Posts Tagged ‘jazz’

Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Black, Jack | Def, Mos | Glover, Danny | Gooch, Irv | Parker, Chandler | Smith, Arjay | Aaron, Quinton | Perez, Gio | Soltys, Tomasz | Franklin, Marcus Carl | Hightower, Blake | Said, Amir Ali | Slotkoff, David | Heins, Frank | Hogan, Harvey
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A small VHS only video store faces foreclosure in a poor community. While watching the store for the owner, a blundering employee’s friend accidentally erases all of the tapes. In order to keep their blunder from becoming apparent, the duo of Mos Def and Jack Black begin remaking the films themselves using homemade special effects and outdated filming techniques.

Mo’ Better Blues (1990)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Washington, Denzel | Snipes, Wesley | Esposito, Giancarlo | Harris, Robin | Lee, Joie | Nunn, Bill | Turturro, John | Williams, Dick Anthony | Williams, Cynda | Turturro, Nicholas | Watts, Jeff 'Tain' | Jackson, Samuel L. | Thomas, Leonard L. | Murphy, Charles Q.
Directors: Lee, Spike
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Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into adulthood and forms his own band - The Bleek Gilliam Quartet. The story of Bleek’s and Shadow’s friendly rivalry on stage which spills into their professional relationship and threatens to tear apart the quartet.

Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Damon, Matt | Paltrow, Gwyneth | Law, Jude | Blanchett, Cate | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Davenport, Jack | Rebhorn, James | Rubini, Sergio | Hall, Philip Baker | Weston, Celia | Fiorello | Rocca, Stefania | Marescotti, Ivano | Longhi, Anna | Fabrizi, Alessandro
Directors: Minghella, Anthony
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The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In Italy, Tom attaches himself to Dickie and to Marge, Dickie’s cultured fiancée, pretending to love jazz and harboring homoerotic hopes as he soaks in luxury. Besides lying, Tom’s talents include impressions and forgery, so when the handsome and confident Dickie tires of Tom, dismissing him as a bore, Tom goes to extreme lengths to make Greenleaf’s privileges his own.

Sweet and Lowdown (1999)

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Penn, Sean | Morton, Samantha | Thurman, Uma | Markinson, Brian | LaPaglia, Anthony | Urbaniak, James | Mol, Gretchen | Waters, John | Garrett, Brad | Allen, Woody | Duncan, Ben | Okrent, Daniel | Moran, Dan | Darrow, Tony
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A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. We follow Ray’s life: bouts of getting drunk, his bizzare hobbies of shooting rats and watching passing trains, his dreams of fame and fortune, his strange obsession with the better-known guitarist Django Reinhardt, and of course, playing his beautiful music.

Angel Heart (1987)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK | USA
Actors: Rourke, Mickey | De Niro, Robert | Bonet, Lisa | Rampling, Charlotte | McGhee, Brownie | Fontelieu, Stocker | Higgins, John Michael | Whitcraft, Elizabeth | Keener, Eliott | Gordone, Charles | Florek, Dann | Wilhoite, Kathleen | Buck, George | Drake, Judith | Orange, Gerald
Directors: Parker, Alan
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Harry Angel is a private investigator. He is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer called Johnny Favorite. As he begins to investigate, all the people he contacts concerning Johnny are killed in mysterious ways. As he finds out more about himself and his client he discovers that he is fighting for his very existence and is forced to deal with the devil himself.

Collateral (2004)

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cruise, Tom | Foxx, Jamie | Pinkett Smith, Jada | Ruffalo, Mark | Berg, Peter | McGill, Bruce | Hall, Irma P. | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Jones, Richard T. | Scott, Klea | Elfman, Bodhi | Mazar, Debi | Bardem, Javier | Rivera, Emilio | McBride, Jamie
Directors: Mann, Michael
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Max has lived a mundane life as a cab driver for twelve years. The faces have come and gone from his rear-view mirror: people and places he’s long since forgotten—until tonight. Vincent is a contract killer. When an off-shore narco-trafficking cartel learns that they’re about to be indicted by a federal grand jury, they mount an operation to identify and kill the key witness, and the last stage is tonight. It is on this very night that Vincent has arrived—and five bodies are supposed to fall. Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max’ taxicab, and Max becomes collateral—an expendable person who’s in the wrong place at the wrong time. Through the night, Vincent forces Max to drive him to each assigned destination. And as the L.A.P.D. and F.B.I. race to intercept them, Max and Vincent’s survival become dependent on each other, in ways neither would have imagined.

Terminal, The (2004)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Zeta-Jones, Catherine | Tucci, Stanley | McBride, Chi | Luna, Diego | Henley, Barry Shabaka | Pallana, Kumar | Saldana, Zoe | Jones, Eddie | Ciccolella, Jude | Reynolds, Corey | Díaz, Guillermo | Bell, Rini | Mendel, Stephen | Nikolayev, Valeri
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Viktor Navorski, a man from an Eastern European country arrives in New York but after he left his country; war broke out and because of that Navorski is a man without a country that the U.S. cannot recognize, thus he is denied entrance to the U.S. However, he also can’t be deported so he is told by the Security Manager that he has to remain in the airport until his status can be fixed. And also Navorski doesn’t speak English well, so no one can talk to him and he can’t talk to anyone. But he somehow adapts and sets up residence in the airport, which makes the man who placed him there unhappy cause, it seems he is line for a promotion but Navroski’s presence might complicate that. So he tries to get Navorski to leave but Navorski remains where he is. Navorski makes friends with some of the people who work in the airport and is attracted to a flight attendant he runs into whenever she comes in.