Posts Tagged ‘1960s’

Wanderers, The (1979)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Ken Wahl | John Friedrich | Alan Rosenberg | Jim Youngs | Tony Ganios | William Andrews | Erland van Lidth | Val Avery | Dolph Sweet | Michael Wright | Burtt Harris | Samm-Art Williams | Dion Albanese | George Merolle | John Califano
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Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York’s gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950’s Rock n’ Roll soundtrack such as “Walk Like a Man”, “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by The Four Seasons and “My Boyfriend’s Back” by The Angels. Focusing around a football game where the different gangs play with and against each other, then at its grand finale, come together in a mass of union to defend their honour and their turf. Nostalgic stuff and above all a Rock n’ Roll retrospective on a grand musical era. Timeless.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | UK | USA
Actors: Rutger Hauer | Julia Roberts | Jennifer Rae Westley | Dick Clark | Sam Rockwell | Michelle Sweeney | Drew Barrymore | Chelsea Ceci | Brad Pitt | Matt Damon | Michael Cera | Aimee Rose Ambroziak | Isabelle Blais | Melissa Carter | Jennifer Hall | Ilona Elkin | Sean Tucker | Jaye P. Morgan | Maggie Gyllenhaal | David Julian Hirsh
Directors: George Clooney
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Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind” is the story of a legendary showman’s double life - television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.

National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)

Monday, July 7th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: John Belushi | Tim Matheson | John Vernon | Tom Hulce | Cesare Danova | Peter Riegert | Stephen Furst | James Daughton | Bruce McGill | Mark Metcalf | DeWayne Jessie | James Widdoes | Kevin Bacon | Donald Sutherland | Douglas Kenney
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Faber College has one frat house so disreputable it will take anyone. It has a second one full of white, anglo-saxon, rich young men who are so sanctimonious no one can stand them except Dean Wormer. The dean enlists the help of the second frat to get the boys of Delta House off campus. This film gives high-jinks and fooling around a bad name. P The dean’s plan comes into play just before the homecoming parade to end all parades for all time.

Talk to Me (2007)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Jim Annan | Benz Antoine | Matt Birman | David Brown | Cedric the Entertainer | Don Cheadle | J. Miles Dale | Davidx | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Mike Epps | Kamal Jones | Jeff Kassel | Jim Malmberg | Erick Peterson | Kwame Rakes
Directors: Kasi Lemmons
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The true life story of Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and “tell it like it is.” With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo’s brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey’s voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey’s “The truth just is” style — on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.

It (1990)

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Harry Anderson | Dennis Christopher | Richard Masur | Annette O'Toole | Tim Reid | John Ritter | Richard Thomas | Tim Curry | Jonathan Brandis | Brandon Crane | Adam Faraizl | Seth Green | Ben Heller | Emily Perkins | Marlon Taylor
Directors: Tommy Lee Wallace
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Derry, Maine is a quiet town, terrorized every 30 years by a horror known only as “It”. The only victims of “It” are children. Through the form of a clown named Pennywise, “It” wakes up every 30 years and feeds. The adults of Derry act like “It” doesn’t happen. Ironically they know about “It”, but the events are too horrible to talk about. Seven outcasts, know as The Lucky Seven, Bill, Ben, Beverly, Eddie, Richie, Mike, and Stan are able to defeat “It” as children and make a pact to return and do battle again should the terror return. Now 30 years later, Mike Hanlon who stayed behind, is puzzled by a bizarre occurance of child murders. When he discovers that “It” has come back, he reunites what’s left of The Lucky Seven, now in their middle ages to do battle once again, and “It” is ready. The Lucky Seven must now defeat “It” and cure Derry of “The Derry Disease”.

I’m Not There (2007)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Cate Blanchett | Ben Whishaw | Christian Bale | Richard Gere | Marcus Carl Franklin | Heath Ledger | Kris Kristofferson | Don Francks | Roc LaFortune | Larry Day | Paul Cagelet | Pierre-Alexandre Fortin | Richie Havens | Tyrone Benskin | Kim Roberts
Directors: Todd Haynes
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Six incarnations of Bob Dylan: an actor, a folk singer, an electrified troubadour, Rimbaud, Billy the Kid, and Woody Guthrie. Put Dylan’s music behind their adventures, soliloquies, interviews, marriage, and infidelity. Recreate 1960s documentaries in black and white. Put each at a crossroads, the artist becoming someone else. Jack, the son of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, finds Jesus; handsome Robbie falls in love then abandons Claire. Woody, a lad escaped from foster care, hobos the U.S. singing; Billy awakes in a valley threatened by a six-lane highway; Rimbaud talks. Jude, booed at Newport when he goes electric, fences with reporters, pundits, and fans. He won’t be classified.

Sleepers (1996)

Monday, May 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Kevin Bacon | Billy Crudup | Robert De Niro | Vittorio Gassman | Minnie Driver | Dustin Hoffman | Ron Eldard | Joseph Perrino | Jason Patric | Geoffrey Wigdor | Brad Pitt | Terry Kinney | Brad Renfro | Bruno Kirby | Frank Medrano
Directors: Barry Levinson
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Four boys growing up in Hell’s Kitchen play a prank that leads to an old man getting hurt. Sentenced to no less than one year in the Wilkenson Center in upstate New York, the four friends are changed by the beating, humiliation and sexual abuse by the guards sworn to protect them. Thirteen years later and a chance meeting lead to a chance for revenge against the Wilkenson Center and the guards.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

Monday, May 12th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Don Abernathy | Patrick J. Adams | George Anton | Michael William Arnold | Christopher Ausburn | Caleb Babcock | Raymond J. Barry | Paul Bates | Terrence Beasor | Matt Besser | Jay Bird | Rian Bishop | Jack Black | Clement Blake | Ian Bodell
Directors: Jake Kasdan
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The up-and-down-and-up-again story of musician Dewey Cox (John C. Reilly), whose songs would change a nation. On his rock’n roll spiral, Cox sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 stepkids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp, and gets addicted to (and then kicks) every drug known to man, but despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a good woman.

American Gangster (2007)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Russell Crowe | Chiwetel Ejiofor | Josh Brolin | Lymari Nadal | Ted Levine | Roger Guenveur Smith | John Hawkes | RZA | Yul Vazquez | Malcolm Goodwin | Ruby Dee | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Carla Gugino | Skyler Fortgang
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are lower. His alliance with the New York Mafia ensures his position. It is also the story of a dedicated and honest policeman, Richie Roberts, who heads up a joint narcotics task force with the Federal government. Based on a true story.

Casualties of War (1989)

Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Michael J. Fox | Sean Penn | Don Harvey | John C. Reilly | John Leguizamo | Thuy Thu Le | Erik King | Jack Gwaltney | Ving Rhames | Dan Martin | Dale Dye | Steve Larson | John Linton | Vyto Ruginis | Al Shannon
Directors: Brian De Palma
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During the Vietnam war, a girl is taken from her village by five American soldiers. Four of the soldiers rape her, but the fifth refuses. The young girl is killed. The fifth soldier is determined that justice will be done. The film is more about the realities of war, rather than this single event.