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Sixty Six (2006) #139
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Directed by Paul Weiland. With Charlie Clark, Nick Shirm, Thomas Drewson, Gregg Sulkin. A boy's barmitzvah looks set to be a disaster when it coincides with the 1966 World Cup Final. |
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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. |
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Ultraviolet (2006) #180
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Directed by Kurt Wimmer. With Milla Jovovich, Cameron Bright, Nick Chinlund, Sebastien Andrieu. A beautiful hemophage infected with a virus that gives her superhuman powers has to protect a boy in a futuristic world, who is thought to be carrying antigens that would destroy all hemophages. |
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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. |
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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. |
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HMS Pinafore / Trail by Jury (2006) #613
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Opera Australia. Anthony Warlow, David Hobson, Colette Mann, John Bolton Wood, Tiffany Speight, Ali McGregor, Roxane Hislop, Richard Alexander, Andrew Jones Opera Australia Melbourne Chorus Orchestra Victoria / Andrew Greene. While HMS Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan’s first full-length satirical work and first major international success, Trial by Jury was their first collaboration - the show's outrageous antics made it the toast of London. In this filmed recording, Anthony Warlow, Australia’s musical theatre superstar, is at the helm as both the "right good captain" and the "good judge" too. He is joined by a stellar cast featuring David Hobson, John Bolton Wood and Colette Mann as "dear little Buttercup". |
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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. |
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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. |
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Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005) #180
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Directed by Randall Miller. With Robert Carlyle, Marisa Tomei, Mary Steenburgen, John Goodman. A widowed man's life turns upside down when he embarks on a journey to find a dying man's long lost love. |
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Caché (2005) #544
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Directed by Michael Haneke. With Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot. A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch. aka Hidden |
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We Want the Light: The Jews and German Music (2005) #1381
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86mins. BBC. Christopher Nupen's award-winning film investigates the fruitful but complex relationship between the Jews and German music, from Mendelssohn to Wagner. The heroine of the film is pianist Alice Sommer Herz, who played more than 100 concerts in the Theresienstadt camp and is convinced that it was music that kept her, and many others, alive in those unimaginable circumstances. |
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The Incredibles (2004) #198
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Directed by Brad Bird. With Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee. A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world. |
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Gipsy Kings - Live At Kenwood House (2004) #661
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The Gipsy Kings are unfashionable superstars. Formed in southern France by the brothers and cousins of the Reyes and Baliardo families, they mixed Gypsy flamenco and Latin American styles with a rhythm section and light show worthy of a pop band, and became a crossover sensation. cf Gypsy Kings. |
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Arena: Pavarotti - the Last Tenor (2004) #712
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For 40 years, Luciano Pavarotti has been hailed as one of the greatest tenors of all time, an artist fit to rank alongside the great Caruso. As his career reaches its climax, this documentary, showing as part of the BBC's Summer of Opera, chronicles his background and upbringing, and follows him as he performs to sell-out audiences on three continents, culminating with his valedictory performances of Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Backstage in LA, the tenor greets celebrity admirers, including Michael Caine and Dustin Hoffman , in Berlin he's reunited with Three Tenors group members Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo , while in his Italian hometown of Modena the maestro gathers top names in rock and pop, such as Bono, Queen, Ricky Martin and Andrea Bocelli , to raise money for the children of Iraq. Narrated by Sir Ian McKellen. |
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Lilo & Stitch (2002) #1513
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1h 25m A young and parentless girl adopts a 'dog' from the local pound, completely unaware that it's supposedly a dangerous scientific experiment that's taken refuge on Earth and is now hiding from its creator and those who see it as a menace. |
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Gladiator (2000) #195
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Directed by Ridley Scott. With Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed. When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. |
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Chocolat (2000) #543
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Directed by Lasse Hallström. With Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss. A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. |
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The Ninth Gate (1999) #218
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Directed by Roman Polanski. With Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner. A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones. |
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Fantasia 2000 (1999) #1049
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Directed by James Algar, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi. With James Levine, Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Quincy Jones. An update of the original film with new interpretations of great works of classical music. |
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) #82
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Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns. Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. |