23 Sep 2009 Director: Marc Forster USA 2007 128 min It is a glorious afternoon in 1970s’ Kabul and the young Amir has just won a kite-fighting tournament. A fearful act of betrayal is about to tear apart his friendship with Hassan. Twenty years later, Amir is a successful writer living in America. He is… Continue reading The Kite Runner
Tag: 2007
Katyń
2 Dec 2009 Director: Andrzej Wajda Poland 2007 122 min Director Andrzej Wajda takes a unique dramatic examination on the tragic story of Katyn. In the spring of 1943 the advancing German army uncovered 4,400 bodies in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk. The majority of the dead were Polish officers and soldiers executed by Stalin’s… Continue reading Katyń
In Prison My Whole Life
20 Jan 2010 UK, USA 2007 90 min Director: Marc Evans William Francome was born on the 9th of December 1981 in London during a snow storm. At almost exactly the same time a Police officer was shot dead in Philadelphia. A prominent political activist and journalist was arrested at the same time. This man,… Continue reading In Prison My Whole Life
Fugitive Pieces
3 Mar 2010 Director: Jeremy Podeswa Canada, Greece 2007 104 min A powerful and graceful adaptation of a best-selling novel by Canadian poet Anne Michael. The story begins in Poland in 1942. Athos, a Greek archaeologist, finds a Jewish boy, Jakob, who has witnessed his parents murdered by the Nazis and his sister abducted. Athos… Continue reading Fugitive Pieces
Encounters At The End Of The World
4 Nov 2009 Director: Werner Herzog USA 2007 99 min This is a fascinating and visually entrancing documentary by the veteran filmmaker Werner Herzog. The filmmaker travels to the Antarctica community of McMurdo Station. The station is the headquarters of the National Science Foundation. In the Antarctic summer it is home to eleven hundred men… Continue reading Encounters At The End Of The World
Dialogue avec mon jardinier
Conversations With My Gardener 25 Sept 2013 Director: Jean Becker France 2007 109 min In this beautifully crafted celebration of the pleasures and value of friendship, Daniel Auteuil plays a successful and affable painter who decides to leave Paris and return to his rural hometown in the throes of a mid-life crisis. At first he… Continue reading Dialogue avec mon jardinier
Son Of Rambow
17 Nov 10 Director: Garth Jennings UK 2007 96 min Will is the sheltered son of a strict religious family who has never watched TV; Lee is the school terror who convinces Will to help create their own VHS opus after seeing a pirate copy of Rambo: First Blood. Add the coolest French exchange student… Continue reading Son Of Rambow
Die Falscher – Counterfeiters
08 Oct 2008 Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky Austria, Germany 2007 98 min It takes a clever man to make money. It takes a genius to stay alive. Salomon ʻSallyʼ Sorowitsch is a master counterfeiter. He lives a roguish life of booze, women and cards. His luck runs out when he is arrested by the Nazis and… Continue reading Die Falscher – Counterfeiters
Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon – The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
05 Nov 2008 Director: Julian Schnabel France, USA 2007 112min The winner of a BAFTA and two awards at Cannes, this is the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby. In 1995, Bauby, the French editor of Elle, has a stroke at the age of 43. His entire body is paralyzed with the exception of his left… Continue reading Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon – The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Honey Dripper
19 Nov 2008 Director: John Sayles USA 2007 124 min John Saylesʼ fable set in rural Alabama in the 1950ʼs. Tyrone “Pine Top” Purvis, the owner of the Honeydripper Lounge is broke and desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and recruits from the local army base away from the rival club Touissants. He hires… Continue reading Honey Dripper