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Carroll Ballard – Wind (1992)

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Wind (1992)

Romance and adventure happen during the America’s Cup series of yachting races.

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Carlo Vanzina – La partita AKA The Gamble (1988)

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La partita (1988)

A young man joins a feisty runaway as he flees from the noblewoman who won him in a wager.

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Various – American Cinema (1995)

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The ten-part American Cinema series is superb entertainment for movie fans who want to acquire a deeper understanding of the history, development, techniques, and genres of the USA’s best export. It richly employs first-person interviews with modern directors, producers, screenwriters, cinematographers, actors, and a slew of other movie craftsmen. Each one- hour episode is liberally seasoned with film clips and includes archival interviews with dozens of the late greats of the first half of this century. Every self-labeled movie buff should watch this fine series.

Part 1: The Hollywood Style | Narrator: Joe Morton
This program introduces the broad themes and stylistic conventions of classical Hollywood film, a combination of strong protagonists and story structure, with powerful emotional and technical effects.

Part 2: The Star | Narrator: Kathleen Turner
Early on, Hollywood saw that recognizable talent could minimize the financial risks of film production. In this program, Joan Crawford and Julia Roberts provide case studies of the cultural phenomenon of stardom.

Part 3: Romantic Comedy | Narrator: Kathy Selverstone
From Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night to such contemporary works as Pretty Woman, romantic comedies often mask keen social and psychological observations with breezy dialogue and ridiculous slapstick. This program explores the surface humor of such films, as well as their roots in questions of gender and sexuality.

Part 4: Film Noir | Narrator: Richard Widmark
This program examines the genre of film noir—its roots in German Expressionism; its links to the Cold War, from nuclear threats to blacklisting; and the use of special lighting and camera angles to emphasize themes of corruption and urban decay.

Part 5: The Western | Narrator: Eli Wallach
This program traces the history, aesthetic evolution, and sociological importance of one of American film’s most popular genres, from John Ford’s Stagecoach through the work of Arthur Penn, Sam Peckinpah, and Clint Eastwood.

Part 6: The Combat Film | Narrator: Matthew Modine
This program describes the evolution of the World War II combat film (including those produced under directives from the federal government); the rise of the Vietnam film; the influence off actual newsreel documentaries on a fiction film genre; and the ways in which the combat film has filled social and political needs.

Part 7: The Studio System | Narrator: Peter Coyote
Using Paramount Pictures as a case study, this program probes the economics of mainstream filmmaking and surveys Hollywood’s past era of movie moguls and contract players and directors.

Part 8: Film in the Television Age | Narrator: Cliff Robertson
This program explores the relationship between film and television, from the studios’ initial fear of television and the rise of the Hollywood spectacle film to today’s more integrated entertainment industry.

Part 9: The Film School Generation | Narrator: Mark Heenahan
In the 1960s and 1970s, a group of young mavericks—Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and others—tried to revolutionize the way American films were made and appreciated. This program explores the financial and cultural forces that made their success possible; the influence of classical Hollywood genres and new technology on their work; and their continuing evolution as idiosyncratic filmmakers with commercial clout.

Part 10: The Edge of Hollywood | Narrator: Frances McDormand
Contemporary American independent cinema provides a forum for dissenting, unconventional filmmakers, many of whom are from minority communities. This program looks at the work of Spike Lee, Joel and Ethan Coen, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarrantino, and others and how limited budgets can often encourage innovation and experimentation.

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Language(s):English
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Alan Rudolph – Equinox (1992)

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After a dip into the mainstream with Mortal Thoughts, the wildest card in American cinema is back on his own bizarre terrain. This modern urban fairytale is a beautifully ambivalent re-telling of The Prince and the Pauper. Modine is the separated-at-birth twins (both of them), one a hood whose dream life – moppet children, a cooing fashion-plate wife (Singer) – is coupled with violent megalomania, the other a cringing wimp who can’t bring himself to date his best friend’s anguished, poetry-reading sister (Boyle). The whole is held together with a plot about an aspiring writer (Ferrell) on the track of her first real-life drama, and by an atmospheric soundtrack (Terje Rydal, Ali Farka Toure) that accompanies the characters’ hypnotically crazed manoeuvres. M Emmet Walsh steals the show as a garage boss in a drolly choreographed homage to Jacques Demy. Delirious stuff.

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Alan Parker – Birdy (1984)

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Birdy is a 1984 American drama film based on William Wharton’s 1978 novel of the same name. Directed by Alan Parker, it stars Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. Set in 1960s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the film focuses on the friendship between two teenage boys, Birdy (Modine) and Al Columbato (Cage). The story is presented in flashbacks, with a frame narrative depicting their traumatic experiences upon serving in the Vietnam War.

Parker initially turned down an opportunity to direct, believing that the complex book could not be successfully adapted for a feature film. The project resurfaced in 1982 when A&M Films, a subsidiary of A&M Records, acquired the film rights and commissioned Sandy Kroopf and Jack Behr to write the screenplay. Upon reading the script, Parker returned as director, and the film continued development at Tri-Star Pictures. Principal photography began in May 1984 and concluded in August of that year. Filming took place on locations in Philadelphia and Santa Clara, California. The film is notable for being the first to be partially shot with the Skycam, a computer-controlled camera system created by Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown. The score was composed by Peter Gabriel.

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Abel Ferrara – Go Go Tales (2007)

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A screwball comedy centered on a Manhattan go-go dancing club, where a financial struggle between the owner, his accountant and his silent partner brother threatens the business’s future.

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Language:English

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Abel Ferrara – The Blackout (1997)

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“Dave Kehr” wrote:

Abel Ferrara’s ”Blackout,” a film featuring sex, drugs and Claudia Schiffer, caused a stampede when it was shown at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. That it is only now receiving a New York theatrical premiere says a lot about what the film promises, and what the film delivers. (It will be shown at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village for the next two weeks, as the climax of a series of Mr. Ferrara’s films.)

Mr. Ferrara is a Bronx-born filmmaker whose fascination with urban excess and questions of Roman Catholic faith sometimes makes him seem like Martin Scorsese’s self-destructive, insistently undisciplined younger brother. These are qualities that make Mr. Ferrara’s work enormously respected in Europe, where he is taken to be one of the primary interpreters of the contemporary American scene, and virtually unknown in the United States, where it can seem arty, self-indulgent and wholly unreal.

”The Blackout” takes Mr. Ferrara on a rare trip outside New York City. The film’s first act is set in a stylized version of Miami Beach, which Mr. Ferrara has decorated with his usual iconographic details: overflowing ashtrays, little piles of broken glass, puddles of mysterious liquids.

Matty (Matthew Modine) is a popular, pampered and prosperous movie star — he makes $6 million a picture, good money four years ago — with the sort of substance abuse problems common to Mr. Ferrara’s characters. He has come to Miami to visit his fiancée, Annie (Beatrice Dalle, of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1986 film ”Betty Blue”), a French actress who is starring in some sort of experimental video work under the indulgent direction of Mickey Wayne (Dennis Hopper).

The script, which is credited to Mr. Ferrara, Marla Hanson and Christ Zois, is actually pretty vague on the nature of Mickey’s art project. He seems to be operating some kind of strip club or brothel where he films the acts, charging patrons to watch and charging a bit more to participate. This could be the most creative film financing scheme to come along since the collapse of tax shelter movies, and it’s surely something that the coming generation of film school graduates will want to consider.

Matty is horrified to find that Annie has had an abortion. As she explains to him, none too concisely, ”I don’t want my baby by a father who was a junkie.” In a drunken rage, fueled by cocaine and God knows what else, Matty forces a violent sexual encounter on Annie, and falls unconscious. When he awakens, he is certain he has killed someone, though he isn’t sure whether it was Annie or the teenage waitress (Sarah Lassez), also named Annie, he picked up in a doughnut shop.

The balance of ”The Blackout” is concerned with Matty’s quest for forgiveness and redemption, a quest complicated by the fact that Matty has no clear idea of what he is atoning for. Those who want to read original sin here are perfectly free to do so.

Back in New York, Matty is taken under the wing of an angelic art dealer, Susan (Ms. Schiffer, doing her best to project a cornfed Midwestern quality). He enrolls in A.A. and sobers up, but when Susan is called away for a few days, the old demons return, and Matty finds himself on the next flight to Miami. ”I can’t get ahold of my life until I have solved my past,” he says.

Like most of Mr. Ferrara’s films, ”The Blackout” takes place in a trance state — events are fuzzy, line readings even fuzzier. There are mysterious ellipses in the plotline and lots of droning electric guitar work on the soundtrack (though when Ms. Schiffer enters, an acoustic guitar takes over). The movie ends three or four different times; Mr. Ferrara finally settles on an oblique homage to ”A Star Is Born.”

Mr. Modine, who at this point in his career was fresh off the financially disastrous ”Cutthroat Island,” does an excellent job of capturing the smirking obliviousness of a newly minted star. Mr. Hopper, with his habit of calling all comers, male or female, ”man,” remains ineluctably himself.

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