Posts Tagged ‘dream-like’

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.

The Fantastic Planet (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi
Countries: Czechoslovakia | France
Actors: Jennifer Drake | Eric Baugin | Jean Topart | Jean Valmont | Sylvie Lenoir | Michèle Chahan | Yves Barsacq | Hubert de Lapparent | Gérard Hernandez | Claude Joseph | Philippe Ogouz | Jacques Ruisseau | Barry Bostwick | Mark Gruner | Marvin Miller
Directors: René Laloux
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La Planète sauvage AKA Fantastic Planet is a surrealist story based on the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. Set in a far distant world human beings or “Oms”have been domesticated by the gigantic Draags. Wild Oms however are a problem and are exterminated by the dozen. One domesticated om Terr is able to escape his masters with a headset that puts information directly into the brain. Armed now with the Draags technology he leads the Oms in an attempt to make life better for them…But will the deomizing destroy them?

I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Lindsay Lohan | Julia Ormond | Neal McDonough | Brian Geraghty | Garcelle Beauvais | Spencer Garrett | Gregory Itzin | Bonnie Aarons | Kenya Moore | Thomas Tofel | Rodney Rowland | David Figlioli | Amy Fuehrer | Michael Adler | Art Bell
Directors: Chris Sivertson
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Aubrey Fleming is a regular high school student with friends and family. One night, she unexpectedly disappears. Two weeks later she is found unconscious in the middle of the woods. When spoken to, her loved ones realize she has forgotten her identity and the personality living in her body is Dakota Moss, a character that Aubrey created in one of her stories for an English assignment. Dakota denies ever being Aubrey knowing that they look identical. Now, Dakota must try to unravel the mystery of how her and Aubrey co-exist and find out who abducted Aubrey that night.

The Fountain (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Hugh Jackman | Rachel Weisz | Ellen Burstyn | Mark Margolis | Stephen McHattie | Fernando Hernandez | Cliff Curtis | Sean Patrick Thomas | Donna Murphy | Ethan Suplee | Richard McMillan | Lorne Brass | Abraham Aronofsky | Renee Asofsky | Anish Majumdar
Directors: Darren Aronofsky
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Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Smith | Matt Damon | Charlize Theron | Bruce McGill | Joel Gretsch | J. Michael Moncrief | Lane Smith | Peter Gerety | Michael O'Neill | Thomas Jay Ryan | Trip Hamilton | Dermot Crowley | Harve Presnell | Danny Nelson | Bob Penny
Directors: Robert Redford
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Rannulph Junnah is the best golfer in Savannah. He’s living well and has a girl, Adele Invergordon, who’s the daughter of a wealthy landowner. The First World War starts, though, and Junnah goes to Europe to fight. The only survivor of a dangerous mission, Junnah doesn’t return to Savannah for 15 years. In 1930, he returns, and Adele’s father has already committed suicide during the Depression. Pressured by tax collectors to sell the golf course her father built to pay off debts, Adele, now older, vows to bring to Savannah the greatest match ever played on the greatest golf course, her late father’s. She’s able to round up the 2 greatest golfers of their time, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen to play for $10,000. The townspeople insist on having “one of their own” compete also, and Rannulph Junnah is rounded up. Junnah now hangs out with bums and is an alcoholic, as he has lost his authentic swing from 15 years ago. At first he turns down the offer. He gets his old clubs and balls and starts practicing. He has lost his ability. Suddenly, Bagger Vance shows up. He offers to be Junnahs’s caddy and help him regain his “authentic swing”. He does, and Junnah agrees to play in the big match.

Edward Scissorhands (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Winona Ryder | Dianne Wiest | Anthony Michael Hall | Kathy Baker | Robert Oliveri | Conchata Ferrell | Caroline Aaron | Dick Anthony Williams | O-Lan Jones | Vincent Price | Alan Arkin | Susan Blommaert | Linda Perri | John Davidson
Directors: Tim Burton
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A modern day fairy tale which tells the story of Edward, the man created by an inventor, who died before finishing him and left Edward with scissors where he should have hands. One day when the local “Avon” representative calls at the historic mansion where Edward has been living alone, she takes him home to stay with her family. He has to adapt to the new life and environment that he isn’t used to. Soon he shows a talent in cutting hair and hedges, and wins every body’s heart. But life isn’t always so sweet…

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.

Hannibal (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Julianne Moore | Gary Oldman | Giancarlo Giannini | Ray Liotta | Frankie Faison | Francesca Neri | Zeljko Ivanek | Hazelle Goodman | David Andrews | Francis Guinan | James Opher | Enrico Lo Verso | Ivano Marescotti | Fabrizio Gifuni
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Part four in the Hannibal Lecter Quadrilogy. Having escaped the asylum in “Silence of the Lambs,” Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence, Italy. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor’s, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling.

Dragonheart (1996)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Sean Connery | Dennis Quaid | Julie Christie | David Thewlis | Pete Postlethwaite | Dina Meyer | Jason Isaacs | Brian Thompson | Lee Oakes | Wolf Christian | Terry O'Neill | Eva Vejmelková | Milan Bahúl | Peter Hric | Sandra Kovacicova | Kyle Cohen | Thom Baker
Directors: Rob Cohen
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Set in the 10th Century, a man (Bowen) teams up with the last dragon to remind the people of a long lost code of honor, and inspire them to fight for their freedom from a tyrannical king.

Fight Club (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Edward Norton | Brad Pitt | Helena Bonham Carter | Meat Loaf | Zach Grenier | Richmond Arquette | David Andrews | George Maguire | Eugenie Bondurant | Christina Cabot | Sydney 'Big Dawg' Colston | Rachel Singer | Christie Cronenweth | Tim De Zarn | Ezra Buzzington
Directors: David Fincher
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You’re young. You have an easy, well-paid deskjob. You have a condo, Swedish furniture, artistic coffee tables and a fridge full of condiments. Yet you feel emotionally and spiritually empty. You eventually find comfort in going to support groups for lukemia and cancer victims when there’s nothing wrong with you until they’re hijacked from you by another faker. Then you meet Tyler Durden, a man that shows you that not only can you live without material needs but that self-destruction, the collapse of society and making dynamite from soap might not be such a bad idea either.