Posts Tagged ‘1960s’

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jordana Brewster | Taylor Handley | Diora Baird | Matthew Bomer | Lee Tergesen | R. Lee Ermey | Andrew Bryniarski | Terrence Evans | Kathy Lamkin | Marietta Marich | Cyia Batten | Lew Temple | Tim De Zarn | John Larroquette | Marcus H. Nelson
Directors: Jonathan Liebesman
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Prequal to the 2003 version of ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ is set in 1969, the height of the Vietnam War. Two young men are spending a last weekend with their girlfriends before being shipped overseas to the war. At the same time in a small Texas town, the only major business (a meat-packing plant and slaughterhouse) goes out of business forcing the town’s inhabitants to move on to greener pastures. One of the men who works in the plant is Thomas Hewitt, a deformed, demented psychopath (who will become known as Leatherface). When Hewitt finds out what is happening, he savagely murders the foreman of the plant. Meanwhile, the two young men and their girlfriends are headed down a lonely highway towards the town when they are involved in an car accident that cripples their vehicle. Soon they encounter the local sheriff, who is not really the sheriff, but the homicidal Charlie Hewitt, the uncle of Leatherface who has murdered the sheriff and taken his job and police car knowing that with the town deserted, no one will notice. Uncle Charlie/Sheriff Hoyt kidnaps three of the teens and takes them to his home where he, Leatherface Hewitt, the senile Uncle Monty, and Charlie’s sister, Luda Mae, reside. Charlie wants the developing monster ‘Leatherface’ to “refine” his murderous abilities. The one girl, Chrissie, who escaped unnoticed attempts to rescue them with the help of a biker whose girlfriend was killed by ‘Sheriff Hoyt’. What follows is a night of sheer terror at the hands of a family of cannibalistic, inbred psychopaths…

Annie Hall (1977)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diane Keaton | Tony Roberts | Carol Kane | Paul Simon | Shelley Duvall | Janet Margolin | Colleen Dewhurst | Christopher Walken | Donald Symington | Helen Ludlam | Mordecai Lawner | Joan Neuman | Jonathan Munk | Ruth Volner
Directors: Woody Allen
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After breaking up with his girlfriend Annie Hall, neurotic comedian Alvy Singer goes on a stream of conciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. He often breaks the fourth wall, speaking to the camera, entering peoples’ stories, and even using animation.

Sweet Land (2005)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Elizabeth Reaser | Lois Smith | Patrick Heusinger | Stephen Pelinski | Tim Guinee | Robert Hogan | Alan Cumming | Paul Sand | Jodie Markell | Sage Kermes | Kirsten Frantzich | Stephen Yoakam | Karen Landry | James Cada | Debbie DeLisi
Directors: Ali Selim
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As Inge buries her husband Olaf on their Minnesota farm in 1968, we relive her life story as she tells her grown grandson about how she arrived from Germany in 1920 as Olaf’s postal bride and of the obstacles they overcame in order to marry…

Radio Flyer (1992)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Lorraine Bracco | John Heard | Adam Baldwin | Elijah Wood | Joseph Mazzello | Ben Johnson | Sean Baca | Robert Munic | Garette Ratliff Henson | Thomas Ian Nicholas | Noah Verduzco | Isaac Ocampo | Kaylan Romero | Abraham Verduzco | T.J. Evans
Directors: Richard Donner
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A loving father explains the value of promise and believing to his two boys trough the story of young Mike and his kid brother Bobby, who being abandoned by their dad had to move with ma and German shepherd Shane to a rural town where the local kids, lorded by abusive older scamp Victor Hernandez, consider them intruders ’stealing’ their predecessors’ place. Alas the friendly sheriff Daugherty, whose protection they politely wave, will have to act against a far worse bully, ma’s new lover who expects to be called the king and belts Bobby’s back brutally when drunk in the garage, a secret the boys want to keep secret for finally happy ma. The superstitious brothers spend their time exploring, pulling a wheeled red wagon called Radio Flyer, which name finally inspires a desperate ‘magical escape’ attempt…

Private Parts (1997)

Monday, June 1st, 2009
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Howard Stern | Robin Quivers | Mary McCormack | Fred Norris | Paul Giamatti | Gary Dell'Abate | Jackie Martling | Carol Alt | Richard Portnow | Kelly Bishop | Henry Goodman | Jonathan Hadary | Paul Hecht | Allison Janney | Michael Murphy
Directors: Betty Thomas
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Having always wanted to be a disc-jockey, Howard Stern works his way painfully from radio at his 1970’s college to a Detroit station. It is with a move to Washington that he hits on an outrageous off-the-wall style that catches audience attention. Despite his on-air blue talk, at home he is a loving husband. He needs all the support he can get when he joins NBC in New York and comes up against a very different vision of radio.

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Monday, May 4th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Winona Ryder | Angelina Jolie | Clea DuVall | Brittany Murphy | Elisabeth Moss | Jared Leto | Jeffrey Tambor | Vanessa Redgrave | Whoopi Goldberg | Angela Bettis | Jillian Armenante | Drucie McDaniel | Alison Claire | Christina Myers | Joanna Kerns
Directors: James Mangold
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Susanna is rushed to the hospital. Afterwards she discusses this with a psychiatrist. She had been having some delusions. She had also been having an affair with the husband of her parents’ friend. The doctor suggests that combining a bottle of aspirin and a bottle of vodka was a suicide attempt. This she denies. He recommends a short period of rest at Claymoore. Claymoore is a private mental hospital full of noisy, crazy people. Georgina is a pathological liar. Polly has been badly scarred by fire. Daisy won’t eat in the presence of other people. Lisa is a sociopath, the biggest exasperation for the staff - like Nurse Valerie - and the biggest influence on the other girls in the hospital. Lisa has a history of escapes, so gaining access to personal medical files is not a problem… Susanna’s boyfriend Toby is concerned that she seems too comfortable living with her institutionalized friends…

Serpico (1973)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Al Pacino | John Randolph | Jack Kehoe | Biff McGuire | Barbara Eda-Young | Cornelia Sharpe | Tony Roberts | John Medici | Allan Rich | Norman Ornellas | Edward Grover | Albert Henderson | Hank Garrett | Damien Leake | Joseph Bova
Directors: Sidney Lumet
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Frank Serpico is a young, inexperienced cop who starts out on patrol. Later, he starts to work as an undercover cop who busts all sorts of criminals, but mostly drug dealers and pushers. Since Serpico is a young man living in the 70’s, he lives as one. His image, based on how others look on him, shows him as just a ‘hippie’ and the criminals he busts have no idea he is really an undercover officer. Everything is working out well, except the money situation. Serpico refuses to accept money, as the other officers do. He feels this isn’t right, and wants to expose the situation. Who he thought were his friends now turn into his enemies when Serpico takes the stand on a grand jury investigation. He continues to work undercover, and his life is placed into jeopardy at the hands of his colleagues.

The Time Machine (1960)

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: USA
Actors: Rod Taylor | Alan Young | Yvette Mimieux | Sebastian Cabot | Tom Helmore | Whit Bissell | Doris Lloyd | Bob Barran | Paul Frees | James Skelly | Josephine Powell
Directors: George Pal
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From the book by H.G. Wells, a scientist and tinkerer builds a time machine and uses it to explore the distant future where there are two races, a mild gentle race, and a cannibalistic one living underground. His machine is stolen by the underground race and he must risk being captured (and eaten) to return to his own time.

Air America (1990)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mel Gibson | Robert Downey Jr. | Nancy Travis | Ken Jenkins | David Marshall Grant | Lane Smith | Art LaFleur | Ned Eisenberg | Marshall Bell | David Bowe | Burt Kwouk | Tim Thomerson | Harvey Jason | Sinjai Plengpanit | Natta Nantatanti
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode
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Billy is a wacko pilot who loses his last straight job as a helicopter traffic reporter by getting into a screaming match with a driver. He takes a job working for what amounts to a CIA airline in Asia. Billy puts it as, “I’m used to being the weirdest person in the room. Here I don’t even make the top ten.” There is an insurgency shooting at them, government soldiers running drugs, a pilot who is supplying arms to the whole region, and those are the straightforward sub plots.

Go Tell the Spartans (1978)

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Burt Lancaster | Craig Wasson | Jonathan Goldsmith | Marc Singer | Joe Unger | Dennis Howard | David Clennon | Evan C. Kim | John Megna | Hilly Hicks | Dolph Sweet | Clyde Kusatsu | James Hong | Denice Kumagai | Tad Horino
Directors: Ted Post
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A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter look at the beginnings of the Vietnam war.