Posts Tagged ‘advertising’

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Troy Aikman | The Beatles | Osama Bin Laden | Marlon Brando | Fidel Castro | Warren Christopher | Bill Clinton | Thomas A. Edison | Albert Einstein | Adolf Hitler | Elton John | Nikita Khrushchev | Martin Luther King | Henry Kissinger | Dalai Lama
Directors: Godfrey Reggio
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.

Boomerang (1992)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Murphy | Robin Givens | Halle Berry | David Alan Grier | Martin Lawrence | Grace Jones | Geoffrey Holder | Eartha Kitt | Chris Rock | Tisha Campbell-Martin | Lela Rochon | John Witherspoon | Bebe Drake | John Canada Terrell
Directors: Reginald Hudlin
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Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing Jacqueline, is treating him in exactly the same way. Completely traumatised by this, his work goes badly downhill. But then Jacqueline’s more quietly attractive assistant Angela, who has been dating Marcus’ best friend, shows herself more than a little concerned by his parlous state.

In Good Company (2004)

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Quaid | Topher Grace | Scarlett Johansson | Marg Helgenberger | David Paymer | Clark Gregg | Philip Baker Hall | Selma Blair | Frankie Faison | Ty Burrell | Kevin Chapman | Amy Aquino | Zena Grey | Colleen Camp | Lauren Tom
Directors: Paul Weitz
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Dan Foreman is headed for a shakeup. He is demoted from head of ad sales for a major magazine when the company he works for is acquired in a corporate takeover. His new boss, Carter Duryea, is half his age—a business school prodigy who preaches corporate synergy. While Dan develops clients through handshake deals and relationships, Carter cross-promotes the magazine with the cell phone division and Krispity Krunch, an indeterminate snack food under the same corporate umbrella. Both men are going through turmoil at home. Dan has two daughters, Alex, age 18, and Jana, age 16, and is shocked when his wife tells him she’s pregnant with a new child. Carter, in the meanwhile, is dumped by his wife of seven months just as he gets his promotion. Dan and Carter’s uneasy friendship is thrown into jeopardy when Carter falls for, and begins an affair with, Dan’s daughter Alex.

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Meryl Streep | Jane Alexander | Justin Henry | Howard Duff | George Coe | JoBeth Williams | Bill Moor | Howland Chamberlain | Jack Ramage | Jess Osuna | Nicholas Hormann | Ellen Parker | Shelby Brammer | Carol Nadell
Directors: Robert Benton
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Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy. When he has learned to adjust his life to these new responsibilities, Joanna resurfaces and wants Billy back. Ted however refuses to give him up, so they go to court to fight for the custody of their son.

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Meg Ryan | Hugh Jackman | Liev Schreiber | Breckin Meyer | Natasha Lyonne | Bradley Whitford | Paxton Whitehead | Spalding Gray | Josh Stamberg | Matthew Sussman | Charlotte Ayanna | Philip Bosco | Andrew Jack | Stan Tracy | Kristen Schaal
Directors: James Mangold
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Kate and her actor brother live in N.Y. in the 21st Century. Her ex-boy friend, Stuart, lives above her apartment and finds this space near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time. He goes back to the eighteen hundreds and takes pictures of the place. Leopold, a man living in the 1870’s, was puzzled by Stuart’s tiny camera and decides to follow him and they both ended up in this century. Leopold is clueless about his new surroundings. He gets help and insights from Charlie who thinks that Leopold is an actor who is always in character. Leopold is a highly intelligent man and tries his best to learn and even improve the modern conveniences that he encounters.

Thank You for Smoking (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Aaron Eckhart | Maria Bello | Cameron Bright | Adam Brody | Sam Elliott | Katie Holmes | David Koechner | William H. Macy | J.K. Simmons | Robert Duvall | Kim Dickens | Rob Lowe | Todd Louiso | Dennis Miller | Joan Lunden
Directors: Jason Reitman
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Tobacco industry lobbyist Nick Naylor has a seemingly impossible task: promoting cigarette smoking in a time when the health hazards of the activity have become too plain to ignore. Nick, however, revels in his job, using argument and twisted logic to place, as often as not, his clients in the positions of either altruistic do-gooders or victims. Nick’s son Joey needs to understand and respect his dad’s philosophy, and Nick works hard to respond to that need without compromising his lack of values. When a beautiful news reporter betrays Nick’s sexually-achieved trust, his world seems in danger of collapsing. But there’s always one more coffin nail in Nick’s pack.

Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Martin | John Candy | Laila Robins | Michael McKean | Kevin Bacon | Dylan Baker | Carol Bruce | Olivia Burnette | Diana Douglas | Martin Ferrero | Larry Hankin | Richard Herd | Susan Kellerman | Matthew Lawrence | Edie McClurg
Directors: John Hughes
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All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As well as bad luck, Neal is blessed with the presence of Del Griffith, Shower Curtain Ring Salesman and all-around blabbermouth, who is never short of advice, conversation, bad jokes, or company. And when he decides that he is going the same direction as Neal….

Single White Female (1992)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bridget Fonda | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Steven Weber | Peter Friedman | Stephen Tobolowsky | Frances Bay | Michele Farr | Tara Karsian | Christiana Capetillo | Jessica Lundy | Renée Estevez | Tiffany Mataras | Krystle Mataras | Amelia Campbell | Kenneth Tobey
Directors: Barbet Schroeder
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When a ‘Single White Female’ places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she’s just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Julianne Moore | Woody Harrelson | Laura Dern | Trevor Morgan | Ellary Porterfield | Simon Reynolds | Monté Gagné | Robert Clark | Michael Seater | Erik Knudsen | Jake Scott | Jordan Todosey | Ryan Price | Shae Norris | Abigail Falle
Directors: Jane Anderson
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This true-story-based bittersweet drama follows Evelyn Ryan (Julianna Moore) who was a housewife and a devoted mother of 10. Her remarkable ingenuity and an uncommon wit had success at the jingle contests staged by corporations to promote their products. Evelyn had found the way to keep her family together, notwithstanding an alcoholic husband and the other difficult circumstances.

What Women Want (2000)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Gibson | Helen Hunt | Marisa Tomei | Alan Alda | Ashley Johnson | Mark Feuerstein | Lauren Holly | Delta Burke | Valerie Perrine | Judy Greer | Sarah Paulson | Ana Gasteyer | Lisa Edelstein | Loretta Devine | Diana-Maria Riva
Directors: Nancy Meyers
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Nick, a somewhat chauvanistic advertising exec hot shot, has his life turned haywire when a fluke accident enables him to hear what women think. At first all he wants to do is rid himself of this curse, until a wacky psycologist (played to perfection by Bette Midler) shows him that this could be used to his advantage! His first target is Darcy McGuire, the very woman that got the promotion he wanted. But just as his plan is beginning to work, love gets in the way…