Posts Tagged ‘1920s’

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.

Singin’ in the Rain (1952)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Kelly | Donald O'Connor | Debbie Reynolds | Jean Hagen | Millard Mitchell | Cyd Charisse | Douglas Fowley | Rita Moreno
Directors: Stanley Donen
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Glorious classic film musical. 1927: Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont are the darlings of the silent silver screen. Offscreen, Don, aided by his happy-go-lucky friend and piano accompanist, Cosmo Brown, has to dodge Lina’s romantic overtures, especially when he falls for chorus girl Kathy Selden. With the advent of sound in motion pictures, it is decided to turn Don and Lina’s new film into a “talkie” and a musical at that. The only problem is Lina’s voice, which mere words cannot describe. Thus, Kathy is brought on to dub her speaking and singing voice in secret, and Don’s on top of the world. But then Lina finds out…

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | James Woods | Elizabeth McGovern | Tuesday Weld | Treat Williams | James Hayden | Joe Pesci | Larry Rapp | Danny Aiello | William Forsythe | Burt Young | Darlanne Fluegel | Dutch Miller | Robert Harper | Richard Bright
Directors: Sergio Leone
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Epic tale of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York, from childhood, through their glory years during prohibition, and their meeting again 35 years later.

The Mummy (1999)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Brendan Fraser | Rachel Weisz | John Hannah | Arnold Vosloo | Kevin J. O'Connor | Oded Fehr | Jonathan Hyde | Erick Avari | Bernard Fox | Stephen Dunham | Corey Johnson | Tuc Watkins | Omid Djalili | Aharon Ipalé | Patricia Velasquez
Directors: Stephen Sommers
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In ancient Egypt, high priest Imhotep started a forbidden relationship with Anck Su Namun, Pharaoh Seti’s Mistress. When Seti finds out about what’s going on, Imhotep and his loved one stab him, but can’t escape the trustworthy guards: Anck Su Namnun chooses to commit suicide while Imhotep is bestowed with the Hom-Dai, the most feared curse of all: He is mummified alive in Hamunaptra, the city of the Dead. More than thirty-six centuries later, in 1923, to be exact, adventurer Rick leads Egyptologist Evelyn and her brother Johnathan to mysterious Hamunaptra. While Johnathan is keen on finding the legendary Egyptian treasures, Evelyn wants to search for the Book of the Living, which would clarify a lot in historical knowledge about the ancient Egyptians. Unfortunately, they and a rivaling group of careless American adventurers free Imhotep’s mummy from his eternal prison. Now, with the ancient and quite agile high priest on the loose, the adventurers and scientists face not only a dangerous enemy, but also a massive threat to today’s world: Imhotep wants to bring Ankh-su-namun back to life by using Evelyn’s body, but he also wants to rid the world of the disbelieving crowd of democracy-supporters to be able to enforce his tyrannic dictatorship.