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4:12 pm EST, Mar 12, 2005 |
Long-retired gunslinger William Munny (Clint Eastwood) reluctantly takes one last job -- and even more reluctantly accepts a boastful youth as a partner. Together, they discover how easily complicated truths are distorted into simplistic myths about the Old West. Unforgiven |
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4:09 pm EST, Mar 12, 2005 |
Napoleon spends his days drawing mythical beasts, duking it out with his brother, Kip, and avoiding his scheming Uncle Rico. When two new friends enter Napoleon's life -- shy Deb and mustachioed Pedro -- the trio launches a campaign to elect Pedro for class president and make the student bodys wildest dreams come true. But if Pedro is to beat stuck-up Summer, Napoleon will have to unleash his secret weapon... Napoleon Dynamite |
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4:08 pm EST, Mar 12, 2005 |
Federico Fellini's lush and intoxicating masterpiece, La Dolce Vita, is a meditation on the meaning of life and love and stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello, a gossip writer who seeks the fleeting excesses and decadence of life and sex. He sleeps with the beautiful Maddalena, alienating and driving his lover, Emma, to suicide. When he meets an elusive actress, Sylvia, he dives deep into the abyss. (From NetFlix) La Dolce Vita |
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4:06 pm EST, Mar 12, 2005 |
In 1913, the end of the frontier West forces Pike (William Holden) and his gang of bandits (including a crazed Ernest Borgnine) to flee to Mexico. They're blackmailed into working for a brutal generalissimo as Holden's former comrade, Robert Ryan, leads a hunt to track down Holden. Director Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece stunningly portrays the choices people make when they think they have no choice. (From NetFlix) The Wild Bunch |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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4:03 pm EST, Mar 12, 2005 |
Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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4:01 pm EST, Mar 12, 2005 |
A Greek saying states that only women who have washed their eyes with tears can see clearly. This saying does not hold true for Manuela. All About My Mother |
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10:20 am EDT, Jul 18, 2004 |
What makes Asimov's robots interesting isn't sentience or consciousness or a human appearance. It's the fact that the machines embody three hierarchical laws that require robots to protect humans from harm, to obey humans and, a distant third, to protect themselves. Those three ironclad laws create a framework for decency that few people ever display. It's no wonder Hollywood prefers simply to fear robots, as it does in "The Terminator," "The Matrix" and now "I, Robot," to name only a few examples. It's vastly easier and more thrilling than introspection. We, Robots |
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Memorable Quotes from Mystery Men (1999) |
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12:51 am EDT, May 11, 2004 |
The Shoveller: We're not your classic heros. We're the other guys.
The Shoveller: God's given me a gift. I shovel well. I shovel very well.
The Shoveller: We struck down evil with the mighty sword of teamwork and the hammer of not bickering. The Sphinx: He who questions training only trains himself at asking questions. The Shoveller: Yeah, I've heard of this guy. He's a big crime-fighter down east.
Mr. Furious: What's his power?
The Blue Raja: Well, he's terribly mysterious.
Mr. Furious: That's his power, he's mysterious?
The Blue Raja: He's TERRIBLY mysterious, actually. Mr. Furious: That could work. I'm a loose cannon. I'm unpredictable. I stormed off, why can't I storm back?
Monica: Or, you could just say you're sorry.
Mr. Furious: Do you think there's a really angry way I can say I'm sorry? Memorable Quotes from Mystery Men (1999) |
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5:25 pm EDT, May 1, 2004 |
Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where an interpreter overhears an assassination plot. Directed by Sydney Pollack, written by Scott Frank (Minority Report), starring Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn. Producers include Pollack and Anthony Minghella (Talented Mr. Ripley). Currently filming on location at the UN in New York. Scheduled for 2005 release. The Interpreter |
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Fitzgerald as Scribe Among the Glitterati |
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11:10 am EDT, Apr 25, 2004 |
F. Scott Fitzgerald's struggles in screenland would have been greatly eased had he not missed, by several decades, the savvy advice of the theorist and director Jean-Luc Godard, who posited that "all you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun." Clearly the author of "The Great Gatsby" came to Hollywood with too much ammo of the literary and intellectual sort. Or a sword. A sword would also work. But it must be very, very sharp. Fitzgerald as Scribe Among the Glitterati |
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