Posts Tagged ‘winter’

The Shipping News (2001)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Kevin Spacey | Julianne Moore | Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Pete Postlethwaite | Scott Glenn | Rhys Ifans | Gordon Pinsent | Jason Behr | Larry Pine | Jeanetta Arnette | Robert Joy | Alyssa Gainer | Lauren Gainer
Directors: Lasse Hallström
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An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family’s longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper “The Gammy Bird” finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey…

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czech Republic | Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Naseeruddin Shah | Peta Wilson | Tony Curran | Stuart Townsend | Shane West | Jason Flemyng | Richard Roxburgh | Max Ryan | Tom Goodman-Hill | David Hemmings | Terry O'Neill | Rudolf Pellar | Robert Willox | Robert Orr
Directors: Stephen Norrington
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Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain (Connery) leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as “The Fantom.” This “League” comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo (Shah), vampiress Mina Harker (Wilson), an invisible man named Rodney Skinner (Curran), American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (West), the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray (Townsend), and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Flemyng).

Wicker Park (2004)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Josh Hartnett | Rose Byrne | Matthew Lillard | Diane Kruger | Christopher Cousins | Jessica Paré | Vlasta Vrana | Amy Sobol | Ted Whittall | Isabel Dos Santos | Joanna Noyes | Kerrilyn Keith | Mark Camacho | Marcel Jeannin | Stéfanie Buxton
Directors: Paul McGuigan
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In Chicago, the former photographer and presently advertising executive Mathew (Josh Hartnett) is closing a business deal in a fancy restaurant with a Chinese representative, when he sees a woman that looks like his former passion Lisa (Diane Kruger). Two years ago, Lisa and Matthew had a love affair, and Lisa simply vanished when Matthew invited her to move with him to New York, where he had the invitation for a better job, and Matthew is still obsessed for her. Matthew decides to follow Lisa, and when he meets her, he realizes that Lisa is indeed another woman (Rose Byrne) with the same name. Matthew stays in Chicago with his friend Luke (Matthew Lillard) and decides to investigate the mystery.

The Last Samurai (2003)

Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: Japan | New Zealand | USA
Actors: Shin Koyamada | Ken Watanabe | Tom Cruise | William Atherton | Chad Lindberg | Ray Godshall Sr. | Billy Connolly | Tony Goldwyn | Masato Harada | Masashi Odate | John Koyama | Timothy Spall | Shichinosuke Nakamura | Togo Igawa | Satoshi Nikaido | Shintaro Wada
Directors: Edward Zwick
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In the 1870s, Captain Nathan Algren, a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone, is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinet’s first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai -hereditary warriors- who remain devoted to the sacred dynasty but reject the Westernizing policy and even refuse firearms. Yet when his ill-prepared superior force sets out too soon, their panic allows the sword-wielding samurai to crush them. Badly wounded Algren’s courageous stand makes the samurai leader Katsumoto spare his life; once nursed to health he learns to know and respect the old Japanese way, and participates as advisor in Katsumoto’s failed attempt to save the Bushido tradition, but Omura gets repressive laws enacted- he must now choose to honor his loyalty to one of the embittered sides when the conflict returns to the battlefield…