[Baranxtu]

*dramatic entry*
*even more dramtic voice*
Dear fellow IDU members, it is time to chose the nominees for the 2006 Golden Tiger Awards in the category Best Foreign Movie again.

Therefore, I ask you to nominate a movie from your national film industry for said award until, let's say, September 24th.
Obligatory information are the title of the movie, the director and a plot synopsis, but additional information such as actors, background, etc. are of course welcome.

Unlike last year, I'll not let chance decide the winner, but a comittee of respectable movie industry veterans, who will decide it in a fun poll! Yay!

Everyone agreeing?

(I personally will not enter a movie, because, well it's the foreign category, and Baranxtuans tend to be not very objective )

[Eisophca]

Title: The Day the World Turned Sorta Bluish-Tye-Dye (title is a reference to the reported effects of the radiation on the gnome's vision)
Director: Carmen Smith
Plot synopsis: A dramatization based on the true story of a UN compliance gnome's courageous journey on foot across the Konvensjon Mountains out of New Boston after the radiation of northern Ceorana. He was trapped in the refrigerator of the congressional cafeteria after a particularly nasty compliance debate and by the time he got out, the last plane, train and ship out of New Boston had all left.
Lead actor: Compliance Gnome Julius "Statwanker" van Glorikov as himself

[Antrium]

The South Antrian entry is complete, and the Antrian entry will (hopefully) be done soon too.

I'll edit this when it's done.

"Mary Magdalene" from South Antrium
Undecided movie from Antrium coming soon

[Gnejs]

heres the gnejsian entry:

Title: "Pentonville mon amour"

Director: Kate Mosh

Brief synopsis: the story of a female priest returning to the town of Pentonville several years after her first visit when she meet and feel in love with a young girl named Katja. The nameless main character and Katja experince a passionate love story filled with ups and downs. The religious Katja struggels with guilt over her feelings for the older woman and when Katjas conservative family finds out about her true sexual identity she is thrown out of her home. The love story has an abrupt end when the woman leaves Pentonville to become leader of a new parish in southern Gnejs. Katja never reveals her identity to anyone. The older woman returns to Pentonville to find Katja.

The movie has a flexible narrative and relies on a use of flashbacks to bring the story forward. It has been praised in Gnejs for its mix of cineastic expermintal form and its complex and daring content.

[Mikitivity]

?Murder on the Thuvian Express? (2006)

Genre: Crime / Drama / Mystery
Tagline: An avalanche has stopped the international Thuvian Express, can a Miervatian Chief Inspector solve a murder that occurred on the train before the suspect can get away?
Plot Outline: Set in 1932, this film is the first of the Chief Inspector Christopher Moritz murder mystery series. After an avalanche leaves the train stranded in the peaks of the Thuvian mountains, Chief Inspector Moritz is asked to solve a murder that occurred sometime before the avalanche. During his interviews of the passangers, whom come from all walks of life and various nationalities, Moritz uncovers clues to another unsolved crime from years ago. Moritz must solve the Thuvian Express murder before snow plows can free the train and the suspect can get away.

Director: W. Kimmer
Runtime: 128 mins
Country: Mikitivity
Language: English / German

Cast:
Michael Kellermann ? Chief Inspector Christopher Moritz
Laurette Raynaud ? Sophia Goddard
TBA ?

:pisang:

[Bears Armed]

''The Bad News Bears: Running The Roads!"

A drama-documentary about one of Bears Armed's largest & most notorious biker gangs.

Director: Raggurr o Westwood
Runtime: 210 minutes (but designed to be shown in 3 parts @ 60, 90, 60)
Language: Ursine, with subtitles* (for the version sent abroad) in English.
Plot Synopsis: Tells the tale of an eightday in the lives of a troop from the 'Bad News Bears', and how their actions during that time affect outsiders... There's a romantic/tragic subplot featuring a biker girl (simply called 'the Girl', played by an actress named 'Urrsula Black' whom I forecast we'll see much more of in future) and a schoolteacher who's drawn into joining the gang so that he can be closer to her...



(OOC: but there are some laughably bad translations involved, such as when one biker's reference to his modified motorcycle as "a chopped hog" is given as "a spam" : Have any of you seen many subtitled Hong Kong action movies?)

[Baranxtu]

OC:
Excellent, my pretties

[Stolidia]

The Perils of Persephone
Directed by Algernon Muffin

Beautiful and innocent young dwarven maid, Persephone Potts, is kidnapped in broad daylight as she trudges home from her job as an underpaid but commendably industrious sales clerk at Frumpnick's Fine Mustard and Knitting Supplies. Her captor is the dastardly villain, Snidely Slugg, whose eleven prior victims had been found wandering aimlessly in garbage-strewn alleyways, babbling incoherently.

The wretched young maiden soon finds herself tied to a chair in the dank and dreary basement of Slugg's once-impressive but now sadly decayed hilltop mansion. Days turns into seeming centuries in the poor victim's mind as she is subjected to the cruelest of fiendish tortures: Slugg paces and postures before her, time and again, mouthing interminable monologues about jelly donuts.

Finally, drawing together the last shreds of her sanity, our disconsolate but dauntless heroine manages the Herculean feat of bursting the ropes which bind her wrists and ankles. She leaps to her feet, head-butts the villain in his unmentionable anatomical features, and races upstairs and out the front door into the bright sunlight of a summer's afternoon.

Starring the gorgeous dwarven starlet, Vidalia Dunkdorfer, as Persephone and noted Stolidian character actor, Jeremy Weems, as Snidely. Featuring Twinkles the aardvark.

Running time: 311 minutes, 8 seconds.

Rated R for excessive psychological violence.

Released by the Stolidia Motion Picture Company

[Mikitivity]

Twinkles was featured in The Perils of Persephone??? There goes Mikitivity carying the fury vote.

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[Stolidia]

MikitivitySep 19 2006, 11:11 PM Twinkles was featured in The Perils of Persephone??? There goes Mikitivity carying the fury vote. [/quote]
Actually, it was just a walk-on. But since aardvarks are very sensitive about things like credits, the producer decided to give him/her/it a "featuring" spot. :unsure:

[Baranxtu]

MikitivitySep 20 2006, 05:11 AM Twinkles was featured in The Perils of Persephone??? There goes Mikitivity carying the fury vote. [/quote]
The Board of the Golden Tiger Awards will also stock up on Brain Bleach™ and pass them out as requested

[Federation of Disjunction]

Carrot Justice
Written, Directed, and Starring: Julius Attwood
Category: Dramady
Synopsis: It is 2092. Bill Drake, a failed inventor is fed up with life. A failed marriage, limited job prospects. A general disdain for society. Numerous flashbacks show him as a happy child with a loving mother and father, who tell him about what life was like before Buy-Mart took over the majority of the world economy. Since then everything's been affected. Politics, media, entertainment... everything consumed in one way or another is dominated by the Buy-Mart chain.

Bill gets the idea for his greatest invention; a time machine. His mission, to go back in time and kill Sam Buyer the founder of the first Buy-Mart. Bill's on again, off again girlfriend thinks he's finally gone crazy and reports him to the police so Bill has to move his project underground. There he finds a black market for goods and services including banks that don't charge a fee for outside of network ATM withdrawal and restaurants that serve food that was locally grown. He's befriended by a tough but sexy former prostitute who gave up her profession to work in the much more lucrative black market for designer clothes.

Bill achieves success with his time machine but he also realizes that for the first time he's happy. Does he go back and kill Sam Buyer thus changing the world but ultimately returning to a completely different future for himself or should he keep the life he has? What would you do?

Produced by: If a Tree Falls Productions

Running time: 102 Minutes
Rated R for nudity, language, and mild violence

[Baranxtu]

And the nominations are closed!

Let's see who we have...

Antrium - placeholder (?)
Bears Armed - The Bad News Bears: Running The Roads!
Ceorana - The Day the World Turned Sorta Bluish-Tye-Dye
Disjunction - Carrot Justice
Gnejs - Pentonville mon amour
Mikitivity - Murder on the Thuvian Express
South Antrium - Mary Magdalene
Stolidia - The Perils of Persephone

Antrium: Do you wanna keep the Antrian placeholder, or shall I drop it?

The poll will go up... in a couple of days, and be up for a week, 'kay?
I plan to enable voting for two entries; because of many fun reasons I could tell if I weren't so damn tired

[Antrium]

I'm not going to come up with anything that fast, so you can get rid of the placeholder.

I wish I was more clever