Starring:
Kellie Martin
Kevin Dobson
Ivan Sergei
Einladung zu unserem kultur Programm in Wien
7 years ago
08 April, 2013
The Killing Secret (1998)
Synopsis:
This is the 1998 NBC made for television movie The Killing Secret. This loosely based on a true story feature centers around a privileged young high schooler who gets one of his two girlfriends pregnant and ends up killing her. This stars Ari Meyers, Tess Harper, John O'Hurley, and Soleil Moon Frye as the doomed girl. This was one of many "women in peril" movies that were popular at the time and still airs on Lifetime quite frequently.
This is the 1998 NBC made for television movie The Killing Secret. This loosely based on a true story feature centers around a privileged young high schooler who gets one of his two girlfriends pregnant and ends up killing her. This stars Ari Meyers, Tess Harper, John O'Hurley, and Soleil Moon Frye as the doomed girl. This was one of many "women in peril" movies that were popular at the time and still airs on Lifetime quite frequently.
07 April, 2013
BBC - Sajha Sawal Eps. 282 (2013)
Are Voters Ready for Election?
तीन महिनाभित्र चुनाव गर्ने भनेर चुनावी सरकार बनाएको तीन हप्ता वितिसक्यो तर अहिलेसम्म चुनावको प्रक्रिया त के चुनावको मिति समेत घोषणा हुन सकेको छैन । प्रमुख राजनीतिक दलका नेताहरूले आउँदो असारभित्र चुनाव गर्ने भनी तत्कालीन प्रधानन्यायाधीसको अध्यक्षतामा मन्त्रिपरिषद् गठन गरेका थिए । अव भने तिनै दलमध्येका केही नेताहरूले मंसीरसम्म भएपनि चुनाव गर्नुपर्ने भनिरहेका छन् । नेताहरूले राजधानीमा चुनावको बारेमा कुरा गरिरहदाँ मतदाताहरू के सोचिरहेका छन् त? चुनावका बारेमा सर्वसाधारणको मत बुझ्न साझा सवाल टोली मध्यपश्चिमको सल्यान, दाङ र बाँके पुगेको छ । यो साझा सवालमा सल्यानको खलङ्गा, दाङको तुल्सीपुर र बाँकेको नेपालगञ्जका मतदातासहित नेपाली कांग्रेसका महामन्त्री प्रकाशमान सिंह र निर्वाचन आयोगका प्रमुख निर्वाचन आयुक्त नीलकण्ठ उप्रेतीसँगको छलफल समेटिएको छ ।
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Date: 7.04.2013
06 April, 2013
A Deadly Vision (1997)
AKA:
Love Kills
Visionen der Angst! - Die Frau mit dem zweiten Gesicht >> German
Synopsis:
Babette's a small-town waitress with psychic visions who is startled by premonitions of terrifying homicides. She reluctantly contacts the police. The cops dismiss Babette, except for one rookie detective who semi-believes her claims probably because he's hot for her, too. Things get even more complicated when Babette is targeted as this psychopath's next victim! Based on the book by Dan Greenburg.
Starring:
Kristin Davis
Matthew Settle
Peter Boyle
Director:Bill L. Norton
Love Kills
Visionen der Angst! - Die Frau mit dem zweiten Gesicht >> German
Synopsis:
Babette's a small-town waitress with psychic visions who is startled by premonitions of terrifying homicides. She reluctantly contacts the police. The cops dismiss Babette, except for one rookie detective who semi-believes her claims probably because he's hot for her, too. Things get even more complicated when Babette is targeted as this psychopath's next victim! Based on the book by Dan Greenburg.
Starring:
Kristin Davis
Matthew Settle
Peter Boyle
Director:Bill L. Norton
The Good Son (1993)
Das zweite Gesicht >> German
Synopsis:
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of violent behavior.
Starring:
Macaulay Culkin
Elijah Wood
Wendy Crewson
Director: Joseph Ruben
03 April, 2013
Death Row - Philippines (2000)
Synopsis:
A man lies down to die. He is strapped to a bed and his left arm is punctured with a crude yet fatal drip.
He is not alone. Over 1300 prisoners in the Philippines are on death row, awaiting their lethal injection. Among them are women and even children. The rising number of executions is part of a crackdown on crime -- Zero Tolerance Filipino style. The man in charge of this campaign is Ping Lacson of the Philippines National Police. He was nick-named Dirty Harry when he broke a big gang of Manila bank robbers and took no prisoners. Instead eleven suspects were shot dead in suspicious circumstances. "I would rather be feared than loved ... as long as I get things done", he says. And he is getting things done. In his first six months petty crime is down 30 percent and drug arrests have doubled. While politicians score points, human rights activists and leaders of the Catholic Church call for an abolition of the death penalty.
A man lies down to die. He is strapped to a bed and his left arm is punctured with a crude yet fatal drip.
He is not alone. Over 1300 prisoners in the Philippines are on death row, awaiting their lethal injection. Among them are women and even children. The rising number of executions is part of a crackdown on crime -- Zero Tolerance Filipino style. The man in charge of this campaign is Ping Lacson of the Philippines National Police. He was nick-named Dirty Harry when he broke a big gang of Manila bank robbers and took no prisoners. Instead eleven suspects were shot dead in suspicious circumstances. "I would rather be feared than loved ... as long as I get things done", he says. And he is getting things done. In his first six months petty crime is down 30 percent and drug arrests have doubled. While politicians score points, human rights activists and leaders of the Catholic Church call for an abolition of the death penalty.
Symphony of Horror - Nosferatu (1922)
AKA:
Nosferatu
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens >> German
Synopsis:
Though diminished by decades of pop-horror incarnations, the vampire remains uniquely evocative of both dread and fascination, horror and seductiveness. Monsters from werewolves to Freddy Krueger may frighten, but neither victims nor audience are drawn to them. By contrast, the vampire suggests the horror of evil working on our disordered passions.
A pioneering film in the silent German expressionist movement, F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (not to be confused with Werner Herzog's 1979 remake) is almost unique in imagining a vampire who is not darkly attractive, but corpselike and ghastly. Even so, his dread fascination remains troubling; the hero's wife seems repelled but also mesmerized even as she seeks to destroy him.
An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu made few concessions to copyright beyond name and place changes: Count Dracula became Count Orlock (Max Schreck), Jonathan Harker became Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim), Mina Harker became Ellen Hutter (Greta Schröder), and scenes set in England were moved to Bremen, Germany (yet the vampire's arrival by sea is retained, illustrating just how superficial the changes are).
Perhaps unfortunately, Murnau's film all but eschews the traditional role of Christian iconography, of crucifixes and holy water, in vampire mythology, retaining only a few vestigial references (e.g., an allusion to the seven deadly sins). (Herzog's remake, which restores Stoker's original character names, also reincorporates Stoker's religious imagery.) However, it more than makes up for this with a major new contribution to vampire mythology: It was in this film that the vampire was first imagined to have a deathly vulnerability to sunlight.
Nosferatu, like Dracula, has been the subject of numerous Freudian and sociological interpretations: The vampire is sex; the vampire is the id or animal desire; the vampire is wantonness; the vampire is veneral disease.
As applied to Stoker's novel, at least some of these theories may be worth exploring; but Murnau's film fundamentally alters the equasion in ways that upends such interpretations.
First, it leaves Dracula's wives out of the story, eliminating the seductive scene in the book that leaves the protagonist Harker in a debilitated condition. Second and more importantly, it changes the rules about destroying vampires: Whereas Stoker's Dracula could be opening attacked with stakes and holy artifacts, Murnau's Orlock must be distracted till dawn by a pure virgin surrendering herself to his thirst, even at the cost of her life.
This is no simple metaphor for sex or animal appetite, for Orlock is too obviously evil, destructive, and moribund; yet in making surrender rather than resistance the means of destroying the monster, the film hardly evokes wantonness or veneral disease. The imagery resists allegorization, remaining simply, unsettlingly, itself.
Nosferatu
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens >> German
Synopsis:
Though diminished by decades of pop-horror incarnations, the vampire remains uniquely evocative of both dread and fascination, horror and seductiveness. Monsters from werewolves to Freddy Krueger may frighten, but neither victims nor audience are drawn to them. By contrast, the vampire suggests the horror of evil working on our disordered passions.
A pioneering film in the silent German expressionist movement, F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu (not to be confused with Werner Herzog's 1979 remake) is almost unique in imagining a vampire who is not darkly attractive, but corpselike and ghastly. Even so, his dread fascination remains troubling; the hero's wife seems repelled but also mesmerized even as she seeks to destroy him.
An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu made few concessions to copyright beyond name and place changes: Count Dracula became Count Orlock (Max Schreck), Jonathan Harker became Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim), Mina Harker became Ellen Hutter (Greta Schröder), and scenes set in England were moved to Bremen, Germany (yet the vampire's arrival by sea is retained, illustrating just how superficial the changes are).
Perhaps unfortunately, Murnau's film all but eschews the traditional role of Christian iconography, of crucifixes and holy water, in vampire mythology, retaining only a few vestigial references (e.g., an allusion to the seven deadly sins). (Herzog's remake, which restores Stoker's original character names, also reincorporates Stoker's religious imagery.) However, it more than makes up for this with a major new contribution to vampire mythology: It was in this film that the vampire was first imagined to have a deathly vulnerability to sunlight.
Nosferatu, like Dracula, has been the subject of numerous Freudian and sociological interpretations: The vampire is sex; the vampire is the id or animal desire; the vampire is wantonness; the vampire is veneral disease.
As applied to Stoker's novel, at least some of these theories may be worth exploring; but Murnau's film fundamentally alters the equasion in ways that upends such interpretations.
First, it leaves Dracula's wives out of the story, eliminating the seductive scene in the book that leaves the protagonist Harker in a debilitated condition. Second and more importantly, it changes the rules about destroying vampires: Whereas Stoker's Dracula could be opening attacked with stakes and holy artifacts, Murnau's Orlock must be distracted till dawn by a pure virgin surrendering herself to his thirst, even at the cost of her life.
This is no simple metaphor for sex or animal appetite, for Orlock is too obviously evil, destructive, and moribund; yet in making surrender rather than resistance the means of destroying the monster, the film hardly evokes wantonness or veneral disease. The imagery resists allegorization, remaining simply, unsettlingly, itself.
Love at First Bite (1979)
Liebe auf den ersten Biss
Synopsis:
This vampire spoof has Count Dracula moving to New York to find his Bride, after being forced to move out of his Transylvanian castle. There with the aid of assistant Renfield, he stumbles through typical New York city life situations while pursuing Cindy Soundheim. But her boyfriend, Doctor Jeff Rosenberg, realizes she is under the influence of a vampire, and tries his bumbling best to convince police Lt Ferguson of what is going on, and to help him stop Dracula.
Starring:
George Hamilton
Susan Saint James
Richard Benjamin
Director: Stan Dragoti
Anhe Ghore Da Daan (2012)
Alms for a Blind Horse
Synopsis:
Anhe Ghore Da Daan is a 2011 Punjabi-language film. The film is based on the Punjabi novel of the same title published in 1976 by Gurdial Singh. It portrays the plight and problems of Indian farmers as well as the landlords. The film won National Awards for Best Direction, Cinematography and Best Feature Film in Punjabi at the 59th National Film Awards of India.
Söhne der Wüste ()
Synopsis:
Part-01 - Durch die Atacama
Part-02 - Durch die Sahara
Part-03 - Durch Gobi und Taklamakan
Part-01 - Durch die Atacama
Part-02 - Durch die Sahara
Part-03 - Durch Gobi und Taklamakan
01 April, 2013
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
Synopsis:
In the Kingdom of Cloister, Jack, a young farm boy, is fascinated by the legend of Erik, an ancient king who defeated an army of invading giants from a realm in the sky by controlling them with a magical crown. At the same time, Princess Isabelle becomes fascinated with the same legenda.
10 years later, Jack goes into town to sell his horse to support his uncle's farm. There, Jack spots Isabelle and develops a crush on her, after defending her honor from a group of thugs. Meanwhile, Lord Roderick returns to his study, only to find that a monk has robbed him. The monk offers Jack some magic beans he stole from Roderick as collateral for Jack's horse. Back at the castle, Isabelle quarrels with her father, King Brahmwell, as she wants to explore the kingdom, but he wants her to stay and marry Roderick. Likewise, Jack's uncle scolds him for being foolish before throwing the beans on the floor and leaving the house.
Determined to be free, Isabelle sneaks out of the castle and seeks shelter from the rain in Jack's house. As it rains, one of the beans takes root and grows into a massive beanstalk that carries the house and Isabelle into the sky as Jack falls to the ground.
Jack, Roderick, and Roderick's attendant, Wicke, volunteer to join the king's knights, led by Elmont and his second in-command, Crawe, and climb the beanstalk in search of Isabelle. As they climb, Roderick and Wicke cut the safety rope, intentionally killing some of the knights. At the top, they discover the giants' realm and decide to split into two groups; one with Jack, Elmont, and Crawe, and the other including Roderick and Wicke, but not before Roderick forcibly takes the remaining beans from Jack (although Jack manages to save one for himself).
Jack's group is trapped by a giant, who takes everyone prisoner except Jack. Meanwhile, Roderick's group encounters two other giants; one eats Wicke, but before they can do the same to Roderick, Roderick dons the magic crown.
Jack follows the giant to their stronghold, where the two-headed giant leader, Fallon, has killed Crawe. There, Jack finds the imprisoned Isabelle and Elmont. As the giants prepare to kill their remaining prisoners, Roderick walks in and enslaves the giants with the crown. He tells the giants they will attack Cloister at dawn and allows them to eat Isabelle and Elmont. Jack rescues Isabelle and Elmont as one of the giants prepares to cook Elmont as a pig-in-a-blanket. The trio makes for the beanstalk, where Jack causes the giant guarding the beanstalk to fall off the realm's edge. Seeing the giant's body, Brahmwell orders the beanstalk cut down to avoid an invasion by the giants.
Jack and Isabelle head down the beanstalk, while Elmont stays to confront Roderick. Elmont kills Roderick, but Fallon takes the crown before Elmont can claim it, and Elmont is forced to escape down the beanstalk. Jack, Isabelle, and Elmont all survive the fall after the beanstalk is cut down. As everyone returns home, Jack warns that the giants are using Roderick's beans to create beanstalks to descend down to Earth and attack Cloister.
The giants chase Jack, Isabelle, and Brahmwell into the castle, where Elmont fills the moat with oil and sets it on fire. Fallon falls in the moat and breaks into the castle from below. As the siege continues, Fallon captures Jack and Isabelle, but Jack throws the final bean down Fallon's throat, causing a beanstalk to rip apart his body. Jack takes the crown and sends the giants back to their realm.
Jack and Isabelle marry and tell the story of the giants to their children. As time passes, the magic crown is crafted into St Edward's Crown and is secured in the Tower of London.
In the Kingdom of Cloister, Jack, a young farm boy, is fascinated by the legend of Erik, an ancient king who defeated an army of invading giants from a realm in the sky by controlling them with a magical crown. At the same time, Princess Isabelle becomes fascinated with the same legenda.
10 years later, Jack goes into town to sell his horse to support his uncle's farm. There, Jack spots Isabelle and develops a crush on her, after defending her honor from a group of thugs. Meanwhile, Lord Roderick returns to his study, only to find that a monk has robbed him. The monk offers Jack some magic beans he stole from Roderick as collateral for Jack's horse. Back at the castle, Isabelle quarrels with her father, King Brahmwell, as she wants to explore the kingdom, but he wants her to stay and marry Roderick. Likewise, Jack's uncle scolds him for being foolish before throwing the beans on the floor and leaving the house.
Determined to be free, Isabelle sneaks out of the castle and seeks shelter from the rain in Jack's house. As it rains, one of the beans takes root and grows into a massive beanstalk that carries the house and Isabelle into the sky as Jack falls to the ground.
Jack, Roderick, and Roderick's attendant, Wicke, volunteer to join the king's knights, led by Elmont and his second in-command, Crawe, and climb the beanstalk in search of Isabelle. As they climb, Roderick and Wicke cut the safety rope, intentionally killing some of the knights. At the top, they discover the giants' realm and decide to split into two groups; one with Jack, Elmont, and Crawe, and the other including Roderick and Wicke, but not before Roderick forcibly takes the remaining beans from Jack (although Jack manages to save one for himself).
Jack's group is trapped by a giant, who takes everyone prisoner except Jack. Meanwhile, Roderick's group encounters two other giants; one eats Wicke, but before they can do the same to Roderick, Roderick dons the magic crown.
Jack follows the giant to their stronghold, where the two-headed giant leader, Fallon, has killed Crawe. There, Jack finds the imprisoned Isabelle and Elmont. As the giants prepare to kill their remaining prisoners, Roderick walks in and enslaves the giants with the crown. He tells the giants they will attack Cloister at dawn and allows them to eat Isabelle and Elmont. Jack rescues Isabelle and Elmont as one of the giants prepares to cook Elmont as a pig-in-a-blanket. The trio makes for the beanstalk, where Jack causes the giant guarding the beanstalk to fall off the realm's edge. Seeing the giant's body, Brahmwell orders the beanstalk cut down to avoid an invasion by the giants.
Jack and Isabelle head down the beanstalk, while Elmont stays to confront Roderick. Elmont kills Roderick, but Fallon takes the crown before Elmont can claim it, and Elmont is forced to escape down the beanstalk. Jack, Isabelle, and Elmont all survive the fall after the beanstalk is cut down. As everyone returns home, Jack warns that the giants are using Roderick's beans to create beanstalks to descend down to Earth and attack Cloister.
The giants chase Jack, Isabelle, and Brahmwell into the castle, where Elmont fills the moat with oil and sets it on fire. Fallon falls in the moat and breaks into the castle from below. As the siege continues, Fallon captures Jack and Isabelle, but Jack throws the final bean down Fallon's throat, causing a beanstalk to rip apart his body. Jack takes the crown and sends the giants back to their realm.
Jack and Isabelle marry and tell the story of the giants to their children. As time passes, the magic crown is crafted into St Edward's Crown and is secured in the Tower of London.
They (2002)
Synopsis:
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her.
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her.
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