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Festen, revolves around a family reunion to celebrate the 60th birthday of Helge, the father of the family. At the feast, some quite strong and unpleasant family truths are unleashed, which will break the harmony of the celebration.

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At a time of chronic civil unrest in the USA, at Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, California, a young revolutionary and an anthropology student meet and start an unrestrained relationship by making love on the dusty terrain. The events of the young revolutionary cause a tragic event for him and a loneliness for the girl he met.

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6 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About Zabriskie Point

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6 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About Zabriskie Point

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In real life, Mark Frechette led a counterculture life much like his character's in the film. Three years after the release of this film, he was imprisoned for his part in a bank hold-up in Boston. He died in prison in 1975 during a weightlifting exercise when a barbell fell on his neck.

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On March 8, 1967, Hail Thomas Hansen, 20, took a private plane from Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, for a joy ride, flying to Tucson. When he returned to Sky Harbor early in the morning of March 9, the Phoenix police were waiting for him. Hansen was shot and killed. Antonioni used elements of this story in his screen play. For additional details of Hansen's death.

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Antonioni met with Jim Morrison during early production to ask for a musical contribution to the soundtrack. Morrison and the Doors provided "L'America" which Antonioni then rejected.

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One hundred people participated in the orgy scene, half of them from Joseph Chaikin 's Open Theatre company, and the other half "made up of assorted hippies."

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Harrison Ford fans know his scenes were cut from this film. However, look closely in the jail scene: he's standing against the back wall near the door.

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Michelangelo Antonioni's original ending was a shot of an airplane sky-writing the phrase "Fuck You, America," which was cut by MGM president Louis F. Polk along with numerous other scenes. Louis F. Polk was eventually replaced by James T. Aubrey, who had most of the cut footage restored, but without this final shot.

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Night of the Living Dead, tells the story of a group of Pennsylvanians who they shelter in a abandoned house to stay safe from a horde of dead people who are carnivores, the dead stalk the house and the only thing they want is to eat them all. The people are going to make whatever it takes to survive.

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5 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About Night of the Living Death

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5 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About Night of the Living Death

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Night of the living Dead (1968) - Soundtrack (Full Vinyl Rip)

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This is one of the most successful independent movies ever made. Made for $114,000 (equivalent to $847,400 in 2020), it grossed approximately $30 million (equivalent to $223.6 million in 2020) - over 263 times its budget.

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The word "zombie" is never used. The most common euphemism used to describe the living dead is "those things," mostly by Cooper. Other characters refer to the creatures as "ghouls" and "flesh eaters". However, the film codified many tropes about zombies that have been used in many movies since, including zombies eating human flesh and that zombies can only be killed by shooting them in the head.

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When the zombies are eating the bodies in the burnt-out truck, they were actually eating roast ham covered in chocolate sauce. The filmmakers joked that it was so nausea-inducing that it was almost a waste of time putting the makeup on the zombies as they ended up looking pale and sick anyway.

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When the writers decided to base the film on zombies, they brainstormed about what would be the most shocking thing for the zombies to do to people and decided on cannibalism.

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George A. Romero, although he was not the first to make this type of film, is considered by many to be the creator of the zombie archetype in popular culture, by incorporating several of the elements typical of this type of creature.

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He made the rules about the zombies, shoot them in the head, if they bite you you get infected, the dead coming back to life, among other many annotations George did all that.
- Eli Roth, 2007.

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De cierte manera, is located in Miraflores, Cuba, the growing romance between Mario, a factory worker, and Yolanda, a school teacher, highlights the differences in their perspectives and values in Revolutionary Cuba.

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It is a Cuban romantic drama film from 1974, directed by Sara Gómez, the film mixes documentary images with a fictional story developed in the poor neighborhoods of Havana, a few years after the Cuban Revolution of 1959.

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Gómez finished filming with Mario Balmaseda and Yolanda Cuéllar just before dying from a severe asthma attack. The technical work was completed by the filmmakers Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Julio García-Espinosa and Rigoberto López, after which the film was released.

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The relationship between the main characters represents the idea that racism, sexism, and class prejudices must be overcome in order to achieve a better country.

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Something I want to talk about and that has nothing to do with the movie, is that when I saw the Cuban movie, the first thing I thought and heard in my head was this song, I hope you enjoy it.

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Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan (Official HD Video)

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Quartier Mozart, recounts the story of a young girl who is magically transformed into a swaggering Casanova nicknamed “My Guy.” While the focus is on “My Guy,” several offbeat characters crowd the show, including a polygamist police chief whose daughter “My Guy” seduces and a witch whose handshake can make men’s genitals disappear.

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Quartier Mozart is a Cameroon-French co-production film shot in colors directed by Jean-Pierre Bekolo

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The film was premiered at the 1992 Locarno International Film Festival and the same year it was screened at the Chicago International Film Festival.

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At Locarno Jean-Pierre Bekolo was nominated for the Golden Leopard Award and awarded the Special Swissair / Crossair Award. At the 1992 Montreal International Film Festival he earned a special mention as a debut director.

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This is a sexual farce presenting the assimilation of African American popculture into African traditions.

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The combination of highly westernized characters and the charged folk tale atmosphere form a vision of today’s Africa. Quartier Mozart is as humorous as it is revealing and depicts the powerful influence of western pop culture.

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La Haien, french film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and released in 1995. It narrates the lives of three young men disinherited from society (a Jew, an Arab and a black man) 24 hours a day in a Paris suburb in the mid-nineties. Vinz, Saïd and Hubert, fight against the hatred coming from the police and the established power.

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6 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About La Haine

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6 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About La Haine

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The scene with Vinz in the bathroom looking into the mirror was filmed with two actors mimicking each other. If it was a real mirror we would have seen the camera behind him. The monologue of the Vinz character opposite the mirror is the same as that of the character Travis's opposite the mirror in the movie 'Taxi Driver' directed by Martin Scorsese

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The film was originally filmed in color but changed to b/w in post-production by Kassovitz himself. A color re-release was planned in case the original release flopped.

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The DJ who appears in the upstairs project window and scratches with Cut Killer's "Nique la Police" is actually Cut Killer himself.

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There is a documentary called "Ten Years of La Haine" featuring cast and crew commentaries, production footage and deleted scenes. It is only found in the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray version of the movie.

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The names of the characters are almost all the same as the actors' real life names.

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Although playing a teenager, Vincent Cassel was 28 years old when this movie was in production.

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The Mirror, tells the story of a man, called Alekséi, whose adult face is not shown throughout the film, he narrates and talks with his wife about their current situation and the reasons why they have distanced themselves. In this sense, the film is a continuous evocation of memories and feelings that travel in different times in no apparent order: the relationship with his mother, his childhood, ... that are mixed with film material from the news on the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War and the confrontation between the USSR and China over Damanski Island. A very confusing and visually beautiful tape.

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6 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About The Mirror.

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6 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About The Mirror.

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One of the most beutiful and abstract escene of the movie, for me.

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To create the effect of the wind making waves through the crops in the field outside the cabin in the woods, Tarkovsky had two helicopters land behind the camera and switch on the rotors when he wanted the wind to start.

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Andrei Tarkovsky made 32 versions of El espejo (1975) before he approved the final (33rd) cut.

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Wintertime scenes in the Mirror echo paintings by Pieter Bruegel, "Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap" and "The Hunters in the Snow".

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Initially Tarkovsky considered Alla Demidova and Swedish actress Bibi Andersson for the role of the mother. In the end Margarita Terekhova was chosen.

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Goskino, the USSR State Committee for Cinematography, did not allow it to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival. The managing director of the festival, Maurice Bessy, was sympathetic to Tarkovsky. Upon hearing that Mirror would not be allowed to be shown in Cannes, he unsuccessfully threatened not to take any other Soviet film.

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The concept of The Mirror dates as far back as 1964. Over the years Tarkovsky wrote several screenplay variants, at times working with Aleksandr Misharin. Their mutually-developed script initially was not approved by the film committee of Goskino, and it was only after several years of waiting that Tarkovsky would be allowed to realize The Mirror.

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6 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About Festen

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6 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About Festen

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One of my favorite escenes of the movie.

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Famously known as the first movie of the Dogme 95 movement.

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Since this is a Dogme-film, there cannot be any non diegetic (artificial) sounds added, no post-production. The camera also needs to be hand-held. So when Christian falls to the floor in the reception and sees his sister, Christian himself had to hold the camera when falling. To achieve the "dizzy" sound, the original cameraman swung the microphone around in the air.

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On March 28th, 1996 the Danish National Radio (DR) broadcast "Koplevs Krydsfelt" when an anonymous caller, "Allan", told his story about an unusual speech he held at his step-fathers 60th birthday. One of the many listeners to this strange story was director Thomas Vinterberg, who was inspired to make his first Dogme movie.

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Thomas Vinterberg "confessed" to having covered a window during the shooting of one scene, which is a breaking of two Dogme rules - no bringing props onto the set, and no use of special lighting.

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On 23 November 2002 Danish Radio found 'Allan' again. Allan met with director Thomas Vinterberg. During the interview it was revealed that Allan's entire story was pure fantasy. However, Allan had adopted the story from a true life experience of a Danish nurse. She held her speech on Christmas eve.

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Durante la cena con el discurso, fue difícil para los camarógrafos cumplir con la regla Dogme sobre las cámaras portátiles. La solución fue dejar que algunos de los invitados a la mesa sostuvieran las cámaras ellos mismos.

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Living in Oblivion (TomDicillo, 1995), focuses on the shooting of a low-budget independent film where dreams and reality are confused. Nick is the director and everything is going wrong: the microphone is visible, the sound fails, a bulb breaks, the actresses forget his role ... but the filmmaker is not willing to resign.

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6 Ineresting Facts You May Not Know About Living in Oblivion

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6 Ineresting Facts You May Not Know About Living in Oblivion

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Trailer

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Director Tom DiCillo didn't want to beg people for money to make this film, so he asked his actors if they would work for free. All of them agreed and most of them even put up money themselves. Eventually anybody who contributed a few dollars got a part in the movie.

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The idea that writer / director Tom DiCillo modeled the buffoonish Chad Palomino character on Brad Pitt after working with Pitt on Johnny Suede (1991) is a myth. Pitt himself was slated to appear as the Palomino character, until a scheduling conflict with Legends of Passion (1994) forced him to drop out and be replaced by James Le Gros. Apparently, LeGros "was" mocking a self-absorbed Hollywood star, but it wasn't Pitt. DiCillo said that while he can't name any names, LeGros confided that he had lifted all of the Palomino character's mannerisms from a star with whom he had just finished working.

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This was the first credited film role for Peter Dinklage who had previously avoided the traditional elf and leprechaun type of role offered to actors with dwarfism. In Living in Oblivion he plays Tito, a frustrated dwarf actor who complains about his clichéd roles.

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The recurring theme of the film is dream sequences. The lead character's last name "Reve" means "dream" in French.

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Peter Dinklage - Living In Oblivion - Dream Sequence Extended

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Tomo DiCillo originally wrote this as a half-hour showcase for Catherine Keener and shot in 16 days.

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Chad says that, "The only reason he took a part in this movie is because someone said that you (Nick) were tight with Quentin Tarantino." Steve Buscemi previously worked with Tarantino in Reservoir Dogs (1992).

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Heavenly Creatures (Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson, 1994). Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two friends who share a love of fantasy and literature and conspire to kill Pauline's mother after she tried to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.

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6 Ineresting Facts You May Not Know About Heavely Creatures

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6 Ineresting Facts You May Not Know About Heavely Creatures

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All the soundrack

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01 The Princess Of Llam (Heavenly Creatures Soundtrack)

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Almost all locations used for filming were the genuine locations where the events occurred. The tea shop where Honorah Parker ate her last meal was knocked down a few days after the shoot ended. According to director Peter Jackson, when they got to the location of the murder on the dirt path, it was eerily quiet; the birds stopped singing, and it didn't seem right. So they moved along a couple of hundred yards.

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Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet were so strongly into their roles that they would interact with each other as their characters off screen. Also was her feature film debut for the two girls.

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Since the Parker-Hulme murder had been an infamous crime that was strongly sensationalized in New Zealand history Peter Jackson decided rather than do a film that would be a historical look back at the crime to instead create a drama about Parker and Hulme's intense friendship. In addition to reading Pauline Parker's diary, Jackson and company undertook a nation wide search for anyone who had known the girls and interviewed them to get a closer look at their lives.

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A picture on the wall in Pauline's bedroom is a photograph of the real Juliet Hulme.

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All of the journal voice-overs are direct from real diary entries made by Pauline Parker. The characters in the stories (if not the stories themselves) and make-believe world are also authentic.

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Most of the cast was selected because of their physical resemblances to their real-life characters.

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Farewell my Concubine (Kaige Chen, 2003). It tells the political and cultural history of China during the second half of the 20th century, from before the People's Republic of China was formed until the 1970s. A story of two children who met at an opera training school in Beijing in 1924 a friendship that will last almost 70 years and will endure some of the most difficult moments in Chinese history. The friendship between the two young people will be the link and the central theme of the film.

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6 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About Heavely Creatures

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6 Interesting Facts You May Not Know About Heavely Creatures

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Farewell My Concubine trailer with Chinese subtitle

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Jackie Chan was originally offered the role of Duan Xiaolou due to his own childhood experience of training in the Peking Opera. But he turned it down, fearing that the film, which deals with themes of homosexuality, might tarnish his image of him.

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Leslie Cheung was The first Hong Kong actor who acted in a mainland China film.

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During filming, Leslie Cheung could hardly speak mandarin Chinese, let alone a genuine Beijing accent (as every actor speaks in this film). His voice is dubbed by native Beijing actor Yang Lixin (uncredited).

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The very first film from the People's Republic of China to win the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

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Originally banned in China, but was released due to outside pressure. The film would go on to receive international critical acclaim. Later on it would be censored.

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Miramax Filmsmogul "Harvey Weinstein" purchased the distribution rights and removed ten minutes. This is the version seen in U.S. theaters (and also in the U.K.) According to Peter Biskind's book, "Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance and the Rise of Independent Film", Louis Malle, who was president of the Cannes jury that year, said: "The film was admired so much in Cannes is not the film seen in this country (referring to the U.S.), which is twenty minutes shorter - but seems longer because it doesn't make any sense. It was better before those guys made cuts." The uncut version of the film was released on DVD by Miramax and Disney, and is the original 171-minute version.

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Hana-Bi (Takeshi Kitano, 1997) tells the story of Yoshitaka Nishi, a violent police officer who leaves his post after a terrible accident in which his partner Horibe ends up in a wheelchair. From the event that he lived, he decides to spend time taking care of his wife Miyuki, who suffers from a terminal illness. Nishi will be forced to ask the Yakuza for a loan, having to face the difficulty of paying the money back. Meanwhile, Horibe discovers painting as an escape route from his despair, leading to surreal works of art of great beauty.

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5 Ineresting Facts You May Not Know About Heavely Creatures

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5 Ineresting Facts You May Not Know About Heavely Creatures

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All the soundtrack

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Hana-bi - Joe Hisaishi (Hana-bi Soundtrack)

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The paintings that appear throughout the movie were painted by Takeshi Kitano himself after his near-fatal motorcycle accident in August 1994.

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The Japanese title translates into 'Fireworks", but if you look further into the basis of the Japanese character for 'fireworks', you will see that it is composed of two smaller words - 'fire' and 'flower'. And like the linguistic basis of the title, the story and style of "Hana-Bi" is the synthesis of two opposing images, one being an agent of destruction, and the other a symbol of birth and renewal.

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Girl playing with kite, featured in the final scenes of the film is Takeshi Kitano's real-life daughter, Shoko Kitano.

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Became the first Japanese film to be released in Korea since the end of World War II (1945). However, box office performance was worse than expected with only 37,771 tickets sold.

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The man who sold the taxi cab had a "Cactus Jack" t-shirt on. Mick Foley wrestled in the 1990's as Cactus Jack in the International Wrestling Association of Japan.

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Old Boy (Park Chan-Wook, 2003), tells the story of Oh Dae-Su, who is kidnapped and imprisoned in a small room, where he begins to lose his mental control and asks himself why he is there. Shortly after his confinement, he whole that he is being blamed for the murder of his wife and knows nothing about his daughter. From that moment on, he decides to write a diary, where he writes down certain ideas in order to deduce who has kidnapped him. He is released for no reason after 15 years; Once free, he will exact revenge and have only 5 days to find the person who kidnapped him and kept him locked up all this time.

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6 Ineresting Facts You May Not Know About Heavely Creatures

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6 Ineresting Facts You May Not Know About Heavely Creatures

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The complete score of the movie

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Four live octopodes were eaten for the scene with Dae-su in the sushi bar, a scene which provoked some controversy abroad. Eating live octopus in Korea is commonplace although it is usually sliced first. When the film won the Grand Prix at Cannes, the director thanked the octopodes along with the cast and crew. Choi Min-sik is a Buddhist and had to pray after eating the octopi.

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Choi Min-sik trained for six weeks and lost twenty pounds to get in shape for the role of Dae-su, and did most of his own stunt work.

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Scenes at the police station with drunken and disorderly Dae-su Oh were the very last scenes the director scheduled to film. Choi Min-sik (Dae-su Oh) ad-libbed most of these "drunken" scenes, including the scene of him playing with toy wings that he bought for his daughter. He also ad-libbed many of his lines during the penthouse scene, including the anthem of his school.

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Dae-su Oh bangs his head right after stopping Mi-do from reading his diary. This "head banging" was not a scripted action. However Kang Hye-jeong (Mi-do) kept her cool and continued on with her lines. The director, in an interview, said that he kept and used this supposedly NG scene for its comical and emotional value.

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The line on the painting of Dae Su's cell reads "Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone." These are the first lines of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's famous poem, "Solitude".

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Based on Japanese Manga "Oldboy" by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya.

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Salaam Bombay! (Mira Nair, 1988), tells the story of a small young man named, Krishna, who is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and informs her that he will only be able to return home when he can pay 500 rupees to pay for his brother's bicycle that He destroyed. The circus then leaves Krishna behind and he takes a train to Bombay, where he works delivering T-shirts for the Chacha street bar and the street children call him "Chaipau". He befriends the heroin addict and drug dealer Chillum, and the young Manju Golub, the daughter of Baba Golub and the prostitute Rekha Golub. Krishna dreams of saving 500 rupees to return home, but life on the streets of Bombay is not easy. It is the story of the everyday life of street children in Bombay.

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6 Ineresting Facts You May Not Know About Heavely Creatures

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6 Ineresting Facts You May Not Know About Heavely Creatures

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The Official Trailer

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Salaam Bombay! Official Trailer #1 - Raghuvir Yadav Movie (1988) HD

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Irrfan Khan made an appearance in this film as a writer, one of his first appearances.

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Nana Patekar accidentally got stabbed by the child actor. The actor did not understand the director's instructions properly.

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Most of the young actors who appeared in the film were actual street children. They received dramatic training at a special workshop in Bombay before they appeared in the film.

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Bollywood 2nd movie nominated for Oscar after Mother India (1957).