Posts Tagged ‘bibliophilia’

You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Meg Ryan | Greg Kinnear | Parker Posey | Jean Stapleton | Steve Zahn | Heather Burns | Dave Chappelle | Dabney Coleman | John Randolph | Deborah Rush | Hallee Hirsh | Jeffrey Scaperrotta | Cara Seymour | Katie Finneran
Directors: Nora Ephron
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Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) is the big superstore Foxbooks owner. He opens up his store near many small book shops and runs them all out of business - including The Shop Around The Corner owned by Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan). Little do each Kathleen and Joe know that: even though they hate each other in person - through the Internet they are in love.

The Name of the Rose (1986)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Sean Connery | Christian Slater | Helmut Qualtinger | Elya Baskin | Michael Lonsdale | Volker Prechtel | Feodor Chaliapin Jr. | William Hickey | Michael Habeck | Urs Althaus | Valentina Vargas | Ron Perlman | Leopoldo Trieste | Franco Valobra | Vernon Dobtcheff
Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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1327: after a mysterious death in a Benedictine Abbey, the monks are convinced that the apocalypse is coming. With the Abbey to play host to a council on the Franciscan’s Order’s belief that the Church should rid itself of wealth, William of Baskerville, a respected Franciscan monk, is asked to assist in determining the cause of the untimely death. Alas, more deaths occur as the investigation draws closer to uncovering the secret the Abbey wants hidden, and there is finally no stopping the Holy Inquisition from taking an active hand in the process. William and his young novice must race against time to prove the innocence of the unjustly accused and avoid the wrath of Holy Inquisitor Bernardo Gui.

The Ninth Gate (1999)

Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Spain | USA
Actors: Johnny Depp | Frank Langella | Lena Olin | Emmanuelle Seigner | Barbara Jefford | Jack Taylor | Jos? L?pez Rodero | Tony Amoni | James Russo | Willy Holt | Allen Garfield | Jacques Dacqmine | Joe Sheridan | Rebecca Pauly | Catherine Benguigui
Directors: Roman Polanski
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Based on the book The Club Dumas, written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Dean Corso, a somewhat sleazy rare book dealer, is hired by a mysterious patron who has just come into possession of one of the only three copies of The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows (a 17th century occult text said to give its owner unimaginable power). The man hires Corso to track down the other two copies and compare them to his, but complications - both natural and supernatural - arise at every turn.

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Liam Aiken | Emily Browning | Kara Hoffman | Shelby Hoffman | Jude Law | Timothy Spall | | Billy Connolly | Meryl Streep | Luis Guzmán | Jamie Harris | Craig Ferguson | Jennifer Coolidge | Jane Adams
Directors: Brad Silberling
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Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are three intelligent young children who receive terrible news that their parents have died in a fire and have left them an enormous fortune not to be used until the eldest child is of age. When they are sent to live with Count Olaf, a greedy distant relative, they soon learn he is trying to steal their fortune for himself.