Filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, and Darren Aronofsky, who came of age during the reign of video rentals, discuss an era of cinema history which, though gone, continues to shape film culture today.
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however.
A film academic, a composer, and a composer/musicologist have collaborated as editors on this book, which is in turn comprised of interviews with composers alongside complementary chapters that focus on a particular feature of the composer's approach or style, written by a musicologist or film academic who specializes in that particular element of the composer's output.
Two plays, three playwrights, one rape, two murders: Verbatim and Portraits confront us with the brutal and human truth about crime, through the voices of those most deeply affected.
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Rick's Cafâe in Casablanca is a centre for war refugees awaiting visas for America. Rick abandons his cynicism to help an old lover escape the Nazis with her underground leader husband.