A biplane pilot who had missed flying in WWI takes up barnstorming and later a movie career in his quest for the glory he had missed.

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Set in 1958. On an NBC game show, “Twenty-One”, a working-class Jewish student remains king of the show for weeks. The show’s producers decide to create a new champion by feeding a new contestant, middle-class Charles Van Doren, with the right answers. He becomes a symbol of intellect to students and the nation. Based on a real life incident.

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In this classic conspiracy thriller, screen icon Robert Redford (Tell Them Willie Boy is Here, The Sting, All the President’s Men, Indecent Proposal) stars as CIA Agent Joe Turner. Code name: Condor. When his entire office is massacred, Turner goes on the run from his enemies…and his so-called allies. After reporting the murders to his superiors, the organization wants to bring Condor in—but somebody is trying to take him out. In his frantic hunt for answers, and in a desperate race for his life, Turner abducts photographer Kathy Hale (Faye Dunaway, The Thomas Crown Affair, Eyes of Laura Mars), eventually seducing her into helping him. Every twist leads Condor to the end of his nerves…and will take you to the edge of your seat. And as he zeroes in on the staggering truth, he discovers there are some secrets people would kill to keep. Masterfully directed by Sydney Pollack (Jeremiah Johnson, Tootsie, Out of Africa, Havana) and also starring Cliff Robertson (Charly), John Houseman (The Paper Chase) and the icy Max von Sydow (Needful Things), 3 Days of the Condor endures as one of Hollywood’s finest tales of political paranoia.

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Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.

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“Wim Wenders was bitten by the 3D bug when he made his 2011 dance docu, “Pina,” and he expands the possibilities of the format still further with “Cathedrals of Culture.” Giving all new meaning to the expression “if these walls could talk,” this conceptual six-part omnibus invites half a dozen international helmers to imagine the personalities of various cultural institutions, lending voices to their unique designs while allowing cameras to explore the buildings’ unique architectural features in all their multidimensional glory. Such an overlong and only intermittently absorbing project wouldn’t suffer in the slightest if broken up across several nights for non-3D arts TV, where the otherwise taxing presentation will likely find its broadest audience.

If Walt Disney can delight children by making forest animals talk, who’s to stop Wenders from entertaining adults by anthropomorphizing six of the world’s most magnificent modern structures? The German director kicks off the experience by tackling the Berlin Philharmonic, whose radical design — which placed the orchestra at the center of an abstract gold-paneled building — has spawned iconoclastic imitators as far away as Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

Wenders’ installment is the most conventional of the lot, offering viewers access to secret corners and reflective rooftops that no tour would provide. Indeed, only the maintenance crew sees much of what Wenders shows, and it is through a janitor’s eyes that much of the segment unfolds, while the orchestra warms up Debussy’s “Jeux” down below.

Next, Michael Glawogger takes us to the National Library of Russia, circling the stacks as clerks carry leather-bound treasures to and from the shelves (which are said to hold two copies of every important book) or leaf through the pages of beautifully illustrated old volumes. The segment is narrated by a female voice representing the collective cultural heritage housed within, quoting freely from the whole of Russian literature.

In the “which of these is not like the others” segment, Danish docu director Michael Madsen (not to be confused with the American character actor) decides to profile a Norwegian jail designed to provide the most humane form of incarceration, where the cells put convicts in direct contact with the natural world. While it’s not immediately clear how Halden Prison fits the “Cathedrals of Culture” concept, the resulting half-hour is far and away the pic’s most fascinating, partly because it seems equally interested in the prisoners themselves. Humans, after all, prove infinitely more compelling than the esoteric “souls” of buildings.

Collaborating with cinematographer Ed Lachman, Robert Redford contends with the rigid geometry of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., revealing a research facility that feels more like an abandoned alien temple, seemingly better suited for meditation than for rigorous scientific discovery. The segment feels similarly torn in its approach, blending trancelike music by Moby with highly specific snatches of explanation as to the structure’s intended purpose, lifted from interviews with Salk, architect Louis Kahn and others.

Redford’s entry grows somewhat repetitive after a point, an impression that carries through to the next installment, considering how similar Margreth Olin’s treatment of the Oslo Opera House seems to Wenders’ opening salvo. Narrating the segment herself, Olin muses about the visitors reflected in the building’s gleaming windows, contrasting these culture-seekers with the junkies and homeless persons that once populated the neighborhood. The voiceover sounds naive, and yet probes at how an institution can transform its surroundings in fascinating philosophical ways.

The project wraps with Brazilian director Karim Ainouz’s young, free-spirited look at Paris’ Centre Pompidou, asking playful questions about what designers Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers had in mind when designing this strange candy-colored power station of a building, which could pass for a Bond villain’s lair but actually houses galleries, screens and stages full of art and ideas. Ainouz’s entry feels the most personal, as if the director is remembering the building, rather than discovering it for the first time.

Wenders has hardly invented the idea of using 3D to interact with architectural spaces. In fact, the idea for this omnibus arose after the director contributed a short called “If Buildings Could Talk” to the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2010, and similar techniques have since been used in 3D Imax movies and by Peter Greenaway for his relatively inelegant segment in the “3x3D” portmanteau film. While there are no masterpieces among the six short films united here (each of which runs just shy of half an hour), the project does provide moments of beauty and brilliance along the way. If successful, the concept could be endlessly expanded to include other directors and the “cathedrals” of their choice.” – Variety

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A Midwesterner becomes fascinated with his nouveau riche neighbor, who obsesses over his lost love.

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“Inside Daisy Clover” is one of those films which divides movie buffs, beloved by some and detested by others. There’s no doubt that it’s an acquired taste, thanks largely to Wood’s bravely quirky, potentially audience-alienating performance in the title role – that of a 1930s teen starlet nurtured and then devoured by Hollywood’s monolithic studio system – one Swan Studios, run by a truly frightening Christopher Plummer (a role played the same year he did “The Sound of Music”).

Warners, which produced the film, probably saw it as another variation on its Garland version of “A Star Is Born” (1954), what with its pseudo-musical contours that allowed for occasional musical numbers for Wood. But the Pakula-Mulligan team (“To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Love with the Proper Stranger,” Up the Down Staircase” and
“Baby, the Rain Must Fall”)clearly had something altogether different in mind, bringing a quirky, sing-song quality to the movie that its detractors saw as dubious filmmaking. The fact is they were expeerimenting here, aiming for their film to have the same unstable quality that afflicts its troubled heroine and her daffy, unmotherly guardian, a card shark self-named The Dealer (Ruth Gordon).

The estimable co-stars include Robert Redford in one of his earlier roles as a closeted actor; Roddy McDowall as a callous, officious studio type, and Katharine Bard, a fine actress who died young in one of her rare film roles. (Redford was cast at the suggestion of Wood; a year later, they effectively reteamed in Sydney Pollack’s “This Property Is Condemned,” based on a Tennessee Williams play. Wood would also play walk-ons in two later Redford films, “Downhill Racer” and “The Candidate.”)

The film, fashioned as a “movie” film, isn’t the least bit sentitmental, least of all about Hollywood, although it brims with compassion. It’s not always likable, but for me, thanks to the extraordinary Wood, “Inside Daisy Clover” works as an out-of-control life force, unstoppable.

I always thought of Mulligan’s film as a companion piece to a work that came three years later in 1968, Robert Aldrich’s “The Legend of Lylah Clare” starring Kim Novak and Peter Finch in roles not too dissimilar to the ones played by Wood and Plummer in “Inside Daisy Clover.”

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