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We are after all involved in a good cause
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explanation we give here for the phenomenons depicted and the
suggestions
we make for men of conscience to choose to put the best foot forward. It is
therefore in support of humanism (a christianly spirit in other words) that we
do what we must and see it through no matter the cost to our larger communities
on the planet in which we live - who must bear all costs ultimately to make for
our improved vision to come about instead of where we have been heading for all
too ong no - quite obviously we submit with care. Michael Rizzo Chessman
Humanist crusader www.eurohumanist.org
12 Angry men (Henry Fonda) based on the play
12 Angry men (Russian version)
based "loosely" on the American original
7 Days in Entebbe
(Movie about a most daring Israeli raid to free hostages)
A Clockwork orange (1971) - (Stanley Kubrick)
A Cry in the day (1988) Australia (Meryl Streep, Sam Neill)
A Dry white season (1989) - (Donald Sutherland)
A Dolls House (1973) Henrik Ibsen - (Norwegian rendition)
A Dolls House (1973) Henrik
Ibsen - (Anthony Hopkins rendition)
A Dolls House (1973) Henrik Ibsen
- (Jane Fonda rendition)
A Dolls House (1973)
Fassbinder (Director) - "Nora Helmer" (German rendition)
A Man for all Seasons (1966)
Paul Scofield
A passage to India (1984) (Mr. David
Lean, Director)
A Separation (Iran - 2011) (Stars Leila Hatami) ( Mr. Asghar Farhadi Director)
A woman in Berlin (2008) Ms. Nina
Hoss
Absence of Malice (Mr Paul
Newman, Ms Sally Field)
Alone in Berlin (Emma Thompson)
Along for the ride (2000) with Ms. Melanie Griffith
Argo (2012) (Iran Hostage drama - movie depiction with prefacing remarks)
Babettes feast (Denmark -
1987)
Barbara (2012) (Germany) Starring Nina Hoss (a
Chistian Petzold Film)
Basmati Blues (2017) with Donald Sutherland and Brie Larson
Breaker Morant (1980) Directed by Bruce
Beresford
Beau-père (1981) Bertrand Blier
Being there (1979) Peter Sellers
Beirut (2018) (from the creators of the popular "Jason Bourne" Series)
Biutiful (2010) (Spain) (Javier Bardem)
Body Heat (1981) William Hurt, Kathleen Turner
Braveheart (1995) Mel Gibson
Caligula (1979) Malcom McDowell
Carlito's Way (1993) Mr. Al Pacino Ms.
Penelope Ann Miller
Carrington (1995) Ms. Emma Thompson
Changing Times (2004) (Les temps qui
changent)
Crimson Tide (1984) Gene Hackman Denzel Washington
Cruising (1980) Mr. Al
Pacino, Mr. Paul Sorvino
Das Boot (1981) Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Death of a Salesman (1985) Dustin Hoffman
Deathtrap (1982) Michael Caine Ms. Dyan
Cannon
Detroit (2017)
Dons Party Directed by Mr. Bruce Beresford
Donnie Brasco (1997) Mr. Al Pacino Stars
Dormant Beauty (2012) (Italy) Isabelle Huppert
Downfall (Der Untergang) Germany, 2004
Downton Abbey (2019) (movie version)
East West 101
(Australian Crime Series - Multiculturalism centered script)
El Norte
(1983) (A look at illegal immigration from the South)
Evelyn
(2002) Pierce Brosnan
Evil (Ondskan) (2003) (Sweden) Best movie
Oscars nominated
Fading Gigolo (2013) John Turturro
Far from Heaven (2002) Ms. Julianne Moore
For my Father (Israel 2008) Ms. Hili
Yalon - a kanopy.com "staff pick"
Fiddler on the roof (1971) Norman Jewison
Frankie and Johnny
(1991) Al Pacino Michelle Pfeiffer
Gallipoli (1981) Directed by Mr. Peter Weir
Gandhi (1982) Directed by Sir Richard Attenborough
Geboren (Born) in Absurdistan (Austria 1999)
Germany Pale Mother (1982)
Girl on a Bicycle
(German-Italian romantic couple story) (2013)
GlenGarry Glen Ross (1992) Al Pacino -
Pullizter Prize winner!
Good evening Ms. Wallenberg (1990)
Sweden
Goodfellas (1990) Stars Mr.
Robert De Niro with Martin Scorsese as Director
Gosford Park (2001)
Grease (1978) Ms. Olivia Newton John Mr.
John Travolta
Heat (1995) Al Pacino Robert De Niro
Habemus Papam "We have a Pope" (2011) Ms. Margherita Buy
Herzsprung (Germany 1992) - a kanopy.com
"staff pick"
Imagining Argentina (2003) Emma
Thompson, Antonio Banderas
Indignation (2016) USA
Inherit the wind (1960) Spencer Tracy Ms. Donna Anderson
Jerichow (2008) Germany!
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Kavanagh QC (1995-2001) Television Series with Sir John Thaw
Kadosh (Israel 1992) Directed by Amos Gitai
King of Devil's Island (2010) (Norway) Stellan Skarsgård
La Cage
aux folles (1978) English subtitles
La Stazione (The
Station) Sergio Rubini Director
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981) Based on
novel by D.H. Lawrence
Last Chance Harvey (2008) Emma
Thompson Dustin Hoffman
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Mr. Peter O'Toole
Le Survenant (Written by Erik Canuel)
Le Passe (The Past) (2013 - French with subtitles) - another kanopy.com "staff
pick"
Life is beautiful (La vita e bella) (1997) Roberto Benigni
Little Children (2006) Starring Ms. Kate Winslet
(10mostbeautifulwomen.com)
Lolita (Ms. Melanie Griffith Ms. Domenique Swain) Jeremy Irons
Mansfield Park (1999) Jane Austen
(features Ms. Lindsay Duncan)
Mary Poppins (1964) Ms. Julie
Andrews Dick Van Dyke
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Peter Falk with John Cassavettes
Mindenki (aka
"Sing") Oscar winner from Hungary (2016 Short film - kanopy.com)
Mississippi Burning (1988) Mr. Gene Hackman
Mother of Mine
(Sweden/Finland) (2005) (a greatest staff pick at kanopy.com)
Murder on the Orient Express (2010 - Made for TV version)
My dinner with Andre (1981)
My father, my Lord (Israel 2007)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell)
(1984) Mr. Richard Burton
Nowhere in Africa (Germany)
(2001) Academy award Winner - Best Picture
Of Gods and Men
(2010) France
One fine day
(1996) Michelle Pfeiffer George Clooney
Oxen (The Ox - Sweden,
1991 Sven Nykvist)
Pacific
Heights (1990) Ms. Melanie Griffith 10mostbeautifulwomen.com
Polish Wedding (1998) Claine Danes,
Gabriel Byrne
Pride
and Prejudice (Jane Austen -1995) Ms. Jennifer Ehle - Colin Firth
Reds (Directed by
Warren Beatty, also with Diane Keaton)
Righteous Kill (Mr. Al Pacino
Mr. Robert De Niro Ms. Trilby Glover)
Rob Roy (1995)
Ms. Jessica Lange
Rope (1948) Alfred Hitchcock
(Jimmy Stewart)
Route Irish (2010) (loveliest Ms.
Andrea Low, Mr. Mark Womack)
Sami Blood
(2016) Sweden subtitles
Saturday Night Fever
(1977) John Travolta Ms. Karen Lynn Gorney
Scenes from a marriage
(1973 TV Series/ 1974 movie) Stars Ms. Liv Ullmann
Scarface (1983) Mr.
Al Pacino Ms. Michelle Pfeiffer
Serpico (1973) Mr. Al Pacino
Sense
and sensibility (1995) Ms. Emma Thompson, Mr. Hugh Grant
Sleuth (1973) Michael Caine Sir Lawrence Olivier
Song for a
Raggy Boy (Ireland Film Board)
SS-GB (BBC Televsion Series based on
German occupied Britain) (2018)
Stander (2003) South African apartheid era setting
Spielzeugland (Toyland) (Oscar winner from Germany) (2007
- kanopy.com pick)
Tall Guy (1989) Emma Thompson, Jeff Goldblum
The accidental tourist (1988) Mr. William Hurt, Ms. Kathleen Turner
The Apple (Iran) Samira Makhmalbaf Director
The
Band's visit (2007) A joint Israeli-Egyptian movie production
The Black book (2006) Holland (The
Netherlands)
The Black Windmill (1974) Michael Caine with Ms Delphine Seyrig
The Day of the Jackal (1973) written by Fredrick Forsyth
The Dinner (I nostri ragazzi - Italy 2016)
- another kanopy.com "staff pick" discovery
The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) Ms.
Michelle Pfeiffers (1989) Ms. Michelle Pfeiffer
The Four feathers (2002)
The Godfather Trilogy Mr. Al
Pacino Ms. Diane Keaton
The Good Wife
(Australia, 1987) Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown Sam Neill
The House of games (1987) Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna
The Insult (Arabic with subtitles) (2017)
(Oscar Nominee for best foreign Picture)
The Irishman (2019) Robert De Niro - Al Pacino
The Last days of Disco (1998) Chloe Sevigny Kate Beckinsale
The Last King of Scotland (2006) Ms. Gillian Anderson
The Long good friday (1979) Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren
The Planet of the apes (1968)
The Pianist (2002) Roman Polanski Director
The Pope of Greenwich
village (1984) Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah
The Red Violin (1998) (Greta Scacchi)
The Remains of the Day - Emma Thompson Anthony Hopkins
The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) Gerard
Depardieu, Nathalie Baye
The Russia House (1990) Michelle Pfeiffer Sean Connery
The Salesman (Forushande) Iran, (2016) Best foreign movie - Oscar winner
The Sound of Music (1965) Julie Andrews
The Sting (1973) Robert Redford, Paul Newman
The Untouchables (1987) Sean Connery Kevin Costner
The Verdict (1982) Mr. Paul Newman
The White Massai (2005) Germany
The White Ribbon (2009) Germany
Tin Men (1987) Richard Dreyfuss, Danny
DeVito
Trading places (1983) Dan Ackroyd Eddie
Murphy
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
(2008)
Victor Victoria (Ms. Julie
Andrews, Robert Preston)
Waiting for
God (British Television Series - BBC)
Wall Street (1987) Michael Douglas Daryl
Hannah
Water (India - 2005)
telefim-canada
When a man loves a woman (Ms. Meg
Ryan, Andy Garcia)
White Material (2009) Ms. Isabelle
Huppert
White Mischief (1988) Ms. Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance
Witness (1985) Harrison
Ford, Kelly McGillis
Witness for the prosecution (1957) Marlene
Dietrich
American Television Series
All in the family (Archie Bunker Blockbuster TV
Series) Starring Mr. Carroll O'Connor
Cheers (with dear Ms. Shelly Long and featuring Ted Dance equally)
MASH (with dear Mr. Alan Alda - of greatest Italian sanity too
ultimately!)
The Big Bang Theory (with dear Ms. Kaley Cuoco)
The Waltons (1971-) USA TV Series Mr. Ralph Waite,
Ms. "Michelle" Learned
Three's Company (with John
Ritter, Suzanne Somers Joyce DeWitt and dearest Ms. Priscilla Barnes
Who's the Boss (Mr. Tony Danza with dear Ms. Judith Light - wow!)
Continental Euro Television Series
Borgen (2015 Denmark Television Series)
Wallander (Television Series 2005-2006)
(Sweden)
British Television Series (BBC/PBS Masterpiece theater/ITV/Granada/London Weekend
Television - LWT)
Agatha Christie's (Hercule) Poirot
BBC TV Series (Starring David Suchet)
Fawlty Towers (John Cleese dear Ms. Connie Booth and all)
Inspector Morse
Maigret (with dear Mr. Michael Gambon)
Kavanagh QC
Keeping up appearances
Rumpole (Leo McKearn)
The jewel in the crown (PBS)
(Mr. Charles Dance)
The Worricker Trilogy (Michael
Gambon appears)
To the ends of the earth
BBC Series - Australia (Sam Neill)
Upstairs
Downstairs (1971-1975 London Weekend Television Production)
Waiting for God
Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister
Documentaries (Many if not all are available on youtube and
kanopy.com
along with "The Public Broadcast System" Network in the USA - PBS mainly
Download purchases from content producers are available from
amazon.com -
must be US resident or Apple itunes, and the PBS or all amazon
sites for DVDs/HD/Bluray)
It has to be said that while Apple has recently announced great promotion
pricing on
some available video content through their itunes software download
facility at reasonable
enough cost we figure certainly, they are at the moment seeming insistent
on this crazed notion
that content you've even paid them for to download can only be viewed
using their less than
perfect video player software facility on a computer rather than using
your own player
software such as MPC-HC (free - just download on the net) or view on your
own TV screen
for crissakes using a DRM converter (which removes this artificial and
consumer oppressing
tactic by Apple mainly, in this respect) These DRM converters seem to
come and go, however
you will I believe in the meantime find at least one such converter for
free from many download sites
on the net - they include noteburner, iskysoft (best value if purchasing
as they offer great
multipurpose video conversion utilities and more) , tuneskit (nice
features such as audio track
selector etc) and others - DVDFab has one thats apparently still
imperfect however they do
nice work and hopefully will soon enough have theirs working with the
right output file size
automatic selection etc - they are based in China and have the only
competent bluray disc
backup copy software we have found thus far in our own markets here at
this point. ta!
The industry has for too long been incompetent and draconian in making
decisions for the
marketplace in general as to ehich video content to allow to make
available for sale or rental
and in what quality and at what websites/online facilities, when they have
no business doing so.
Great programs such as White Mischief (Greta Scacchi) have never been made
available onto
the market in North America due to a bigoted mindset hell bent against
the human spirit that
is showing as an alternative for us to applaud and support and foster and
nurture and see thrive
and make come about as an altenative model for our communities here.
Programs such as (BBC) Upstairs downstairs (1971-1975) are still less than HD quality while
great offerings such as Kavanagh QC and Inspector Morse (John Thaw in both cases -
would you believe) are not available for HD purchase from Apple or amazon
at present as the studio bigshots making such decisions are simply an
inane mindset seemingly
on a continual power trip of a bigoted nature "equally" with no
apparent sanity or
certainly common sense (or perhaps just plain decency even!) enough to stop their incompetence in
this respect
and simply put out the "stuff" so those interested can pay for crissakes - what's
"possessing" you guys eh! who the hell died and made you god in this
regard?
It is arguably altogether public property in our domain
in respect of legal arguments which
could be made - as cultural material of community
investment and interest and in the furtherance
of a humanistic agenda in our own
case - even having BBC programs such as Fawlty towers,
Yes Minister and all else
that;s in the vaults right now - blow the safe open I say - and put the stuff
where
it belongs - where it can be seen and edifiy too potentially for crissakes eh!
Free downloads for the purpose of criticism, discussion and
generally in the
benefit of public education safety and enhancement of cultural
offerings
in our midst available at various download sites on the net
(moviesbyrizzo)
"EuroTrump"
Documentary (also on itunes) on the Crusade of Mr. Geert Wilders - Leading Dutch
MP
"Brand Irish" (201) Documentary
on Ireland (also on itunes for cheap rent/purchase)
PBS (Frontline
Documentary) Netanyahu at War (2016)
PBS (Frontline
Documentary) Our Man In Tehran - Dutch written/Directed (2018)
PBS (Frontline Documentary) Syria - Behind
the lines
PBS aired 2007 Documentary on
Pakistan's Politics "Dinner with the President"
Among the Believers (2015 Documentary out of
Pakistan)
Buying Sex" (2013)
Documentary on the sex trade and possible Criminal sanctions to men involved
American Coup (2010 Documentary about the
toppling by Western Powers of Irans then secular democracy)
Inch' Allah (inshallah - "God willing") (2012)
TeleFilm, Canada
Conversation
regarding Iraq war (posted at kanopy.com for on-line viewing)
The Occupation of the
American Mind (Documentary on Israeli Lobbying efforts)
Professionally
produced Documentary on the Psychiatric Industry
Mein Kampf - The Ascent of evil - Documentary on Hitler (kanopy.com)
Pornland - A documentary on the Porn Industry by British activist Gail Dines
South
Africa - Beyond Apartheid - Staff picked Documentary at kanopy.com
Too Black to be French (2015) Documentary - kanopy.com staff pick
Mugabe and the White South Africans (PBS) kanopy.com offering
The Clintons - An American Odyssey - Documentary released onto DVD
The invasion of Europe by mass migration - by "Politically incorrect Europe"
"Defamation" A self made Documentary by an Israeli film-maker (2009)
Taxi (2015) (Tehran) Jafar Panahi - Documentary styled Movie offering
"Blacks and Jews" a 1997 PBS Documentary made available on kanopy.com
Between Fences - An Israeli made Documentary about the Black migrants situation
Incident at Restigouche (Instance of Police Brutality in Quebec territory)
