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Saturday Night & Sunday Morning (DVD) Widescreen Set in the gray industrial town of Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe`s novel SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with all of its bleak realism, is successfully adapted to the screen with a powerful performance by Albert Finney in his...
Set in the gray industrial town of Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe`s novel SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with all of its bleak realism, is successfully adapted to the screen with a powerful performance by Albert Finney in his first starring role. Director Karel Reisz draws on his work in documentaries to give the film a sharp eye for the look and feel of northern England. Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) is an young man trapped in a mindless factory job, intrinsically rebelling, but without any focus to his anger. He spends his Saturday nights getting drunk and his Sunday mornings fishing. His affair with a married neighbor, Brenda (Rachel Roberts), seems to please him only for its risky illicitness. Their love scenes are controversial for the palpable expression of real sexual pleasure that Roberts shows in the role of an ordinary English housewife, and because of the fact that she receives, from a handsome younger man, the sexual fulfillment that her husband can not provide.
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with it`s mix of contemporary alienation, a fantastic jazz score, and a realistic atmosphere, resonates with Finney`s charm and unexplainable rage at the world.
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Director: Karel Reisz
ACTORS: Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Rachel Roberts, Norman Rossington
Fail-Safe (DVD)
Following closely on the heels of Stanley Kubrik`s DR. STRANGELOVE (all too closely for Kubrick and company, who quickly filed a lawsuit alleging plagiarism), Sidney Lumet`s FAIL-SAFE employs a similarly stylized and heightened dramatic structure in its nerve-crushing moral tale. Taking place over the course of a single day, the film follows government and army officials in Nebraska, New York City, and Washington, D.C., as they go about their day supervising, examining, and speculating on the fragile state of affairs engendered by the tense nuclear standoff between the U.S. and Russia. When an off-course commercial airplane triggers the Pentagon`s complex fail-safe maneuver, leaving an arsenal of nuclear-bomb-carrying jet fighters at the ready, a mechanical error puts the entire world in danger of destruction. Riveting performances from a rich cast are pushed even further by Lumet`s stark and ominous direction. Walter Matthau gives an uncharacteristic turn as a cold and contemptuous political scientist unswerving in his convictions that the U.S. must stand strong against the communist menace. Henry Fonda plays the American president who must navigate the complex and urgent political trauma and prevent total destruction, even at an unthinkable price.NR"
Director: Sidney Lumet
ACTORS: Henry Fonda, Dan O`Herlihy, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Larry Hagman
Wicked Minds (DVD)
A femme fatale (Angie Everhart) arouses suspicious in her new stepson when the young man arrives home from college to find his father dead.NR"
Director: Jason Hreno
ACTORS: Angie Everhart, Winston Rekert
Cast Away (DVD) Single Disc; Widescreen Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, a man in a hurry. His job for Federal Express has him traveling the world on a moment`s notice, exhorting the company`s employees to speed things up-- never turn your back on the clock...
Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, a man in a hurry. His job for Federal Express has him traveling the world on a moment`s notice, exhorting the company`s employees to speed things up-- never turn your back on the clock. When he`s suddenly called away for business on Christmas night, his tolerant longtime girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) drives him to the airport. They have their Christmas in the car--and Chuck plunks an engagement ring into her lap right before he gets on the plane, telling her, I`ll be right back. But an unexpected storm cuts the plane`s crew off from radio contact and blows them off course. Chuck is the sole survivor of the resulting crash, and washes up on a completely deserted island. Stranded there, he must give up everything that he once took for granted and learn how to survive all alone in the wilderness. From director Robert Zemeckis, CAST AWAY is a story of adventure and discovery surrounding one man`s will to stay alive.
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Director: Robert Zemeckis
ACTORS: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Lari White, Christopher Noth
By Hook or By Crook (DVD)
A loner who turns to a life of crime and a wayward traveler in search of his birthmother meet by chance and form a very close friendship. Shy, bored with his everyday job at a diner, adds a dash of excitement to his otherwise stale life by trying his hand at petty thievery in San Francisco. Valentine is in the middle of realizing his lifelong dream of finding his mom. Together they live as scam artists while developing a true understanding of each other.NR"
