Posts Tagged ‘art’

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: James Mason | Ava Gardner | Nigel Patrick | Sheila Sim | Harold Warrender | Mario Cabré | Marius Goring | John Laurie | Pamela Mason | Patricia Raine | Margarita D'Alvarez | La Pillina | Abraham Sofaer | Francisco Igual | Guillermo Beltrán
Directors: Albert Lewin
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In 1930, singer Pandora Reynolds, gorgeous, enigmatic, and fascinated by danger and destruction, has the men of a small Spanish town in despair. Just when race driver Stephen Cameron thinks he’s won her, a mysterious yacht appears in the bay whose eerie captain may be the legendary Flying Dutchman. Stephen has an apparently more dangerous rival in the form of an arrogant bullfighter; but Pandora’s friendship with the Dutchman may lead them both to a rendezvous with Fate…

Stealing Beauty (1996)

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Italy | UK
Actors: Carlo Cecchi | Sinéad Cusack | Joseph Fiennes | Jason Flemyng | Anna-Maria Gherardi | Jeremy Irons | Jean Marais | Donal McCann | D.W. Moffett | Ignazio Oliva | Stefania Sandrelli | Francesco Siciliano | Mary Jo Sorgani | Leonardo Treviglio | Liv Tyler
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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After her mother commits suicide, nineteen year old Lucy Harmon travels to Italy to have her picture painted. However, she has other reasons for wanting to go. She wants to renew her acquaintance with Nicolo Donati, a young boy with whom she fell in love on her last visit four years ago. She also is trying tosolve the riddle left in a diary written by her dead mother, Sara. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Last Tango in Paris).

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robin Williams | Robert Sean Leonard | Ethan Hawke | Josh Charles | Gale Hansen | Dylan Kussman | Allelon Ruggiero | James Waterston | Norman Lloyd | Kurtwood Smith | Carla Belver | Leon Pownall | George Martin | Joe Aufiery | Matt Carey
Directors: Peter Weir
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Painfully shy Todd Anderson has been sent to the school where his popular older brother was valedictorian. His room-mate, Neil, although exceedingly bright and popular, is very much under the thumb of his overbearing father. The two, along with their other friends, meet Professor Keating, their new English teacher, who tells them of the Dead Poets Society, and encourages them to go against the status quo. Each, in their own way, does this, and are changed for life.

Murder Party (2007)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Alex Barnett | Macon Blair | Michael Clomegah | Andre da Costa | Alton Du Laney | Paul Goldblatt | William Lacey | Damon Lindsay | B. Reeves | Chris Sharp | Beau Sia | Bill Tangradi | David Zellerford
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A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.

Frida (2002)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Canada | Mexico | USA
Actors: Salma Hayek | Mía Maestro | Amelia Zapata | Alejandro Usigli | Diego Luna | Alfred Molina | Lucia Bravo | Valeria Golino | Patricia Reyes Spíndola | Loló Navarro | Roger Rees | Fermín Martínez | Roberto Medina | Ashley Judd | Antonio Banderas
Directors: Julie Taymor
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“Frida” chronicles the life Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina), as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.

The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Uma Thurman | Janeane Garofalo | Ben Chaplin | Jamie Foxx | James McCaffrey | Richard Coca | Stanley DeSantis | Antoinette Valente | Mitch Rouse | La Tanya M. Fisher | Faryn Einhorn | David Cross | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Bob Odenkirk | Dechen Thurman
Directors: Michael Lehmann
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Janeane Garofalo plays Dr. Abby Barnes, the “Truth About Cats and Dogs” radio question-and-answer show host who unwittingly entices a listener over the radio with her soothing voice and personality. This listener, Brian, tries to meet the Abby from the radio, but Noelle, played by Uma Thurman, is mistaken for the real thing when Brian comes to the studio. Instead of clearing things up right away, the self-conscious Abby allows her best friend, Noelle, a tall, stunning blonde, to take her place for a while. Abby takes on the made-up persona of Donna, while thinking Brian would never go for her, a short, cute, brunette, who thinks she’s unattractive. As the real Abby woos Brian over the phone and radio, Noelle, the pseudo-Abby, takes her place in the flesh. As time goes on, Abby feels more and more confident that Brian would rather have the beautiful Noelle than the simply attractive Abby.

The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Rene Russo | Denis Leary | Ben Gazzara | Frankie Faison | Fritz Weaver | Charles Keating | Mark Margolis | Faye Dunaway | Michael Lombard | Bill Ambrozy | Michael Bahr | Robert D. Novak | Joe H. Lamb | James Saito
Directors: John McTiernan
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Self-made billionaire Thomas Crown is bored of being able to buy everything he desires. Being irresistible to women, he also does not feel any challenge in that area. But there are a few things even he can’t get, therefore Thomas Crown has a seldom hobby: He steals priceless masterpieces of Art. After the theft of a famous painting from Claude Monet, the only person suspecting Thomas Crown is Catherine Banning. Her job is to get the picture back, no matter how she accomplishes her mission. Unfortunately, Catherine gets involved too deeply with Thomas to keep a professional distance to the case. Fortunately, Thomas seems to fall for her, too.

Beetle Juice (1988)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Alec Baldwin | Geena Davis | Annie McEnroe | Maurice Page | Hugo Stanger | Michael Keaton | Rachel Mittelman | Catherine O'Hara | J. Jay Saunders | Mark Ettlinger | Jeffrey Jones | Winona Ryder | Glenn Shadix | Patrice Martinez | Cindy Daly
Directors: Tim Burton
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The Deetz’s gothic daughter discovers the Maitands in the attic and befriends them. She finds their after life handbook which is eventually confiscated by the family’s interior decorator who is fascinated by the paranormal, and during a seance,conjures up the Maitlands. Most of the trouble starts as the free lance bio-excorist, Beetlejuice gets involved.

Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Josh Hutcherson | AnnaSophia Robb | Zooey Deschanel | Robert Patrick | Bailee Madison | Kate Butler | Devon Wood | Emma Fenton | Grace Brannigan | Latham Gaines | Judy McIntosh | Patricia Aldersley | Lauren Clinton | Isabelle Rose Kircher | Cameron Wakefield
Directors: Gabor Csupo
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Fifth grader Jesse Aaron’s hopes of becoming the fastest runner in his class are dashed when new girl Leslie Burke outruns everybody, including him. However, Jess and Leslie soon begin a friendship, and create a magical kingdom in the forest, where the two of them reign together as king and queen.

The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror
Countries: France | Netherlands | UK
Actors: Richard Bohringer | Michael Gambon | Helen Mirren | Alan Howard | Tim Roth | Ciarán Hinds | Gary Olsen | Ewan Stewart | Roger Ashton-Griffiths | Ron Cook | Liz Smith | Emer Gillespie | Janet Henfrey | Arnie Breeveld | Tony Alleff
Directors: Peter Greenaway
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.