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February 2008
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Forei gn Films
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New to View
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Vol. 2, No. 2 |
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The Foreign Films New to View newsletter is a monthly publication designed to keep you up to date on some of HCPL's latest foreign films on DVD. The selections in this newsletter are just a sample of the rich variety of films available to you through your library. Use the sign-up box above to have this newsletter sent directly to your e-mail every month, with new, recommended movies for you to view. See Foreign Films Archive.
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La Buche, directed by Daniele Thompson
(in French, with English subtitles)
There's no place like home for the holidays, or so Yvette thinks, as she and her three grown daughters prepare to tough it out together at Christmas after the sudden death of Yvette's second husband. Each character brings her own complexity to the holiday table for a comedy of mishaps and misunderstandings,underscoring a tale of the importance of family love and resolution.
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Dynamite Warrior, directed by Chalerm Wongpim
(in Thai and English, with English subtitles)
After witnessing the cold-blooded murder of his parents, a young man seeks revenge, until he discovers that the murderer is part of a larger gang of thieves. Then the mission of revenge takes on a larger scope. An extravagant martial-arts movie, fast-paced and action-packed.
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Golden Door, directed by Emanuele Crialese
(in Italian, with English subtitles)
Our country's mythology includes a vision of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, finally safe and free. There might be other visions of that time, however, and Crialese shares that alternate view in this film of an Italian family, whose members are jolted from a dreamy view of the new world into a bureaucratic quagmire. Demeaned and bewildered, they persist through that golden door to discover for themselves if the end of the journey was worth the trip.
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Lage Raho Munna Bhai, directed by Rajkumar Hirani
(in Hindi, with English subtitles)
In 2006, Lage Raho Munna Bhai was the most popular Bollywood romantic comedy film in India. Munna Bhai, played by the charming Sanjay Dutt, a tough-guy gangster, loves Jhanvi, but she mistakenly thinks he is a history professor. When Munna is invited to give a lecture to her family, what is he to do? Perhaps his sidekick Circuit can help. Then Gandhi himself enters the scene, and the past collides with the present with unpredictable results.
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My Best Friend, directed by Patrice Leconte
(in French, with English subtitles)
Francois has a problem. A successful, if a bit ruthless, antique dealer, he realizes that he may have an eye for business, but he has not a single true friend in all the world. His business partner challenges him to produce a best friend within ten days or lose that gorgeous old vase he covets. And so begins the search. Will Bruno the friendly but irritating taxi driver play the part for the bet? Or will Francois discover that maybe real friendship can come from unlikely sources?
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Fantastic Planet, directed by Rene Laloux
(in French, with English subtitles)
On a distant planet, the tiny Oms are subjugated by the giant Draags. When the Om Terr becomes educated by mistake, he uses his new-found knowledge to organize the Oms in rebellion against the Draags. Haunting and lyrical, this animated film quickly became a metaphor for the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, winning a prize at Cannes in 1973. |
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