broken blossoms ( 1936 film )
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he suddenly thinks .
d. w. griffith: broken blossoms !
the pub is the very image of griffith' s hollywood recreation of victorian london from his 1919 film .
broken blossoms is an american silent film from director d. w. griffith. this melodrama tells the love story of an abused english woman and a chinese buddhist in a time when london was a brutal and harsh place to live .
broken blossoms was given an a certificate; a contemporary review in the monthly film bulletin described it as unsuitable for
those who dislike being harrowed
. violence permeates the film and the themes of child abuse, racial bigotry, interracial (and paedophiliac) love and murder make this disturbing viewing for any audience .
and there, at the bar, sits d. w. griffith himself. clair approaches this mirage and learns that griffith is in london to direct a remake of broken blossoms at twickenham studios. drink is taken .
in fact, everything about broken blossoms is state - of - the - art for 1936, building on hitchcock' s rediscovery of visual storytelling and his adaptation of german expressionism and russian montage to create a new, heightened film language. the only antiquated element is the story. it still plays fine in the griffith original, but by the mid - thirties it' s questionable if anybody could really believe in it anymore. certainly nobody in this film can quite bring themselves to it, so the result is a kind of attenuated fairy tale, only far grimmer than grimm .
adaptations of three short stories by w. somerset maugham comprise this anthology film where the celebrated author introduces each segment of the film in front of the camera .
although the best silent comedy remains timeless and many silent films remain undated, melodrama such as
broken blossoms
seems old - fashioned to many viewers. watching it involves an act of cooperation with the film - - even active sympathy. you have to imagine how exotic such stories once seemed, how the foggy streets of limehouse and the broadly drawn characters once held audiences enthralled .
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not going to claim the british remake broken blossoms (1936) is anywhere near d. w. griffith' s masterpiece, but it does mirror some of the emotional scenes credibly enough to touch the heart of the story. unfortunately the pacing of the rest of the story is poorly done, so it becomes somewhat of a chore to get through the slow parts. most of the guys also get handicapped by their oriental make - up and stereotypes, but dolly haas does deserve praise for her performance as the poor girl being abused by her brute of a father. she is the shining light in this .
griffith in 1919 was the unchallenged king of serious american movies (only c. b. demille rivaled him in fame), and
broken blossoms
was seen as brave and controversial. what remains today is the artistry of the production, the ethereal quality of lillian gish, the broad appeal of the melodrama, and the atmosphere of the elaborate sets (the film' s budget was actually larger than that of
birth of a nation
) .
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lillian gish told d. w. griffith she was too old to play the girl in
broken blossoms ,
and perhaps she was. born in 1896, she was 23 as griffith prepared the production in 1919, and not as waiflike as audiences remembered her from
the birth of a nation ,
filmed five years earlier. but griffith wanted a star, and gish was that: incredibly, in an age when silent actors never stopped working, this was her 64th film .
in trying to imagine the film' s original impact, it might help to look at fellini' s
la strada
( 1954). pauline kael finds many of fellini' s inspirations in
broken blossoms ,
including zampano the strongman (anthony quinn), whose costume even resembles battling burrows'. gelsomina (giulietta masina), his much - abused companion, is obviously drawn from lucy, and richard basehart' s matto, who gives her shelter from the brute, fills the same function as the yellow man .
dolly haas gives a wrenching performance as the fragile waif, though it is chen' s glances that carry the emotional registers of the film. given the film' s strong visual sense, and the exquisite performances, the dialogue seems almost unecessary .
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top 10 tamil movies
made of all time .
it is not as important as
birth of a nation ,
but neither is it as flawed; stung by criticisms that the second half of his masterpiece was racist in its glorification of the ku klux klan and its brutal images of blacks, griffith tried to make amends in
intolerance
( 1916), which criticized prejudice. and in
broken blossoms
he told perhaps the first interracial love story in the movies - - even though, to be sure, it' s an idealized love with no touching .
this story is worth investigating for a number of reasons: the differences in narrative between the short story on which it is based, the silent film and the sound film; and as a representation of a working - class community, not to mention chinese people, in early cinema .
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the film, now close to a century old, is dated but contains great performances from the leads, and from donald crisp as gish' s abusive father .
the film adaptations added the stereotype chinese villain the evil eye, and softened the character of chen, the na├»ve and otherworldly philosopher. viewed from today, the film' s racism is no less blunt than in the short story, but the several other nationalities that populate the stories - the malays, africans, jews - have been excised .
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in a scam to nab some shiny rocks .
the resulting film' s failure would propel brahm to hollywood as he tried to outrun its stench, where he would becomes john brahm, the reliable and often brilliant maker of gothic noirs .
if the attitudes about race in
broken blossoms
are more well - meaning and positive than in
birth of a nation ,
they are nevertheless painfully dated for today' s eyes. but of course they are. marriage between the races was a crime in 1919, and so we see cheng' s face in closeup, looming closer to lucy as if he wishes to kiss her, and then pulling away as the subtitles assure us of his pure intentions. battling, of course, thinks the yellow man has had his way, but the girl cries out ,
t' ain' t nothing wrong !
griffith intrigues his audience with the possibility of exotic sex, and then cuts to moralizing titles .
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on a march night in 1964, 37 neighbors in queens, new york, witness the brutal murder of kitty genovese. none of them takes action or calls the police. 37 tells the story of a few of these people and what led up to the night when they unexplainably remained passive observers. the film is a convincing portrayal of a borough in change and a time characterized by racism, the civil rights movement and political shifts. the actual event that inspired the films plot has been called a symbol for the moment when america lost its innocence. the director puk grasten skillfully weaves into her feature film debut various fates, dreams and family conflicts by leading us through an apartment building that comes to bear a collective failure .
there is an obvious voyeurism in this representation of the east end, illustrated in a scene where a coach load of tourists arrive to gape and exclaim over the horrors of the neighbourhood. this warped fascination is stirred by the presence of immigrant communities and their representation in contemporary literature and film .
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a widescreen, technicolor remake of hitchcock' s own 1934 film of the same title starring james stewart and doris day. a couple vacationing in morocco with their son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. when their son is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him .
dolly haas, the element of the film griffith objected to, turns out to be its strongest human element. margetsen over - growls his lines, and perhaps lacking confidence in his ability to play
yellowface ,
emlyn williams the screenwriter keeps emlyn williams the actor mute as much as possible, which is all to the good .
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is the powerful story of jackie robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke major league baseball' s color barrier when he joined the roster of the brooklyn dodgers. the film follows the innovative dodger' s general manager branch rickey, the mlb executive who first signed robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show .
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according to halliwell it was originally intended that d w griffiths would direct this film. sadly he didn' t. instead it was given to a total incompetent who seemed to think that he must direct the film as if it were a silent. everything is exaggerated, except of course for emlyn williams who has decided to underplay. he plays the part without a chinese accent. meanwhile dolly haas, plays the cockney female lead with her german accent. it is interesting to note that many of the technical personnel were german and this has clearly had an effect on the photography which is probably the only positive aspect of this whole dreary mess. sometimes it is better to have second thoughts about going through with a remake. clearly this is such an example .
brahm provides numerous expressionist moments, notably in depicting the film' s own chance encounter. williams' character has lost all his buddhist faith in the beauty of the world, when he stops in the street, thunderstruck. and brahm jolts the camera from his astonished face and whirls it at accelerated motion to a basement window where haas' sleeping visage can be glimpsed through the grime .
' the chink and the child' appeared in a collection of short stories, limehouse nights (1916) by thomas burke. with its emphasis on atmosphere and descriptive flourishes, it was a natural for early film. lucy' s neighbourhood is lavishly recreated here as a horror set with dark alleys, lugubrious mists and fetid waterways. the lighting is sepulchral, the production design evokes menace .
as dolly haas parted her lips to address the
chink ,
the voice behind ackland piped up with the sublimely inappropriate
kiss me, sergeant !
ackland turned to see who the hell it was, and found emlyn william himself, mercilessly ripping the piss from his own movie and his own performance. the two friends, happily reunited by the film that had driven them apart, departed the cinema, giggling into the london night .
4) it took some time for ackland to get over the pain of rejection, and he still hadn' t made things up with williams when he crept in to see the film upon its release. williams, he noted, was as bad as could be expected, and he began to suspect that maybe he' d had a lucky escape from getting cast in this turkey. but his ability to concentrate was being spoiled by a noisome heckler in the row behind him .
set in a california subdivision, the story follows four couples who have bought homes and are neighbors. among the problems facing the couples are alcoholism, racism, and promiscuity. the story truly revolves around the idea of ,
no down payment
and the over extended nature of some of the families economic situation. tony randal is in a role that you would never expect, a car salesman and looking for a good time. other issues include discrimination against a former war hero for lack of education. the morality lesson is clearly the reason for the film .
five years after directing his last feature, dw griffith - the father of narrative film - was invited by twickenham studios to remake his 1919 classic about doomed love in london' s limehouse. when he dropped out, emlyn williams hurriedly produced a script based on the griffith original, and german exile john brahm was hired to direct. the result is better than might be expected, with brahm emulating the visual delicacy of the silent version. however, the dialogue is excruciating in places, dolly haas is no lillian gish, and williams can' t match richard barthelmess as the kindly chinaman .
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there is all of that, and then there is lillian gish' s face. was she the greatest actress of silent films? perhaps; her face is the first i think of among the silent actresses, just as chaplin and keaton stand side by side among the men. when she was filming
the whales of august
in 1987, her co - star was another legend, bette davis. the film' s director, lindsay anderson, told me this story. one day after finishing a shot, he said ,
miss gish, you have just given me the most marvelous closeup !
she should ,
bette davis observed dryly .
she invented them .
the stereotyping of the chinese character begins with the choice of a caucasian to play him. there were many asian actors in silent films, but only one, sessue hayakawa, played leading roles, and the most famous of the early asian characters, like charlie chan and fu manchu, were played by whites. the character of cheng is an anthology of stereotypes: he is a peaceful buddhist, opium addict, shopkeeper. but griffith' s film was nevertheless open - minded and even liberal in the context of his time and audiences, and we sense the good intentions behind patronizing titles like this one describing the advice cheng gets from a buddhist priest before his journey :
word for word, such as a fond parent of our own land might give .
tragedy of london slum life and of the disillusionment of an idealistic young chinese man. adapted from thomas burke' s
the chink and the child
and d. w. griffith' s masterpiece by emlyn williams .
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a chinese missionary comes to england. he helps a young girl ill - treated by her father. a remake of d. w. griffith' s
masterpiece
.
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a buddhist missionary travels from china to london. he meets and falls in love with a young girl in the slums of the east end but tragedy threatens when their relationship is discovered by the girl' s brutal father .
a frail waif, abused by her brutish boxer father in london' s seedy limehouse district, is befriended by a sensitive chinese immigrant with tragic consequences .
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1) rené clair is in london, making the ghost goes west (1935). something of a flaneur, he has strolled down to the east end, and his noctivagation leads him to a limehouse pub which strikes him with an intense but mysterious feeling of déjà vu .
2) all this comes from screenwriter rodney ackland' s bittersweet memoir of his work in british cinema, the celluloid mistress, co - written with elspeth grant. he further explains that his idolisation of griffith prompted him to volunteer his services in any capacity as soon as he learned that griffith was preparing a british picture. secretly, his hope was that griffith the great talent scout would cast him as chen, the story' s chinese protagonist, a role previously taken by richard barthelmess. clearly, nobody expected an actual chinese actor to take the part (although 1929' s piccadilly feature two actors of chinese descent in leading roles, anna may wong and king hou chang) .
imagine ackland' s distress when griffith met his screenwriter, welsh playwright emlyn williams, ackland' s best friend, and gave him the plum part. but this was merely the first of a series of disappointments .
3) griffith, known to his enemies as
hook - nose dave ,
was no longer the artist whose reputation was still celebrated in britain (where the controversy over birth of a nation seems to have gone right over the cinephiles' heads). a susceptibility to drink was accompanied by a susceptibility to female beauty, which had already caused him to cast girlfriend carol dempster in several pictures .
when aspiring starlet ariane borg turned up at griffith' s hotel, penniless, praying for a part, griffith decided abruptly that she and no other must play the lillian gish role in his remake. since the production was funded on the basis of german singing star dolly haas' iron - clad contract, the result was that griffith was abruptly off his own picture, and emigré novice hans brahm is thrust into the directing chair, with the talented quota quickie guru bernard
mad
vorhaus assisting .
curt courant, who had just shot the man who knew too much, collaborates with the lodger' s hal young on cinematography, creating a misty, murky studio limehouse bulging with the kind of dramatically composed close - ups brahm always loved .
but the most teutonic element is the production design of englishman james a. carter, another collaborator from the lodger. he creates a miniature china which wouldn' t look out of place in murnau' s magic carpet ride from faust, and a louring london of sweaty, crumbling walls which all seem hewn from catherine deneuve' s silly - putty apartment in repulsion. like drunken pugilist arthur margetson in the donald crisp role, they seem to lack the moral fortitude to remain upright .
haas' adorable attempt at a cockney accent, which she crams through her own german accent like garlic through a press, is inexplicable in plot terms but oddly charming to listen to. the sentimental yarn pours the treacle and tragedy on so liberally that everyone else drowns in it, but haas, whose pitiful waif ought to be the most unplayable part, somehow rises above it all, and like gish before her is convincingly childish in a role she' s more than ten years too old for .
thanks! hitchcock really synthesised the germanic and russian influences in his work — there was a lot of resistance to this at first, with ivor montague (producer, experimental filmmaker, ping pong enthusiast and soviet spy) having to rescue the lodger from the studio. korda was probably the most successful emigre in britain, followed by pressburger, but ernest palmer and allen gray, who worked with the archers, despite their british - sounding names, were in fact germans .
in light of our conversation, there’s a good book about germans working in england called ‘destination london: german - speaking emigres and british cinema, 1925 - 1950. ’ you can read my amazon review i used to write my previous comment. thanks urltoken
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the silent version from 1919 is one of the greats of early cinema. directed by dw griffith and starring lillian gish as the girl and richard barthelmess as the yellow man, it has some of the most memorable moments of the screen, especially the scenes where gish is forced to push her lips into a smile, and where she cowers in terror in the closet as her father approaches .
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when chinese immigrant cheng huanmoves to london to spread buddhism, he is unprepared for the deplorable conditions and intolerance of its inner city. but huan succumbs to his environment; his missionary dream turns into indifference and opium addiction, until he finds battered lucy burrows at his doorstep. he devotes himself to her recovery, and the two kindred souls become close, but tragedy awaits in the form of burrows' abusive father .
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gish plays lucy, the daughter of a brutal london prizefighter named battling burrows (donald crisp); the titles tell us she was
thrust into his hands by one of his girls .
a drunken
gorilla ,
he lives in a hovel in limehouse, and when his manager berates him for drinking and carousing, he takes it out on lucy. their story is intercut with the story of cheng haun (richard barthelmess), called
the yellow man
in the titles, a buddhist who journeys from china to bring
a message of peace to the barbarous anglo - saxons .
instead, he turns to opium, and
limehouse knows him only as the chink storekeeper .
griffith shot the movie almost entirely on sets, creating a foggy riverside atmosphere to suggest hidden lives. cheng' s room is a refuge upstairs over his shop. lucy and battling live in a room without windows, where he sits at a table, wolfing his meals and drinking, while she cowers in a corner. when he orders her to smile, she uses her fingers to push up the corners of her mouth. he gives lucy money for groceries and goes out to drink more, and she timidly ventures out to do the shopping, clutching a precious hoard of tinfoil, which she hopes she can trade for a flower to brighten her grim existence. on the streets, weary housewives warn her against matrimony, and women of the night against prostitution; thus her only two possible escapes seem closed. through the window of his shop, the yellow man sees her, and
the beauty which all limehouse missed smote him to the heart .
that evening, lucy spills hot food on battling' s hand, and he whips her almost to death before going out to drink. she stumbles into the chinese man' s store, and he gives her refuge, with
the first gentleness she has ever known .
she is able to smile at him without using her fingers. when battling burrows finds out where she is, there' s a violent showdown, including a striking shot where lucy, locked in a room with battling splintering the door with an ax, turns in a helpless circle, screaming .
gish was one of the great vulnerable screamers of the silent era, although she also had a good line in pluck and independence. in a long career that ended with
the whales of august
( 1987), she played many strong women. here she is essentially the passive object of male fantasy - - of battling, who sees her as servant and victim, and cheng, who idealizes her as his
white blossom .
griffith emphasizes both her angelic face and her weakness by often lighting and photographing her from above, and many years later, on the set of robert altman' s
a wedding
( 1978), i heard her rebuke a photographer who was trying for a low - angle shot :
get up from there! get up! if god had wanted you to shoot me from that angle, he would have given you a camera in your belly button. mr. griffith always said, 'shoot from above for an angel; shoot from below for a devil.'
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director john brahm main cast emlyn williams; dolly haas; arthur margetson; gibb mclaughlin genres drama, romance description a chinese missionary comes to england. he helps a young girl ill - treated by her father. a remake of d. w. griffith' s
masterpiece
.
ram bowen and eddie cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in paris where, unlike america at the time, jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non - issue. when they meet and fall in love with two young american girls, lillian and connie, who are vacationing in france, ram and eddie must decide whether they should move back to america with them, or stay in paris for the freedom it allows them. ram, who wants to be a serious composer, finds paris more exciting than america and is reluctant to give up his music for a relationship, and eddie wants to stay for the city' s more tolerant racial atmosphere .
this remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. this begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. based on a novel by james m. cain .
an fbi agent (debra winger) falls in love with a white supremacist (tom berenger) whose group she infiltrates .
after living in madrid for many years as a teacher, lucia returns to her hometown after her father' s death results in the inheritance of his tomato farm. while fighting the community' s racism toward the new illegal workers, lucia falls in love with the farm' s accountant, curro, a man who shares her cause. the couple is forced to confront the racism of the town and as tensions come to head, they will have to make some decisions that could cost them everything .
philip green is a highly respected writer who is recruited by a national magazine to write a series of articles on anti - semitism in america. he' s not too keen on the series, mostly because he' s not sure how to tackle the subject. then it dawns on him: if he was to pretend to all and sundry that he was jewish, he could then experience the degree of racism and prejudice that exists and write his story from that perspective. it takes little time for him to experience bigotry. he soon learns the liberal - minded firm he works for doesn' t hire jews and that his own secretary changed her name and kept the fact that she is jewish a secret from everyone. green soon finds that he won' t be invited to certain parties, that he cannot stay in so - called' restricted' hotels and that his own son is called names in the street. his anger at the way he is treated also affects his relationship with kathy lacy, his publisher' s niece and the person who suggested the series in the first place .
an indian family is expelled from uganda when idi amin takes power. they move to mississippi and time passes. the indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it .
air force major lloyd gruver (marlon brando) is reassigned to a japanese air base, and is confronted with us racial prejudice against the japanese people. the issue is compounded because a number of the soldiers become romantically involved with japanese women, in defiance of us military policy. ordinarily an officer who is by - the - book, gruver must take a position when a buddy of his, an enlisted man joe kelly (red buttons) falls in love with a japanese woman katsumi (miyoshi umeki) and marries her. gruver risks his position by serving as best man at the wedding ceremony .
willard young is a 10 - year - old boy who is sent by his mother to stay with her best friend lily reed, who lives in the delta shrimp - fishing country in a town called paradise. lily and her husband ben have been living in an unmentioned emotional vacuum since the death of their own three year old boy. willie makes friends with the local 9 - year - old tomboy billie pike, who teaches him to be comfortable with himself. when willard gains a handle on his own emotions, he can now help lily and ben to connect, overcome grief and rediscover themselves .
a woman' s life is thrown into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother - in - law into comas. thrills arrive after the brother - in - law wakes up, thinking he' s his brother .
vixen lives in a canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. while he' s away flying in tourists, she gets it on with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. she is openly racist, and she makes it clear that she won' t do the wild thing with her brother' s biker friend, who is black .
an engagement party is interrupted by the arrival of the russian girl, hired to help an old woman. liubi is the girl who is going to keep company to and help the sick mother of out protagonist. dimitris, the son of the family and liubi eventually fall in love. their love will be tested by the social racism that surounds the origins of the girl .
life has its downs for james, living with his mom in chicago at 39, an aging performer at second city, eating and weighing too much. a woman he' s been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. james turns down roles in local tv, roles that make him sad. someone' s remaking his favorite movie ,
marty ,
a role he' d love, but he doesn' t even get an audition .
an irishman, finian, and his daughter sharon, arrive in rainbow valley, a southern town of tobacco sharecroppers in the state of missitucky. the town has its own resident dreamer, woody, who thinks that he might be able to put the town on the map by crossing mint with tobacco so that it' ll grow mentholated. finian' s came to town because he' s stolen a leprechaun' s crock of gold and plans to plant it in the ground. but trouble arrives in the form of og the leprechaun, who has followed finian and wants his gold. meanwhile, the bigoted senator billboard rawkins, in an effort to stop progress in his state in the form of a new dam and hydroelectric system, plans to take the remaining parcel of land needed to stop the project. but the government' s geologists reveal the senator that gold has been detected on the property! rawkins and his men confront the sharecroppers to seize their land using as an excuse an obscure law making it a felony for blacks and whites to live together .
a drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman, his family doesn' t like .
billy, a struggling young gay photographer (who likes polaroids), tired of being the
other man
, falls in love with gabriel, a waiter and aspiring musician who is probably straight but possibly gay or at least curious. billy tries to get gabriel to model for his latest project, a series of remakes of famous hollywood screen kisses, featuring male couples, while also trying to win his affections .
a spiffy remake of the screwball classic libeled lady, with esther as the lady libeled. van johnson, keenan wynn and lucille ball round out a funny four - sided love triangle .
in this musical remake of the shop around the corner, feuding co - workers in a small music shop do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals .
pit violinist claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano christine dubois (as do baritone anatole and police inspector raoul) and secretly aids her career. but claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. soon, mysterious crimes plague the paris opera house, blamed on a legendary
phantom
.
a musical remake of ninotchka: after three bumbling soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying soviet composer from paris, the beautiful, ultra - serious ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. she starts out condemning the decadent west, but gradually falls under its spell, with the help of steve canfield, an american movie producer .
thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of the classic show
bewitched
.
a south korean man named bang tae - sik looks more like someone from southeast asia and has difficulties finding employment. one day, bang tae - sik disguises himself as a man from the country of bhutan named? bangga? and succeeds in finding a job. bang tae - sik then witnesses racism that migrant workers face in korea
henriette and louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. when louise goes blind, henriette swears to take care of her forever. they go to paris to see if louise' s blindness can be cured, but are separated when an aristocrat lusts after henriette and abducts her. only chevalier de vaudrey is kind to her, and they fall in love. the french revolution replaces the corrupt aristocracy with the equally corrupt robespierre. de vaudrey, who has always been good to peasants, is condemned to death for being an aristocrat, and henriette for harboring him. will revolutionary hero danton, the only voice for mercy in the new regime, be able to save them from the guillotine ?
a korean remake of the john woo classic. one brother is a criminal. one brother is a cop. both will fight to the death .
remake of the classic hitchcock movie. whilst generally not as good, it is a rather fun movie, and more lighthearted than the original. this is largely due to kenneth more' s acting .
this is a remake of the movie
let the right one in
which was a movie adaptation of a book. a story of a young boy who is frequently bullied and a young girl that moves in next door with her caretaker. it is established that she is a vampire and, after losing her caretaker, must leave in order to survive. a story of innocent love entangled in murder, mystery, and horror .
in this remake of the 1933 classic about the giant ape, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of kong and brings him back to new york to exploit him. even though a woman somewhat tames kong, he finally breaks loose and terrorizes the city, and as the military attempt to stop him, he falls to his death from the top of the world trade center .
western remake of high sierra with joel mccrea taking over the humphrey bogart role .
remake of the popular disney classic, this time featuring some well known voices as two dogs and a cat trek across america encountering all sorts of adventures in the quest to be reunited with their owners .
in 1983, in france experiencing intolerance and racial violence, three young teens and the priest minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1, 000 km between marseille and paris. despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of gandhi and martin luther king. they unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give france its new face.
broken blossoms is a 1936 british drama film directed by john brahm and starring emlyn williams , arthur margetson , basil radford and edith sharpe . director bernard vorhaus was technical supervisor . the film is based on the short story " the chink and the child " by thomas burke from his collection limehouse nights ( 1916 ) , and was produced at twickenham studios in london . the story had previously been adapted by d. w. griffith for his film broken blossoms ( 1919 ) starring lillian gish . 
broken blossoms is a 1936 british drama film directed by john brahm and starring emlyn williams, arthur margetson, basil radford and edith sharpe. director bernard vorhaus was technical supervisor. the film is based on the short story " the chink and the child " by thomas burke from his collection limehouse nights (1916), and was produced at twickenham studios in london. the story had previously been adapted by d. w. griffith for his film broken blossoms (1919) starring lillian gish.
broken blossoms is a 1936 british drama film directed by john brahm and starring emlyn williams, arthur margetson, basil radford and edith sharpe. director bernard vorhaus was technical supervisor. the film is based on the short story " the chink and the child " by thomas burke from his collection limehouse nights (1916), and was produced at twickenham studios in london. the story had previously been adapted by d. w. griffith for his film broken blossoms (1919) starring lillian gish.