Posts Tagged ‘pianist’

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Cassidy, Katie | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Chabert, Lacey | Cloke, Kristen | Martin, Andrea | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Lowe, Crystal | Hudson, Oliver | Harmon, Jessica | Savasta, Leela | Kole, Kathleen | Konoval, Karin | Mann, Robert | Friss, Dean | Wiebe, Cainan
Directors: Morgan, Glen
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

Watcher in the Woods, The (1980)

Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Genres: Family | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Davis, Bette | Johnson, Lynn-Holly | Richards, Kyle | Baker, Carroll | McCallum, David | Taylor, Benedict | Cuka, Frances | Pasco, Richard | Bannen, Ian | Levy, Katharine | Summerfield, Eleanor | Hale, Georgina | Guard, Dominic
Directors: Hough, John
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When a normal American family moves into a beautiful old English house in a wooded area, strange, paranormal appearances befall them in this interesting twist to the well-known haunted-house tale. Their daughter Jan sees, and daughter Ellie hears, the voice of a young teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared during a total solar eclipse decades before…

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Ross, Diana | Williams, Billy Dee | Pryor, Richard | Callahan, James T. | Hampton, Paul | Melton, Sid | Capers, Virginia | Fair, Yvonne | Sanford, Isabel | Lyles, Tracee | Glass, Ned | Selzer, Milton | Bartold, Norman | Tanner, Clay | Hairston, Jester
Directors: Furie, Sidney J.
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Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.

American in Paris, An (1951)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Genres: Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kelly, Gene | Caron, Leslie | Levant, Oscar | Guétary, Georges | Foch, Nina | American In Paris Ballet, The | Ames, Robert | Bastin, Charles | Bieber, Rodney | Bolognese, Dino | Borden, Eugene | Camlin, Peter | Charisse, Andre | Chatham, Bill
Directors: Minnelli, Vincente
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Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry’s art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances with his best friend, an acerbic would-be concert pianist, while romantic complications abound.

That Old Feeling (1997)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Midler, Bette | Farina, Dennis | Marshall, Paula | O'Grady, Gail | Rasche, David | Denton, James | Nucci, Danny | Mankuma, Blu | Eastwood, Jayne | Reynolds, Michael J. | Luchak, Joan | Wilmot, Mike | Franklin, Lula | Hevenor, George | Meadows, Arlene
Directors: Carl Reiner
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When Molly’s parents see each other for the first time in 14 years, Molly thought a shouting match at the reception was the worst thing that could happen. But as the spark of her parents love is rekindled in a car in the parking lot, things get much worse for the newlywed…

Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Monday, November 24th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Nicholson, Jack | Black, Karen | Bush, Billy Green | Flagg, Fannie | Struthers, Sally | MacGuire, Marlena | Stahl, Richard | Smith, Lois | Kallianiotes, Helena | Basil, Toni | Thayer, Lorna | Anspach, Susan | Waite, Ralph | Challee, William | Ryan, John P.
Directors: Rafelson, Bob
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Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson) comes from a well-bred family of musicians, and once showed great promise as a concert pianist. By nature a restless, angry individual, Bobby left his family and his music when he could no longer endure the dull, cloistered routine of daily practice. He took to the road, wanting to “see the world,” and hopefully find something or someone to quell his inner turmoil. He has settled in a small town as an oil rigger, where his life consists of going to work, arguing with his dimwitted but loving girlfriend Rayette (Karen Black), and bowling every night with his friend Elton (Billy “Green” Bush). Not surprisingly, this routine begins to disgust Bobby and, fed up, he decides to travel to Puget Sound, Washington to pay his family a visit. Leaving Rayette at a nearby motel, Bobby goes home and is reunited with his family.

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: UK
Actors: Adams, Amy | Alexander, David | Clifford, Clare | Cole, Christina | Cole, Stephanie | Edney, Beatie | Henderson, Shirley | Hinds, Ciarán | Kants, Sarah | Leonard, Sally | McDormand, Frances | Murphy, Katy | Pace, Lee | Payne, Tom | Potter, Tim
Directors: Nalluri, Bharat
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Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.

Shine (1996)

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance
Countries: Australia
Actors: Rush, Geoffrey | Braine, Justin | Todd, Sonia | Haywood, Chris | Rafalowicz, Alex | Poole, Gordon | Mueller-Stahl, Armin | Bell, Nicholas | Cox, Danielle | Gooden, Rebecca | Kaczmarek, Marta | Cousins, John | Taylor, Noah | Linkson, Paul | Berger, Randall
Directors: Hicks, Scott
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Based on the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, this delightful movie charts the early and traumatic early years. Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps. David finally breaks away from his father and goes away to study overseas, he later suffers a breakdown and returns to Australia and a life in an institution. Many years later he is released and through several twists of fate (in reality even more unlikely than film portrays) he starts playing a piano in a bar before finally returning to the concert hall.

Notebook, The (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Ivey, Tim | Rowlands, Gena | DuPois, Starletta | Garner, James | Thomas, Anthony-Michael Q. | Grady, Ed | Amber, Renée | Echols, Jennifer | Knight, Geoffrey | Connolly, Kevin | Gosling, Ryan | Wahlquist, Heather | McAdams, Rachel | Schaff, Andrew | Shelly, Matt
Directors: Cassavetes, Nick
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The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie’s parents who dissaprove of Noah’s unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah’s 200-year-old home that he restored for her, “to see if he’s okay”. It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.

Painted Veil, The (2006)

Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: China | USA
Actors: Watts, Naomi | Norton, Edward | Schreiber, Liev | Jones, Toby | Rigg, Diana | Howland, Juliet | Wong Chau-Sang, Anthony | Steed, Maggie | Laurence, Lorraine | Lee, Johnny | Feng, Li | Meiduo, Gesang | David, Alan | Voller, Lucy | Rennick, Ian
Directors: Curran, John
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This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed too. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discover’s Kitty’s infidelity with one dashing and witty Diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amidst the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it’s too late?