Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Desperately Seeking Susan

A bored New Jersey housewife who fantasizes about the ads in the personal section of the newspaper want ads shows up at a rendezvous between two lovers. She gets bumped on the head, which leads to a case of amnesia and opens the door to intrigue and love.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Standing in the Shadows of Motown

The story of the Funk Brothers, the group of musicians that played on every single hit Motown record from the label’s beginnings to 1972. Inspired by the book "Standing in the shadows of Motown" by Allan "Dr. Licks" Slutsky.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Mad Max

In the desolate near future, road cop Mad Max tires of chasing after vicious roving gangs and quits. When his wife and child are murdered by a motorcycle gang he returns to seek revenge.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam


An authentic account of the Vietnam War from the actual letters of the men and women who served there. The harsh realities of life and death, friendships made and lost - these letters home tell it all, with newsreel and home-movie footage shot by the servicemen themselves. These are the authentic voices of war, some who survived, many who never made it home.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Country Girl


Frank Elgin is an alcoholic actor and singer who gets a second change at stardom. His long suffering wife, Georgie, and their marriage is put to the test. Frank is desperate to make a come back and Bernie Dodd is the hotshot Broadway director in need of a "name" star for his new stage production. Georgie is both weary of her husband’s weaknesses and Dodd’s motives. When Georgie appears to be dragging Frank down, Bernie tries to force her to leave.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Squid and the Whale


Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents’ divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s. The patriarch of an eccentric Brooklyn family claims to once have been a great novelist, but ultimately decided to settled into a teaching job. When his wife discovers a writing talent of her own, jealousy divides the family. The two teenage sons are forced to forge new relationships with their parents. Their mom begins dating her younger son’s tennis coach. Meanwhile, dad has an affair with the student his older son is pursuing.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Lost in Translation

A middle-aged actor and the wife of a photographer meet while on business in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Day the Earth Stood Still

A visitor from outer space comes with the warning that unless war is abolished, Earth will be destroyed by the more advanced planets of the universe.

The coldest winter

The Coldest Winter


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Monday, March 23, 2009

Spirited Away



When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Place in the Sun


George Stevens’ stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s An American tragedy garnered six Academy Awards and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift is a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of beautiful socialite Elizabeth Taylor. Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Clift’s professional and romantic prospects. Consumed with fear and desire, Clift is ultimately driven to a desperate act of passion that unravels his world forever.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King



Frodo makes his way through the darkness to Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. Aragon learns of his destiny as the true King and the others prepare for a massive battle that will determine the fate of Middle-Earth.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Ghost



A ghost teams up with a psychic to uncover the truth behind his murder--and to rescue his sweetheart from a similar fate.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Dances with Wolves



Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. Assigned to an abandoned fort with a Sioux tribe as his only neighbor, he overcomes the language barrier and mutual fear and distrust to become a friend of the tribe. But his knowledge of their ultimate fate forces him to make a crucial decision.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

A documentary film that "debunk[s] the conventional wisdom that oil production will continue to climb, and instead stare[s] bleakly at a planet facing economic meltdown and conflict over its most valuable resource"

The caves of steel

The Caves of Steel (The Robot Series)

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Sound of Music

Julie Andrews lights up the screen as Maria, the spirited young woman who leaves the convent to become a governess to the seven young children of Captain von Trapp, an autocratic widower whose strict household rules leave no room for music or merriment.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Little Shop of Horrors

A timid young clerk in a flower shop develops an unusual plant for his girlfriend. Unfortunately, the plant requires human blood to survive.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Court Jester



In 12th century England, the infant king is usurped by the wicked King Roderick. Black Fox and his band attempt to restore the rightful king to the throne by having a member of their group infiltrate the court by posing as the jester.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Something's Gotta Give




Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother’s Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin’s reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry’s thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue Erica. Harry, who has always had the world on a string, finds his life is now unraveling.

Friday, March 13, 2009

Little Big Man

Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he’s done it all. He’s been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer’s Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West’s most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb’s story.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Chinatown


Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband’s extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Titanic



Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden voyage of the grand ocean liner Titanic.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Sleepless in Seattle


After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding he is her destiny, she treks across country on a wildly romantic impulse to meet him.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Letters from Iwo Jima


Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island’s soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi’s unprecedented tactics transform what was predicted to be a quick and bloody defeat into nearly 40 days of heroic and resourceful combat.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Coal Miner's Daughter



The life of the "Queen of Country Music" from her backwoods Appalachia home to the Grand Ole Opry and super stardom.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Ten Commandments


The story of the life of Moses from the Pharaoh’s household through his life of leading his people to freedom.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Singin' in the Rain


Actors are caught in the bumpy transition to talking pictures; a Spoof of the early days of "talkie" films.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

League of Their Own


In 1943, a washed-up ballplayer is hired to coach in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League while the male pros are at war. Reluctant at first, he finds himself drawn back into the game by the heart and heroics of his team. Based on a true story.

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Citizen Kane

Feature film: An all-powerful press magnate, Kane, dies in his fabulous castle Xanadu, his last word being "Rosebud", which leads a reporter to seek the meaning behind the word and find the meaning of Kane. Prominant publisher, William Randolph Hearst, saw the film as a thinly disguised version of his career and attempted to suppress it. Documentary: Looks at the lives and careers of Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst, and how Hearst tried to suppress the film Citizen Kane and destroy Welles.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Silent Running


A botanist has spent three years aboard the space freighter "Valley Forge" preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes. When he receives orders to destroy the project and return home, he rebels and hijacks the space craft, killing his fellow crewman and injuring himself. He plunges the ship into the gaseous Rings of Saturn, where he embarks on the loneliest adventure of all with only two drone robots to keep him company.

Catch-22

Catch-22 CD


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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Chicken Run

While the chickens on Mrs. Tweedy’s farm dream of a better life, a clever hen named Ginger is hatching plans to fly the coop for good. The only problem is, chickens can’t fly, or can they? Every escape attempt goes fowl until Rocky, a smooth-talking All-American rooster, crash lands in the coop. It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her fine feathered friends to fly, but, with teamwork, determination, and a little bit of cluck, the fearless flock plots one last daring attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.