The Last Picture Show

USA 1971

Genre: Drama
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Producers: Stephen J. Friedman
Writer: Peter Bogdanovich (screenplay), Larry McMurtry (novel & screenplay)
Academy Awards: Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ben Johnson), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Cloris Leachman)
Budget: $1..,3M
Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman

Plot Summary:
In tiny Anarene, Texas, in the lull between World War Two and the Korean Conflict, Sonny and Duane are best friends. Enduring that awkward period of life between boyhood and manhood, the two pass their time the best way they know how -- with the movie house, basketball, and girls. Jacey is Duane's steady, wanted by every boy in school, and she knows it. Her daddy is rich and her mom is good looking and loose. It's the general consensus that whoever wins Jacey's heart will be set for life. But Anarene is dying a quiet death as folks head for the big cities to make their livings and raise their kids. The boys are torn between a future somewhere out there beyond the borders of town or making do with their inheritance of a run-down pool hall and a decrepit movie house -- the legacy of their friend and mentor, Sam the Lion. As high school graduation approaches, they learn some difficult lessons about love, loneliness, and jealousy. Then folks stop attending the second-run features at the movie house and the time comes for the last picture show. With the closure of the movie house, the boys feel that a stage of their lives is closing. They stand uneasily on the threshold of the rest of their lives

Othello

USA 1952

Genre: Drama

Directed by: Orson Welles

Producer: Orson Welles

Writters: Orson Welles (screenplay), W. Shakespeare (play)

Awards: Cannes Film Festival 1952

Cast: Orson Welles, Michèal MacLiammóir, Robert Coote, Suzanne Cloutier

Plot Sumary:

Desdemona, daughter of a Venetian aristocrat, elopes with Moorish military hero Othello, to the great resentment of Othello's envious underling Iago. Alas, Iago knows Othello's weakness, and with chilling malice works on him with but too good effect...

Peter & Vandy

USA 2009

Genre: Drama

Directed by: Jay DiPietro

Producers: Jay DiPietro,

Writters: Jay DiPietro, Bingo Gubelmann, Benji Kohn, Austin Stark, Peter Sterling.

Budget: $1M

Cast: Jason Ritter, Jess Weixler

Plot Summary:

'Peter and Vandy' is a love story told out of order. Set in Manhattan, the story shifts back and forth in time, juxtaposing Peter and Vandy's romantic beginnings with the twisted, manipulative, regular couple they become. The film explores the question most couples ask themselves... 'How the hell did we get this way?

Inglorious Basterds

USA 2009
Genre: War
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Producer: Lawrence Bender
Writter: Quentin Tarantino
Budget: $70M
Cast: Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Mèlanie Laurent, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühll, Mike Myers

Plot Summary:
During World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

Barry Lyndon

1975
Genre: Drama
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writters: Stanley Kubrick (screenplay), William Makepeace Thackeray (novel).
Budget: $11M
Academy Awards: Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Music (Adapted)
Cast: Ryan O'neil, Marisa Berenson
Plot Sumary:
Redmond Barry is a young, roguish Irishman who's determined, in any way, to make a life for himself as a wealthy nobleman. Enlisting in the British Army, fighting in the Seven Years War in Europe, Barry deserts from the British army, joins the Prussian army, gets promoted to the rank of a spy, then becomes pupil to a Chevalier and con artist/gambler. Barry then lies, dupes, duels and seduces his way up the social ladder and enters into a lustful but loveless marriage to a wealthy countess named Lady Lyndon, takes the name of Barry Lyndon, settles in England with wealth and power beyond his wildest dreams, then slowly falls dramatically into ruin.

The Informant

2009

Genre: Comedy

Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

Producers: Howard Braunstein, Kurt Eichenwald, Jennifer Fox, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Jaffe.

Writters: Scott Z. Burns (screenplay), Kurt Eichenwald (book).

Cast: Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Lucas Carrol, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey

Budget: $21M

Plot Sumary:

Mark Whitacre has worked for lysine developing company ADM for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake - being a spy for the FBI. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal price-fixing activities of his company, Whitacre gradually adopts the idea that he's a true secret agent. But as his incessant lies keep piling up, his world begins crashing down around him