Posts Tagged ‘deliberate-cruelty’

Don’t Look Now (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Italy | UK
Actors: Julie Christie | Donald Sutherland | Hilary Mason | Clelia Matania | Massimo Serato | Renato Scarpa | Giorgio Trestini | Leopoldo Trieste | David Tree | Ann Rye | Nicholas Salter | Sharon Williams | Bruno Cattaneo | Adelina Poerio
Directors: Nicolas Roeg
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John and Laura Baxter are living in Venice when they meet a pair of elderly sisters, one of whom claims to be psychic. She insists that she sees the spirit of the Baxters’ daughter, who recently drowned. Laura is intrigued, but John resists the idea. He, however, seems to have his own psychic flashes, seeing their daughter walk the streets in her red cloak, as well as Laura and the sisters on a funeral gondola.

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.

Little Children (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kate Winslet | Patrick Wilson | Jennifer Connelly | Gregg Edelman | Sadie Goldstein | Ty Simpkins | Noah Emmerich | Jackie Earle Haley | Phyllis Somerville | Helen Carey | Catherine Wolf | Mary B. McCann | Trini Alvarado | Marsha Dietlein | Jane Adams
Directors: Todd Field
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Echoes of “Madame Bovary” in the American suburbs. Sarah’s in a loveless marriage, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure - living with his mother; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie’s mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?

Spaceballs (1987)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Brooks | Rick Moranis | Bill Pullman | Daphne Zuniga | John Candy | George Wyner | Joan Rivers | Dick Van Patten | Michael Winslow | Lorene Yarnell | John Hurt | Sal Viscuso | Ronny Graham | JM J. Bullock | Leslie Bevis
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King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa (Daphne Zuniga) to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems…). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Italy
Actors: Marlon Brando | Maria Schneider | Maria Michi | Giovanna Galletti | Gitt Magrini | Catherine Allégret | Luce Marquand | Marie-Hélène Breillat | Catherine Breillat | Dan Diament | Catherine Sola | Mauro Marchetti | Jean-Pierre Léaud | Massimo Girotti | Peter Schommer
Directors: Bernardo Bertolucci
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While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife’s recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife’s death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Naomi Watts | Laura Harring | Ann Miller | Dan Hedaya | Justin Theroux | Brent Briscoe | Robert Forster | Katharine Towne | Lee Grant | Scott Coffey | Billy Ray Cyrus | Chad Everett | Rita Taggart | James Karen | Lori Heuring | Mark Pellegrino
Directors: David Lynch
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A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.

Meet Joe Black (1998)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Brad Pitt | Anthony Hopkins | Claire Forlani | Jake Weber | Marcia Gay Harden | Jeffrey Tambor | David S. Howard | Lois Kelly-Miller | Jahnni St. John | Richard Clarke | Marylouise Burke | Diane Kagan | June Squibb | Gene Canfield | Suzanne Hevner
Directors: Martin Brest
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Bill Parrish, media tycoon, loving father and still a human being, is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. One morning, he is contacted by the Inevitable - by hallucination, as he thinks. Later, Death itself enters his home and his life, personified in a man’s body: Joe Black has arrived. His intention was to take Bill with him, but accidentally, Joe’s former host and Bills beautiful daughter Susan have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on earth as well as in Susan, who has no clue who she’s flirting with.