Life's a Breeze
Life's A
Breeze tells the story of a family as they search for a lost fortune around the
streets of Dublin.
When Walt
Disney's daughters begged him to make a movie of their favorite book, PL.
Travers' "Mary Poppins," he made them a promise - one that he didn't
realize would take 20 years to keep. In his quest to obtain the rights, Walt
comes up against a curmudgeonly, uncompromising writer who has absolutely no
intention of letting her beloved magical nanny get mauled by the Hollywood
machine. But, as the books stop selling and money grows short, Travers
reluctantly agrees to go to Los Angeles to hear Disney's plans for the
adaptation. For those two short weeks in 1961, Walt Disney pulls out all the
stops. Armed with imaginative storyboards and chirpy songs from the talented
Sherman brothers, Walt launches an all-out onslaught on P.L. Travers, but the
prickly author doesn't budge. He soon begins to watch helplessly as Travers
becomes increasingly immovable and the rights begin to move further away from
his grasp. It is only when he reaches into his own childhood that Walt
discovers the... Written by Walt Disney Pictures.
Two young,
strong-willed Scottish sisters, one a left-wing activist, the other a
most-popular-girl-in-school type, take their late father's ashes to Cuba, the
site of many family legends of his services to the REvolution. Arriving in
Havana, the two women promptly lose the ashes and go through a series of
misadventrues - both romantic and dangerous - to try to retrieve them. A
colourful and wryly humourous tale of cross-cultural misunderstandings and lost
illusions.
A
documentary that declares the gas industry's portrayal of natural gas as a
clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth, and that fracked wells inevitably
leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering
the earth's climate with the potent greenhouse gas methane.
Dirty Wars
follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international
bestseller Blackwater, into the hidden world of America's covert wars, from
Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. With a strong cinematic style, the
film blurs the boundaries of documentary and fiction storytelling. Part action
film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the
most important and underreported stories of our time. What begins as a report
on a deadly U.S. night raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns
into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special
Operations Command (JSOC). As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC,
he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and
carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never
appear before Congress. In military jargon, JSOC teams "find, fix, and
finish" their targets, who are selected through a secret process. No
target is off limits for the "kill list," including U.S. citizens.
