The Italian Job (1969)

This is the self preservation society

Thursday, September 17th 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a

Charlie has just left prison, and now wants to do a 'big job'. The job is to steal $4m of gold arriving in Italy from China. Charlie's job needs financing, so he goes to Mr Bridger (a Mafia-type boss) who is in prison (Charlie has to break in !). In Italy, a clever plan is used to distract the authorities, while the raiders make their get-away in three Minis. This leads to an excellent car chase sequence through Italian streets, buildings, rivers, sewers, highways and rooftops which lasts for several minutes.

Directed by Peter Collinson
Written by Troy Kennedy-Martin
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Language: English, Italian
Subtitles: English

Cast
Michael Caine ... Charlie Croker
Noel Coward ... Mr. Bridger (as Noël Coward)
Benny Hill ... Professor Simon Peach
Raf Vallone ... Altabani
Tony Beckley ... Freddie
Rossano Brazzi ... Beckerman
Margaret Blye ... Lorna (as Maggie Blye)
Irene Handl ... Miss Peach
John Le Mesurier ... Governor
Fred Emney ... Birkinshaw
John Clive ... Garage Manager
Graham Payn ... Keats
Michael Standing ... Arthur
Stanley Caine ... Coco
Barry Cox ... Chris


Movie Trailer




More informations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064505/

Jackie Brown (1997)

Six players on the trail of a half a million in Cash. There's only one question... Who's playing who?

Thursday, September 10th 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a

44 year old flight attendant Jackie Brown gets caught with gun dealer Ordell Robbie's money and to get the ATF off her back she sets up Ordell with her new friend, a bail bondsman named Max Cherry. But what the ATF doesn't know, is that they are part of her wild plan to get Ordell's half million dollars and get off scott free. However, she has to do it under the noses of both Ordell, the ATF man and a local cop. What she doesn't know is Ordell's blonde beach bunny wants the money for herself as does Ordell's ex-con friend.

Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Written by Elmore Leonard (novel) & Quentin Tarantino (screenplay)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Comedy
Country: USA
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Cast
Pam Grier ... Jackie Brown
Samuel L. Jackson ... Ordell Robbie
Robert Forster ... Max Cherry
Bridget Fonda ... Melanie Ralston
Michael Keaton ... Ray Nicolette
Robert De Niro ... Louis Gara
Michael Bowen ... Mark Dargus
Chris Tucker ... Beaumont Livingston
Lisa Gay Hamilton ... Sheronda
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister ... Winston (as Tommy 'Tiny' Lister Jr.)
Hattie Winston ... Simone
Sid Haig ... Judge
Aimee Graham ... Amy - Billingsley Sales Girl
Ellis Williams ... Cockatoo Bartender (as Ellis E. Williams)
Tangie Ambrose ... Billingsley Sales Girl #2


Movie Trailer




More informations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119396/

The Shop around the Corner (1940)

Wednesday, May 6th 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a

"Matuschek's" is the gift shop around the corner. Among the staff is Alfred Kralik, a likeable young man who's in love with a woman he has never met and whose name he doesn't even know (their "romance" has been conducted through a post office box). When Klara Novak comes to work as a clerk in the shop, the sparks begin to fly: she and Alfred can't stand each other. Of course, what neither knows is that Klara is the woman Alfred has been romancing through the mail!

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Written by Miklós László (play) & Samson Raphaelson (screenplay)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Cast

	Margaret Sullavan	...	Klara Novak
	James Stewart	...	Alfred Kralik
	Frank Morgan	...	Hugo Matuschek
	Joseph Schildkraut	...	Ferencz Vadas
	Sara Haden	...	Flora
	Felix Bressart	...	Pirovitch
	William Tracy	...	Pepi Katona
	Inez Courtney	...	Ilona Novotny
	Sarah Edwards	...	Woman Customer
	Edwin Maxwell	...	Doctor
	Charles Halton	...	Detective
	Charles Smith	...	Rudy

Movie Trailer



More informations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033045/

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

From the director of Pi

Wednesday, April 29nd 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a

Requiem for a Dream exposes four paralleled individuals and their menacing addiction to heroin, cocaine, and diet pills (speed). Taking place in Brooklyn amidst the waning Coney Island, the drugs are very easily obtained and keep each main character in its cycle of dependence. The protagonist Harry Goldfarb is your typical heroin junky with an ambitious plan of "Getting off hard knocks," with help from his cocaine crazed girlfriend Marion and his long time friend Tyrone. Meanwhile his widowed mother is obsessed with the glamor of television and eventually finds her way to a dietitian who pushes her into the cycle of drug induced enslavement.

Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Written by Hubert Selby Jr. (novel) & Hubert Selby Jr. (screenplay)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Cast
Ellen Burstyn ... Sara Goldfarb
Jared Leto ... Harry Goldfarb
Jennifer Connelly ... Marion Silver
Marlon Wayans ... Tyrone C. Love
Christopher McDonald ... Tappy Tibbons
Louise Lasser ... Ada
Marcia Jean Kurtz ... Rae
Janet Sarno ... Mrs. Pearlman
Suzanne Shepherd ... Mrs. Scarlini
Joanne Gordon ... Mrs. Ovadia
Charlotte Aronofsky ... Mrs. Miles
Mark Margolis ... Mr. Rabinowitz
Michael Kaycheck ... Donut Cop (as Mike Kaycheck)
Jack O'Connell ... Corn Dog Stand Boss
Chas Mastin ... Lyle Russel


More informations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0180093/

Into the Wild (2007)

Your great adventure on Alaska

Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a

Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.

Directed by Sean Penn
Written by Jon Krakauer (book) & Sean Penn (screenplay)
Genre: Drama, Biography, Adventure
Country: USA
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Cast

	Emile Hirsch	...	Chris McCandless
	Marcia Gay Harden	...	Billie McCandless
	William Hurt	...	Walt McCandless
	Jena Malone	...	Carine McCandless / Additional Narrator
	Brian H. Dierker	...	Rainey (as Brian Dierker)
	Catherine Keener	...	Jan Burres
	Vince Vaughn	...	Wayne Westerberg
	Kristen Stewart	...	Tracy Tatro
	Hal Holbrook	...	Ron Franz
	Jim Gallien	...	Himself
	James O'Neill	...	Graduation Reader (as James J. O'Neill)
	Malinda McCollum	...	Waitress
	Paul Knauls	...	Building Manager
	Zach Galifianakis	...	Kevin
	Craig Mutsch	...	Wayne's Crew #1

Movie Trailer



More informations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/

Buffalo Soldiers (2001)

War is hell... but peace is f*#!%!! boring

Wednesday, February 18th 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a

1989. The Berlin Wall is about to fall, and the world is about to be made safe for the new world order. But outside of Stuttgart, West Germany, at Theodore Roosevelt Army Base, Specialist Ray Elwood of the 317th Supply Battalion is about to find his own cold war turn white hot. Elwood's a lovable rogue, a conscript who's managed to turn his military servitude into a blossoming network of black market deals, more out of boredom than ambition. Officially, there's his day job as battalion secretary to the inept but caring Commander Wallace Berman. On the side, there's everything from selling the locals stolen Mop'N'Glo to cooking heroin for the base's ruthless head of Military Police, Sgt. Saad. When a new top sergeant arrives, with the avowed intention of cleaning the base up, Elwood thinks the new blood is nothing he can't handle, especially after he lays eyes on the top's daughter, rebellious Robyn. But that was before he figured in the $5 million in stolen arms that just landed on his lap, Berman's jealous wife, an insane Turkish drug dealer, and, of course, the resulting lust, betrayal, and murder.

Directed by Gregor Jordan
Written by Robert O'Connor (book) & Gregor Jordan (screenplay)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK / Germany
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Cast
Joaquin Phoenix ... Ray Elwood
Ed Harris ... Colonel Berman
Scott Glenn ... Sergeant Lee
Anna Paquin ... Robyn Lee
Elizabeth McGovern ... Mrs. Berman
Michael Peña ... Garcia
Leon ... Stoney (as Leon Robinson)
Gabriel Mann ... Knoll
Dean Stockwell ... General Lancaster
Brian Delate ... Colonel Marshall
Shiek Mahmud-Bey ... Sergeant Saad (as Sheik Mahmud-Bey)
Amani Gethers ... Kirschfield
Noah Lee Margetts ... Rothfuss (as Noah)
Tom Ellis ... Squash
Kick Gurry ... Video

Movie Trailer


More informations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252299/

Mulholland Drive (2001)

A love story in the city of dreams

Wednesday, February 11th 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a

After a brutal car accident in Los Angeles, California, Rita is the sole survivor but suffers mass amnesia. Wandering into a strangers apartment downtown, her story strangely intertwines with Betty Elms, a perky young woman in search of stardom. However, Betty is intrigued by Rita's situation and is willing to put aside her dreams to pursue this mystery. The two women soon discover that nothing is as it seems in the city of dreams.

Directed by David Lynch
Written by David Lynch
Genre: Drama
Country: USA / France
Language: English / Spanish
Subtitles: English

Cast

	Naomi Watts	...	Betty Elms / Diane Selwyn
	Laura Harring	...	Rita (as Laura Elena Harring)
	Ann Miller	...	Catherine 'Coco' Lenoix
	Dan Hedaya	...	Vincenzo Castigliane
	Justin Theroux	...	Adam Kesher
	Brent Briscoe	...	Detective Neal Domgaard
	Robert Forster	...	Detective Harry McKnight
	Katharine Towne	...	Cynthia Jenzen
	Lee Grant	...	Louise Bonner
	Scott Coffey	...	Wilkins
	Billy Ray Cyrus	...	Gene
	Chad Everett	...	Jimmy Katz
	Rita Taggart	...	Linney James
	James Karen	...	Wally Brown
	Lori Heuring	...	Lorraine Kesher

Movie Trailer


More informations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166924/

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

The most beloved Pulitzer Prize book now comes vividly alive on the screen!

Wednesday, January 21st 2009 @ 7:00 pm
Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a

Based on Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning book of 1960. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s. He agrees to defend a young black man who is accused of raping a white woman. Many of the townspeople try to get Atticus to pull out of the trial, but he decides to go ahead. How will the trial turn out - and will it change any of the racial tension in the town ?

Directed by Robert Mulligan
Written by Harper Lee (novel) & Horton Foote (screenplay)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Language: English
Subtitles: English

Cast

	Gregory Peck	...	Atticus Finch
	John Megna	...	Charles Baker 'Dill' Harris
	Frank Overton	...	Sheriff Heck Tate
	Rosemary Murphy	...	Maudie Atkinson
	Ruth White	...	Mrs. Dubose
	Brock Peters	...	Tom Robinson
	Estelle Evans	...	Calpurnia
	Paul Fix	...	Judge Taylor
	Collin Wilcox Paxton	...	Mayella Violet Ewell (as Collin Wilcox)
	James Anderson	...	Robert E. Lee 'Bob' Ewell
	Alice Ghostley	...	Aunt Stephanie Crawford
	Robert Duvall	...	Arthur 'Boo' Radley
	William Windom	...	Mr. Gilmer, Prosecutor
	Crahan Denton	...	Walter Cunningham Sr.
	Richard Hale	...	Nathan Radley

Movie Trailer



More informations: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056592/