Movies Releasing: the Week of October 27, 2006 |
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Catch a Fire |
DVD Release Date : January 30, 2007 |
Réalisateur : Phillip Noyce. |
Starring : Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Henna. |
Runtime : 104 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.catchafiremovie.com/ |
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Shot on location in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Mozambique, this political thriller is based on the real-life story of Patrick Chamusso. The film takes place in South Africa, spanning from the country's turbulent and divided years in the 1980s to the present day. Patrick (played by Derek Luke) is an oil refinery employee and soccer player who is apolitical - until he and his wife are brutalized by government-sanctioned terror squads. Shocked into action, Patrick reorients his sense of self and purpose. Even as policeman Nic Vos (Academy Award winner Tim Robbins) further insinuates himself into the lives of Patrick and his family, Patrick becomes a rebel fighter and political operative, staging daring solo attacks against the brutal apartheid regime. Change must and will come, not only for South Africa but also for Patrick, Nic, and those closest to them. |
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Saw III |
DVD Release Date : January 23, 2007 |
Réalisateur : Darren Lynn Bousman. |
Starring : Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus MacFadyen, Bahar Soomekh, Dina Meyer. |
Runtime : 107 minutes. Genre : Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.saw3.com/ |
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Jigsaw has disappeared.
With his new apprentice Amanda (Shawnee Smith), the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon (Bahar Soomekh) is unaware that she is about to become the latest pawn on his vicious chessboard.
One night, after finishing a shift at her hospital, Lynn is kidnapped and taken to an abandoned warehouse where she meets Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), bedridden and on the verge of death. She is told that she must keep the madman alive for as long as it takes Jeff (Angus Macfayden), another of his victims, to complete a game of his own. Racing against the ticking clock of Jigsaw's own heartbeat, Lynn and Jeff struggle to make it through each of their vicious tests, unaware that he has a much bigger plan for both of them...
This Halloween, from Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate comes the latest chapter in the psychologi... |
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Running With Scissors |
DVD Release Date : February 06, 2007 |
Réalisateur : Ryan Murphy. |
Starring : Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh, Joseph Cross. |
Runtime : 121 minutes. Genre : Comedy, Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/runningwithscissors/ |
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"Running With Scissors" is the hilarious and poignant feature film based on the personal memoirs of Augusten Burroughs. Growing up in the 1970's, young Augusten (Joseph Cross) was living a middle-class existence with an alcoholic father (Alec Baldwin) and a bipolar mother (Annette Bening), an unpublished poet with delusions of becoming famous. When his parents divorce, Augusten's mother sends him to live with her wildly unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr. Finch (Brian Cox) and his eccentric extended family. "Running With Scissors" chronicles Augusten's survival under the most extraordinary of circumstances.
Written for the screen and directed by Ryan Murphy, the film stars Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin, Jill Clayburgh and Joseph Cross. |
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Death of a President |
Réalisateur : Gabriel Range. |
Starring : Hend Ayoub, George W. Bush, Brian Boland, Becky Ann Baker, Michael Reilly Burke, Neko Parham, Holly Barrett, Patricia Buckley, Bryan Cohen. |
Runtime : 90 minutes. Genre : Documentary. |
Official Website : http://www.deathofapresident.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
Death of a President" follows the investigation of the fictional assassination of President George W. Bush in October 2007. Combining real archival footage with a credible but fictional story, "Death of a President" presents a fascinating and thought-provoking political thriller. |
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Climates |
Réalisateur : Nuri Bilge Ceylan. |
Starring : Arif Asçi, Ufuk Bayraktar, Ebru Ceylan, Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan. |
Runtime : 97 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=climates |
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Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, "Climates" is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner "Distant." Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, the film vividly recalls the cinema of Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni with its poetic use of landscape and the incisive, exquisitely visual rendering of loneliness, loss and the often-elusive nature of happiness. During a sweltering summer vacation on the Aegean coast, the relationship between middle-aged professor Isa (played by Ceylan himself) and his younger, television producer girlfriend Bahar (the luminous Ebru Ceylan, Ceylan's real-life wife) brutally implodes. Back in Istanbul that fall, Isa rekindles a torrid affair with a previous lover. But when he learns that Bahar has left the city for a job in the snowy East, he follows her there to win her back. Boasting subtly powerful performances, heart-stoppingly stunning c... |
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