Author Topic: ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!  (Read 2532783 times)

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"W" is Wicker Park (2004)
« Reply #6280 on: January 03, 2011, 11:21:35 pm »

From IMDb:  Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who walked out on him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day. With a little help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsessively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another young woman calling herself Lisa whom, unknown to Matthew, is an actress named Alex and may hold the key to Lisa's disappearance, and discovery.

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Wildcard "X" is Dead Snow (2009)
« Reply #6281 on: January 03, 2011, 11:32:52 pm »
Original title:  Død snø


From IMDb:  A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxnloAzzNvA[/youtube]

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Re: ABCs at the Movies: The "Let It Snow" Round!
« Reply #6282 on: January 04, 2011, 01:25:07 am »
^^^ Dead Snow was great fun to watch!^^^

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"Y" is You I Love (2004)
« Reply #6283 on: January 04, 2011, 12:00:40 pm »

From IMDB: Vera and Tim are successful young professionals living fast-paced lives in ultra-modern Moscow. Their lives crackle with the capitalist energy of excess, anxiety, consumption, and stress- and they are in love. Everything changes one night when Tim accidentally drives his car into Uloomji, a young Kalmyk day worker. (The Kalmyks are a semi-nomadic people of Mongolian decent.) The two men begin a torrid affair that involves howling and knocking over a lot of furniture. Tim is attracted to Uloomji's exotic demeanor and liberated by his impulsiveness and lack of inhibition. To Uloomji, Tim embodies a kind of class and refinement he sees only in magazines. Vera struggles to comprehend their bond and her boyfriend's erratic behavior. She is dragged reluctantly into a bizarre love triangle. Before long, all three lives unravel, exemplified by a visit to a Buddhist healer, a three-way in the bathroom of a gay bar, a faked death and a kidnapping.

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Wildcard "Z" is Snow White (2005)
« Reply #6284 on: January 04, 2011, 12:33:57 pm »

IMDb:  The life of 20-year-old Nico from upper class Zurich is all party, sex and drugs when she meets Paco, the front man of a rap band. She finds herself drawn to his independent, creative and profound way of life, so different from her own. With naiveté and infinite self-confidence, she tries to adopt his lifestyle - without anticipating the consequences.

From a commenter:  Snow White....of course refers to the world famous fairy tale. And it also refers to coke. In the end, real snow of the Swiss Alps plays its part as well.

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Re: ABCs at the Movies: The Missing Round!
« Reply #6285 on: January 04, 2011, 12:50:41 pm »
The Missing Round!


Featuring movies about missing pieces,
missing links, missing people -- you name it.


Be sure to specify what exactly is missing in your post.
« Last Edit: January 04, 2011, 06:19:45 pm by Fran »

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"A" is Ajami (2009)
« Reply #6286 on: January 04, 2011, 12:51:48 pm »

From IMDb:  Ajami is an area of Jaffa where Arabs, Palestinians, Jews, and Christians try to live together in an atmosphere that is -- to say the least -- electric. Omar, an Israeli Arab, struggles to save his family from elimination by a gang of extortionists. He also courts a beautiful Christian girl, Hadir, but marrying her is far from obvious. Malek, an illegal Palestinian worker, tries to collect enough money to pay for his mother's operation. Dando, an Israeli cop, does his utmost to trace his missing brother who may have been killed by Palestinians. Binj, Malek and Omar's Arab friend, suffers from being rejected by other members of his community for mixing with an Israeli girl. All of them will meet violence, most of the time ... with violence.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6M-ng9XLyU[/youtube]
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"B" is Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
« Reply #6287 on: January 04, 2011, 04:58:39 pm »

IMDB: A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

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"C" is The Collector (1965)
« Reply #6288 on: January 04, 2011, 05:11:20 pm »

IMDb:  Freddie, a socially withdrawn bank clerk and butterfly collector, decides to expand to collecting human specimens. That's where art student Miranda Grey comes in [and becomes a missing person]. Miranda matches wits with Freddie the icy psychopath.

Creepy "Silence of the Lambs"-like poster.

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"D" is The Dead Girl (2006)
« Reply #6289 on: January 04, 2011, 06:17:48 pm »

From IMDb:  A story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother, finds a body. Somehow, this discovery allows her to change. At the morgue, the sister of a girl missing for 15 years believes the body is that of her sister; this liberates her. An older woman, married to a man who pays her little attention, finds evidence in a storage unit; how will she handle it? The mother of the dead girl, who left home some years before, visits the last place her daughter lived and makes her own discoveries. Last, we flash back to the victim's final day.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJ8zo3EBVY[/youtube]

=aside= Sandy
I like how you highlighted the word "missing"
in your post, so I've done some editing.