Movies starring Francesca Annis
Dune (2000)Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 |
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It is a distant galaxy in the far future. Arrakis is a desert planet and is the only source of Melange, a vital drug used by the Guild Navigators for space travel from star system to star system. The corrupt Emperor Padishah Shaddam IV sends the Atreides family to Arrakis to take charge of the mining operations of Melange, once controlled by the Atreide’s rival family, The Harkonnens. Duke Leto Atreide’s son Paul becomes fascinated by the native Freman’s culture and learns he has a special powers and he can see images of the future. But the Emperor is in league with the evil Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and the Baron and his loyal army attacks, taking control of the mining operation on Arrakis and Duke Leto is assassinated. Paul and his mother Lady Jessica flee in the desert, where they are befriend by the Fremen. Adopting his Fremen name “Maud’Dib”, Paul vows vengeance on Baron Harkonnen and the Emperor and he unites the Fremen and forms a army of warriors and leads into battle, as he sets out to defeat the Harkonnen family and put a stop to the Melange mining operation, as Paul sets out to fulfill his destiny, as he becomes the prophesied all-powerful Kwisatz Haderach. |
The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)Friday, June 5th, 2009 |
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Roman Polanski’s version of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king’s son conspires to attack MacBeth and expose him for the murderer he is. |
Krull ()Wednesday, March 26th, 2008 |
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The planet Krull was invaded by the bad monster the Crossbow and his army the Killers, two rival monarchies it formed an alliance against the Crossbow and the Killers, like the Prince Colwyn, the son of the King Turlord gets married with the Princess Lyssa, the daughter of the King Eirig, where the Prince Colwyn and the marriage of the Princess Lyssa will join two monarchies and as many Colwyn as Lyssa will govern the lands of Krull. But during the marriage, the attack of Killers and Lyssa is kidnapped. Intending to rescue Lyssa, Colwyn joined by a few companions of loyalty to the colleagues: the Clairvoyant Ynyr, a band of avoided convicts driven by Torquil, Rell, an one-eyed giant, Is Raised by Me, a cowardly magician, Emerald, a blind Clairvoyant and a boy young so-called Titch left to the search of the Black Fortress where Lyssa is considered the prisoner, where the Simpleton intends to get married with Lyssa in é the bad mark of governing Krull together with many other worlds. When a disc was armed of a powerful weapon “The Glave” with five blades, Colwyn and his companions leave to the search of the Black Fortress that modifies the position each standing up of the sun, where Colwyn swears of rescuing Lyssa and defeating the Simpleton and the Killers. O planeta Krull foi invadido pelo mau monstro a Besta e o seu exército os Matadores, duas monarquias rivais formou uma aliança contra a Besta e os Matadores, como o Príncipe Colwyn, o filho do Rei Turlord se casa com a Princesa Lyssa, a filha do Rei Eirig, onde o Príncipe Colwyn e o matrimônio da Princesa Lyssa unirão as duas monarquias e tanto Colwyn como Lyssa governará as terras de Krull. Mas durante o casamento, o ataque de Matadores e Lyssa é raptado. Pretendendo resgatar Lyssa, Colwyn juntado por uns companheiros de coleguismo: o Vidente Ynyr, uma banda de presidiários evitados conduzidos por Torquil, Rell, um gigante caolho, Ergo, um mágico covarde, Emerald, um Vidente cego e um rapaz jovem denominado Titch partiram à procura da Fortaleza Preta onde Lyssa está sendo considerado o preso, onde a Besta pretende casar-se com Lyssa em é a má meta de governar Krull junto com muitos outros mundos. Armado de uma arma potente “o Glave” um disco com cinco lâminas, Colwyn e os seus companheiros partem à procura da Fortaleza Preta que modifica a posição cada levantar do sol, onde Colwyn jura de resgatar Lyssa e derrotar a Besta e os Matadores. |
The Libertine ()Sunday, October 21st, 2007 |
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In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and elegance of expression of sexual relations. Thirteen years later, in the middle of political and economical problems, Charles II asks the return of his friendly John Wilmot, aka the second Count of Rochester, of the exile the London. John is morally corruptly, drunk and sexually active cynical poet, and the King asks him to prepare a play for the French ambassador to make it pleased. John finds the actress of aspiring Elizabeth Barry in the theater and decides to do it a great star. He falls in the love for her, and she becomes his nursemaid; during the presentation to a French, he falls in the disgrace in the court. When he was thirty three years old, he was dying of the syphilis associated to the alcoholism and he converted in a religious man. Em 1660, com o regresso de Charles II ao trono inglês, teatro, as artes visuais, ciência e floreio de relações sexuais. Treze anos depois, no meio de problemas políticos e econômicos, Charles II pergunta o regresso do seu amigo John Wilmot, aka o segundo Conde de Rochester, do exílio a Londres. John é um moralmente corrupto, bêbado e poeta cínico sexualmente ativo, e o Rei pede que ele prepare um jogo para o embaixador francês para fazê-lo agradado. John encontra a atriz de aspirante Elizabeth Barry no teatro e decide fazê-la uma grande estrela. Ele cai no amor por ela, e ela torna-se a sua ama; durante a apresentação ao francês, ele cai na desgraça no tribunal. Quando ele teve trinta e três anos, ele morria da sífilis associada ao alcoolismo e ele converteu em um homem religioso. |



