Author: pnea
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1954 – Panique au village (2009)
A Town Called Panic (French: Panique au village) is a 2009 internationally co-produced stop-motion animated adventure fantasy comedy family film directed by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar.
The film is based on the TV series of the same name and stars Aubier, Jeanne Balibar, Nicolas Buysse, Véronique Dumont, Bruce Ellison, Frédéric Jannin, Bouli Lanners, and Patar, among others. It premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was the first stop-motion film to be screened at the festival.
Empire magazine were very positive awarding the film 4 stars, summing it up as “Toy Story on absinthe” (wiki)
1953 – Tracker (2010)
spacetime coordinates: 1903 around Auckland in the British colony of New Zealand
Tracker is a 2010 British–New Zealand action-thriller film directed by Ian Sharp and starring Ray Winstone as a renowned Afrikaner commando leader of the Second Boer War and a master tracker & Temuera Morrison as a Maori harpooner on a whaling ship. (wiki)
1952 – A History of Violence (2005)
spacetime coordinates: 2000’s Millbrook, Indiana, / Philadelphia
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A History of Violence is a 2005 American action-thriller film directed by David Cronenberg. It is an adaptation of the 1997 graphic novel of the same title by John Wagner and Vince Locke. The film stars Viggo Mortensen as the owner of a small-town diner who is thrust into the spotlight after confronting two robbers in self-defense, thus changing the lives of him and his family forever. (wiki)
1951 – Malignant (2021)
spacetime coordinates: 2010’s Seattle / Seattle Underground
Malignant is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by James Wan. It stars Annabelle Wallis, Maddie Hasson, George Young, and Michole Briana White. Malignant was released theatrically and on HBO Max in the United States on September 10, 2021, by Warner Bros. Pictures. (wiki)
‘Malignant, is camp horror at its finest, a leaky cauldron of influences that mix into a wild third act as gory as it is unpredictable. From its murder mystery to its flickering neons to its wide-eyed, fragile protagonist, Malignant is first-and-foremost an ode to Italian giallo.’ strangeharbors-review
1950 – Kate (2021)
spacetime coordinates: late 2010’s Tokyo at night
Kate is an American action thriller film directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. The film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Michiel Huisman, and Tadanobu Asano. It was released on September 10, 2021, by Netflix. (wiki)
1949 – O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
spacetime coordinates: 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression
O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy-drama film written, produced, co-edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson, with Chris Thomas King, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning in supporting roles.
The film is a modern satire loosely based on Homer‘s epic Greek poem The Odyssey that incorporates social features of the American South. The title of the film is a reference to the Preston Sturges 1941 film Sullivan’s Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictitious book about the Great Depression. (wiki)
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