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Posted on March 15, 2012 |
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Galaxy Quest (1999)
Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
They're not astronauts… they only played them on TV. For four seasons, from 1979 to 1982, the crew of the N.S.E.A. Protector donned their uniforms and set out on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space–then their series was canceled. Nearly twenty years later, the five stars of the classic sci-fi series "Galaxy Quest" are still in costume, making appearances at science fiction conventions for legions of faithful fans…but some of those fans have a little too much faith. The Thermians, a race of aliens from Klatu Nebula, have mistaken intercepted television transmissions of the show for historical "documents." Arriving on earth, they wisk "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart" and his crew into space to help them defeat an all-too-real and very deadly adversary. With no script, no director and no clue about real space travel, the actors have to turn in the performances of their lives to become the heroes the Thermians believe them to be.
Starring: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman
Director: Dean Parisot
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Posted on March 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) Criterion Collection BluRay 720p x264 DD2.0-MySiLU
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a rundown theater.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Lynn Cohen, Larry Pine, Brooke Smith, Wallace Shawn
Director: Louis Malle
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Posted on March 15, 2012 |
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Grand Illusion / La Grande Illusion (1937)
Drama | War
Jean Renoir's pacifist masterpiece stars Jean Gabin as a French World War I POW held by Erich Von Stroheim's German captain.
Starring: Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von Stroheim, Marcel Dalio
Director: Jean Renoir
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Posted on March 14, 2012 |
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The Bodyguard (1992)
Drama | Music | Romance | Thriller
A well-known entertainer, stalked by an obsessive fan, hires an ex-Secret Service agent to protect her, and the two fall in love.
Starring: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp
Director: Mick Jackson
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Posted on March 14, 2012 |
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Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury (2011)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Short
As the village of Berk prepares for its winter holiday, the resident dragons all inexplicably fly away.
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Craig Ferguson
Director: Tom Owens
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Le concert / The Concert (2009)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.
Starring: Aleksey Guskov, Mélanie Laurent, Dmitri Nazarov, François Berléand, Miou-Miou
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
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Posted on March 13, 2012 |
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Histoires extraordinaires / Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Horror | Mystery
A trio of supernatural stories based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Metzengerstein: A jealous medieval Countess has incestuous feelings for her cousin
William Wilson: a woman finds herself on the end of a whipping when she loses at cards to a sadistic Austrian officer
Toby Dammit: while driving home drunk, a self-obsessed movie star bets his head that he can survive a deadly accident.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp, James Robertson Justice, Salvo Randone, Françoise Prévost, Peter Fonda, Marlène Alexandre
Director: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim
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Tags: Alain Delon, Brigitte Bardot, Federico Fellini, Françoise Prévost, James Robertson Justice, Jane Fonda, Louis Malle, Marlène Alexandre, Peter Fonda, Roger Vadim, Salvo Randone, Terence Stamp
Posted on March 13, 2012 |
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Fireflies in the Garden (2008)
Drama
To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family: Charles is a tenured professor on track to become university president, son Michael is a prolific and well-known romance novelist, daughter Ryne is poised to enter a prestigious law school, and on the day we are introduced to them, matriarch Lisa will graduate from college — decades after leaving to raise her children. But when a serious accident interrupts the celebration, the far more nuanced reality of this Midwestern family's history and relationships come to light.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hayden Panettiere, Ioan Gruffudd, Julia Roberts
Director: Dennis Lee
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Posted on March 13, 2012 |
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The War Room (1993)
Documentary | History
The War Room takes us inside Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. Director D.A. Pennebaker provides an up-close view of the two principals: campaign managers James Carville and George Stephanopoulos as they try to stay on top of the exploding maelstrom of events–from scandalous, personal smear tactics to the rise of quixotic spoiler Ross Perot.
Starring: James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Heather Beckel, Paul Begala, Bob Boorstin
Director: Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker
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Posted on March 13, 2012 |
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Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
Documentary
The art of modern animation is brought to life by a perfect storm of art, business and circumstance.
Starring: Roy Edward Disney, John Lasseter, Michael Eisner, Tim Burton, Don Bluth, Rob Minkoff
Director: Don Hahn
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Posted on March 13, 2012 |
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Wasao (2011)
Drama
WASAO, a story of the love for nature, the people and animals, a tear-jerking story of a speechless dog with a pure heart. WASAO makes a screen debut as himself in this film that tells a sentimental yet heart-warming story of a 'busakawa-ken' (ugly but cute dog) and his past that has never been told. Wasao, has made a name for himself with his adorable appearance, with close to 2,000 tourists who travel to Ajigasawa, Aomori Prefecture in the northenmost of the Tohoku region in Japan on weekends and public holidays, causing traffic congestions. People wrote about his distinct presence and charms in their blogs, resulting in WASAO being an idol in Japan as well as starting a new craze. He has been featured in over 30 magazines and appeared in over 50 television programs in Japan.
Starring: Kai Inowaki, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Shirô Sano
Director: Yoshinari Nishikôri
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Posted on March 12, 2012 |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Music
Playing around while aboard a cruise ship, the Chipmunks and Chipettes accidentally go overboard and end up marooned in a tropical paradise. They discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
Starring: Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney, Jason Lee, David Cross, Jenny Slate
Director: Mike Mitchell
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Posted on March 12, 2012 |
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The Artist (2011)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James Cromwell, Penelope Ann Miller
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
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Posted on March 12, 2012 |
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Battleground / Skeleton Lake (2012)
Action | Horror | Thriller
Six ruthless bank robbers encounter someone far worse. Six bank robbers become stranded in a off the grid forest when their vehicle goes missing during the planning of their escape from the police…
Starring: Bryan Larkin, Hugh Lambe, Bob Cymbalski
Director: Neil Mackay
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Posted on March 12, 2012 |
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The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Adventure | Drama | Family | Romance | Western
After his father' dies young Jim Craig leaves his home in the Snowy River valley to work for a wealthy landlord, who happens to be the estranged twin brother of Jim's mentor, a grizzled old prospector. While fighting to earn his spurs by breaking a herd of wild horses, Jim falls in love with his employer's spunky daughter Jessica. One of the horses escapes and the blame falls on Jim, so he has return to the Australian hills where he grew up, in order to find the horse and come back a man.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Tom Burlinson, Terence Donovan
Director: George Miller
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Posted on March 12, 2012 |
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The Dead (2010)
Action | Horror | Thriller
Following at first the journey of Lt. Brian Murphy, wanting nothing more than to return home from a zombie outbreak stricken Africa, then Murphy and Sgt. Daniel Dembele, the latter trying to find his son, this is a quest film as much as horror, the journey as important as the grue.
Starring: Rob Freeman, Prince David Oseia
Director: Jonathan Ford, Howard J. Ford
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Five Element Ninjas / Ren zhe wu di (1982)
Action | Drama
When a quintet of nasty ninjas hell-bent on world domination nearly massacres an entire clan, its lone survivor must take the path of revenge. He meets up with an old master well versed in the ways of the ninja. Now armed with secret knowledge and newfound friends, he must battle the awesome power of the Five Element Ninjas, who harness the powers of gold, wood, fire, water, and earth.
Starring: Tien-chi Cheng, Tien Hsiang Lung, Meng Lo, Wai-Man Chan, Pei Hsi Chen, Li Wang, Ke Chu
Director: Cheh Chang
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Posted on March 12, 2012 |
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What Darwin Never Knew (2009)
Documentary
Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals. The source of life's endless forms was a profound mystery until Charles Darwin's revolutionary idea of natural selection. NOVA reveals answers to the riddles that Darwin couldn't explain. Stunning breakthroughs in a brand new science nicknamed 'evo devo' are linking the enigma of origins to another of nature's great mysteries, the development of an embryo.
Starring: Armand Leroi
Director: Armand Leroi
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Posted on March 12, 2012 |
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Seeing in the Dark (2007)
Documentary
Seeing in the Dark aims to redefine the standards of quality in nonfiction science programming for television, and is meant to introduce viewers to the wonders of the night sky, making casual stargazing or serious amateur astronomy a part of their lives. This program follows in the footsteps of Timothy Ferris' two prior PBS specials The Creation of the Universe and Life Beyond Earth.
Starring: Daniel Bisque, Matthew Bisque, Steve Bisque, Tom Bisque, Ron Bissinger
Director: Nigel Ashcroft
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Posted on March 12, 2012 |
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Russland – Im Reich der Tiger, Bären und Vulkane / Wildes Russland (2011)
Documentary
In German cinema screens out the documentary "Russia. In the realm of tigers, bears and volcanoes." This window into Russia, unknown to Western man, and even to many Russians. "Russia – the largest country in the world. In many of its parts, it remains unknown world full of wonders. Let the world and will continue for the generations that come after us."
With these words begins the documentary "Russia. In the realm of tigers, bears and volcanoes" of the wild country. The film comes out this week in theaters in Germany. Russian viewers could see footage of him on their television screens: 90-minute reel of film is based on a six-part television program "Wild Russia". Telefilm was made in collaboration with British broadcaster National Geographic, German broadcasters NDR and WDR, the Russian "First Channel" and several other sponsors. A group of German filmmakers headed Jorn Revere (Jörn Röver), a biologist by training, journalist, director and producer, specializing in scientific and popular films about the flora and fauna. The main operator of the project – also known German documentary, a veterinarian for his first profession, Henry M. Mix (Henry M. Mix). The documentary "Russia. In the realm of tigers, bears and volcanoes," shows how this is already clear from the title, only the natural landscapes and animals. People in the picture is not, as there is no mention of things that are not related to the flora and fauna.
Starring: Siegfried Rauch
Director: Uwe Anders, Christian Baumeister, Oliver Goetzl, Hans-Peter Kuttler, Tobias Mennle, Henry Mix, Ivo Nörenberg, Ernst Sasse
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