Posts Tagged ‘1960s’

Serpico (1973)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Al Pacino | John Randolph | Jack Kehoe | Biff McGuire | Barbara Eda-Young | Cornelia Sharpe | Tony Roberts | John Medici | Allan Rich | Norman Ornellas | Edward Grover | Albert Henderson | Hank Garrett | Damien Leake | Joseph Bova
Directors: Sidney Lumet
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Frank Serpico is a young, inexperienced cop who starts out on patrol. Later, he starts to work as an undercover cop who busts all sorts of criminals, but mostly drug dealers and pushers. Since Serpico is a young man living in the 70’s, he lives as one. His image, based on how others look on him, shows him as just a ‘hippie’ and the criminals he busts have no idea he is really an undercover officer. Everything is working out well, except the money situation. Serpico refuses to accept money, as the other officers do. He feels this isn’t right, and wants to expose the situation. Who he thought were his friends now turn into his enemies when Serpico takes the stand on a grand jury investigation. He continues to work undercover, and his life is placed into jeopardy at the hands of his colleagues.

The Time Machine (1960)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rod Taylor | Alan Young | Yvette Mimieux | Sebastian Cabot | Tom Helmore | Whit Bissell | Doris Lloyd | Bob Barran | Paul Frees | James Skelly | Josephine Powell
Directors: George Pal
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Hair (1979)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: John Savage | Treat Williams | Beverly D'Angelo | Annie Golden | Dorsey Wright | Don Dacus | Cheryl Barnes | Richard Bright | Ray Nicholas | Charlotte Rae | Miles Chapin | Fern Tailer | Charles Denny | Herman Meckler | Agness Breen
Directors: Milos Forman
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This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.

Mighty Wind, A (2003)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Moret | Stuart Luce | Mary Gross | Marty Belafsky | Michael Baser | Jared Nelson Smith | Ryan Raddatz | Todd Lieberman | Matthew Joy | Laura Harris | Brian Riley | Harry Shearer | Michael McKean | Eugene Levy
Directors: Christopher Guest
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When folk icon Irving Steinbloom passed away, he left behind a legacy of music and a family of performers he has shepherded to folk stardom. To celebrate a life spent submerged in folk, Irving’s loving son Jonathan has decided to put together a memorial concert featuring some of Steinbloom’s best-loved musicians. There’s Mitch and Mickey, who were the epitome of young love until their partnership was torn apart by heartbreak; classic troubadours The Folksmen, whose records were endlessly entertaining for anyone able to punch a hole in the center to play them; and The New Main Street Singers, the most meticulously color-coordinated neuftet ever to hit an amusement park. Now for one night only in New York City’s Town Hall, these three groups will reunite and gather together to celebrate the music that almost made them famous.

Talk to Me (2007)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Annan | Benz Antoine | Matt Birman | David Brown | Cedric the Entertainer | Don Cheadle | J. Miles Dale | Davidx | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Mike Epps | Kamal Jones | Jeff Kassel | Jim Malmberg | Erick Peterson | Kwame Rakes
Directors: Kasi Lemmons
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The true life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and “tell it like it is.” With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo’s brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey’s voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey’s “The truth just is” style — on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Heath Ledger | Jake Gyllenhaal | Randy Quaid | Anne Hathaway | Michelle Williams | Valerie Planche | Graham Beckel | David Harbour | Kate Mara | Roberta Maxwell | Peter McRobbie | Anna Faris | Linda Cardellini | Scott Michael Campbell | David Trimble
Directors: Ang Lee
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A raw, powerful story of two young men, a Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 sheepherding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond—by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Modine | Adam Baldwin | Vincent D'Onofrio | R. Lee Ermey | Dorian Harewood | Kevyn Major Howard | Arliss Howard | Ed O'Ross | John Terry | Kieron Jecchinis | Kirk Taylor | Tim Colceri | Jon Stafford | Bruce Boa | Ian Tyler
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Joker. We see Pyle grow into an instrument of death as Hartman has forseen of all of his recruits. Through Pyle’s torment and Joker’s unwillingness to stand up against it the climax of part one is achieved with all three main characters deciding their fates by their action or inaction. The second chapter of Full Metal Jacket delves into Joker’s psyche and the repeated referal to the fact that he joined the Corps to become a killer. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a combat correspondant is interfered with by the Tet offensive he is thrust into real combat and ultimately must choose if he really is a killer.

The Incredibles (2004)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Animation | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Thandie Newton | Craig T. Nelson | Holly Hunter | Samuel L. Jackson | Jason Lee | Dominique R. Louis | Teddy Newton | Jean Sincere | Eli Fucile | Maeve Andrews | Wallace Shawn | Spencer Fox | Lou Romano | Wayne Canney | Sarah Vowell | Michael Bird
Directors: Brad Bird
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Mr. Incredible (A.K.A. Bob Parr), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world’s greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire of being a superhero and force to live a “normal life” with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Rutger Hauer | Julia Roberts | Jennifer Rae Westley | Dick Clark | Sam Rockwell | Michelle Sweeney | Drew Barrymore | Chelsea Ceci | Brad Pitt | Matt Damon | Michael Cera | Aimee Rose Ambroziak | Isabelle Blais | Melissa Carter | Jennifer Hall | Ilona Elkin | Sean Tucker | Jaye P. Morgan | Maggie Gyllenhaal | David Julian Hirsh
Directors: George Clooney
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

Radio Flyer (1992)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Lorraine Bracco | John Heard | Adam Baldwin | Elijah Wood | Joseph Mazzello | Ben Johnson | Sean Baca | Robert Munic | Garette Ratliff Henson | Thomas Ian Nicholas | Noah Verduzco | Isaac Ocampo | Kaylan Romero | Abraham Verduzco | T.J. Evans
Directors: Richard Donner
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A loving father explains the value of promise and believing to his two boys trough the story of young Mike and his kid brother Bobby, who being abandoned by their dad had to move with ma and German shepherd Shane to a rural town where the local kids, lorded by abusive older scamp Victor Hernandez, consider them intruders ’stealing’ their predecessors’ place. Alas the friendly sheriff Daugherty, whose protection they politely wave, will have to act against a far worse bully, ma’s new lover who expects to be called the king and belts Bobby’s back brutally when drunk in the garage, a secret the boys want to keep secret for finally happy ma. The superstitious brothers spend their time exploring, pulling a wheeled red wagon called Radio Flyer, which name finally inspires a desperate ‘magical escape’ attempt…


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