Posts Tagged ‘opera’

Untouchables, The (1987)

Friday, September 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Connery, Sean | Smith, Charles Martin | Garcia, Andy | De Niro, Robert | Bradford, Richard | Kehoe, Jack | Sullivan, Brad | Drago, Billy | Clarkson, Patricia | D'Ambrosio, Vito | Goldstein, Steven | Aylward, Peter | Harvey, Don | Swan, Robert
Directors: De Palma, Brian
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Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein’s _The Battleship Potemkin_.

Bonfire of the Vanities, The (1990)

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Willis, Bruce | Rubinek, Saul | Freeman, Morgan | Hancock, John | Dunn, Kevin | James, Clifton | Giambalvo, Louis | Heyman, Barton | Parker, Norman | Moffat, Donald | King, Alan | Fuller, Kurt | LeFevre, Adam | Libertini, Richard
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Financial “Master of the Universe” Sherman McCoy sees his life unravel when his mistress Maria Ruskin hits a black boy with his car. When yellow journalist Peter Fallow enflames public opinion with a series of distorted tabloid articles on the accident, the case is seized upon by opportunists like Reverend Bacon and mayoral candidate D.A. Abe Weiss.

Evita (1996)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Madonna | Banderas, Antonio | Pryce, Jonathan | Nail, Jimmy | Sus, Victoria | Littman, Julian | Merediz, Olga | Pallas, Laura | Worsley, Julia | Luján Hidalgo, María | Villamil, Servando | Corr, Andrea | Polycarpou, Peter | Brooker, Gary | Yerro, Maite
Directors: Parker, Alan
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Based on the incredible true story, Eva (Evita) Peron, starts out life as a poor girl who goes on to become an actress and then become the wife of the president of Argentina, Juan Peron. The musical is a story of love and politics, showing all the battles and triumphs Evita has in her short, but amazing life.

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: France | UK | USA
Actors: Cage, Nicolas | Cruz, Penélope | Hurt, John | Bale, Christian | Papas, Irene | Skiadaressis, Gerasimos | Kralli, Aspasia | Yannatos, Michael | Kaberidis, Dimitris | Sarubbi, Pietro | Maragaki, Viki | Adraktas, Joanna-Daria | Tavlaridis, Ira | Didaskalu, Katerina | Chilakis, Emilios
Directors: Madden, John
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The idyllic beauty of Greece’s Mediterranean coast has been invaded by Italy, bringing legions of soldiers to the once tranquil island of Cephallonia. Captain Antonio Corelli, an officer with an irrepressibly jovial personality and passion for the mandolin, initially alienates a number of the villagers, including Pelagia. The daughter of the village doctor, Pelagia is an educated and strong-willed woman, and while at first offended by the Italian soldier’s behavior, she slowly warms to his certain charms as they are forced to share her father’s home. When Pelagia’s fiancee, a local fisherman, heads off to war, the friendship between Antonio and Pelagia grows even stronger. Her beauty and intelligence have captured his heart, and his fondness for the village’s vibrant community causes him to question his reasons for fighting. Antonio becomes a part of the lives of the villagers, but the moment is fleeting. As the war grows ever closer, Antonio and Pelagia are forced to choose between their allegiance to their countries and the love they feel for one another-a love which must overcome tremendous odds, and endure the inevitable sacrifice which accompanies eternal devotion.

Avenging Angelo (2002)

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Stallone, Sylvester | Stowe, Madeleine | Quinn, Anthony | Bova, Raoul | Van Gorkum, Harry | Gardell, Billy | Touliatos, George | Celeste, Angelo | Perlman, Ezra | Moffat, Carin | Gilbert, John | Greenhalgh, Dawn | Tsarouchas, Angelo | Beatty, Nancy | Alter, Lori Anne
Directors: Burke, Martyn
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A woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman. She’s aided by his faithful bodyguard, with whom she soon falls in love.

Match Point (2005)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Luxembourg | UK
Actors: Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan | Armstrong, Alexander | Kaye, Paul | Goode, Matthew | Cox, Brian | Wilton, Penelope | Mortimer, Emily | Kelly, Janis | Oke, Alan | Gatiss, Mark | Johansson, Scarlett | Kunz, Simon | Streatfield, Geoffrey | Hegarty, Mary | Fortune, John
Directors: Allen, Woody
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Chris Wilton is a former tennis pro, looking to find work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a well-off pretty boy. Tom’s sister Chloe falls in love with Chris but Chris has his eyes on Tom’s fiancée, the luscious Nola. Both Chris and Nola know it’s wrong but what could be more right than love? Chris tries to juggle both women but at some point, he must choose between them…

4th Tenor, The (2002)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Dangerfield, Rodney | De Simone, Anita | Gurwitch, Annabelle | Fleischer, Charles | Davi, Robert | Camp, Hamilton | Raven, Elsa | Urrutia, Jacob | Libertini, Richard | Irrera, Dom | Cupo, Patrick | Giobbe, Anney | Schiavelli, Vincent | Mascarino, Pierrino | Belafsky, Marty
Directors: Basil, Harry
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Eternal bachelor Lupo plays the comical presenter to the musical acts in his own Italian restaurant ‘Serenade Café’ in New York, but operatic singer Gina is not amused, she throws him out of her dressing room- the more she insults him, the crazier the old fool gets about her. To keep him off she insists her husband must be an opera singer, so he is easily duped by Ierra, who hits on with Gina himself and ships Lupo off to his Italian cahoot, musical teacher Marcello, for lessons- actually he is so bad that even the dog runs off, and after they bribe the local opera to give him a tiny part, the sound-tortured audience chases him for his life. He passes out but is found and taken in by a winegrowers family, which gives him confidence and a killer voice…

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.

Batman Begins (2005)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bale, Christian | Caine, Michael | Neeson, Liam | Holmes, Katie | Oldman, Gary | Murphy, Cillian | Wilkinson, Tom | Hauer, Rutger | Watanabe, Ken | Boone Junior, Mark | Roache, Linus | Freeman, Morgan | Holden, Larry | Murphy, Gerard | McFarlane, Colin
Directors: Nolan, Christopher
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In tone with the early “Batman: Year One” style comics. As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes, a trauma which led him to become obsessed with revenge but his chance is cruelly taken away from him by fate. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with the dangerous but honorable ninja cult leader known as Ra’s Al-Ghul, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system whilst the company he inherited is slowly being pulled out from under him. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armored suit leads him to take on a new persona, one which will strike fear into the hearts of men who do wrong - he becomes, Batman. In the new guise, and with the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various nefarious schemes in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan ‘The Scarecrow’ Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.

xXx (2002)

Friday, May 4th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Diesel, Vin | Jackson, Samuel L. | Michael Roof | Csokas, Marton | Argento, Asia | Eve
Directors: Cohen, Rob
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Vin Diesel plays Xander Cage. He’s your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government “recruits” him to go on a mission, he’s not exactly thrilled. His mission: to gather information on an organization that may just be planning the destruction of the world, led by the nihilistic Yorgi.