If it hadn't been for Brad Pitt signing on to play the lead role of obsessive Austrian mountain climber Heinrich Harrer, there's a good chance this lavish $70 million film would not have been made. It was one of two films from 1997 (the other being Martin Scorsese's exquisite Kundun) to view the turmoil between China and Tibet through the eyes of the young Dalai Lama. But with Pitt onboard, this adaptation of Harrer's acclaimed book focuses more on Harrer, a Nazi party member whose life was changed by his experiences in Tibet with the Dalai Lama. Having survived a treacherous climb on the challenging peak of Nanga Parbat and a stint in a British POW camp, Harrer and climbing guide Peter Aufschnaiter (nicely played by David Thewlis) arrive at the Tibetan city of Lhasa, where the 14-year-old Dalai Lama lives as ruler of Tibet. Their stay is longer than either could have expected (the "seven years" of the title), and their lives are forever transformed by their proximity to the Tibetan leader and the peaceful ways of the Buddhist people. China looms over the land as a constant invasive threat, but Seven Years in Tibet is more concerned with viewing Tibetan history through the eyes of a visitor. The film is filled with stunning images and delightful moments of discovery and soothing, lighthearted spirituality, and although he is somewhat miscast, Pitt brings the requisite integrity to his central role. What's missing here is a greater understanding of the young Dalai Lama and the culture of Tibet. Whereas Kundun tells its story purely from the Dalai Lama's point of view, Seven Years in Tibet is essentially an outsider's tale. The result is the feeling that only part of the story's been told here--or maybe just the wrong story. But Harrer's memoir is moving and heartfelt, and director Jean-Jacques Annaud has effectively captured both sincerity and splendor in this flawed but worthwhile film. --Jeff Shannon
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star in this black comedy about married assassins from director Doug Liman.
Ocean's Eleven: The skill of Academy Award®-winning director Steven Soderbergh combines with enough starpower to light up the Las Vegas strip in this classy caper,George Clooney plays Danny Ocean, leading a clever crew out to defy the odds in a split-second heist of three Vegas casinos all owned by a magnate (Andy Garcia) who is dating Danny's ex-wife (Julia Roberts),A fixer (Brad Pitt), a pickpocket (Matt Damon), a blackjack dealer (Bernie Mac), a flimflammer (Carl Reiner) and others in well-defined roles are with Danny,Are you in or out? Ocean's Twelve: Danny Ocean and his pals return in a sequel to the cool caper that yielded a $160-million heist,But $160 million doesn't go very far,Not with everyone spending like sailors on leave,Not with Vegas big-shot Terry Benedict out to recover his dough,And not with a mysterious someone stalking Danny and crew,It's time to pull off another stunning plan or plans,With locales like Amsterdam, Paris and Rome, direction by Steven Soderbergh and the original cast plus Catherine Zeta-Jones, Twelve is your lucky number. Ocean's Thirteen: It's bolder,Riskier,The most dazzling heist yet,George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and more reteam with director Steven Soderbergh for a split-second caper that stacks the deck with wit, style and cool,Danny Ocean again runs the game, so no rough stuff,No one gets hurt,Except for double-crossing Vegas kingpin Willy Bank (Al Pacino),Ocean's crew will hit him where it hurts: in his wallet,On opening night of Bank's posh new casino tower The Bank, every turn of a card and roll of the dice will come up a winner for bettors,And they'll hit him in his pride, making sure the tower doesn't receive a coveted Five Diamond Award,That's just the start of the flimflams,The boys are out to break The Bank,Place your bets! Ocean's Eleven: 4K: COMMENTARY BY MATT DAMON, ANDY GARCIA AND BRAD PITT ¢ COMMENTARY BY DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH AND SCREENWRITER TED GRIFFIN ¢ ARE YOU IN OR OUT? THE MAKING OF OCEAN'S ELEVEN ¢ PROS & CONS: INSIDE OCEAN'S OUTFIT ¢ THE STYLE OF STEAL ¢ THE LOOK OF THE CON ¢ ORIGINAL OCEAN'S, ORIGINAL COOL BD: COMMENTARY BY MATT DAMON, ANDY GARCIA AND BRAD PITT ¢ COMMENTARY BY DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH AND SCREENWRITER TED GRIFFIN ¢ HBO FIRST LOOK: THE MAKING OF OCEAN'S ELEVEN ¢ THE LOOK OF THE CON ¢ THEATRICAL TRAILERS Ocean's Twelve: 4K: COMMENTARY BY DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH AND SCREENWRITER GEORGE NOLFI ¢ READY, JET SET, GO: THE MAKING OF OCEAN'S TWELVE ¢ HBO FIRST LOOK: TWELVE IS THE NEW ELEVEN: THE MAKING OF OCEAN'S TWELVE ¢ OCEAN'S TWELVE: DELETED SCENES BD: COMMENTARY BY DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH AND SCREENWRITER GEORGE NOLFI ¢ NEARLY 30 MINUTES OF ADDITIONAL SCENES ¢ HBO FIRST LOOK: TWELVE IS THE NEW ELEVEN ¢ THEATRICAL TRAILER Ocean's Thirteen: 4K: COMMENTARY BY DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH AND SCREENWRITERS BRIAN KOPPELMAN AND DAVID LEVIEN ¢ THIRD'S A CHARM: THE MAKING OF OCEAN'S THIRTEEN ¢ AHAB WITH A PIGGYBACK: THE MEANS & MACHINES OF OCEAN'S ¢ JERRY WEINTRAUB WALK AND TALK ¢ MASTERS OF THE HEIST ¢ OCEAN'S THIRTEEN DELETED SCENES BD: COMMENTARY BY DIRECTOR STEVEN SODERBERGH AND SCREENWRITERS BRIAN KOPPELMAN AND DAVID LEVIEN ¢ MASTERS OF THE HEIST: RECALLING REAL-LIFE SOPHISTICATED HEISTS ¢ ADDITIONAL SCENES ¢ VEGAS: AN OPULENT ILLUSTION - LAS VEGAS' INFLUENTIAL DESIGN SENSE ¢ JERRY WEINTRAUB WALK AND TALK: THE PRODUCER TAKES US ON A CASINO TOUR
Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck star in this western which delves into the private life and public exploits of America's most notorious outlaw.
The Last Samurai: Decorated Civil War veteran Nathan Algren (Cruise) is sent to Japan to train and lead the Emperor's troops in modern Western gunpowder intensive warfare to eliminate the country's remaining rebelling samurai. Captured and imprisoned by the outlawed warriors Algren is slowly swayed by their strict adherence to the honourable code of Bushido and when the Emperor's forces mass once again Algren offers to join his former captors in an effort to preserve their way of life... Alexander: The Director's Cut: Oliver Stone's Alexander is based on the true story of one of history's most luminous and influential leaders Alexander the Great (Colin Farrell) - a man who had conquered 90% of the known world by the age of 27. Alexander led his virtually invincible Greek and Macedonian armies through 22 000 miles of sieges and conquests in just eight years and by the time of his death at the age of 32 had forged an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. The film chronicles Alexander's path to becoming a living legend from a youth fueled by dreams of myth glory and adventure to his lonely death as a ruler of a vast Empire. Alexander is the incredible story of a life that united the known world and proved if nothing else fortune favours the bold. This release of Oliver Stone's Alexander features his director's cut (167 mins); which re-imagines and re-shapes the original theatrical film with virtually hundreds of edits and re-configurations of sequences. Troy: In 1193B.C. the dandy Trojan prince Paris (Bloom) irresponsibly spirits away the unhappy wife of Menelaus (Gleeson) the Spartan king. Demanding the return of Helen the Greeks launch a thousand ships and lay siege to Troy. Under the command of Agamemnon (Cox) revered warrior Achilles (Pitt) leads the Greek forces against the Trojan defenders commanded by Hector (Bana) who carries the fate of his nation on his shoulders...
Quentin Tarantino presents a look at WWII the likes of which you have never seen before in the hotly anticipated "Inglorious Basterds".
A lone time traveller from the year 2035 must solve a riddle that may save his people... but it may also take him to the brink of madness. Bruce Willis Madeline Stowe and Brad Pitt star in this brilliant sci-fi masterpiece from Terry Gilliam. After the world's population is devastated by a killer virus survivors must live in dark underground communities. Cole (Willis) volunteers to travel into the past to obtain a pure virus sample thereby helping scientists develop a cure. Along the way he crosses paths with a beautiful psychiatrist (Stowe) and a one-card-short-of-a-full-deck mental patient (Pitt). But the race is on as Cole searches for The Army of the 12 Monkeys a radical group linked to the deadly disease. With unforgettable performances and imaginative special effects 12 Monkeys is a modern-day classic laced with Gilliam's trademark wit and dazzling visual style.
The story of Oakland A's general manager, Billy Beane, successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
In Bullet Train, Brad Pitt stars as Ladybug, an unlucky assassin determined to do his job peacefully after one too many gigs gone off the rails. Fate, however, may have other plans, as Ladybug's latest mission puts him on a collision course with lethal adversaries from around the globe all with connected, yet conflicting, objectives on the world's fastest train...and he's got to figure out how to get off. From the director of Deadpool 2, David Leitch, the end of the line is only the beginning in a wild, non-stop thrill ride through modern-day Japan.
Side-splitting Comedy Genius David Edwards, Daily Mirror An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness! When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control, resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters! From Joel and Ethan Coen, The Academy Award® - winning* directors of No Country For Old Men and The Big Lebowski comes this brilliantly clever and endlessly entertaining movie that critics are calling smart, funny, and original. Finding The Burn: The making of Burn After Reading DC Insiders Run A Muck: An all-star cast creates the world of Washington, DC, insiders all trying to get ahead or find true love Welcome Back, George: This comedy piece features Mr. Clooney as he returns for his third collaboration with Ethan and Joel
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy (Brad Pitt) commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
Titles Comprise: Too Young To Die:By the age of 14 Amanda Sue Bradley has already suffered a lifetime of cruelty and neglect. She's alone in the world and desperate for love. All too easily she falls prey to a seductive hustler who introduces her to a tawdry world of strip joints and drug abuse. One night high on speed and alcohol they take off on a murderous spree. Their victim: the one man who has ever shown Amanda love and compassion. Amanda is arrested for the k
Brad Pitt and Orlando Bloom star in this jaw-dropping epic about the famous siege of the ancient city of Troy.
The long front lawns of summer afternoons, the flicker of sunlight as it sprays through tree branches, the volcanic surge of the Earth's interior as the planet heaves itself into being--you certainly can't say Terrence Malick lacks for visual expressiveness. The Tree of Life is Malick's long-cherished project, a film that centres on a family in 1950s Waco, Texas, yet also reaches for cosmic significance in the creation of the universe itself. The Texas memories belong to Jack (Sean Penn), a modern man seemingly ground down by the soulless glass-and-metal corporate world that surrounds him. We learn early in the film of a family loss that happened at a later time, but the flashbacks concern only the dark Eden of Jack's childhood: his games with his two younger brothers, his frustrated, bullying father (Brad Pitt), his one-dimensionally radiant mother (Jessica Chastain). None of which unfolds in anything like a conventional narrative, but in a series of disconnected scenes that conjure, with poetry and specificity, a particular childhood realm. The contributions of cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and production designer Jack Fisk cannot be underestimated in that regard, and it should be noted that Brad Pitt contributes his best performance: strong yet haunted. And how does the Big Bang material (especially a long, trippy sequence in the film's first hour) tie into this material? Yes, well, the answer to that question will determine whether you find Malick's film a profound exploration of existence or crazy-ambitious failure full of beautiful things. Malick's sincerity is winning (and so is his exceptional touch with the child actors), yet many of the movie's touches are simultaneously gaseous (amongst the bits of whispered narration is the war between nature and grace, roles assigned to mother and father) and all-too-literal (a dinosaur retreats from nearly killing a fellow creature--the first moments of species kindness, or anthropomorphic poppycock?). The Tree of Life premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d'Or there after receiving boos at its press screening. The debate continues, unabated, from that point. --Robert Horton
Brad Pitt and Vinnie Jones star in this tale of a London jewel heist, the new film from the director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Every weekend in the basements and car parks of bars across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded just as long as they have to.
Academy Award Winners Joel and Ethan Coen have been writing directing editing and producing some of the most original films to come out of Hollywood. This box set contains six of their most unique and imaginative classics including their most recent hit A Serious Man. Titles Comprise: A Serious Man: Larry Nidus is a good man. He is a loving husband a committed father and a dedicated professor who always does the fair and just thing in the face of daily temptations. But one day everything starts to go wrong. His wife leaves him for reasons she can't explain and her smug new lover manages to convince Larry that he should be the one to move out of the house and into a cheap motel - all for the children's benefit of course. Burn After Reading: An outrageous spy comedy about murder blackmail sex addiction and physical fitness! When a disc filled with some of the CIA's most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined but dim-witted gym employees the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts events soon spiral out of everyone's and anyone's control resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters! The Big Lebowski: It takes guys as simple as the Dude and Walter to make a story this complicated... and they'd really rather be bowling. 'The Dude' Jeff Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is unemployed and laid-back. That is until he becomes a victim of mistaken identity two thugs breaking into his apartment in the errant belief that they are accosting Jeff Lebowski the Pasadena millionaire. In hope of getting a replacement for his soiled carpet 'the Dude' visits his wealthy namesake and with buddy ex `Nam' vet. Walter Sobchak he is swept into a labyrinthine comedy/thriller of extortion embezzlement sex dope German Nihilists White Russians mysterious cowboys Shomer Shabbos bowling and sever The Hudsucker Proxy: Hudsucker Industries is flourishing. Profits are stupendous and stock is at an all-time high. So when their founder Waring Hudsucker leaps to his death from the 44th floor his board of directors is thrown into panic. Hudsucker has not left a will and his majority shareholding in the company must therefore soon be offered for sale to the public. But scheming Vice President Sidney J. Mussburger has a plan. He'll install a complete imbecile as Chairman and devalue the stock to a level where the rest of the board can acquire controlling interests for themselves. Barton Fink: Between Heaven and Hell There's Always Hollywood! John Turturro shines in the lead role in Barton Fink the Coen Brothers' hilarious satire set in the 1940s Hollywood. Fink is a New York playwright who reluctantly relocates to Hollywood to write screenplays. Ordered to write a low budget screenplay about wrestling Fink manages to type one sentence and then...nothing! Although his chatty insurance salesman neighbour Charlie helps out by teaching Fink about wrestling the clock ticks the temperature rises and Fink's life spins more and more out of control. Intolerable Cruelty: From the Coen brothers comes this witty sharp comedy about a man who wins in court and courts to win! Divorce attorney Miles Massey has got it all. Serial gold-digger Marilyn Rexroth wants it all. A hilarious battle of deceit and cunning ensues when Miles falls for Marilyn with each one trying to outsmart the other. Underhand tactics deceptions and an undeniable attraction escalate as Marilyn and Miles square off in this classic battle of the sexes...
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war. Bonus: Story of Allied From Stages to the Sahara: The Production Design of Allied 'Til Death Do Us Part: Max and Marianne Guys and Gals: The Ensemble Cast Click Images to Enlarge
Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman star in this sinister and gripping mystery-thriller about a pair of homicide detectives who must solve a puzzling series of horrific murders based on the seven deadly sins - Gluttony Greed Sloth Pride Lust Envy and Wrath. A powerful and unforgettable film Seven reveals the dark and disturbing underworld in which evil stalks...
Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck star in this western which delves into the private life and public exploits of America's most notorious outlaw.
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