Soul Kitchen

2009. German.DVDRip.XviD-CRUCiAL

Director: Fatih Akin
Writers: Fatih Akin (screenplay)
Adam Bousdoukos (screenplay)
Release Date:
17 December 2009 (Greece)
Genre: Comedy
Tagline: “Leben ist, was passiert, waehrend du dabei bist, andere Plaene zu machen” (Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.)
Runtime: 99 min
Origin: Germany
Language: German | Greek

Starring: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Unel, Anna Bederke, Pheline Roggan, Lucas Gregorowicz, Dorka Gryllus, Wotan Wilke Moehring

SOUL KITCHEN is about family and friends, about love, trust and loyalty and about the struggle to protect a place called home in an increasingly unpredictable world. Fatih Akin has gathered a best-of cast from his previous films – Adam Bousdoukos (SHORT SHARP SHOCK, HEAD-ON), Moritz Bleibtreu (SOLINO, IN JULY), Birol Ünel (HEAD-ON, IN JULY).

Zinos, a young restaurant-owner, is left by his long-term girlfriend Nadine. Zinos spends more time in the restaurant than with her, and she has just been offered a job in Shanghai.

After she left, Zinos spirals into crisis mode and decides to sell his restaurant. The Soul Kitchen has certainly seen better days – it’s not exactly buzzing, and Wilhelmsburg, the part of town where the restaurant is, is much too far away the hip, bustling atmosphere at the heart of Hamburg.
Zinos doesn’t know better but to follow Nadine – so he tries to sell the restaurant. And suddenly there are only three weeks to go before the closure.
In these three weeks, pure anarchy breaks out in the Soul Kitchen: the chef cooks what he’s always wanted to cook, a new DJ gets the guests dancing after their meals, artists exhibit their work – and the guests like it. Rumours of the cult Soul Kitchen spread right around Hamburg.
At the very last party, Zinos realises it was a mistake to sell the restaurant. When he finds out it’s going to be torn down to make way for a shopping mall, he moves heaven and earth to get the Soul Kitchen back…

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I Killed My Mother

2009 FRENCH.DVDRip.XviD-MeRCuRY

Director: Xavier Dolan
Writer: Xavier Dolan (written by)
Release Date:
15 July 2009 (France)
Genre: Biography | Drama
Original title: J’ai tué ma mère
Running time: 96 min
Origin: Canada
Language: French
Subtitles: English
Color: Black and White | Color

Starring: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, Suzanne Clement, Francois Arnaud, Patricia Tulasne, Niels Schneider, Monique Spaziani

Hubert Minel doesn’t love his mother. The 17-years-old haughtily regards her with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters, kitsch decorations and the breadcrumbs that get stuck on the corner of her lips when she munches. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parents’ cherished mechanisms of manipulation and guilt. Confused by this love/hate relationship that obsesses him more and more each day, Hubert drifts through the mysteries of an adolescence both marginal and typical – artistic discoveries, illicit experiences, the opening-up to friendship, sex and ostracism.

Xavier Dolan, 21-years-old, portrays an unforgettable story of love/hate relationship between a son and his mother. Breathtaking!

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The City of Your Final Destination

2009 DVDRip Xvid-XTM

Director: James Ivory
Writers: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay)
Peter Cameron (based on the novel by)
Release Date:
April 16, 2010
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 118 min
Rating: Rated PG-13 for a brief sexual situation with partial nudity.
Production: Merchant Ivory Productions
Origin: USA
Languages: English, Spanish

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Omar Metwally, Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Hiroyuki Sanada, Norma Aleandro, Alexandra Maria Lara, Kate Burton

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi, has won a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer Jules Gund. Omar must get through to three people who were close to Gund – his brother, widow, and younger mistress – so he can get authorization to write the biography. (Screen Media Films)

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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

2009 FESTiVAL DVDSCR XviD-Kata

Director: Werner Herzog
Writers: Herbert Golder (screenplay)
Werner Herzog (screenplay)
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 11, 2009
Genre: Drama
Running time: 1 hour 31 minutes.
MPAA: Rated R for some language.
Origin: USA | Germany
Language: English

Starring: Willem Dafoe (Detective Hank Havenhurst), Chloë Sevigny (Ingrid), Brad Dourif (Uncle Ted), Verne Troyer (Midget), Michael Shannon (Brad), Michael Peña (Detective Vargas), Udo Kier (Lee Meyers), Loretta Devine (Miss Roberts) and Grace Zabriskie (Brad’s mother).

The film opens as officers arrive at the scene of a typical middle-class neighborhood in San Diego. The suspect has barricaded himself inside a home and appears to have taken hostages. Two of his friends arrive, but too late. As they and their neighbors try to come to grips with what has happened, they tell their stories to the detective in charge of the crime scene. In a series of flashbacks, the bizarre story of Brad Macallam begins to emerge. After an ill-fated white-water kayaking trip in a distant land, Brad finds readjustment to suburban life increasingly difficult. As his disaffection grows and his relations with those around him become strained, he glimpses a world more vivid and strangely frightening than others can see. The detectives try to penetrate the mystery of his story, but the questions only multiply. Brad’s unfolding personal and family drama leads to an obsession with an ancient play, finally driving him to murder. (Paper Street Films)

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The Maid

2009 DVDRip XViD-SPRiNTER

Director: Sebastián Silva
Writers: Sebastián Silva (story)
Sebastián Silva (writer) …
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 16, 2009
DVD: June 22, 2010
Genre: Drama
Tagline: She’s more or less family.
Running Time: 95 minutes, Color
Origin: Chile | Mexico
Language(s): Spanish
RATING: Not Rated
Original Title: La nana

Starring Catalina Saavedra, Alejandro Goic, Claudia Celedón, Andrea García-Huidobro, Agustín Silva, Mariana Loyola, Anita Reeves, Mercedes Villanueva, Delfina Guzmán

Raquel, a bitter and introverted woman, has been the Valdés family’s maid for 23 years. One day Pilar, her mistress, hires another maid to help Raquel with her chores. Raquel, feeling her place in the family threatened, drives the new arrival away with cruel psychological abuse. This happens time and again, until Pilar hires Lucy, a merry girl from the countryside who has never worked as a maid before. It is Lucy who finally breaks the barrier Raquel has erected around herself.(Elephant Eye Films)

Won Grand Jury Prize World Cinema – Dramatic Sebastián Silva (Sundance Film Festival 2009)
Special Jury Prize World Cinema – Dramatic Catalina SaavedraFor acting. (Sundance Film Festival 2009)

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White Lightnin’

2009 DVDRip XviD-aAF

Director: Dominic Murphy
Writers: Eddy Moretti (writer)
Shane Smith (writer)
Release Date:
25 September 2009 (UK)
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 92 min | USA:84 min (Sundance Film Festival)
Origin: UK
Language: English

Starring: Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson, Owen Campbell

Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, in a battered trailer, abides living legend Jesco White, ‘the dancing outlaw’. As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum for taking drugs, stealing lighter fluid and for his wild behaviour. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing – a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his daddy’s murder at the hands of a pair of drunken rednecks, the crazy but charismatic Jesco out on his daddy’s shoes, danced his way round the bars of the county where he met the love of his life, Cilla, who happened to be twice his age and half his height. The odd couple tried to settle down but tortured by the thought of his daddy’s killers still at large, Jesco’s demons resurfaced. This is his story.

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The Legacy

2009 DVDRip XViD-TWiST

Director: Bernard Émond
Writer: Bernard Émond (writer)
Release Date:
1 January 2010 (USA)
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 96 min
Origin: Canada
Language: French | English
Original Title: “La donation”

Starring: Marie-Soleil Corbin-Allyson, Angèle Coutu, Michel Daigle, Lealie Ferland-Tanguay, Danielle Fichaud

Set in Normetal, a town whose heyday passed decades ago with the closing of their primary employer, a mine, La Donation follows a Montreal ER doctor named Jeanne (Elise Guilbalt) as she takes over briefly for the town physician, Dr. Rainville (Jacques Godin). Unsettled by her proximity to her patients, given the inevitability of regular contact in a small community, Jeanne struggles with her new role, faced with a dilemma when Dr. Rainville suffers a heart attack.

The story unfolds in an observational capacity, as the new doctor treats a variety of patients with expectations and idiosyncrasies of their own. While bonding with the baker, she alienates herself from others by refusing to sign worker’s compensation claims and attacking locals for their allowance of recreational drug usage. We see this new world through her eyes, unfamiliar with its specific machinations, aside from the overwhelming sense of callousness a tight-knit hamlet can have.

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Blue Beard

2009 SUBBED DVDRip XviD-VoMiT

Director: Catherine Breillat
Writers: Charles Perrault (fairy tale)
Catherine Breillat (adaptation)
Release Date:
6 October 2009 (France)
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: N/R.
Running Time: 80mins.
Language: French, with Eng. subtitles.
Original Title: Barbe Bleue

Starring: Dominique Thomas, Lola Créton, Daphné Baiwir, Marilou Lopes-Benites, Lola Giovannetti

Based on Charles Perrault’s grisly fairytale, Bluebeard tells the story of young Marie-Catherine, child bride to an aristocratic ogre with a reputation for murdering his wives. Controversial director Catherine Breillat (The Last Mistress, Fat Girl, Romance) brings her personal touch to this classic tale, a favorite of good little French girls since the 1950′s. Princess Marie-Catherine must employ all her cunning to outwit her husband and escape a potentially unpleasant fate. –© Strand

French filmmaker Catherine Breillat (The Last Mistress) takes an unabashedly sincere approach to Charles Perrault’s enduring fable of a curious girl (Créton) married to a mysterious Goliath (Thomas) with a dungeon full of secrets. It’s a children’s story with real bite, and the director’s video-sourced visuals—favoring chaste, storybook compositions—give loving life to the tale that she has acknowledged as a formative influence.

Those concerned that Breillat has tempered her provocateur’s flair will be appeased the moment Créton’s precocious Marie-Catherine wishes blasphemous ill on the Mother Superior who expels both her and her older sister, Marie-Anne (Giovannetti), from a convent. She spouts childish curses that are deeply unsettling in light of her outwardly unspoiled innocence. And whenever this petite-framed adolescent nuzzles against Thomas’s hulking Bluebeard, the film pulsates with danger and possibility.

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Empty Nest

2008 DVDRip XviD-LAP

Director: Daniel Burman
Writer: Daniel Burman (writer)
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 24, 2009
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Running Time: 91 minutes, Color
Origin: Argentina | Spain | France | Italy
Language(s): Spanish | Hebrew
RATING: Not Rated
Original Title: El nido vacío

Starring Oscar Martinez, and Cecilia Roth

Cultured, prosperous, blessed with three children and many friends, Leonardo and Martha are a truly enviable example of the species “married couple.” Leonardo is an author of considerable repute; Martha, a hyperactive housewife with academic interests. Leonardo sits back and observes; Martha forges ahead and acts. An enviable couple? They both begin to question their happiness when Julia, their youngest, marries and leaves Buenos Aires. The house is empty, the children scattered all over the world. For Leonardo and Martha, there are no more excuses for not addressing all those little grievances and annoyances that have piled up over the years. Martha seeks release by going back to the university and surrounding herself with people. Leonardo takes refuge in fantasies that become so real that he can´t distinguish them from reality. (Bavaria Film)

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The Eclipse

2009 LiMiTED DVDRip XviD-LPD

Director:Conor McPherson
Writers:Conor McPherson (screenplay)
Billy Roche (story)
Release Date:
24 April 2009 (Tribeca Film Festival)
Genre: Drama | Horror | Romance
Tagline: If there is life after death – love lives on

Starring: Ciarán Hinds, Aidan Quinn, Iben Hjejle, Jim Norton, Eanna Hardwicke, Hannah Lynch

THE ECLIPSE tells the story of Michael Farr (Ciarán Hinds), a teacher raising his two kids alone since his wife died two years earlier. Lately he has been seeing and hearing strange things late at night in his house. He isn’t sure if he is simply having terrifying nightmares or if his house is haunted.

Each year, the seaside town where Michael lives hosts an international literary festival, attracting writers from all over the world. Michael works as a volunteer for the festival and is assigned the attractive Lena Morelle (Iben Hjejle), an author of books about ghosts and the supernatural, to look after. They become friendly and he eagerly tells her of his experiences. For the first time he has met someone who can accept the reality of what has been happening to him.

However, Lena’s attention is pulled elsewhere. She has come to the festival at the bidding of world-renowned novelist Nicholas Holden (Aidan Quinn), with whom she had a brief affair the previous year. He has fallen in love with Lena and is going through a turbulent time, eager to leave his wife to be with her. But all Lena is trying to do is extricate herself from this mess and just get through the next few days.

As the festival progresses, the trajectories of these three people draw them into a life-altering collision.

Embellished by the supernatural, THE ECLIPSE is a film about the challenges of love, fear of the unknown and release from the burden of grief.

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