Posts Tagged ‘band’

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.

Commitments, The (1991)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Music
Countries: Ireland | UK | USA
Actors: Robert Arkins | Michael Aherne | Angeline Ball | Maria Doyle Kennedy | Dave Finnegan | Bronagh Gallagher | Félim Gormley | Glen Hansard | Dick Massey | Johnny Murphy | Ken McCluskey | Andrew Strong | Colm Meaney | Anne Kent | Andrea Corr
Directors: Alan Parker
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Jimmy Rabbitte, che vive di piccoli espedienti in un quartiere proletario di Dublino, si e’ messo in testa di organizzare una band musicale per rinverdire i fasti del rythm&blues e del soul. Grazie ad un annuncio sul giornale, Rabbitte comincia a selezionare giovani dal lavoro precario ma pieni di talento: Dean, Fay, Outspan, l’occhialuto Steven , Clifford, Deco, il ciccione senza buone maniere ma con una grande voce, Billy il batterista e Joey “The lips”, un bizzarro e maturo anziano suonatore di tromba che si vanta di aver suonato con famosi soul-singers. Aggrega anche Natalie, Imelda e Bernie, tre grintose ragazze, ottime coriste e molto sexy. Procuratisi a credito la strumentazione, cominciano le prove, massacranti, che impegnano tutti. Si inizia a suonare in pubblico, in capannoni e feste sociali: il gruppo sembra pervaso dal fuoco della musica e dell’ambizione. La band, pur se dilettantesca e provinciale, sembra lanciata verso il vertice e finisce invece nel fallimento: dissapori, piccole gelosie e contrasti umani ed artistici, sfaldano il gruppo. Il sogno di Jimmy evapora nel nulla e quel grande patrimonio di energia e bravura che poteva fruttare quattrini e successo siPL: disperde nel nulla.

Elizabethtown (2005)

Monday, April 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Orlando Bloom | Kirsten Dunst | Susan Sarandon | Alec Baldwin | Bruce McGill | Judy Greer | Jessica Biel | Paul Schneider | Loudon Wainwright III | Gailard Sartain | Jed Rees | Paula Deen | Dan Biggers | Alice Marie Crowe | Tim Devitt
Directors: Cameron Crowe
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After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should bring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), who changes his view and perspective of life.

Poseidon Adventure, The (1972)

Friday, April 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Gene Hackman | Ernest Borgnine | Red Buttons | Carol Lynley | Roddy McDowall | Stella Stevens | Shelley Winters | Jack Albertson | Pamela Sue Martin | Arthur O'Connell | Eric Shea | Fred Sadoff | Sheila Allen | Jan Arvan | Byron Webster
Directors: Ronald Neame
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At midnight on New Years Eve the S.S. Poseidon is struck by a 90′ tidal wave and is capsized. The Reverend Frank Scott leads nine Survivors; an elderly couple, Manny and Belle Rosen headed to Israel to see their grandson; A New York detective and his ex-prostitute wife, Mike and Linda Rogo on their second honeymoon to Italy; A young brother and sister, Robin and Susan Shelby going to meet their parents in Greece; A haberdasher James Martin; a pop singer Nonnie Parry, and a waiter from the ship Acres. They travel from the grand ballroom struggling through, steam, fire and rising water in the up-side-down ship to reach the bottom (the propeller shaft), now the top.

Control (2007)

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Music
Countries: Australia | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Samantha Morton | Sam Riley | Alexandra Maria Lara | Joe Anderson | Toby Kebbell | Craig Parkinson | James Anthony Pearson | Harry Treadaway | Andrew Sheridan | Robert Shelly | Matthew McNulty | Ben Naylor | Herbert Grönemeyer | Nigel Harris | Tim Plester
Directors: Anton Corbijn
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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he’s almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn’t know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.

American Pie Presents Band Camp (2005)

Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Eugene Levy | Tad Hilgenbrink | Arielle Kebbel | Jason Earles | Crystle Lightning | Jun Hee Lee | Matt Barr | Chris Owen | Lauren C. Mayhew | Angela Little | Rachel Veltri | Ginger Lynn Allen | Timothy Stack | Russell Howard | Carla Alapont
Directors: Steve Rash
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All the original characters have moved on, except there will be a cameo by Sherman. Stifler’s little brother Matt, wants to join his brother’s business (Stifler has hit it big producing Girls Gone Wild videos) and after everything Matt has heard from Jim’s bandgeek wife Michelle, he plans to go back to band camp and make a video of his own…. Bandies Gone Wild

Notebook, The (2004)

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tim Ivey | Gena Rowlands | Starletta DuPois | James Garner | Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas | Ed Grady | Renée Amber | Jennifer Echols | Geoffrey Knight | Kevin Connolly | Ryan Gosling | Heather Wahlquist | Rachel McAdams | Andrew Schaff | Matt Shelly
Directors: Nick Cassavetes
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The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. But they are separated by Allie’s parents who dissaprove of Noah’s unwealthy family, and move Allie away. After waiting for Noah to write her for several years, Allie meets and gets engaged to a handsome young soldier named Lon. Allie, then, with her love for Noah still alive, stops by Noah’s 200-year-old home that he restored for her, “to see if he’s okay”. It is evident that they still have feelings for each other, and Allie has to choose between her fiancé and her first love.

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Kimberly Stringer | Chazz Dominguez | Shari Hall | R.J. Parnell | David Kaff | Tony Hendra | Michael McKean | Christopher Guest | Harry Shearer | Bruno Kirby | Jean Cromie | Patrick Maher | Ed Begley Jr. | Danny Kortchmar
Directors: Rob Reiner
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Marti DeBergi is a film-maker who decides to make a documentary, a rockumentary actually, about the world’s loudest band, the British heavy metal group Spinal Tap. The movie is in fact a biting satire and spoof of the whole rock and roll scene that passes itself off as a real documentary of a real band. Hilarious behind-the-scenes footage is combined with faux-concert clips to breath life into the imaginary group.

Sling Blade (1996)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Dwight Yoakam | J.T. Walsh | John Ritter | Lucas Black | Natalie Canerday | James Hampton | Robert Duvall | Rick Dial | Brent Briscoe | Christy Ward | Sarah Boss | Kathy Sue Brown | Wendell Rafferty | Bruce Hampton
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A partially handicapped man named Karl is released from a mental hospital, several years after murdering his mother and another person. Karl is often questioned if he will ever kill again, and he shrugs in response saying there is no reason to. Now out of the mental institution, Karl settles in his old, small hometown, occupying himself by fixing motors. After meeting a young boy named Frank who befriends him, Karl is invited to stay at Frank’s house with his mother Linda- who views Karl as a strange but kind and generous man. However, Linda’s abusive boyfriend Doyle, sees things differently in the way rules ought to be run- normally insulting Linda’s homosexual friend Vaughan as well as Karl’s disabilities, and having wild parties with his friends. As Karl’s relation with Frank grows, he is ever so watchful of Doyle’s cruel actions.

Tailor of Panama, The (2001)

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: Ireland | USA
Actors: Pierce Brosnan | Geoffrey Rush | Brendan Gleeson | Jamie Lee Curtis | Catherine McCormack |
Directors: John Boorman
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John LeCarre’s spy thriller is brought to the big screen. A British spy (Pierce Brosnan) is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador’s mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor (Geoffrey Rush) with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife (Jamie Lee Curtis), who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is to learn what the President intends to do with the Panama Canal. But what the two do is concoct a tremendous fictional tale about former mercenaries who are ready to topple the current government and are willing to work with Britain and the US to do so.