Bombón – A story from Patagonia
Nov 25, 2009 Uncategorized
Bombón – A story from Patagonia
Patagonia is for many world travelers, the World’s End, a largely deserted patch of earth, rough, roars from a steady wind and inhospitable to come, so that on a square kilometer of ground just two people. In some areas there are even fewer. More surprising, then, some might say that here too utterly strange encounters may occur, of which the Argentine director Carlos Sorin’s film tells Bombón.
The heart of the film Juan (Juan Vallega) the just lost his job as a mechanic and gas station there
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb
Nov 4, 2009 Uncategorized
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Love the Bomb
In 1963, at the height of the Cold War, orders the paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper (= Jack the Ripper, Sterling Hayden) to his squadron to attack the Soviet Union. The command can not be revoked, he can seal off its base and move the bomber pilots in a coded communication frequency. A crisis in the Pentagon discussed the consequences of this nuclear accident situations. For General “Buck” Turgidson (George C. Scott), it is clear that the pilots in any event can not be stopped
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