Posts Tagged ‘dance’

The Polar Express (2004)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Leslie Harter Zemeckis | Eddie Deezen | Nona Gaye | Peter Scolari | Brendan King | Andy Pellick | Josh Eli | Mark Mendonca | Rolandas Hendricks | Mark Goodman | Jon Scott | Gregory Gast | Sean Scott | Gordon Hart | Michael Jeter
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara and Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa’s sleigh. When to his surprise, a steam engine’s roar and whistle can be heard outside his window. The conductor (voice of Tom Hanks) invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives an extraordinary gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.

Jason and the Argonauts (1963)

Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Genres: Action | Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Todd Armstrong | Nancy Kovack | Gary Raymond | Laurence Naismith | Niall MacGinnis | Michael Gwynn | Douglas Wilmer | Jack Gwillim | Honor Blackman | John Cairney | Patrick Troughton | Andrew Faulds | Nigel Green | Ennio Antonelli | John Crawford
Directors: Don Chaffey
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After a 20 year voyage, Jason (Armstrong) returns to the Kingdom of Thessaly to claim his throne. But it’s not quite easy for this. In order to gain the throne, he must find the magical Golden Fleece, which has amazing healing powers. He selects a crew, which included Polydeuces (Crawford) and Hercules (Green). Jason also gains the help of the Queen of the Gods, Hera (Blackman). Jason and his crew must now reach the fleece and survive the likes of a 100 foot bronze giant, a huge venomous creature with head full of seven snakes, and a terrifying army of skeletons.

The Thirteenth Floor (1999)

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Genres: Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Craig Bierko | Armin Mueller-Stahl | Gretchen Mol | Vincent D'Onofrio | Dennis Haysbert | Steven Schub | Jeremy Roberts | Rif Hutton | Leon Rippy | Janet MacLachlan | Brad William Henke | Burt Bulos | Venessia Valentino | Howard S. Miller | Tia Texada
Directors: Josef Rusnak
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Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He’s about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel world that’s just like the 30’s with seemingly real people with real emotions. Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine…

Center Stage (2000)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: Amanda Schull | Zoe Saldana | Susan May Pratt | Peter Gallagher | Donna Murphy | Debra Monk | Ethan Stiefel | Sascha Radetsky | Julie Kent | Ilia Kulik | Eion Bailey | Shakiem Evans | Elizabeth Hubbard | Victor Anthony | Christine Dunham
Directors: Nicholas Hytner
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After auditions, 12 young dancers make it to the American Ballet Academy. They’ll prepare for the student showcase to determine who will be asked to join the American Ballet Company. Tensions mount between Jonathan, the company’s aging choreographer, and Cooper, his best dancer, who also wants to choreograph. The brilliant Maureen seems poised for success, but she discovers that life is passing her by. Jody, whose body may be the wrong type and whose technique is ragged, elicits Cooper’s interest. The edgy, smart-mouthed Eva loves to dance but seems destined to be stuck in the back of the chorus. The showcase will decide their fates.

1776 (1972)

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | History | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: William Daniels | Howard Da Silva | Ken Howard | Donald Madden | John Cullum | Roy Poole | David Ford | Ron Holgate | Ray Middleton | William Hansen | Blythe Danner | Virginia Vestoff | Emory Bass | Ralston Hill | Howard Caine
Directors: Peter H. Hunt
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The film version of the Broadway musical comedy of the same name. In the days leading up to July 4, 1776, Continental Congressmen John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce Thomas Jefferson into writing the Declaration of Independence as a delaying tactic as they try to persuade the American colonies to support a resolution on independence. As George Washington sends depressing messages describing one military disaster after another, the businessmen, landowners and slave holders in Congress all stand in the way of the Declaration, and a single “nay” vote will forever end the question of independence. Large portions of spoken and sung dialog are taken directly from the letters and memoirs of the actual participants.

Choke (2008)

Monday, April 27th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Kathryn Alexander | Teodorina Bello | Kate Blumberg | Jonah Bobo | Willi Burke | Heather Burns | David Wolos-Fonteno | Matt Gerald | Joel Grey | Viola Harris | Brad William Henke | Paz de la Huerta
Directors: Clark Gregg
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Victor Mancini, a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida, in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical re-enactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park. At night, Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who “save” him. When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.

Flower Drum Song Movie (1961)

Monday, January 5th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Nancy Kwan | James Shigeta | Benson Fong | Jack Soo | Juanita Hall | Reiko Sato | Patrick Adiarte | Kam Tong | Victor Sen Yung | Soo Yong | Ching Wah Lee | James Hong | Miyoshi Umeki | George Chakiris | Eugene Chan
Directors: Henry Koster
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A Chinese woman and her father illegally enter San Francisco to marry her fiance. While in San Francisco, she meets another man and falls deeply in love with him and the American way of life; to her father’s disapproval.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Howard Keel | Jeff Richards | Russ Tamblyn | Tommy Rall | Marc Platt | Matt Mattox | Jacques d'Amboise | Jane Powell | Julie Newmar | Nancy Kilgas | Betty Carr | Virginia Gibson | Ruta Lee | Norma Doggett | Ian Wolfe
Directors: Stanley Donen
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Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers — all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading about the Roman capture of the Sabine women, Adam develops an inspired solution to his brothers’ loneliness . . . kidnap the women they want!

Hair (1979)

Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Musical
Countries: USA | West Germany
Actors: John Savage | Treat Williams | Beverly D'Angelo | Annie Golden | Dorsey Wright | Don Dacus | Cheryl Barnes | Richard Bright | Ray Nicholas | Charlotte Rae | Miles Chapin | Fern Tailer | Charles Denny | Herman Meckler | Agness Breen
Directors: Milos Forman
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This movie, based on the cult Broadway musical of the 60s, tells a story about Claude, a young man from Oklahoma who comes to New York City. There he strikes up a friendship with a group of hippies, led by Berger, and falls in love with Sheila, a girl from a rich family. However, their happiness is short because Claude must go to the Vietnam war.

Guys and Dolls (1955)

Thursday, December 25th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Musical | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Marlon Brando | Jean Simmons | Frank Sinatra | Vivian Blaine | Robert Keith | Stubby Kaye | B.S. Pully | Johnny Silver | Sheldon Leonard | Danny Dayton | George E. Stone | Regis Toomey | Kathryn Givney | Veda Ann Borg | Mary Alan Hokanson
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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All the hot gamblers are in town, and they’re all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week’s incarnation of “The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York”; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who’s short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan’s $1000 bet that he can’t get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you’ve got quite a musical. Includes the songs: Fugue for Tinhorns, “Luck Be a Lady”, “Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat”.