Rather than the charms of the lyre, contemporary technological tools, Google Street View and Google Earth, beckon as the pathway for our narrator to regain memories and recapture traces of his lost love. In the film, they are as captivating and enthralling as charming as any lyre in retrieving the other: at first they might seem an open retort to critics of new technology who bemoan the lack of the tangible presence of the other in our interactions on the Internet.
Rather than the charms of the lyre, contemporary technological tools, Google Street View and Google Earth, beckon as the pathway for our narrator to regain memories and recapture traces of his lost love. In the film, they are as captivating and enthralling as charming as any lyre in retrieving the other: at first they might seem an open retort to critics of new technology who bemoan the lack of the tangible presence of the other in our interactions on the Internet.
2010-09-01
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José Carioca, showing Donald Duck around South America and introducing him to the samba
A wreathmaker slips on ice and injures her arm which puts her holiday wreath deliveries in jeopardy until a selfless neighbor steps up to keep her business afloat.
Set in the 1800s, the film is about a "dacoit" tribe who take charge in fight for their rights and independence against the British.
Lanyu - Orchid Island, is a small tropical island where its aboriginals take preys on the flying fish, a symbol of bliss and abundance, to make their living. Three young men Behong, Jeddah and Qingkuang known on the island as the "Three Musketeers" for their life long friendship and strong bond are enjoying their little piece of tranquility.One summer day, a beautiful young woman named Zing arrives in this small island from Taipei. She is on a business trip to survey remote regions for cellular coverage and will inadvertently change the Three Musketeers lives and hers as well…
Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.
Paulinita is a little rich girl who seemingly has everything, but lacks the love of her parents: Julio is too busy with his million-dollar deals to look after her, while Regina spends her time at social events and fashion shows. One fine day, Julio´s brother Manuel comes to visit them from Spain. He has just obtained a Master´s degree in child pedagogy. Paulinita quickly warms to him, as he has time to play with her, but Manuel has a dark past.
The documentary is an analysis of the fascination that the ancient Egyptians had for the death and their beliefs about it.
Disappointed that her mother has always disappeared at important times in her life, Alison Shaeffer, a successful book editor, decides to track down her mother on a remote island in an effort to patch things up. But family secrets unravel when Allison discovers that her mother is a CIA agent after she accidentally stumbles into one of her mom's covert operations.
In this French–Canadian oddity of music and drama, an actress in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show's director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest.
A documentary about the making of "Carlito's Way."
Tension mounts between a quadraplegic man and his wife as she prepares a bath for him.
Adam, a deviant teen, learns responsibility when the supervising 'Buddy Bot' his single mother leaves him with goes haywire.