Posts Tagged ‘cafe’

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?

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jane Russell | Marilyn Monroe | Charles Coburn | Elliott Reid | Tommy Noonan | George Winslow | Marcel Dalio | Taylor Holmes | Norma Varden | Howard Wendell | Steven Geray | Henri Letondal | Leo Mostovoy | Alex Frazer | George Davis
Directors: Howard Hawks
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Lorelei and Dorothy are just “Two Little Girls from Little Rock”, lounge singers on a transatlantic cruise, working their way to Paris, and enjoying the company of any eligible men they might meet along the way, even though “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend.” Based on the Broadway musical based on the novel.

Divorce, Le (2003)

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Kate Hudson | Jean-Marie Lhomme | Naomi Watts | Esmée Buchet-Deàk | Jean-Jacques Pivert | Melvil Poupaud | Catherine Samie | Samuel Labarthe | Leslie Caron | Thierry Lhermitte | Nathalie Richard | Samuel Gruen | Peter Wyckoff | Sandrel Lonnoy | Glenn Close
Directors: James Ivory
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French vs. American social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an American visiting her Frenchman-wed sister in Paris.

The Dancer Upstairs (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Spain | USA
Actors: Javier Bardem | Juan Diego Botto | Laura Morante | Elvira Mínguez | Alexandra Lencastre | Oliver Cotton | Luís Miguel Cintra | Javier Manrique | Abel Folk | Marie-Anne Berganza | Lucas Rodríguez | Xabier Elorriaga | Natalia Dicenta | Wolframio Sinué | Ramiro Jiménez
Directors: John Malkovich
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The story of Detective Agustin Rejas, a man clinging to the hope of an impossible love in an impossible world. Tracking Ezequiel, a delusional anarchist who incites the downtrodden masses to join in his brutal revolution against the fascist government in their unnamed Latin American country, Rejas finds solace in his sense of self-respect and the joy that his daughter and wife bring him. Then he meets Yolanda—his daughter’s soulfully beautiful ballet teacher—a woman who sparks his long-forgotten passions and represents all that is good and all that is corrupt in their troubled country. But she, who appears to be a shelter from the storm, may in actuality be the storm’s eye. Ultimately, as the revolution intensifies and the net closes around hunter and hunted alike, the dancer’s truth will prove as elusive as the revolutionary’s cause and the detective’s peace.

Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stellan Skarsgård | Izabella Scorupco | James D'Arcy | Remy Sweeney | Julian Wadham | Andrew French | Ralph Brown | Ben Cross | David Bradley | Alan Ford | Antonie Kamerling | Eddie Osei | Israel Aduramo | Patrick O'Kane | James Bellamy
Directors: Renny Harlin
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Father Lankester Merrin thinks that he has glimpsed the face of Evil. In the years following World War II, Merrin is relentlessly haunted by memories of the unspeakable brutality perpetrated against the innocent people of his parish during the War. In the wake of all the horror he has seen, both his faith in his fellow man and his faith in the Almighty have deserted him, and he can no longer honestly call himself a man of God. Merrin has traveled far from his native Holland in a desperate attempt to try to forget and escape all the evil that he had witnessed there. While currently in Cairo, Egypt, he is approached by a collector of rare antiquities and asked to participate in a British archeological excavation in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. They have unearthed something extraordinary and unusual…a Christian Byzantine church dating from the 5th century, long before Christianity arrived in East Africa, and in inexplicably perfect condition–like it had been buried immediately after it was completed. The collector wants Merrin, an Oxford-educated archeologist, to find an ancient relic hidden within the church before the British do. Interested, Merrin agrees to take the job. But beneath the church, something much older and malevolent sleeps, waiting to be awoken. When the archeologists start excavating, strange things begin occuring, and the local Turkana tribesmen who were hired to work refuse to enter the site. Things only get worse and worse, ultimately resulting in madness and death. Merrin watches helplessly as the atrocities of war are repeated against another innocent village–atrocities he had hoped and prayed never to see again. The blood of innocents flows freely on the East African plain, but the horror has only just begun. In the place where Evil was born, Merrin will finally see its true face.

Bandits (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bruce Willis | Billy Bob Thornton | Cate Blanchett | Troy Garity | Brian F. O'Byrne | Stacey Travis | Bobby Slayton | January Jones | Azura Skye | Peggy Miley | William Converse-Roberts | Richard Riehle | Micole Mercurio | Scott Burkholder | Anthony Burch
Directors: Barry Levinson
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A charismatic convict (Bruce Willis) and a hypochondriac inmate (Billy Bob Thornton) break out of prison in a cement truck and immediately start a bank robbing spree. Becoming known as the “Sleepover Bandits”, the two kidnap bank managers the night before their robbery, spend the night with their families, and then all go to the bank in the morning to get the dough. Using a dim-witted stunt man (Troy Garrity) as their getaway driver and lookout, the three successfully pull off several jobs that gets them recognition on a tv show about America’s criminals. When a bored housewife (Cate Blanchett) with a failing marriage decides to runaway, she ends up in the hands of the criminals. Initially attracted to Willis, she nonetheless also ends up in bed with Thornton and a confused romantic relationship begins. Continuing along with their spree, the bandits hit the wall when the bank managers realize that they are non-violent and therefore no threat to them or their employees. This leads to one more big score at the Alamo Bank, where in the very opening scenes, things appear to go awry.

Munich (2005)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eric Bana | Daniel Craig | Ciarán Hinds | Mathieu Kassovitz | Hanns Zischler | Ayelet Zorer | Geoffrey Rush | Gila Almagor | Michael Lonsdale | Mathieu Amalric | Moritz Bleibtreu | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Meret Becker | Marie-Josée Croze | Yvan Attal
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During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack.

Duel (1971)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Dennis Weaver | Jacqueline Scott | Eddie Firestone | Lou Frizzell | Gene Dynarski | Lucille Benson | Tim Herbert | Charles Seel | Shirley O'Hara | Alexander Lockwood | Amy Douglass | Dick Whittington | Carey Loftin | Dale Van Sickel
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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David Mann (’Dennis Weaver (I)’ (qv)) is just a regular family man on a business trip. Unfortunately, things go from bad to worse when a huge gasoline truck in front of him forces him to drive slower than he wants. As the drive continues, Mann realizes that he’s not dealing with just another road hog. Though he can never see the trucker’s face, the driver proves to be psychopathic, starting to run Mann off the road and trick or force him into a number of deadly situations. As the horrific trip continues, Mann tries to lose the truck, but each time he thinks he’s finally in the clear, the truck returns to terrify him more. Finally, the horrific conflict builds to a point where he realizes that running won’t save him, and that he must take a stand and fight back against the insane trucker.

The Hard Word (2002)

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | UK
Actors: Guy Pearce | Rachel Griffiths | Robert Taylor | Joel Edgerton | Damien Richardson | Rhondda Findleton | Kate Atkinson | Vince Colosimo | Paul Sonkkila | Kym Gyngell | Dorian Nkono | Stephen Whittaker | Torquil Neilson | Don Bridges | Doug Bowles
Directors: Scott Roberts
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Three fraternal bank robbers languishing in jail, discover a profitable (if not dodgy) way to spend their time. Crime can most certainly pay, if you “know wot I mean?” However when sex and greed rear-up between the good crims and the bad cops, the consequences are both bizarre and fatal.

Casablanca (1942)

Monday, February 12th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Humphrey Bogart | Ingrid Bergman | Paul Henreid | Claude Rains | Conrad Veidt | Sydney Greenstreet | Peter Lorre | S.Z. Sakall | Madeleine LeBeau | Dooley Wilson | Joy Page | John Qualen | Leonid Kinskey | Curt Bois
Directors: Michael Curtiz
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During World War II, Europeans who were fleeing from the Germans, sought refuge in America. But to get there they would first have to go Casablanca and once they get there, they have to obtain exit visas which are not very easy to come by. Now the hottest spot in all of Casablanca is Rick’s Cafe which is operated by Rick Blaine, an American expatriate, who for some reason can’t return there, and he is also extremely cynical. Now it seems that two German couriers were killed and the documents they were carrying were taken. Now one of Rick’s regulars, Ugarte entrusts to him some letters of transit, which he intends to sell but before he does he is arrested for killing the couriers. Captain Renault, the Chief of Police, who is neutral in his political views, informs Rick that Victor Laszlo, the European Resistance leader, is in Casablanca and will do anything to get an exit visa but Renault has been “told” by Major Strasser of the SS, to keep Laszlo in Casablanca. Laszlo goes to Rick’s to meet Ugarte, because he was the one Ugarte was going to sell the letters to. But since Ugarte was arrested he has to find another way. Accompanying him is Ilsa Lund, who knew Rick when he was in Paris, and when they meet some of Rick’s old wounds reopen. It is obvious that Rick’s stone heart was because of her leaving him. And when they learn that Rick has the letters, he refuses to give them to him, because “he doesn’t stick his neck out for anyone”.