A River Runs Through It – Robert Redford
Academy Award®-winner Robert Redford (Best Director, Ordinary People, 1980) captures the majesty of the Montana wilderness and the strength of the American family in this acclaimed adaptation of Norman Maclean’s classic memoir. Craig Sheffer stars as the young Norman, and Brad Pitt stars as his brother Paul, an irresistible daredevil driven to challenge the world. [...]
Coal Miner’s Daughter – Michael Apted
In the acclaimed performance that earned her the Academy Award® for Best Actress, Sissy Spacek stars as legendary Loretta Lynn, the dirt poor Appalachian Mountains girl who rose from humble beginnings to become the "Queen of Country Music." At eighteen, the mother of four children and busy housewife still finds time to write and sing [...]
The Way We Were – Sydney Pollack
Screen legends Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford make movie magic as the captivating star-crossed lovers, Hubbell Gardiner and Katie Morosky. Theirs is a classic love story sparked by the attraction of opposites, played out against the backdrop of American life during times of foreign war, domestic prosperity and McCarthy-era paranoia in Hollywood. Winner of two [...]
Hurricane Season (2009) – Tim Story
Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) delivers a superstar performance in this powerful story based on real events. Amid the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina, one coach attempts the impossible: create a winning basketball team using players from five of the hardest-hit high schools in the area. Featuring Isaiah Washington (Grey’s Anatomy), [...]
Gangs of New York (2002) – Martin Scorsese
This motion picture event from acclaimed director Martin Scorsese earned 10 Academy Award ® nominations including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, along with 5 Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Action, Best Supporting Actress and Best Song! Leonardo DeCaprio (Titanic), Cameron Diaz (Charlie’s Angels) and Daniel Day-Lewis (The Boxer) [...]
Quills – Philip Kaufman
Quills images the final days of history’s most infamous sexual adventurer, the Marquis de Sade. A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid (Winslet) smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum’s resident priest (Phoenix). The titillating passages whip all of France [...]
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights – Guy Ferland
It’s 1958 when the Miller family moves to Havana, where 18-year-old Katy’s (Romola Garai) parents expect her to be the belle of the high-society ball. Instead, she falls for Xavier (Diego Luna), a waiter who teaches her how to dance and partners with her for an upcoming contest. But Fidel Castro’s rise to power forces [...]
The Savages – Tamara Jenkins
Until recently, all John and Wendy Savage (Hoffman, Linney) had in common was a lousy childhood and a few strands of DNA. But after years of drifting apart, they’re forced to band together to care for the elderly, cantankerous father who made their formative years "challenging." In the process, both of these aimless, perpetually adolescent [...]
Flawless (2008) – Michael Radford
Michael Radford (Il Postino and The Merchant of Venice) directs screenwriter Edward Anderson’s script about an aging janitor and an American executive who form an unlikely alliance in order to carry out an elaborate jewel heist. Set in 1960s-era London and based on actual events, the tense crime thriller stars Michael Caine as the scheming [...]
New York, I Love You – Allen Hughes, Brett Ratner, Fatih Akin, Jian Wen, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Randy Balsmeyer, Shekhar Kapur, Shunji Iwai & Yvan Attal
In the city that never sleeps, love is always on the mind. Those passions come to life in NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU â a collaboration of storytelling from some of todayâs most imaginative filmmakers and featuring an all-star cast. Together they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that pump the cityâs [...]
