Cosmic Motion

Every ten years, a representative swordsman from China and from Japan must duel to the death as a matter of tradition between the two countries. The Chinese Bo Ching-wan (Damian Lau) and Japanese Miyamoto Ichiro (Norman Chu) are selected as their nations’ best to compete in a fair manner. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, forces from both countries have other ideas. Also, Sheng Nan (Flora Chong-Leen), daughter of Master Han (Paul Chang Chung), wants to compete, but she’s a girl. Both Ching Wan and Miyamoto want to have a fair competition, but will they get their wish?

Join Bill, Colin and Cinematographer/Director/Editor Gary Landry Jr. as they leap into a tense stand-off crafted by Chinese master action director Siu-Tung Ching (aka Tony Ching) in his directorial debut.

An unhappy cruise ship doctor and his crew are surrounded by an amalgam of 1933 Americans, Mexicans and Germans on their way from Mexico to Germany, each with their own lusty, romantic, ideological, human dramas to play out in miniature. By the end, director Stanley Kramer hopes you will learn something about the folly of humanity.

Join Bill, Colin and Post Production Supervisor Cindy Freeman as they set sail with a combustible international cast that includes Oskar Werner, Simone Signoret, Vivien Leigh, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal, José Greco, Christiane Schmidtmer, Heinz Rühmann and Michael Dunn.

Jean (Carl Miller) and Marie (Edna Purviance) are in love and decide to run off to Paris together. Just as they are about to, Jean’s father dies and Marie leaves for Paris alone. A year later Marie has worked her way into being the romantic partner of high society playboy Pierre Ravel (Adolphe Menjou), who doesn’t seem to have any intention of marrying her, though he might just love her. That’s when Marie runs into her old small town flame, Jean. Just as it seems that Jean and Marie might be back on the road to forever love, Jean’s mother comes between them sending Jean into a spiral.

Join Bill, Colin and Producer John Bernstein as they roar into a tale of fast living, love, tragedy and hope.

We also note that John Bernstein has been newly elected to the Board of Directors to the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation, and you may find out more about them at www.lahtf.org.

A small hamlet somewhere in medieval UK is anticipating the coming of the black plague, but a boy who seems to be able to see pieces of the future has visions that could guide them away from a sickly, horrible death by boring into the earth and coming out the other side of it to plant a copper crucifix at the top of a cathedral before the sun rises. The boy’s fanciful prescience leads a small group of the town’s men straight into the year 1988, where they struggle to understand these new surroundings and its inhabitants while they rush to set the crucifix in its place to save their village.

Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director BC Jones as they dig into this wildly imaginative and fanciful tale of salvation.

Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) and schoolteacher Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) see a space ship crash land and try to convince the authorities and townspeople that aliens are among them; but no one wants to listen…that is until very strange things begin happening to the locals.

Join Bill, Colin and Author, Documentary Filmmaker and VFX Artist Adam Lima as they look to the skies and a small Arizona town to meet beings from another world.

In a future where nobody dies from illnesses, there’s a reality show named “Death Watch” which convinces a doctor to lie to perfectly healthy author, Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy Schneider), that she is dying of a terminal illness so they can film her as she thinks she’s living her last days. Producer Vincent Ferriman (Harry Dean Stanton) hires Roddy (Harvey Keitel), a man with cameras implanted in his eyes to befriend her and follow her around as she goes through this psychodrama. Eventually, Roddy falls in love with Katherine and the whole reality show plan goes awry.

Join Bill, Colin and Writer / Producer David Draper as they delve into the high ratings world of unscripted life and death.

Sully (Paul Newman) is an older man in a small town whose life hasn’t exactly worked out perfectly, but he’s done it his way. He’s also angered and alienated a lot of people in the process. When his down-on-his luck son, Peter (Dylan Walsh), happens to visit town with his wife and son, Sully gets a second chance at being a family man. This movie boasts an incredible cast including Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Margo Martindale and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Editor Antony Berrios as they visit a small New England town to see if an old dog can learn new tricks.

Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr) is a factory worker whose wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) has just given birth to their daughter. The ecstatic new father buys an eight millimeter camera, and his life begins to change. Filip begins to use the camera all the time, and his boss wants him to film pieces for the factory. Before you know it, Filip’s films are playing well at a film festival, and his amateur hobby begins to threaten the simple happiness he had with his wife and daughter. Is Filip’s awakening to movie art selfish or is he somehow growing into an artist who can add something to humanity? Come along with Bill, Colin and their guest, Producer, Director and Filmmakers Alliance co-Founder Jacques Thelemaque, as they peer through Polish master Krzysztof Kieslowski’s eyepiece to see what they see.

Hubert Selby Jr.’s taboo-smashing 1964 novel jumps to the screen in Uli Edel’s theatrical adaptation starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Ricki Lake and many others in an ensemble piece about poverty-stricken troubled souls in 1950s Brooklyn. What emerges is dark and disturbing and yet thoroughly human. Join Bill, Colin and writer/director George Zaver as they take a long walk down some shadowy streets.

Frank Bono (played by the director Allen Baron himself) lives the lonely life of a hired killer. He’s going to New York City to complete a job when he runs into old friends who cause him to rethink his life. Joining Bill and Colin this week is writer/director Steve Mitchell to explore a classic American crime indie that depicts a killer’s contract where the job and the killer begin to unravel.