Maximus Powers' Short Film Collection

[B]

lol... so is that a 6 then?

[Somalina]

lol...

How did you like the Bounty Hunter? I thought it was a flop.

[B]

dont like romcoms esp ones with jennifer aniston in it.

[Somalina]

my sentiments exactly. Her career ended with Friends.

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I'm a girl and even I couldn't take my eyes off Aniston's body in the Bounty Hunter. Amaze! How do they do that at 40?

[chubacka]

Originally posted by Benson and Hedges:

also for your consideration.........

 

 

 

 

 

Central Station Full Movie on Youtube

beautiful film. thanks for posting.

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The film describes the legal efforts of a Palestinian widow to stop the Israeli Defense Minister, her next door neighbor, from destroying the lemon trees in her family farm. At the same time, she develops a human bond with the minister's wife. Won Panorama Audience Award at Berlin Film Festival.

 

Lemon Tree Full Movie on Youtube. Enjoy!

[chubacka]

^ another beautiful film thanks.

 

one of my favs.

 

A New Day in Old Sana'a

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P61QmWNbsA

[Queen Arawello]

French Roast - Animation.

 

In filmmaker Fabrice O. Jouberts animated short: French Roast - a situational sketch explores the many layers of human nature.

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As unabashedly sentimental as The Song of Sparrows often becomes, this simple fable of a righteous man’s relationship to his family, his community and most of all his faith has the force of conviction. Its so elegant and full of humanistic moments. Definitely the best film I have seen in almost 5 years. I really recommend you watch this film. 10/10

 

 

Karim works at an ostrich farm outside of Tehran, Iran. He leads a simple and contented life with his family in his small house, until one day when one of the ostriches runs away. Karim is blamed for the loss and is fired from the farm. Soon after, he travels to the city in order to repair his elder daughters hearing aid but finds himself mistaken for a motorcycle taxi driver. Thus begins his new profession: ferrying people and goods through heavy traffic. But the people and material goods that he deals with daily starts to transform Karims generous and honest nature, much to the distress of his wife and daughters. It is up to those closest to him to restore the values that he had once cherished.

 

Full Movie on Youtube. 10/10

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Set in Hong Kong in 1962, the film centers on two young couples who rent adjacent rooms in a cramped and crowded tenement. Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) works as a secretary in an export company while her husbands job at a Japanese multinational keeps him away on extended business trips. Across the hall, Chow (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) works as a newspaper editor and is married to a woman who is also frequently out of town. Neither respective spouse is ever shown in full, instead they are shot from the back or obscured by walls and furniture. Li-zhen and Chow soon strike up a cordial -- if tenative -- friendship. Chow begins to suspect that his wife's long absences are not entirely business related when he stops in unannounced at her office to discover that she is not there. Later, a colleague tells him that he saw his wife with another man. The icing on the cake comes when Chow notices that Li-zhen's handbag is identical to his wife's while Li-zhen discovers that Chow is wearing a tie that she gave her husband; it doesn't take long for them to realize that their spouses are sleeping together. Drawn together by shame and anger, Chow and Li-zhen reveal nothing of their discoveries to their partners. While working through their guilt by imagining how their adulterous spouses first hooked up and rehearsing interrogations, the pair slowly fall in love in spite of their determination to uphold their end of their marital vows.

 

 

In The Mood For Love on Youtube. 9/10

[Cabdow]

 

AMAL, a multi-layered portrait of contemporary India, follows an auto-rickshaw driver in New Delhi (Amal) who is content with his small, but vital role in life. One day he drives an eccentric billionaire (G.K. Jayaram) who, disguised as a vagabond, is searching the streets for the last morsel of humanity, and someone he can leave all his money to, and Amal's life may change forever. AMAL serves up a visual feast for audiences. Filmed on location in New Delhi, India,

this modern day fable asks the important question of what success means to each individual and ultimately reveals to audiences that the poorest of men are sometimes the richest.

Watch it here (Part 1 of 11)

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^ Thank you very much my friend for posting this wonderful and heartfelt film. It was beautiful!

 

 

 

A Beirut beauty salon serves as a microcosm of modern society in director Nadine Labakis look at liberated conversation in a conflicted society. Over the course of their day it becomes readily apparent that women are truly the same everywhere, regardless of the society they live in. While single Layale struggles with her growing attraction to a married man, Muslim bride-to-be Nisrine fears that her husband will find out that she has already lost her virginity. As with many women who frequent the salon, Jamale does everything within her power to reverse the visible effects of aging. As Rose laments the fact that she has sacrificed her own happiness in order to care for her older sister, the intimate conversations shared over the course of a typical day reveal just how universal the lives, loves, and concerns of contemporary women truly are.

 

 

Caramel Full Movie on Youtube

[Alpha Blondy]

 

The year is 1989, and East Berlin is celebrating 40 years of socialist rule by the German Democratic Republic. However, these are tumultuous times, and East Germany is on the brink of dramatic political and cultural change. Christiane Kerner is a dedicated socialist activist helping to improve the lives of those around her. But after seeing her son Alex getting arrested in a protest rally she suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Months pass, all the while the Germany she once knew is being transformed from the relentless triumph of capitalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany. Knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal when his mothers awakens, Alex strives to keep the fall of the GDR a secret for as long as possible from his bed-ridden mother. We follow Alex through his often comical yet sincere attempts to keep a pre-Wall façade; but when his game takes on a life of its own, long buried family secrets surface as East Germans around them experience freedoms for the first time.

 

 

Goodbye Lenin on Youtube

[Alpha Blondy]

 

Director Alejandro González Iñarritu's internationally acclaimed debut film recounts three tales that unfold and intertwine on the brutal streets of Mexico City. Streetwise loser Octavio (Gael García Bernal) has an obsessive crush on his sister-in-law; Daniel (Álvaro Guerrero) dumps his family for a disturbed supermodel; and ex-guerilla El Chivo (Emilio Echevarría) cares for a wounded dog while planning an assassination.

 

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