The Company (film) The Company is a 2003 film about the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. It was released on December 26, 2003 in the United States and around the world in the first half of 2004. The movie was directed by Robert Altman and stars Neve Campbell, who also co-wrote and co-produced the film. The movie also stars Malcolm McDowell as the ballet company's artistic director, a character based on Gerald Arpino.[1] The Company is composed of stories gathered from the dancers, choreographers, and staff of the Joffrey Ballet.
Excerpts of the following pieces are included in the film: Neve Campbell - Loretta 'Ry' RyanMalcolm McDowell - Alberto AntonelliJames Franco - Josh Williams Dance lighting for the Joffrey Ballet portions was composed by internationally recognized dance lighting designer Kevin Dreyer. Conversely, Elvis Mitchell called the film "enjoyably lithe and droll" and attributed a "great deal of the film's appeal" to McDowell's performance, while noting the film "doesn't stick with you as a whole. Panic. All Critics (56) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (51) | Rotten (5) | DVD (16) A gently subversive outing full of nicely limned characters. Bromell ... is adept at piercing the heart of dysfunctional family ties.
It's less the plot than the texture that makes the film such an engaging surprise. The results are quietly electrifying. Stylish and assured, but it's finally too studied to get the kind of emotional heft it's looking for from its effects. Radiates quiet and calm, while simmering with tension both comic and tragic. April 20, 2001 Singlehandedly, William H. An unjustly abandoned film, one that should be seen immediately on the outside chance that it makes a stop in your town. ...the film never really takes off.
January 11, 2003 William H. Quirky, funny, dark, it hits your funny bone, offends your sense of ethics, occasionally even touches your heartstrings. Panic is the kind of movie that reminds you of other movies, then turns that familiarity into an asset. Macy is ... remarkably good. Erotic thriller. The erotic thriller is a film and literary sub-genre which consists of a mixture between erotica and thriller.[1] The genre increased in North American popularity from the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, before declining in marketability.[2] Notable erotic thrillers[edit] 1980s[edit] 1990s[edit] 2000s[edit] 2010s[edit] See also[edit] External links[edit] References[edit]
Incredibly excited for. Orlando: A Biography. Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels. The novel has been influential stylistically, and is considered important in literature generally, and particularly in the history of women's writing, gender studies, and transgender studies. Plot[edit] Orlando tells the story of a young man named Orlando, born in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. He is briefly a lover to the elderly queen. After her death he has a brief, intense love affair with Sasha, ostensibly a princess in the entourage of the Russian embassy.
Following Sasha's sudden departure and return to Russia, the desolate Orlando returns to writing The Oak Tree, a long poem started and abandoned in his youth. The now Lady Orlando covertly escapes Constantinople in the company of a Gypsy clan. Influence and recognition[edit] Irréversible. American film critic Roger Ebert called it "a movie so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable. "[3] Irréversible competed at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and won the Stockholm International Film Festival's award for best film. Irreversible has been associated with a series of films defined as the cinéma du corps ("cinema of the body"), which according to Tim Palmer share affinities with certain avant-garde productions: an attenuated use of narrative, assaulting and often illegible cinematography, confrontational subject material, a pervasive sense of social nihilism or despair.[4] Irreversible has also been associated with the New French Extremity movement.
Plot[edit] Irréversible contains 13 scenes presented in reverse chronological order. They are outlined here in chronological order. Marcus (Vincent Cassel) and Alex now lie in bed after sex. Some time passes and the trio are now at a party. A short period of time passes. Marcus and Pierre go to The Rectum. Film/Boyz n the Hood. Smiley Face (film) Smiley Face is a 2007 comedy film written by Dylan Haggerty and directed and co-produced by Gregg Araki. It stars Anna Faris as a young woman who has a series of misadventures after eating a large number of cupcakes laced with cannabis. The supporting cast includes Danny Masterson, John Krasinski, Adam Brody, Jayma Mays, Marion Ross, Jane Lynch, and Roscoe Lee Browne in his final film.[2] This was the ninth feature film directed by Araki.
Eric Chen as Mr. GayWei Wang as the guy smoking weedRoscoe Lee Browne as Narrator/Himself (voice)Anna Faris as Jane FDanny Masterson as Steve the RoommateAdam Brody as Steve the DealerJohn Krasinski as BrevinJayma Mays as Waiting room actressMarion Ross as ShirleyJane Lynch as Casting directorBrian Posehn as Bus driverRick Hoffman as Angry FaceJoey Coco Diaz as Security guardMichael Hitchcock as Laundry room manJohn Cho as MikeyDanny Trejo as AlbertRichard Riehle as Mr. However, S. The Man Who Fell to Earth (film) The Man Who Fell to Earth is a 1976 British science fiction film directed by Nicolas Roeg. The film was produced by Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings, who reunited two years later for work on another epic, The Deer Hunter. Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth from a distant planet on a mission to take water back to his home planet,[5] which is experiencing a catastrophic drought.[6] Newton uses the advanced technology of his home planet to patent (nine basic patents) many inventions on Earth, and acquires incredible wealth as the head of a technology-based conglomerate, World Enterprises Corporation, aided by leading patent attorney Oliver Farnsworth.
His wealth is needed to construct his own space vehicle with the intention of shipping water back to his planet. While revisiting New Mexico, he meets Mary-Lou, a lonely, unloved, and simple girl who works as a maid, bell-hop, and elevator operator in a small hotel; he tells her he is English. Meanwhile, Dr. Liquid Sky. Liquid Sky is an independent American science fiction film.[1] It debuted at the Montreal Film festival in August 1982 and was well received at several film festivals thereafter.[2] It was produced with a budget of $500,000. It became the most successful independent film of 1983 grossing $1.7 million in the first several months of release.[3] The film is seen as heavily influencing a club scene that emerged in the early 2000s in Brooklyn, Berlin and London called electroclash.[4] Plot[edit] An avant garde fashion show is to be held in a New Wave nightclub in Manhattan.
An alien spacecraft—about the size of a dinner plate—lands on the rooftop of the penthouse apartment occupied by Margaret and Adrian. Margaret and Jimmy perform in the nightclub fashion show. Across town, middle class Katherine (Elaine C. Seeking a vantage point on his own, Johann seeks access to an apartment building adjacent to Margaret's. The crew arrives at Margaret's apartment for the fashion shoot. Cast[edit] Orlando (film) Orlando is a 1992 film[3] based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando: A Biography, starring Tilda Swinton as Orlando, Billy Zane as Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine, and Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth I. It was directed by Sally Potter.[4] Orlando was rereleased by Sony Pictures Classics in select theatres starting 6 August 2010.[5] The film begins in the Elizabethan Age shortly before the death of Queen Elizabeth I. On her deathbed, Elizabeth promises an androgynous young nobleman named Orlando a large tract of land and a castle built on it along with a generous monetary gift which she will only bequeath to him if he consents to her command, "Do not fade.
Do not wither. Do not grow old. " Both he and his heirs will keep the land and inheritance forever. The succeeding two centuries tire her out; the court case, bad luck in love and the wars of British history eventually bring her up to the 1990s, with a young daughter in tow and a book in search of a publisher. Before Midnight (film) Before Midnight is a 2013 American romantic drama film and the sequel to Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004).
Like its predecessors, the film was directed by Richard Linklater and stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. Co-written by Linklater, Hawke and Delpy, the film picks up the story in Before Sunset nine years on when Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy) spend a summer vacation together in Greece. Nine years after the conclusion of Before Sunset, Jesse (Hawke) and Céline (Delpy) are a couple and parents to twin girls conceived when they got together for the second time. Jesse is also struggling to maintain his relationship with his teenage son, Hank (Davey-Fitzpatrick), who lives in Chicago with Jesse's ex-wife and who, after spending the summer with Jesse and Céline on the Greek Peloponnese peninsula, is being dropped off at the airport to fly home. Linklater, Hawke, and Delpy all had suggested the possibility of a sequel to Before Sunset. The A.V. Before Sunset. Plot[edit] Once the presentation is over, the bookstore manager reminds him he has a plane to catch and must leave for the airport in a little more than an hour, and so just like in Before Sunrise, Céline and Jesse's reunion is constrained by time.
As in the earlier movie, the characters are forced to make the best of the little time they have together, making it easier for their conversations to become ever more personal, beginning with the usual thirty-something's themes of work and politics and then, with ever increasing passion, approaching their love for each other, just as their time together is running out. Early in their conversation, they broach the subject of why they did not meet as promised six months after their first encounter.
It turns out that Jesse had returned to Vienna, as promised, but Céline did not, because her grandmother had suddenly died before the scheduled date of the meeting. As they talk, each reveals what has happened in their lives since first meeting. American Splendor (film) American Splendor is a 2003 American biographical comedy-drama film about Harvey Pekar, the author of the American Splendor comic book series. The film is also in part an adaptation of the comics, which dramatize Pekar's life. The film was written and directed by documentarians Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who share writing credit with Pekar and his wife, Joyce Brabner.[3] The film stars Paul Giamatti as Pekar and Hope Davis as Brabner.
It also features appearances from Pekar and Brabner themselves (along with Toby Radloff), who discuss their lives, the comic books, and how it feels to be depicted onscreen by actors. It was filmed entirely on location in Cleveland and Lakewood in Ohio.[4] American Splendor won the Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Film at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, in addition to the award for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. Pekar wrote about the effects of the film in American Splendor: Our Movie Year. Won Nominated Academy Awards. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Plot[edit] In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) is the affable, clever, talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot "Sundance Kid" (Robert Redford). The two return to their hideout at Hole-in-the-Wall to discover that the rest of the gang, irked at Butch's long absences, have selected Harvey Logan (Ted Cassidy) as their new leader.
Harvey challenges Butch to a knife fight over the gang's leadership. Butch defeats him using trickery, but embraces his idea to rob the Union Pacific Overland Flyer train on both its eastward and westward runs, agreeing that the second robbery would be unexpected and likely reap even more money than the first. Butch persuades Sundance and Etta that the three should escape to Bolivia, which Butch envisions as a robber's paradise. Butch suggests "going straight", and he and Sundance land their first honest job as payroll guards for a mining company. Cast[edit] Production[edit] Reception[edit] The Ice Storm (film) The Ice Storm is a 1997 American drama film directed by Ang Lee, based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Rick Moody. The film features an ensemble cast of Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, and Sigourney Weaver. Set during Thanksgiving 1973, The Ice Storm is about two dysfunctional New Canaan, Connecticut families who are trying to deal with tumultuous political and social changes of the early 1970s, and their escapism through alcohol, adultery, and sexual experimentation.
Upon the film's opening in the United States on October 31, 1997, its release was limited and grossed only US$8 million on a budget of US$18 million, making it a box office flop. A new special two-disc DVD set was also released as a part of the Criterion Collection on March 18, 2008.[2] Ben, dissatisfied in his marriage and with the futility of his career, is having an affair with Janey. Jim travels for his job and is, for the most part, not involved in his children's lives. The Piano. The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand romantic drama film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater on the west coast of New Zealand.
The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, and Anna Paquin, in her first acting role. It features a score for the piano by Michael Nyman which became a best-selling soundtrack album. Hunter played her own piano pieces for the film, and also served as sign language teacher for Paquin, earning three screen credits. The film is an international co-production by Australian producer Jan Chapman with the French company Ciby 2000. Plot[edit] The Piano tells the story of a mute Scotswoman, Ada McGrath, whose father sells her into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman, Alisdair Stewart. She is shipped off along with her young daughter Flora.
Despite Ada having the piano back, she ultimately finds herself missing Baines watching her as she plays. Last Tango in Paris. The Age of Innocence (1993 film) Sleeping Beauties. She Wants Me - Official Trailer. Much Ado About Nothing (2012 film) Like Crazy. Pretty Persuasion. Scorpio Rising (film) The Wisdom Tree Film: Science meets Spirituality meets Fine Art. 50/50 (2011 film) The Quiet. Hamlet 2. Breathless (1960 film) Mama (2013 film) Savages (2012 film) Jack & Diane (film) Stealing Beauty. Bandits (2001 film) Enemies, a Love Story (film) Design for Living (film) Caligula (film) Nowhere (film) The Doom Generation. Splendor (1999 film) A Dangerous Method. Augustine. The Hunger (1983 film) The Passenger (1975 film) 5 Great Movies With Mind-Blowing Symbolism You Didn't Notice.
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