Inspired by the contemporary writer, Shamshad Abdullaev’s poem, “On The Side of the Stones”, Ushakov’s Collection of Stones is at once a cinematic experiment in pace and duration, while also a fixed-frame meditation observing one man’s sublime gentleness as he walks around a city with a box picking up select small rocks like they’re good luck charms, lunches alongside a public basketball court, rests in a park, and sits at a bus stop examining the newly gathered stones.
Inspired by the contemporary writer, Shamshad Abdullaev’s poem, “On The Side of the Stones”, Ushakov’s Collection of Stones is at once a cinematic experiment in pace and duration, while also a fixed-frame meditation observing one man’s sublime gentleness as he walks around a city with a box picking up select small rocks like they’re good luck charms, lunches alongside a public basketball court, rests in a park, and sits at a bus stop examining the newly gathered stones.
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want the same thing to happen to him, and his friend Tuna, in the 1960's, suggests that he deal marijuana. He is a big hit in California in the 1960's, yet he goes to jail, where he finds out about the wonders of cocaine. As a result, when released, he gets rich by bringing cocaine to America. However, he soon pays the price.
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