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24 Hour Party People
Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan),
Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired
by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set
up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who
go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who
all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale
of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth
of one of the most famous dance clubs in the world, The Hacienda
- a mecca for clubbers as famous as the likes of Studio 54. Graphically
depicting the music and dance heritage of Manchester from the late
70's to the early 90's, this comedy documents the vibrancy that
made Mad-chester the place in the world that you would most like
to be.
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The Four Feathers
Freedom. Country. Honor. Passion. To save his best friend, one
man must risk everything he loves.
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Igby Goes Down
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy,
is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast "old money"
family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother,
and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there
must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After
happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the
bohemian underworld of Manhattan. His darkly comic trip--shared by
a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time
lover Sookie, his Godfater's trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing
performance artists Russel--veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby's
ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down."
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Full Frontal
Writer-director Steven Soderbergh follows up Ocean's 11 with
the low-budget 'Full Frontal', his first digitally shot film. Touted
as an unofficial sequel to his 1989 hit sex, lies, and videotape,
this arty film-within-a-film (which was shot in just 18 days) revolves
around seven people with little in common whose lives collide. Julia
Roberts, Blair Underwood, David Duchovny, Brad Pitt (cameoing as
himself), David Hyde Pierce, Catherine Keener, and Terence Stamp
are reason enough to see the film, which is billed as a "movie
about movies for people who love movies."
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Pandora's Box
Director Rob Hardy, whose previous film, TROIS, made a well-earned
1.2 million at the box office, said that he wanted to make a film
that had something no one had ever seen before. Without giving too
much away about the plot, Hardy describes his latest effort as an
erotic FATAL ATTRACTION-style thriller that brings something new
to the genre - "actors of color engaged in romantic scenes."
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Éloge de l'amour
In part one there is talk of a project on the subject of love,
with the example of three couples, one young, one mature and the
other elderly. At this point the author comes into contact with
a young woman he had already met three years earlier. Just as the
project is about to become reality, all problems of an artistic
or financial nature having been resolved, the author learns that
the young woman has died. Part two concerns the events of three
years earlier. While interviewing an historian, the future author
meets for the first time the young woman, who is training as a lawyer.
She has been asked by her own grandparents, formerly of the French
resistance, to examine a contract offered to them by Americans who
want to make a film about their activities during the Nazi occupation
of France.
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Moonlight Mile
Set in the early 1970's, this is the tale of a young man whose
fiancee has been killed, but who finds himself falling for another
woman even while he is still living with his fiancee's grieving
parents and being drawn into the legal battle to bring her killer
to justice.
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