Posts Tagged ‘based-on-novel’

The Football Factory (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Danny Dyer | Frank Harper | Tamer Hassan | Roland Manookian | Neil Maskell | Dudley Sutton | Jamie Foreman | Tony Denham | Calum McNab | John Junkin | Sophie Linfield | Kara Tointon | Michele Hallak | Daniel Naylor | Alison Egan
Directors: Nick Love
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The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, its about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they’re not good enough and using thier fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together. Shot in documentery style with the energy and vibrancy of handheld, The Football Factory is frightingly real yet full of painful humour as the four characters extreme thoughts and actions unfold before us.

Let It Ride (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss | David Johansen | Teri Garr | Jennifer Tilly | Allen Garfield | Edward Walsh | Richard Edson | David Schramm | John Roselius | Joseph Walsh | Ralph Seymour | Cynthia Nixon | Richard Dimitri | Robert Towers | Michelle Phillips
Directors: Joe Pytka
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An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can’t lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.

Lord of the Flies (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Balthazar Getty | Chris Furrh | Danuel Pipoly | James Badge Dale | Andrew Taft | Edward Taft | Gary Rule | Terry Wells | Braden MacDonald | Angus Burgin | Martin Zentz | Brian Jacobs | Vincent Amabile | David Weinstein | Chuck Bell
Directors: Harry Hook
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Adapted from William Golding’s novel of the same name, this is the story of a group of military school boys who become stranded on an island. They are, however, not alone. To begin with their commander is dragged from the water by Ralph. It is after the commander becomes feverish and delusional that he runs away and the boys develop their own society, with frightening and powerful consequences.

Crazy in Alabama (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Melanie Griffith | David Morse | Lucas Black | Cathy Moriarty | Meat Loaf | Rod Steiger | Richard Schiff | John Beasley | Robert Wagner | Noah Emmerich | Sandra Seacat | Paul Ben-Victor | Brad Beyer | Fannie Flagg | Elizabeth Perkins
Directors: Antonio Banderas
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A backwoods Alabama boy named Peejoe -short for Peter Joseph- gets a quick education in grown-up matters like freedom in 1965. The catalyst is an unlikely source - his glamorous, eccentric Aunt Lucille (Melanie Griffith), who escapes from her abusive husband and takes off for Hollywood to pursue her dreams of TV stardom.

The Celestine Prophecy (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure
Countries: USA
Actors: Matthew Settle | Thomas Kretschmann | Sarah Wayne Callies | Annabeth Gish | Hector Elizondo | Joaquim de Almeida | Jürgen Prochnow | John Aylward | Castulo Guerra | Obba Babatundé | Robyn Cohen | Petrus Antonius | Rachel Erickson | Joel Antonio Juan | Vernee Watson-Johnson
Directors: Armand Mastroianni
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Disillusioned and temporarily rudderless, John Woodson is about to experience a dramatic and profound metamorphosis. Through a mysterious set of coincidences, he finds himself on an adventure to Peru in search of ancient scrolls, known as the Celestine Prophecy. The prophecy and its nine key insights, predict a new awakening that redefines human life and provides a glimpse into a completely spiritual culture on earth. Resistant at first, skeptical and unsure, John finds that each step he takes, each person he encounters leads him to a new awakening. It is only in this letting go that he finds his destiny and comes to understand the meaning that had escaped him when his adventure began.

The Notebook (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Ivey | Gena Rowlands | Starletta DuPois | James Garner | Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas | Ed Grady | Renée Amber | Jennifer Echols | Geoffrey Knight | Kevin Connolly | Ryan Gosling | Heather Wahlquist | Rachel McAdams | Andrew Schaff | Matt Shelly
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
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An old man in a nursing home reads a story to an old woman each day. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun. They met one evening at a carnival many years ago. Allie’s parents separate Noah and Allie. They disapprove of Noah’s lack of wealth, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and becomes engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. In a local newspaper, Noah’s picture catches Allie’s eye. He is standing in front of a fully restored, 200 year old home. The article is filled with praise for his accomplishments. Allie’s heart nearly bursts. The last time she saw this house it was a rotted decaying shamble. She stood enfolded in Noah’s arms in the great entryway and listened to his plans to buy and restore this house. Just the way she wanted it. With her love for Noah still alive, the picture pulls at her heart. She has to go back, see if Noah is okay, and tell him about her marriage. They both think the echo deep in their hearts, the one that has lasted all these years, is not shared by the other. The cry they could not stifle. It wasn’t over for me.

Blade Runner (Final cut) (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Sean Young | Edward James Olmos | M. Emmet Walsh | Daryl Hannah | William Sanderson | Brion James | Joe Turkel | Joanna Cassidy | James Hong | Morgan Paull | Kevin Thompson | John Edward Allen | Hy Pyke
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Of Mice and Men (1992)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: John Malkovich | Ray Walston | Casey Siemaszko | Sherilyn Fenn | John Terry | Richard Riehle | Alexis Arquette | Joe Morton | Noble Willingham | Joe D'Angerio | Tuck Milligan | David Steen | Moira Harris | Mark Boone Junior
Directors: Gary Sinise
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Based on John Steinbeck’s 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked away. The film follows Steinbeck’s novel closely, exploring questions of strength, weakness, usefulness, reality and utopia, bringing Steinbeck’s California vividly to life.

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama | War
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: William Holden | Jack Hawkins | Alec Guinness | Sessue Hayakawa | James Donald | Geoffrey Horne | André Morell | Peter Williams | John Boxer | Percy Herbert | Harold Goodwin | Ann Sears | Heihachiro Okawa | Keiichiro Katsumoto | M.R.B. Chakrabandhu
Directors: David Lean
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The film deals with the situation of British prisoners of war during World War II who are ordered to build a bridge to accommodate the Burma-Siam railway. Their instinct is to sabotage the bridge but, under the leadership of Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), they are persuaded that the bridge should be constructed as a symbol of British morale, spirit and dignity in adverse circumstances. At first, the prisoners admire Nicholson when he bravely endures torture rather than compromise his principles for the benefit of the Japanese commandant Saito (Sessue Hayakawa). He is an honorable but arrogant man, who is slowly revealed to be a deluded obsessive. He convinces himself that the bridge is a monument to British character, but actually is a monument to himself, and his insistence on its construction becomes a subtle form of collaboration with the enemy. Unknown to him, the Allies have sent a mission into the jungle, led by Warden (Jack Hawkins) and an American, Shears (William Holden), to blow up the bridge.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: John Cusack | Kevin Spacey | Jack Thompson | Irma P. Hall | Jude Law | Alison Eastwood | Paul Hipp | Lady Chablis | Dorothy Loudon | Anne Haney | Kim Hunter | Geoffrey Lewis | Richard Herd | Leon Rippy | Bob Gunton
Directors: Clint Eastwood
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This panoramic tale of Savannah’s eccentricities focuses on a murder and the subsequent trial of Jim Williams: self made man, art collector, antiques dealer, bon vivant and semi-closeted homosexual. John Kelso a magazine reporter finds himself in Savannah amid the beautiful architecture and odd doings to write a feature on one of William’s famous Christmas parties. He is intrigued by Williams from the start, but his curiosity is piqued when he meets Jim’s violent, young and sexy lover, Billy. Later that night, Billy is dead, and Kelso stays on to cover the murder trial. Along the way he encounters the irrepressible Lady Chablis, a drag queen commedienne, Sonny Seiler, lawyer to Williams, whose famous dog UGA is the official mascot of the Georgia Bulldogs, an odd man who keeps flies attached to mini leashes on his lapels and threatens daily to poison the water supply, the Married Ladies Card Club, and Minerva, a spiritualist. Between being Jim’s buddy, cuddling up to a torch singer, meeting every eccentric in Savannah, participating in midnight graveyard rituals and helping solve the mysteries surrounding Billy’s murder, Kelso has his hands full.