Friday, September 23, 2016

Lakota Woman (1994)







Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people. She aids the Lakota in their struggle for their rights: a struggle that culminates in an armed standoff with US government forces at the site of an 1890 massacre


She dreamed of justice and fought for it in a place called Wounded Knee.
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , ,

Monday, September 19, 2016

The Lost Future

F

G

Pages in category "Post-apocalyptic films"

The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 316 total. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more).
(previous page) (next page)

*

0–9

A

H

I







The Lost Future.jpg
DVD cover
Written byJonas Bauer
Directed byMikael Salomon
StarringSean Bean
Corey Sevier
Sam Claflin
Theme music composerMichael Richard Plowman
Petr Vcelicka
Country of originSouth Africa
Germany
Originallanguage(s)English
Production
Producer(s)Moritz Polter
Editor(s)Allan Lee
CinematographyPaul Gilpin
Running time91 minutes
Productioncompany(s)RTL Television
Syfy
Tandem Communications
Film AfrikaWorldwide
DistributorSyfy (US)
Tandem Communications (Germany)
Budget$7,000,000[1]
Release
Original release
  • November 13, 2010[2]

The Lost Future is a 2010 South African-German[3] post-apocalyptic film fromSyfy, directed by Mikael Salomon and written by Jonas Bauer. The film starsSean Bean, Corey Sevier and Sam Claflin. It was released on DVD on September 27, 2011.

The key to saving mankind… Well, not actually saving mankind as a whole. More like saving a couple dozen remaining members of humanity with the possibility that there could be more to be saved in future generations assuming these few inbreed enough to keep the human race going. Anyway, the key to saving those people is a mysterious yellow powder that when inhaled will make that person immune from transforming into whatever the hell these cannibal-rasta-were-mutants are that populate the forests and attack like feral zombies. I don’t think you’ll find a movie with this many references to the word “powder” or people fighting over such a substance outside of Scarface.
Some sort of apocalypse has occurred. I say “some sort” because the movie never makes it abundantly clear what exactly this apocalyptic event was or precisely how long ago it happened. Whatever it was has left the remaining generations of humans living the prehistoric (neohistoric?) life of a primitive forest-dwelling hunter-gatherer society. They live like Ewoks and feed on giant sloths left over from pre-apocalyptic society’s flirtation with Jurassic Park genetic engineering. Sorry, no T-Rexes. Only hairy mammals in this film — that includes the unkempt hair and scruffy facial follicles of nearly every male character.
The whatever apocalypse resulted in a virus that mutates ordinary people into Island of Dr. Moreau-ish zombies that leap through the air with incredible agility while looking like werewolves that have spent too much time in an African mud pit. They are a constant threat to the surviving humans, not just because they attack like restless natives, not just because they might want to dine on yoThat’s where futuristic caveman Kaleb comes in; it was his father that created the powder only to be murdered by a jerk who stole the powder for his own ill-gotten gain. How much gain can truly be gotten in a future where everyone lives like an extra from Yor, The Hunter from the Future?
What makes Kaleb truly special is that he can read. We’re never quite sure how long it has been since this apocalypse occurred, but by this point you show a young caveperson (neoanderthal?) a book, and they have no idea what a book is let alone how to read it. But Kaleb’s dad taught him to read using the works of Mark Twain, and apparently basic literacy also means you can easily comprehend chemical equations with ease. Better believe Kaleb and his closest companions are going to jump on a raft and trek down the river to the ruins of a once major city to meet with the warlord that double-crossed his dad and stole the powder to make himself the king of nothing.ur bones, but they’re also highly infectious and it doesn’t take much for one to join their ranks.
That’s where the powder comes in. Sean Bean of Lord of the Rings is the lord of the backstory, an outsider with knowledge of how the future became lost and how a great man invented a powder that when huffed makes one immune from the disease that turns man into muddy zombie animal men.
That’s where futuristic caveman Kaleb comes in; it was his father that created the powder only to be murdered by a jerk who stole the powder for his own ill-gotten gain. How much gain can truly be gotten in a future where everyone lives like an extra from Yor, The Hunter from the Future?
What makes Kaleb truly special is that he can read. We’re never quite sure how long it has been since this apocalypse occurred, but by this point you show a young caveperson (neoanderthal?) a book, and they have no idea what a book is let alone how to read it. But Kaleb’s dad taught him to read using the works of Mark Twain, and apparently basic literacy also means you can easily comprehend chemical equations with ease. Better believe Kaleb and his closest companions are going to jump on a raft and trek down the river to the ruins of a once major city to meet with the warlord that double-crossed his dad and stole the powder to make himself the king of nothing.
Sean Bean described the man who stole the powder as a completely unreasonable person. A completely unreasonable person doesn’t quite make for a compelling villain in a post-apocalyptic setting. Let me give you the gist of how Kaleb’s first meeting with bad guy goes.
“Can we have some of the powder?”
“No.”
“My people are dying.”
“So?”
“My friends and I are also infected.”
“And?”
“I can make more of the powder but it will take more time than I have.”
“Better hurry then.”
“But…”
“Guards!”
In terms of post-apocalyptic villainy, we’re not exactly in Lord Humungous territory here.
This tyrant, who looked and sounded so much like the haggard twin brother of Alan Rickman’s Professor Snape from theHarry Potter films it’s almost comical, is more of a stubborn, selfish jerk than the Ming the Merciless of this lost future. But just like Ming this not-Alan Rickman dude has a super hot daughter suffering from a serious case of Eighties glam metal hair willing to betray him for the sake of what’s left of humanity.
I began to lose track of which impeccably well-groomed post-apocalyptic blonde girl was which after a while. Would it have killed the producers to hire a brunette or a redhead?
The Lost Future feels like a miniseries that’s been squished down into a 90-minute running time to such a degree you have too many characters and dangling storylines to keep up with in a tale too rushed to resonate on any emotional level, and it can’t cover for these shortcomings with spectacular action because the entire special effects budget appeared to get blown in the opening half-hour. What you would think would be a treacherous trip down the river taking days only lasts mere minutes. A shame this production suffers from such crippling issues because production-wise this was a classier piece of cinema than the typical schlock Syfy produces.
All is not lost in this future, but there’s not much to be gained from watching it.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]



Plot[edit]

In post-apocalyptic Columbia, a group of survivors are organized as a tribe, a primitive society without technology. They form a small village in the Grey Rock National Park surrounded by beasts that transmit a disease that transforms the victims into mutants. The tribal leader is Uri, whose son Savan is the best hunter of the tribe and his father's successor. Kaleb is the best tracker. Kaleb and his sister Miru (Eleanor Tomlinson) are the only literate survivors. Their father Jaret believes other survivors might exist outside the park and encourages them to investigate this. Kaleb, a dreamer, is secretly in love with Savan's woman, Dorel. When the beasts attack Uri's hamlet, a group runs to a cave and blocks the entrance with logs. Kaleb saves Dorel from a beast, at which point they become romantically involved while Savan looks on.
Out of the blue, the stranger Amal approaches the trio and invites them to join his family, composed of his wife Neenah and their son Persk, who live in the outskirts of Grey Rock protected by a river. Soon Amal discloses to them that Jaret had found the formula of a yellow powder that cures the sick people. However, the ruthless Gagen had stolen the yellow powder and kept it with him. Amal, Savan, Kaleb and Dorel travel together to find Gagen and bring the yellow powder to their tribe. However, Amal is later wounded and the other three continue on their quest to find the yellow powder and return it rightfully to their village. During this perilous attempt, Savan is killed by an enraged Gagen, who is later killed by Kaleb.
Posted by at No comments:
Labels:

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Native America before European Colonization



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FItlStGMY4





Upon the arrival of Columbus in 1492 in the Carabean Islands, unknown to Columbus (and majority of the Eastern Hemisphere), he landed on Islands located in the middle of two huge continents now known has North America and South America that was teaming with huge Civilizations (that rivaled any in the world at that time) and thousands of smaller Nations and Tribes. With recent estimations, the population may have been over 100 million people that spanned from Alaska and Green Land, all the to the tip of southern South America. 

Pre Colombian North America (north of Mesoamerica):

In Pre-Canada, most people lived along the coast, along the major rivers

"People should stop talking about Christopher Columbus likes he's some great explorer, the man's a murderer, a genocidal maniac."
ToFester1 month ago
Sad history, now they all speak Spanish and Portuguese and have Spanish and Portuguese names. Every ethnic group on this planet has had issues with a White people. Research it if you don't believe me.


.
thomasdukat 
thomasdukat
People of the Internet, watch this to learn and respect what happened in the past. Take it with a grain of salt sure (it's not unbiased that's for sure), but why all the hate in the comments?? We have no control over the deeds of our ancestors. Let's just try to learn from history and come together, Native American, white American, black, asian, whatever! We have problems facing us in the world right now.. Let's respect and remember the people of the past, especially victims of persecution and prejudice, but let's not use the past to draw lines between races and cultures that do nothing but divide us as a people.
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , ,

Saturday, September 10, 2016

Glorious 39

There's a decided whiff of the John Buchans to Glorious 39, a rollicking conspiracy thriller set in the run-up to the second world war. Glorious 39 gives us dotty aunts and dodgy spies, showbiz starlets and imperilled young firebrands. Here, one feels, is the sort of yarn that Alfred Hitchcock might have had fun with: he would have kept it crisp and witty and light on its toes. Writer-director Stephen Poliakoff elects to play it straight and keep it sober. This never zips the way it should.


For all that, Poliakoff's film deals out a solid, old-school entertainment. Romola Garai stars as Anne Keyes, the adopted actor daughter of Bill Nighy's venerable elder statesman. In the palatial grounds of their country estate, the talk is all of war and appeasement, Churchill and Chamberlain. Under the cool, watchful eye of Jeremy Northam's Foreign Office spook, a sabre-rattling MP (David Tennant) urges action against Hitler and then abruptly winds up dead.


This, naturally, is Anne's cue to turn Miss Marple. Her subsequent investigation uncovers a stash of incriminating recordings, conveniently tucked away in the family outhouse, and a previously overlooked reel of movie footage in which her doomed fellow actor (Hugh Bonneville) urges her to "listen to them again, Anne". Bonneville doesn't quite go on to tell her that "the real villain is … aarrrgh!" before dropping dead from a poison dart. But I'm guessing it was a close-run thing.

If Glorious 39 strains credibility in its owl-eyed pursuit of a dark and terrible truth, then the polished, committed performances from the likes of Garai and Nighy keep it part-way honest. But Poliakoff's film also deserves credit for offering a tangential spotlight on the motives of Neville Chamberlain's appeasers. In recent years Chamberlain has become adopted as a kind of cover-all bogeyman by neo-con pundits keen to justify the merits of "preventative war" on Iraq or Iran. Glorious 39 at least roots this argument in its proper historical context. It shows how the pacifist counsel of the Great War survivors was hijacked and twisted by rogue elements within the Tory government; a cabal of influential aristocrats that was determined to preserve the status quo at any cost.


Glorious 39 is generally diverting and mildly political; conservative with a lower-case c. It frolics in a land of idyllic hunting grounds, picturesque castles and hearty gatherings, and then lets the whole house of cards come tumbling down.

Glorious 39

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glorious 39
Glorious thirty nine ver2.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byStephen Poliakoff
Produced by
  • Barney Reisz
  • Martin Pope
Written byStephen Poliakoff
Starring
Music byAdrian Johnston
CinematographyDanny Cohen
Edited byJason Krasucki
Production
company
Distributed byMomentum Pictures
Release dates
  • 20 November 2009
Running time
129 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£3.7 million
Glorious 39 is a 2009 British war thriller film written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. Starring Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Jeremy Northam,Christopher Lee, David Tennant, Jenny Agutter and Eddie Redmayne. The film was released on 20 November 2009.
On the eve of World War II, as the formidable Keyes family tries to uphold its traditional way of life, daughter Anne (Garai) sees her life dramatically unravel when she stumbles upon secret recordings of the pro-appeasementmovement.[2]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glorious 39
Glorious thirty nine ver2.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byStephen Poliakoff
Produced by
  • Barney Reisz
  • Martin Pope
Written byStephen Poliakoff
Starring
Music byAdrian Johnston
CinematographyDanny Cohen
Edited byJason Krasucki
Production
company
Distributed byMomentum Pictures
Release dates
  • 20 November 2009
Running time
129 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£3.7 million
Glorious 39 is a 2009 British war thriller film written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. Starring Romola Garai, Bill Nighy, Julie Christie, Jeremy Northam,Christopher Lee, David Tennant, Jenny Agutter and Eddie Redmayne. The film was released on 20 November 2009.
On the eve of World War II, as the formidable Keyes family tries to uphold its traditional way of life, daughter Anne (Garai) sees her life dramatically unravel when she stumbles upon secret recordings of the pro-appeasementmovement.[2]
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)