Posts Tagged ‘1920s’

Chicago (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Musical
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Taye Diggs | Cliff Saunders | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Renée Zellweger | Dominic West | Richard Gere | Jayne Eastwood | Bruce Beaton | Christine Baranski | Roman Podhora | John C. Reilly | Colm Feore | Rob Smith | Shawn Wayne Doyle | Steve Behal | Robbie Rox | Chita Rivera
Directors: Rob Marshall
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Fame hungry Roxie Hart dreams of a life on the Vaudville stage, and spends her nights jazzing it up in the bright lights of Chicago, continually hoping that she’ll find her lucky break, and be shot into 1920’s stardom, so able to flee her boring husband Amos. In awe of seductive club singer Velma Kelly (who is subsequantly arrested for the murder of her husband and sister - after discovering their affair), Roxie meets Fred Cassely a man who convinces her he can ‘make her showbiz career take off’. However after Roxie has undergone the ‘casting couch’ treatment, and Fred has had his wicked way with her, he reveals that he has no more connections in showbusiness than she does. This is the final straw for Roxie, and her constant anger at rejection explodes. She shoots Fred Cassely and kills him. Upon discovering her infidelity, Roxie’s husband Amos refuses to take the blame for the murder and Roxie is sent to jail, pending hanging. In jail she finally meets tabloid darling Velma Kelly, currently receiving huge media attention for the double murder she committed earlier in the tale. Sharing the clink with Velma, are a collection of other sly females, all awaiting trial for the murders of their own partners. Velma is aloof to Roxie, however the prison Warden Mrs Morton offers Roxie the opportunity of representation by slick Chicago lawyer Billy Flynn. Billy is more a showbiz P. R agent than a legal lawyer and minipulates the tabloids into thinking Roxie is no more than an innocent ‘good time girl’ who took the wrong path, than a scheming murderess. The tabloids go crazy for the new girl on the cell block, and Roxie finally becomes a star. However due to Roxie’s new found fame, Velma is forgotten about. She is forced to approach Roxie with an offer of a part in her Vaudville act (filling the gap left by her murdered sister), but Roxie turns down her offer flat, thinking she needs no support in topping the bill. However, just as Velma’s star fell, so does Roxie’s, when Go-to-hell Kitty arrives at the jail on a multiple murder charge, the press forget Roxie and now she and Velma are in the same boat. With one more trick up her sleave Roxie manages to bring the media attention back onto her, and her day in court arrives. Billy is now ready to play the ultimate showman!

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: UK
Actors: Nicholas Farrell | Nigel Havers | Ian Charleson | Ben Cross | Daniel Gerroll | Ian Holm | John Gielgud | Lindsay Anderson | Nigel Davenport | Cheryl Campbell | Alice Krige | Dennis Christopher | Brad Davis | Patrick Magee | Peter Egan
Directors: Hugh Hudson
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The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic committee. A compromise is reached when a nobleman allows Eric to compete in his 400 meter slot. Eric and Harold win their respective races and go on to achieve fame as missionary and businessman/athletic advocate, respectively.

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Marilyn Monroe | Tony Curtis | Jack Lemmon | George Raft | Pat O'Brien | Joe E. Brown | Nehemiah Persoff | Joan Shawlee | Billy Gray | George E. Stone | Dave Barry | Mike Mazurki | Harry Wilson | Beverly Wills
Directors: Billy Wilder
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Joe, the saxophone player, is Josephine in the all girls band that he joined with Jerry, the bass violin player, to be one step ahead of the mob after witnessing the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago. After a train ride that sets a record for number of people in an upper berth, they are In Miami. Joe decides to be the man of Sugar Kane’s dreams and invites her out to a yacht he doesn’t have. But he can use Osgood Fielding’s yacht if Jerry — as Daphne — will keep Osgood dancing. The pace gets even giddier when the Chicago mob arrives in Miami for a convention.

Changeling (2008)

Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Angelina Jolie | Gattlin Griffith | Michelle Martin | Jan Devereaux | Erica Grant | Antonia Bennett | Kerri Randles | Frank Wood | Morgan Eastwood | Madison Hodges | John Malkovich | Colm Feore | Devon Conti | Ric Sarabia | J.P. Bumstead
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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A mother’s prayer for her kidnapped son to return home is answered, though it doesn’t take long for her to suspect the boy who comes back is not hers.

Brideshead Revisited (2008)

Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Matthew Goode | Thomas Morrison | Anna Madeley | David Barrass | Sarah Crowden | Stephen Carlile | Peter Barnes | Hayley Atwell | Patrick Malahide | Richard Teverson | Joseph Beattie | Ben Whishaw | Roger Walker | Rita Davies | Ed Stoppard
Directors: Julian Jarrold
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The memoirs of Captain Charles Ryder who is stationed at Brideshead Castle during WWII and remembers his involvement with the owners of the Brideshead estate: the aristocratic yet Catholic Flyte family and in particular brother and sister Sebastian and Julia.

Buddy (1997)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Rene Russo | Robbie Coltrane | Alan Cumming | Irma P. Hall | Peter Elliott | Mak Wilson | Lynn Robertson Bruce | Mark Sealey | Robert Tygner | Michelan Sisti | Peter Hurst | Leif Tilden | Star Townsend | Paul Reubens | John Aylward
Directors: Caroline Thompson
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This is a fact based story about an English socialite (Rene Russo) and her husband (Robbie Coltrane) who live in a mansion with a brood of animals including chimpanzees who are raised as her children. When she discovers an ailing baby gorilla, she decides to care for it as well. Years later, the gorilla is fully grown and its strength is sometimes out of control. However, the gorilla shows love for his mistress and obeys her commands. That all changes when she is invited to display the gorilla and chimps at the Chicago World’s Fair. Accidentally freed by one of the chimps, the gorilla terrorizes the Fair. From that point on, he becomes moody and more uncontrollable until he attacks his mistress in a bestial rage.

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Burt Lancaster | Karl Malden | Thelma Ritter | Neville Brand | Betty Field | Telly Savalas | Edmond O'Brien | Hugh Marlowe | Whit Bissell | Crahan Denton | James Westerfield | Robert Bailey | Robert Burton | Lewis Charles | Nick Dennis
Directors: John Frankenheimer
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As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother’s impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities.

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: James Stewart | Donna Reed | Lionel Barrymore | Thomas Mitchell | Henry Travers | Beulah Bondi | Frank Faylen | Ward Bond | Gloria Grahame | H.B. Warner | Frank Albertson | Todd Karns | Samuel S. Hinds | Mary Treen | Virginia Patton
Directors: Frank Capra
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On Christmas eve, all of the citizens of the small town of Bedford Falls pray to the heavens to help George Bailey. It’s then decided that Clarence, an angel who hasn’t earned his wings, is to help George. Before he does, he should know who George Bailey was. George Bailey grew up in Bedford Falls, a small town where he dreams of leaving it and making his mark on the world. His family’s business is the only thing stands between the good citizens and Mr. Potter, a rich miser who takes sick pleasure in taking from everybody, without even caring how it affects them. George was all set to leave when his father died and had to take care of the business. George would forever be hindered by his plans to leave and thinks that he is nothing but a failure, he decides to kill himself. That’s when Clarence comes in and tries to convince him that he has made something with his life, and that he had a “Wonderful Life”.

Guys and Dolls (1955)

Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Jean Simmons | Frank Sinatra | Vivian Blaine | Robert Keith | Stubby Kaye | B.S. Pully | Johnny Silver | Sheldon Leonard | Danny Dayton | George E. Stone | Regis Toomey | Kathryn Givney | Veda Ann Borg | Mary Alan Hokanson
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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All the hot gamblers are in town, and they’re all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week’s incarnation of “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York”; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who’s short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan’s $1000 bet that he can’t get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you’ve got quite a musical. Includes the songs: Fugue for Tinhorns, “Luck Be a Lady”, “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat”.

Passage to India, A (1984)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Judy Davis | Victor Banerjee | Peggy Ashcroft | James Fox | Alec Guinness | Nigel Havers | Richard Wilson | Antonia Pemberton | Michael Culver | Art Malik | Saeed Jaffrey | Clive Swift | Ann Firbank | Roshan Seth | Sandra Hotz
Directors: David Lean
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Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fiancé, a British magistrate posted in a small town; her traveling companion is his mother Mrs. Moore. They want to see something of the country and to meet everyday Indians, but are frustrated by the British community’s insistence that relations with the locals are best experienced from a distance. Finally, a friend introduces them to a Muslim doctor whom Mrs. Moore had seen briefly on her visit to a mosque. He takes them on an outing to the nearby caverns (a local attraction), but what happens there threatens to destroy any civility between the British and Indian societies.


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