Posts Tagged ‘film-making’

Truman Show, The (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Carrey, Jim | Linney, Laura | Emmerich, Noah | McElhone, Natascha | Taylor, Holland | Delate, Brian | Slater, Blair | Krause, Peter | Schanz, Heidi | Taylor, Ron | Taylor, Don | Raymond, Ted | Clayton, Judy
Directors: Weir, Peter
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He’s the star of the show—but he doesn’t know. Truman Burbank is a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn’t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator, that folks living and working there are Hollywood actors, that even his incessantly bubbly wife is a contract player. Gradually, Truman gets wise. And what he does about his discovery will have you laughing, crying and cheering.

Cemetery Gates (2006)

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Bannister, Reggie | Stickles, Peter | Wolf, Aime | DuPort, Nicole | Novak, Kristin | Evans, Ky | Thomas, John | Finch, Chris | Garrison, Karol | Lloyd, Bill | McDonald, Greg | Van Dorn, Stephen | Berger, Howard | Nicotero, Gregory | Sumatra, Aristide
Directors: Knyrim, Roy
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When two ecologists break-in the laboratory of Dr. Belmont, they find a box with a subject and they decide to set the experiment free in the woods. During the transportation, the box opens and releases the mutant Tasmanian Devil that devours the two activists and escapes to the woods. Meanwhile, Dr. Belmont’s son Hunter travels in a van with four friends to film a horror movie in the cemetery in the woods, while Belmont and his associate Dr. Christine Kollar seek their deadly experiment called Precious.

Way We Were, The (1973)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Streisand, Barbra | Redford, Robert | Dillman, Bradford | Chiles, Lois | O'Neal, Patrick | Lindfors, Viveca | McLerie, Allyn Ann | Hamilton, Murray | Edelman, Herb | Ewing, Diana | Kirkland, Sally | Jones, Marcia Mae | Keefer, Don | Gaynes, George | Boles, Eric
Directors: Pollack, Sydney
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Katie and Hubbell are students in the same college but with very different lives. She is a communist compromised against the civil war in Spain and the rise of Hitler in Europe, and has to work to pay her studies. He is more interested in sports a and sceptic about politics. However, Katie is impressed by his charm and she still is when they meet some years after.

Adaptation. (2002)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Streep, Meryl | Cooper, Chris | Seymour, Cara | Swinton, Tilda | Livingston, Bill | Cox, Brian | Gyllenhaal, Maggie | Greer, Judy | Beaver, Jim | Litefoot | Tavaré, Jim | Jones, Doug | Tobolowsky, Stephen | Willie, Roger
Directors: Jonze, Spike
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Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean’s “The Orchid Thief” into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.

Bowfinger (1999)

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Martin, Steve | Murphy, Eddie | Graham, Heather | Baranski, Christine | Kennedy, Jamie | Alexi-Malle, Adam | Sudduth, Kohl | Newman, Barry | Stamp, Terence | Downey Jr., Robert | Patino, Alejandro | De Contreras, Alfred | Fabian, Ramiro | Sanchez, Johnny | Brooks, Claude
Directors: Oz, Frank
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Hollywood, today: Bobby Bowfinger, a run-down actor-producer-director, is reading a script which a friend has written. Completely convinced of its quality, he decides to take a last shot at fame and fortune. But the script is not that easy to sell, and a famous producer promises him to do it, but there is one condition: Kit Ramsey, Hollywood’s number one star, has to be in it. So, Bobby tries his luck with Kit - who says no - and then decides to shoot the film himself. Together with the cheapest team available in Southern California, an aspiring beauty from Ohio, a diva who is just a little over the hill, a key-holding gofer from a major studio and a goon hired away from burger-flipping, Bobby sets out to shoot the science-fiction-film starring Kit Ramsey - who does not even know he’s being filmed.

Day of the Locust, The (1975)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Sutherland, Donald | Black, Karen | Burgess Meredith | Atherton, William | Page, Geraldine | Dysart, Richard | Hopkins, Bo | Serna, Pepe | Goldoni, Lelia | Barty, Billy | Haley, Jackie Earle | LeRoy, Gloria | Hoffman, Jane | Leavitt, Norman | Kennedy, Madge
Directors: Schlesinger, John
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Tod Hackett, fresh out of Yale, wants to make it as an art director in late 1930’s Hollywood - but he finds himself increasingly distracted by his new neighbor Faye, a would-be starlet with possible designs of her own on a lonely, morose accountant. As Tod is drawn deeper into the lurid private lives of studio bosses and film industry workers, he gradually becomes desperate to know if Faye - or anyone - is capable of real love.

Tropic Thunder (2008)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Black, Jack | Downey Jr., Robert | Jackson, Brandon T. | Baruchel, Jay | McBride, Danny R. | Coogan, Steve | Hader, Bill | Nolte, Nick | Soo Hoo, Brandon | Lee, Reggie | Collett, Jason | Cruise, Tom | Feliciano, Eric | Le, Tri
Directors: Stiller, Ben
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Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

Redbelt (2008)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Addiss, Jeffrey | Alfieri, Joseph | Allen, Tim | Barcellos, Douglas | Bator, Craig Collington | Cable, Matt | Canfield, Ryan Everett | Cantillo, Jose Pablo | Couture, Randy | DeCastro, Steve | Ejiofor, Chiwetel | Fair, Justin | Farrell, Scott | Fitzgerald, Hugh | Goldberg, Mike
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A fateful event leads to a job in the film business for top mixed-martial arts instructor Mike Terry. Though he refuses to participate in prize bouts, circumstances conspire to force him to consider entering such a competition.

V for Vendetta (2005)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Portman, Natalie | Weaving, Hugo | Rea, Stephen | Fry, Stephen | Hurt, John | Pigott-Smith, Tim | Graves, Rupert | Allam, Roger | Miles, Ben | Cusack, Sinéad | Wightman, Natasha | Standing, John | Marsan, Eddie | Ashborn, Clive | Field-Rayner, Emma
Directors: McTeigue, James
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The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

Ed Wood (1994)

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Depp, Johnny | Landau, Martin | Parker, Sarah Jessica | Arquette, Patricia | Jones, Jeffrey | Spradlin, G.D. | D'Onofrio, Vincent | Murray, Bill | Starr, Mike | Casella, Max | Hinkley, Brent | Marie, Lisa | Steele, George 'The Animal' | Landau, Juliet | Rosengren, Clive
Directors: Burton, Tim
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The life of Edward D. Wood,Jr, hailed as the worst director (of ‘Plan 9 From Outer Space’, ‘Glen or Glenda?’ and ‘Bride of the Monster’) of all time.