Posts Tagged ‘cold-war’

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Peter Sellers | George C. Scott | Sterling Hayden | Keenan Wynn | Slim Pickens | Peter Bull | James Earl Jones | Tracy Reed | Jack Creley | Frank Berry | Robert O'Neil | Glenn Beck | Roy Stephens
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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U.S. President Merkin Muffley is on the hot line to Moscow with some rather embarrassing news for the Soviet premier: “Hello, Dimitri….I’m fine….Now then, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb….The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb….Well, now, what happened is that, uh, one of our base commanders…he went a little funny in the head….and he went and did a silly thing….He ordered his planes to attack your country.” A comedy about an accidental nuclear attack? One that ends with total annihilation, thermonuclear apocalypse? Preposterous! Stanley Kubrick thought otherwise. In the end his thinking prevailed. The mad saga revolves around a psychotic Strategic Air Command officer, Gen. Jack D. Ripper, who lets loose his B-52 bomber squadron on the Soviet Union. Ripper takes this unilateral action because of his paranoid belief that Communists are sapping and contaminating “all our precious bodily fluids” as part of their plan to take over the world.” Unbeknownst to Ripper, his attack will trigger the Russian’s ultimate weapon, the Doomsday Machine, a diabolical retaliatory device set to blow up the planet.

Clue (1985)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Eileen Brennan | Tim Curry | Madeline Kahn | Christopher Lloyd | Michael McKean | Martin Mull | Lesley Ann Warren | Colleen Camp | Lee Ving | Bill Henderson | Jane Wiedlin | Jeffrey Kramer | Kellye Nakahara | Will Nye | Rick Goldman
Directors: Jonathan Lynn
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Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play. You’ll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. Features three surprise endings!!

The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)

Monday, January 12th, 2009
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Quinn | Laurence Olivier | Oskar Werner | David Janssen | Vittorio De Sica | Leo McKern | John Gielgud | Barbara Jefford | Rosemary Dexter | Frank Finlay | Burt Kwouk | Arnoldo Foà | Paul Rogers | George Pravda | Clive Revill
Directors: Michael Anderson
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After twenty years in a Siberian labor camp, Kiril Lakota, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lvov, is set free. The Catholic Archbishop is released and sent to Rome, where the ailing Pope makes him a Cardinal. The world is in a state of crisis - a famine in China is exacerbated by United States restrictions on Chinese trade and the ongoing Chinese-Soviet feud. When the Pontiff dies, Lakota finds himself elected Pope. But the new Pope Kiril I is plagued by self-doubt, by his years in prison, and by the strange world he knows so little about. This movie contains extensive information about Catholic faith & practice, as a television news reporter steps in from time-to-time to explain the procedures involved in selecting a new Pope.

Night Crossing (1981)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: UK
Actors: John Hurt | Jane Alexander | Doug McKeon | Keith McKeon | Beau Bridges | Glynnis O'Connor | Geoffrey Liesik | Michael Liesik | Ian Bannen | Anne Stallybrass | Matthew Taylor | Klaus Löwitsch | G?nter Meisner | Sky Dumont | Jan Niklas
Directors: Delbert Mann
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Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.

Torn Curtain (1966)

Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Paul Newman | Julie Andrews | Lila Kedrova | Hansj?rg Felmy | Tamara Toumanova | Ludwig Donath | Wolfgang Kieling | G?nter Strack | David Opatoshu | Gisela Fischer | Mort Mills | Carolyn Conwell | Arthur Gould-Porter | Gloria Gorvin | Robert Boon
Directors: Alfred Hitchcock
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American scientist Michael Armstrong defects to Eastern Europe, followed by his reluctant fianc?e Sarah Sherman. It’s no surprise to learn that the defection is not genuine, and that his real mission is to steal a secret mathematical formula from a professor in Leipzig.

Beautiful Mind, A (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | Mystery
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell Crowe | Ed Harris | Jennifer Connelly | Christopher Plummer | Paul Bettany | Adam Goldberg | Josh Lucas | Anthony Rapp | Jason Gray-Stanford | Judd Hirsch | Austin Pendleton | Vivien Cardone | Jill M. Simon | Victor Steinbach | Tanya Clarke
Directors: Ron Howard
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A biopic of the meteoric rise of John Forbes Nash Jr., a math prodigy able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. And how he overcame years of suffering through schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.

Get Smart Movie (2008)

Monday, November 10th, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve Carell | Anne Hathaway | Dwayne Johnson | Alan Arkin | Terence Stamp | David Aranovich | William Charlton | Terry Crews | Ken Davitian | Tom Everett | Fred Fein | Matt Gallini | Brad Grunberg | David Koechner | Bernie Kopell
Directors: Peter Segal
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Bungling secret agent Maxwell Smart, also known as Agent 86 for CONTROL, is on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS with his more-competent partner Agent 99, (whose real name is never revealed) at his side. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreams of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23. Smart will do whatever it takes to thwart the latest plot for world domination by KAOS.

2010 (1984)

Sunday, September 7th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roy Scheider | John Lithgow | Helen Mirren | Bob Balaban | Keir Dullea | Douglas Rain | Madolyn Smith Osborne | Dana Elcar | Taliesin Jaffe | James McEachin | Mary Jo Deschanel | Elya Baskin | Saveli Kramarov | Oleg Rudnik | Natasha Shneider
Directors: Peter Hyams
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In the year 2001, Dave Bowman was taken by the Jupiter monolith and transformed into a powerful being. Now, in the year 2010, Dr. Heywood Floyd, the man held responsible for Discovery’s failure, is going to Jupiter. He and his crewmates must reactivate the psychotic HAL-9000 computer, so they may learn what happened, and they must find out the meaning of Dave Bowman’s last transmission… “My God, it’s full of stars…”

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Sci-Fi
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Keir Dullea | Gary Lockwood | William Sylvester | Daniel Richter | Leonard Rossiter | Margaret Tyzack | Robert Beatty | Sean Sullivan | Douglas Rain | Frank Miller | Bill Weston | Ed Bishop | Glenn Beck | Alan Gifford | Ann Gillis
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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2001 is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith here on earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well) Evolution then enabled man to reach the moon’s surface where he finds yet another monolith, one which signals the monolith-placers that we have evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and man (Bowman) to reach the monolith-placers, the winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

Ice Station Zebra (1968)

Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Rock Hudson | Ernest Borgnine | Patrick McGoohan | Jim Brown | Tony Bill | Lloyd Nolan | Alf Kjellin | Gerald S. O'Loughlin | Ted Hartley | Murray Rose | Ron Masak | Sherwood Price | Lee Stanley | Joseph Bernard | John Orchard
Directors: John Sturges
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Commander James Ferraday, USN, has new orders: get David Jones, a British civilian, Captain Anders, a tough Marine with a platoon of troops, Boris Vasilov, a friendly Russian, and the crew of the nuclear sub USS Tigerfish to the North Pole to rescue the crew of Drift Ice Station Zebra, a weather station at the top of the world. The mission takes on new and dangerous twists as the crew finds out that all is not as it seems at Zebra, and that someone will stop at nothing to prevent the mission from being completed.