Posts Tagged ‘fantasy-sequence’



Wackness, The (2008)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kingsley, Ben | Janssen, Famke | Peck, Josh | Thirlby, Olivia | Olsen, Mary-Kate | Adams, Jane | Man, Method | Yoo, Aaron | Balsam, Talia | Wohl, David | Dishy, Bob | Merlin, Joanna | Briggs, Shannon | Davis, Roy Milton | Flores, Alexander
Directors: Levine, Jonathan
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It’s the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.

American in Paris, An (1951)

Friday, December 26th, 2008
Genres: Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kelly, Gene | Caron, Leslie | Levant, Oscar | Guétary, Georges | Foch, Nina | American In Paris Ballet, The | Ames, Robert | Bastin, Charles | Bieber, Rodney | Bolognese, Dino | Borden, Eugene | Camlin, Peter | Charisse, Andre | Chatham, Bill
Directors: Minnelli, Vincente
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Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Topol | Crane, Norma | Frey, Leonard | Picon, Molly | Mann, Paul | Harris, Rosalind | Marsh, Michele | Small, Neva | Glaser, Paul Michael | Lovelock, Ray | Edwards, Elaine | Bonstein, Candy | Ruskin, Shimen | Scooler, Zvee | Zorich, Louis
Directors: Jewison, Norman
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Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of ’shtetl’ life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.

25th Hour (2002)

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Norton, Edward | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Pepper, Barry | Dawson, Rosario | Paquin, Anna | Cox, Brian | Siragusa, Tony | Outchaneichvili, Levani | Devon, Tony | Kuznetsov, Misha | Whitlock Jr., Isiah | Genet, Michael | O'Neal, Patrice | Palagonia, Al | Stanford, Aaron
Directors: Lee, Spike
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The 25th Hour depicts the last day of freedom for a young man before he begins serving a seven-year jail term for drug dealing. Prowling through the city until dawn with his two close male friends and his girlfriend, he is forced to re-examine his life and how he got himself into his predicament, which leads to a shocking, disturbing finale.

Christmas Wish, The (1998)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Harris, Neil Patrick | Reynolds, Debbie | Watts, Naomi | Wilson, Alexandra | Archer, Beverly | Meltzer, Ian | Bayer, Gary | Greene, James | Douglas, Jerry | Fairman, Michael | Barnes, Adilah | Birney, Frank | Carlo, Ismael 'East' | Hoag, Jan | Mitchell, Stuart
Directors: Barry, Ian
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THE CHRISTMAS WISH stars Neil Patrick Harris as an orphan who returns to his grandparents’ home after the death of his grandfather. He and his grandmother (played by Debbie Reynolds) begin to uncover some mysteries about the man’s life that lead them both to a fresh understanding of the Christmas season.

Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007)

Monday, December 1st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Amalric, Mathieu | Seigner, Emmanuelle | Croze, Marie-Josée | Consigny, Anne | Chesnais, Patrick | Arestrup, Niels | López Garmendia, Olatz | Cassel, Jean-Pierre | Hands, Marina | von Sydow, Max | De Bankolé, Isaach | Caunes, Emma de | Écoffey, Jean-Philippe | Watkins, Gérard | Le Riche, Nicolas
Directors: Schnabel, Julian
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Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he’d only visited in his mind.

Her Alibi (1989)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Selleck, Tom | Porizkova, Paulina | Daniels, William | Farentino, James | Hurd Hatfield | Guttman, Ronald | Argo, Victor | Wayne, Patrick | Harper, Tess | Smitrovich, Bill | Lewis, Bobo | Welch, Jane | Hay, Austin | Terry, W. Benson | Copeland, Joan
Directors: Beresford, Bruce
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A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers’ block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment. He is still falling for her, but more and more nervous as time passes, and there are more close calls with death on his part.

Finding Neverland (2004)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Winslet, Kate | Christie, Julie | Mitchell, Radha | Hoffman, Dustin | Highmore, Freddie | Prospero, Joe | Roud, Nick | Spill, Luke | Macdonald, Kelly | Crook, Mackenzie | Essell, Eileen | Gardner, Jimmy | Fox, Oliver
Directors: Forster, Marc
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London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes “Peter Pan.” After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads’ mother, to the chagrin of his wife Mary, with whom he spends little time (separate bedrooms), the widow’s mother, and high society, which gossips about his attraction to the widow and to her sons. As Sylvia’s health worsens, Barrie’s ties to the boys strengthen and he must find a way to take his muse to Neverland.

Analyze This (1999)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Crystal, Billy | Kudrow, Lisa | Palminteri, Chazz | Novakovic, Kresimir | Tangredi, Bart | Straka, Michael | Rigano, Joseph | Viterelli, Joe | Castellano, Richard C. | Shannon, Molly | Casella, Max | Pietrangolare, Frank | Sabihy, Kyle | Macy, Bill
Directors: Ramis, Harold
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Ben Sobol, Psychiatrist, has a few problems: His son spies on his patients when they open up their heart, his parents don’t want to attend his upcoming wedding and his patients’ problems don’t challenge him at all. Paul Vitti, Godfather, has a few problems as well: Sudden anxiety attacks in public, a certain disability to kill people and his best part ceasing service when needed. One day, Ben unfortunately crashes into one of Vitti’s cars. The exchange of Ben’s business card is followed by a business visit of Don Paul Vitti himself, who wants to be free of inner conflict within two weeks, before all the Mafia Dons meet. Now, Ben Sobol feels somewhat challenged, as his wedding is soon, his only patient keeps him busy by regarding Ben’s duty as a 24 hour standby and the feds keep forcing him to spy on Paul Vitti. And how do you treat a patient who usually solves problems with a gun?

Johnny English (2003)

Monday, October 27th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy
Countries: France | UK
Actors: | Atkinson, Rowan | Vasconcelos, Tasha de | Miller, Ben | Wise, Greg | McFerran, Douglas | Nicolson, Steve | Harvey, Terence | McNally, Kevin | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Young, Nina | Davies, Rowland | Imbruglia, Natalie | Fordham, Philippa | Malkovich, John | Berrington, Tim
Directors: Howitt, Peter
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Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.