Although its tale of marital crisis, A Walk on the Moon is a story that gently involves. The characters are authentic, and, best of all, Diane Lane is given a chance to show why she’s one of the most genuine and underrated actresses of her generation. Here she plays Pearl Kantrowitz, a devoted housewife on […]
An Unmarried Woman
Erica Benton (Jill Clayburgh) is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband Martin (Michael Murphy) of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale’s. The film shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in […]
The Piano
Jane Campion’s The Piano struck a deep chord with audiences in 1993, who were mesmerized by the film’s rich, dreamlike imagery. It is the story of a Scottish woman named Ada (Holly Hunter), who has been mute since age 6 because she simply chose not to speak. Ada travels with her daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) […]
2001: A Space Odyssey
2001 is a story of the evolution of man kind. Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. The sci-fi masterpiece from acclaimed producer Stanley Kubrick about a space voyage to Jupiter that turns chaotic when a computerenhanced with […]
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