected to. The entire movie we basically just watch this mustached asshole be shitty to women, steal from his mom, terrorize his mom, and boozing up his brothers, one of whom is a coked-up art student.
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Scarewaves (2014) Henrique Couto, Tonjia Atomic, Iabou Windimere, Erin R. Ryan, Horror
From the director of Babysitter Massacre and Haunted House on Sorority Row comes a shocking new film critics are calling “fresh and original” and “what horror audiences want” In his final night as a radio host, shock jock Amos Satan spins four spine-tingling tales of terror in this anthology of urban legends inspired by Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt. Scarewaves. Listen if you dare.
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Scarred (2013) Eddie Lengyel, Ari Lehman, Don Kilrain, Lisa Neeld, Horror
Four models go on a photo shoot at an abandoned house previously belonging to the infamous Kandie family. Little do they know that Jonah Kandie still lurks there, seeking revenge on anyone that comes near after being scarred beyond recognition by his father as a young boy. One by one, the models soon become the victims of the vicious killer’s merciless hatred for all things beautiful.
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Rags (2011) Krist Rufty, Vanelle, Billy Garberina, Samantha Novak, Horror
After trying to live the American dream, Alice returns to a Wonderland of crystal-meth. Her new family consists of characters straight from the March Hare’s tea party; a dysfunctional crew consisting of an insane pimp, a worn out prostitute, and a lethargic burnout. As their lives spiral further into darkness and the past seeks retribution, all will pay the ultimate price for what was lost down the rabbit hole.
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The White Ribbon / Das weiße Band – Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009) Michael Haneke, Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Drama, Mystery
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. A horse trips on a wire and throws the rider; a woman falls to her death through rotted planks; the local baron’s son is hung upside down in a mill; parents slap and bully their children; a man is cruel to his long-suffering lover; another sexually abuses his daughter. People disappear. A callow teacher, who courts a nanny in the baron’s household, narrates the story and tries to investigate the connections among these accidents and crimes. What is foreshadowed? Are the children holy innocents? God may be in His heaven, but all is not right with the world; the center cannot hold.
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Lumberjack Man (2015) Josh Bear, Michael Madsen, Ciara Flynn, Jarrett King, Comedy, Horror
As the staff of Good Friends Church Camp prepares for a spring break filled with “Fun Under the Son”, a demon logger rises from his sap boiler to wreak his vengeance and feast on flapjacks soaked in the blood of his victims.
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Yellow Rock (2011) Nick Vallelonga, Michael Biehn, James Russo, Lenore Andriel, Western
Five men ride into the eerie town of Yellow Rock, hoping to rescue a family member and his lost boy.
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