Posts Tagged ‘rooftop’
Blue Streak (1999)Thursday, February 18th, 2010 |
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Miles Logan is a jewel thief. Things go awry while he’s stealing a huge diamond in downtown L.A.: a thief, Deacon, tries a double-cross, the police arrive, and Miles is arrested, but not before he hides the jewel in an air duct of a building under construction. Two years’ later, he’s out of prison and he heads for the site: it’s L.A.’s new police headquarters! Posing as a reassigned cop, Miles gets into the building, but before he can recover the swag, he’s partnered with a naive detective and sent out to investigate burglaries. With Deacon on his trail, he must recover the diamond, keep the cops fooled, and do a few good deeds as a detective who can think like a criminal. |
Second Nature (2003)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Everything is not as it seems for a man (Alec Baldwin) who recovers from a plane crash in which his family is killed. After plastic surgery and rehabilitation, he determines that he worked for a secret agency for which he was an assassin. His former boss (Powers Boothe) puts him back to work to assassinate a political leader, but when he proves unable to pull the trigger, it is he who becomes the target for assassins. As he avoids capture, the story unfolds about his true past and the reason why he has a tattoo of “chilly willy” inside his lip. |
The Deer Hunter (1978)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken), and Steven (John Savage) are three buddies from the steel mill town of Clairton,Penn.They are like schoolmates, hanging out in a local bar and enjoying weekends of deer-hunting. Michael and Nick are also both in love with Linda (Mryl Streep), who seems to juggle both of the men. But their placid life is soon to be changed after they are enlisted in the airborne infantry of Vietnam. So they all celebrate a goodbye at Steven’s wedding and they leave to Vietnam, where they are captured by the enemy and forced to play a game of Russian Roulette. They escape and return home, but their lives are forever changed. Nick stays in Vietnam, Michael returns to Linda, and Steven is handicapped after losing a leg in the war. |
Birdy (1984)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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Two friends arrive back from Vietnam, scarred in different ways. One has physical injuries, the other has mental problems that make him yearn to be a bird, a subject he has always been fascinated with. |
Delicatessen (1991)Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 |
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The story is centered on a microcosm of a post-apocalyptic society where food is so rare it’s invaluable and is used as currency. The story centers on an apartment building with a delicatessen on the ground floor. The owner of the eatery also owns the apartment building and he is in need of a new maintenance man since the original “mysteriously” disappeared. A former clown applies for the job and the butcher’s intent is to have him work for a little while and then serve him to quirky tenants who pay the butcher in, of course, grain. The clown and butcher’s daughter fall in love and she tries to foil her father’s plans by contacting the “troglodytes”, a grain eating sub-group of society who live entirely underground. The “trogs” are possibly the most sensible of the lot, as they see food as food and not money. This movie reflects a type of science fiction called la Nouvelle Vague. |
Daredevil (2003)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Fate deals young orphan Matt Murdock a strange hand when he is doused with hazardous waste. The accident leaves Matt blind but also gives him a heightened “radar sense” that allows him to “see” far better than any man. Years later Murdock has grown into a man and becomes a respected criminal attorney. But after he’s done his “day job” Matt takes on a secret identity as “The Man Without Fear,” Daredevil, the masked avenger that patrols the neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen and New York City to combat the injustice that he cannot tackle in the courtroom. |
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive competing with two female co-workers for a major campaign for a diamond merchant. He cuts a deal with his competitors that the account is his if he can make a woman of their choice fall in love with him in 10 days. In comes Andie Anderson who, in turn, is writing a story on how to lose guy in 10 days as a bet with her boss to be allowed to write more substantial stories. With a hidden agenda in each camp, will either party be able to complete their mission? |
Big Fat Liar (2002)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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A take on the classic tale ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’, ‘Big Fat Liar’ is about a 14-year-old boy named Jason Shephard (Frankie Muniz) who lies for the fun of it. Jason loses an important story assignment entitled ‘Big Fat Liar’ in movie producer Marty Wolf’s (Paul Giamatti) limo, which Wolf then turns into a film. When Jason sees a movie preview of his story, he and best friend Kaylee (Amanda Bynes) go to Los Angeles to make Wolf confess to using Jason’s story as well as to clear Jason’s name and to get him out of having to attend summer school. The teen liar then has to match wits with Wolf, who also turns out to be a big liar. |
Ben-Hur (1959)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after a long time but their different politic views separate them. During the welcome parade a brick falls down from Judah’s house and barely misses the governor. Although Messala knows that they are not guilty he sends Judah to the galleys and throws his mother and sister into prison. But Judah swears to come back and take revenge. |
Arizona Dream (1993)Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 |
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An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist’s gofer. He’s happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle’s wedding. It’s a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles. |
Vertigo (1958)Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 |
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John “Scottie” Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she is going insane, maybe even contemplating suicide, because she believes she is possessed by a dead ancestor. Scottie is skeptical, but agrees after he sees the beautiful Madeleine. |
On the Waterfront (1954)Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 |
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The Waterfront Crime Commission is about to hold public hearings on union crime and underworld infiltration. As workers are turned against each other, Terry Malloy inadvertently participates in the murder of fellow longshoreman Joey Doyle. Union boss Johnny Friendly orchestrates the murder along with other illegal dockside activities, aided by Terry’s brother Charley. Terry begins to feel pangs of conscience. When Joey’s sister Edie sees more in Terry than he sees in himself and Father Barry urges him on, Terry reassesses his past and begins to regain responsibility for his actions. |
The Italian Job (1969)Thursday, June 4th, 2009 |
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Charlie has just left prison, and now wants to do a ‘big job’. The job is to steal $4m of gold arriving in Italy from China. Charlie’s job needs financing, so he goes to Mr Bridger (a Mafia-type boss) who is in prison (Charlie has to break in !). In Italy, a clever plan is used to distract the authorities, while the raiders make their get-away in three Minis. This leads to an excellent car chase sequence through Italian streets, buildings, rivers, sewers, |
The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1994)Monday, March 30th, 2009 |
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A group of prom-going teens take a fatal detour into the Texas woods and get into an accidental car crash. Stranded with no place to go, they seek help in Darla, a seemingly innocent insurance agent whose office is located near by. After Darla calls for help, they set out back to the scene of the crash, and are found and terrorized by Leatherface, his crazy brother, Vilmer, and are taken to an old farmhouse where they meet the rest of the cannibalistic clan. |
The Man Who Came Back ()Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 |
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The framework for the murder and left to die of local legends returned to the guilty pay, as it seeks to place those who killed his family. Рамке для убийства И оставили умирать местных легенд возвращается, чтобы виновные платят, как он направлен на места тех, кто убил его семью. |
Modesty Blaise ()Friday, December 26th, 2008 |
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Britain gives 50 million pounds of diamonds in the Middle East, Sheikh privileges in return for oil. There are rumors of a plot by arch criminal Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde) to steal the diamonds, and even the head of the Secret Service (Harry Andrews) using a spy humility Belize (Vitti Monica), which brings along its Sidekick Willie Garvin) Terence Stamp). بريطانيا تمنح 50 مليون جنيه من الماس لمنطقة الشرق الأوسط الشيخ في مقابل امتيازات النفط. وهناك شائعات عن وجود مؤامرة من جانب قوس جنائية غابرييل (ديرك بوجاردي) لسرقة الماس ، وحتى رئيس جهاز الخدمة السرية (هاري اندروز) يستعين مثير للتجسس التواضع بليز (Vitti مونيكا) ، الذي يجلب لها على طول الصاحب Willie Garvin) تيرينس خاتم). |
Suspiria (1990)Friday, December 19th, 2008 |
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A young American dancer travels to Europe to attend a famous school of dance. As we arrive, the camera turns to another young woman who seems to be fleeing from the school. You will be returned to his apartment, where he gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the school dance, but feels strange noises and is troubled by strange events. It finally discovers that the school is only a front for a much more left organization. Una giovane ballerina americana viaggia in Europa per partecipare a una famosa scuola di danza. Come si arriva, la fotocamera si trasforma in un altro giovane donna, che sembra essere in fuga dalla scuola. Si ritorna al suo appartamento, dove è gruesomely assassinato da un orribile creatura. Nel frattempo, il giovane americano sta cercando di risolvere in presso la scuola di danza, ma sente strani rumori ed è turbato da eventi bizzarro. Si scopre infine che la scuola è solo uno per uno davanti molto più sinistro organizzazione. |
















