Posts Tagged ‘photography’

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Sunday, November 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Modine, Matthew | Baldwin, Adam | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Ermey, R. Lee | Harewood, Dorian | Howard, Kevyn Major | Howard, Arliss | O'Ross, Ed | Terry, John | Jecchinis, Kieron | Taylor, Kirk | Colceri, Tim | Stafford, Jon | Boa, Bruce | Tyler, Ian
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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Full Metal Jacket begins by following the trials and tribulations of a platoon of fresh Marine Corps recruits focusing on the relationship between Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and Privates Pyle and Joker. We see Pyle grow into an instrument of death as Hartman has forseen of all of his recruits. Through Pyle’s torment and Joker’s unwillingness to stand up against it the climax of part one is achieved with all three main characters deciding their fates by their action or inaction. The second chapter of Full Metal Jacket delves into Joker’s psyche and the repeated referal to the fact that he joined the Corps to become a killer. When his mostly behind the scenes job as a combat correspondant is interfered with by the Tet offensive he is thrust into real combat and ultimately must choose if he really is a killer.

Truth About Cats & Dogs, The (1996)

Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Thurman, Uma | Garofalo, Janeane | Chaplin, Ben | Foxx, Jamie | McCaffrey, James | Coca, Richard | DeSantis, Stanley | Valente, Antoinette | Rouse, Mitch | Fisher, La Tanya M. | Einhorn, Faryn | Cross, David | Rajskub, Mary Lynn | Odenkirk, Bob | Thurman, Dechen
Directors: Lehmann, Michael
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Janeane Garofalo plays Dr. Abby Barnes, the “Truth About Cats and Dogs” radio question-and-answer show host who unwittingly entices a listener over the radio with her soothing voice and personality. This listener, Brian, tries to meet the Abby from the radio, but Noelle, played by Uma Thurman, is mistaken for the real thing when Brian comes to the studio. Instead of clearing things up right away, the self-conscious Abby allows her best friend, Noelle, a tall, stunning blonde, to take her place for a while. Abby takes on the made-up persona of Donna, while thinking Brian would never go for her, a short, cute, brunette, who thinks she’s unattractive. As the real Abby woos Brian over the phone and radio, Noelle, the pseudo-Abby, takes her place in the flesh. As time goes on, Abby feels more and more confident that Brian would rather have the beautiful Noelle than the simply attractive Abby.

Lipstick (1976)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hemingway, Margaux | Sarandon, Chris | King, Perry | Gammell, Robin | Perry, John Bennett | Mariel Hemingway | Scavullo, Francesco | Wyllie, Meg | Swenson, Inga | Jones, Lauren | Burns, William Paul | Bandy, Way | King, Harry | Byrnes, Sean | McLeod, Catherine
Directors: Johnson, Lamont
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A model (played by Margaux Hemingway) is raped by her younger sister’s (Mariel Hemingway) teacher. He gets off on a technicality and proceeds to attempt to rape the younger sister.

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Heder, Jon | Gries, Jon | Ramirez, Efren | Ruell, Aaron | Bader, Diedrich | Tina Majorino | Martin, Sandy | Duff, Haylie | Snarr, Trevor | Tyndall, Emily | Avery, Shondrella | Johnson, Bracken | Brady, Carmen | Dubin, Ellen | Cunningham, J.C.
Directors: Hess, Jared
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Preston, Idaho’s most curious resident, Napoleon Dynamite (Heder), lives with his grandma and his 32-year-old brother (who cruises chat rooms for ladies) and works to help his best friend, Pedro (Efren Ramirez), snatch the Student Body President title from mean teen Summer Wheatley (Haylie Duff).

Others, The (2001)

Monday, March 17th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Kidman, Nicole | Flanagan, Fionnula | Eccleston, Christopher | Alakina Mann | Bentley, James | Sykes, Eric | Elaine Cassidy | Asherson, Renée | Reid, Gordon | Allen, Keith | Fairley, Michelle | Vince, Alexander | López, Ricardo | Grilo, Aldo
Directors: Alejandro Amenábar
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A woman named Grace (Kidman) is living with her two children Anne and Nicholas (Mann and Bentley) on an almost empty island in their huge mansion. Grace’s husband is a soldier in WWII and Grace has given her husband up for dead. Everything seems peaceful for her, but when three mysterious servants are given jobs at the house, terrifying secrets are unlocked that even Grace cannot handle.

Once Upon a Time in China II (1992)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Romance
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Li, Jet | Chiang, David | Fonoroff, Paul | Ho, Ka-Kui | Mok, Siu Chung | Xiong, Xin Xin | Yen, Donnie | Yen, Shi-Kwan | Kwan, Rosamund
Directors: Tsui, Hark
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In this sequel, martial arts expert Wong Fei-Hung faces Kung, a mercenary rival with skills to equal his own. In addition, Canton is convulsed by a struggle between the local representatives of the Chinese government and Europeans who want to control China, and Wong ends up in the middle of this fight. He is again assisted by young Chung, and again must protect Aunt Yee, his young, Westernized aunt-by-adoption with whom Wong has fallen in love. He also ends up with school-full of small children to protect!

Rear Window (1954)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Stewart, James | Kelly, Grace | Corey, Wendell | Ritter, Thelma | Burr, Raymond | Evelyn, Judith | Bagdasarian, Ross | Darcy, Georgine | Berner, Sara | Cady, Frank | Fax, Jesslyn | Harper, Rand | Winston, Irene | Davenport, Havis | English, Marla
Directors: Hitchcock, Alfred
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In 1950-something New York, an adventuresome free-lance photographer finds himself confined to a wheelchair in his tiny apartment while a broken leg mends. With only the occasional distraction of a visiting nurse and his frustrated love interest, a beautiful fashion consultant, his attention is naturally drawn to the courtyard outside his “rear window” and the occupants of the apartment buildings which surround it. Soon he is consumed by the private dramas of his neighbors lives which play themselves out before his eyes. There is “Miss Lonelyhearts,” so desperate for her imaginary lover that she sits him a plate at the dinner table and feigns their ensuing chat. There is the frustrated composer banging on his piano, the sunbathing sculptress, the shapely dancer, the newlyweds who are concealed from their neighbors by a window shade, and a bungling middle-aged couple with a little yapping dog who sleep on the fire escape to avoid the sweltering heat of their apartment. …And then there is the mysterious salesman whose nagging, invalid wife’s sudden absence from the scene ominously coincides with middle-of-the-night forays into the dark, sleeping city with his sample case. Where did she go? What’s in the trunk that the salesman ships away? What’s he been doing with the knives and the saw that he cleans at the kitchen sink?

Murder by Numbers (2002)

Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Genres: Crime | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bullock, Sandra | Chaplin, Ben | Gosling, Ryan | Pitt, Michael | Bruckner, Agnes | Penn, Chris | Call, R.D. | Verica, Tom | Brenn, Janni | Vickery, John | Canavan, Michael | Carpenter, Krista | Matarazzo, Neal | Barnes, Adilah | Jansen, Jim
Directors: Schroeder, Barbet
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Murder By Numbers is a psychological suspense-thriller that tells the story of a tenacious homicide detective, Cassie Mayweather (’Sandra Bullock’ (qv)) and her new partner Sam Kennedy (’Ben Chaplin’ (qv)) who become pitted against two malevolently brilliant young men (’Ryan Gosling (I)’ (qv) and ‘Michael Pitt (II)’ (qv)) in an ingenious battle of wits as they try to solve a murder case.

Hard Candy (2005)

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilson, Patrick | Page, Ellen | Oh, Sandra | Rae, Odessa | John, Gilbert | Bright, Cori | Kraft, Erin
Directors: Slade, David
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For three weeks, 14-year-old Hayley Stark has been chatting on-line with ‘Lensmaster319′, a 32-year old fashion photographer, named Jeff. The two agree to meet at a coffee shop called Nighthawks. They hit it off, despite the massive age difference. Hayley appears to flirt with Jeff, and Jeff generally restrains himself, even admitting that he must wait 4-years until he can be with her. But his reservations are apparently not enough to decline when Hayley all but invites herself over to his house. Once at the house, manipulation becomes the name of the game, and the pedophile seems to be on the non-traditional side of it.

Funny Face (1957)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hepburn, Audrey | Astaire, Fred | Thompson, Kay | Auclair, Michel | Flemyng, Robert | Dovima | Parker, Suzy | Hartnett, Sunny | Del Val, Jean | Gibson, Virginia | England, Sue | Lee, Ruta | Gerry, Alex | Castiglioni, Iphigenie | Booth, Nesdon
Directors: Donen, Stanley
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Fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire), in search for an intellectual backdrop for an air-headed model, expropriates a Greenwich Village bookstore. When the photo session is over the store is left in a shambles, much to salesgirl Jo Stockton’s (Audrey Hepburn) dismay. Avery stays behind to help her clean up. Later, he examines the photos taken there and sees Jo in the background of one shot. He is intrigued by her unique appearance, as is Maggie Prescott (Kay Thompson), the editor of a leading fashion magazine. They offer Jo a modeling contract, which she reluctantly accepts only because it includes a trip to Paris. Eventually, her snobbish attitude toward the job softens, and Jo begins to enjoy the work and the company of her handsome photographer.