Posts Tagged ‘film-making’

Mute Witness (1994)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Russia | UK | USA
Actors: Marina Zudina | Fay Ripley | Richards, Evan | Yankovsky, Oleg | Igor Volkov | Sergei Karlenkov | Guinness, Alec | Pastukhov, Nikolai | Bouser, Stephen | Barakhtin, Valeri | Tolstetskaya, Olga | Karasyov, Denis | Ilyin, Igor | Abramov, Oleg | Salnikov, Vladimir
Directors: Waller, Anthony
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Billy Hughes, a mute makeup artist working on a slasher film being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there she witnesses a brutal murder, and must first escape capture at that time, then keep from being killed before convincing authorities of what she’s seen. Plot twists galore follow as Billy tries to stay alive.

Seed of Chucky (2004)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Dourif, Brad | Tilly, Jennifer | Boyd, Billy | Redman | Spearritt, Hannah | Waters, John | Castle, Keith-Lee | Lawton, Steve | Gardner, Tony | Flemyng, Jason | Rowe, Nicholas | Chambers, Stephanie | Morgan, Simon James | Simons-Danville, Bethany | Santos, Rebecca
Directors: Mancini, Don
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The killer doll is back! The all-new film is the fifth in the popular series of Chucky (”Child’s Play”) horror comedies. Making his directorial debut is the franchise creator and writer of all five films, Don Mancini. The film introduces Glen (voiced by “The Lord of the Rings” star Billy Boyd), the orphan doll offspring of the irrepressible devilish-doll-come-to-life Chucky (again voiced by series star Brad Dourif) and his equally twisted bride Tiffany (again voiced by Jennifer Tilly). When production starts on a movie detailing the urban legend of his parents’ lethal exploits, Glen heads for Hollywood where he brings his bloodthirsty parents back from the dead. The family dynamics are far from perfect as Chucky and Tiffany go Hollywood and get rolling on a new spree of murderous mayhem; much to gentle Glen’s horror. Chucky can’t believe that his child doesn’t want to walk in his murdering footsteps, and star-struck Tiffany can’t believe that the movie will star her favorite actress, Jennifer Tilly (playing herself), who soon becomes an unwitting hostess to this new family in more ways than one…

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (2004)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Murray, Bill | Wilson, Owen | Blanchett, Cate | Huston, Anjelica | Dafoe, Willem | Goldblum, Jeff | Gambon, Michael | Taylor, Noah | Cort, Bud | Jorge, Seu | Cohen, Robyn | Ahluwalia, Waris | Koizumi, Niels | Wdowczak, Pawel | Gubler, Matthew Gray
Directors: Anderson, Wes
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Steve Zissou, sea-film auteur a la Jacques Cousteau, has reason to be melancholy: his partner has been eaten, perhaps by a mythic jaguar shark, his wife may be taking up with her ex-husband, a young man appears claiming Steve is his father (Steve hates fathers), his most recent films have tanked, he’s having trouble raising money for his venture to revenge his partner, and he’s attracted to a pregnant reporter who prefers the pretender. At sea, in pursuit of the shark, will he escape pirates and mutiny, forge the bonds of fatherhood, place his arm around his wife, find the monster of the deep, re-establish box office hegemony, and discover a reason to smile?

Auto Focus (2002)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kinnear, Greg | Dafoe, Willem | Wilson, Rita | Bello, Maria | Leibman, Ron | Solomon, Bruce | Rodgers, Michael E. | Fuller, Kurt | Neiman, Christopher | Kanouse, Lyle | Recco, Donnamarie | Begley Jr., Ed | McKean, Michael | Bowers, Cheryl Lynn | McManus, Don
Directors: Schrader, Paul
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Capitalizing on his fame as the star of “Hogan’s Heroes,” Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) dove into the freewheeling spirit of the 60s and 70s with relish, having affairs with numerous women. Eventually, Crane teamed up with video technician John Carpenter to document his exploits, an association that may very well have led to his murder in a Scottsdale, Arizona motel room in 1978, which remains officially unsolved to this day.

Mulholland Dr. (2001)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Harring, Laura | Miller, Ann | Hedaya, Dan | Theroux, Justin | Briscoe, Brent | Forster, Robert | Towne, Katharine | Grant, Lee | Coffey, Scott | Cyrus, Billy Ray | Everett, Chad | Taggart, Rita | Karen, James | Heuring, Lori | Pellegrino, Mark
Directors: Lynch, David
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A bright-eyed young actress travels to Hollywood, only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a psychotic illusion involving a dangerous blue box, a director named Adam Kesher, and the mysterious night club Silencio.

Aviator, The (2004)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: DiCaprio, Leonardo | Blanchett, Cate | Beckinsale, Kate | Reilly, John C. | Baldwin, Alec | Alda, Alan | Holm, Ian | Huston, Danny | Stefani, Gwen | Law, Jude | Scott, Adam | Ross, Matt | Garner, Kelli | Conroy, Frances | Spiner, Brent
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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The script begins as a young Hughes directs one of Scorsese’s favorite films, Hell’s Angels. Hughes was so obsessed with perfection in the aerial sequences that he waits forever for perfect conditions, right down to cloud formations. The Aviator ends in 1946, when Hughes was still a dashing young man and romancing actresses like Ava Gardner and Katharine Hepburn.

Four Rooms (1995)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Calderon, Paul | Willis, Bruce | Roth, Tim | Davis, Sammi | De Cadenet, Amanda | Golino, Valeria | Madonna | Skye, Ione | Taylor, Lili | Witt, Alicia | Beals, Jennifer | Proval, David | Banderas, Antonio | McKissack, Lana | Vonne, Patricia | Tomita, Tamlyn | Verduzco, Danny | Hayek, Salma
Directors: Tarantino, Quentin | Rodriguez, Robert | Anders, Allison | Rockwell, Alexandre
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This movie features the collaborative directorial efforts of four new filmmakers, each of whom directs a segment of this comedy. It’s New Year’s Eve at the Mon Signor Hotel, a former grand old Hollywood hotel, now fallen upon hard times. Often using physical comedy and sight gags, this movie chronicles the slapstick misadventures of Ted, the Bellhop. He’s on his first night on the job, when he’s asked to help out a coven of witches in the Honeymoon Suite. Things only get worse when he delivers ice to the wrong room and ends up in a domestic argument at a really bad time. Next, he foolishly agrees to watch a gangster’s kids for him while he’s away. Finally, he finishes off the night refereeing a ghastly wager.

After School Special (2003)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: von Detten, Erik | Denman, Tony | Farber, Daniel | Potts, Sarah-Jane | Smart, Amy | Arnold, Tom | Young, Dey | Smith, Riley | Vieluf, Vince | Levine, Samm | Richardson, Cameron | Sanz, Horatio | Hedman, Anders | Driscoll, Eddie | Dillman, Brooke
Directors: Evans, David M.
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Deacon, Matt and Fred will do anything for even a glimpse of sex and spend their mornings pirating porno movies from Fred’s after school job at the video store. But when Fred is fired, the well runs dry, and our heroes come up with a new plan: make their own “adult” film.

King Kong (2005)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: New Zealand | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Black, Jack | Brody, Adrien | Kretschmann, Thomas | Hanks, Colin | Serkis, Andy | Parke, Evan | Bell, Jamie | Chan, Lobo | Sumner, John | Hall, Craig | Chandler, Kyle | Hadlow, Mark | Brophy, Geraldine | Denis, David
Directors: Singer, Bryan | Jackson, Peter
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Set in the 1930s, this is the story of a young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow from the world of vaudeville who finds herself lost in depression-era New York and her luck changes when she meets an over-ambitious filmmaker Carl Denham who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. The beauty and the beast finally meet their fate back in the city of New York where the filmmaker takes and displays the ape in quest of his fame by commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe for everyone including a playwright Jack Driscoll who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.

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.