Figure 1.-- "The 3 Rooms of Melancholia" is a poweful film addressing the continuing Chechen conflict. It is addressed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
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Figure 1.-- "The 3 Rooms of Melancholia" is a poweful film addressing the continuing Chechen conflict. It is addressed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp. |
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The Finnish documentary, "The 3 Rooms of Melancholia", is a poweful, beautifully made, almost poetic film addressing the continuing Chechen conflict. While the film crew is Finnish and other Europeans, the film is about Russia. The film adresses how the dreadful conflict in Chechnya has affected children. The production is notable for its very limited dialog abd a musical score which works with the images rather than overwealming them. I am not sure just who the children are, but their performances are exceptional.
Frustrated by the English education system, a teacher moves to British Colombia where his new pupils prove difficult.
An idealistic young female teacher arrives on a isolated island and is made to feel unwelcome because of her modern ways. Realistic glimpse into children and school in a rural Japanese school before, after, and during World War II.
A cabaret owner and his club singer agree to take in a troublesome, but lovable tyke.
"55 Set in Peking" is set during the 1900 Boxer rebellion. It has been a while since I have seen the film. If I remember right the British ambassador had two kids. The children are smartly dressed. The Ambassador's son is wounded in the conflict, but he recovers. The children play a minor role in the film, except for the child of the American major played by Charlton Heston.
A street-wise young girl is unjustly sent to reform school.
On the run from the police, a loner seeks refuge in a camp for blind children. He wins the children and camp director over for his gentle ways.
A young boy, deprived of parental affection and peer acceptance turns his alienation toward a life of small crime. Jean-Pierre Leaud and Patrick Auffey.
River Phoenix
Terribly long film with long boring scenes. Shot in English with some well known American actors. Deals extensively with the relationship between a rich boy and a poor boy, both born in 1900. There boyhood comprises a good bit of the beginning. In one scene, the poor boy gets wet working outside and the rich boy has him undress so his clothes can dry. The boy then examines his penis and the two compare their penis and discuss how they work. The rich boy appears in several dressy outfits, all with below the knees pants. The only one of great interest is a lovely white sailor suit worn with a sissy broad brimmed hat. He would have looked so nice in shorts. The poor boy appears in tattered clothes, often with his pants legs rolled up. Later when the two boys are about 25 or so a lovely little boy is pictured at the rich one's wedding. I thought I would just get a fleeting glimpse of him in the wedding party. He wears a lovely velvet suit with frilly lace collar. To my delight he appears a few more times and you finally get to see he is wearing velvet shorts and white knee socks. To my horror, however, the boy is killed by the Fascist bully in the picture. Here I set through this interminably movie, and they kill off in just a minute or two, the only one in the film I was particularly taken with. The movie is mostly a flashback and a boy with a rather mature face gets a gun and arrests the rich boy who has grown up to be a unwilling Fascist collaborator. The boy wears shorts.
Rather depressing remake of this George Orwell novel. A few scenes are enlivened with kids in youth group uniforms, military campaign caps, brown shirts, kerchiefs, black shorts, and black kneesocks.
A very under rated children's fantasy. The film is imaginative and fascinating both ascetically as an inventive work and ideologically as an expression of the period. It proved to be, however, a financial disaster. The screenplay was written by Dr. Seuss. It is a surreal fantasy starring 9-year old Tommy Rettig who hates piano lessons. Some say it was his most memorable role. He is a 10-year old boy who fantasizes about tortures inflicted upon him by his authoritarian and vaguely foreign piano teacher. Has some outrageous dream sequences. Tommy dreams he is made a prisoner of his mad teacher. The teacher holds Tommy and 500 other boys prisoner in an enchanted castle. The teacher forces 500 boys to play a monotonous exercise on a continuous keyboard in his gargantuan palace. The boy's mother is locked in a gilded cage. There is also reportedly a dungeon ballet. The costuming is rather disappointing. A HBC reader tells me that he watched the movie for an hour and while the 500 boys were yet to turn up and Tommy wears jeans. In the one still I have seen, he is indeed wearing jeans.
Centered around a duck which lays golden eggs. The duck is owned by a sweet boy (Kevin Corcoran?), but I don't know of any interesting costumes.
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