Tuesday, 6 July 2010

KILLER SHREWS US 1/2sh '59

The Killer Shrews, the 1959 Ray Kellogg science fiction (sci-fi) giant rodent monster horror thriller ("All that was left after... 'THE KILLER SHREWS'"; about a group of people trapped on an island with a doctor whose experiment has unwittingly created giant shrews) starring Ingrid Goude, James Best, Ken Curtis, Baruch Lumet, and Gordon McLendon.


WAR BETWEEN THE PLANETS US 1/2sh '71


Il Pianeta Errante (released in the U.S. in 1971 as "War Between the Planets"), the 1965 Anthony Margheriti (billed as "Anthony Dawson") Italian science fiction planet collision outer space horror thriller ("The Earth is scourged by floods, earthquakes and disasters... Until a space station discovers a fiery unknown planet heading for a collision to destroy all humanity!"; "The earth is scourged by floods, earthquakes and disasters...") starring Jack Stuart, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Pietro Martellanza, John Bartha, Marco Bogliani, Ombretta Colli, Vera Dolen, Enzo Fiermonte, Renato Montalbano, Giuliano Raffaelli, and Franco Ressel.


DOWNHILL RACER US 1/2sh '69


Downhill Racer (sometimes referred to as "The Downhill Racer"), the 1969 Michael Ritchie Olympic skiing sports melodrama ("How fast must a man go to get from where he's at?"; based on the novel by Oakley Hall) starring Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv, Joe Jay Jalbert, and Tom J. Kirk



STRAW DOGS US 1/2sh '72

Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs, the classic 1972 Sam Peckinpah English/U.S. ultra violent rape revenge crime thriller ("Special Notice : 'Straw Dogs' unleashes such dramatic intensity that this theatre is scheduling a 5-minute interval between all performances"; "The knock at the door meant the birth of a man and the death of seven others."; based on the novel "The Siege of Trencher's Farm" by Gordon M. Williams) starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan George ("as Amy"), Del Henney, Peter Vaughan, and T.P. McKenna


JAWS Japanese '75
Jaws, the classic 1975 Steven Spielberg Universal man-eating shark horror thriller ("The terrifying motion picture from the terrifying No. 1 best seller."; "If you forgot what TERROR was like... It's back"; "See what you missed the first time... After you closed your eyes."; "Based on the novel by Peter Benchley"; "...May be too INTENSE for younger children"; Academy Award winning musical score by John Williams; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; special effects by Robert A. Mattey) starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb, Jeffrey Kramer, Susan Backlinie, Jonathan Filley, Ted Grossman, Chris Rebello, Jay Mello, Lee Fierro, Jeffrey Voorhees, Craig Kingsbury, and Dr. Robert Nevin


TAXI DRIVER Japanese '76

Taxi Driver, the classic 1976 Martin Scorsese unraveling-of-a-psychopath crime thriller ("On every street in every city in this country there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody."; "He's a lonely forgotten man desperate to prove that he's alive."; "Written by Paul Schrader"; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award) starring Robert De Niro (in his nominated for Best Actor Academy Award role), Jodie Foster (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role), Albert Brooks ("as Tom"), Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle (the wonderfully zany comic actor, who improves every movie he is in, and was recently in TV's "Everybody Loves Raymond"; "as 'Wizard'"), and Cybill Shepherd ("as Betsy")



INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS style A advance Japanese '09
Inglourious Basterds, the 2009 Quentin Tarantino U.S./German World War II (WWII) occupied France Nazi resistance black comedy action thriller ("Once upon a time in Nazi occupied France..."; "A basterd's work is never done."; "Brad Pitt is a Basterd"; "A New Film by Quentin Tarantino") starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Druhl, Til Schweiger, Melanie Laurent ("as Shosanna"), August Diehl, Julie Dreyfus, Sylverster Groth, Jacky Ido, Dennis Menochet, Mike Myers, Rod Taylor, Martin Wuttke, and B.J. Novak


MASH US 1/2sh '70
M*A*S*H, the classic 1970 Robert Altman Korean War army-life military dark comedy ("Screenplay by Ring Lardner, Jr."; "From a novel by Richard Hooker"; nominated for the Best Director and Best Picture Academy Award) starring Donald Sutherland (as 'Hawkeye' Pierce), Elliott Gould (as 'Trapper John' McIntyre), Tom Skerritt (as 'Duke' Forrest), Sally Kellerman (in her nominated for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award role; as 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan), Robert Duvall (as Major 'Frank' Burns), Jo Ann Pflug (as 'Dish' Schneider), Rene Auberjonois (as Father Mulcahy), Gary Burghoff (as 'Radar' O'Reilly), Roger Bowen (as Colonel Henry Blake), Fred Williamson (as 'Spearchucker' Jones; black African-American former NFL Oakland Raiders/Kansas City Chiefs professional football player, who successfully appeared in movies, mostly "blaxploitation" ones), Kim Atwood (as Ho-Jon), John Schuck (as 'Painless' Waldowski), and David Arkin (as the PA announcer)

Saturday, 3 July 2010

The Expendables 2010

The Expendables is an upcoming ensemble action/war film written by Dave Callaham and Sylvester Stallone, and directed by Stallone. Filming began on March 28, 2009, in Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and is expected to be released on August 13, 2010. The film pays tribute to the blockbuster action films of the 1980s and early '90s, and stars an array of action veterans from those decades, including Stallone himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, and Jet Li, as well as more recent stars such as Jason Statham, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, and Stone Cold Steve Austin.

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Thunderball Italian R70s

The Girl on a Motorcycle / Naked Under Leather 1968

The Girl on a Motorcycle (French: La motocyclette), also known as Naked Under Leather, is a 1968 British-French film starring Alain Delon, Marianne Faithfull, Roger Mutton, Marius Goring, and Catherine Jourdan. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival,[1] but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. The Girl on a Motorcycle redefined the leather jacket for motorcyclists into a full body suit that Marianne Faithfull wore in the film. [2]



Midnight Cowboy German 1969



WILD AFFAIR 1sh '65

The Wild Affair, the 1963 (released in the U.S. in 1965) John Krish English workplace romantic comedy ("Can a secretary say NO! when her boss says YES???"; "At the wildest office party ever tossed!!!"; "the motion picture every secretary should see and every boss' wife should miss!!! [For their own peace of mind!!!]") starring Nancy Kwan, Terry-Thomas (billed as "Guest Star Terry-Thomas"; born Terry Thomas Hoar Stevens, he was a very minor actor from 1935 to 1941, and then quit the business for seven years, and in his forties he became quite popular in English comedies, and he adopted the stage name of "Terry-Thomas", and he had a gap between his front teeth which was his trademark), Jerry Logan, Bud Flanagan, Gladys Morgan, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Betty Marsden, Donald Church, and Victor Spinnetti (famous for his roles in the Beatles' movies!)


Bad Education , Polish 2004

Spanish drama film directed by Pedro Almodóvar about two reunited childhood friends (and lovers) in the vein of a murder mystery. Sexual abuse by Catholic priests, transsexuality, drug abuse, and a metafiction are also important themes and devices in the plot.

Spread 2009

Spread is a 2009 film starring Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche and directed by David Mackenzie.

Little Miss Sunshine 2006

Little Miss Sunshine is a 2006 American comedy-drama. The film is a road moviebeauty pageant, with a large portion focusing on events related to the family vehicle, a Volkswagen T2 Microbus. about a family's trip to a children's



Catch Me If You Can 2002

Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American crime film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor and Louisiana attorney and parish prosecutor. His primary crime was cheque forgery, becoming so skillful that the FBI eventually turned to him for help in catching other cheque forgers. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Abagnale and Tom Hanks as Hanratty as well as Christopher Walken, Amy Adams, Martin Sheen, and Nathalie Baye.

ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO style C 1sh '67

Rough Night in Jericho, the 1967 Arnold Laven cowboy western ("Who says they don't make Westerns like they used to? We just did."; "Their desires... Their hatred... Their violence exploded one furious night!"; "Screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Marvin H. Albert") starring George Peppard, Dean Martin, Jean Simmons, John McIntire, Slim Pickens, and Don Galloway



Nude In His Pocket 1Sh English 1957

Un amour de poche (released in English-speaking countries as "Nude in his Pocket"), the 1957 Pierre Kast French fantasy comedy ("The next man you see might have a Nude in his Pocket") starring Jean Marais, Genevieve Page, Agnes Laurent, and Jean-Claude Brialy


Spartacus German 1Sh R1974

Spartacus is a 1960 American historical drama movie directed by Stanley Kubrick and based on the novel of the same name by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. The film stars Kirk Douglas as rebellious slave Spartacus and Laurence Olivier as his foe, the Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus. The film also stars Peter Ustinov (who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as slave trader Lentulus Batiatus), John Gavin (as Julius Caesar), Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, John Ireland, Herbert Lom, Woody Strode, Tony Curtis, John Dall and Charles McGraw. The titles were designed by Saul Bass.[1]

2001: A Space Odyssey 1968

2001: A Space Odyssey (often referred to as simply 2001) is a 1968 epic science fiction filmStanley Kubrick released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke. The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous imagery that is open-ended to a point approaching surrealism, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue.The film has a memorable soundtrack—the result of the association that Kubrick made between the spinning motion of the satellites and the dancers of waltzes, which led him to use the The Blue Danube waltz by Johann Strauss II,[1] and the famous symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss, to portray the philosophical evolution of Man theorized in Nietzsche's homonymous work.[2][3]

Thursday, 10 June 2010

Wonderland (2003)




Wonderland is a 2003 American/Canadian crime/drama about the Wonderland Murders starring Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth and Lisa Kudrow. It was directed by James Cox. Kilmer plays the role of John Holmes, the pornographic film star, a suspected accomplice in four grisly murders committed in an apartment on Wonderland Avenue in the Laurel Canyon section of Los Angeles.

Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Dr No (1962)

The Prince and the Showgirl Danish 1957

The Prince and the Showgirl is a 1957 American film produced at Pinewood StudiosMarilyn Monroe and co-starring Laurence Olivier who also served as director and producer. starring

The film was released on 13 June 1957. It was written by Terence Rattigan who based the script on his play The Sleeping Prince.

Burn After Reading (2008)


Burn After Reading is a 2008 dark comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.The film stars George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, and Brad Pitt. It was released in the United States on September 12, 2008, and it was released on October 17, 2008 in the United Kingdom. The film had its premiere on August 27, 2008, when it opened the 2008 Venice Film Festival

A Guide to Recognizing your Saints (2006)


A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2006 American drama film starring Robert Downey, Jr. (Shia LaBeouf as his younger self), Rosario Dawson (Melonie Diaz), and Eric Roberts (Channing Tatum). It is based on a 2001 memoir of the same name by author and musician Dito Montiel, which describes his youth in Astoria, New York during the 1980s.

Little Children (2006)


Little Children is a 2006 comedy-drama film directed by Todd Field. It is based on the novel of the same name by Tom Perrotta, who along with Field wrote the screenplay. It stars Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Noah Emmerich, and Jackie Earle Haley.

Pret-a-Porte (1994)


Prêt-à-Porter (English: Ready to Wear) is a 1994 satirical black comedy film co-written, directed and produced by Robert Altman and shot during the Paris, France, Fashion Week with a host of international stars, models and designers. The film may be best known for its many cameo appearances and its final scene which features two minutes of nude female models walking the catwalk.

Arabesque (1966)


Arabesque is a 1966 thriller starring Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren.

Professor David Pollock (Peck) is an expert in ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University. A Middle Eastern Prime Minister convinces Pollock to infiltrate the organization of a man named Beshraavi (Alan Badel), who is involved in a plot against the Prime Minister. The nature of the plot is believed to be found in a hieroglyphic code. Beshraavi's mistress, Yasmin Azir (Loren) is a mystery intertwined in the plot. Pollock needs her help, but when she repeatedly seems to double cross him in one escapade after another, he can't decide on whose side she is working. Ultimately working together, Pollock and Yasmin decipher the plot and set out to stop an assassination of the Prime Minister.

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)



Watching the 40th anniversary re-release of Breakfast At Tiffany's, you can't help but wonder what a film-maker with the cutting edge of Billy Wilder or Alfred Hitchcock might have done with Truman Capote's novella, especially as Blake Edwards and screenwriter George Axelrod turned the acerbic tale of a New York socialite-cum-callgirl into a sugary romantic fantasy.

Harper (1966)



Harper is a 1966 film written by William Goldman from a novel by Ross Macdonald. The movie starred Paul Newman as the eponymous Lew Harper (Lew Archer in the novel). The original music score was composed by Johnny Mandel. Goldman received a 1967 Edgar Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. Shelley Winters played the once-gorgeous former starlet Fay Estabrook, who is now an alcoholic.

El Caso Thomas Crown (1968)


Spanish Poster

The Thomas Crown Affair
is a 1968 movie by Norman Jewison starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. It was nominated for two Academy Awards and won the Award for Best Song with "Windmills of Your Mind". A remake was released in 1999.

Thomas Crown, a millionaire businessman and sportsman, pulls off a perfect crime by having five men rob a Boston bank and dump the money—approximately $2.6 million—in a cemetery's trash can. Crown retrieves the money later and deposits it at a bank in Geneva.

Vicki Anderson, an independent insurance investigator, is contracted to investigate the heist. She will receive a percentage of the stolen money if she recovers it.

The biggest Bundel (1968)



Italian Poster

The Biggest Bundle of Them All is a 1968 American crime film set in Napoli, Italy. The story is about a mobster and a novice gang of crooks who team up to steal $5 million worth of platinum ingots from a train. The film stars Robert Wagner and Raquel Welch and was directed by Ken Annakin.

Seven Year itch (1955)



German 60s Re-Release Poster

The Seven Year Itch is a 1955 American film based on a three-act play by George Axelrod. The film was co-written and directed by Billy Wilder, and starred Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell, reprising his Broadway role. It contains one of the most iconic images of the 20th century -- Monroe standing on a subway grate as her dress is blown above her knees by a passing train. The titular phrase, which refers to declining interest in a monogamous relationship after seven years of marriage, has been used by psychologists.

Monday, 7 June 2010

Heat (1972)





German Poster

Heat, also known as Andy Warhol's Heat, is an American film released in 1972. Written and directed by filmmaker Paul Morrissey and produced by Andy Warhol, it starred Joe Dallesandro, Sylvia Miles and Andrea Feldman.

The film was conceived by Warhol as a parody of some sort of Sunset Boulevard.

Two for the Road (1967)


Austrailian Poster

Two for the Road
is a 1967 American film directed by Stanley Donen about the twelve-year relationship between an architect (Albert Finney) and his wife (Audrey Hepburn).

Flesh (1968)



German & French Poster

Flesh was filmmaker Paul Morrissey's first production for Andy Warhol. The story concerns a bisexual hustler (Joe Dallesandro) who does tricks so that he can pay for his wife's lover's abortion. The film made headlines when it was confiscated by the police during one of its earliest showings in 1970. Though this event is unlikely to repeat itself, Flesh is still explicit enough to elicit gasps from even the most jaded of underground-film enthusiasts. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The Graduate (1967)


The french poster

The Graduate
is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay was by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, who makes a cameo appearance as the hotel clerk. The film tells the story of Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman), a recent university graduate with no well-defined aim in life, who is seduced by an older woman, Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), and then proceeds to fall in love with her daughter Elaine (Katharine Ross).

Pumping Iron (1977)

Pumping Iron is a 1977 documentary film about the run-up to the 1975 Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition. The film focuses on Arnold Schwarzenegger and his competitors, Lou Ferrigno and Franco Columbu. The documentary was co-directed by Robert Fiore and George Butler. It was based on the book of the same name by Charles Gaines and George Butler (Simon and Schuster, 1974).