background preloader

Movies A

Facebook Twitter

The Banker (2004) Minuit à Paris (2011) Cloud Atlas (2012) The Squid and the Whale (2005) House of D (2004) The Petrified Forest. Plot[edit] Title from the film's trailer Alan Squier (Howard), once a British intellectual and writer, now a penniless drifter, wanders into a roadside diner in the Petrified Forest area in northern Arizona. The diner is run by Jason Maple (Porter Hall), his daughter Gabrielle (Davis), and her grandfather (Charley Grapewin), "an old man who was missed by Billy the Kid. " Alan recounts his European adventures and Gabrielle is instantly smitten with him. Gabrielle's mother, a French war bride who fell in love with Jason when he was a young, handsome American serviceman, left her "dull defeated man" and moved back to France when Gabrielle was a baby. She now sends poetry to Gabrielle, who dreams of moving to Bourges to become an artist. Everyone is of course terrified, except Alan, who has little to live for.

The police close in; Duke obliges Alan by shooting him. Cast[edit] History[edit] Radio and television adaptations[edit] Legacy[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Streaming audio. The Big Sleep. The story is noted for its complexity, with many characters double-crossing one another and many secrets being exposed throughout the narrative. The title is a euphemism for death; it refers to a rumination in the final pages of the book about "sleeping the big sleep". In 1999, the book was voted ninety-sixth of Le Monde's "100 Books of the Century". In 2005, it was included in "TIME's List of the 100 Best Novels".[1] Plot summary[edit] Private investigator Philip Marlowe is called to the home of wealthy, elderly General Sternwood, in the month of October. Marlowe investigates Geiger's bookstore and meets Agnes, the clerk.

Marlowe stakes out the bookstore and sees its inventory being moved to Joe Brody's home. Marlowe goes to Brody's home and finds him with Agnes, the bookstore's clerk. The case is now over, but Marlowe is nagged by Regan's disappearance. A man named Harry Jones, who is Agnes's new partner, approaches Marlowe and offers to sell him the location of Mona Mars. [edit] To Have and Have Not. To Have and Have Not is a 1937 novel by Ernest Hemingway about Harry Morgan, a fishing boat captain who runs contraband between Cuba and Florida. The novel depicts Harry as an essentially good man who is forced into blackmarket activity by economic forces beyond his control. Initially, his fishing charter customer Mr. Johnson tricks Harry by slipping away without paying any of the money he owes him.

Harry then makes a critical decision to smuggle Chinese immigrants into Florida to make ends meet. To continue supporting his family, Harry begins to regularly ferry different types of illegal cargo between the two countries, including alcohol and Cuban revolutionaries. The Great Depression features prominently in the novel, forcing depravity and hunger on the poor residents of Key West who are referred to as "Conchs. " Film director Howard Hawks, who adapted the novel for his 1944 film, claimed that Hemingway had told him it was his worst book, and a "bunch of junk".[2] Film adaptations[edit] Dark Passage. First edition cover Plot[edit] Vincent Parry, wrongly convicted of murdering his wife, escapes from prison and is taken in by Irene Jansen, an artist with an interest in his case. Helped by a friendly cabbie, Parry gets a new face from a plastic surgeon, thereby enabling him to dodge the authorities and find his wife's real killer.

He has difficulty staying hidden, in part because Madge Rapf, the spiteful woman whose testimony sent him up to prison, and who has an unhealthy interest in Irene, keeps stopping by. Film and television[edit] Legal issues[edit] External links[edit] Dark Passage profile at IMDb. Key Largo. Coordinates: Location of Key Largo, Florida (red dot near bottom of the map) December sunset, Key Largo Sunset, Key Largo Key Largo is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and is the largest section of the Keys, at 33 miles (53 km) long. Key Largo is connected to the mainland in Miami-Dade County by two routes. Key Largo is a popular tourist destination and calls itself the "Diving Capital of the World" because the living coral reef a few miles offshore attracts thousands of scuba divers and sport-fishing enthusiasts.[2] Key Largo's proximity to the Everglades also makes it a premier destination for kayakers and ecotourists.

Three census-designated places are on the island of Key Largo: North Key Largo, near the Card Sound Bridge, Key Largo, eight or nine miles from the southern end of the island, and Tavernier, at the southern end of the island. Geology and geography[edit] Key Largo's climate is tropical (Aw or tropical savanna in Koppen Climate classification). References[edit] Tokyo Joe. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tokyo Joe may refer to: The Caine Mutiny. The Caine Mutiny is a 1951 Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Herman Wouk.

The novel grew out of Wouk's personal experiences aboard a destroyer-minesweeper in the Pacific in World War II and deals with, among other things, the moral and ethical decisions made at sea by the captains of ships. The mutiny of the title is legalistic, not violent, and takes place during a historic typhoon in December 1944. The court-martial that results provides the dramatic climax to the plot. Plot summary[edit] The story is told through the eyes of Willis Seward "Willie" Keith, an affluent, callow young man who signs up for midshipman school with the United States Navy to avoid being drafted into the Army during World War II. Willie, with a low opinion of the ways of the Navy, misses his ship when it leaves on a combat assignment, and rather than catch up with it, ducks his duties to play piano for an admiral who has taken a shine to him.

He is regarded as tyrannical, cowardly, and incompetent. See also[edit] In a Lonely Place. Although lesser known than his other work, Bogart's performance in this film is considered by many critics to be among his finest and the film's reputation itself has grown over time along with Ray's.[2] The film is now considered a classic film noir, as evidenced by its inclusion on the Time magazine "All-Time 100 List"[3] as well as Slant Magazine's 100 Essential Films.[4] In 2007, In a Lonely Place was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

" Plot[edit] Bogart as Dixon Steele Dix claims to be too tired to read the novel, so he asks Mildred to go home with him, ostensibly to explain the plot. As they enter the courtyard of his apartment, they pass a new tenant, Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame). Laurel takes a frightening ride with Dix When he gets home, Dix checks up on Laurel. However, Dix behaves strangely. Just then, the phone rings. Cast[edit] Background[edit] The David Dance (2014) Periods. (2012) Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) Maverick (1994) Tracks (2013) Little Thirteen (2012) The Babadook (2014) The Demon (1978. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985. Vengeance is Mine (1979. The Ballad of Narayama (1983.

Onibaba (1964. Elizabeth of Ladymead (1948. Katharina Schüttler. The Hungry Corpse (2013. The Notebook (2004. La nuit de l'iguane (1964. Les plaisirs de l'enfer (1957. Paul Newman. Paul Newman Circa 1950s Born Paul Leonard Newman ( 1925-01-26 ) January 26, 1925 Shaker Heights, Ohio Died September 26, 2008 ( 2008-09-26 ) (aged 83) Westport, Connecticut Cause of death Lung cancer Residence Nationality American Education Shaker Heights High School Kenyon College ( B.A. ) , Ohio University Occupation Actor , director , entrepreneur , professional racing driver Years active Known for Founder of Newman's Own , Home town Political party Democrat Board member of Newman's Own Spouse(s) Jackie Witte (1949–1958; divorced) Joanne Woodward (1958–2008; his death) Children Allan Scott Newman (1950–1978) Stephanie Newman (b.1951) Susan Kendall Newman (b.1953) Elinor Teresa Newman (b.1959) Melissa Steward Newman (b.1961) Clair Olivia Newman (b.1965) Awards Academy Award in 1986 Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Golden Globe Award BAFTA Award Screen Actors Guild Award Cannes Film Festival Award Emmy Award [ edit ] Early life Newman was born in Shaker Heights (a suburb of Cleveland )

. [ edit ] Military service. Paul Newman. Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) Jonathan Yeo. Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Christopher Dispossessed (2010) E=mc2 - Une biographie de l'équation (TV Movie 2005) Prozac Nation (2001) Don Jon (2013) Once Were Warriors (1994) What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? (1999) Adam & Paul (2004) Wadjda (2012) Like Father, Like Son (2013) Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Transcendence (2014) Belle (2013) Seduced and Abandoned (2013) When Will I Be Loved (2004) The Counterfeiters (2007) The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) Night and Fog (1955) Shoah (1985) The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) Europa Europa (1990) Downfall (2004) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Il Postino: The Postman (1994) Hero (2002) Battle Royale (2000) A Prophet (2009) Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Life Is Beautiful (1997)

City of God (2002) Amélie (2001) Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987) In Bruges (2008) Yves Saint Laurent (2014) Secret Men's Business (TV Movie 1999) The Spectacular Now (2013) Cinema Paradiso (1988) Ted (2012) Nicholas Nickleby (2002) Sundance Film Festival 2014 - a list by felipenor. Sundance Film Festival 2014 - a list by HulotD.