Showing posts with label newspaper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspaper. Show all posts
January 24, 2020
September 10, 2015
Big News (1929)
Labels:
1920's,
1929,
alcohol,
Big News,
Carole Lombard,
Comedy,
Crime,
false accusation,
George S. Brooks,
Gregory La Cava,
Louis Payne,
murder,
Mystery,
newspaper,
reporter,
Robert Armstrong,
Walter DeLeon
September 08, 2015
Spotlight (2015) Trailer
Spotlight
Break the story. Break the silence.
Spotlight is American drama film directed by Thomas McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer.
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The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Labels:
2010's,
2015,
Biography,
catholic church,
child molestation,
Drama,
History,
investigation,
Josh Singer,
Liev Schreiber,
Mark Ruffalo,
newspaper,
Rachel McAdams,
scandal,
Spotlight,
Tom McCarthy
January 22, 2015
Cry Freedom (1987) Trailer
Cry Freedom
The true story of the friendship that shook South Africa and awakened the world
Cry Freedom is a 1987 British drama film directed by Richard Attenborough, set in the late 1970s, during the apartheid era of South Africa.
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Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time, he changes his opinion. They meet several times, and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country. Written by Mattias Thuresson
Labels:
1980's,
1987,
activist,
Biography,
Cry Freedom,
Denzel Washington,
Donald Woods,
Drama,
editor,
History,
John Briley,
Josette Simon,
journalist,
Kevin Kline,
newspaper,
Richard Attenborough,
south africa
January 14, 2015
The Blue Gardenia (1953) Scene
The Blue Gardenia
The Blue Gardenia is a 1953 black-and-white film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on a story by Vera Caspary.
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In Los Angeles, on the day of her birthday, the telephone operator Norah Larkin decides to celebrate dining alone at home, with the picture of his beloved fiancé, a soldier overseas, and reading his last letter for her. In the letter he tells that he met a Japanese nurse and he wanted to get married with her. Norah, completely upset, accepts to blind date the Don Juan and photographer of calendar girls Harry Prebble. They go to the Blue Gardenia Club, and Norah drinks six strong cocktails Polynesian Pearl Divers and gets completely drunk. Harry takes her to his apartment and tries to force Norah to have sex, and she uses a poker to hit Harry on the head. On the next morning, she wakes-up in her apartment with her two roommates, but she can not remember what happened. When she reads the newspaper, she finds that Harry is dead and the police has her handkerchief, her high heels and her blue gardenia and is chasing the woman that killed the famous wolf Harry. When she reads in the ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Labels:
1950's,
1953,
Ann Sothern,
Anne Baxter,
Charles Hoffman,
Crime,
Drama,
Film-Noir,
Fritz Lang,
letter,
Mystery,
newspaper,
police,
Richard Conte,
telephone,
telephone operator,
The Blue Gardenia,
Thriller,
Vera Caspary
January 12, 2015
The Shipping News (2001) Trailer
The Shipping News
You'll never guess what you'll find inside...
The Shipping News is a 2001 drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Shipping News by Annie Proulx.
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An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper "The Gammy Bird" finds an audience, and his experiences in the town change his life. Then he meets the widow Wavey... Written by <jonas.reinartz@web.de>
Labels:
2000's,
2001,
Annie Proulx,
Drama,
Judi Dench,
Julianne Moore,
Kevin Spacey,
Lasse Hallström,
newfoundland,
newspaper,
Robert Nelson Jacobs,
Romance,
survival,
The Shipping News,
three word title,
tragedy
December 27, 2014
Waxwork (1988) Trailer
Waxwork
you can step inside the hall of horrors - but dare you pay the price?
Waxwork is a 1988 American horror comedy film starring Zach Galligan and Deborah Foreman.
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A waxwork museum comes to town, and a mysterious man invites some teens to come to a special showing at midnight. Once inside, while viewing different exhibits, the scenes come alive and the viewer is sucked into the story being portrayed.
Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
December 07, 2014
November 21, 2014
The Front Page (1974) Trailer
The Front Page
It's the hottest story since the Chicago Fire... And they're sitting on it.
The Front Page is a 1974 American comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
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As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.
Labels:
1920s,
1970's,
1974,
Ben Hecht,
Billy Wilder,
Charles MacArthur,
Comedy,
communist,
Drama,
escape from jail,
Jack Lemmon,
newspaper,
reporter,
Romance,
Susan Sarandon,
The Front Page,
Walter Matthau
October 10, 2014
In the Mood for Love (2000) Trailer
Fa yeung nin wa
Feel the heat, keep the feeling burning, let the sensation explode.
In the Mood for Love is a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Kar-wai,
starring Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung.
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Two neighbors, a woman and a man, form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to
commit similar wrongs.
September 18, 2014
August 28, 2014
The Great Race (1965) Trailer
Labels:
1960's,
1965,
Action,
Adventure,
Arthur A. Ross,
Blake Edwards,
car,
Comedy,
Family,
Jack Lemmon,
Musical,
Natalie Wood,
newspaper,
race,
Romance,
Sport,
The Great Race,
Tony Curtis,
Western
April 14, 2014
April 04, 2014
March 26, 2014
March 20, 2014
November 17, 2013
September 07, 2013
Newsies (1992) Trailer
Labels:
1990's,
1992,
Bill Pullman,
Bob Tzudiker,
Christian Bale,
Disney,
Drama,
Kenny Ortega,
Musical,
new york city,
Newsies,
newspaper,
Noni White,
orphan,
publisher,
Robert Duvall,
trejler
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