2024-09-20
Philip Seymour Hoffman won a much-deserved Best Actor Oscar for his uncannily astounding performance as "In Cold Blood" author Truman Capote. The exceptional biopic spans the six years Capote spent working on his 1966 masterpiece. Catherine Keener received a Best Supporting Oscar nod as Capote's friend and researcher Harper Lee, who a few years later would publish "To Kill a Mockingbird." Dan Futt
Version of the Broadway hit about 1925's Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Tennessee, where high-school teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution in violation of state law. The resulting trial brought together two titans of the legal profession, one "belching platitudes" of creationism and the other championing the evolutionist cause.
Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker won Oscars for their performances in this moving biography of Dublin artist Christy Brown, who was afflicted with cerebral palsy.
Salma Hayek's Oscar-nominated performance drives this fascinating biopic about Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo and her fiery marriage to fellow painter Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). The imaginative film also chronicles her political activism and the bus accident that left her in pain for the rest of her life. Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas, Edward Norton.
A Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance" underscores this nonnarrative compilation of American vistas with nature imagery manipulated in slow motion, double exposure or time lapse, juxtaposed with footage of humans' impact on the planet.
Martin Scorsese directed this record of the Band's final concert, on Thanksgiving 1976 in San Francisco. The Band perform 12 numbers, and back up Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Ringo Starr, Dr. John and the Staples.
A group of American soldiers stationed in post-war Japan defy social convention when they fall in love with local women, and face the prejudicial consequences of those around them.
The life and career of the screen legend (Robert Downey Jr.) as told to a fictional biographer (Anthony Hopkins). Douglas Fairbanks: Kevin Kline. Hannah: Geraldine Chaplin. J. Edgar Hoover: Kevin Dunn. Mack Sennett: Dan Aykroyd. Mildred: Milla Jovovich. Hetty/Oona O'Neill: Moira Kelly. Directed by Richard Attenborough.
Philip Seymour Hoffman won a much-deserved Best Actor Oscar for his uncannily astounding performance as "In Cold Blood" author Truman Capote. The exceptional biopic spans the six years Capote spent working on his 1966 masterpiece. Catherine Keener received a Best Supporting Oscar nod as Capote's friend and researcher Harper Lee, who a few years later would publish "To Kill a Mockingbird." Dan Futt
Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker won Oscars for their performances in this moving biography of Dublin artist Christy Brown, who was afflicted with cerebral palsy.
Frances O'Connor stars in this updated version of Jane Austen's novel about an independent woman. Writer-director Patricia Rozema imbues the story with a modern sensibility, making strong points about the expectations of 19th-century women to marry and look pretty. Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller.
A spoiled, clever English society woman plays matchmaker to everyone she knows in this adaptation of the 1816 Jane Austen novel. Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Toni Collette, Greta Scacchi.