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Luck, Trust and Ketchup (1993)Luck, Trust and Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country
Presenting the first look into the vibrant world of consummate filmmaker Robert Altman, film reveals the organic evolution of 'Short Cuts', one of the director's ensemble masterpieces, as he adapts Raymond Carver's trenchant stories into the genre he perfected. Granting directors Mike Kaplan and video pioneer John Dorr unprecedented access to his 22 stars and creative team throughout filming, we witness Altman's legendary "improvisational" process, the entertaining insights of his collaborators , and his unique observations on life, art and culture. Whether it's Jack Lemmon's excitement at performing his egg trick, Julianne Moore's description of her breakthrough role, Peter Gallagher's choreography in chain-sawing furniture, artist Don Bachardy capturing the cast on canvas , poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's widow, surprising Altman with a Carver gift, or the maestro himself cracking up during Jennifer Jason Leigh's phone sex calls, film unfolds with the natural flow of an Altman film, which perhaps caused him to say, "I never thought it would be this artful". - Director:
- John Dorr
- Cast:
- Robert Altman, Tim Robbins, Fred Ward
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Forbidden Zone (1980)Totaler Sperrbezirk
... A bizarro world of frog butlers, topless princesses, machine-gun toting teachers, eccentric dwarves, their demonic wives, and the Devil himself (Danny Elfman). You've never seen anything like it...! Check your basement. Is there door to the 6th Dimension there? If so, you're going on a wild ride into excess as you join Frenchy and Rene in a land of musical madness, despotic queens and strange frog man-servants. If you've tired of Rocky Horror and enough of Hedwig, it's time to 'The Forbidden Zone', a demented tribute to the hot jazz and dark glamour of a lost age, featuring new wave pop music and Cab Calloway-style insanity, filtered through the mind of a maniac! - Director:
- Richard Elfman
- Cast:
- Hervé Villechaize, Susan Tyrrell, Gisele Lindley
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Emperor of the North (1973)Emperor of the North Pole
Set in America during the Great Depression, "Emperor of the North" is the story of a violent battle of wills between a sadistic train guard, Shack, (Ernest Borgnine) who has vowed no vagrant will ride his tram and survive, and a single-minded drifter. Number 1, (Lee Marvin) who is determined to make a lie of the boast. Bound together by their mutual loathing, Shack and Number 1 hurtle together across America aboard the steam train, locked in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse, as each seeks to secure their position in local legend by destroying the other. - Director:
- Robert Aldrich
- Cast:
- Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine
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Breezy (Kay Lenz), a young, footloose hitch-hiker escaping from a lecherous driver, takes refuge in the car of Frank Harman (William Holden). He's a divorced, middle-aged real estate agent and these two very different people don't see eye to eye when they come across an injured dog. But somehow he and Breezy come to forge an unusual relationship, against conventional expectations. - Director:
- Clint Eastwood
- Cast:
- William Holden, Kay Lenz, Roger C. Carmel
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Trojan Warrior (2002)Kick to the Head
Trojan Warrior is a gangster action comedy that revolves around the exploits of our hero Ajax and his cousin Theo. Theo is a small time criminal. A lovable rogue with a runaway libido. Ajax, ex-Special Forces, is fearless, determined and his speed, power and technical wizardry make him a one-man army. As a bagman for the mob, Theo knows too much so when the Feds movie in on Underworld boss Poroni a price is put on his 'head'. What follows is a three-day roller coaster ride where Ajax must protect Theo as well as foiling Poroni's greatest ever heist. - Director:
- Salik Silverstein
- Cast:
- Stan Longinidis, Arthur Angel, John Brumpton
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Something was calling George Moran (Peter Weller) away from his quiet Miami retreat...the haunting memory of his violent brush with death during the US invasion of the Dominican Republic. Whilst on a trip to Santo Domingo in search of the woman who saved his life, George instead reunites with a woman whose love could cost him everything. - Director:
- Abel Ferrara
- Cast:
- Peter Weller, Reni Santoni, Kelly McGillis
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The Life of O-Haru (1952)Saikaku ichidai onna
Winner of the 1952 Venice Film Festival silver lion award, Kenji Mizoguchi's tragic tale, set in the 17th Century, of a young noblewoman's fall from grace established his reputation as one of Japan's greatest directors. Kinuyo Tanaka stars as O-Haru, a beautiful courtesan who surrenders to her passion for a commoner, played by Toshiro Mifune. As punishment, she and her parents are banished into exile where O-Haru desperately attempts to escape her past. A compelling and powerful critique of feudal Japan as seen through the eyes of a woman, 'The Life of O-Haru' portrays the human dramas and historical settings with unflinching realism and atmospheric detail, demonstrating Mizoguchi's complete mastery of the medium. - Director:
- Kenji Mizoguchi
- Cast:
- Kinuyo Tanaka, Tsukie Matsuura, Ichirô Sugai
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Denied a job because of his colour, Johnny Johnson (Billy Dee Williams) joins a radical civil rights group and begins taking matters into his own hands. This eventually leads to a bloody and violent confrontation with the police. The story is told in a series of flashbacks, set against the confrontation. - Director:
- Oscar Williams
- Cast:
- Billy Dee Williams, D'Urville Martin, Celia Milius
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"Vox Lux" is a powerful and stylish portrait of a troubled pop star from writer-director Brady Corbet, which follows her rise from the ashes of a major national tragedy to global superstardom. Oscar winner Natalie Portman gives a remarkable performance as pop singer Celeste, who must overcome personal and familial struggles to mount a comeback with the help of her talent manager (Jude Law), after a scandalous incident that nearly derailed her career. Set over a 15 year period, this acclaimed and unique examination of modern celebrity features new songs by Sia and an original score by Scott Walker. - Director:
- Brady Corbet
- Cast:
- Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Stacy Martin
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Day for Night (1973)La nuit américaine
At the Victorine Studios in Nice, a French movie-maker, Ferrand (Francois Truffaut) starts shooting his latest film: "Meet Pamela". As ever, this proves eventful from the outset: ups and downs on the shoot, actors whims, complicated love-lives and the producer putting on the pressure... Ferrand wonders whether his film will ever get made. In 'Day for Night', Truffaut provides the answer to the question asked by all film lovers "what goes on behind the cameras?". He films the shoot as it really is, straightforwardly, without artefacts, with honesty and accuracy, making it seem like a documentary. Often funny, sometimes tragic, 'Day for Night' is one of Truffaut's most autobiographical films and won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1973. - Director:
- François Truffaut
- Cast:
- Jacqueline Bisset, Georges Delerue, Jean-Pierre Léaud
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The Food of the Gods (1976)H.G. Wells' The Food of the Gods
Legendary director Bert I. Gordon - the godfather of the gigantic monster movies delivers this spine tingling tale of ecology gone mad. Based on H.G. Wells' classic horror novel, 'The Food of the Gods' predicts a future where animals are suddenly at the top of the food chain... eager to get their fill! When a strange edible substance appears on a remote island, local farmer Mr. Skinner (John McLiam) and his wife (Ida Lupino) deem it a 'Food of the Gods' and feed it to their farm animals. Soon other wildlife such as rodents and insects have eaten the food, which makes anything that consumes it grow in size. These gigantic beasts start terrorizing the island, with an athlete named Morgan (Marjoe Gortner) among those who are fighting for their lives against the gargantuan creatures. - Director:
- Bert I. Gordon
- Cast:
- Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker
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Phoenix (2014)Feniks
June, -1945. Bay injured, her face destroyed, Auschwitz survivor Nelly (Nina Hoss) turns to Berlin.. Having barely recovered IMMA facial surgery, she sets out to find her husband Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld). Nelly's family has been murdered in the Holocaust - Johnny is convinced that his wife, too, is dead. When Nelly finally tracks him down he doesn't recognise her, but seeing a resemblance Johnny asks her to take on the identity of his 'late' wife in order to access her inherited fortune. Nelly agrees: she becomes her on imposter. - Director:
- Christian Petzold
- Cast:
- Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
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In God We Trust (1980)In God We Tru$t
Brother Ambrose (Marty Feldman) is asked by Father Thelonious (Wilfrid Hyde-White) to leave their monastery and go to Los Angeles in search of Armageddon T. Thunderbird (Andy Kaufman), a big-time television evangelist. Brother Ambrose's mission is to ask Armageddon T. Thunderbird's Church of Divine Profit to pay off the monastery's mortgage. But as Brother Ambose makes his journey he has to encounter temptation and sin in the guises of a seedy evangelist, Dr. Sebastian Melmoth (Peter Boyle), a street-walking prostitute, Mary (Louise Lasser), and finally the rapacious dollar totting G.O.D. (Richard Pryor). - Director:
- Marty Feldman
- Cast:
- Marty Feldman, Peter Boyle, Louise Lasser
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The King (2005)上帝的私生子
Honourably discharged from the US navy, with nothing but his kit bag and rifle to his name, 21 year-old Elvis Valderez sets out on a quest to find his father. The trail leads to Corpus Christi, Texas, where Valderez discovers the man he has heard about but never seen. He’s now the highly respected pastor of a thriving Baptist church; a pillar of the community with a beautiful wife, a son and a teenage daughter. Compelled to confront his father, Elvis is stunned when he is brutally rejected as a reminder of a dark past the preacher would rather forget. But when the prodigal son unwittingly falls in love with his half-sister, secrets and lies threaten to unleash a chain of tragic and violent events. - Director:
- Jamie Marsh
- Cast:
- Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Laura Harring
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A handsome young American sits at a Monte Carlo gaming table. Around him a crowd watches in awe as his pile of chips grows higher with each deal of the cards. How can this cool gambler play so brilliantly? Easy. He cheats. Warren Beatty and Susannah York star in this delightful caper 'Kaleidoscope', which speeds from the Riviera to Geneva to swinging London at the turn of a card...or unraveling of a clue. Twist the move one way and it's a taut suspense tale complete with Scotland Yard inspectors, a ruthless drug kingpin and a hold-your-break-in at a playing card factory. Twist 'Kaleidoscope' another way and it's a sparkling love story between the suave cardsharp (Beatty) and a kooky dress designer (York) whose father (Clive Revill) just happens to be a detective. Twist it again and it's a hip, cheeky comedy to keep you laughing between thrills. - Director:
- Jack Smight
- Cast:
- Warren Beatty, Susannah York, Clive Revill
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