Posts Tagged ‘lecture’

Good Will Hunting (1997)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Williams, Robin | Damon, Matt | Affleck, Ben | Skarsgård, Stellan | Driver, Minnie | Affleck, Casey | Hauser, Cole | Mighton, John | Majorowski, Rachel | McCauley, Colleen | Mercier, Matt | St. George, Ralph | Lynds, Rob | Washington, Dan | Folland, Alison
Directors: Van Sant, Gus
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Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean’s coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.

Krippendorf’s Tribe (1998)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Dreyfuss, Richard | Elfman, Jenna | Lyonne, Natasha | Smith, Gregory | Lindner, Carl Michael | Handy, Jacob | Handy, Zachary | Tomlin, Lily | Root, Stephen | Belack, Doris | Mechoso, Julio Oscar | Fallon, Siobhan | Strickland, Amzie | Leeds, Phil | Bay, Frances
Directors: Holland, Todd
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A university professor is paid to find the last undiscovered tribe of New Guinea. When he fails to find the tribe, he comes home, and rather than admitting that he’s failed, he gives a lecture about the Shelmikedmu tribe (named after his children: Shelly, Mike, and Edmund) and then has his family dress like “Shelmikedmus,” so that he can film them as proof of his discovery.

Iris (2001)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Bonneville, Hugh | Dench, Judi | Broadbent, Jim | Bron, Eleanor | Morant, Angela | Wilton, Penelope | Hayes, Siobhan | Aubrey, Juliet | Bakewell, Joan | Carroll, Nancy | Marshall, Kris | Mannion, Tom | Hutchinson, Derek | West, Samuel
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).

21 (Twenty One, The Movie) (2008)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Sturgess, Jim | Spacey, Kevin | Bosworth, Kate | Yoo, Aaron | Lapira, Liza | Pitts, Jacob | Fishburne, Laurence | McGee, Jack | Gad, Josh | Golzari, Sam | Carey, Helen | Ma, Jeffrey | Gilpin, Jack | Patton, Frank | Lows, Donna | Vezina, Steven Richard | Werner, Chaska T. | Williams, Butch | Morris, Kyle | Campbell, Ben
Directors: Luketic, Robert
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of school since he comes from a poor, working-class background. But one evening, Ben is introduced by his unorthodox math professor Micky Rosa into a small but secretive club of five students, Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy whom are being trained by Professor Rosa of the skill of card counting at blackjack. Intriged by the desire to make money, Ben joins his new friends on secret weekend trips to Las Vegas where, using their skills of code talk and hand signals, they have Ben make hundreds of thousands of dollars in winning blackjack at casino after casino. Ben only wants to make enough money for the tuition to Harvard and then back out. But as fellow card counter, Jill Taylor, predicts, Ben becomes corrupted by greed and his arrogance at winning which lets his feelings get in the way, and it also puts Professor Rosa, as well as the group, on the radar of a brutal casino security enforcer, named Cole Williams, who holds a personal grudge of some kind against Rosa which threatens to undo everything the students have learned and earned.

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Wilder, Gene | Boyle, Peter | Feldman, Marty | Leachman, Cloris | Garr, Teri | Mars, Kenneth | Haydn, Richard | Dunn, Liam | Goldman, Danny | Beregi Jr., Oscar | Malet, Arthur | Beesley, Anne | Landis, Monte | Blitz, Rusty | Madison, John
Directors: Brooks, Mel
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When the will of Victor Frankenstein, the famous scientist who attempted to reanimate dead bodies, is opened, his grandson, Frederick, who’s become a skilled neurosurgeon and teacher and has cut most ties with his family name due to his grandfather’s experiments, is given the castle where all the experiments were made. Upon his arrival, Frederick finds and reads through his grandfather’s book about his theories and experiments and discovers that they might in fact work. Assisted by Igor, the grandson of the Igor who assisted Victor Frankenstein, and Inga, an attractive lab assistant, he successfully reanimates a body which soon escapes and creates havoc…

Third Man, The (1949)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Film-Noir | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Valli, Alida | Welles, Orson | Howard, Trevor | Lee, Bernard | Hörbiger, Paul | Deutsch, Ernst | Breuer, Siegfried | Ponto, Erich | Hyde-White, Wilfrid | Bleibtreu, Hedwig | Ayer, Harold | Belcher, Harry | Bieber, Leo | Birch, Paul
Directors: Reed, Carol
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An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend’s involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Aykroyd, Dan | Brooks, Albert | Morrow, Vic | McGrath, Doug | Hallahan, Charles | Peets, Rainer | Wulff, Kai | Dugan, Sue | Porter, Debby | Williams, Steven | Claudier, Annette | Hieu, Joseph | Leong, Al | Bishop, Stephen
Directors: Dante, Joe
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Four horror/science-fiction segments directed by four of Hollywood’s famous directors based on TV’s most popular anthology series, bookened by a funny and scary prologue and epilogue featuring Dan Aykroyd and Albert Brooks. In the first story directed by John Landis (a vague remake of the Twilight Zone episode “A Quality of Mercy”) a loud-mouthed bigotted businessman (Vic Morrow) with an intense hatred for Jews, blacks, and Asians, gets the tables turned on him when he walks out a bar and is inexplicably transported back in time to being pursued by Nazis in 1940’s France, then as an African-American at a KKK rally in the 1950s Deep South, and as a Vietnamese in 1960s Vietnam. The second story directed by Stephen Spielberg (a remake of ‘Kick the Can’) an old man (Scatman Crothers) arrives at a retirement home and makes the wishes of the residents come true when he magically transforms them into youthful incarnations of their days gone by. The third story directed by Joe Dante (a remake of ‘It’s a Good Life’) a young woman on the road (Kathleen Quinlan) gives a ride to a mysterous 10-year-old boy (Jeremy Licth) to his house and ends up trapped with other people in an alternate reality created by the boy’s imagination. The fourth story directed by George Miller (a remake of ‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet) stars John Lithgow as an passenger on an airline whom sees, but cannot convince anyone, a mysterious creature on the outside wing of the airplane trying to sabotage the aircraft.

Constant Gardener, The (2005)

Friday, March 6th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK
Actors: Fiennes, Ralph | Weisz, Rachel | Koundé, Hubert | Huston, Danny | Harford, Daniele | Ngugi, Packson | Agweyu, Damaris Itenyo | Oduor, Bernard Otieno | McSorley, Gerard | Nighy, Bill | Pearson, Keith | Sibi-Okumu, John | Sumpter, Donald | Panjabi, Archie | Reding, Nick
Directors: Meirelles, Fernando
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British diplomat Justin Quayle meets the impulsive activist Tessa, marries her quickly at her behest and takes her on diplomatic mission in Kenya. When Tessa is brutally murdered, Justin decides to investigate her death against the strong wish of his superiors to let the matter quietly disappear. He discovers a powerful mystery involving the members of the British High Commission and the not-so-savory business practices of the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry. In the process of learning the secrets of his powerful enemies, Justin must learn all of his wife’s many secrets as well.

Smart People (2008)

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Quaid, Dennis | Church, Thomas Haden | Holmes, Ashton | Denman, David | Wadsworth, Don | Haley, Robert | Sebes, Patrick | Doyle, Kevin James | Huber, Paul | Walters, Richard John | Martin, Scott A. | Kroloff, Adam | Jordan, Patrick | Warner, Rick | Hackney, Barret
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Into the life of a widowed professor comes a new love and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.

Da Vinci Code, The (2006)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Tautou, Audrey | McKellen, Ian | Bettany, Paul | Reno, Jean | Chicot, Etienne | Molina, Alfred | Carter, Clive | Gabel, Seth | Doidge-Hill, Daisy
Directors: Howard, Ron
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Professor Robert Langdon is in Paris on business when he’s summoned to The Louvre. A dead body has been found, setting Langdon off on an adventure as he attempts to unravel an ancient code and uncover the greatest mystery of all time.