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
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
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.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Spirited Away
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
Friday, March 20, 2009
Ghost
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"
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
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
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Sleepless in Seattle
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
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Ten Commandments
Friday, March 6, 2009
Singin' in the Rain
Thursday, March 5, 2009
League of Their Own
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.
Monday, March 2, 2009
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.
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