Posts Tagged ‘long-take’

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Shatner, William | Nimoy, Leonard | Kelley, DeForest | Doohan, James | Takei, George | Barrett, Majel | Koenig, Walter | Nichols, Nichelle | Khambatta, Persis | Collins, Stephen | Whitney, Grace Lee | Lenard, Mark | Van Zandt, Billy | Brown, Roger Aaron | Faga, Gary
Directors: Wise, Robert
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A strange cloud descends upon Klingon vessels and eradicates them with an energy bolt. The Epsilon IX space station alerts the Federation, but they too are wiped out by the entity. The starship assigned to the case is, what else, the NCC-1701. That would be the registration number for the U.S.S. Enterprise, which has been rebuilt. Thus, the entire original crew you knew from the TV show returns. Although they are prepared to face the entity, nothing will prepare them for the ride to come. The film asks the question Paul Gauguin asks in a painting bearing this name: “Where do [I] come from? What [am I]? Where [am I] going?” Trekkers, note the appearance of Will Decker, the son of Matt Decker, who killed himself in the TV episode, “The Doomsday Machine”. The film can be summed up in a single word: beautiful.

Carlito’s Way (1993)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pacino, Al | Penn, Sean | Miller, Penelope Ann | Leguizamo, John | Rogers, Ingrid | Guzmán, Luis | Rebhorn, James | Siravo, Joseph | Mortensen, Viggo | Foronjy, Richard | Porcel, Jorge | Minucci, Frank | Pasdar, Adrian | Ortiz, John | Salazar, Ángel
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Carlito Brigante is released from jail after serving five years of a much longer stretch. He vows to go straight and to live life as a fine, upstanding citizen. He even rekindles a romance with his ex-lover. However, Carlito’s associates cannot seem to leave him in peace…his nephew involves him a pool-room gunfight, his lawyer asks him for “favours” which spiral out of control, and even an old friend (now a wheelchair bound paraplegic) tries to get him into trouble with the law. Carlito decides to make a run for Florida and the promise of a new life, but has one final dramatic escape to make from some hoods who believe (wrongly) that he was behind the murder of their boss.

Clerks. (1994)

Saturday, July 11th, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: O'Halloran, Brian | Anderson, Jeff | Ghigliotti, Marilyn | Spoonhauer, Lisa | Mewes, Jason | Smith, Kevin | Mosier, Scott | Schiaffo, Scott | Flanagan, Walter | Berkowitz, Al | Klein, David | Hapstak, Ed | Csik, Pattijean | O'Donnell, Ernest | Loughran, Kimberly
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Dante Hicks is a clerk at a local convenience store in New Jersey. On one particular Saturday morning, he gets called in on his day off. Once there, he must deal with multiple problems. The shutters outside won’t open. His ex-girlfriend, whom he is still in love with, is getting married. His girlfriend, who bugs him about starting college, has revealed certain, uh…stuff about her past. His boss hasn’t come in to take his place. He has a hockey game at 2 o’clock. Another ex has died, and today’s the last day he can go to her wake. He must deal with customers that aren’t so intelligent. His friend, Randal, a clerk at the video store next door, is even less dedicated to his job than Dante, and is always bothering Dante’s customers. And the biggest problem of them all: HE’S NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TODAY!! Can Dante manage it all?

Shining, The (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Duvall, Shelley | Lloyd, Danny | Crothers, Scatman | Nelson, Barry | Stone, Philip | Turkel, Joe | Jackson, Anne | Burton, Tony | Beldam, Lia | Gibson, Billie | Dennen, Barry | Baxt, David | Redwood, Manning | Burns, Lisa
Directors: Kubrick, Stanley
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as “The Shining” that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - “the little boy who lives in Danny’s mouth”. Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this “Shining” and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

Meaning of Life, The (1983)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: UK
Actors: Chapman, Graham
Directors: Gilliam, Terry
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The Monty Python group examines the meaning and purpose of life in a series of sketches from conception to death and beyond. In typical Monty Python fashion they satirizes and humourizes almost everyone.

Snake Eyes (1998)

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Sinise, Gary | Heard, John | Gugino, Carla | Shaw, Stan | Dunn, Kevin | Rispoli, Michael | Fabiani, Joel | Guzmán, Luis | Higgins, David Anthony | Starr, Mike | Tunie, Tamara | Zien, Chip | Bassey, Michaella | Bernardo, Paul Joseph
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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After the assassination of a prominent political official at a major boxing match, a corrupt cop must solve the crime to protect his friend, who was overseeing protection of the fallen. But what the cop uncovers is a conspiracy connected to everyone that was at the boxing match that night, and the one woman who knows everything must run from those behind the murder.

Hard-Boiled (1992)

Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Hong Kong
Actors: Chow, Yun-Fat | Leung Chiu Wai, Tony | Mo, Teresa | Chan, Philip | Wong Chau-Sang, Anthony | Kwan, Hoi-Shan | Lam, Bowie | Kwok, Philip | Tung, Wei | Au-Yeung, Bobbie | Ng, Shui Ting | Lo, Meng | Lau, Kong
Directors: Woo, John
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A hard-boiled Hong Kong detective (Chow Yun-Fat), who lost his partner in a gunfight, teams up with an undercover cop (Tony Leung) to stop a ruthless crime mob from smuggling guns and killing innocent people.

Citizen Kane (1941)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Comingore, Dorothy | Moorehead, Agnes | Warrick, Ruth | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Sloane, Everett | Alland, William | Stewart, Paul | Coulouris, George | Bonanova, Fortunio | Schilling, Gus | Van Zandt, Philip | Backus, Georgia | Shannon, Harry
Directors: Welles, Orson
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Considered by many to be the best film ever made, this is the story of Charles Foster Kane. The film opens with a long shot of Xanadu - the private estate of one of the world’s richest men. In the middle of the estate is a castle. We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard - “Rosebud…” What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.

Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)

Monday, December 15th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Cotten, Joseph | Costello, Dolores | Baxter, Anne | Holt, Tim | Moorehead, Agnes | Collins, Ray | Sanford, Erskine | Bennett, Richard | Welles, Orson | August, Edwin | Baxley, Jack | Blees, William | Clement, Lyle | Cooper, Bobby | Dillaway, Don
Directors: Fleck, Fred
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The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.

Untouchables, The (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Connery, Sean | Smith, Charles Martin | Garcia, Andy | De Niro, Robert | Bradford, Richard | Kehoe, Jack | Sullivan, Brad | Drago, Billy | Clarkson, Patricia | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Goldstein, Steven | Aylward, Peter | Harvey, Don | Swan, Robert
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.