tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43135728322747978442011-09-18T14:55:26.006+01:00The Whitworth Hall Pictiúrlann Cineforum is a private initiative to watch movies on a projector in probably one of the biggest living rooms in Ireland! We are an international bunch of friends who like to watch and discuss movies together. Usually the movie of the night is a surprise and it can be anything from a social documentary to a horror B movie...The Cinéastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839324815092497849noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313572832274797844.post-27748351367750380242008-02-14T19:31:00.005Z2008-02-18T20:37:08.482Z<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hjwVNDsnixk/R7nmmqOpgwI/AAAAAAAAAA0/aX3uQD8r3lk/s1600-h/postman_ver3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 329px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hjwVNDsnixk/R7nmmqOpgwI/AAAAAAAAAA0/aX3uQD8r3lk/s400/postman_ver3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168415599229502210" border="0" /></a><br />In a small village in the south of Italy...<br />a simple postman meets the poet of love, Pablo Neruda. A sincere friendship starts between the two.<br /><br />Then, through the poetry, he gets the love of the most beautiful and only woman in the village.... (apart from her mother)<br /><br />A story of love and friendship,<br />fighting against ignorance and the village mentality.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4313572832274797844-2774835136775038024?l=cineforum3.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Cinéastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839324815092497849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313572832274797844.post-47974018354450010302008-01-24T21:26:00.000Z2008-01-29T18:02:56.739ZIt was 1994 in Rwanda...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sortiesdvd.com/affiche/730.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.sortiesdvd.com/affiche/730.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>At least 800,000 people killed...<br />the world was looking at it...<br />Nobody did anything but left...<br /><br />An ex<span style="font-size:100%;">cellent portrait of a disgusting time:<br />a young teacher, a doubtful missio</span>nary, the unUN and the people they serve<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">If you are interested in more material, read:<br />'A Sunday at the pool in Kigali' by Gil Courtemanche.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">or watch: 'Hotel Rwanda' 2004 by Terry George<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4313572832274797844-4797401835445001030?l=cineforum3.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Cinéastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839324815092497849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313572832274797844.post-67291154140943181092008-01-10T21:25:00.000Z2008-01-30T19:04:08.498ZA film by Stephanie Black<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/LifeAndDebt.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/47/LifeAndDebt.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Life and Debt</span> is a </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2001</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">American</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">documentary film</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> directed by </span><span class="new" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Stephanie Black</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.<br />It examines the economic and social situation in </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jamaica</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, and specifically the impact thereon of the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">International Monetary Fund</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and the </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">World Bank</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">'s </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">globalization</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> policies. Its starting point is the award-winning non-fiction essay </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A Small Place</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> by </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jamaica Kincaid</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></span> <p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:courier new;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Kathleen C. Fennessy's <span class="external text">review of the documentary</span> states:</span></p> <blockquote> <p>“Set to a beguiling reggae beat, Life and Debt takes as its subject Jamaica's economic decline in the 20th century. The story has reverberations in the plight of other third-world nations blindsided by globalization, like Ghana and Haiti. After England granted Jamaica independence in 1962, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) stepped in with a series of loans.”</p> </blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><embed style="width: 400px; height: 326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-5277094596195828118&amp;hl=de" flashvars=""></embed> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4313572832274797844-6729115414094318109?l=cineforum3.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Cinéastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839324815092497849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313572832274797844.post-25619862396118411922007-12-20T20:37:00.000Z2008-01-25T18:50:08.140ZHow would you feel if you worked 10 hours every day to get less than 1 $ a day?<br /><br />How would you feel drinking a 2,00 euro cup of coffee, knowing the coffee producer gets 2 cents, not enough to feed him?<br /><br />Would your cup of coffee taste different then???<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1DePOBjunXU&amp;rel=1"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1DePOBjunXU&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Then... enjoy the movie...<br />and the coffee...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4313572832274797844-2561986239611841192?l=cineforum3.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Cinéastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839324815092497849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313572832274797844.post-19550322490985055432007-11-15T21:40:00.000Z2008-02-05T12:51:10.833Z<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_riw_u22Wxao/R6hbtK4KHJI/AAAAAAAAAEY/AihdC-886FI/s1600-h/a-borat2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_riw_u22Wxao/R6hbtK4KHJI/AAAAAAAAAEY/AihdC-886FI/s320/a-borat2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163477804352412818" border="0" /></a><br />A Kazakistan man looking for the 'US'...<br /><br />An ironic movie-documentary,<br /><br />an extreme portrait of a meeting between different cultures....<br /><br />laughing from the start to the end!!!<br /><br />If you want to see a 30 second summary of the movie played by bunnies, click <a href="http://www.angryalien.com/aa/boratbuns.asp">here!</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4313572832274797844-1955032249098505543?l=cineforum3.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Cinéastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839324815092497849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313572832274797844.post-39230487323444400252007-11-08T20:11:00.000Z2008-01-30T18:46:27.402ZMapuche, 'people of the land'.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Mapu means land and Che means people.<br /></div><br /><br />They are both sedentary and nomadic communities and the <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Mapuche_map.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Mapuche_map.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>original inhabitans of the southern Cone of Latin America, which today covers half of Chile and half of Argentina.<br /><br />In 1536, the Spanish first set foot on Mapuche land and they were well received.<br />When the real nature of the spanish enterprise was disclosed, 'la guerra de Arauco' (the Araucanian War) started and lasted for over 350 years.<br /><br />After the Spanish,<br />the Mapuche Land was invaded again...<br /><br />this time by the Fashion Giant...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4313572832274797844-3923048732344440025?l=cineforum3.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Cinéastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839324815092497849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313572832274797844.post-59656570033082227712007-10-30T21:00:00.000Z2008-01-31T20:53:29.236ZIt is Halloween night....<br /><br />why not watch a horror movie?<br />a horror B movie!!!<br /><br />Six girls trapped underground when an unexpected rock blocked their exit...<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hjwVNDsnixk/R6I1Mr6cfAI/AAAAAAAAAAc/mPK6V43qggY/s1600-h/descent.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hjwVNDsnixk/R6I1Mr6cfAI/AAAAAAAAAAc/mPK6V43qggY/s400/descent.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161746614982573058" border="0" /></a></div><br /><br />The story was not even so bad, until the monsters came...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4313572832274797844-5965657003308222771?l=cineforum3.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Cinéastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839324815092497849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4313572832274797844.post-38307412391792165242007-09-18T21:11:00.000+01:002008-02-05T13:00:25.846ZSão Paulo du Brazil,<br />in a prison....<br /><br />Built in 1956, the prison was designed to hold 3,000 inmates but is packed with 7,500 souls.<br /><br />the movies describes their lives...<br /><br /><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZlTPEmjyyvI&amp;rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZlTPEmjyyvI&amp;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4313572832274797844-3830741239179216524?l=cineforum3.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Cinéastehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05839324815092497849noreply@blogger.com0