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One Night in Miami (2020)One Night in Miami...
Adapted by Kemp Powers from his acclaimed play, the feature directorial debut of Academy Award-winning actor Regina King puts viewers in a room with four icons at the forefront of Black American culture, as they bond, clash, bare their souls, and grapple with their places within the sweeping change of the civil rights movement. February 25,1964, has gone down in history as the day that the brash young boxer Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) defeated Sonny Liston, but what happened after the fight was perhaps even more incredible: Ali, civil rights leader Malcolm X, NFL great Jim Brown, and "King of Soul" Sam Cooke all came together at a Miami motel. Electric with big ideas and activist spirit, 'One Night in Miami...'plunges us into the midst of an intimate, ongoing conversation - and a defining moment in American history. - Director:
- Regina King
- Cast:
- Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge
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Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel, Paul Newman's second film as director stars his wife Joanne Woodward as an abusive, over-bearing mother raising her two daughters, Matilda and Ruth (Nell Potts and Roberta Wallach), in an atmosphere of bitterness and hatred. 'The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds' is a powerful, searingly unsentimental and ultimately transformative drama, with a trio of towering performances from the three female leads at its core. - Director:
- Paul Newman
- Cast:
- Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach
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The latest from director Pat Collins, 'Song of Granite' is a critically acclaimed, lyrical and unconventional profile of the life of the complex and enigmatic Joe Heaney - one of the greats of traditional Irish singing (sean nos), and the country that made him. Shaped by die myths, fables and songs of his upbringing in the west of Ireland in the early 1900s, the film charts Heaney's emergence as a gifted artist and how his career success came at a personal cost as he journeyed from rural Connemara dirough Glasgow and eventually to New York City. - Director:
- Pat Collins
- Cast:
- Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhride, Michael O'Chonfhlaola, Macdara Ó Fátharta
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The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann
Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Jonas Jonasson, this is the wonderful and unlikely story of a 100-year-old man who decides it's not too late to start over. After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home. A big celebration for his 100th birthday is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested. Instead, he climbs out of a window and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey - involving a gang of criminals, murderers, a suitcase stuffed with cash, an elephant and an incompetent policeman. It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life back-story. Not only has Allan witnessed some of the most important events of the twentieth century, but he has actually played a key role in them, including the invention of the atomic bomb and sharing meals and more with everyone from U.S. presidents to Russian tyrants. For a hundred years, Allan Karlsson rattled the world, and now he's on the loose again... - Director:
- Felix Herngren
- Cast:
- Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)Bad Day at Hondo
Folks in Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He's welcome to leave. Or they'll make sure he leaves in a pine box. Two-time Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy plays World War II veteran Macreedy, who keeps his own counsel about why he's come to Black Rock and who keeps his wits about him when confronted with threats and violence. Director John Sturges ramps up the tension while revealing Macreedy's mission and the town's grim secret. Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin are among the town's thugs and lap dogs. - Director:
- John Sturges
- Cast:
- Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
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"Professor Marston and the Wonder Women" is based on the extraordinary true story of the creator of one of the most iconic super heroes ever conceived, and the seductive secret life he kept from his fans. Harvard psychologist Dr. William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans) was roundly criticized for the creation of his feminist superhero, but it was his personal life, with his polyamorous relationship with his wife, Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall) and their lover, Olive (Bella Heathcote), that was more provocative than any adventure he had ever written. - Director:
- Angela Robinson
- Cast:
- Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote
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Michael Clayton (2007)Luật Sư Phá Án
Michael Clayton (George Clooney) has done his law firm's dirty work for years. Now the top lawyer's gone insane and there's a conspiracy against their biggest client from the inside. 'Michael Clayton' is heart-pounding, action-packed thriller that cuts a vicious path to the darkest heart of New York City. - Director:
- Tony Gilroy
- Cast:
- George Clooney, Danielle Skraastad, Tilda Swinton
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On the Road (2016)Love Song: Wolf Alice / Wolf Alice: On the Road
March 2015. North London rock four-piece Wolf Alice take to the streets of the UK to promote their debut album, 'My Love is Cool', for the last time. Driving from city to city, playing 16 cities in three weeks, the band are joined by Estelle (Leah Harvey), an intern with the band's record company, who will be helping the band with their promotional duties, accompanying them as they visit local radio stations and give interviews to the press. Estelle strikes up an intimate friendship with Joe (James McCardle), a member of the band's road crew, and through their eyes, we see both the magic and monotony of life on the road, giving us a glimpse behind the scenes of a passionate young rock band in their searing prime. - Director:
- Michael Winterbottom
- Cast:
- Shirley Henderson, Paul Popplewell, James McArdle
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A Man Called Ove (2015)En man som heter Ove
Based on the international bestselling novel by Fredrik Backman and nominated for 2 Oscars (including Best Foreign Language Film), 'A Man Called Ove' is a heartwarming tale of unreliable first impressions and a wonderful reminder that life is sweeter when it's shared. An ageing retiree with strict principles and a short fuse, Ove (Rolf Lassgard) is the quintessential angry old man next door. Having entirely given up on life, his days are spent in a constant monotony of enforcing housing association rules and visiting his wife Sonja's gravesite. But when a boisterous young family moves into the neighbourhood, immediately incurring his wrath, things take an unexpected turn. Pregnant Parvaneh (Bahar Pars) and her lively children are the complete antithesis of what ill-tempered Ove thinks he needs -and yet, from this inauspicious beginning an unlikely friendship blooms and Ove's past happiness and heartbreaks come to light. - Director:
- Hannes Holm
- Cast:
- Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg
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The Banishment (2008)Izgnanie
Loosely based on a short story by American novelist William Saroyan, 'The Banishment' is a powerful and atmospheric portrait of an unraveling marriage. Having left the city, Alex and Vera set up home with their children in a remote but idyllic-seeming country house. But then one day Vera makes a shocking confession, setting in motion a chain of events that will lead to tragedy. Acclaimed director Andrey Zvyagintsev confirms his position as an absolute master of style and mood with this award-winning and stunningly photographed story of masculine pride, morality and betrayal. - Director:
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast:
- Konstantin Lavronenko, Elena Lyadova, Maria Bonnevie
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The Odyssey (2016)L'Odyssée
Summer, 1946. The Cousteau family live in their beautiful house by the Mediterranean Sea. By day they dive, by night they watch the stars. It's paradise on earth. But Jacques (Lambert Wilson) is never content. He lives and breathes adventure and believes absolutely in the virtues of progress. With his invention, the aqualung, his recently acquired vessel the Calypso, and a crew of free-spirited adventurers he is ready to cross the world's oceans. Despite their mutual love and admiration, conflict between The family is inevitable. But on their greatest adventure together they will find each other, before tragedy strikes. - Director:
- Jérôme Salle
- Cast:
- Lambert Wilson, Pierre Niney, Audrey Tautou
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Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life (2016)Acqua e zucchero: Carlo Di Palma, i colori della vita
He cut his teeth as an assistant on some of the greatest films in cinema history: Visconti's 'Obsession', Rossellini's 'Rome', 'Open City' De Sica's 'Bicycle Thieves'. His eye for black-and-white film was masterful, but it was his innovations in colour with Antonioni's 'Red Desert' and 'Blow-Up', in the mid-1960s, that set him apart as a genius of the medium. - Director:
- Fariborz Kamkari
- Cast:
- Bernardo Bertolucci, Christian De Sica, Emma Lo Bianco
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It's common knowledge that prominent actors and directors approach interviews, especially on television, with some caution. Over twelve years, presenting more than 200 of the most illustrious stars of film, theatre, television and music, Inside the Actors Studio has earned the reputation of being a forum where guests can speak fearlessly, openly and honestly about the things that matter most to them: their craft and the crucial events of their lives and careers that shaped them as people and artists.
As Pacino and De Niro have shown the way to their generation, Sean Penn has shown the way to his. With four Academy Award nominations, and an Oscar for his performance in Mystic River, he has, like Pacino and De Niro, chosen the road less taken by most actors - to the challenges of character roles that render the actor invisible beneath the brilliant illumination of the part. In films as varied as Fast Times At Ridgemont High, I Am Sam and Dead Man Walking, he has shown us the many faces of Sean Penn.
Like many of the truly great actors, Sean Penn is rarely sighted in a public setting and like all of the guests he has proven to be a frank and giving subject on the stage of Inside the Actors Studio.- Director:
- Jeff Wurtz
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- James Lipton, Sean Penn, Robin Wright
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Jeremiah Johnson (1972)Crow Killer
Soured by civilisation, Jeremiah Johnson (Robert Redford) sets out in the mid-1800's to be a mountain man, seeking solitude in a wilderness whose purity he never questioned. His first Rocky Mountain winter almost kills him. Starving and nearly frozen, he finds refuge with a wily old trapper (Will Geer) whose survival teaching includes going eyeball to eyeball with a grizzly. - Director:
- Sydney Pollack
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- Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton
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In Atwood's nightmarish fable, the United States of America has become The Republic of Gilead, a right-wing totalitarian state, Women are subjugated and powerless in this society. The world is rife with disease and infection, and few women remain who can have children; these who can are taken by the government, and christened 'handmaids'. Kate, a handmaid, is sent to the house of Fred, the commander. There she must submit to his demands, and those of Serena Joy (Faye Dunaway), his jealous, vindictive wife. But some things cannot be controlled by The Republic - like Kate's growing feelings for The Commander's chauffeur Nick. Or the secret resistance, who meet under darkness. - Director:
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Cast:
- Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn
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