sâmbătă, 26 aprilie 2014

Movies about nuclear disasters




Movies about nuclear disasters



The Chernobyl disaster (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Chornobylska KatastrofaChornobyl Catastrophe; also referred as Chernobyl or the Chornobyl accident) was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially the Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe. (source: wikipedia)

Atomic train 1999, USA & Canada, directors: David Jackson & Dick Lowry
Broken Arrow 1996, USA, director: John Woo
By dawn's early light 1990 (after a novel by William Prochnau), USA, director: Jack Sholder
Chain of command 2000, USA, director: John Terlesky
Colossus: The Forbin project 1970 (after a novel by D.F. Jones), USA, director: Joseph Sargent
Crimson Tide 1995, USA, director: Tony Scott
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb 1964 (after the novel ‘Red alert’ by Peter George), USA & UK, director & co-writer: Stanley Kubrick
Fail-Safe 1964 (based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler), director & co-producer: Sidney Lumet
Hiroshima 1995, Canada & Japan, directors: Koreyoshi Kurahara & Roger Spottiswoode
It came from beneath the sea 1955, USA, director: Robert Gordon
K-19: The widowmaker 2002, USA, director: Kathryn Bigelow
Ladybug Ladybug 1963, USA, director: Frank Perry
MacGruber 2010, USA, director: Jorma Taccone
Meteor 1979, USA, director: Ronald Neame
Miracle Mille 1988, USA, director & writer: Steve De Jarnatt
Mission: Impossible - Ghost protocol 2011, USA, United Arab Emirates & Czech Republic, director: Brad Bird
Next 2007 (after the novel story ‘The Golden Man’ by Phillip K. Dick), USA, director: Lee Tamahori
On the beach 1959 (after a novel by Nevil Shute), USA, director: Stanley Kramer
On the beach 2000 (after a novel by Nevil Shute; remake), Australia & USA, director: Russell Mulcahy
RED 2, USA, France & Canada, director: Dean Parisot
Seven days in May 1964 (after a novel by Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II), USA, director: John Frankenheimer
Seven days to noon 1950, UK, directors: John Boulting & Roy Boulting
Superman IV: The quest for peace 1987, UK & USA, director: Sidney J. Furie
Testament 1983 (based on the story ‘The last testament’ by Carol Amen), director: Lynne Littman The China syndrome 1979, USA, director: James Bridges
The day after 1983 (TV movie), director: Nicholas Meyer
The divide 2011, Germany, USA & Canada, director: Xavier Gens
The half life of Timofey Berezin [Pu-239] 2006 (after the short story ‘PU-239’ by Ken Kalfus), USA, director & writer: Scott Z. Burns
The hunt for Red October 1990 (after the same novel by Tom Clancy), USA, director: John McTiernan
The peacemaker 1997, USA, director: Mimi Leder
The sum of all fears 2002 (after a novel by Tom Clancy), USA & Germany, director: Phil Alden Robinson
Thirteen days 2000 (after the book ‘The Kennedy Tapes - Inside the White House during the Cuban missile crisis’ by Ernest R. May & Philip D. Zelikow), USA, director: Roger Donaldson
Thunderball 1965 (after the same novel by Ian Fleming 1961), UK, director: Terence Young

vineri, 25 aprilie 2014

Movies based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez



Movies based on Gabriel García Márquez novels


Gabriel García Márquez  (6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist.

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Tiempo de morir [Time to die] 1966, director: Arturo Ripstein, writer:
Gabriel García Márquez

La viuda de Montiel [The widow Montiel ] 1979 (based on the novel of the same name from 1962), Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela & Cuba, director & writer: Miguel Littin

María de mi corazón [Mary my dearest] 1979, Mexico, director & writer: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, co-writer: Gabriel García Márquez

Eréndira 1983 (based on the novel ‘The incredible and sad tale of innocent Eréndira and her souless grandmother’ (La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada) from 1972), France, Mexico & West Germany, director: Ruy Guerra, writer: Gabriel García Márquez

Farewell to the ark [さらば箱舟 / Saraba hakobune] 1984 (based on the novel ‘One hundred years of solitude’ from 1967), Japan, director & writer: Shûji Terayama

Cronaca di una morte annunciata [Chronicle of a death foretold] 1987 (based on the novel of the same name from 1981), Italy, France & Colombia, director & writer: Francesco Rosi

El verano de la señora Forbes [The summer of Miss Forbes] 1989 (based on the novel of the same name from 1976), Cuba, Mexico & Spain, director & writer: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo

Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes [A very old man with enormous
wings] 1988, Cuba, Italy & Spain, director & co-writer: Fernando Birri, co-writer: Gabriel García Márquez

El coronel no tiene quien le escriba [No one writes to the colonel] 1999 (based on the eponymous novella of the same name from 1961), Mexico, France & Spain, director: Arturo Ripstein

O veneno da madrugada [In evil hour] 2006 (based on the novel of the same name from 1962; Spanish title: La mala hora), Brazil, Argentina & Portugal, director & writer: Ruy Guerra

El amor en los tiempos del cólera [Love in the time of cholera] 2007 (based on the novel of the same name from 1985), USA, director: Mike Newell 

Del amor y otros demonios [Of love and other demons] 2009 (based on the novel of the same name from 1994), Costa Rica & Columbia, director & writer: Hilda Hidalgo

Dead man's coughing [Kaszel umarlaka] 2009 (inspired by the short story ‘Muerte constante más allá del amor’), Poland, director & writer:   Krzysztof Borówka

Lecciones para un beso 2011, Columbia, director & writer: Juan Pablo Bustamante (Gabriel García Márquez as script doctor)

Memoria de mis putas tristes [Memories of my melancholy whores] 2011 (based on the novel of the same name from 2004), Mexico, Spain, Denmark & USA, director & co-writer: Henning Carlsen

Did you know that Gabriel García Márquez novel ‘Of love and other demonswas adapted by Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös to form the opera Love and other demons, premiered in 2008 at Glyndebourne Festival?

Did you know that in 1995, Graciela Daniele adapted the novel ‘Cronaca di una morte annunciata’ (Chronicle of a death foretold) into the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical of the same name, which she also directed and choreographed.
A Romanian short-film was made in 2007.