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Amazing Grace (2006) #321
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Directed by Michael Apted. With Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai. The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade. |
1042 |
A Prairie Home Companion (2006) #325
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Directed by Robert Altman. With Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly. A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court. |
1043 |
Cars (2006) #444
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Directed by John Lasseter, Joe Ranft. With Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt, Paul Newman, Larry the Cable Guy. A hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family. Disney |
1044 |
Children of Men (2006) #464
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Directed by Alfonso Cuarón. With Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Caine. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. |
1045 |
Crank (2006) #464
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Directed by Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor. With Jason Statham, Amy Smart, Carlos Sanz, Jose Pablo Cantillo. Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops. |
1046 |
Ask the Dust (2006) #464
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Directed by Robert Towne. With Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins. Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm. |
1047 |
The Prestige (2006) #466
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Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine. Two stage magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship in an attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion. |
1048 |
All the King's Men (2006) #466
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Directed by Steven Zaillian. With Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana. |
1049 |
The Queen (2006) #527
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Directed by Stephen Frears. With Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings. After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted. |
1050 |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) #528
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Directed by Guillermo del Toro. With Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú. In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. |
1051 |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) #537
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Directed by Tom Tykwer. With Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Francesc Albiol. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent. |
1052 |
A Prairie Home Companion (2006) #545
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Directed by Robert Altman. With Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly. A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court. |
1053 |
Imagine: The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens (2006) #625
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Alan Yentob presents a documentary telling the story of Yusuf Islam - the singer/songwriter who captured the hearts of a generation in the 60s and 70s with songs like Moon Shadow and Morning Has Broken under the name Cat Stevens. Yusuf explains that his hit songs were written to help him out of a spiritual depression, and that he shared with his listeners a quest for a deeper meaning to life. After a decade of flirting with religion he finally converted - after a near drowning incident off Malibu beach he promised to serve God if he was saved; he was and it was to the Koran he turned. Now one of Britain's foremost representatives of Islam, founder of a Muslim School paid for by his royalties, he has finally returned to the music he abandoned 23 years ago. |
1054 |
Mozart Celebration from Berlin (2006) #648
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Performed in the grandeur of Berlin's foremost opera house, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, the Mozart Celebration is dedicated to the life's work of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This one-time-only gala concert features exuberant Mozart pieces, performed by some of the world’s leading singers and musicians. PROGRAMME: Ouverture “La Clemenza di Tito”; Violin Concerto No.5, K.219; ”Chi sa, chi sa, qual sia”, Aria for soprano, K. 582; Piano Concerto No.23, K.488; "Per questa bella mano” Aria for bass, K. 612; Papageno's Aria from The Magic Flute; Duet Papageno-Papagena; Symphonie No.40 in G minor, K.550. Featuring Thomas Quasthoff. |
1055 |
Flushed Away (2006) #1474
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Flushed Away: Directed by David Bowers, Sam Fell. With Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno. The story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life. |
1056 |
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) #41
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Directed by Miranda July. With John Hawkes, Miranda July, Miles Thompson, Brandon Ratcliff. A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life. |
1057 |
The World's Fastest Indian (2005) #43
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Directed by Roger Donaldson. With Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Iain Rea, Tessa Mitchell. The story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. |
1058 |
V for Vendetta (2005) #45
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Directed by James McTeigue. With Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea. In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman. |
1059 |
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) #48
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Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Steve Coogan, Jeremy Northam, Rob Brydon, Keeley Hawes. Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman." |
1060 |
Hard Candy (2005) #49
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Directed by David Slade. With Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page, Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae. A teenage girl raids a man's home in order to expose him under suspicion that he is a sex offender with pedophilia. |