May 2017
My viewing log. All the films (listed at IMDb) I've seen during this month.
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
Vrijeme šutnje (Rudolf Sremec, 1971, doc, sh) - 8/10 (R)
Gazda: Tranzicija/privatizacija/korporacije (Dario Juričan, 2016, doc) - 7/10 (FF)
Gola resnica (Vojko Anzeljc, 2009, doc) - 7.5/10 (FF)
Tito u Kraljevici (Tito in Kraljevica, Nikola Lorencin, 1975, doc, sh) - 6/10 (FF)
Notes:
TV = TV viewing
OL = online viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
Also, films NOT listed at IMDb (as of yet):
Vrijeme šutnje (Rudolf Sremec, 1971, doc, sh) - 8/10 (R)
Gazda: Tranzicija/privatizacija/korporacije (Dario Juričan, 2016, doc) - 7/10 (FF)
Gola resnica (Vojko Anzeljc, 2009, doc) - 7.5/10 (FF)
Tito u Kraljevici (Tito in Kraljevica, Nikola Lorencin, 1975, doc, sh) - 6/10 (FF)
Notes:
TV = TV viewing
OL = online viewing
R = Recommended (8-10/10)
FF = For Fanatics Only (5-7/10)
P = Pass (1-4/10)
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- DirectorNebojsa SlijepcevicIn Balkans every generation has its war. Sons are continuing fights started by their fathers. There are rifles and pistols in every hand. Concentration of arms has reached a critical point. Even the smallest incident would be disastrous to this fragile peace. Watching children playing with toy guns makes you wander: what are we leaving to the next generation?Orig. title: Muški film.
TV, 5/1/17. 8/10 (R). - DirectorJohn WalshStarsMartin DonovanAnthony ArkinMarla SucharetzaA lonely plumber poses as a director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.TV, 5/1/17. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorDon SiegelStarsSteve McQueenBobby DarinFess ParkerSmall squad must hold off German attack.TV, 5/1/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJames ParrottStarsStan LaurelLillian RichTyler BrookeAfter being scooped for a scandal story, a reporter has 24 hours to dig up a more scandalous story. After spending the night in the wrong street, he comes up with a plan: catch the Countess and her butler in a compromising situation.TV, 5/2/17. 5.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorMiroslav SikavicaThe beating and subsequent death of Zagreb's high school senior student Luka Ritz in 2008 and a several-month-long search for juvenile perpetrators shocked the Croatian public and induced an unprecedented civil campaign against the escalation of youth violence. "The Cloud" is an intimate story that took place beyond the reach of all publicity: an emotional story about the traumatic loss of the only son, the best friend and the first boyfriend. The 78-minute-long documentary film that follows Luka's parents, friends and his girlfriend in their everyday struggle with anger, grief and disappointment, anxiety and memories, over the period of one year after his death. At the same time this is a story about the need and importance of civil solidarity and activism in today's society.TV, 5/2/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJean-Christophe DessaintStarsJean RenoLorànt DeutschIsabelle CarréBoy lives in the heart of the forest, raised by his father Courge, a tyrannical giant who reigns triumphant and prevents his son from exploring beyond limited boundaries. Ignorant about the ways of men, the boy grows up wild, with the placid ghosts who haunt the forest his only company. That is until the day that he is forced to go to the nearest village, where he mets young Manon...TV, 5/2/17. 7.5/10 (R).
- DirectorJeroen LeindersStarsDanny GloverJeroen KrabbéDeobia OpareiTula was the leader of the big slave uprising on the island of Curacao, a Dutch colony in 1795. The story of a man who stood up against his oppressors leading his people in a peaceful march for freedom, equality and brotherhood.TV, 5/2/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsLiam HemsworthJeff GoldblumBill PullmanTwo decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat. But will mankind's new space defenses be enough?TV, 5/3/17. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJon CassarStarsMorris ChestnutRegina HallRomany MalcoA surrogate mom for a couple becomes dangerously obsessed with the soon-to-be father.TV, 5/3/17. 4.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorSolomon Sir JonesJuneteenth Celebration, farms, residences, football games and various people in Wybark, OK; Porter, OK; Muskogee, OK; Langston, OK; and Okay, OK.OL, 5/4/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorSolomon Sir JonesFunerals and funeral homes, residence, fair, and Baptist convention at Okmulgee, OK: Tulsa, OK; Gibson Station, OK; and Muskogee, OK.OL, 5/4/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorThorsten SchmidtStarsJulia KoschitzJonas NayAlexander HeldThe end of summer, a sleepy fishing port on the Baltic Sea and the beginning of a great feeling that shouldn't be: Shortly before the start of the new school year, 18-year-old Christian falls in love with his new English teacher, Stella Petersen. In a moment of unexpected lightness and freedom, in the dune and seascape far away from the small town, Stella and Christian discover a shared longing and an attraction for each other, the intensity of which both overwhelms. But soon after classes have started again, the secret relationship between the young teacher and her student threatens to turn into a scandal: Christian's parents, his classmates and the teaching staff express suspicion, concern and indignation. While Stella repeatedly eludes Christian, he is already making plans for a future together. When Stella had an accident in a sailing accident, a world collapsed for Christian.TV, 5/4/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorRoar UthaugStarsKristoffer JonerAne Dahl TorpJonas Hoff OftebroAlthough anticipated, no one is really ready when the mountain pass above the scenic, narrow Norwegian fjord Geiranger collapses and creates an 85-meter high violent tsunami. A geologist is one of those caught in the middle of it.TV, 5/4/17. 7/10 (FF).
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Shown under the title 'The Wave' in my country (on SLO 2). - DirectorRatiborka CeramilacStarsMaja MandzukaLazar JokicNikola DjurickoA female teenager from a good family enters the world of drug use via her boyfriend-pusher.TV, 5/4/17. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorSolomon Sir JonesBaptists, cars and trucks on a train, footrace and other activities in Tulsa OK; Ransom, IN; Coweta, OK; Wybark, OK; and unidentified locations.OL, 5/5/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorSolomon Sir JonesBaptist convention, funeral home, and assorted locations in Denver, CO; Tulsa, OK; Muskogee, OK; and unidentified locations.OL, 5/5/17. 5.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorAmanda SharpStarsRose LeslieRay LiottaCarmen TonryA story about love and loss. And maybe one day - love again.TV, 5/5/17. 6/10 (FF).
- DirectorGillian ArmstrongStarsRalph FiennesCate BlanchettCiarán HindsIn mid-1800s England, Oscar is a young Anglican priest, a misfit and an outcast, but with the soul of an angel. As a boy, even though from a strict Pentecostal family, he felt God told him through a sign to leave his father and his faith and join the Church of England. Lucinda is a teen-aged Australian heiress who has an almost desperate desire to liberate her sex from the confines of the male-dominated culture of the Australia of that time. She buys a glass factory and has a dream of building a church made almost entirely of glass, and then transporting it to Bellingen, a remote settlement on the north coast. Oscar and Lucinda meet on a ship going to Australia; once there, they are for different reasons ostracized from society, and as a result "join forces" together. Oscar and Lucinda are both passionate gamblers, and Lucinda bets Oscar her entire inheritance that he cannot transport the glass church to the Outback safely. Oscar accepts her wager, and this leads to the events that will change both their lives forever.TV, 5/5/17. 7/10 (FF).
- DirectorJames WanStarsVin DieselPaul WalkerDwayne JohnsonDeckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.TV, 5/6/17. 5.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorGiorgio SteganiStarsLee Van CleefAntonio SabatoLionel StanderA trio of thieves plot to steal a town's silver shipment but a turn of events makes them the town's heroes.TV, 5/6/17. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorNancy MeyersStarsRobert De NiroAnne HathawayRene RussoSeventy-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.TV, 5/6/17. 6.5/10 (FF).
- DirectorChristopher NolanStarsMatthew McConaugheyAnne HathawayJessica ChastainWhen Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.TV, 5/6/17. 9/10 (R).
- DirectorDietrich BrüggemannStarsLea van AckenFranziska WeiszFlorian StetterFourteen-year-old Maria is a fundamentalist Catholic, living her life in a modern fashion, yet her heart belongs to Jesus. She wants to be a saint and go to heaven. No one, not even a nice boy she meets, can stop her in this goal.TV, 5/6/17. 8/10 (R).
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsMark DamonValeria FabriziFranco De RosaA Mexican bandit teams up with a band of renegade Native Americans to avenge his older brothers when they are killed by a prankster, gold-obsessed bounty hunter.TV, 5/7/17. 5/10 (FF).
- DirectorJaume Collet-SerraStarsBlake LivelyÓscar JaenadaAngelo Josue Lozano CorzoA mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills.TV, 5/7/17. 6.5/10 (FF).