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"Primer" is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe (David Sullivan) and Aaron (Shane Carruth), are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next. - Director:
- Shane Carruth
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- Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden
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Through a Glass Darkly / Winter Light (1963)Sasom I En Spegel / Nattvardsgästerna
For more than 50 years, Ingmar Bergman produced groundbreaking works of cinema that established him as one of the world's acclaimed, enduring and influential filmmakers.
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)The first film in Bergman's loose trilogy exploring the human search for God (along with 'Winter Light' and 'The Silence') centres on Karin (Harriet Andersson), convalescing by the sea after a spell in a psychiatric hospital. With her father (Gunnar Björnstrand), husband (Max von Sydow) and brother (Lars Passgård) either powerless to help or emotionally out of reach, she is consumed by seeking out the divine in the stark island landscape as her illness deepens. Sexuality and mental turmoil come to the fore as Bergman provocatively mirrors the family's patriarchal detachment in a seemingly indifferent God.
Winter Light (1963)
Bergman continued to interrogate religious faith in this examination of a rural pastor's struggles with his relationship with God and his congregation. Tomas's flock is dwindling, and his inability to give guidance to the profoundly distressed Jonas (Max von Sydow) leads him to doubt the very existence of God. Yet at the same time, local teacher Marta (Ingrid Thulin) is convinced she has a divine mission to save Tomas (Gunnar Björnstrand) - even though she is, at most, agnostic. Her love may offer a path back to God for Tomas, if he can bring himself to accept it.- Director:
- Ingmar Bergman
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- Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom
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This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she is beginning to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative tableaux interwoven with raw verite footage capturing the pair's tender but increasingly fragile bond. Tackling taboo questions of aging, mortality, and grief with subversive humor and surprising grace, 'Dick Johnson Is Dead' is ultimately a triumphant celebration of life, and of the gentle, funny, unforgettable man at its center. Long live Dick Johnson. - Director:
- Kirsten Johnson
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- Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson
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"Forbidden Planet" is the granddaddy of tomorrow, a pioneering work whose ideas and style would be reverse-engineered into many cinematic space voyages to come. Leslie Nielsen plays the commander who brings his space-cruiser crew to Planet Altair-4, home to Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), his daughter (Anne Francis), a dutiful robot named Robby...and a mysterious terror. Featuring sets of extraordinary scale and the first allelectronic musical soundscape in film history, 'Forbidden Planet' is in a movie orbit all its own. - Director:
- Fred M. Wilcox
- Cast:
- Walter Pidgeon, Marvin Miller, Anne Francis
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The Worst Person in the World (2021)Verdens verste menneske
Acclaimed filmmaker Joachim Trier returns with 'The Worst Person in the World', a wistful and subversive romantic drama about the quest for love and meaning. Set in contemporary Oslo, it features a star-making lead performance from Renate Reinsve as a young woman who, on the verge of turning thirty, navigates multiple love affairs, existential uncertainty and career dissatisfaction as she slowly starts deciding what she wants to do, who she wants to be, and ultimately who she wants to become. As much a formally playful character study as it is a poignant and perceptive observation of quarter-life angst, this life-affirming coming of age story... - Director:
- Joachim Trier
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- Renate Reinsve, Mia McGovern Zaini, Anders Danielsen Lie
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A middle-class schoolteacher, stuck in a government-enforced teaching post in an arid backwater, stops off in the mining town of Bundanyabba on his way home for the Christmas holidays. Discovering a local gambling craze that may grant him the financial independence to move back to Sydney for good, the opportunity proves irresistible. But the bad decisions are just beginning and a reliance on local standards of hospitality in "the Yabba" may take him on a path darker than ever expected. - Director:
- Ted Kotcheff
- Cast:
- Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
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"All That Jazz" is actually a semi-autobiographical account of the life of its celebrated writer/director/choreographer, Bob Fosse. The multi-talented performer was an Oscar, Tony and Emmy Award winner who brought home a combined total of eight trophies. Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at life in the fast lane is the Academy Award - winning musical about Bob Fosse's excessive life in show business, played by Roy Schneider. Dazzlingly presented, this electrifying story about the perils of pushing yourself too hard is filled with Fosse's legendary song-and-dance choreography. - Director:
- Bob Fosse
- Cast:
- Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Leland Palmer
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A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, 'Minari' follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, 'Minari' shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home. - Director:
- Lee Isaac Chung
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- Alan S. Kim, Yeri Han, Noel Cho
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Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier (Edward Arnold) tosses a sable coat out of a window and it lands in her lap! Everyone automatically assumes shes his mistress, and soon her fairy-tale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter (Ray Milland). - Director:
- Mitchell Leisen
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- Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland
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Carole Lombard co-stars with Frederic March, in one of her most delightful movie outings and her only feature in colour. The hilarious screenplay by Ben Hecht and James H. Street has her cast as Hazel Flagg, a small town girl who mistakenly believes that she is dying of radium poisoning. March plays a newspaper reporter who, in the best tradition of yellow journalism, talks his editor into bringing her to New York for one last fling. - Director:
- William A. Wellman
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- Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger
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From producer and director Steven Spielberg, with a script by screenwriter and playwright Tony Kushner, comes 'West Side Story'. An adaptation of the 1957 musical, the film tells the tale of forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. - Director:
- Steven Spielberg
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- Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose
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Written by Academy Award winners Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, 'Midnight' has been hailed as 'just about the best comedy ever caught by the camera from the Golden Age of Hollywood!' Academy Award winners Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche and John Barrymore simply light up the screen. The fun begins when a penniless showgirl (Colbert) impersonates a Hungarian Countess and, with the help of an aristocrat (Barrymore), quickly adapts herself to her new lifestyle. But can she stop herself from falling in love with yet another poor man (Ameche)? - Director:
- Mitchell Leisen
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- Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, John Barrymore
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Sara (Julia Stiles) is a small-town girl with a big dream: to become a world-class ballerina. But when her mother suddenly dies, Sara must abandon her plans and join her estranged father (Terry Kinney) on Chicago's gritty south side. A white girl in a predominately black neighborhood, Sara feels out of place - until she is befriended by a black classmate, Chenile (Kerry Washington), and her handsome brother Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas). Sparks fly between Sara and Derek, whose shared love for dance leads to romance. But as Sara and Derek's relationship grows, so does opposition from their families and friends. Now Sara and Derek face the biggest challenge of their young lives - to stay true to their dreams.. and each other. - Director:
- Thomas Carter
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- Julia Stiles, Sean Patrick Thomas, Kerry Washington
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18-year-old check-out girl Ronna (Sarah Palley) is trying to score some rent money before she is evicted on Christmas eve. Accompanied by reluctant partner in crime Claire (Katie Holmes), she embarks on her first drug deal... Meanwhile, impulsive Brit Simon (Desmond Askew) is driving a stolen car with buddy Marcus (Taye Dlggs) during a no-holds-barred night of partying In Vegas, as Adam (Scott Wolf) and Zack (Jay Mohr) find themselves in the middle of a real-life drug sting - and a very creepy Christmas dinner... - Director:
- Doug Liman
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- Sarah Polley, Jay Mohr, Scott Wolf
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In this road-trip comedy, two hard-charging former Army Rangers paired against their will - Briggs (Channing Tatum) and a Belgian Malinois named Lulu - race down the Pacific Coast in hopes of making it to a fellow soldier's funeral on time. Along the way, they'll drive each other completely crazy, confront the possibility that pet psychics are real, and begin to reckon with the one thing they were trained never to do: surrender. - Director:
- Reid Carolin
- Cast:
- Channing Tatum, Ryder McLaughlin, Aavi Haas
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