Posts Tagged ‘1950s’

Blow (2001)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Cruz, Penélope | Potente, Franka | Griffiths, Rachel | Reubens, Paul | Mollà, Jordi | Curtis, Cliff | Sandoval, Miguel | Suplee, Ethan | Liotta, Ray | Gage, Kevin | Perlich, Max | James, Jesse | Pérez, Miguel | Ferro, Dan
Directors: Demme, Ted
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George Jung is the son of a struggling small business owner. Seeing his family struggle to make ends meet and failing, George vows never to share a similar fate. Moving to California, he starts his own pot pushing operation in which he finds both success and imprisonment. In prison, he meets a cellmate who introduces him into a partnership to the lucrative new market in cocaine. Upon release, George Jung quickly becomes instrumental in establishing the exploding US market for cocaine in which he claimed that he handled about 85% of the supply in the 1970’s. However, for all the fabulous wealth and power he gained, the true costs of his dangerously treacherous occupation catch up with him in ways from which he would never recover.

Where the Truth Lies (2005)

Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Bacon, Kevin | Firth, Colin | Lohman, Alison | Hayman, David | Blanchard, Rachel | Chaykin, Maury | Bennett, Sonja | Adams, Kristin | Grover, Deborah | Starr, Beau | Khanjian, Arsinée | Rose, Gabrielle | Don McKellar | Hemblen, David | Moraitis, John
Directors: Egoyan, Atom
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A female journalist tries to uncover the truth behind the breakup, years earlier, of a celebrated comedy team after the duo found a girl dead in their hotel room. Though both had airtight alibis and neither was accused, the incident put an end to their act.

Northfork (2003)

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Woods, James | Nolte, Nick | Sebern, Douglas | Forlani, Claire | Farnes, Duel | Hannah, Daryl | Beckel, Graham | Barker, Josh | Coyote, Peter | Gries, Jon | Overton, Rick | Sachs, Robin | Foster, Ben | Edwards, Anthony
Directors: Polish, Michael
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In a near-empty Northfork orphanage, Father Harlan gently tends to Irwin, a eight-year-old who lies between a dreamstate and death. As orphanage caretaker Harlan reads aloud about Northfork’s years-ago forced evacuation to make way for a hydro-electric dam, Irwin’s imagination takes flight. While a team of six men evacuate the last remaining citizens of the town, Irwin, too, invents a cast of characters to prepare himself for his own evacuation.

Godfather, The (1972)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Brando, Marlon | Pacino, Al | Caan, James | Castellano, Richard S. | Duvall, Robert | Hayden, Sterling | Conte, Richard | Lettieri, Al | Keaton, Diane | Vigoda, Abe | Shire, Talia | Russo, Gianni | Marley, John | Bond, Rudy
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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The story begins as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the old ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don’s fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.

Back to the Future Part III (1990)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Richard Dysart | ZZ Top | Fox, Michael J. | Lloyd, Christopher | Steenburgen, Mary | Wilson, Thomas F. | Thompson, Lea | Shue, Elisabeth | Tolkan, James | Clark, Matt | Taylor, Dub | Carey Jr., Harry | Buttram, Pat | Wynne, Christopher | Sullivan, Sean Gregory | Watson, Mike | McClure, Marc
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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The movie continues where the last one with Marty stuck in 1955. But Doc Brown sent him a letter from 1855 through Western Union, that told him that after the Delorean was struck by lightning he was sent to 1855 and was unable to repair it, but has managed to bury it somewhere, where Marty can get to it in 1955 and hopefully the younger version of himself can repair it so he can drive it back to 1985 and then destroy it. But after finding it, Marty discovers that shortly after sending the letter Doc would be shot by an outlaw, Mad Dog Tannen. Marty then goes back to 1885 to save him and meets his ancestors. After finding the Doc, they were about to leave when Marty told the Doc that upon arriving the Delorean’s gas tank was punctured, so they don’t have any gasoline to run the car, which means they have to find some way to get the car to 88 mph. They decide to try pushing it with a locomotive. And things are fine except for the fact that Tannen, who had it in for Doc, now has it for Marty and has challenged him to gunfight on the day that they are going to leave, and Doc is smitten with Clara Clayton, the new school teacher.

Back to the Future (1985)

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Fox, Michael J. | Lloyd, Christopher | Thompson, Lea | Glover, Crispin | Wilson, Thomas F. | Wells, Claudia | McClure, Marc | Sperber, Wendie Jo | Di Cenzo, George | McCain, Frances Lee | Tolkan, James | Cohen, J.J. | Siemaszko, Casey | Zane, Billy | Waters Jr., Harry
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Marty McFly is an aspiring musician, but he is not sure of what the future holds for him; first his band was rejected as the performing band for the school dance, and historically, no McFly has succeeded in anything. The only bright spots in his existence are his girlfriend and Emmett Brown, the town crackpot scientist, who is Marty’s good friend. Marty was helping brown with his latest invention a time machine, which is fitted into a Delorean. The time machine needs a tremendous amount of power to work, which he gets from plutonium. Now Brown got the plutonium from some Libyans who want him to build a bomb; they find Brown and shoot him, Marty gets into the Delorean and drives off and when he reaches the speed of 88 mph that activates the time machine, he finds himself in 1955, cause that was the date that Brown entered, which was when he first conceived the time machine. Now having already used up all the power of the plutonium, Marty must find a way to get it working, so he can go back to his own time. Marty looks for Brown but before he does, he runs into his father as a teenager, and accidentally interferes with his father’s first meeting of Lorraine, his future mother. Marty then goes to see Brown and convinces him that he is from the future and to help him. But when he learns of the amount of power that is needed to power the machine, he tells Marty that it’s hopeless cause the only other thing that can generate that much power is a bolt of lightning and it’s impossible to determine when and where they will strike, but Marty has with him an old newspaper cliping that states that the town clock tower will be struck by lightning, so they plan to draw the energy from the lightning so they can power the machine. But before they do, Marty must act as cupid for his parents cause it seems that because they never met they won’t fall in love and get married and Marty will not exist.

Hudsucker Proxy, The (1994)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Robbins, Tim | Leigh, Jennifer Jason | Newman, Paul | Durning, Charles | Mahoney, John | True-Frost, Jim | Cobbs, Bill | Campbell, Bruce | Bugin, Harry | Seitz, John | Grifasi, Joe | Brocksmith, Roy | Wylie, John | Hobson, I.M. | Allen, Gary
Directors: Coen, Joel | Coen, Ethan
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When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries.

American Splendor (2003)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ambrose, Chris | Krajcar, Joey | Hutcherson, Josh | Carter, Cameron | Tay, Daniel | Faktor, Mary | Giamatti, Paul | Pekar, Harvey | Meyers, Larry John | Benesch, Vivienne | Brown, Barbara | Billings, Earl | Hoch, Danny | Urbaniak, James
Directors: Berman, Shari Springer | Pulcini, Robert
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Harvey Pekar is file clerk at the local VA hospital. His interactions with his co-workers offer some relief from the monotony, and their discussions encompass everything from music to the decline of American culture to new flavors of jellybeans and life itself. At home, Harvey fills his days with reading, writing and listening to jazz. His apartment is filled with thousands of books and LPs, and he regularly scours Cleveland’s thrift stores and garage sales for more, savoring the rare joy of a 25-cent find. It is at one of these junk sales that Harvey meets Robert Crumb, a greeting card artist and music enthusiast. When, years later, Crumb finds international success for his underground comics, the idea that comic books can be a valid art form for adults inspires Harvey to write his own brand of comic book. An admirer of naturalist writers like Theodore Dreiser, Harvey makes his American Splendor a truthful, unsentimental record of his working-class life, a warts-and-all self portrait. First published in 1976, the comic earns Harvey cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Barber, a partner in a Delaware comic book store who end ups being Harvey’s true soul mate as they experience the bizarre byproducts of Harvey’s cult celebrity stature.

L.A. Confidential (1997)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Spacey, Kevin | Crowe, Russell | Pearce, Guy | Cromwell, James | Basinger, Kim | DeVito, Danny | Strathairn, David | Rifkin, Adam | McCoy, Matt | Guilfoyle, Paul | Seganti, Paolo | Beckel, Graham | Taylor, Sandra | Rankin, Steve | Granli, Elisabeth
Directors: Hanson, Curtis
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1950’s Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.

Angel Heart (1987)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Rourke, Mickey | De Niro, Robert | Bonet, Lisa | Rampling, Charlotte | McGhee, Brownie | Fontelieu, Stocker | Higgins, John Michael | Whitcraft, Elizabeth | Keener, Eliott | Gordone, Charles | Florek, Dann | Wilhoite, Kathleen | Buck, George | Drake, Judith | Orange, Gerald
Directors: Parker, Alan
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Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. As he begins to investigate, all the people he contacts concerning Johnny are killed in mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his client he discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is forced to deal with the devil himself.