Posts Tagged ‘cathedral’

The Sound of Music (1965)

Friday, March 12th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Christopher Plummer | Richard Haydn | Peggy Wood | Anna Lee | Portia Nelson | Ben Wright | Daniel Truhitte | Norma Varden | Marni Nixon | Gilchrist Stuart | Evadne Baker | Doris Lloyd | Charmian Carr | Nicholas Hammond
Directors: Robert Wise
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Captain Baron von Trapp is a widowed ex-naval officer with seven children who serve only to remind him of his deceased wife. The Von Trapp home is thus turned into a gloomy place of order and discipline, until the arrival of a new governess: Frauline Marie who is from a nearby Salzburg abbey. Marie shows the Von Trapp children the miracle of the Sound of Music, and teaches them how to sing. Captain von Trapp’s heart opens up to feelings he had forgotten and he and Marie fall in love. Marie and Georg von Trapp are married, only to have their world brought down around them by the 1938 Anschluss of Austria, where Nazi Germany takes control of the country and demands that Captain von Trapp assume a position in the German Navy.

Batman (1989)

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Genres: Action | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Adam West | Burt Ward | Lee Meriwether | Cesar Romero | Burgess Meredith | Frank Gorshin | Alan Napier | Neil Hamilton | Stafford Repp | Madge Blake | Reginald Denny | Milton Frome | Gil Perkins | Dick Crockett | George Sawaya
Directors: Leslie H. Martinson
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In Gotham City, a dark knight known as Batman helps to defeat evil and keep the city’s citizens safe. When Jack Napier is transformed into the evil, Joker, he promises to take over Gotham City it is up to Batman to stop him in his tracks before it is too late.

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Olivia Hussey | Keir Dullea | Margot Kidder | John Saxon | Marian Waldman | Andrea Martin | James Edmond | Doug McGrath | Art Hindle | Lynne Griffin | Michael Rapport | Leslie Carlson | Martha Gibson | John Rutter | Robert Warner
Directors: Bob Clark
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

The Ten Commandments Movie (1923)

Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Theodore Roberts | Charles de Rochefort | Estelle Taylor | Julia Faye | Pat Moore | James Neill | Lawson Butt | Clarence Burton | Noble Johnson | Edythe Chapman | Richard Dix | Rod La Rocque | Leatrice Joy | Nita Naldi | Robert Edeson
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
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The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002)

Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Alexander | Jennifer Love Hewitt | Tom Hulce | Paul Kandel | Charles Kimbrough | Kevin Kline | Michael McKean | Demi Moore | Haley Joel Osment | Jane Withers | Jim Cummings | Joe Lala | Frank Welker | April Winchell
Directors: Bradley Raymond
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Now that Frollo is gone, Quasimodo rings the bell with the help of his new friend and Esmeralda’s and Phoebus’ little son, Zephyr. But when Quasi stops by a traveling circus owned by evil magician Sarousch, he falls for Madellaine, Sarouch’s assistant. But greedy Sarousch forces Madellaine to help him steal the Cathedral’s most famous bell.

1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)

Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Countries: France | Spain | UK
Actors: Gérard Depardieu | Armand Assante | Sigourney Weaver | Loren Dean | ?ngela Molina | Fernando Rey | Michael Wincott | Tchéky Karyo | Kevin Dunn | Frank Langella | Mark Margolis | Kario Salem | Billy L. Sullivan | John Heffernan | Arnold Vosloo
Directors: Ridley Scott
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Big budget account of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus’ struggle to civilize the New World.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Drama | Family | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Jason Alexander | Mary Kay Bergman | Corey Burton | Jim Cummings | Bill Fagerbakke | Tom Hulce | Tony Jay | Paul Kandel | Charles Kimbrough | Kevin Kline | Heidi Mollenhauer | Demi Moore | Patrick Pinney | David Ogden Stiers
Directors: Gary Trousdale
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In 15th century Paris, Clopin the puppeteer tells the story of Quasimodo, the misshapen gentle-souled bell ringer of Notre Dame, who was nearly killed as a baby by Claude Frollo, the Minister of Justice. But Frollo was forced by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame to raise Quasimodo as his own. Now a young man, Quasimodo is hidden from the world by Frollo in the belltower of the cathedral. But during the Festival of Fools, Quasimodo, cheered on by his gargoyle friends Victor, Hugo, and Laverne, decides to take part in the festivities, where he meets the lively gypsy girl Esmeralda and the handsome soldier Phoebus. The three of them find themselves ranged against Frollo’s cruelty and his attempts to destroy the home of the gypsies, the Court of Miracles. And Quasimodo must desperately defend both Esmeralda and the very cathedral of Notre Dame.

Van Helsing (2004)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Countries: Czech Republic | USA
Actors: Hugh Jackman | Kate Beckinsale | Richard Roxburgh | David Wenham | Shuler Hensley | Elena Anaya | Will Kemp | Kevin J. O'Connor | Alun Armstrong | Silvia Colloca | Josie Maran | Tom Fisher | Samuel West | Robbie Coltrane | Stephen Fisher
Directors: Stephen Sommers
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During the late 19th century, famed monster hunter Dr. Gabriel Van Helsing (Jackman) heads to Eastern Europe to battle with Count Dracula (Roxburgh), the Wolf Man (Kemp), and Frankenstein’s Monster (Hensley). By his side is the ravishing Anna (Beckinsale), a member of a family committed to ridding the world of evil.

Mary Poppins (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Julie Andrews | Dick Van Dyke | David Tomlinson | Glynis Johns | Hermione Baddeley | Reta Shaw | Karen Dotrice | Matthew Garber | Elsa Lanchester | Arthur Treacher | Reginald Owen | Ed Wynn | Jane Darwell | Arthur Malet | Robert Banas
Directors: Robert Stevenson
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The movie combines a diverting story, songs, color and sequences of live action blended with the movements of animated figures. Mary Poppins is a kind of Super-nanny who flies in with her umbrella in response to the request of the Banks children and proceeds to put things right with the aid of her rather extraordinary magical powers before flying off again.

Femme Fatale (2002)

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Rebecca Romijn | Antonio Banderas | Peter Coyote | Eriq Ebouaney | Edouard Montoute | Rie Rasmussen | Thierry Fr?mont | Gregg Henry | Fiona Curzon | Daniel Milgram | Jean-Marc Min?o | Jean Chatel | St?phane Petit | Olivier Follet | Eva Darlan
Directors: Brian De Palma
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International con artist/thief Laure Ash helps pull off a diamond robbery in Cannes during the annual film festival. She double-crosses her partners-in-crime and makes off with the diamonds to Paris where she accidently assumes the identy of a distraught woman who commits suicide and then leaves the country. Seven years later, Laure (now called Lily Watts) re-surfaces as the wife of the new American ambassador to France where a certain Nicolas Barto, a Spanish photographer, takes her picture which sets the stage for a motion of events as the evil Laure resorts to low, underhanded means to protect her former identity by emotionally and financially destroying Nicolas while evading her former partners-in-crime still looking for her to reclaim the stolen diamonds.