Archive for January, 1972
Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi)
While looking for an apartment, Jeanne, a beautiful young Parisienne, encounters Paul, a mysterious American expatriate mourning his wife’s recent suicide. Instantly drawn to each other, they have a stormy, passionate affair, in which they do not reveal their names to each other. Their relationship deeply affects their lives, as Paul struggles with his wife’s death and Jeanne prepares to marry her fiance, Tom, a film director making a cinema-verite documentary about her.
Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi) DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.90 out of 10 (6806 votes)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider, Maria Michi, Giovanna Galletti, Gitt Magrini, Catherine Allégret, Luce Marquand, Marie-Hélène Breillat, Catherine Breillat, Dan Diament, Catherine Sola, Mauro Marchetti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Massimo Girotti, Peter Schommer,
Tags: Romance, Drama, american-abroad, anal-sex, anonymity, apartment, assault, attempted-rape, balcony, bare-butt, bathtub-scene, bimbo, bistro, black-comedy, blockbuster, blood, breakup, broom, cage-elevator, chase, cheating-on-boyfriend, controversial, dance-contest, dance-hall, dating, dead-rat, death, deliberate-cruelty, director, disturbing, el-train, electra-complex, erotic, erotica, expatriate, extramarital-affair, false-teeth, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, film-making, filmmaker, flashing, gay-slur, grief, hotel, imperialism, impersonation, loss-of-daughter, loss-of-wife, love, male-nudity, marriage-proposal, masturbation, mattress, mooning, mother-daughter-relationship, mother-in-law, murder, obsession, obsessive-love, older-man-younger-woman, paris-france, payphone, premarital-sex, prostitute, psychological-drama, public-restroom, racism, rage, railway-station, rainstorm, rape, rat, romance, rough-sex, self-destructive, self-discovery, sex, sex-with-food, sexual-desire, sexuality, sink, siren, stalking, straight-razor, suicide, tango, tragedy, tragic-love, unfaithful-wife, urban, vulgarity, wake, wedding-dress
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King of Marvin Gardens, The
‘It’s Monopoly out there’. Jason Staebler, The King of Marvin Gardens, has gone directly to jail, lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is also a dreamer who asks his brother, David, a radio personality from Philadelphia to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island - asking him to believe in yet another of his dreams, yet another of his get-rich-quick schemes. But luck is against them both and the game ends badly - real life reduced to radio drama.
King of Marvin Gardens, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.30 out of 10 (628 votes)
Director: Bob Rafelson
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn, Julia Anne Robinson, Scatman Crothers, Charles LaVine, Arnold Williams, John P. Ryan, Sully Boyar, Josh Mostel, William Pabst, Garry Goodrow, Imogene Bliss, Ann Thomas, Tom Overton,
Tags: Drama, Crime, atlantic-city-new-jersey, beach, beauty-pageant, brother, brother-brother-relationship, con-man, depression, embezzlement, female-nudity, get-rich-quick-scheme, grandfather, loss-of-brother, mother-daughter-relationship, murder, new-jersey, nightclub, organized-crime, radio, radio-dj, relationship, scheme, sibling, tragedy
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Fist of Fury
Chen Chen returns to the international compound of China only to learn of his beloved teacher’s death. This is compounded by the continual racist harassment by the Japanese population in the area. Unlike his friends, he confronts it head on with his mastery of martial arts while investigating his teacher’s murder.
Fist of Fury DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 6.90 out of 10 (2163 votes)
Director: Wei Lo
Actors: Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, James Tien, Maria Yi, Robert Baker, Fu Ching Chen, San Chin, Yin-Chieh Han, Riki Hashimoto, Jun Arimura, Chung-Hsin Huang, Quin Lee, Feng Tien, Yin Chi Lee, Tony Liu,
Tags: Drama, Action, 1910s, 1970s, asia, bittersweet, china, chinese, christ-allegory, controversial, fight, hate, hero, heroism, honor, human-relationship, imperial-japan, japan, japanese, japanese-versus-chinese, karate, katana-sword, love, martial-arts, murder, prejudice, racism, redemption, revenge, righteous-rage, school, social-commentary, student, teaching, tragedy, tragic-hero, warrior, young-man
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Godfather, The
The story begins as “Don” Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia “family”, oversees his daughter’s wedding. His beloved son Michael has just come home from the war, but does not intend to become part of his father’s business. Through Michael’s life the nature of the family business becomes clear. The business of the family is just like the head of the family, kind and benevolent to those who give respect, but given to ruthless violence whenever anything stands against the good of the family. Don Vito lives his life in the way of the old country, but times are changing and some don’t want to follow the old ways and look out for community and “family”. An up and coming rival of the Corleone family wants to start selling drugs in New York, and needs the Don’s influence to further his plan. The clash of the Don’s fading old world values and the new ways will demand a terrible price, especially from Michael, all for the sake of the family.
Godfather, The DVD Info:
IMDB Rating: 9.10 out of 10 (148964 votes)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, Richard Conte, Al Lettieri, Diane Keaton, Abe Vigoda, Talia Shire, Gianni Russo, John Marley, Rudy Bond,
Tags: Drama, Crime, 1940s, 1950s, adopted-son, ambush, assassination, assassination-attempt, attorney, baptism, based-on-novel, bathroom, bathroom-scene, betrayal, blockbuster, breasts, bronx, brother-brother-relationship, brother-sister-relationship, car-bomb, catholic, catholic-church, cemetery, christmas, convicted-felon, corrupt-lawyer, cosa-nostra, courtship, crime-boss, crime-epic, crooked-cop, domestic-violence, drug-dealing, drugs, dysfunctional-family, el-train, epic, ethnic-slur, ex-convict, extramarital-affair, fall-down-stairs, family, famous-line, famous-score, father-daughter-relationship, father-son-relationship, female-nudity, fish, fugitive, funeral, gang-warfare, gangster, garrote, heart-attack, heroin, hitman, honor, horse, horse-killed, hospital, hotel, imagery, invalid, italian-american, italy, knife-in-hand, las-vegas-nevada, los-angeles-california, loss-of-father, loss-of-husband, loss-of-son, loss-of-wife, love-at-first-sight, machine-gun, mafia, mafia-don, mansion, marital-abuse, marriage, massage, mob-hit, mob-summit, mob-violence, motion-picture-executive, movie-studio, murder, new-york-city, nudity, nurse, obesity, open-hydrant, organized-crime, paparazzi, paraplegic, police, police-brutality, police-corruption, police-officer-killed, power, pregnancy, professional-hit, protection-racket, racial-slur, radio-city-music-hall, restaurant, revenge, revolving-door, severed-horse's-head, sex, shooting, shot-in-the-eye, shot-in-the-forehead, sibling-rivalry, sicily-italy, singer, stabbed-in-the-hand, stable, statue-of-liberty, strangulation, surprise-ending, teacher, teenager-nudity, telephone-box, title-spoken-by-character, toll-booth, tommy-gun, topless, traitor, twist-in-the-end, undertaker, undressing-scene, urination, urination-scene, vegetable-garden, vengeance, village, violence, violent-movie, vulgarity, war-veteran, wedding, wedding-reception, wheelchair, widower, wwii-veteran
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