Thursday, 29 November 2012

Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction
Genres: Thriller / Crime
Year: 1994
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Cast:John Travolta / Uma Thurman / Frank Whaley / Paul Calderon / Duane Whitaker /  Peter Greene / Rosanna Arquette / Maria de Medeiros / Phil LaMarr / Ving Rhames / Bruce Willis / Eric Stoltz / Amanda Plummer / Tim Roth / Samuel L. Jackson
Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor
Genres: Romance / Drama / Action
Year: 2001
Director: Michael Bay
Cast: John Fujioka / Michael Shannon / Sara Rue / Catherine Kellner / Cuba Gooding Jr. / Jon Voight / Jennifer Garner / Ewen Bremner / Greg Zola / William Lee Scott / Jaime King / Alec Baldwin / Kate Beckinsale / Josh Hartnett / Ben Affleck
Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and next thing you know Evelyn and Rafe are hooking up. Then Rafe volunteers to go fight in Britain and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting everything gets completely whack and next thing you know everybody is in the middle of an air raid we now know as "Pearl Harbor."

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind 
Genres: War / Romance / Drama
Year:1939
Director: Victor Fleming
Cast:Clark Gable / Vivien Leigh / Thomas Mitchell Everett Brown / Victor Jory / Butterfly McQueen / Oscar Polk / Hattie McDaniel / Fred Crane / George Reeves / Ann Rutherford / Evelyn Keyes  / Barbara O'Neil /  Howard C. Hickman / Alicia Rhett /
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.


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New York New York


New York New York  
Year : 1977
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast :  Liza Minnelli / Robert De Niro / Lionel Stander / Barry Primus / Mary Kay Place / Georgie Auld / George Memmoli
The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love as they struggle with their careers and aim for the top
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Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Braveheart

Braveheart
Genres: Action / Biography / Drama
Year: 1995
Director: Mel Gibson
Cast:Mel Gibson / James Robinson / Sean Lawlor / Sandy Nelson / James Cosmo / Sean McGinley / Alan Tall / Andrew Weir / Gerda Stevenson / Ralph Riach / Mhairi Calvey / Brian Cox / Patrick McGoohan / Peter Hanly / Sophie Marceau / Stephen Billington

William Wallace is a Scottish rebel who leads an uprising against the cruel English ruler Edward the Longshanks, who wishes to inherit the crown of Scotland for himself. When he was a young boy, William Wallace's father and brother, along with many others, lost their lives trying to free Scotland. Once he loses another of his loved ones, William Wallace begins his long quest to make Scotland free once and for all, along with the assistance of Robert the Bruce.

The Odd Life of Timothy Green


The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Genres: Comedy / Drama / Fantasy
Year: 2012
Director: Peter Hedges
Cast: Jennifer Garner / Joel Edgerton / CJ Adams / Odeya Rush / Shohreh Aghdashloo / Rosemarie DeWitt / David Morse / M. Emmet Walsh / Lois Smith / Lin-Manuel Miranda / Dianne Wiest / Ron Livingston / James Rebhorn / Common / Michael Arden
After receiving bad news from a fertility doctor, Cindy and Jim Green try to bury their dreams of having a child by writing out all the great traits their child would have and putting them in a box in the garden. During a freak storm in the middle of the night, they awake to find a boy named Timothy, with leaves growing from his ankles, standing in their kitchen calling them mom and dad. Cindy and Jim are thrown into the midst of parenthood and over the coming months, Timothy will teach them more than they could have imagined about being parents and raising a child, no matter how he comes into their lives.

The Muppets


The Muppets
Genres: Musical / Family / Comedy
Year: 2011
Director: James Bobin
Cast: David Rudman / Bill Barretta / Dave Goelz / Eric Jacobson / Steve Whitmire / Rashida Jones / Chris Cooper / Amy Adams / Jason Segel / Matt Vogel / Peter Linz / Alan Arkin / Bill Cobbs / Zach Galifianakis / Ken Jeong
When 3 muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the muppet theater for oil Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the muppets who have been split up for years Kermit lives in his own mansion depressed in hollywood, Gonzo is a high class plumber at Gonzo's Royal Flush, Fozzie performs with a tribute band called The Moopets , Miss Piggy is the plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, and Animal is at a celebrity anger managment rehab center in Santa Barbara.

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Mirror Mirror

Mirror Mirror
Genres: Drama / Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Year : 2012
Director: Tarsem Singh
Cast: Julia Roberts / Lily Collins /  Armie Hammer / Nathan Lane / Jordan Prentice
After a beloved King vanishes, his ruthless wife seizes control of the kingdom and keeps her beautiful 18-year-old stepdaughter, Snow White, hidden away in the palace. But when the princess attracts the attention of a charming and wealthy visiting prince, the jealous Queen banishes the girl to a nearby forest. Taken in by a band of rebellious but kindhearted dwarfs, Snow White blossoms into a brave young woman determined to save her country from the Queen. With the support of her new friends, she roars into action to reclaim her birthright and win back her Prince in this magical adventure comedy that will capture the hearts and imaginations of audiences the world over.

To Rome With Love

To Rome With Love
Genres :  Comedy / Romance
Year : 2012 
Director:Woody Allen
Cast : Woody Allen / Penélope Cruz  / Jesse Eisenber / Alec Baldwin / Judy Davis /  Flavio Parenti / Roberto Benigni / Alison Pill  / Alessandro Tiberi / Alessandra Mastronardi / Carol Alt
Set in the romantic city of Rome. The intertwining stories of a worker who wakes up to find himself a celebrity, an architect who takes a trip back to the street he lived on as a student, a young couple on their honeymoon, and a frustrated opera director who has a talent for discovering talented singers.

Monday, 19 November 2012

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers


Genres: Musical / Comedy / Adventure
Year: 1954
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Ian Wolfe / Norma Doggett / Ruta Lee / Virginia Gibson / Betty Carr / Nancy Kilgas / Julie Newmar / Jane Powell / Jacques d'Amboise / Matt Mattox / Marc Platt / Tommy Rall / Russ Tamblyn / Jeff Richards / Howard Keel
Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers' loneliness.

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Gilda


Genres: Romance / Film-Noir / Drama
Year: 1946
Director: Charles Vidor
Cast: Donald Douglas / Ludwig Donath / Mark Roberts / Gerald Mohr / Joe Sawyer / Steven Geray / Joseph Calleia / George Macready / Glenn Ford / Rita Hayworth
Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from a trip with a wife: the supremely desirable Gilda, whom Johnny once knew and learned to hate. The relationship of Johnny and Gilda, a battlefield of warring emotions, becomes even more bizarre after Mundson disappears...

Monday, 12 November 2012

The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai
Genres: Action / Adventure / Drama
Year: 2003
Director: Edward Zwick
Cast: 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
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...

Autumn in New York

Autumn in New York
Genres: Drama
Year: 2000
Director: Joan Chen
Cast: Richard Gere / Winona Ryder / Anthony LaPaglia / Elaine Stritch / Vera Farmiga / Sherry Stringfield / Jill Hennessy / J.K. Simmons / Sam Trammell / Mary Beth Hurt / Kali Rocha / Steven Randazzo / Toby Poser / George Spielvogel III / Ranjit Chowdhry
Love story da groppo in gola per due 'belli e impossibili' di Hollywood, di quelle che ti fanno sperare per tutto il film in un eccezionale lieto fine. In una New York autunnale ed umida, Will è uno chef cinquantenne molto amato dalle donne e senza storie troppo lunghe da raccontare, Charlotte è una ventenne dalla salute precaria ed entrambi sono convinti che la loro avventura durerà poco. Sarà vero? Ma l'amore può essere più forte di tutto quando un male incurabile sta minando il fisico della ragazza?

Never Say Goodbye


 Never Say Goodbye 
Genres : Drama / Romance
Year : 1956
Director:Jerry Hopper
Cast :  Rock Hudson / Cornell Borchers / George Sanders / Shelley Fabares / Ray Collins / David Janssen /  Helen Wallace
In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.

The Last Tango in Paris


The Last Tango in Paris    
Genres : Drama / Romance
Year : 1972 
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast :  Marlon Brando / Maria Schneider / Maria Michi / Giovanna Galletti /  Gitt Magrini / Catherine Allégret 
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.

Thursday, 8 November 2012

San Francisco


San Francisco
Genres: Drama / Musical / Romance
Year:1936
Director:
Cast: Clark Gable / Jeanette MacDonald / Spencer Tracy / Jack Holt / Jessie Ralph / Ted Healy / Shirley Ross / Margaret Irving / Harold Huber / Edgar Kennedy / Al Shean / William Ricciardi / Kenneth Harlan / Roger Imhof / Charles Judels
Mary Blake arrives at Blackie Norton's Paradise gambling hall and beer garden looking for work as a singer. Blackie embarrasses her by asking to see her legs, but does hire her. She faints from hunger. Nob Hill Socialite Jack Burley and Maestro Baldini of the Tivoli Opera House see her singing and offer her a chance to do opera, but Blackie has her under a two-year contract which she sorrowfully stands by. Later, when he makes up posters featuring Mary in tights, she does leave for the Tivoli. Blackie gets an injunction against Burley, but knocks out the process server when he hears Mary's performance as Marguerite in "Faust". She asks her to marry him and she agrees to go back to the Paradise as his kind of singer, but Blackie's childhood chum Father Tim intervenes.

Monday, 5 November 2012

Beyond the Sea


Beyond the Sea
Genres:Music / Drama / Biography
Year: 2004
Director: Kevin Spacey
Cast: Tomas Spencer / Tayfun Bademsoy / Jake Broder / Gary Whelan / Matt Rippy / Michael Byrne / William Ullrich / Peter Cincotti / Caroline Aaron / Greta Scacchi / Brenda Blethyn / Bob Hoskins / John Goodman / Kate Bosworth / Kevin Spacey
Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He's volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he's living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then "Splish Splash" puts him at the top of the charts and on "Bandstand." He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it's on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee.