Chick With Flicks

Bob — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:14:41 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: Documental sobre una expedici�n a �frica, cruzando pueblos y desiertos.

Movie Title: Lights of New York (1928)

Bob — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:13:11 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: Ayoung kid from Upstate New York named Eddie (Landis) is conned into fronting for a speakeasy on Broadway. Throughout the con there is an inevitable chorus-girl with a heart of gold (Costello), a cop-killing gangster boss (Oakman) and his downtrodden ex-girlfriend (Brockwell).

Movie Title: First Comes Love (1991)

Bob — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:20:50 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: First Comes Love consists of perfectly choreographed scenes of four wedding ceremonies accompanied by a complex medley of popular love songs. All seems to be going as it should until the couples reach the altar, when the celebratory atmosphere is interrupted for a surprising public service announcement. Then song and dance continues until the happy couples depart, leaving behind a dwindling crowd and a few altar boys who carefully sweep up the rice that blankets the pavement like snow. The film doesn’t attempt to defend–or discredit–the institution of marriage. Instead, it reveals the many subtle emotions surrounding the event, and raises questions about how the double standard regarding marriage affects gay and straight couples.

Movie Title: Warriors of the Apocalypse (1985)

Bob — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:25:47 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: After civilization is wiped out by nuclear war, an adventurer leads a group of wanderers on a search for the fabled Mountain of Life. Along the way they encounter pygmy tribes, bands of savage outlaws and a tribe of Amazon women.

Movie Title: Reluctant Astronaut, The (1967)

Bob — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:40:09 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends. When NASA decides to launch a lay person into space to prove the worthiness of a new automated spacecraft, Roy gets the chance to confront his fears.

Movie Title: Kaiser Wilhelm’s Yacht, ‘Meteor,’ Entering the Water (1902)

Bob — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:13:10 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: Another of our cameras was stationed on a special tug just at the rear of the temporary shed which sheltered the Meteor, and from this an excellent view was obtained of the boat as she glided into the water of the Newark Bay, gaily decked in her international bunting and German and American flags.

Bob — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:21:52 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: According to studies of the London School of Economics, the happiest people in the world live in Bangladesh, one of the poorest countries in the world. With this background, the documentary shows the life of four inhabitants of Dacca, the capital city: Hassan, a youngster who tries to get a job in the local cinema industry; Kutti, who abandoned her job as a maid to become a worker; Milli, a successful entrepreneur who divides her life between London and Dacca; and finally Russel, a boy that drives rikishas and dreams of becoming an actor.

Movie Title: Remembering Mario (2003)

Bob — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:36:09 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: Four friends – one summer – an Italian-American neighborhood in Yonkers, NY. Anna must make a decision about honoring her father’s wishes to go to Italy and learn about her heritage, while her three friends each search for the perfect relationship…

Movie Title: Pasqualino Settebellezze (1975)

Bob — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:19:28 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: Pasqualino, an Italian everyman, deserts the army during World War II. Germans capture him and send him to a prison camp, where he does just about anything to survive. In lengthy flashbacks, we see him and his family of seven unattractive sisters (the seven beauties), his accidental murder of one sister’s lover, his confession and imprisonment, his calculated switch to an asylum, his rape of a patient, and his volunteering to be a soldier to escape confinement. To the chagrin of his obese German captor, his weak and cowardly character enables him to survive the war and return to Naples where he has a plan to survive the next world catastrophe.

Movie Title: Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The (1953)

Bob — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:23:41 +0000

Movie Plot Summary: A nuclear bomb unearths a prehistoric rhedosaurus, which stomps its way to New York and proceeds to smash up Wall Street, Coney Island and other familiar Big Apple tourist attractions.