Johann Sebastian Bach Filmography

The Grand Organ of Liverpool Cathedral

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Actors: Ian Tracey

Battle in Heaven

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Actors: Marco Hernandez, Anapola Mushkadiz, Berta Ruiz, David Bornstein, Rosalinda Ramirez

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In Battle in Heaven (AKA Batalla en el Cielo), director Carlos Reygadas' searing look at the inherent hypocrisies of Mexico's social structure, Marcos Hernandez is Marcos, an overweight, poverty-stricken chauffeur who longs for a better life for his wife and young son. Desperate, the Read More

Chernobyl: The Invisible Thief

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Synopsis: In 1986, many people's greatest fears about atomic energy became a reality when an explosion occurred at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine. When a blaze broke out in the wake of the explosion, firefighters were brought in to contain it, and all of them succumbed to radiation poisoning Read More

Bergman Complete

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Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Erland Josephson, Marie Nyreroed

Synopsis: After achieving international recognition in the 1950's with such films as Det Sjunde Inseglet (aka The Seventh Seal), Smultronstället (aka Wild Strawberries) and Sommarnattens Leende (aka Smiles of a Summer Night), Ingmar Berman became one of the world's best known filmmakers for his emotionally Read More

Boris Giltburg: In Recital

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Actors: Boris Giltburg

Ghosts

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Actors: Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurélien Recoing, Benno Fuermann

Arvo Pärt: 24 Preludes for a Fugue

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Rachel Cheung: Keyboard Prodigy - Live in Recital

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Actors: Rachel Cheung

Stupeur et Tremblements

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Actors: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji, Taro Suwa, Bison Katayama, Yasunari Kondo

Synopsis: French director Alain Corneau delves into the painfully irrational world of office politics, which are further complicated by a severe case of culture clash in his 2003 comedy, Stupeur et Tremblements (Fear and Trembling). Based on the similarly titled memoirs of author Amélie Nothomb and her Read More

When Will I Be Loved

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Actors: Neve Campbell, Dominic Chianese, Frederick Weller, Karen Allen, Barry Primus

Synopsis: Directed by James Toback, the erotic drama When Will I Be Loved? revolves around Vera, the debutante girlfriend (Neve Campbell) of a fast-talking hustler (Frederick Weller) who is on the verge of making millions through a big-money gambling venture. Feeling undervalued, Vera explores her sexuality Read More

Twentynine Palms

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Actors: Yekaterina Golubeva, David Wissack

Synopsis: A couple drives their Humvee into the California desert. David (David Wissak) is ostensibly working, scouting locations near Twentynine Palms for a photo or film shoot. His girlfriend, Katia (Katia Golubeva from Leos Carax's Pola X), is along for the ride. David is American; Katia is French and Read More

Pilgrimage

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Actors: Mohammed Barani, Ayatollah Montazeri, Ayatollah Zarandi, Seyed Reza Borghei, Javad Salari

Synopsis: Iran has been ruled by an Islamic fundamentalist government since 1979, but there is one area where they've been unwilling to allow Shiite citizens to express their faith. Imam Hussein was a Shiite Muslim holy man who became a martyr to his faith, and a sacred shrine to his life's work has been Read More

McDull, Prince de la Bun

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Actors: Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Sandra Ng, Jan Lamb, Tse Yut-mei

Martin's Passion

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Secret Things

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Actors: Coralie Revel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Roger Mirmont, Fabrice Deville, Blandine Bury

Synopsis: Two young women try to climb the corporate ladder using their feminine wiles in this erotic melodrama from French director Jean-Claude Brisseau. At the beginning of the film, Nathalie (Coralie Revel) and Sandrine (Sabrina Seyvecou) work in a strip club, where Nathalie wows the customers with her Read More

Bach: Mass in B Minor - Georg Christoph Biller

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Synopsis: Recorded at the historic Church of Saint Thomas, this concert film captures a performance of Bach's Mass in B Minor conducted by Georg Christoph Biller. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Children of the Night

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In and Out of Fashion

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Actors: Delphine Seyrig, Sami Frey, Anémone, André Dussollier, Zouc

Synopsis: The Paris-based photographer-painter-actor-filmmaker William Klein looks back on five decades of his life and multi-careers in this French documentary. Born in 1926, Klein is a native New Yorker who began living in Paris in 1948, studied painting with Fernand Leger, photographed for Vogue from Read More

Bach's Mass in B Minor

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Synopsis: The beauty of both vocal and sacred music combines as Bach's "Mass in B Minor" comes alive at the Wieskirche, Bavaria in a performance that features conductor Enoch zu Guttenburg leading the National Choral Society and the Orchester der Klangverwaltung. Soloists Anna Korondo, Deon van der Walt Read More

Tukrozodesek

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Actors: Teo Fabricius, Agens, Laszlo Hasko, Gabor Altorjay, Melinda Farago

Synopsis: Avant-garde filmmakers Gyorgyi Szalai and Istvan Darday made this 143-minute excursion into fringe borderlands of the mind, depicting the death in Venice of a hospitalized astrologer, while a famous female vocalist loses her child in an automobile accident. Shot in video with a transfer to film Read More

Enskilda Samtal

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Actors: Pernilla August, Samuel Fröler, Max von Sydow, Thomas Hanzon

Synopsis: Originally made for television and directed by distinguished Swedish actress-turned-director Liv Ullman, this provocative drama is a sequel to director-turned-screenwriter Ingmar Bergman's autobiographical Bille August-directed drama Best Intentions (1992). Returning to their roles of Bergman's Read More

The Witman Fiuk

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Synopsis: Outwardly Janos and Erno Witman seem like typical middle class teens, but beneath their facades of normalcy, the two are deeply disturbed and obsessed with the nature of sex and death. Leaving much to the viewer's imagination, this horrific and highly atmospheric tale begins in a small Hungarian Read More

Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: Six Gestures

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Actors: Yo-Yo Ma, Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean, Tom McCamus, Mark Kinney

Synopsis: This 53-minute documentary, one episode in the six-part Canadian TV series, Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach, attempts to link Johann Sebastian Bach's personal and professional life with the modern world. It is structured by director Patricia Rozema (I've Heard the Mermaids Singing) around the six Read More

Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach: Sarabande

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Actors: Yo-Yo Ma, Lori Singer, Don McKellar, Arsinée Khanjian, George Sperdakos, Jan Rubes

Synopsis: Quirky Canadian director Atom Egoyan helmed this, the only fictional entry in a series of six films, titled "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired Bach." The story centers on the world-renowned cellist and is a free-form series of unrelated connections between people. As the story begins, Ma is flying to Toronto via Read More

Les Agneaux

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Synopsis: Based on a short novel by Ania Carmel, this dark drama follows the survival developed by a brother and sister forced to grow up under the tyrannical rule of a father who brutally attempts to instill a sense of self-reliance and preparedness into them by acts of cruelty. They cannot turn to their Read More

Esti Kornel Csodalatos Utazasa

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Synopsis: This Hungarian fantasy moves easily from one time to the next as it almost simultaneously presents two train rides in the lifetime of a famous writer; the film is adapted from two short stories by Hungarian writer Dezso Kosztolanyi. The film opens with a scene following young aspiring writer Read More

Evgeny Kissin: Plays Schubert/Brahms/Bach/Liszt

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Actors: Evgeny Kissin

Synopsis: In this classical performance film, acclaimed concert pianist Evgeny Kissin interprets a series of works by Schubert, Gluck, Liszt, Bach and Brahms. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

Solti: Orchestra!

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Actors: Dudley Moore, Sir Georg Solti

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

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Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed Read More

La Messe En Si Mineur

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Actors: Pierre Amoyal, Margaux Hemingway

Synopsis: Friends Philippe and Laurent (Pierre Amoyal and Denis Charvet), a violinist and a cello player, frequently team up to play special gigs. Laurent is usually strapped for cash. While performing for a wedding, the two of them meet the high-class Sophie (Margaux Hemingway). They have also been Read More

La Noche Oscura

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Actors: Juan Diego, Julie Delpy, Fernando Guillén, Manuel de Blas

Synopsis: Pantheon filmmaker Carlos Saura bounced back from a handful of failures with 1989's La Noche Oscura (The Dark Night). Juan Diego stars as San Juan de la Cruz (St. John of the Cross), the legendary 16th-century poet-prophet. Galvanized into action by the spirit of Santa Teresa de Jesus, San Juan Read More

The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra: Four Bach Suites

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Synopsis: The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra has gained renown for performing classical pieces using vintage instruments. This film documents the group performing a quartet of Bach suites. The group performs at the historic Palace Het Loo. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Eden Miseria

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Actors: Danuta Zarazik, Philippe Clevenot, Abdallah Badis, Inês de Medeiros, Stephane Jobert

Synopsis: Danuta Zarasik plays Isabelle Eberhardt in this biographical drama. At the turn of the 20th century, Isabelle fell in love with the African desert, donning men's clothing to travel and record her adventures in writing while her Moslem husband patiently waited at home. This visually stunning Read More

Himmel Og Helvede

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Actors: Karina Skands, Ole Lemmeke, Lise Ringheim, Harriet Andersson, Erik Mork

Synopsis: Maria (Karina Skands) is an 18-year-old, late-blooming woman who has for years been a gifted violinist. She live in the slums of Copenhagen and has led a sheltered life often marked by poverty and cruelty. Due to her consuming musical passions -- fueled by the expectations of her overprotective Read More

Bagdad Cafe

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Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun

Synopsis: This West German film is set in the California Desert. A husband-and-wife pair of Bavarian tourists become stranded when their car breaks down; after a quarrel, the wife, Marianne Sagebrecht, gathers her luggage and stalks off. She stops at the Bagdad Cafe, a fleapit truckstop run by outspoken Read More

Mélo

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Actors: Sabine Azéma, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, André Dussollier, Jacques Dacqmine

Synopsis: Director Alain Resnais faithfully adapted his script for Melo from a 1929 play by Henry Bernstein--the first time that Resnais handled his own screenplay. Violinists and lifelong friends Pierre Arditi and Andre Dussolier have each found happiness in adulthood, but only Dussolier has become famous. Read More

Envoyez Les Violons

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Actors: Richard Anconina, Anémone, Michel Galabru, Martin Lamotte, Fabienne Perineau

Synopsis: Fred Segal (Richard Anconina) is a commercial director whose marriage is headed for disaster in this light romantic comedy drama. He decides he wants to play music and takes flute lessons from the beautiful Isabelle (Anemone). The experience wakens feelings of romance in Fred he thought were Read More

Gaby: A True Story

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Actors: Liv Ullmann, Norma Aleandro, Rachel Levin, Robert Loggia, Lawrence Monoson

Synopsis: Gaby: A True Story is about a young woman -- the child of rich European refugees living in Mexico -- who was stricken with cerebral palsy at birth. Though her body is completely paralyzed, her mind is unaffected, and she is able to become a college graduate and an acclaimed author. Rachel Levin Read More

Epidemic

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Actors: Lars von Trier, Niels Vørsel, Udo Kier

Synopsis: Director Lars von Trier stars in a double role in this experimental horror fantasy. He pretentiously portrays a director who spends a year and a half preparing to make a horror film with help from a government grant. In the second part, he plays a young physician who unknowingly has a plague virus Read More

Une Flamme Dans Mon Coeur

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Actors: Myriam Mezieres, Azize Kabouche, Benoit Regent, Biana, André Marcon

Synopsis: The terrifyingly destructive power of a woman's sexual obsession provides the compelling subject for this psychological study of a woman's descent into madness from French filmmaker Alain Tanner. It is the tale of Parisian actress Mercedes who is first seen attempting to break up with the Read More

Something Wild

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Actors: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin

Synopsis: A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former Roger Corman prodigy Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this screwball odyssey is a ride to remember. Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive Read More

The Sacrifice

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Actors: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Gudrún Gísladóttir, Valérie Mairesse

Synopsis: The Sacrifice, director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film, begins in Bergmanesque fashion on a small, remote island, where friends and family gather for drama critic Alexander's (Erland Josephson) birthday celebration. The revelry is interrupted by a radio announcement: World War III has begun, and Read More

Flight North

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A Flor Do Mar

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Die Nacht

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Actors: Edith Clever

Synopsis: Die Nacht would make a long night indeed for most filmgoers, there is no story to speak of, just six hours of a monologue related to European history by Edith Clever, enhanced by excellent music by Richard Wagner, Johann Sebastian Bach, and other composers, quotes from philosophers like Nietzsche Read More

Hail Mary

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Actors: Myriem Roussel, Thierry Rode, Philippe Lacoste, Juliette Binoche, Manon Anderson

Synopsis: Je vous salue Marie is Jean-Luc Godard's first sustained examination of modern spiritual life. This complex episodic film parallels the story of a contemporary Joseph (Theirry Rode) and Mary (Myriem Roussel) with that of a science class studying the origins of life on earth. Joseph is a cab driver Read More

Le Temps D'un Instant

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Le Meilleur De La Vie

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Actors: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Bonnaffé, Marie-Christine Barrault, Jean-Marc Bory

Synopsis: Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this well-executed drama about Veronique (Sandrine Bonnaire) and Adrien (Jacques Bonnafe). Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of Read More

La Moitie De L'Amour

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Actors: Margit Carstensen, Christophe Donnay, Patrick Bauchau, Alexandre Von Sivers

Synopsis: In this surreal psychological thriller, Yvi (Margit Carstensen) is experiencing a selective amnesia after she suffers a bullet wound to the head and is now in the care of doctors in the very same Institute where she was working as a doctor. After a new friend named Adrian (Christopher Donnay) Read More

Pohlad Kocce USI

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Der Bar

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Actors: Hans-Peter Hallwachs

Synopsis: Popova (Elisabeth Rath) is a widow who lives in a crumbling mansion and manages as best she can with the help of a loyal and quirky butler/handyman named Luka (Hans Mandin). One day a former officer comes by to demand payment of an old debt that sets her along a collision course with her neighbor Read More

The Huberman Festival, Vol. 5: Bach and Vivaldi

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L'Argent

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Actors: Christian Patey, Sylvie van den Elsen, Michel Briguet, Caroline Lang, Vincent Risterucci

Synopsis: The last film by veteran writer/director Robert Bresson, the French crime drama L'Argent (Money) was based on a short story by Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. Looking for some quick cash, young man Norbert (Marc Ernest Fourneau) gets a phony 500 franc note from his friend Matrial (Bruno Lapeyre). Read More

The Huberman Festival, Vol. 4: Mendelssohn and Bach

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Beau-Père

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Actors: Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse, Maurice Ronet, Nicole Garcia, Nathalie Baye

Synopsis: In French filmmaker Bertrand Blier's seriocomic Beau Pere, Ariel Besse plays a 14-year-old girl who is perversely attracted to her 30-year-old stepfather (Patrick Dewaere). Daddy fends off these unnatural attentions, but eventually gives in and allows himself to be seduced. ~ Hal Erickson, All Read More

Dvoynikat

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Actors: Todor Kolev

The Tree of the Wooden Clogs

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Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Ermanno Olmi's Tree of the Wooden Clogs covers a period of twelve months, dividing its time between three peasant families, all of whom work on the estate of an all-but-absentee landlord. Special emphasis is given the interrelationships between the various family members and Read More

Obyasneniye v Lyubvi

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Actors: Yuri Bogatyrev, Ewa Szykulska, A. Stepanova, Bruno Freyndlikh, Kirill Lavrov

Synopsis: Ilya Averbakh was considered to have been one of the better directors of film romances in the former Soviet Union. This story of a writer's love spans many decades. An elderly writer (Yuri Bogatyryov) is visiting his wife (Ewa Szykulska) at a medical establishment to give her a copy of his latest Read More

Skazany

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Actors: Wojciech Pszoniak, Zdzislaw Kozien

Synopsis: In this Polish film, a man is on trial for failing to prevent his critically ill brother from committing suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Rollerball

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Actors: James Caan, John Houseman, Maud Adams, John Beck, Moses Gunn

Synopsis: In the year 2018 violence has been outlawed and corporations have replaced government as the ruling party following the demise of politics. With the absence of war or conflict, a forcibly passive population's bloodlust is satisfied by a brutal new sport known as Rollerball. A high-octane melding Read More

The Terminal Man

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Actors: George Segal

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Michael Crichton, Terminal Man is a sci-fi thriller about a scientist who decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies. During the surgical procedure, a miniature computer is implanted in his head. Unfortunately, the mechanism Read More

Le Retour d'Afrique

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Synopsis: Françoise and Vincent have grown tired of the stuffy, constrained and overly commercial quality of life in Geneva. With the help of a friend, they hope to move to Algeria and do something really different in a different place. They sell practically everything they own in preparation for the Read More

Slaughterhouse-Five

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Actors: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." These opening words of Kurt Vonnegut's famous novel make an effective and short summary of a haunting, funny film. For the screen, director George Roy Hill faithfully renders Vonnegut's black anti-war comedy about Pilgrim (well played in a low key by Michael Sacks Read More

The Visitors

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Actors: Patrick McVey, James Woods

Synopsis: This melodramatic thriller is not one of Elia Kazan's directorial shining moments. Kazan, who is better-known for such great films as On the Waterfront, made this film, with his friends, on a very low budget. It is probably most notable for featuring James Woods in an early role. Bill Schmidt (Woods Read More

Tales from the Crypt

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Actors: Joan Collins, Peter Cushing, Patrick Magee, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: The phenomenon of Tales from the Crypt seems to have no endings, only changes. This successful pun-filled style of presenting ironic horror tales had its beginnings in William Gaine's E.C. comic series. At one time, outlandish E.C. Comics were at the heart of a national furor over the "evils" of Read More

Cries and Whispers

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Actors: Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: Cries and Whispers stars Liv Ullman and Ingrid Thulin as the sisters of dying cancer patient Harriet Andersson. Both sisters have already had brushes with death: Ullman has had an affair which prompted her husband's suicide, while Thulin has long wanted to do away with herself, at one point Read More

Five Easy Pieces

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Actors: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Lois Smith, Susan Anspach, Billy Green Bush, Helena Kallianiotes, Sally Struthers, Richard Stahl

Synopsis: A disaffected man seeks a sense of identity in one of the key films of Hollywood's 1970s New Wave. Once a promising pianist from a family of classical musicians, Bobby Eroica Dupea (Jack Nicholson, in his first major starring role) leads a blue-collar life as an oil rigger, living with needy Read More

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon

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Actors: Liza Minnelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore, James Coco, Kay Thompson

Synopsis: Upon completing Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, a tearful Liza Minnelli declared publicly that she would never, ever work with tyrannical director Otto Preminger again. Worse luck for her: Junie Moon contains what may well be Minnelli's best non-musical performance. Based on the novel by Marjorie Kellogg Read More