The Main Stream (2002)
Género : Documental
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 56M
Director : Roger Weisberg
Sinopsis
Humorist Roy Blount Jr. takes viewers on a journey down the Mississippi River, showcasing everything from areas with spectacularly beautiful scenery to ugly and dangerously polluted stretches bordered by industrial development.
Estando de maniobras, un grupo de la Guardia Nacional provoca un sangriento incidente en los pantanos de Louisiana. A continuación los miembros del pelotón van siendo exterminados por los violentos cajuns de la región...
Una criatura letal, capturada ilegalmente en Asia, consigue escapar y llega hasta un pantano de Louisiana. A partir de entonces, los vecinos de una población de casas flotantes situada en medio de la marisma ya no podrán vivir en paz. Amenazados por la bestia, intentan desesperadamente huir y refugiarse en una isla cercana. Pero pronto descubren, horrorizados, que la extraña criatura también puede sobrevivir en tierra.
Tres hombres muy diferentes se conocen al compartir celda en una cárcel de Louisiana. Zack es un DJ; Jack, un chulo de poca monta y Roberto, un turista italiano.
The definitive film on the history of the toe-tapping, foot-stomping music of French Southwest Louisiana. Includes many Cajun and Zydeco greats, featuring Michael Doucet and Beausoleil, Clifton Chenier, Marc and Ann Savoy, D.L. Menard, and many others.
Another short documentary of "Real Food, Roots Music, and People Full of Passion for what they do!", Spend It All is Les Blank's spirited look at the French-speaking Cajun community of southwest Louisiana.
Cuando dos familias rivales en las cercanías de los ríos principales de Luisiana descubren especies nuevas y muy agresivas de caimanes, deberían olvidarse de la lucha para destruir a estos reptiles peligrosos.
Veinte años después de la muerte de un excéntrico multimillonario su familia es llamada para la lectura de su testamento. De hecho, se trata de una grabación hecha de él mismo realizada antes de su muerte, donde nombra como su heredera a su familiar más lejano. La única condición impuesta es que mantenga la mente sana, pero por la noche la aparición de fantasmas hará que todos empiecen a dudar de su cordura.
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
Diana Sullivan (Jill Clayburgh), una exitosa periodista neoyorquina, se traslada junto a su problemática hija Grace (Martha Plimpton) a Louisiana. Su intención es visitar a unos parientes lejanos, en concreto a su prima Ruth (Barabara Hershey), una mujer de infancia difícil casada a los 12 años y que ahora tiene 3 hijos. Diana y su hija se encuentran en el Sur con un mundo extraño, a veces peligroso.
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Los intrusos borrachos van a la boda de una novia (Jan MacKenzie) y su novio (Tray Loren) para vengarse de ellos.
When gang leader Rob Brown is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved American Indian community in northern Minnesota. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future: becoming the most powerful and feared Native gangster on the reservation.
In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire (Armand Assante) is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who don't see eye to eye with local racists who wish to eradicate all Cajuns. Complicating matters is the fact that Belizaire's former flame (Gail Youngs) is now married to his biggest rival (Will Patton), an affluent landowner's son. Before he knows it, Belizaire is caught up in a web of murder, lies and prejudice.
Two men exploring the Louisiana swamps run into a Bigfoot-type creature.
A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisians swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old conjure woman Mandy returns with her daughter Chloe to their bayou home after fifteen years. Chloe was too young to remember much about the bayou, but once Mandy had been a famous voodoo priestess in these parts. But after the whites lynched her husband Sam, she took her little girl & moved away into the Everglades. She seems to have gone a little mad in the intervening years & has returned swearing a belated vengeance against the murdering white folks.
Adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de William Faulkner.
Shot on location in rural Southwestern Louisiana, Zydeco combines cinema verite style footage, interviews and musical performance to present a colorful, joyful portrait of the zydeco musicians in their culture. Featuring Dolon Carriere, Armand Ardoin, and Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin. A film by Nicholas R. Spitzer. Color, 57 minutes.
In this RKO Sportscope short, a naturalist and his wife go to Louisiana bayou country to hunt a particular species of goose.
The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.