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Casino (1995)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Stone, Sharon | Pesci, Joe | Woods, James | Vincent, Frank | Cajano, Pasquale | Rickles, Don | Pollak, Kevin | Vella, Vinny | King, Alan | Jones, L. Q. | Smothers, Dick | Rigano, Joseph | Bloom, John | Prophet, Melissa
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas—it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970’s and ’80’s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw—Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.

Human Stain, The (2003)

Friday, February 16th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Kidman, Nicole | Harris, Ed | Sinise, Gary | Miller, Wentworth | Barrett, Jacinda | Lennix, Harry J. | Gregg, Clark | Smith, Anna Deavere | Mitchell, Lizan | Washington, Kerry | Newman, Phyllis | Martindale, Margo | Canada, Ron | Avital, Mili
Directors: Benton, Robert
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.