Film Season Sept.2013 - August 2014
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- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsPam GrierSamuel L. JacksonRobert ForsterA flight attendant with a criminal past gets nabbed by the ATF for smuggling. Under pressure to become an informant against the illegal arms dealer she works for, she must find a way to secure her future without getting killed.with: Pam Grier, Samuel L.Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert DeNiro
A forty-something airline flight attendant, working for the lowest paying airline in the world, sees no problem in running drug money from Mexico to L.A. until she is finally caught one day by the cops and must decide if she would rather go to jail or become an informant, implicating the drug runner she's known for years. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. - DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsLon Chaney Jr.Patricia MorisonJ. Carrol NaishA doctor is not sure if he murdered his beautiful but wicked wife, and has his attractive nurse try to find the truth by hypnotizing him.With: Lon Chaney, Jr., Patricia Morison, J.Carroll Naish, David Bruce, Ramsey Ames, Fay Hem.
An unhappily nmarried psychaitrist is shocked to learn that his wife has been married, and that he has no memory of what happened the hours before and after the murder. Another man, a look-alike to the doctor, is arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. The doc becomes almost certain that the poor guy on death row is falsely convicted and that he, the doctor, is the actual killer. Directed by Reginald Le Borg - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsWalter HustonFrances StarrGrant MitchellMembers of a family witness two murders, but the gang uses threats, violence and kidnapping to try to keep the members from testifying.With: Walter Huston, Frances Starrm Charles "Chic" Sale, Dickie Moore, Grant Mit hell, Sally Blane, Edward J.Nugent
After witnessing a gangland shooting and subsdequent home invasion by the killers, the Leeds family is terrorizedf by the perpetrators as they've agreed to take the witness stand against them. Directed by William A.Wellman - DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsSean ConneryRyan O'NealMichael CaineOperation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.With: Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins, Dirk Bogarde, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine, Edward Fox, James Caan, Laurence Olivier, Liv Ullman, Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neal
An all-star cast telling of Operation Market Garden. In 1944, British. American and Polish troops tried valiently to take several bridges in the Netherlands that had been under Nazi control, thinking that those spans would make it easier for the Allied Troops (after D-Day) to cross the Rhine, into the heart of Gernmanym, and thereby end the war "before Christmas".
Directed by Richard Attenborough - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsJacqueline BissetJean-Pierre LéaudFrançois TruffautA committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.with: Francois Trauffaut, Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese,Jewan-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Dani, Jean Champion.
A filmaker must not only contend finishing his latest work (which he somehow knows with be a stinker), an American leading lady just coming out of a nervous breakdown; an alcoholic character actress; a middle-aged leading man finally "coming out of thw closet; and several love affairs (some beginning, some ending) among his cast and crew.
Arguably the best ever movie about making movies.
Director: Francois Truffaut. - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsCatherine DeneuveGérard DepardieuJean PoiretIn occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Germans while doing both of their jobs.with: Catherine Deneuve, Gerard Depardieu, Jean Poret, Andrea Ferreol , Paulette Dubost, Jean-Pierre Leaud,Paulette DuBost, Jean-Louis Richard.
The year is 1944. In a Paris under the occupation of the Nazis, an actress tries valiantly to keep her theatre open. A theatre owned by her husband who, as a Jew, has been forced to go into hiding.
Director: Francois Trauffaut - DirectorKen BurnsSarah BurnsDavid McMahonStarsAntron McCrayKevin RichardsonKharey WiseA documentary that examines the 1989 case of five black and Latino teenagers who were convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park. After having spent between 6 and 13 years each in prison, a serial rapist confessed to the crime.A documentary about the five youths (4 blacks, 1 Hispanic) who were brow-beaten into confessing to the rape and attempted murder of a jogger. A case that garnered world-wide attention, especially when it comes to light that all five were wrongfully convicted and incarcerated (one of the young man for 17 years)
Directors: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon - DirectorNathan HopeStarsAnna KendrickJon GriesTania RaymondeA teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery.with: Anna Kendrick, Paul Wesley, Chuck Carter, Tanya Raimonde, Jeff Daniel Phillips
When a somewhat wild teen high school student goes missing, her best friend suspects foul play as over the past years, other girls have disppeared as well, and tries to learn the truth about what's happened to her friend.
Directed and Written by Nathan Hope - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsSylvia SidneyOscar HomolkaDesmond TesterA Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.With: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, John Loder, Desmond Tester, Joyce Barboui, Matthew Bolton
In the years just preceding WWII, a Scotland Insoector posing as a green grocer, goes in search of whoever is trying to terrorize London with different acgfs of sabotage. The Inspector finally deduces that the anarchist is the European ex-patriate who own the cinema next door to the grocery, and while trying to get the evidence needed to have the saboteur arrested, the Inspector finds himself falling in love with the man's wife.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, from a novel by Joseph Conrad - DirectorFrançois TruffautStarsFrançois TruffautJean-Pierre CargolFrançoise SeignerIn a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.With: Jean-Pierre Cargol, Francois Truffaut, Francoise Seigner, Jean Deste, Annie Miller, Claude Miller
True story of a late 18th century French doctor who discovers a small boy living as an animal in the forest and tries to introduce him into civilization.
Directed (and starring): Francois Truffaut - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsTallulah BankheadJohn HodiakWalter SlezakSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.with: Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, William Bendix, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Canada Lee
During WWII a passenger freighter is torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic. The few who do survive the sinking find themwelves thrown together in a lifeboat along with the captain of the German U-Bot which did the damage, and the differant personalities soon find themselves in conflict with one another.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock - DirectorRob ZombieStarsSid HaigKaren BlackBill MoseleyTwo young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.With: Sid Haig, Karen Black, Chad Bowan,Erin Daniels, Greg Gibbs, William Bassett.
Four teens, touring the south, looking fort n"freaky entertainment: find themselves kidnapped, and at the mercy of a family that wants to kill them, but not before doing all sorts of terrifying experiments on them.
Director: Rob Zombie - DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartGrace KellyWendell CoreyA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window and, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend, becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.With: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr
While recuperating fro a badly broken leg, a bored pohotographer spends his days playing "peeping tom" on his neighbors across the courtyard from his apartment and begins to believe that he has seen a murder committed.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsTom CruiseColin FarrellSamantha MortonJohn works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.With: Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max Von Sydow,Samantha Morton,
Steve Harrus, Neal McDonough.
In the year 2054, the crime rate in Washington, D.C.has virtually become non-existent thanks to three "precognitives" who have the ability to intercept the brain waves of would-be criminals so they can be taken into custody "pre-crime". One of the lead investigators in this department soon experiences the down-side of this marvel when he finds himself on the verge of being arrested for a murder he will supposedly commit within the three days/;. Learning this, he goes on the run in the hopes of proving the "pre-cogs" wrong.
Director: Steven Spielberg - DirectorMichael CurtizStarsEdward G. RobinsonIda LupinoJohn GarfieldAfter being fished out of the sea by a sailer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.With: Edward G.Robinson, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Alexander Knox, Barry Fitzgerald, Gene Lockhart, Staney Ridges
After their steamboat is sunk during a bad fog, a writer and a prostitute are rescued and taken aboard a seal-catcher, "Ghost", the Captain of which is a sadist.
Director: Michael Curtis - DirectorFred F. SearsStarsKathryn GrantWilliam LeslieTristram CoffinDr. Conway has perfected a machine that predicts earthquakes, and has determined that one will strike California within 24 hours. A computer analysis determines that the entire world would explode within a little more than 28 days.With: Kathryn Grant, William Leslie, Tristram Coffin, Raymond Greenleaf, Charles Evans
Surprisingly good B-picture about a group of scientists and a new (for 1957, that is) that predicts earthquakes. Obviouslyu ther machine works pretty well as it shows the earth being destroyed within 28 dways by a series of major quakes that throw our planet out of orbit.
Directed by Fred F.Shears - DirectorAlexander KordaStarsCharles LaughtonRobert DonatFranklin DyallKing Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.With: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Merle Oberon, Wendy Barrie, Elsa Lanchester, Binnie Barnes, Evekyn Gregg
Laughtpn is properly regal and also very funny as the larger-then-life monarch who went through six wives like you-know-what through a goose.
Directed by Alexander Kordas - DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsAleksandr AntonovVladimir BarskiyGrigoriy AleksandrovIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.With: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Gigori Aleksandrov
Magnificent Russian silent film about the much-talked about mutiny (in 1905) aboard a Russian dreadnought (brought about by the sailors who have been fed rotten meat) and its consequences (the most memorable of which is a vicious attack by right-wing guards in the town of Odessa) that helped bring about the Russian revolution of 1917.
Director: Sergei M.Eisenstein - DirectorJoshua LoganStarsWilliam HoldenKim NovakBetty FieldEmotions are ignited among the complacent townsfolk when a handsome drifter arrives in a small Kansas community on the morning of the Labor Day picnic.With: William Holden, Kim Novak, Rosalind Russell, Arthur O'Connell, Cliff Robertson, Susan Strasberg, Betty Field, Verna Felton.
On a hot Labor Day weekend, in a small middle-American town, the arrival of a handsome drifter upsets the lives of several women.
Director: Joshua Logan - DirectorGeorge SidneyStarsRita HayworthFrank SinatraKim NovakJoey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.With: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak
A revisioning of the classic Rodgers-Hart-O'Hara about a small time, but talented, nightclub performer who, being the heel that he is, becomes the boy-toy of a wealthy widow while he plays upon the affections of a naive chorus girl.
Director: George Sidney - DirectorDavid LeanStarsOmar SharifJulie ChristieGeraldine ChaplinThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.Director David Lean's sprawling epic of the early years of the Russian Revolution starring Omar Sharif, as Y.A.Zhivago, a romantic doctor/poet, Geraldine Chaplin as Tonya. Zhivago's patrician, eternally optimistic wife, Julie Christie as "Lara", the passionate love of Zhuvago's life; Rod Steiger as Kamarovsky, the ultimate opportunist; John Gielgud as Yevgrav, Zhivago's Bolshevik half-brother; and Tom Courtney as Lara's revoltuionary minded husband. With Ralph Richardson, Siobahn McKenna and Rita Tushingham.
- DirectorBilly WilderStarsDean MartinKim NovakRay WalstonJealous piano teacher Orville Spooner sends his beautiful wife, Zelda, away for the night while he tries to sell a song to famous nightclub singer Dino, who is stranded in town.In this Billy Wilder's risque little farce, Dean Martin plays "Dino", a playboy Las Vegas lounge lizard (not too much of a stretch) who, on his way to L.A.to do a TV special, finds himself in Climax, Nevada where his car is purposely disabled so a songwriting piano teacher (Ray Walston) can, hopefully, peddle off some of the compositions he has written with the local "grease monkey" (Cliff Osmond). Now, being the obssessively jealous type, Walston picks a fight with his very pretty wife (Felicia Farr) so she'll leave him and, thereby, not be tempted by Dino and replaces her with Polly (Kim Novak) a part-timer hooker and waitress at the local watering-hole, "The Belly Button".
- DirectorChris WedgeStarsAmanda SeyfriedJosh HutchersonBeyoncéA teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. She bands together with a ragtag group of characters to save their world--and ours.Animatred film about a teenage girl goes to visit her father, who is convinced that there is an epic battle between good and evil taking place in the nearby forest in which the participants are actually humanoid version of the local faunas.
With the voices of Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, Josh Hutcherson, Jason Sudekis, Steven Tyler, Christoph Waltz.
Directed by Chris Wedge - DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsMichael DouglasMatt DamonScott BakulaA chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson.Michael Douglas dons the furs and spangles as Liberace in this telling "Mr.Showmanship's" final years...his passionate relationship with the much younger Scott Thorsen (played by Matt Damon) and the months leading up to his death from AIDS.
With Dan Aykroyd, Scott Bakula, Debbie Renyolds, Cheyenne Jackson, and Rob Lowe
Directed by Steven Soderbergh - DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsClark GableRicardo MontalbanJohn HodiakTrapper Flint Mitchell and other mountain men from the Rendezvous join forces to enter virgin trapping territory but must contend with a resentful Blackfoot chief.With Clark Gable, Ricardo Montalban, John Hodiak, Adolphe Menjou, J.Carroll Naish, Jack Holt, Maria Elena Marqus
Saga taking place in the 1850's about the mountain men who spent most of the year hunting beaver for their pelts, and their relationship with the Native Americans in America's untamed West.
Directed by William A.Wellman