Sophie’s Choice is a film about a woman, Zofia “Sophie” Zawistowski (Meryl Streep), a Polish immigrant and survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who now lives with her lover, Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline), a exuberant American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo (Peter MacNicol), the movie’s narrator, a young American writer new to New […]
Hoop Dreams
This completely absorbing three-hour documentary follows the lives of two inner-city African American teenage basketball prodigies as they move through high school with long-shot dreams of the NBA, superstardom, and an escape from the ghetto. Taking cues from such works as Michael Apted’s 35 Up, director Steve James and associates shot more than 250 hours […]
Dark City
John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens in a hotel bathtub, suffering from amnesia. He receives a telephone call from Dr. Daniel Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland), who urges him to flee the hotel from a group of men who are after him. During the telephone conversation, John discovers the corpse of a brutalized, ritualistically murdered woman, along with […]
Whale Rider
Paikea Apirana (Keisha Castle-Hughes) is a young girl who wants to inherit what only a young make could: the right to be a whale rider, one who rides on top of a whale from Hawaiki. Her grandfather (Rawiri Paratene ) loves her, carrying her to school every day on his bicycle, but he also blames […]
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