Posts Tagged ‘1950s’

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: McClure, Marc | Flaherty, Joe | Di Cenzo, George | Fox, Michael J. | Lloyd, Christopher | Thompson, Lea | Wilson, Thomas F. | Shue, Elisabeth | Tolkan, James | Weissman, Jeffrey | Siemaszko, Casey | Zane, Billy | Cohen, J.J. | Fleischer, Charles | Evans, E. Casanova | Koch, Jay | Gherardi, Charles | Logan, Ricky Dean
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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This movie picks up where the last one left off; with Doc Brown and Marty going into the future to help Marty’s future offspring. After doing that they returned to their own time, only to discover that things have changed. They discovered that while in the future, Marty’s nemesis, Biff Tannen got the sports book that Marty bought so that he could know the results of sports events and make a killing, but Doc Brown nixed his plans, but Tannen who overheard their conversation, got the book and the time machine and went back into the past and gave the book to himself, who has not only amassed a fortune but also extremely powerful. So Doc and Marty have to go back to when Biff got the book and get it away from him. And it seems that it was in 1955 on the night of the dance that Biff got the book. So not only must they get the book but they must also avoid the other versions of themselves.

Capote (2005)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Mickelson, Allie | Stephenson, Kelci | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Archibald, Craig | Coleman, Bronwen | Shindle, Kate | Barnes, David Wilson | Burg, Michael J. | Keener, Catherine | Ameyaw, Kwesi | Farago, Andrew | Krotowich, Ken | Cooper, Chris | Reid, R.D. | McLaughlin, Rob
Directors: Miller, Bennett
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On the night of 14 November 1959, in Holcomb, Kansas, a farmhouse is broken into by the criminals Perry Smith and Dick Hickock that expect to get US$ 10,000.00. With the policy of “no witness”, the murderers kill the entire family. The homosexual writer Truman Capote travels to the small town with his friend Nelle Harper Lee and decide to use the topic to write a book. When the killers are arrested, he becomes friend of Perry for his own interest and then he falls in love for him, and gets a new lawyer for them, postponing their execution until 14 April 1965.

Beaches (1988)

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Midler, Bette | Hershey, Barbara | Heard, John | Gray, Spalding | Kazan, Lainie | Read, James | Johnston, Grace | Bialik, Mayim | Leeds, Marcie | Williard, Carol | Kent, Allan | Leeds, Phil | Goodfriend, Lynda | Plant, Nikki | French, Michael
Directors: Marshall, Garry
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When the New York child performer CC Bloom and San Fransisco rich kid Hillary meet in a holiday resort in Atlantic City, it marks the start of a lifetime friendship between them. The two keep in touch through letters for a number of years until Hillary, now a successful lawyer moves to New York to stay with struggling singer CC. The movie shows the various stages of their friendship and their romances including their love for the same man.

Cry Danger (1951)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir
Countries: USA
Actors: Powell, Dick | Fleming, Rhonda | Erdman, Richard | Conrad, William | Toomey, Regis | Porter, Jean | Adler, Jay | Banks, Joan | Saunders, Gloria | Averback, Hy | McEvoy, Renny | Lubin, Lou | Burt, Benny | Bice, Robert | Brooks, Ralph
Directors: Parrish, Robert
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“Rocky” Mulloy is framed for a murder and a holdup he didn’t commit and pulls a five year stretch in prison. He is finally pardoned when a friend returns from overseas to corroborate his testimony in court. “Rocky” then goes hunting for the real culprits so this his prison buddy, believed to be innocent, can also be pardoned. Nancy Morgan, wife of his friend, falls in love with him along the way, and he also has a few bullets fired at him by an oily character. “Rocky” finds the guilty party in a place he didn’t think about looking.

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Lancaster, Burt | Malden, Karl | Ritter, Thelma | Brand, Neville | Field, Betty | Savalas, Telly | O'Brien, Edmond | Marlowe, Hugh | Bissell, Whit | Denton, Crahan | Westerfield, James | Bailey, Robert | Burton, Robert | Charles, Lewis | Dennis, Nick
Directors: Frankenheimer, John
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As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother’s impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also brings new conflicts with prison authorities.

My Favorite Year (1982)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: O'Toole, Peter | Linn-Baker, Mark | Harper, Jessica | Bologna, Joseph | Macy, Bill | Kazan, Lainie | De Salvo, Anne | Hoffman, Basil | Jacobi, Lou | Green, Adolph | DiBenedetto, Tony | Wyner, George | Diamond, Selma | Mitchell, Cameron | Neumann, Jenny
Directors: Benjamin, Richard
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It’s 1950’s New York and the age of live television. Benjy Stone is a young writer on a major comedy-variety show. He is assigned to chaperon that week’s guest Alan Swann, a faded movie-star and renowned womanizer and drinker. Benjy’s job is to try and keep Swann sober and above all else, make sure he shows up for the live broadcast on Saturday evening. Benjy and Swann have a number of adventures throughout the week, including dinner with Benjy’s somewhat eccentric family. In the end, both learn lessons in life from the other.

Raging Bull (1980)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Moriarty, Cathy | Pesci, Joe | Vincent, Frank | Colasanto, Nicholas | Saldana, Theresa | Gallo, Mario | Adonis, Frank | Bono, Joseph | Topham, Frank | Flax, Lori Anne | Scorsese, Charles | Dunphy, Don | Hanrahan, Bill | Bennett, Rita
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he’s a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he’s a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family’s love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it’s his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.

Beyond the Sea (2004)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Musical
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Bosworth, Kate | Goodman, John | Hoskins, Bob | Blethyn, Brenda | Scacchi, Greta | Aaron, Caroline | Cincotti, Peter | Ullrich, William | Byrne, Michael | Rippy, Matt | Whelan, Gary | Broder, Jake | Bademsoy, Tayfun | Spencer, Tomas
Directors: Spacey, Kevin
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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. After, it’s balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn’t always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.

Martin and Lewis (2002)

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hayes, Sean | Northam, Jeremy | Cale, Paula | Manninen, Sarah | Levering, Kate | McCord, Scott | Brinder, Steve | Shekter, Rhona | Dunn, Conrad | Lake, Bill | Nappo, Tony | Eisner, David | Tager, Aron | Morelli, Robert | Parilo, Markus
Directors: Gray, John
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Even at the start of his singing career, Dean Martin is an impressive gentleman, big, tall, hansom, exquisitely dressed, fitting his nightingale voice and naturally classy appeal, even though his womanizing costs him enough in alimony to declare bankruptcy. Jerry Lewis on the other hand is an unsightly schmuck, whose buffoon version of stand-up comedy is an agent’s nightmare. When he accepts playing MC in a show with Dean, he tries interacting with him, and they hit gold judging by the audience’s reactions. Initially Dean wants to walk off and stay a solo act, but success as a duo is irresistible, and they rocket together, even in Hollywood. However in time they fall out of friendship as their characters and lifestyle clash, and Dean still dreams of solo success.

Youth Without Youth (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Italy | Romania | USA
Actors: Roth, Tim | Lara, Alexandra Maria | Bruno Ganz | Hennicke, André | Iures, Marcel | Pintea, Adrian | Pirici, Alexandra | Piersic Jr., Florin | Butuc, Zoltan | Titieni, Adriana | Albulescu, Mircea | Astileanu, Dan | Balint, Cristian | Bucur, Dragos | Damon, Matt
Directors: Coppola, Francis Ford
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1938, Romania: at 70, a professor of language and philosophy, Dominic Matei, contemplates suicide: the love of his life is dead, and he remains unable to complete his life’s work on the origins of language. Then, he’s struck by lightning. After a slow recovery, he grows younger. He must now avoid Nazis, who want to study and experiment on him. Some years later, he meets a young woman who has her own passage through a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research. Is the sweetness of life finally at hand?