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Frances

"Frances" is a biographical drama film directed by Graeme Clifford. The story follows the life of actress Frances Farmer, portrayed by Jessica Lange. The film delves into Frances's struggles with fame, mental health issues, and her controversial encounters with the Hollywood industry. It showcases her turbulent relationships, including one with playwright Clifford Odets (played by Jeffrey DeMunn) and her mother Lillian Farmer (played by Kim Stanley). The narrative also explores Frances's time in a mental institution and her battle with the mental health system. Throughout the film, Frances faces numerous challenges as she navigates her career and personal life in the spotlight.

Slasher

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The Sicilian

"The Sicilian" directed by Michael Cimino is a film that follows the story of Salvatore Giuliano, played by Christopher Lambert, a notorious Sicilian bandit who becomes a hero to his people as he fights against oppression and corruption. Set in Sicily, the film explores Giuliano's rise to power, his clashes with the authorities, and his quest for justice in a land torn apart by political turmoil. With a star-studded cast including Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, and John Turturro, the film delves into themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the complexities of power in a gripping and dramatic narrative.

Grateful Dead: Ticket to New Year's Eve Concert

Grateful Dead's New Year's Eve concert 12/31/87 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena. Tags: Storyline: Just got this in the mail and I highly recommend it. In most respects, it's better than the VFTV series of videos for the fact there are several cameras in the audience so you feel more like you are there. In the VFTV series, they are just taken from the cameras used for the giant screens in the stadiums so there are no cameras in the audience and very little audience is seen. This video does still have some of the same goofy, trippy visuals to go along with the music (why do they do that?), but the addition of a couple very funny comedy sketches (with help from Al Franken's old partner Tom Davis) and some live interview segments where the boys field questions of audience members on video tape. The last question apparently coming from one of Jerry's daughters who asks when "daddy is going to get me a car?" Good stuff. As for the music, the set list is top notch and the boys are in a good mood and it shows.

News of the World

A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl taken by the Kiowa people years ago to her aunt and uncle against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search f... Read all Tags: Storyline: Paul Greengrass said in an interview in the New York Times on 12/30/2020 how this movie "is the first film I made with a child actor at the heart of it" and he thought that it would be very difficult to cast the role of Johanna but when he saw Helena Zengel's audition, he said she "was the only person I really had to look at" and that it "was the easiest decision in the film".

Splitting Heirs

A duke dies and leaves the title and wealth to his adult son. But who's the real son: the found baby raised in USA or the abandoned baby raised by a Hindi family in London? Comedy follows. Tags: Storyline: Eric Idle is five years older than Barbara Hershey, who plays his alleged mother--and 10 years older than Rick Moranis although their characters are implied to be about the same age.

Seven Samurai

In 16th-century Japan, a small, impoverished farming village is terrorized by a band of forty brigands who plan to return after the harvest to steal their crops and women. Desperate, the villagers decide to hire samurai for protection, offering only food as payment. They recruit the aging but wise samurai Kambei Shimada, who then gathers six other masterless samurai: the loyal Gorobei, the kind-hearted Heihachi, Kambei's former lieutenant Shichiroji, the stoic master swordsman Kyuzo, the young and eager Katsushiro, and the boisterous, peasant-born Kikuchiyo. The samurai train the villagers, fortify their homes, and strategically plan the village's defense, facing skirmishes, internal conflicts, and romantic entanglements as they prepare for the inevitable confrontation. The film culminates in a prolonged, brutal battle during a torrential rainstorm, where the samurai and villagers ultimately defeat the bandit horde, though four of the seven samurai lose their lives in the process. In the aftermath, the three surviving samurai observe the villagers joyfully planting new rice, reflecting on how they fought for a world that belongs to the farmers, while their own purpose remains transient.