Through the Olive Trees

Poster for the movie "Through the Olive Trees"

The film focuses on one of the events in "Life, and Nothing More..." (1992), and explores the relationship between the film director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the actor is trying to persuade the actress that...

Read more

Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists, The

Poster for the movie "The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists"

What happens when a dedicated husband and father quits his job, adopts the persona of a Western-Movie Singing Cowboy, takes on the entire art establishment (including Christo and Andy Warhol), and refuses to accept money for his art ? Meet Gerry Gaxiola, AKA The Maestro, an ex-wage slave who...

Read more

Hoop Dreams

Poster for the movie "Hoop Dreams"

Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the...

Read more

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Poster for the movie "Black Is … Black Ain’t"

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses the camera from his hospital bed in several scenes. The film directly addresses sexism and homophobia within the black community, with snippets of misogynistic and anti-gay slurs from...

Read more

Shawshank Redemption, The

Poster for the movie "The Shawshank Redemption"

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired...

Read more

Speed

Poster for the movie "Speed"

Los Angeles SWAT cop Jack Traven is up against bomb expert Howard Payne, who's after major ransom money. First it's a rigged elevator in a very tall building. Then it's a rigged bus--if it slows, it will blow, bad enough any day, but a nightmare in LA traffic. And...

Read more

© 2024 - kazjin.com

KURDISH HERITAGE // kurdish-heritage.org | instagram | youtube | vimeo | flickr | archive.org | maps

PERSONAL // contact me | instagram | youtube | the black list | letterboxd | tiktok

Log in with your credentials

Forgot your details?