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Movie of the Week#6: The Golem (1920), Paul Wegener & Carl Boese

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The Golem (Germany, 1920). Directed by Paul Wegener & Carl Boese. Written by Henrik Galeen & Paul Wegener. Cinematography by Karl Freund. Music by Hans Landsberger. Production Design by Hans Poelzig & Kurt Richter. Costume Design by Rochus Gliese. Cast: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch, Hans Stürm, Max Kronert, Otto Gebühr, Lothar Müthel.  In Prague, sixteenth century, Rabbi Loew (Steinrück) hereby built a monster, the Golem (Wegener), to stop the persecution that the tyrannical Emperor Luhois (Gebühr) commits the Jewish people. Initially calling for the magic to try to move the court of Jewish suffering, Loew invokes the very destruction of the tyrant's castle, which is only held by the force of the Golem. Loew discovers, however, that the conjunction of the stars will make the monster turns against its creator. His assistant, Famulus (Deutsch), in love with his daughter, Miriam (Salmonova), Count Florian's lo...

Movie of the Week#5: Red Beard (1965), Akira Kurosawa

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Red Bear (Japan, 1965). Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Written by Masato Ide, Hideo Oguni, Riûzû Kikushima & Akira Kurosawa, Based on short story collection by Shugorô Yamamoto. Cinematography by Asakazu Nakai & Takao Saitô. Music by Masaru Satô. Production Design by Yoshirô Muraki. Costume Design by Yoshiko Samejima. Cast: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsotomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Terumi Niki.  19th century. Yasumoto arrives in a provincial charity hospital from Nagasaki and initially hates the option to which he was nominated, with no chance of winning brilliance in his career. Reporting to the dour Dr. Niide (Mifune), known as Barbarossa, he refuses to follow the service hierarchy. After following the case of two patients who die, Yasumoto engages as ever with Tomoyo teenager (Niki), taken from a brothel when she was sick. After taking care of the aggressive Tomoyo, the Yasumoto itself is bedrid...

Movie of the Week#4: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Woody Allen

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Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Spain/USA, 2008). Directed and wrote by Woody Allen. Cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe. Film editing: Alisa Lepselter. Production Design by Alain Brainée & Iñigo Navarro. Costume Design by Sonia Grande. Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Messina, Kevin Dunn, Pablo Schreiber.          Vicky (Hall) and Cristina (Johansson) are two Americans who decide to spend a summer in Barcelona at the home of a friend of their family, Judy Nash (Clarkson).   Vicky is engaged to Doug (Messina), while Cristina shows more interest in living a loving relationship.   The possibility arises when she flirts with the artist Juan Antonio (Bardem), who boldly invites the two to a visit to Oviedo in his private jet.   Vicky is reluctant, but Cristina agrees.   He invites them both to sleep with him, but only Cristina gets excited.   She is not well, and it is Vicky...

Movie of the Week#3: My Night at Maud's (1969), Eric Rohmer

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My Night at Maud's (Ma Nuit Chez Maud, France, 1969). Directed and Writed by Eric Rohmer. cinematography by Nestor Almendros. Edited by CÉCILE DECUGIS. Production design by Nichole Rachline.. Cast: Jean-Louis Trintgnant, François Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault, Antoine Vitez, Léonide Kogan, Guy Léger, Anne Dubot, Marie Becker.        Jean-Louis (Trintignant) is a Catholic who moves to the province and is touched by a young woman who perceives in the church, Françoise (Barrault), with whom believes he should marry.   One day he meets a friend he had not seen for 14 years, Vidal (Vitez), who presents him to Maud (Fabian), a charming divorced woman.   Divided between reason, which makes him believe in the fidelity of love and the belief that Françoise, even as a Catholic, is the woman to marry and the desire for Maud, he initially does not make a decision.   H owever, when he meets Françoise occasionally, he makes an appointment with her, who, al...

Movie of the Week#2: The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945), Robert Bresson

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The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, France, 1945). Directed by Robert Bresson. Written by Robert bresson & Jean Cocteau from the novel by Denis Diderot. cinematography by Philippe Agostini. Edited by jean feyte. Production design by Max Douy & robert lavallée. Costume design by GRÈS & Schiaparelli. Cast: paul bernard, maría casares, elina labourdette, lucienne bogaert, jean marchat, Yvette etiévant, marcel rouzé, bernard lajarrige. Agnes (Labourdette), a young star of cabaret, can exchange the attractions of worldly life that dissatisfy her for a dignified life with her mother (Bogaert), in the care of the aristocrat Helene (Casarés). Living now prisoners in their new house, next to the Boulogne Grove, they meet the same day Helene and the friend Jacques (Marchat), who falls madly in love, at first sight, by Agnes. Ready to conquer her at all costs, he suffers refusals in a row, which only burn his desire even more, to the point of no...