Monday, August 31, 2009

Titanic (1997)

Titanic is a 1997 American romantic drama film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron based on the sinking of the RMS Titanic. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson and Kate Winslet as Rose DeWitt Bukater, two members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ill-fated maiden voyage of the ship. The main characters and the central love story are fictional, but some characters (such as members of the ship's passengers and crew) are based on real historical figures. Gloria Stuart plays the elderly Rose, who narrates the film in a modern day framing device.

In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett (Bill Paxton) and his team explore the wreck of the RMS Titanic, searching for a necklace set with a valuable blue diamond called the Heart of the Ocean. Unsuccessful, they instead discover a drawing of a young woman reclining nude, wearing the Heart of the Ocean, dated the day the Titanic sank. One-hundred-year-old Rose Dawson Calvert (Gloria Stuart) learns of the drawing, and contacts Lovett to inform him that she is the woman in the drawing. She and her granddaughter Elizabeth "Lizzy" Calvert (Suzy Amis) visit Lovett and his skeptical team on his salvage ship. When asked if she knew the whereabouts of the necklace, Rose recalls her memories aboard the Titanic, revealing for the first time that she is actually Rose DeWitt Bukater, a passenger believed to have died in the sinking.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Dee Wallace. It tells the story of Elliott (played by Thomas), a lonely boy who befriends a friendly extraterrestrial, dubbed "E.T.", who is stranded on Earth. Elliott and his siblings help the extraterrestrial return home while attempting to keep it hidden from their mother and the government.

The film opens in a California forest as a group of alien botanists collect vegetation samples. U.S. government agents appear and the aliens flee in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind in their haste. The scene shifts to a suburban California home, where a boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas) plays servant to his older brother, Michael (Robert MacNaughton), and his friends (K. C. Martel, Sean Frye and C. Thomas Howell). As he fetches pizza, Elliott discovers the stranded alien, who promptly flees. Despite his family's disbelief, Elliott leaves Reese's Pieces candy in the forest to lure it into his bedroom. Before he goes to bed, Elliott notices the alien imitating his movements.

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Falling Down (1993)

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Friday, August 28, 2009

State of Play (2009)

Thursday, August 20, 2009

St. Elmo's Fire (1985)

Finding Neverland (2004)

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

La battaglia di Algeri (1966)

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Les diaboliques (1955)

Monday, August 17, 2009

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Harold and Maude (1971)

Friday, August 14, 2009

The Boat That Rocked (2009)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Sling Blade (1996)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

In Cold Blood (1967)

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Body of Lies (2008)

La haine (1995)

Monday, August 10, 2009

Blood Diamond (2006)

Saturday, August 08, 2009

In the Loop (2009)

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Cinderella Man (2005)

Patton (1970)

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Adventureland (2009)

Per un pugno di dollari (1964)

Monday, August 03, 2009

Coraline (2009)

Sunday, August 02, 2009

Fanboys (2008)