Gia is a made-for-TV HBO film that stars Angelina Jolie as supermodel model Gia Carangi, who went from high school to the cover of British Vogue in less than two years. Carangi appeared on many more covers of Vogue (French, British, Italian, and American) and Cosmopolitan before dying of complications from AIDs (she was an IV heroin user) in 1986. Jolie comes by her talent honestly: she's the daughter of veteran actor Jon Voight, and her own training as a model serves her well here--she has the moves. Throughout, she's heartbreaking--as no doubt the real Carangi was--effective, and stunning. With good source material (Stephen Fried's A Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia), Jolie's stunning performance, and strong directing by Michael Cristofer, the movie goes beyond the merely sensational. The script was co-written by Cristofer and novelist Jay McInerney, whose Bright Lights, Big City covers similar territory. As a cautionary tale, Gia works. But to watch Jolie in her character's tragic self-destruction is utterly compelling. --NF Mendoza, Amazon.com
ChinaTown: A landmark movie in the film noir tradition Roman Polanski's Chinatown stands as a true screen classic. Jack Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked pre-war Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite (Faye Dunaway) to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one unforgettable night in ... Chinatown. The Two Jakes: Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake Gittes in this atmospheric 'Chinatown' follow-up that's hit upon the elusive sequel formula for somehow enhancing a great original. Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: Nine times out of ten if you follow the money you will get to the truth. And that's the trail he follows when a routine case of marital hanky panky explodes into a murder that's tied to a grab for oil - and to Jake's own past. Terms of Endearment: This Oscar-winning film is both eccentrically funny and an old-fashioned tearjerker. The story centers around the volatile relationship between a mother and daughter spanning 30 years. The various permutations of their lives are examined including the daughter's bout with terminal cancer. Heartburn: Heartburn is an autobiographical tale based on the marriage of high-flying journalists Carl Bernstein (who helped uncover the Watergate scandal for the Washington Post) and Nora Ephron. When the two meet at a friends wedding they fall in love and subsequently marry. Living in different cities the relationship begins to unravel as the pair slowly drift apart and infidelities eventually wreck the marriage. Focusing on social events like weddings parties and birthdays the film expertly brings to life the cynical and often destructive world of a group of thirty something's living out their lives through their relationships with their families and each other. Intriguing performances from Nicholson and Streep depict a relationship that neither has any real control over. These interactions between the two central characters and their circle of friends are brilliantly real allowing the audience to establish an affinity with the lives of the protagonists. Further enhanced by a script that casts a wickedly sharp and witty observation on life the film offers a snapshot of reality that is totally absorbing.
A fascinating 5 disc set of half hour profiles spotlighting the personal lives and extraordinary careers of fifty legendary Hollywood leading ladies. Exotic Greta Garbo! Feisty Bette Davis! Sultry Marilyn Monroe! Brilliant Jodie Foster! Just a few of the great movie actresses featured in this definitive collection. From the early classic era of Gloria Swanson Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford to more contemporary cinema queens such as Faye Dunaway Jane Fonda and Kim Basinger 'Hollywood Biographies: The Leading Ladies' tells their amazing stories through rare film clips television appearances photographs and interviews.
The Deadly Trap is a 1971 film directed by Rene Clement, based on the novel The Children are Gone. Starring Faye Dunaway (Bonnie and Clyde, Chinatown) as Jill and Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon, Unknown) as Philip her husband. A married couple moves to France together with their two children. Their world is torn apart when the children go missing and it transpires they have been kidnapped. In a frantic struggle to recover them alive and well, the couples lives begin to fall apart at the seams as Jill's mental state deteriorates and Philip struggles to make sense of what is happening to them.
In 1881, Doc Holliday enters the 'No Name Saloon' and challenges a man to a game of poker. He bets his horse for the opponent's wife, the whore Katie Elder, and wins. From then on, Elder goes wherever Doc' goes. When they arrive in Tombstone, Sheriff Wyatt Earp is standing as a candidate in the local election, but hostilities erupt and the Clanton family, a gang of outlaw cowboys, make their opposition felt. Doc' soon joins forces with Earp and his brothers to take on the Clanton gang. This gritty, revisionist take on the true story of the legendary gunfight at the OK Corral stars Stacy Keach as Doc Holliday and Faye Dunaway as Kate Elder, and features music by the legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb (Wichita Lineman'). The Guardian Interview with Faye Dunaway (1980, audio only): the celebrated actress discusses her work in this archival interview held at the NFT Original theatrical trailer
Trust is their weapon. Innocence is their victim. Hollywood grande dame Faye Dunaway, the Oscar-winning star of such cinematic milestones as Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown, gives a typically powerful performance as a domineering parent in this explosive drama about two lethal con-artists who kidnap the children of a struggling single mother, played by Desperate Housewives' Nicollette Sheridan. Garrett James (Oscar nominee Michael O'Keefe, Too Young To Die?) and his wife Donna seem the perfect neighbours. Kind, generous and desperate for children of their own, they are eagerly befriended by Anna Morse (Sheridan), a lonely waitress with three daughters who is fleeing from an abusive husband and who receives nothing but cold disapproval from her mother, Ellen (Dunaway). But the charismatic Jameses hide terrible secrets: they are wanted criminals, guilty of larceny and other, more deadly, schemes. Within no time at all, they have insinuated themselves into the children's lives while subtly undermining Anna's security. Suddenly, Garrett and Donna vanish, taking Anna's daughters with them. Receiving little help from the police or her mother, Anna has only one ally: Jack Driscoll (Ernie Lively, Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story), a hard-bitten cop who follows an intriguing trail of leads and uncovers horrific details of Garrett's psychotic past. Forced to cope with the realisation that her daughters are in the hands of a murderer, Anna must struggle to hold her life together while launching a valiant race against time to save them. The People Next Door is written by Fred Mills (Overkill: the Aileen Wuornos Story) and directed by Tim Hunter, whose controversial 1986 feature River's Edge (starring Keanu Reeves) was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.
Drunks dramatizes an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting from beginning to end as characters discuss their bout with the bottle. The attendees include Jim who falls off the wagon during the meeting; Louis who is obviously still in denial about his addiction; and Joseph whose drinking caused a drunk-driving death. Others at the meeting from a twenty-something slacker to a well-to-do doctor illustrate the wide range of people affected -- and sometimes destroyed -- by alcoholism.
A gritty adaptation of John Grisham's best-selling novel. Former Ku Klux Klan member Sam Cayhall (Gene Hackman) has been on death row for nearly thirty years after pleading guilty to bombing a civil rights leader and killing his children. With just 28 days until his execution, Sam's grandson Adam Hall (Chris O'Donnell) takes on his case. Although Sam is unrepentant, Adam is convinced that he did not act alone in the bombing, and is determined to find out who his grandfather is protecting.
A story of a man who thought he was the greatest lover in the world and the people who tried to cure him of it...
Ordeal By Innocence
Arizona Dream: Johnny Depp plays Axel a young drifter caught between the dreams of youth and the responsibilities of adulthood. Enticed back to his Arizona hometown the oddball residents take more than a passing interest in him. His wheeler-dealer uncle badgers him to take over the Cadillac salesroom. What's more Axel becomes the pinnacle of risque love triangle with a wealthy widow and her stepdaughter... What's Eating Gilbert Grape: Meet Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) a young man who lives in Endora Iowa population 1 091. Gilbert lives with his mother whose 36 stone frame is slowly destroying the fragile Grape homestead his brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio) who was never expected to survive childhood and his two sisters. Gilbert's only excitement is his affair with Mrs. Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen). Besides that Gilbert's life is weird. And he doesn't seem to enjoy it. But one day a mysterious beautiful girl named Becky (Juliette Lewis) moves into town with her grandmother and Gilbert's world begins to change... Dead Man: William Blake (Johnny Depp) set out on an exciting journey to start his life over in a new town with a new job. He never could have prepared himself for what was to come. Through a mysterious chain of events he becomes involved in a love triangle that ends in a double murder--with him as the suspect. Alone and scared he tries to escape but soon discovers that he is being hunted down by men who have been paid to find and kill him and befriends a Native American loner 'Nobody' (Gary Farmer) who believes that he is the English poet 'William Blake' teaches him to face the dangers that follow a dead man. With tremendous performances from the likes of Johnny Depp Gary Farmer (later reprising the same role in Jarmusch's 'Ghost Dog') and movie-legend Robert Mitchum; the amazing rock score by Neil Young drifts in and out superbly as William Blake journeys through Jarmush's monochrome vision of the old west. Sleepy Hollow: Master storyteller Tim Burton (Batman Edward Scissorhands) weaves an eerie enchanting version of this classic tale of horror. Johnny Depp is Ichabod Crane an eccentric investigator determined to stop the murderous Headless Horseman. Christina Ricci is Katrina Van Tassel the beautiful and mysterious girl with secret ties to the supernatural terror... Lost In La Mancha: Making a film is essentially about two things: belief and momentum - Director Terry Gilliam. Lost In La Mancha may be the first un-making of documentary. In a genre that exists to hype films before their release 'Lost In La Mancha' presents an unexpected twist: it is the story of a film that does not exist. Instead of a sanitised glimpse behind the scenes 'Lost In La Mancha' offers a unique in-depth look at the harsher realities of filmmaking. With drama that ranges from personal conflicts to epic storms this is a record of a film disintegrating.
When Karen Billingsly's (Faye Dunaway) college-aged son Chad participates in a fraternity gang rape of a high school girl his attorney father Roger (Stephen Collins) advises Chad and his frat brothers to say nothing. But when Karen finds out she is devastated. The cover-up of the crime takes a toll on both her marriage and family as Roger plays on her motherly instincts and insists that she conceal the truth to protect their son and his future. Torn between doing what's right and safeguarding everything she holds dear Karen pleads with Chad to have the courage to face the truth accept the consequences and not be swayed by the lack of ethics in others.
A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.
Available for the first time on DVD! Deliberate sacrifice for deliberate gain. In Kevin Spacey's directorial debut three desperadoes are trapped by the police in a hole-in-the-wall bar after a robbery gone wrong. The situation escalates to boiling point with unexpected twists and violent consequences.
The Jim Jarmusch Colection: Volume 2 Box Set - Mystery Train / Night On Earth / Dead Man
Don Juan De Marco: Marlon Brando plays a psychiatrist whose last case that of Don Juan is his most difficult. Don Juan (Johnny Depp) is the world's greatest lover having seduced over 1000 women and his amorous tales totally captivate the analyst re-awakening passions which he thought had been lost forever. Blow: George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and always berated by his mother. So he sets off for California to live on the beach. George finds he can make a living selling drugs. One day he learns he could make more money by shipping drugs across the country. So he does. Needing a bigger supply of drugs he goes to Columbia finds his way to Medellin and meets Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis). George stumbles into becoming the biggest trafficker of cocaine in the U.S. Libertine: Based on the play by Stephen Jeffreys The Libertine recounts the life of the scandalously decadent John Wilmot (Johnny Depp) the second Earl of Rochester. Married but not satisfied he has a passionate romance with a young actress Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton) and writes a scurrilous play that lampoons its commissioner King Charles II (John Malkovich who starred in the play when it was staged at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre).
In 1429, a teenage girl from a remote village stood before the world and announced she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country.
Pay the Ghost: Almost a year after his young son disappeared by his side on Halloween night in New York City, Mike (Nicolas Cage) is alone and haunted by terrifying visions of his son. Desperate but determined not to let go he researches all the cases of missing children in the city and comes to a horrifying conclusion. Army of One is the (mostly) true story of Gary Faulkner (Nicolas Cage), an unemployed, ex-con, handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who sets out on the unlikeliest of missions. Armed only with a Samurai sword, purchased from a home-shopping network, and the belief that he is following the express command of God (Russell Brand), he travels to Pakistan in order to capture Osama Bin Laden and bring him to justice. Inconceivable: When Katie (Whelan) moves to town with her young daughter in order to start a new life after enduring abuse in her past, she quickly befriends another mother, Angela, and her husband Brian (Cage). She is soon chosen by the couple to become their surrogate for their long-time desired child. Little does the unlucky couple know however, she is harbouring a dark secret about her past that may have fatal consequences for them and their child.
Chinatown: A landmark movie in the film noir tradition Roman Polanski's 'Chinatown' stands as a true screen classic. Nicholson is private eye Jake Gittes living off the murky moral climate of sun-baked pre-war California. Hired to investigate an extra-marital affair Gittes is swept up in a maelstrom of double dealings and deceits uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one unforgettable night in Chinatown. Co-starring film legend John Huston and featuring an Academy Award-winning script by Robert Towne 'Chinatown' captures a lost era in a masterfully woven movie that remains a timeless gem. The Two Jakes: Jack Nicholson returns as private eye Jake (or J.J.) Gittes in this atmospheric Chinatown follow-up which he also directed. Much has changed since we last saw Jake. The war has come and gone and 1948 Los Angeles teems with optimism and fast bucks. But there's one thing Jake knows hasn't changed: Nine times out of ten if you follow the money you will get to the truth. And that's the trail he follows when a routine case of marital hanky panky (involving the other Jake of the title - Harvey Keitel) explodes into murder that's tied to a grab for oil - and to Jake's own past.
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