martes, 17 de mayo de 2011

STAGECOACH, 1939

Director: John Ford 
Writers: Ernest Haycox and Dudley Nichols  
Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor and Andy Devine 
Plot: A simple stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a a drunken doctor, two women, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others.  
Stagecoach trailer 
Recommendations: Today I'm not going to talk about the film I'm going to talk about John Ford, probably you have seen some  of John's films. For a lot of people he is the most important director of history, he have made amazing films like The Searchers, 1956 and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, 1962.

SABRINA, 1954

Director: Billy Wilder
Writers: Samuel A. Taylor and Billy Wilder  
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn and William Holden 
Plot: Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. David is all play -- technically he is employed by the family business, but never shows up for work, spends all his time entertaining, and has been married and divorced three times. Meanwhile, Sabrina Fairchild is the young, shy, and awkward daughter of the household chauffeur, who has been infatuated with David all her life, but David hardly notices her -- "doesn't even know I exist" -- until she goes away to Paris for two years, and returns an elegant, sophisticated, beautiful woman. Suddenly, she finds that she has captured David's attention, but just as she does so, she finds herself falling in love with Linus, and she finds that Linus is also falling in love with her.
Sabrina trailer 

Recommendations: Audrey Hepburn is my favourite actress and if you like the way she acts I will recomend you my two favourite films Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1961 and Charada, 1963.

THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO, 1985

Director: Woody Allen
Writer: Woody Allen
Stars: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels and Danny Aiello  
Plot: Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey during the Depression and is searching for an escape from her dreary life. Tom Baxter is a dashing young archaeologist in the film "The Purple Rose of Cairo." After losing her job Cecilia goes to see the film in hopes of raising her spirits. Much to her surprise Tom Baxter walks off the screen and into her life. There's only one problem..Tom isn't real. Meanwhile Hollywood is up in arms when they dicover that other Tom Baxters are trying to leave the screen in other theatres. Will Tom ever return and finish the film or will he decide to stay in the real world?
Recommendations: This film is was directed by the amazing director Woody Allen, you shoul film other Allen's films like Annie Hall, 1977.

THE CHINA SYNDROME, 1979

Director: James Bridges Writers: Mike Gray and T.S. Cook
Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas.
Plot: While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, an opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicise the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
The china syndrome trailer
 

  

Recommendations: You should also see Fatal Attraction, 1987 and Disclosure, 1994.