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Paranormal Activity (2007) #314
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Directed by Oren Peli. With Katie Featherston, Micah Sloat, Mark Fredrichs, Amber Armstrong. After moving into a suburban home, a couple becomes increasingly disturbed by a nightly demonic presence. |
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Eastern Promises (2007) #411
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Directed by David Cronenberg. With Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin. A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. |
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Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) #462
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Directed by Takashi Miike. With Hideaki Itô, Kôichi Satô, Quentin Tarantino, Masanobu Andô. A revolver-wielding stranger crosses paths with two warring clans who are both on the hunt for a hidden treasure in a remote western town. Knowing his services are valuable to either side, he offers himself to the clan who will offer up the largest share of the wealth. |
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Atonement (2007) #521
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Directed by Joe Wright. With Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn, Saoirse Ronan. Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a thirteen-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. |
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The Secret of the Grain (2007) #544
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Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche. With Habib Boufares, Hafsia Herzi, Farida Benkhetache, Abdelhamid Aktouche. At the port of Sète, Mr. Slimani, a tired 60-year-old, drags himself toward a shipyard job that has become more and more difficult to cope with as the years go by. He is a divorced father who forces himself to stay close to his family despite the schisms and tensions that are easily sparked off and that financial difficulties make even more intense. He is going through a delicate period in his ... aka Cous Cous |
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Verdi's Requiem (2007) #664
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96mins. Lorin Maazel · Symphonica Toscanini Coro Del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Norma Fantini, soprano Anna Smirnova, mezzo-soprano Francesco Meli, tenor Rafal Siwek, bass Recorded at the basilica di San Marco, Venice, 16 Nov 2007 The performance of Verdi’s famous Messa da Requiem celebrating Toscanini's fiftieth anniversary of death in 2007 took place at the beautiful basilica of St Mark's in Venice, where it was first performed on 22 May 1874 to mark the anniversary of the death of the Italian poet Alessandro Manzoni. |
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Who Do You Think You Are? Natasha Kaplinsky (2007) #715
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BBC. 1 hour. As the granddaughter of a Polish Jew, Natasha Kaplinsky had always feared that her background would hold some harrowing truths. But when she learned what had happened to her family in the Holocaust, the BBC newsreader was unable to retain her usual on-screen composure. She broke down in tears as, visiting the small town of Slonim in Belarus, she learned of child murder, suicide and the massacre of thousands of Jews. |
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300 (2006) #40
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Directed by Zack Snyder. With Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West. King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. |
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My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006) #43
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Directed by Ivan Reitman. With Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson. When a regular guy dumps a superhero for her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell. |
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) #43
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Directed by Ken Loach. With Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald. Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces. |
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The Ground Truth (2006) #43
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Directed by Patricia Foulkrod. With Herold Noel, Robert Acosta, Sean Huze, Kelly Dougherty. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home - with personal ... |
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The History Boys (2006) #52
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Directed by Nicholas Hytner. With Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison, Samuel Anderson. An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge. |
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Friends with Money (2006) #53
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Directed by Nicole Holofcener. With Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack. After she quits her lucrative job, Olivia finds herself unsure about her future and her relationships with her successful and wealthy friends. |
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Severance (2006) #53
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Directed by Christopher Smith. With Danny Dyer, Laura Harris, Tim McInnerny, Toby Stephens. During a team-building retreat in the mountains a group of sales representatives are hunted down one by one. |
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Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) #60
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Directed by Carlos Saldanha. With Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott. Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths. |
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Take the Lead (2006) #64
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Directed by Liz Friedlander. With Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown, Yaya DaCosta, Alfre Woodard. The real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of problem kids. |
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Underfunded (2006) #64
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Directed by John Fortenberry. With Panou, Alistair Abell, Kirsten Alter, Jan Bos. A brilliant agent (Mather Zickel) works for a severely underfunded branch of the Canadian Secret Service. |
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The Wicker Man (2006) #40
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Directed by Neil LaBute. With Nicolas Cage, Ellen Burstyn, Leelee Sobieski, Kate Beahan. A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community. This is the second film on this disk - you need to fast forward '300' to get to it... |
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Irresistible (2006) #148
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Directed by Ann Turner. With Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, Emily Blunt, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell. A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family. |
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The Lake House (2006) #180
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Directed by Alejandro Agresti. With Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Christopher Plummer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach. A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late. |