piehawker's - Underrated List

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"Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound" reveals the hidden power of sound in cinema - and our lives.

Through film clips, interviews and verite footage, the film captures the history, impact and creative process of this overlooked art form through the insights and stories of legendary directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, David Lynch, Barbra Streisand, Ang Lee, Christopher Nolan, Sofia Coppola and Ryan Coogler, and the sound men and women with whom they collaborate. Few have "ears to hear" or comprehend the emotional storytelling impact sound plays in so-called visual media. Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas have both declared that "sound is 50% of the movie" with Spielberg saying, "our ears lead our eyes to where the story lives". In 'Making Waves', we see and hear from the key players of sound design - including multi-Oscar winners Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now), Ben Burtt (Star Wars) and Gary Rydstrom (Saving Private Ryan) - who, in pursuing their art and desire to push the medium, are the very people who will go down in the history of cinema as developing sound into the immersive storytelling force it is today. Audiences will discover many unsung collaborators for the key creative artists they are, in a domain that has for too long been characterised as "technical".

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Director Stanley Kubrick's career comes into sharp focus in this compelling and revealing documentary narrated by Tome Cruise.

A detailed picture of the cinematic legend emerges via fascinating footage of Kubrick in his early years, at work on film sets and at home and via candid commentary from collaborators, colleagues and family. From the music he chose to the cameras he used to his unrealised projects (including A.I. Artificial Intelligence, the much-anticipated Kubrick project directed by Steven Spielberg), you'll uncover a treasure trove of information. Drawing on Kubrick archives, it offers for the first time a truly intimate portrait of his life among family and friends. There has never been a more essential visual companion piece to the man and his movies.

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Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) doesn't expect much when she moves to the small town of Forks, Washington, until she meets the mysterious and handsome Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson)- a boy who's hiding a dark secret: he's a vampire.

As their worlds and hearts collide, Edward must battle the bloodlust raging inside him as well as a caterie of undead that would make Bella their prey. Based on the #1 New York Times best-selling sensation by Stephenie Meyer, Twilight adds a dangerous twist to the classic story of star-crossed lovers.

The Far East meets the Old West in this fun-filled adventure about a loveable rogue (Sammo Hung) and an incorruptible town Sheriff (Yuen Biao) who come together to face an explosion of brawls, bandits and bordellos, before teaming up to save their isolated home town from certain destruction!

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett and Kate Beckinsale soar in this true story of the legendary rebel billionaire. Howard Hughes (DiCaprio) grew famous for his Hollywood movies, aviation records and glamorous women.

He held a bold vision of the future and lived his dreams believing nothing could stop him.

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The marriage of Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) and Prince Charles (Jack Farthing) has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's (Stella Gonet)'s Sandringham Estate.

There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. 'Spencer' is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.

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In this explosive martial arts action adventure, college student Jake Lo (Brandon Lee, The Crow) is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin (Nick Mancuso.

When the witness protection programme fails, he has to protect himself with his only weapons - his hands. Determined to survive, he takes on Chicago's warring drug lords with the assistance of a renegade cop (Powers Boothe) and his beautiful partner (Kate Hodge).

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When, for no apparent reason, a small town police chief arrests a vagrant hitch-hiker, little does he realise that he has set in motion a catastrophic series of events. The vagrant in question is in fact John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone), Congressional Medal of Honour winner and Vietnam war hero.

Responding to the harassment of his captors with sudden ferociousness, Rambo makes daring escape from the small town jail, steals a motorcycle and roars off to the shelter of the nearby mountains. As the manhunt begins Rambo is in his element preparing himself for a One Man War.

Board the Millennium Falcon in the epic adventure 'Solo: A Star Wars Story'. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his future co-pilot Chewbacca and meets the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

'Predestination' chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to stop crimes before they are committed. Now, on his final assignment, he must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.

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After unearthing a mysterious VHS cassette, loner Kumiko (Oscar-nominee Rinko Kikuchi) becomes convinced that a satchel of money buried in a cult Hollywood film is, in fact, real.

Abandoning her structured life in Tokyo she heads for the frozen Minnesota wilderness armed with only a hand-embroidered map. Ill-prepared but determined, she encounters unexpected help along the way. But is it just a mythical fortune?

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Eilis (Saoirse Ronan) moves from small town Ireland to Brooklyn, where she has the opportunity for work, for a future - and love, in the form of Italian-American, Tony (Emory Cohen). When a family tragedy forces her to return to Ireland, she finds herself drawn back into the life she left behind.

As a secret threatens to reveal itself Eilis has to confront a terrible dilemma - a heart-breaking choice between two men and two countries.

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Ridley Scott's extended cut of an epic adventure about a common man who finds himself thrust into a decades-long war. Orlando Bloom plays a humble blacksmith who discovers that he is the son of a knght,and travels to the Holy Land to fight in the crusades.

A stranger in a strange land,he serves a doomed King,falls in love with an exotic and forbidden Queen,and rises to knighthood. Ultimately,he must protect the people of Jerusalem from overwhelming forces,while striving to keep a fragile peace.

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Just two years after Elvis Presley passed away, Kurt Russell brought him back to life in the original biopic about the King of Rock n Roll.

Released through ABC in 1979, Elvis marked the first time director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell would work together in what would become a legendary pairing in film history. Tracing Presleys life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant return to Las Vegas, Elvis features Shelley Winters, Season Hubley, Bing Russell, Pat Hingle, Joe Mantegna and Ed Begley Jr.in an all-star supporting cast.

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Harold Pelham (Roger Moore), a partner in a large electronics firm, finds himself in bewildering circumstances after recovering from a near-fatal car accident What causes him to renounce his high business principles? Why do friends and colleagues repeatedly sight him in places he has never been?

And why does Julie (Olga Georges-Picot), an attractive girl he has seen only once, claim such an intimate relationship with him? Does Pelham really have a doppelganger - or is he losing his mind?