Posts Tagged ‘1960s’

December Boys (2007)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family | Romance
Countries: Australia | UK | USA
Actors: Daniel Radcliffe | Teresa Palmer | Christian Byers | Lee Cormie | James Fraser | Jack Thompson | Kris McQuade | Suzie Wilks | Victoria Hill | Sullivan Stapleton | Ralph Cotterill | Frank Gallacher
Directors: Rod Hardy
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It’s the 1960s, Australia. 4 orphaned boys, who are best friends, escape their orphanage and go to a beach resort. At the resort is a couple that’s keen on adopting a boy, which causes tension & competition between the boys. One of the boys also has his first romance with a girl that’s there.

Infamous (2006)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sigourney Weaver | Toby Jones | Gwyneth Paltrow | Mark Rubin | Steve Schwelling | Glover Johns Gill | Rey Arteaga | Justin Sherburn | Andrew Halbreich | Juliet Stevenson | Michael Panes | Hope Davis | Frank G. Curcio | Sandra Bullock | Isabella Rossellini
Directors: Douglas McGrath
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On November 16, 1959, Truman Capote reads about the murder of a Kansas family. There are no suspects. With Harper Lee, he visits the town: he wants to write about their response. First he must get locals to talk, then, after arrests, he must gain access to the prisoners. One talks constantly; the other, Perry Smith, says little. Capote is implacable, wanting the story, believing this book will establish a new form of reportage: he must figure out what Perry wants. Their relationship becomes something more than writer and character: Perry killed in cold blood, the state will execute him in cold blood; does Capote get his story through cold calculation, or is there a price for him to pay?

Hairspray (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Nikki Blonsky | Christopher Walken | Amanda Bynes | Zac Efron | Elijah Kelley | Queen Latifah | Michelle Pfeiffer | James Marsden | Allison Janney | Jesse Weafer | Taylor Parks | J.P. Ferreri | Shane Simpson | Jerry Stiller
Directors: Adam Shankman
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Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad (Nicole Blonsky) and her best friend Penny Pingleton (Amanda Bynes) audition to be on The Corny Collins Show and Tracy wins. But when scheming Amber Von Tussle (Brittany Snow) and her mother (Michelle Pfeiffer) plot to destroy Tracy, it turns to chaos. With Queen Latifah as hip DJ Motormouth Maybelle, John Travolta as Edna Turnblad, Christopher Walken as Wilbur Turnblad, James Marsden as show host Corny Collins, and Zac Efron as Amber/Tracy’s boyfriend, the popular and cute Link Larkin.

Rescue Dawn (2006)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Christian Bale | Marshall Bell | François Chau | Jeremy Davies | Craig Gellis | GQ | Zach Grenier | Pat Healy | Toby Huss | Bonnie Z. Hutchinson | Evan Jones | Abhijati 'Meuk' Jusakul | Mr. Tony B. King | Mr. Richard Manning | Mr. Garrett D. Melich
Directors: Werner Herzog
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This film tells the real-life story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, a German-American shot down and captured in Laos during the Vietnam War. Dengler organized a death-defying escape for a small band of POWs, including Duane Martin.

Layer Cake (2004)

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Daniel Craig | Tom Hardy | Jamie Foreman | Sally Hawkins | Burn Gorman | George Harris | Tamer Hassan | Colm Meaney | Marcel Iures | Francis Magee | Dimitri Andreas | Kenneth Cranham | Garry Tubbs | Nathalie Lunghi | Marvin Benoit
Directors: Matthew Vaughn
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A successful cocaine dealer, who has earned a respected place among England’s Mafia elite, plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy’s old pal Edward, a powerful construction business player and gossip papers socialite. Complicating matters are two million pounds’ worth of Grade A ecstasy, a brutal neo-Nazi sect and a whole series of double crossings. The title “LAYER CAKE” refers to the layers or levels anyone in business goes through in rising to the top. What is revealed is a modern underworld where the rules have changed. There are no ‘codes’, or ‘families’ and respect lasts as long as a line. Not knowing who he can trust, he has to use all his ’savvy’, ‘telling’ and skills which make him one of the best, to escape his own. The ultimate last job, a love interest called Tammy, and an international drug ring threaten to draw him back into the ‘cake mix’. But, time is running out and the penalty will endure a lifetime..

Bobby (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
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The Ambassador Hotel, 1968: the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy will soon take place here but none of the hotel residents and employees knows about it yet. Everyone at the hotel is busy with his own affairs, and their paths never seem to cross, not even in this closed space. However, it only seems so and twenty two individuals who will become unwitting witnesses to the tragedy will make a lot of startling discoveries and have strange meetings.

The Zodiac (2005)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Justin Chambers | Robin Tunney | Rory Culkin | William Mapother | Brad William Henke | Rex Linn | Philip Baker Hall | Marty Lindsey | Brian Bloom | Shelby Alexis Irey | Natassia Costa | Kris Palm | Nate Dushku | Katelin Chesna | Kathryn Howell
Directors: Alexander Bulkley
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THE ZODIAC takes a different look at the famous Zodiac Killer case from other screen treatments of the murders. More than a simple crime story, the film is an emotional thriller focusing on the murders’ impact on victims, their families and the wider community. The film follows a police detective and his son who become obsessed with the murders and endanger their family in the process.

Walk the Line (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix | Reese Witherspoon | Ginnifer Goodwin | Robert Patrick | Dallas Roberts | Dan John Miller | Larry Bagby | Shelby Lynne | Tyler Hilton | Waylon Payne | Shooter Jennings | Sandra Ellis Lafferty | Dan Beene | Clay Steakley | Johnathan Rice
Directors: James Mangold
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While growing up in the Great Depression era, Johnny Cash(Joaquin Phoenix) takes an interest in music and eventually moves out of his Arkansas town to join the air force in Germany. While there, he buys his first guitar and writes his own music, and proposes to Vivian. When they got married, they settled in Tennessee and with a daughter, he supported the family by being a salesman. He discovers a man who can pursue his dreams and ends up getting a record with the boys. Shortly after that, he was on a short tour, promoting his songs, and meets the already famous and beautiful June Carter(Reese Witherspoon). Then as they get on the long-term tours with June, the boys, and Jerry Lee Lewis, they have this unspoken relationship that grows. But when June leaves the tour because of his behavior, he was a drug addict. His marriage was also falling apart, and when he sees June years later at an awards show, he forces June to tour with them again, promising June to support her two kids and herself. While the tour goes on, the relationship between June and John grow more,and his marriage to his first wife ends. June finds out about the drugs, and help him overcome it. True love and care helped John eventually stop the drug usage, and finally proposes to her in front of an audience at a show.

Gangster No. 1 (2000)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Ireland | UK
Actors: Malcolm McDowell | David Thewlis | Paul Bettany | Saffron Burrows | Kenneth Cranham | Jamie Foreman | Eddie Marsan | Andrew Lincoln | Doug Allen | Razaaq Adoti | Cavan Clerkin | David Kennedy | Johnny Harris | Anton Saunders | Alex McSweeney
Directors: Paul McGuigan
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A middle-aged crime boss (Malcolm McDowell) smugly reflects back from 1999, narrating the brutality which made him triumphant - and feared. As an unnamed young hood (played by Paul Bettany) in Swinging 60’s London, he seemed to ape his mod boss Freddie Mays (David Thewlis), and do anything for him. But his narration exposes all-consuming envy: of Freddie’s supremacy, and especially his tall bird (Saffron Burrows). The baby shark develops his viciousness and backstabbing, scheming to be Gangster No. 1.

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Heather Graham | Michael York | Robert Wagner | Rob Lowe | Seth Green | Mindy Sterling | Verne Troyer | Elizabeth Hurley | Gia Carides | Oliver Muirhead | George Cheung | Jeffrey Meng | Muse Watson | Scott Cooper
Directors: Jay Roach
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Dr. Evil uses a device he calls a “Time Machine” to travel back to 1969 and remove Austin Powers’ mojo. The sexually wounded swinger must travel back in time and, with the help of agent Felicity Shagwell, recover his vitality. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil’s personal life runs amok as he discovers love, continues to shun his son and develops a close relationship with himself. Well, actually, a clone 1/8 his size whom he dubs “Mini-Me”. The always time-baffled Dr. Evil begins his plan to put a gigantic cannon on the moon, thus turning it into a device called either “The Death Star” or “Alan Parson’s Project,” depending on which name is available.