richard-1's - "Have you seen ....? by Film Critic, David Thomson List
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Available on Disney + to stream- Director:
- Garry Marshall
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- Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander
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When callous movie studio executive Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) starts receiving anonymous death threats from a rejected screenwriter, his already shaky career begins to crumble. Finally, his desperation drives him to kill... but did he rub out the wrong writer? Relentlessly hounded by a street-wise detective (Whoopi Goldberg), Griffin falls in love with the dead man's girlfriend (Greta Scacchi). Then the mysterious threats begin again - and Griffin is plunged into a plot more outrageous than any movie. - Director:
- Robert Altman
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- Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
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Amid the trendy, bohemian scene of London's famed Bloomsbury group, Dora Carrington (Thompson), a talented young artist, first meets bon vivant and writer Lytton Strachey (Pryce). The two creative souls are instantly attracted, although Strachey's desires clearly lie elsewhere. The unlikely pair joyously spends colourful days pursuing their arts - and discovering that love works in mysterious ways. But their blissful existence hangs in the balance when Carrington brings home a lover and they suddenly find themselves caught in a bizarre love triangle. As conflicting passions heat to a boiling point, will true love triumph or will Carrington lose her one and only soul mate forever? - Director:
- Christopher Hampton
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- Emma Thompson, Jonathan Pryce, Steven Waddington
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Danger. Power. Seduction. Welcome to Las Vegas 1973. Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. In an era of over-the-top glitz, Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (De Niro) is riding high as frontman for the Mob's multi-billion dollar Las Vegas operation. To protect their 'investment', the bosses send in Ace's boyhood pal, hot-headed enforcer Nicky Santoro (Pesci). It's a winning hand: Ace's brain and Nicky's muscle - until sexy wild card Ginger McKenna (Stone) turns up the heat. This gripping, fact-based tale boasts extraordinary performances, a sizzling soundtrack and a dizzying look beneath the glamorous facade, beyond the closed doors and behind the eyes of the men and women whose fortunes - and lives - were made and lost with a roll of the dice. - Director:
- Martin Scorsese
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- Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci
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Ace in the Hole (1951)The Big Carnival
In one of the most powerhouse performances in American screen-acting, the great Kirk Douglas stars as Chuck Tatum, a newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a potentially career-making story in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When Tatum begins to influence the story's outcome, a descent begins that finds more than one man caught between a rock and a hard place. An electric narrative that stands as one of Wilder's tautest and most (melo)dramatic plots (penned with Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman), 'Ace in the Hole' plays today as both a prescient examination of the modern media landscape, and the public appetite for the disastrous news-story that leads to toxic wish-fulfillment. - Director:
- Billy Wilder
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- Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
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Cinema Paradiso (1988)Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Available on MUBI- Director:
- Giuseppe Tornatore
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- Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili
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A Clockwork Orange (1971)Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap dancing, violating. Derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell) has a good time - at the tragic expense of others. His journey from amoral punk to brainwashed proper citizen and back again forms the dynamic arc of Stanley Kubrick's future-shock vision of Anthony Burgess' novel. - Director:
- Stanley Kubrick
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- Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
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When Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) witnesses the arrival of alien ships from a distant world, an incredible series of events begins- planes which disappeared during the Second World War are found intact in Mexico, long lost ships mysteriously re-appear in the middle of the desert and people from all around the world, including Neary are convinced that someone is trying to communicate with them. Nearys search to find an answer leads him to take part in the ultimate encounter with the extra-Terrestrials and to board the vast, beautiful Mothership. - Director:
- Steven Spielberg
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- Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr
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Young John Sims (James Murray) weathers the death of his father and travels to New York City in search of success. Instead, he becomes a low-level worker in an enormous office of a nameless corporation. After he meets a beautiful young woman (Eleanor Boardman), things seem to be looking up, but before long the newlyweds are sullen and bickering, and the arrival of their children leaves John feeling trapped in a dead-end existence. Then tragedy strikes, causing him to reassess his life. - Director:
- King Vidor
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- Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach
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"Dance with a Stranger" is a moving insight into a tragic "Crime of Passion" that changed the conscience of a nation. It is the story of one woman and two lovers - each driven by the all-powerful forces of sexuality. Ruth Ellis (Miranda Richardson), a glamorous nightclub hostess and mother of two children, embarks on a tempestuous affair with a handsome racing driver David Blakely, played by Rupert Everett. A series of tragic consequences culminate in the execution of Ellis in 1995 - an execution that led to a tidal wave of emotion and the abolition of capital punishment. This is a film that does more than chronicle a series of events; it captures perfectly the mood of a post-war nation. - Director:
- Mike Newell
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- Miranda Richardson, Rupert Everett, Ian Holm
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Janie (Joan Crawford) lives to dance and will dance anywhere. Janie meets Patch (Clark Gable) who takes her anywhere to dance and is producing a musical but is short of funds. Tod (Franchot Tone) complicates matters by falling for Janie. 'The Three Stooges', Nelson Eddy make guest appearances in this historic motion picture that presents the first screen appearance of Fred Astaire playing himself, and his dancing lights up the screen as only Astaire can do, a foretaste of the great screen career that lay before him for Hollywood's greatest hoofer. - Director:
- Robert Z. Leonard
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- Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
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Dinner At Eight, a vastly entertaining behind-closed-doors glimpse into the lives of the troubled and trouble making Who's Who of people invited to a posh Manhattan party, is served with ample helpings of humour and melodrama. Buoyed by the success of the studio's multi-starred, multi-storied Grand Hotel the year before, producer David O. Selznick aspired for something grander-and found it in this George Cukor-directed adaptation of the George S. Kaufman/Edna Ferber stage hit. - Director:
- George Cukor
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- Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery
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Dogville (2003)The Film 'Dogville' as Told in Nine Chapters and a Prologue
Grace (Nicole Kidman), a beautiful fugitive on the run, hides in the isolated town of Dogville, where she goes to work in return for protection. But when the mob tracks her down, the town suddenly demands a better deal, and she learns the hard way that in Dogville, goodness is relative. But Grace has a secret and it is a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever began to bare its teeth... - Director:
- Lars Von Trier
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- Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany
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East of Eden (1955)John Steinbeck's East of Eden
Based on John Steinbeck's novel and directed by Elia Kazan, 'East of Eden' is the first of three major films that make up James Dean's movie legacy. The 24-year-old idol-to-be plays Cal, a wayward Salinas Valley youth who vies for the affection of his hardened father (Raymond Massey) with his favoured brother Aron (Richard Davalos). - Director:
- Elia Kazan
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- James Dean, Lou Marcelle, Raymond Massey
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