The Hunt for Gollum (2009)

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The Hunt for Gollum is a 2009 fantasy adventure fan film directed, produced and written by Chris Bouchard that is based on the appendices of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The film centres on the fictional lands of Middle-earth, where wizard Gandalf the Grey (Patrick O'Connor) sends ranger Aragorn (Adrian Webster) on a quest to find Gollum, who he fears may reveal information about the One Ring to necromancer Sauron.


Filming took place in North Wales, Epping Forest, and Hampstead Heath. The film was shot in high definition video, with a budget of GBP£3,000 (USD$5,000). According to wikipedia, the production is completely unofficial and unauthorized, though Bouchard said he had "reached an understanding" with Tolkien Enterprises in 2009.


The Hunt for Gollum debuted at the Sci-Fi-London film festival and on the Internet, free to view, on 3 May 2009.


* Plot :

The film is set during the timespan of The Fellowship of the Ring. It takes place seventeen years after Bilbo Baggins's 111th birthday party and just prior to Frodo Baggins leaving the Shire for Rivendell. The wizard Gandalf fears that Gollum may reveal information about the One Ring to the Dark Lord Sauron, and sends the Ranger Aragorn on a quest to find him.


The story opens with a brief prologue about the ring's disappearance before cutting to Aragorn and Gandalf at an inn (presumably the Prancing Pony) in Bree. Gandalf explains his concerns about Gollum's knowledge of the Ring falling into enemy hands, and asks Aragorn to find the creature by way of his ranger tracking skills. After initially having little luck, Aragorn crosses paths with a fellow ranger and distant kinsman named Arithir, who claims to have heard rumours about a creature that has been stealing fish from local villagers. A brief scene of Gollum's hand reaching into a woman's kitchen window to steal a fish is then shown.


Aragorn and Arithir part ways, and Aragorn encounters and kills a pair of orc scouts in the forest. He soon locates Gollum by a fish pond afterwards and captures the creature in a snare trap. Having secured the whining and protesting Gollum inside a sack, Aragorn sets out for Mirkwood. He briefly spots a Nazgûl in the woods but is able to avoid it. Later that same day, the ranger is attacked by the rest of the orc army and is poisoned by a Morgul blade. He collapses beside a patch of Athelas flowers and has a dreamlike vision of Arwen in Rivendell.


Aragorn regains consciousness at dusk and discovers that Gollum has escaped from the sack. His search for the creature lasts well into the night, but Aragorn eventually finds him hiding up in a tree. Gollum fearfully explains that a Nazgûl is coming, and Aragorn is immediately attacked by it. After a short duel, the Nazgûl flees from a bright light created by the elves of Mirkwood, who recapture Gollum and guide Aragorn back to their fortress.


The scene cuts to Gandalf emerging from Mirkwood's dungeons after interrogating Gollum. The wizard tells Aragorn that Gollum knows of Bilbo Baggins and the Shire, and explains that he must now go there to warn Frodo. Aragorn suggests sending the hobbit to meet him in Bree, and Gandalf readily agrees. The film ends with Gollum speaking to himself in the dungeon, where he vows to kill "Bagginses" and reclaim his Precious.


* Cast :

* Adrian Webster as Aragorn, Heir of Isildur. Media coverage of The Hunt for Gollum has noted Webster's resemblance to Viggo Mortensen, who played Aragorn in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films.


* Arin Alldridge as Arithir, a Ranger of the North
* Patrick O'Connor as Gandalf the Grey. As with Webster and Mortensen, critics have noted O'Connor's resemblance to Ian McKellen, who played Gandalf in Jackson's films.


* Rita Ramnani as Arwen.
* Gareth Brough and Jason Perino as the voice of Gollum.
* Mathew Cunningham, Christopher Dingli and Francesco San Juan as Gollum.
* Gareth Brough as Goblok, an orc chieftain.
* Max Bracey as an elf of Mirkwood
* Dan Styles as Dabgash.
* Joshua Kennedy as a disgruntled orc.
* Ross Morrisson and Emma Hunt as one of the ringwraiths.
* Lisa Rost-Welling as an angry villager.

The Lickerish Quartet (1970)

The Lickerish Quartet (1970)
Director: Radley Metzger
Writers:Michael DeForrest (screenplay)
Michael DeForrest (story)
Genre: Drama
This Movie is rated (R: Restricted because of porn scenes)


* Cast :

Silvana Venturelli ... The visitor
Frank Wolff ... Castle owner
Erika Remberg ... His wife
Paolo Turco ... Her son


* Plot :

A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap.


Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, "Who has the gun?" Will there be violence before it's over?

Kwik Stop

Kwik Stop (2001)
Director:Michael Gilio
Writer: Michael Gilio (writer)
Genre: Comedy
Rated: Restricted


* Cast :


Michael Gilio ... Mike
Lara Phillips ... Didi
Rich Komenich ... Emil
Karin Anglin ... Ruthie
Kris Wolff ... Clerk

* Rest of cast listed alphabetically :

Guy Barile ... Ticket teller
Eric Curtis Johnson ... Dr. Milk
Whitney Powell ... Juvy Girl
Bob Rokos ... Bar Thug
Sunny Seigel ... Sunny
Doug Steckel ... Clerk #2


* Awards :


- Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2002 : Best Director ( Michael Gilio ); and nomination for Best Film Award.


- St. Louis International Film Festival 2002 : New Filmmakers Forum - Special Jury Prize.


* Plot :


The tale of a Hollywood-bound actor called Lucky whose shoplifting is discovered by a local girl in a small, Midwestern town.


When she forces him to take her along on the road trip, they spiral into an unpredictable ride of crime, love and abandonment.

D. W. Griffith's "Abraham Lincoln"

Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Director: D. W. Griffith
Released: 1930
License: Public Domain
Length: 01:24:39


* Cast :

* William L. Thorne — Tom Lincoln (as W.L. Thorne)
* Lucille La Verne — Mid-Wife
* Helen Freeman — Nancy Hanks Lincoln
* Otto Hoffman — Offut
* Walter Huston — Abraham Lincoln
* Edgar Dearing — Jack Armstrong (as Edgar Deering)
* Una Merkel — Ann Rutledge
* Russell Simpson — Uncle Jimmy
* Charles Crockett — Sheriff
* Kay Hammond — Mary Todd Lincoln
* Helen Ware — Mrs. Edwards
* E. Alyn Warren — Stephen A. Douglas
* Jason Robards, Sr. — Billy Herndon (as Jason Robards)
* Gordon Thorpe — Tad Lincoln



Abraham Lincoln is a biographical film about former American president Abraham Lincoln, released in 1930. It was directed by D. W. Griffith and starred Walter Huston and Una Merkel.


It is sometimes known by the title D. W. Griffith's 'Abraham Lincoln'. This was the first of only two sound films made by Griffith; it was not a hit at the time, but in more recent years it has come to be regarded as one of the definitive films on the president.


Despite this, it contains a large amount of historical inaccuracies, such as having Lincoln deliver his Second Inaugural Address at Ford's Theatre shortly before being assassinated, significantly altering the Lincoln-Douglas debates by turning them into an argument on secession, and featuring the romance between Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, which some historians assert never took place


The film starts at Lincoln's birth, through the struggles of his youth and love for Ann Rutledge (Una Merkel), marriage to the eccentric Mary Todd (Kay Hammond), whose mental fragility is subtly demonstrated in how she tries to get out a spot in some fabric, his persistence in keeping the Union together through the war at all costs, and his assassination.


A wonderful "biography" film, and a good example of early filmmaking.

The Naked Kiss

The Naked Kiss 1963, written, produced, and directed by Samuel Fuller.


Samuel Fuller was born in 1911. He got his first job as a teenage crime reporter for the San Diego Sun, and was soon writing short stories and pulp novels like Burn Baby Burn (1935).


He started writing screenplays (Gangs of New York, 1938), but got sidetracked into World War II, where he won a Bronze Star, a Silver Star, and a Purple Heart while fighting for the First Infantry Division in Africa. He came back to Hollywood and directed his first film, I Shot Jesse James, in 1949.


The Naked Kiss, Fuller’s seventeenth film, is the story of Kelly. A girl who starts outside society. Despite her occasional penchant for violence, wno one can not help endorsing all her actions. She’s a woman of two worlds trying to find redemption in a world controlled by men.


After the surprisingly violent opening, Fuller goes just a wee bit overboard to let us know this woman is not what she seems.

John Wayne's "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon"

Runtime : 1h 43min

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne.

The film was the second of Ford's trilogy of films focusing on the US Cavalry, the other two films being Fort Apache (1948) and Rio Grande (1950). With a budget of $1.6 million, the film was one of the most expensive westerns of the time, but became a major hit for RKO and remains a popular classic today.


Known for its breathtaking views of Monument Valley located on the southern border of Utah; the cinematographer, Winton Hoch, won the 1950 Academy Award for Best Color Cinematography. Ford and Hoch based much of the film's imagery on the paintings and sculptures of Frederic Remington. Ford demonstrated a number of standard Cavalry procedures in horse management in this and other movies. Strict rotation between walk, trot, and leading the horses made them last as long as possible. They were still no match for the lightly burdened Indian horses for endurance, but US Cavalry horses were fed grain (when available), and this helped even the odds a bit.


The film is named after a song common in the U.S. military, "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", which is still used today to keep marching cadence. It is a variant of the song "All Around My Hat".

* Plot :


On the verge of his retirement, the aging Cavalry Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles (John Wayne) deals with a series of attacks by the Cheyenne following the defeat of George Armstrong Custer.


Unwilling to see more lives needlessly taken, Brittles takes it upon himself to try to make peace with Chief Pony That Walks (Chief John Big Tree).

Night Of The Living Dead (1968)

Director: George A. Romero
Writers:John A. Russo (screenplay), and
George A. Romero (screenplay).
Release Date: 1 October 1968


Night of the Living Dead is an independent black-and-white zombie film. Ben (Duane Jones) and Barbra (Judith O'Dea) are the protagonists of a story about the mysterious reanimation of the recently dead, and their efforts, along with five other people, to survive the night while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse.


George Romero completed the film on a $114,000 budget, and after a decade of cinematic re-releases, it grossed some $12 million domestically and $30 million internationally. On its release in 1968, Night of the Living Dead was strongly criticized for its explicit content, but in 1999, the Library of Congress placed it on the National Film Registry as a film deemed "historically, culturally or aesthetically important".


Night of the Living Dead was cited by many as being a groundbreaking film, given its release during the Vietnam-era, due to perceived critiques of late-1960s U.S. society; a historian described it as "subversive on many levels". Although it is not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary 'zombie apocalypse' sub-genre of horror film, and it influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype. Night of the Living Dead (1968), is the first of six Dead films directed by George Romero, and twice has been remade, as a film of the same name in 1990, directed by Tom Savini, and as Night of the Living Dead 3D in 2006.