Brother to Brother, directed and written by Rodney Evans, is a biopic dedicated to the memory of Harlem Renaissance painter and poet Richard Bruce Nugent (played by Roger Robinson), who was born in 1906; his literary pseudonym was Richard Bruce. One day in 1987, a young African American painter, Perry Williams (played by Anthony Mackie) […]
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Callas Forever is a fictional account of what might have been the last days of the life of Maria Callas, who died of a heart attack in 1977 at the age of fifty-three. When the film begins, Larry Kelly (played by Jeremy Irons), an entirely fictional concert promoter with a pony tail and a desire for a
In 1998, a scandal broke involving the Los Angeles Police Department. Earlier in the 1990s, some three dozen members of an anti-gang police task force in the Rampart Division, a unit located halfway between downtown and Hollywood, were revealed to have interrogated and brutalized residents without probable cause and then fabricated evidence to wrongfully convict
In 1998, a scandal broke involving the Los Angeles Police Department. Earlier in the 1990s, some three dozen members of an anti-gang police task force in the Rampart Division, a unit located halfway between downtown and Hollywood, were revealed to have interrogated and brutalized residents without probable cause and then fabricated evidence to wrongfully convict
When Les choristes (known in English under the title The Choir) begins, an elderly Pierre Moranghe (played by Jacques Perrin) greets his onetime classmate Pépinot (played by Maxence Perrin), who has a notebook in his hand; the year is 1999. The notebook consists of a journal kept by their former teacher, Clémont Mathieu (played by Gérard Jugnot).
Head in the Clouds, directed by John Duigan, deals with the fate of a love triangle during a time of war in which politics ultimately trumps sex. Soon after the film begins, Cambridge University student Guy (played by Stuart Townsend) unexpectedly meets fellow student Gilda Bessé (played by Charlize Theron). Gilda, a student who has
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Chelsea, Clinton’s daughter, attended Stanford University so that she could study far from Washington, though of course she would be watched by the Secret Service. Her situation evidently inspires First Daughter, directed and voicedover by Forest Whitaker, who updates the plight of a daughter of the president to 2004, when the likelihood of a terrorist attack
After a successful run in Asia, including the biggest box office even in China’s cinema history, the film Hero (Ying xiong) debuted in the United States at the end of August to take advantage of the idle time of millions of out-of-school American children. The story could be classified as a prequel to The Emperor and the Assassin (1999),
The Hillside Strangler, directed by Chuck Parello, is an independent film with amateurish acting and cinematography that attempts to recreate events of 1978-1979, when young women were strangled and then dumped in the Glendale hillsides near Los Angeles. (A second film entitled The Hillside Strangler, but directed by Chris Fisher, is ready to be released soon.)
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When word spread that there would be free attendance at the premiere of Hollywood Buddha as well as free screenings on the first Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays of the film’s exhibition at a commercial cinema, something was up. Was the independent film, directed, produced, and autobiographically written by Philippe Caland, so terrible that few would pay to