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The idea is simple. Get next to the President to film a staged assassination attempt. Make it look realistic. Don't use actors. But what happens when the plan takes a sinister turn, and you can no longer tell the difference between reality and fiction? You have one crazy ride on your hands is what you have, and the action does not stop until the you've sunk into the ultimate depths of madness. Radical filmmaker Arthur Gwenlyn is set on making the definitive Presidential assassination film.
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"I have a dream..." are some of the most famous words used in history to express the state of a society undergoing momentous change in thought and action, and although Reverend Martin Luther King was assassinated for his dream, his words continue to ring true in the hearts and minds of today's youth. Known as the 'Black Harvard' to it's students, Morehouse College has been able to pride itself on having such graduates as Olympic Gold Medalist Edwin Moses, film director Spike Lee, 'Ebony' magazine publisher Lerone Bennett, and Reverend Martin Luther King.
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For brothers Dominic, 14, and Patrick, 21, life is a bucolic idyll. They live in an isolated corner of south-western Ireland. With one parent dead and the other a global wanderer, the boys are free to shape their own world - one in which they are responsible for their own survival, but are also able to roam with their beloved dog, Ishka, playact and roughhouse. One day a nosy aunt shows up on the boy's doorstep with a lovely, young German girl in tow. Her name is Anya, and she is intrigued by the boys and their circumstances.
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The Hollywood pitch for Miss Amerigua might be Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Che Guevara and Jerry Lewis. But this isn't Hollywood, it's the fictional town of Amerigua, Paraguay, where the local military despot (guilty of murdering rebellious campesinos) presides over the annual beauty contest. It's an affair slightly less flamboyant than the Miss America Pageant, but no less important to the more prominent citizens of Amerigua. Complicating the judging is the fact that the general's future daughter-in-law and his mistress are both contestants.
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Crescenzio is 33-years-old, works for the gas company reading meters, still lives with his dysfunctional family, has no friends and on top of it all, his obesity attracts shouts of "Fatso!" from passing cars. He is in love with Giuliana who does not reciprocate his love. Guiliana works at a electronic repair shop as a secretary, and her boss is a violent and corrupt old man. Crescenzio's brother, Benjamine, also works at the repair shop and has an almost entirely opposite personality as Crescenzio.
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"Rock and roll is here to stay!" And stay it does in Academy Award-Winning director Murray Lerner's film Message To Love, a film about the famous Isle of Wright concert of 1970, "-- the last and largest event of its kind." Over 600,000 fans arrived on the small island, which can only be reached by boat, to witness what was going to turn out to be the last performance of Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. The Isle of Wright event proved to also be one of the major episodes in an age of commerce versus art.
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In this stunningly inventive French film, seven vignettes tell the story of twelve minutes in the lives of residents in a Marseilles apartment house. The vignettes move sequentially, one after another, but the twelve minutes in time are the same twelve minutes in each sequence. The film, then, becomes a fascinating study in time and perspective. We are forced not to see the story told as a linear progression, but as a series of pieces that must fit together.
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Good looks and a glamorous name--James Dean Ray--aren't enough to save the tragic hero of this contemporary tale of lost youth and squandered potential. Named after his mother's favorite movie star, young Jimmy finds himself racing down the road of his own destruction, not in a shiny black Porsche, but in the frayed seat of a beat-up old junker. He fills his days as a petty, small-town drug dealer, generally hanging out and buying, selling, as well as using his illegal commodities.
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Imagine you're a police detective put in charge of protecting a prostitute who it turns out has been blackmailing respected lawyers, honorable judges, one of your country's cabinet ministers, and most importantly your superiors. What do you do? That's the rock and the hard place where Detective Gauthier finds himself in Jean-Marc Vallee's noirish powerhouse LISTE NOIRE. After a judge receives death threats, a grisly murder is committed, and the prostitute, Gabrielle, is attacked, detectives Gauthier and Laberge are hot on the case.