The Chinese are so wonderfully literal. Watch the scene where the violin background music plays the American song, "It ain't necessarily so."

A movie for today's generation that proves nothing has changed. The human need for love is as strong as ever. Strip away all of today's technology, the liberal lies, and the modern conveniences, and what's left is what was always there . . . the only reason that makes life worth living.

Winged Migration was four years in the making with some of the most impressive shots of flying eye-to-eye with birds of several species from all over the world. Seen a 57" High-Def TV, you can almost reach out and touch one.

"From the emergency the grandmother makes the suggestion to cut the twelve-year-old girls hair off and to dress her like a boy. She works and nourishes so the fatherless family. The unusual role saves dangers. The small one must participate in religious rites, which are reserved men. When the Taliban recruits all boys for the Koranschule, the identity of the girl, who calls herself Osama, remains not for a long time secret. It is punished for its passing.
1994 were turned the last play -, 1996 the last documentary film in Afghanistan. Under the Taliban a picture prohibition applied: Films, photos and painting were not permitted. Worldwide the destruction of the famous buddha-Statuen encountered indignation. Seven months after the fall of the Taliban turned young Afghaninnen the first documentary film. This ran in the spring 2003 on the Dortmunder Film Festival femme total . Suffering the women in the destroyed country got a face by 'Afghanistan entschleiert.' " View Trailer.

Webmaster's note: The teenage star of this film is an actual street beggar found by the director of this multi-award winning movie. She received enough money to feed her family for six months, then maybe back again onto the streets of the capital of Afghanistan. All characters are real people paid daily in food with some money at the end of the film for their efforts. There are no elite Hollywood actors. Only real Afghan people in their real lives. See Afghan Web site created by Afghans for Afghans.

De-lovely is a "de-lightful" movie about the life of song writer Cole Porter, providing us with the true story that his lifestyle was more like a Rock Hudson than a Hoagy Carmichael.

The movie is excellent with unexpected segues, the beautiful Ashley Judd playing the hopeful Romantic, Linda Porter, with Kline always excellent giving new meaning to Cole Porter's song "Night & Day." We assume the song over the closing credits at the end of the DVD is Porter himself.

After watching this Hollywood biography on Porter, you may have a hard time enjoying songs he wrote such as "Love for Sale" and "Anything Goes," because it was and it did. Of course understanding the subject matter of the movie, there should be no surprise the movie was a Cannes 2004 Festival winner. Warning: This may be a difficult movie to handle for children, as Kline is shown to romantically kiss and hug Porter's male lover characters.