Posts Tagged ‘canoe’

Bridge on the River Kwai, The (1957)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Holden, William | Hawkins, Jack | Guinness, Alec | Hayakawa, Sessue | Donald, James | Horne, Geoffrey | Morell, André | Williams, Peter | Boxer, John | Herbert, Percy | Goodwin, Harold | Sears, Ann | Okawa, Heihachiro | Katsumoto, Keiichiro | Chakrabandhu, M.R.B.
Directors: Lean, David
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

Last of the Mohicans, The (1992)

Monday, February 18th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Romance | War | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Day-Lewis, Daniel | Stowe, Madeleine | Means, Russell | Schweig, Eric | May, Jodhi | Waddington, Steven | Studi, Wes | Roëves, Maurice | Chéreau, Patrice | Blatchford, Edward | Kinney, Terry | Ellis, Tracey | Rice, Justin M. | Banks, Dennis | Postlethwaite, Pete
Directors: Mann, Michael
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In 18th century North America during the French and Indian War, a white man adopted by the last members of a dying tribe called the Mohicans unwittingly becomes the protector of the two daughters of a British colonel, who have been targeted by Magua, a sadistic and vengeful Huron warrior who has dedicated his life to destroying the girls’ father for a past injustice.

Manchurian Candidate, The (2004)

Sunday, February 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Wright, Jeffrey | Schreiber, Pablo | Mackie, Anthony | Missick, Dorian | Cantillo, Jose Pablo | Dunn, Teddy | Perez-Campbell, Joaquin | Artz, Tim | Washington, Denzel | Hitchcock, Robyn | Schreiber, Liev | Taylor, Antoine | Alessi, Joseph | Thomas, Raymond Anthony | Irwin, Bill
Directors: Demme, Jonathan
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When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, while Marco is haunted by dreams of what happened — or didn’t happen — in Kuwait. As Marco (now a Major) investigates, the story begins to unravel, to the point where he questions if it happened at all. Is it possible the entire unit was kidnapped and brainwashed to believe Shaw is a war hero as part of a plot to seize the White House? Some very powerful people at Manchurian Global corporation appear desperate to stop him from finding out.

River Wild, The (1994)

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Streep, Meryl | Sawyer, Stephanie | Mazzello, Joseph | Strathairn, David | Hoffman, Elizabeth | Galloway, Victor | Bacon, Kevin | Reilly, John C. | Lucking, William | Delano, Diane | Duffy, Thomas F. | Bratt, Benjamin | Cantelon, Paul | Morshower, Glenn
Directors: Hanson, Curtis
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Gail (Meryl Streep) is a professional at water rafting. She twigs every day, and she is in a very good shape. She takes her family, one day, to a rafting trip down the river, but she has no idea that the planed trip is about to become a nightmare. Two escaping robbers with a handgun, meet the family in the way, and join them to the trip. Only later the Gail realize that their new friends are dangerous criminals, but it’s too late. The two men force them to stay together, and to keep cruising down the river. The family’s life are risked not only by the 2 men, but also by the river which becomes more stormy and wilder.

Whale Rider (2002)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: Germany | New Zealand
Actors: Castle-Hughes, Keisha | Paratene, Rawiri | Haughton, Vicky | Curtis, Cliff | Roa, Grant | Taumaunu, Mana | House, Rachel | Emile, Taungaroa | Davis, Tammy | Wharekawa, Mabel | Clarke, Rawinia | Simpson, Tahei | Taimana, Roi | Skeen, Elizabeth | White, Tyronne
Directors: Caro, Niki
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On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea’s direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

Edge, The (1997)

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Baldwin, Alec | Macpherson, Elle | Perrineau, Harold | Bear, Bart the | Jones, L. Q. | Wilhoite, Kathleen | Lindstedt, David | Kiely, Mark | Gabay, Eli | Musser, Larry | Arnold, Brian | Boyd, Bob | Kinsly, Kelsa | Tootoosis, Gordon
Directors: Tamahori, Lee
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Billionaire Charles Morse accompanies his supermodel wife Mickey to photo shoot at Alaska. The shoot is to be made by fashion photographer Robert Green. To find specific Indian for the shoot, they fly to even more distant location, where their small plane crashes into a lake. To survive in the woods full of man-killing bears they need each other, but the smarter of the men - Charles is suspicious that Robert is having an affair with his wife.

Mission, The (1986)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: UK
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Irons, Jeremy | McAnally, Ray | Quinn, Aidan | Lunghi, Cherie | Pickup, Ronald | Low, Chuck | Neeson, Liam | Moya, Bercelio | Ismare, Sigifredo | Ontiveros, Asuncion | Moya, Alejandrino | Berrigan, Daniel | Gray, Rolf | Guerrero, Álvaro
Directors: Joffé, Roland
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Father Gabriel ascends the mountains of Brazil to bring christianity to the natives. He is successful and brings about a golden age among them. Mendoza, a slaver, kills his brother in a fit of rage, and only Fr. Gabriel’s guidance prevents his suicide. Gabriel brings Mendoza to work at his mission with the natives, and Mendoza finds peace and asks to become a priest. The church , under pressure, cedes the land to the Portuguese which will allow slavers in again. Mendoza breaks his vows and organizes the natives to resist while Gabriel warns him to help them as a priest.

Dead Man (1995)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Western
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Thornton, Billy Bob | Pop, Iggy | Depp, Johnny | Glover, Crispin | Haynes, Gibby | Boes, Richard | Duckworth, George | Hurt, John | North, John | Mitchum, Robert | Avital, Mili | Schrum, Peter | Byrne, Gabriel | Farmer, Gary | Henriksen, Lance | Wincott, Michael | Byrd, Eugene
Directors: Jarmusch, Jim
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Dead Man is the story of a young man’s journey, both physically and spiritually, into very unfamiliar terrain. William Blake travels to the extreme western frontiers of America sometime in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Lost and badly wounded, he encounters a very odd, outcast Native American, named “Nobody,” who believes Blake is actually the dead English poet of the same name. The story, with Nobody’s help, leads William Blake through situations that are in turn comical and violent. Contrary to his nature, circumstances transform Blake into a hunted outlaw, a killer, and a man whose physical existence is slowly slipping away. Thrown into a world that is cruel and chaotic, his eyes are opened to the fragility that defines the realm of the living. It is as though he passes through the surface of a mirror, and emerges into a previously-unknown world that exists on the other side.