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C.R.A.Z.Y. tells the story of the extraordinary lives of ordinary people in search of love and happiness. It is a family drama about a father's love for his five sons and one son's love for his father that is so strong that it compels him to live a lie. That son is Zac, born on the 25th of December 1960, who is different from all his brothers but desperate to fit in. As a child Zac enjoys idyllic journeys as his father's favourite but by the same time the film transitions to 1975, Zac is a teenager caught up in Bruce Lee movies, glam rock music and sexual experiences that change everything in his life. By the 1980s, Zac's journey of self-discovery brings about some surprising conclusions. The film uses the music of the times - the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Pink Floyd - to explore a new generation, playing them in contrast to such family favourites as Patsy Cline and Charles Aznavour. C.R.A.Z.Y. is a wildly entertaining and magical cincmatic homage to the pop-culture saturated middle-class of the seventies. - Director:
- Jean-Marc Vallée
- Cast:
- Michel Côté, Marc-André Grondin, Danielle Proulx
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'Wadjda' is the story of a young Saudi girl whose burning desire for a bicycle leads her into bold defiance of her society's restrictive codes of gender and religion. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda's mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself. Although her cunning plans are continuously thwarted, she is determined to continue fighting for her dreams... - Director:
- Haifaa Al-Mansour
- Cast:
- Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Abdullrahman Al Gohani
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The Way, Way Back (2013)The Way Way Back
"The Way Way Back" is the funny and poignant coming-of-age story of 14-year-old Duncan's (Liam James) summer vacation with his mother, Pam (Toni Collette), her overbearing boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), and his daughter Steph (Zoe Levin). Having a rough time fitting in, the introverted Duncan finds an unexpected friend in gregarious Owen (Sam Rockwell), manager of the Water Wizz water park. Through his funny, clandestine friendship with Owen, Duncan slowly opens up and begins to finally find his place in the world - all during a summer he will never forget. - Director:
- Nat Faxon
- Cast:
- Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney
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Haunted by his past, WWII veteran and drifter Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) crosses paths with a mysterious movement called The Cause, led by Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) aka The Master and his wife Peggy (Amy Adams). Their twisted relationship is the core of this film. Will Freddie be able to outrun his past? Will The Cause help or hurt him? Can this tortured, violent creature be civilized? Or is man, after all, just a dirty animal? - Director:
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Cast:
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, William O'Brien, Joaquin Phoenix
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From the writer/director of Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crow brings us Almost Famous, nominated for four Academy Awards and winner of Best Original Screenplay (2001). Set in 1973, it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming of age of 15-year-old music fanatic, William (Patrick Fugit). Having managed to land an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview the up-and-coming band Stillwater - fronted by lead guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) - and with the help of gorgeous "band aid" Penny Lane played by Oscar nominee Kate Hudson (Almost Famous, 2001), William finds himself drawn into the band's inner circle, despite the objections of his over-protective mother (Frances McDormand). As he becomes less an observer and more a participant in the band's dynamics, William learns a life-changing lesson about the importance of family - the ones we inherit and the ones we create. - Director:
- Cameron Crowe
- Cast:
- Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson
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A group of real-estate salesmen-cum-con artists live on the edge. All the time. Life is good for only one. For the rest, life hangs in the balance. There is no room for losers. The name of the game is simple: A-B-C. A-Always. B-Be. C-Closing. Always be closing. Sell or go under. Right under. Deep rock bottom under. That's the name of the game. It's simple. - Director:
- James Foley
- Cast:
- Al Pacino, Leigh French, Jack Lemmon
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There is a moment in everyone’s life when childhood ends and adulthood begins. For Jon and Wendy Savage, that moment is now. Plucked from their everyday, ordinary lives, these two self-centered siblings must suddenly care for their estranged, elderly father. What follows is a hysterically funny and irreverent look at life, love and mortality through one of the most surreal experiences facing families today. - Director:
- Tamara Jenkins
- Cast:
- Laura Linney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Philip Bosco
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Dedicated government employee Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her fellow colleagues return for big laughs from the small town of Pawnee, Indiana, in the hilarious third season of Parks and Recreation. Their funny antics continue as they ramp up for their most important project yet: The Harvest Festival. As Leslie Knope plans, prepares and publicises, her co-workers take on other challenges such as a crippling flu, the statewide softball tournament and the sad demise of a local icon: a miniature horse named Li'l Sebastian. - Director:
- Dean Holland
- Cast:
- Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari
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In November, 1959, the shocking murder of a smalltown Kansas family captures the imagination of Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), famed author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's. " Capote sets out to investigate with his childhood friend Harper Lee (Catherine Keener), winning over the locals despite his flamboyant appearance and style. When he forms a bond with the killers and their execution date nears, the writing of "In Cold Blood," a book that will change the course of American Literature, takes a drastic toll on Capote, changing him in ways he never imagined. - Director:
- Bennett Miller
- Cast:
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marina Stephenson Kerr, Clifton Collins Jr.
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Orson Welles makes his feature-length directorial debut with this classic drama which often tops critics' polls of the best films of all time. In 1940, newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Welles) dies after uttering the word 'Rosebud'. An anonymous reporter (William Alland) is assigned the task of uncovering the meaning of Kane's dying word, and in the course of his enquiries he receives varying accounts of his life from former colleagues Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten) and Bernstein (Everett Sloan), and ex-wife Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore). The film, which Welles also produced and co-wrote, was not-so-loosely based on the life of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. - Director:
- Orson Welles
- Cast:
- Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
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Best friends Anthony (Luke Wilson), Dignan (Owen Wilson), and Bob (Robert Musgrave) stage a wildly complex, mildly successful robbery of a small bookstore, then go "on the lam". During their adventures, Anthony falls in love with a South American housekeeper, Inez (Lumi Cavazos), and they befriend local thief extraordinaire Mr. Henry (James Caan). 'Bottle Rocket' is a charming, hilarious, affectionate look at the folly of dreamers, shot against radiant southwestern backdrops, and the film that put Anderson and the Wilson brothers on the map. - Director:
- Wes Anderson
- Cast:
- Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd
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Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman), an unassuming bank manager in Toronto lives modestly, dives a used car, and is dating one of the bank's clerks, a sweet but mousy girl named Belinda (Minnie Driver). Unbeknown to all around him, Mahowny leads a secret life as a compulsive gambler, and is embezzling millions of dollars from his employers to feed his ever-increasing gambling obsession. But how long can Mahowny continue living for the thrill of the bet before getting caught? - Director:
- Richard Kwietniowski
- Cast:
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt
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Andy, a frustrated, drug-using New York accountant with a failing marriage to Gina, is in desperate need of some money. He persuades his timid younger brother, to rob their parents' jewellery store and solve all of their monetary problems. But the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that sends the brothers and their father hurtling towards a shattering climax... - Director:
- Sidney Lumet
- Cast:
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Albert Finney
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5 Broken Cameras (2011)Five Broken Cameras
Winner of audience prizes at festivals around the world, and long-listed for an Oscar, "5 Broken Cameras" is the story of Bil'in, a West Bank Palestinian village, whose inhabitants have long been mounting a resistance to the occupation and appropriation of their land for neighbouring Israeli settlements. It is told via the footage of local inhabitant Emad Burnat, who bought a camera to make home-movies about the growing years of his new-born son Gibreel, but soon started to document the daily acts of defiance against the provocations by the army, police and settlers. Over the course of several years his cameras are damaged, or even shot, but Emad, and Israeli film-maker Guy Davidi, have together shaped the hundreds of hours filmed into a compelling, stirring and moving document of the collective struggles that daringly meshes the personal essay with political cinema. - Director:
- Emad Burnat
- Cast:
- Soraya Burnat, Mohammed Burnat, Yasin Burnat
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The Salt of the Earth (2014)The Salt of the Earth: A Journey with Sebastião Salgado
For the last forty years acclaimed photographer Sebastiao Salgado has travelled the world, capturing moments that have defined humanity. He has witnessed and documented wars, famine, the mass exodus of people and even genocide. But now he is embarking on a new journey: to discover the grandiose landscapes and epic beauty of nature and encapsulate it in one sweeping photographic tribute to our planet's magnificence. Salgado's inspirational life and incredible body of work is revealed to us in this Oscar nominated by his son, Juliano, and world renowned filmmaker Wim Wenders. Powerful, affecting and truly profound, it is not just a portrait of a great artist but one of life itself. - Director:
- Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
- Cast:
- Sebastião Salgado, Hugo Barbier, Jacques Barthélémy
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