Posts Tagged ‘independent-film’

G:MT Greenwich Mean Time (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Music
Countries: UK
Actors: Steve John Shepherd | Ben Waters | Alec Newman | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Anjela Lauren Smith | Melanie Gutteridge | Georgia Mackenzie | Alicia Eyo | Freddie Annobil-Dodoo | Alun Armstrong | Geoffrey Beevers | Annette Bentley | John Blundell | Debbi Blythe | Karl Collins
Directors: John Strickland
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Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.

The Cooler (2003)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: William H. Macy | Alec Baldwin | Maria Bello | Shawn Hatosy | Ron Livingston | Paul Sorvino | Estella Warren | Arthur J. Nascarella | Joey Fatone | M.C. Gainey | Ellen Greene | Don Scribner | Tony Longo | Richard Israel | Timothy Landfield
Directors: Wayne Kramer
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.

Rising Damp (1980)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Leonard Rossiter | Frances de la Tour | Denholm Elliott | Don Warrington | Christopher Strauli | Carrie Jones | Glynn Edwards | John Cater | Derek Griffiths | Ronnie Brody | Alan Clare | Jonathan Cecil | Bill Dean | Pat Roach
Directors: Joseph McGrath
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First broadcast in 1974, the ITV bedsitland sitcom Rising Damp was an instant and enduring success. It starred Leonard Rossiter as the miserly and lovelorn landlord Rigsby who is constantly needling young lodger Alan (Richard Beckinsale), a science student whose long hair and earrings are symptomatic to Rigsby of the parlous effeminacy of the modern age. He’s also in love with Frances De La Tour’s dowdy spinster Miss Jones, though his tentative advances are forever rebuffed. She in turn carries a torch for Philip (Don Warrington), the elegant son of an African chief who also resides at Rigsby Towers.

Some aspects of Rising Damp have not aged well, principally Rigsby’s stream of racist jibes at Philip. Although these were doubtless well-meant and supposed to illustrate Rigsby’s foolish bigotry, you suspect that that was a convenient cover for audiences in the 1970s to enjoy racist humour. However, Rossiter’s Rigsby—stuttering, stammering, bent perpetually over backwards—remains a great comic creation, embodying all the festering prejudices, small-mindedness and self-delusion of the lower middle class Little Englander.

Down to You (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Freddie Prinze Jr. | Julia Stiles | Selma Blair | Shawn Hatosy | Zak Orth | Ashton Kutcher | Rosario Dawson | Henry Winkler | Lucie Arnaz | Lauren German | Zay Harding | Chloe Hunter | Amanda Barfield | Granger Green | Joseff Stevenson
Directors: Kris Isacsson
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Imogen and Al meet at college in New York City when she’s a frosh and he’s a sophomore. She’s a talented artist; he wants to be a chef, following in his father’s footsteps. They fall in love, she picks a song for them, they make love. But she fears losing her youth, committing too soon, having a child before she’s ready. He’s worried that this may be an illusion, not true love. She sleeps with someone else; he’s hurt; the relationship ruptures. She leaves for San Francisco; he goes into an alcohol-assisted depression. He even drinks her shampoo, hoping to cure his obsession. Can anything help him recover?

Session 9 (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: David Caruso | Stephen Gevedon | Paul Guilfoyle | Josh Lucas | Peter Mullan | Brendan Sexton III | Charley Broderick | Lonnie Farmer | Larry Fessenden | Jurian Hughes | Sheila Stasack | Sean Daly
Directors: Brad Anderson
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An asbestos abatement crew wins the bid for an abandoned insane asylum. What should be a straightforward, if rather rushed, job, is complicated by the personal histories of the crew. In particular, Hank is dating Phil’s old girlfriend, and Gordon’s new baby seems to be unnerving him more than should be expected. Things get more complicated as would-be lawyer Mike plays the tapes from a former patient with multiple personalities, including the mysterious Simon who does not appear until Session 9, and as Hank disappears after finding some old coins.

Pacific Heights (1990)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Melanie Griffith | Matthew Modine | Michael Keaton | Mako | Nobu McCarthy | Laurie Metcalf | Carl Lumbly | Dorian Harewood | Luca Bercovici | Tippi Hedren | Sheila McCarthy | Guy Boyd | Jerry Hardin | Dan Hedaya | James Staley
Directors: John Schlesinger
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A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords.

The Incredible Melting Man (1977)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Alex Rebar | Burr DeBenning | Myron Healey | Michael Alldredge | Ann Sweeny | Lisle Wilson | Cheryl Smith | Julie Drazen | Stuart Edmond Rodgers | Chris Witney | Edwin Max | Dorothy Love | Janus Blythe | Jonathan Demme | Westbrook Claridge
Directors: William Sachs
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Astronaut exposed to cosmic rays outside of Saturn’s rings returns to Earth and begins to melt away. Escaping from the hospital, he wanders around the backwoods looking for human flesh to eat.

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Kimberly Stringer | Chazz Dominguez | Shari Hall | R.J. Parnell | David Kaff | Tony Hendra | Michael McKean | Christopher Guest | Harry Shearer | Bruno Kirby | Jean Cromie | Patrick Maher | Ed Begley Jr. | Danny Kortchmar
Directors: Rob Reiner
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Marti DeBergi is a film-maker who decides to make a documentary, a rockumentary actually, about the world’s loudest band, the British heavy metal group Spinal Tap. The movie is in fact a biting satire and spoof of the whole rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a real documentary of a real band. Hilarious behind-the-scenes footage is combined with faux-concert clips to breath life into the imaginary group.

Transamerica (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Andrea James | Felicity Huffman | Danny Burstein | Maurice Orozco | Elizabeth Peña | Craig Bockhorn | Paul Borghese | Kevin Zegers | Jon Budinoff | Venida Evans | Raynor Scheine | Kate Bayley | Stella Maeve | Teala Dunn | Jim Frangione
Directors: Duncan Tucker
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One week before her sex-change operation, Bree receives a call from a 17-year-old identifying himself as her son from a college liaison. Bree’s psychiatrist won’t approve the surgery until Bree deals with this relationship, so Bree flies to New York City, bails the youth out of juvenile detention, and offers him a ride back to Los Angeles without disclosing that she is his father. Both her plans and his go awry, and as secrets will out, what might become a friendship (or more) founders. The lad’s step-father, a sex-change support group, a peyote eater, a Navajo wrangler, and Bree’s family all play their parts in this exploration of family, gender, and expectations.

The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Robert Powell | David Warner | Eric Porter | Karen Dotrice | John Mills | George Baker | Ronald Pickup | Donald Pickering | Timothy West | Miles Anderson | Andrew Keir | Robert Flemyng | William Squire | Paul McDowell | David Collings
Directors: Don Sharp
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The year is 1914 and Richard Hannay, Mining Engineer who is visiting Britain for a short time before returning to South Africa, is shocked when one of his neighbours, Colonel Scudder, bursts into his rooms one night and tells him a story that Prussian ’sleeper’ agents are planning to pre-start World War I by murdering a visiting foreign minister. However, Scudder is murdered and Hannay is framed for the death by the ’sleepers’. Fleeing to Scotland Hannay attempts to clear his name and to stop the agents with the aid of Alex Mackenzie but not only is he is chased by Chief Supt Lomas for Scudder’s death but by the agents who is headed by Appleton who has managed to hide himself in a high-placed position in the British Government…