The first of two Raymond Chandler adaptations starring the mighty Robert Mitchum, Farewell, My Lovely put a capital M (for Marlowe, menace and murder) back in the Los Angeles neo-noir. It's 1941 in the city of angels - the police are corrupt, the hotel rooms are cheap and criminality infuses every transaction. Private detective Philip Marlowe (Mitchum) has been hired by an ex-convict looking for his old girlfriend. He's also investigating the murder of a jewellry-loving client. The two cases start to connect while Marlowe develops an attraction to the married but seductive Helen Grayle (Charlotte Rampling). The body count mounts and it looks like Marlowe is next. Dick Richards' unflinching and deadly serious adaptation (the third) of Chandler's novel glistens with a suitably pulpy sheen courtesy of Chinatown and Scarface cinematographer John A. Alonzo's lens work and David Shire's ice cool score, while Mitchum dominates as the rheumatic, world-weary Marlowe.
An unforgettable trip for everyone, Summer Things is a hilarious blend of small-town snobbery, insatiable lust and infidelity. When Elizabeth's wayward husband Bertrand finds every excuse to stay at home in Paris with his mistress, Elizabeth invites friend Julie on holiday instead; a single mother desperate for holiday romance, but with a screaming baby in tow! On the other side of town their hard-up neighbours, Vero, Jerome and Loic, are roughing it at a nearby caravan park and hating every minute. meanwhile enjoying life stateside Elizabeth and Bertrand's nymphomaniac daughter, Emilie, is partying with boyfriend Kevin, unaware that he's embezzled the money from her father's firm to pay for the trip......The scene is set for a farce of outrageous proportions, involving bed-swapping, mistaken identity, suicide bids, passionate affairs and rampant testosterone....but whatever difficulties the holiday makers get into, they make sure it never gets in the way of their constant pursuit of pleasure.
While training for the UK Streetdance Championships, a streetdance crew are forced to work with Royal ballet dancers in return for rehearsal space. With no common ground and passions riding high, they realise they need to find a way to join forces to win.
As the empire kneeled in defeat one man stood in triumph. In 42 BC Rome is in the middle of a civil war. Together with his friend Agrippa the young Augustus goes to Spain in order to help Julius Caesar in his struggle against the troops of Pompey. Caesar honours his adopted son Augustus with a triumphal entry into Rome and then sends him to Greece together with his friends Agrippa and Maecenas. There Augustus hears the news of Caesar's assassination and he returns to Rome with his friends. Back in Rome he is able to gain both the support of the people and political power. In his struggle with the conspirators against Caesar he finds an ally in Marc Antony. Augustus and Marc Antony are able to defeat the forces of Brutus and Cassius at the battle of Phillipi. But now Augustus has to share his empire with Marc Antony who in the meantime has become the lover of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. Augustus declares war on both of them and after a successful military campaign he becomes the sole ruler of the Roman Empire. During his rule Rome not only experiences a period of peace and prosperity it is also an age in which both art and culture flourish. His new wife Livia Drusilla becomes his most important political advisor. It is she who discovers that Iullus (the son of Marc Antony and lover of Augustus' daughter Julia) is plotting to murder the emperor...
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While training for the UK Streetdance Championships, a streetdance crew are forced to work with Royal ballet dancers in return for rehearsal space. With no common ground and passions riding high, they realise they need to find a way to join forces to win.
In the 1980s the iconic pop star Adam Ant was at the height of his fame universally recognized by the white stripe painted across his face and the striking imagery of Prince Charming and The Dandy Highwayman. Then tragedy struck and after a nervous breakdown Adam withdrew from the limelight. This film follows him on his first tour for fifteen years in his new persona The Blueblack Hussar' covering spectacular live performances and intimate revealing scenes. Along the way he meets up with actress Charlotte Rampling who inspired his first album 'Dirk Wears White Sox' the music producer Mark Ronson and his mentor the artist Allen Jones. The director Jack Bond has made a compelling portrait of a truly unique artist.
An accountant is introduced to a mysterious sex club known as The List by his lawyer friend. But he soon becomes the prime suspect in a woman's disappearance and a multi-million dollar heist.
New York 2095. In a strange pyramid floating in the sky the gods of ancient Egypt are judging Horus. In the city a young women with blue hair and tears is arrested but she has a secret power even to herself... Based on Enki Bilal's own series of comic books La Foire Aux Immortels and La Femme Pige this was one all the first feature films to use an entirely digital backlot (in which actors were filmed in front of green screens and the background were added digitally afterwards).
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid The Sundance Kid is the fastest gun in the West his sidekick Butch is a dreamer always planning that bigger better bank raid. But things are getting tougher and soon the accident-prone anti-heroes decide it's time to head south and disappear into legend... Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Screenplay for William Goldman and Best Song ('Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head') and Best Score for Burt Bacharach. The Hustler Paul Newma
Beautifully crafted by acclaimed director Gianni Amelio The Keys to the House is a compassionate exploration of fatherhood and the often surprising nature of disability. The story follows Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) a young father attempting to forge a relationship with his physically and psychologically disabled son Paolo whom he meets for the first time as a teenager. Accompanying Paolo to a special hospital in Berlin Gianni meets Nicole (Charlotte Rampling) a woma
Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to a destination in the teeming megalopolis of New York City. The "package" is a mysterious young woman with a secret.
When top street dancer Ash (Hentschel) is humiliated and laughed off stage by American crew Invincible, he sets off to gather the best dancers from around the world to take them on - with a dance style they weren't expecting.
A Young Boy's Hero. A Married Woman's Desire. Russell Crowe stars as East Driscoll a bachelor horsebreaker who won't settle down. He becomes the idol of Alan a young boy with polio who dreams of riding just like his hero. As Alan struggles with the hardships of growing up he meets Grace an older English aristocrat for whom he develops feelings. The situation gets further complicated when the married Grace falls for the much younger East and Alan unwillingly is caught in the middle...
"Doesn't he know he's got the greatest gift anyone can have, the gift of laughter?" Woody Allen stars as filmmaker Sandy Bates, who, like John Sullivan in Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels, no longer wants to make comedies. As studio executives threaten to wrest control of his latest film, he reluctantly attends a weekend film-culture festival in his honour, where he is besieged by journalists ("I'm doing a piece on the shallow indifference of celebrities"), groupies ("I drove all the way from Bridgeport to make it with you"), and persistent oddballs ("Can I talk to you about my idea I have for a movie? It's a comedy based on the whole Guyana mass suicide"). After the exhilarating Manhattan, Stardust Memories was a dramatic departure that threw critics and fans for an outraged loop. But out of all of Allen's films, it is perhaps the one most ripe for rediscovery. It poses the same dilemma Stephen King would later tackle in Misery: What happens when a popular artist is held captive by an adoring audience that doesn't want him to change? The answer may come from an extraterrestrial, who in one of the many fantasy sequences advises the comedian, "You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes." The film is impeccably cast with Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, and Marie-Christine Barrault (of Cousin/Cousine) as the three women in Sandy's life. There are also choice bits by Sharon Stone as a fantasy woman on a train, Daniel Stern as an aspiring actor, Louise Lasser as Sandy's overwhelmed secretary, Laraine Newman as an unimpressed studio executive, and Tony Roberts as Tony Roberts. My own aunt, Victoria Zussin, utters the film's most famous line as the patron who tells Sandy she loves his movies, especially "your early funny ones." --Donald Liebenson
England, 1905: Angel Deverell is a gifted young writer who dreams of success, fame and love. But what will happen if all her dreams come true?
They took all he had. Revenge is all that's left... Respected journalist Jack Elgin (Jeremy Irons) watches his life is destroyed before his very eyes when his wife and daughters perish during a botched terrorist hijacking then forced to watch helpless in disbelief as the perpetrators are caught before being set free. Jack comes to the conclusion that he is the one person that must bring these killers to a cold kind of justice...
A young engineer's life is turned upside down after the discovery of a dead lemming and a meal with his boss.
Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married to Jean for 25 years. During their summer holiday he vanishes. Has he left her? commited suicide? drowned? With no clue she acts as if he is still alive.
‘There are many reasons why I wanted to make The Look but they can all be subsumed under two words: Charlotte Rampling.’ Angelina Maccarone, director of The Look. In this intellectual travelogue ‘La Lgende’ Charlotte Rampling muses with friends and colleagues on celebrity, age, desire and love. Rampling debates and cogitates with creative as diverse as photographers Peter Lindbergh and Juergen Teller and writer Paul Auster as she travels from Paris to New York. She converses in cafs and houseboats, and delves into the very essence of life, death and The Look.Selected for the Cannes Classic stream at the 2011 Festival de Cannes, The Look is a beautifully shot documentary film full of contemplation and intrigue. Special Features: Trailer Image Gallery
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