Posts Tagged ‘1920s’

Death Defying Acts (2007)

Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Guy Pearce | Timothy Spall | Jack Bailey | Aaron Brown | MacKay Crawford | James Fiddy | Martin Fisher | Tim Frost | Campbell Graham | Miles Jupp | Dodger Phillips | John Warman | Chris Wilson
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During Harry Houdini’s tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. The psychic and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicized séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However all does not go to plan…

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Al Pacino | Robert Duvall | Diane Keaton | Robert De Niro | John Cazale | Talia Shire | Lee Strasberg | Michael V. Gazzo | G.D. Spradlin | Richard Bright | Gastone Moschin | Tom Rosqui | Bruno Kirby | Frank Sivero | Francesca De Sapio
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
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The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Legionnaire (1998)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | Steven Berkoff | Nicholas Farrell | Jim Carter | Ana Sofrenovic | Daniel Caltagirone | Joseph Long | Mario Kalli | Joe Montana | Kim Romer | Anders Peter Bro | Paul Kynman | Vincent Pickering | Takis Triggelis
Directors: Peter MacDonald
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At the height of its glory, the French Foreign Legion was made up of men widely regarded as the scum of the earth. It was a mercenary army posted to colonies in Northern Africa and Southern Asia…but its soldiers swore no allegiance to France, only to the legion and to each other. The legion asked no questions about a man’s past…nor did it offer much hope for his future. It was a hard way to get a second chance in life…

The Skeleton Key (2005)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kate Hudson | Gena Rowlands | John Hurt | Peter Sarsgaard | Joy Bryant | Maxine Barnett | Fahnlohnee R. Harris | Marion Zinser | Deneen Tyler | Ann Dalrymple | Trula M. Marcus | Tonya Staten | Thomas Uskali | Jen Apgar | Forrest Landis
Directors: Iain Softley
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A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Hoodoo (Not Voodoo, it’s different. Hoodoo is an old African American magic that only works if you believe in it.) practitioners.

The Painted Veil (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: China | USA
Actors: Naomi Watts | Edward Norton | Liev Schreiber | Toby Jones | Diana Rigg | Juliet Howland | Anthony Wong Chau-Sang | Maggie Steed | Lorraine Laurence | Johnny Lee | Li Feng | Gesang Meiduo | Alan David | Lucy Voller | Ian Rennick
Directors: John Curran
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This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed too. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discover’s Kitty’s infidelity with one dashing and witty Diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amidst the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it’s too late?

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Matt Damon | Charlize Theron | Bruce McGill | Joel Gretsch | J. Michael Moncrief | Lane Smith | Peter Gerety | Michael O'Neill | Thomas Jay Ryan | Trip Hamilton | Dermot Crowley | Harve Presnell | Danny Nelson | Bob Penny
Directors: Robert Redford
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He’s living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who’s the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn’t return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele’s father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father’s. She’s able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having “one of their own” compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs’s caddy and help him regain his “authentic swing”. He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match.

Pearl Harbor (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Josh Hartnett | Kate Beckinsale | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Jon Voight | Alec Baldwin | Tom Sizemore | William Lee Scott | Greg Zola | Ewen Bremner | Jaime King | Catherine Kellner | Jennifer Garner | Sara Rue | Michael Shannon
Directors: Michael Bay
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The above summaries do a great job of describing the dynamics of the love triangle that develops between the two pilots that fall in love with the same nurse. The movie also does a credible job of displaying the war from the American side with FDR and our side. It also shows the strategy of Japan as they plan for and execute all facets of the attack on Pearl Harbor. While all details may not be historically correct, I believe that they do the job well - all things considered. Historic events that were altered were probably done so in an attempt to also make this movie the entertaining epic that it is.

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | History | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Suzuka Ohgo | Togo Igawa | Mako | Samantha Futerman | Elizabeth Sung | Thomas Ikeda | Li Gong | Tsai Chin | Kaori Momoi | Zoe Weizenbaum | David Okihiro | Miyako Tachibana | Kotoko Kawamura | Karl Yune | Eugenia Yuan
Directors: Rob Marshall
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In 1929 an impoverished nine-year-old named Chiyo from a fishing village is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto’s Gion district and subjected to cruel treatment from the owners and the head geisha Hatsumomo. Her stunning beauty attracts the vindictive jealousy of Hatsumomo, until she is rescued by and taken under the wing of Hatsumomo’s bitter rival, Mameha. Under Mameha’s mentorship, Chiyo becomes the geisha named Sayuri, trained in all the artistic and social skills a geisha must master in order to survive in her society. As a renowned geisha she enters a society of wealth, privilege, and political intrigue. As World War II looms Japan and the geisha’s world are forever changed by the onslaught of history.

The Aviator (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Cate Blanchett | Kate Beckinsale | John C. Reilly | Alec Baldwin | Alan Alda | Ian Holm | Danny Huston | Gwen Stefani | Jude Law | Adam Scott | Matt Ross | Kelli Garner | Frances Conroy | Brent Spiner
Directors: Martin Scorsese
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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

The Last Emperor (1987)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: China | France | Italy | UK
Actors: John Lone | Joan Chen | Peter O'Toole | Ruocheng Ying | | Dennis Dun | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Maggie Han | Ric Young | Vivian Wu | Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa | Jade Go | Fumihiko Ikeda | Richard Vuu | Tsou Tijger
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People’s Republic.