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Transylmania

Transylmania

Located deep in the heart of the “cursed land” of Transylvania in a centuries-old castle, Razvan University isn’t your typical institution of higher learning — and the black leather-clad professors, three-foot-tall dean, instruction in crucifix-wielding, and topless vampiresses lurking in dark corners are just the start.

Quiet Little Marriage

Quiet Little Marriage

Trailer for Quiet Little Marriage

Gamer

Gamer

After directing the frenzied CRANK, Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor helm another adrenaline-fueled film with this thriller. 300′s Gerard Butler stars as Kable, a man living in a near-future dystopia driven by online games. Kable is the world’s best player at its biggest game, where players take control of real people, but the competition really begins when he tries to fight the system itself.

Patch of Blue

Patch of Blue

A moving story of a shy blind girl whose love for a black man brings her out of her reclusive shell. Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Actress–Elizabeth Hartman. Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress–Shelley Winters.

Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field

Sidney Poitier–who would later star in such unforgettable films as TO SIR, WITH LOVE; GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER and IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT–won an Academy Award for best actor for his standout performance in this modest, beautiful 1963 film. LILIES OF THE FIELD is directed tenderly and with restraint by Ralph Nelson from a light-handed yet deeply effective screenplay by James Poe, based on a novel by William E. Barrett. Poitier plays the role of Homer Smith, a journeyman laborer, who is roaming the countryside, drifting and working. One day he stops at a farm and meets up with five nuns. Lilia Skala is formidable and endearing as Mother Maria, the highest-ranking sister, who is convinced that God has answered her prayers and sent Homer to fix the roof. Staying and working in the peaceful calm of the Arizona desert, Homer learns more from the nuns than he ever could have anticipated.

Lilies of the Field

Lilies of the Field

Sidney Poitier–who would later star in such unforgettable films as TO SIR, WITH LOVE; GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER and IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT–won an Academy Award for best actor for his standout performance in this modest, beautiful 1963 film. LILIES OF THE FIELD is directed tenderly and with restraint by Ralph Nelson from a light-handed yet deeply effective screenplay by James Poe, based on a novel by William E. Barrett. Poitier plays the role of Homer Smith, a journeyman laborer, who is roaming the countryside, drifting and working. One day he stops at a farm and meets up with five nuns. Lilia Skala is formidable and endearing as Mother Maria, the highest-ranking sister, who is convinced that God has answered her prayers and sent Homer to fix the roof. Staying and working in the peaceful calm of the Arizona desert, Homer learns more from the nuns than he ever could have anticipated.

Outrage

Outrage

Paul Newman plays a Mexican bandit at the center of a murder and rape trial in this Wild West-version of Kurosawa’s RASHOMON. A Southern gentleman is dead in a Southwestern border town, but little else is clear: as the three participants (including the dead man through a witness) tell their conflicting versions of the story, they seem only to shed light on the elusive nature of the truth. Adding another layer of obscurity, the events of the trial are related secondhand–by a prospector (Howard Da Silva) and preacher (William Shatner) to a con-artist (Edward G. Robinson)…and soon a fourth version is added to this befuddling brew.

Outrage

Outrage

Paul Newman plays a Mexican bandit at the center of a murder and rape trial in this Wild West-version of Kurosawa’s RASHOMON. A Southern gentleman is dead in a Southwestern border town, but little else is clear: as the three participants (including the dead man through a witness) tell their conflicting versions of the story, they seem only to shed light on the elusive nature of the truth. Adding another layer of obscurity, the events of the trial are related secondhand–by a prospector (Howard Da Silva) and preacher (William Shatner) to a con-artist (Edward G. Robinson)…and soon a fourth version is added to this befuddling brew.

Spinout

Spinout

In the bliss of bachelorhood, it’s hard enough for a man to fend off the advances of one woman, much less four. This is exactly what befalls Mike McCoy (Elvis Presley). The romantic singer, rock band leader, and sometime stock car driver finds himself the target of princesslike rich girl Cynthia, sexy-voiced fashion plate Diana, true-love Susan, and Les, the butch drummer in his band. Three of these women will end up with either a stressed-out administrative assistant, a policeman chef, or an auto racing bigwig. Only one will be able to pierce through the facade of the hardened bachelor and show him the true romantic he really is.

Law Abiding Citizen

Law Abiding Citizen

In LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, a prisoner’s incredible reign over the city outside his cell is interrupted by an assistant district attorney. Gerard Butler (300) stars.

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