Monika’s Pensieve

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Avatar (2009, USA/UK)
Seen: Tuesday, 29th December 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 162′
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez
Production House: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Dune Entertainment, Giant Studios, Ingenious Film Partners, Lightstorm Entertainment
Plot: (from imdb)
In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by [...]

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Every year, my January is busy and every year Polish film distributors sadistically release loads of movies I really want to see during this time ;-P Hope I get to see at least some of these *sigh*
Hunger (2008, UK/Ireland)
Release Date (Poland): 8th January 2010
Release Date (worldwide): 15th May 2008
Runtime: 96′
Director: Steve McQueen
Cast: Michael Fassbender
Production [...]

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L.I.E. (2001, USA)
Seen: Monday, 28th December 2009 (VHS, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 97′
Director: Michael Cuesta
Cast: Paul Dano, Billy Kay, Brian Cox
Production House: Alter Ego Entertainment, Belladonna Productions
Plot: Howie is 15 and is going wild. Breaking into houses becomes one of Howie’s pastimes. One day, Howie ends up robbing the house of a man, who happens to [...]

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Mysterious Skin (2004, USA/Netherlands)
Seen: Sunday, 27th December 2009
Runtime: 105′
Director: Gregg Araki
Cast: Chase Ellison, Elisabeth Shue, Bill Sage, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Brady Corbet, Jeffrey Licon
Production House: Desperate Pictures, Antidote Films, Fortissimo Film Sales
Plot: The parallel stories of two teenagers. One sleeps with men for money, the other is obsessed with alien abductions.
Trailer

If you want [...]

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(500) Days of Summer (2009, USA)
Seen: Friday, 25th December 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 95′
Director: Marc Webb
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel
Production House: Sneak Preview Entertainment, Watermark
Plot: Summer wants a casual relationship. Tom can’t help, but want more.
Trailer

For anyone who wants a laugh, this is a promotional clip in which they do a Sid and Nancy sketch ;) [...]

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Królik po berlinsku (2009, Poland/Germany)
Seen: Tuesday, 15th December 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 52′
Director: Bartosz Konopka
Production House: MS Films, Ma.Ja.De Filmproduktion, Telewizja Polska, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR), Lichtpunt, Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO), Polish Film Institute, Media, Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing
Plot: A documentary about the wild rabbits which used to live between the Berlin Walls [...]

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The Yes Men Fix the World (2009, France/UK/USA)
Seen: Friday, 11th December 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 87′
Director: Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Kurt Engfehr
Production House: Arte France, Article Z, Renegade Pictures, Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation, Charny/Bachrach Entertainment
Plot: (from imdb)
Troublemaking duo Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno, posing as their industrious alter-egos, expose the people profiting from Hurricane Katrina, the [...]

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Spread (2009, USA)
Seen: Wednesday, 9th December 2009
Runtime: 97′
Director: David Mackenzie
Cast: Ashton Kutcher, Anne Heche, Margarita Levieva
Production House: Barbarian Films, Katalyst Films, Oceana Media Finance
Plot: Nikki sleeps with older, rich women for a living. For the most part, this life works out very well for him. But one day things go down hill…
Scene From The [...]

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Little Ashes (2008, UK/Spain)
Seen: Friday, 4th December 2009 (DVD)
Runtime: 112′
Director: Paul Morrison
Cast: Javier Beltrán, Robert Pattinson, Matthew McNulty, Marina Gatell
Production House: APT Films, Aria Films, Factotum Barcelona S.L., Met Film Production, Met Film
Plot: (from imdb)
About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Bu?uel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Trailer

Impressions In [...]

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Das weisse Band - Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte (2009, Austria/Germany/France/Italy)
Seen: Monday, 30th November 2009
Runtime: 144′
Director: Michael Haneke
Cast: Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Maria-Victoria Dragus, Leonard Proxauf
Production House: X-Filme Creative Pool, Wega Film, Les Films du Losange, Lucky Red, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), German Federal Film Board, Mini-Traité Franco-Canadien, Deutsche Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Austrian Film Institute, Vienna [...]