2007-10-10
5.3
Doctor Omar's Gang
The film revolves around the idea of willpower and the size of control it has over human behavior and future
The execution was scheduled and the last meal consumed. The coolness of the poisons entering the blood system slowed the heart rate and sent him on the way to Judgement. He had paid for his crime with years on Death Row waiting for this moment and now he would pay for them again as the judgment continued..
The Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple had an opportunity to take part in an episode of East of Main Street, an HBO documentary series that has been produced for the past three years to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. This year’s episode, Milestones, focuses on how different groups of Asian Americans mark the milestones throughout their lives.
When Marty's car is stolen, he sets out on a mission to find it; however, he soon realizes that the person who stole it is much more dangerous than he thinks.
The story of El Nani, a juvenile delinquent from the years of the Transition, whose disappearance in a police station after an interrogation has not yet been clarified, putting the accent on the denunciation of police brutality and speculating on the outcome of the story. A story that mixes political denunciation and social chronicle of an era.
A documentary about unemployed people who bought fruit and vegetables at moderate prices at the wholesale market and sold these in the streets of Frankfurt. Since they had no permits they were constantly with their bulky carts on the run from the police. One part of the film was shot at the fairgrounds in front of the wholesale market. Newspaper and lottery ticket vendors, propagandists offering their ware for a few pfennigs, all convey the mood of a time when need made people inventive.
A teenage girl named Mary has turned away from her faith in God and rebels against her Christian family. She doesn't really see the point of being a Christian, and she doesn't see the error of her ways. However, when she and her friends go to a party one night, she learns a truly valuable life lesson.
At fifteen, Milagros' world still revolves around her mother's affection. This summer an unexpected encounter with death will make her question their relationship, her privilege and her own existence.
That night, a man with dark eyes arrived at a deserted beach. He was on a heavy mission. That same night, a girl stands on the roof of a building. She was about to take her own life. As if guided by fate, the two lonely souls meet in Yokohama at night. However, the man the girl meets by chance is a man whose name, identity, and even words are sealed, and who has been sent to Japan for the sole purpose of "assassination. As a person who should not be in Japan, he was supposed to just carry out his mission and disappear like a "ghost". However, he meets a girl and fails to escape from Japan. From that moment on, he becomes an object to be erased. The organization that hired him, the yakuza who killed his friends, and the reporter who holds the information.... Under siege and pursued by multiple forces, the man protects the girl, but where will they go? A story of two people with nowhere to go, on a sad escape.
A seven-year-old boy notices a strange activity in his room at night. Sometimes it is better to stay in bed than to try to escape.
A charming racecar driver is visited by his 20-year-old son who is nothing like his father. Solemn and introverted, the boy is shown the ways of sensual pleasure by his father's mistress, but he falls in love with another young woman. Intending to marry the girl, the young man takes the relationship very seriously. His father, however, believes the boy should have a more carefree lifestyle and decides to intervene by seducing his own son's fiance. This action proves to be a tremendous mistake.
Chris has vast experience in driver training both as an advanced driving instructor and driving examiner. This is the third in the Ultimate Driving Craft series of high quality advanced driving DVDs which have received international acclaim having sold to 39 countries. Filmed with two HD professional movie cameras and professionally edited by Green Gecko Television Ltd who have also added some excellent animation to support Chris's teaching of driving skills. In this DVD Chris highlights a problem that affects all drivers. It is called the natural focal point and not the best way to drive. He explains what it is, why it happens and what we, as drivers, can do about preventing it.
Showing the steamship Edgar loading a portion of two million feet of yellow pine lumber by the Anderson Lumber Company, of Charleston, S. C. The lumber is floated alongside the vessel and picked up by the derricks on the vessel. A great gang of colored men are shown chopping and pushing the lumber alongside the vessel.
Jim Finn, follows a South Korean video artist in North Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche cinema, somewhat inspired by a true story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped in the 70s to make the North Korean film industry better. This experimental satire that examines what happens when a South Korean filmmaker sojourns into communist North Korea to breathe new life into that country's flagging, propaganda-driven movie industry. Believing that cinema can prop up North Korea's Juche Idea of self-reliance, mad dictator Kim Jong-Il pulls out all the stops to help the young émigré produce appropriate films.
Sam’s period arrives just moments before an important visitor knocks at her door. Her frantic attempt to get ready derails into a blood-soaked nightmare.