Besides Netflix with subtitles, I also use Hulu.jp where some anime and dramas have closed caption (cc). This gives the Japanese text and can be good for language acquisition but poor for entertainment if you are always pausing to read what was said.
Bro, Where did you find the subtitles of episode 1 please tell me. Those subtitles were the exact subtitles for the English dubbed version. Please tell me bro. Please ?????????
Brief speech in which the speaker expressed his dismay that African Americans were not welcomed into the army to fight for their own freedom. He noted that they had fought in 1776, but now were not permitted to bear arms.
Brief note regarding the status of the military on the east coast. The writer sarcastically suggests that the army move down to Florida and take the land there from the native people until Congress can "legislate" it away from them.
After the death of the ward, and at any time prior to the representative's discharge, the representative of the estate will be entitled to obtain payment of a bond to which the ward was solely entitled.
Anime are Japanese animated films, which are often derived from manga. Most anime are originally performed in Japanese and are either re-dubbed in English and/or include English subtitles. While most DVDs tend to include both versions, it is important to carefully read the language information on the DVD cover if you have a preference for one format over the other.
Still image from Faces Places, by Agnès Varda (with JR, 2017, subtitles, 90 minutes), screening at the National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium, on April 5, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. as part of the film series Agnès Varda Viewing Art. Image courtesy CineTamaris.
Isadora's Children
May 10, 4:30 p.m. (canceled)
Isadora Duncan's two young children, Patrick and Deidre, died in France in 1913, and the famous dancer never completely healed from this loss. She choreographed a dance entitled Mother, a tender reflection on her relationship with her children. French filmmaker Damien Manivel has used Duncan's concept to create a delicate fictional tale about art's ability to convey emotion and heal. The film comprises three interconnected stories, each focusing on a ballerina's discipline and rigor, but also conveying emotions to strangers in the audience. (Damien Manivel, 2019, subtitles, 84 minutes)
Restoration: Distant Journey
Introduced by Lukáš Přibyl; Discussion with Gabriel Paletz and Lukaš Přibyl follows
May 17, 4:00 p.m. (canceled)
Distant Journey (Daleka cesta) follows a Jewish doctor, Hana, who falls in love and marries a gentile named Toník. Their love story becomes a nightmare when Hana's family is transported to Theresienstadt (Terezín) and struggles to survive. Although director Alfréd Radok was only half Jewish, he lost much of his family in the Holocaust and was himself imprisoned in a camp near Wrocław, Poland. He began production on Distant Journey, his first film, soon after the war ended, shooting a large portion on location in Terezín, where both his father and grandfather had been killed. By the time Radok finished, the communists had taken over postwar Czechoslovakia, ushering in an era of censorship, and the film was subsequently banned for four decades. (Alfréd Radok, 1949, subtitles, 108 minutes) Presented in association with the Washington Jewish Film Festival.
The Oak
Washington, DC, premiere of the restoration
June 6, 2:00 p.m.
After the fall of communism in Romania in 1989, Pintilie returned to Bucharest and became director of national film production for the Ministry of Culture. The Oak, his first film after returning home, follows Nela, a young schoolteacher, after the death of her father, an official with the country's secret police. On an uneasy odyssey through Romania, she carries his ashes in a Nescafe jar. After many surreal moments depicting the end of Nicolae Ceauşescu's regime, Nela meets a doctor named Mitica. His anti-authoritarian nature makes them instantaneous comrades in arms, but a sequence of surprises works against them, and for a while, nothing seems to go right. (1992, subtitles, 105 minutes)
An Unforgettable Summer
June 6, 4:30 p.m.
Based on a short story by Petre Dumitriu, An Unforgettable Summer is set in the 1920s in a region that has been part of both Romania and Bulgaria. When the film opens, a young military officer (Dumitriu himself, played by Claudiu Bleont) is about to attend a ball with his wife Marie-Therese (Kristin Scott Thomas). After his wife resists the advances of a superior officer, this stylish cosmopolitan family is relocated to a dreary and desolate post along the Bulgarian/Romanian border, where the couple's marriage and, indeed, their lives are at stake. (1994, subtitles, 35mm, 81 minutes)
Niki and Flo
June 7, 5:00 p.m.
Retired army officer Niki Ardelean lives in a small Bucharest apartment with his ailing wife Poucha, his daughter Angela, and Angela's new husband Eugen. Angela is pregnant, but Niki's excitement is dulled by the fact that the young couple is planning to leave for the United States. He's torn between his wish to see his daughter happy and a desire to have her nearby. Meanwhile, Eugen's father Flo, a domestic tyrant of sorts, slowly exerts his control over Niki. (2003, subtitles, 35mm, 100 minutes)
The City Without Jews
June 20, 2:30 p.m.
The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) was once considered lost, but this reconstructed version was released in 2019. The film is an adaptation of the 1922 The City Without Jews: A Novel of Our Time by Austrian writer Hugo Bettauer, a work now considered prophetic with respect to the Holocaust. Set in early 1920s Vienna, the film depicts a population feeling loss and looming social instability, aggravated by inflation and unemployment. The people are demanding the purging of Jews from the city. Newly commissioned score by Austrian composer Olga Neuworth. (Hans Karl Breslauer, 1924, subtitles, 80 minutes)
The Paper Bridge
June 20, 4:30 p.m.
Ruth Beckermann, a widely admired master of the film essay genre, constructs works that are at once personal and political. Her first-person narrative The Paper Bridge (Die Papierene Brücke) is a journey through family history and an attempt to reclaim remnants of Jewish life in regions of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. On a trip from Vienna to Romania, she visits the sites where her grandmother hid from the Nazis and the place of her father's birth. Survivors of the Holocaust, Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the war, and her film is in part a meditation on her own identity as a Jewish woman in postwar Austria. (Ruth Beckermann, 1987, subtitles, 95 minutes)
The Seventh Continent
June 21, 5:15 p.m.
Michael Haneke's debut feature foretells the artistry of his later masterworks. Based on a news story that the director read by chance, The Seventh Continent follows three years in the lives of an average middle-class Austrian family disillusioned by the emptiness and dull routines of their days. Husband Georg, wife Anna, and daughter Eva decide to discover for themselves the nirvana suggested by an Australian tourism poster they pass each day. Typical for Haneke's work, the conclusion is both shocking and redemptive. (Michael Haneke, 1989, 35 mm, subtitles, 111 minutes)
Notes on Film 02
June 27, noon
The influence of Austria's lively avant-garde scene is evident in Notes on Film 02, as Norbert Pfaffenbichler combines structural filmmaking methods with elements of narrative cinema to investigate the theme of variation and repetition. Content from Robert Franks O.K. End Here (1963) comes in the form of random moments from the life of a married couple arranged on an alphanumeric editing model. (Norbert Pfaffenbichler, 2006, subtitles, 96 minutes) This film is presented in association with sixpackfilm, a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and presenting Austrian experimental cinema.
PACKAGING LANGUAGE
Pakistan: Children of the Taliban
Reported by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY, Correspondent: [voice-over] This is Peshawar, a city of three million people on the edge of Pakistan's lawless tribal areas. Just a few miles from here, the Pakistani army is fighting the Pakistani Taliban, Islamic militants who share a hard-line ideology with their Afghan counterparts. The conflict has killed nearly 7,000 people in the last year alone.
[on camera] The city is on high alert. The Taliban seem to be closing in, regularly attacking police convoys, kidnapping diplomats, shooting foreigners.
[voice-over] The fighting has driven thousands of families from their homes in the conflict areas. Many of them are now sheltering here in Peshawar. This rehabilitation center treats people caught in the crossfire between the army and the militants.
Qainat is 10. She's been living here for the past two months. A mortar meant for the Taliban landed on her house. Her mother has a spinal cord injury. Her sister and most of her extended family were killed.
MOTHER: [subtitles] Do you miss your sister?
QAINAT: [subtitles] I miss her but there is nothing we can do.
MOTHER: [subtitles] God brought it upon us; what can we do?
QAINAT: [subtitles] I think of her all the time.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [subtitles] Who in your family was killed in that attack?
QAINAT: [subtitles] My sister, my aunt, my sister-in-law, my cousin, another aunt, my cousin's daughter, my second cousin and her sons.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [subtitles] Have you seen the Taliban in your area?
QAINAT: [subtitles] Yes, I've seen them. They wear masks. They're scary. When we see them, we run back home. One day we were walking to our village. We saw the dead body of a policeman tied to a pole. The Taliban don't spare government people or policemen. His head had been chopped off. It was hanging between his legs. There was a note saying if anyone moved the dead body, they would share its fate.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [voice-over] Before the Taliban took control of Qainat's village, the women in her family attended university and worked. But Qainat tells me the Taliban have now banned girls from going to school.
[subtitles] What would you like to be when you grow up?
QAINAT: [subtitles] A doctor.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [subtitles] Why do you want to be a doctor?
QAINAT: [subtitles] So I can give injections to people. And help my mother now that she's ill.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [subtitles] But the Taliban say you can't become a doctor. So what will happen?
QAINAT: [subtitles] It's peaceful right here. I'll become a doctor here.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [voice-over] Her family's savings are running out. Soon Qainat will have to return to her village, where the Taliban are fighting the army. Qainat's from Swat, a 100-mile-long valley in the north of Pakistan, three hours' drive from Peshawar. Until recently, Swat was known as the Switzerland of the east and had a thriving tourist industry. But all that changed when the Pakistani Taliban arrived.
[on camera] We're about an hour outside of Swat, and even though the Taliban don't control this area, they do have influence here, so I have to cover up properly.
[www.pbs.org: An interview with the reporter]
[voice-over] Two years ago, hundreds of Taliban fighters moved into Swat from the adjoining tribal areas when their hideouts were attacked by the Pakistani army. Extremist preachers here gave them refuge.
Swati women never wore the burqa. Now the handful of women I see on the streets are all covered.
The Taliban create fear through their radio broadcasts.
TALIBAN PREACHER: [radio broadcast] [subtitles] Sharia law is our right, and we will exercise this right whatever happens. I swear to God we will shed our own blood to achieve this. We will make our sons suicide bombers! We will make ourselves suicide bombers! I swear to God, if our leader orders me, I will sacrifice myself and blow myself up in the middle of our enemies.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: I arrive in Qainat's village. The Taliban here have a new target, schools.
[on camera] The Taliban have destroyed over 200 government schools in Swat. And a few days ago, they declared that no girls were going to be allowed to go to school here.
[voice-over] Four hundred girls studied here. Most of them are too scared to talk about the Taliban, but two 9-year-olds want to tell me what happened.
ZARLASH: [subtitles] I am really angry.
RUKSAR: [subtitles] I'm really worried. Our school has been destroyed.
ZARLASH: [subtitles] It's completely unfair.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [subtitles] Why did you like school?
RUKSAR: [subtitles] Because education is like a ray of light, and I want that light.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [subtitles] What will happen to girls if the Taliban come to power?
ZARLASH: [subtitles] We'll stay at home. My father bought me a burqa, so I'll have to wear that.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [subtitles] Do you like wearing a burqa?
ZARLASH: [subtitles] No. I always trip up in it.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [voice-over] Suddenly a reminder that Swat is on the front line.
[subtitles] What was that?
ZARLASH: [subtitles] An explosion, the sound of a mortar.
SHARMEEN OBAID-CHINOY: [subtitles] A mortar? We can hear some firing.