Casual Fridays (2005)

'데본'(닉 케논 분)은 천부적인 드럼 연주 실력으로 애틀란타 A&T 대학에 특기생으로 입학한 새내기. 밴드부 입단 첫날부터 학교 최고의 퀸카 '라일라'(조 살다나 분)의 관심을 끄는데 성공해 사기충천한 데본은 그 기분을 만끽할 겨를도 없이 선배들의 지도 아래 밴드부 연습을 시작하게 된다. 군사 훈련처럼 혹독한 연습이 계속되는 과정에서 데본은 드럼라인의 리더인 '숀'(레오나르드 로버츠 분) 선배와 사사건건 부딪힌다. 데본의 뛰어난 연주실력에 위협을 느끼고 그를 견제하는 숀과 누구의 충고도 필요 없는 독불장군 데본. 두 사람의 갈등이 깊어진 가운데 맞이한 시즌 오프닝 공연에서 데본은 규정을 어기고 숀의 솔로 연주 순서를 빼앗는다. 며칠 후에는 동문회에서 상대방 학교 밴드부를 자극하여 집단 패싸움을 일으킨다. 이에 데본은 자신을 스카우트하고, 묵묵히 후원해주던 밴드부 단장 '리'(올랜도 존스 분)에 의해 밴드부에서 쫓겨난다. 또한 한창 무르익던 라일라와의 사랑도 위태로워 진다. 그러던 어느날, 데본은 오랫동안 의절하고 지냈던 아버지가 보낸 음악 테이프를 받는다. 아버지가 무명 드러머로 활동하던 시절의 음악을 들으면서 악상을 떠올린 데본은 밴드부 연습실로 향한다. 그곳에서 숀을 만난 데본은 그와 화해하고 팀을 위해 함께 곡을 만든다. 드디어 40년 전통의 밴드 경연대회 날, 데본의 곡으로 참여한 A&T은 동점을 받은 모리슨 브라운 대학과 우승팀을 결정하는 드럼라인 대결을 펼치게 된다. 하지만 밴드 복귀 명령을 받지 못한 데본은 최후의 승부를 준비하는 동료들을 부러운 듯이 바라보고만 있는데...

셀레스트가 TV 드라마에서 화려한 스포트라이트를 받게 되자 몬타나는 이를 시기한다. 몬타나는 프로듀서인 애인 데이빗에게 부탁해 셀레스트를 곤란하게 만드는데 성공한다. 그러던 중 셀레스트의 조카 로리가 스타의 꿈을 안고 상경, '태양은 진다'에 벙어리 소녀 역으로 출연하게 되자 몬타나와 데이빗은 셀레스트를 벙어리 소녀의 살해범으로 몰아부쳐 도중하차시키려 하지만 극작가 로저의 강력한 반대에 부딪혀 실패하고 만다. 그들은 계속해서 셀레스트의 옛 애인 제프리를 캐스팅해 그녀의 감정을 자극한다. 그러나 오히려 제프리가 로리와 사랑에 빠지게 되자, 셀레스트는 로리가 자신과 제프리의 사생아라는 사실을 고백하고, 그 장면이 그대로 TV에 방영되면서 그 자기 고백적인 연기의 사실성 때문에 시청자들에게 또다시 폭발적인 인기를 얻게 된다. (이재훈)

A well known theater and movie actor, dissatisfied with condition at home and at the theater, suddenly stops the dress rehearsal of a play in which he has one of the main roles, and goes to Danube to visit his friend, a boatman transporting bricks on his small barge from a brick plant in a settlement of poor people to Belgrade. This unexpected action confuses the actor’s environment. Everybody sets out to the Danube in order to find out the real reasons for the actor’s odd behavior and to hear when he will return to normal life. The actor refuses to talk, stating that only known what he does not want! The young director, who earlier started work on filming a portrait of the actor, doesn’t know what to do. The opening night is postponed.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented by many tv reportages of removals of monumental public sculptures, but the citizens of Vilnius in Lithuania did the unexpected!

When Grace comes to live with her daughter and son-in-law, she is eager to find a way to be useful in the community. She loves to read stories to children, and decides to read one on public access television. The response is so strong that a large company hears about it and offers her a television series. Her life becomes complicated as she is forced to make some serious decisions. Through it all, Grace is able to help a young mother realize that time is the most valuable gift she could give to her daughter.

The plot centers on the cameraman Nelu - played by Daneliuc - and television reporter Luiza (Gina Patrichi), who are emotionally involved and are interviewing people caught travelling by train without tickets. Daneliuc is one of the first directors to have used direct sound, recording entire scenes and then mixing them with post-synchronized ones.

A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a television relay station in a remote region of Zahedan province, near the Afghanistan border. He has already hired Turkoman tribespeople for his film and selected his filming location. Meanwhile his wife, who is working on her Ph.D. dissertation about the Mongol invasion of Iran, attempts to dissuade him from accepting the assignment. One night, while working on his history of the cinema series, the director fantasizes a diagetic world that consists of clever juxtapositions of his different worlds: the history of cinema, the history of the mongol invasion, his own film idea and his imminent assignment to the desert.

The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge (John Heard) recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback 'Dandy' Don Meredith (Brad Beyer), along with Keith Jackson (Shuler Hensley), and the combative Howard Cosell (John Turturro) as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd trio events to millions of viewers. Jackson departs the show after the first year to take over the network's focus on college football, and former New York Giants star Frank Gifford (Kevin Anderson) takes his place, ruffling Cosell's feathers. Then things get really crazy!

A live TV special of Harry Nilsson performing his album of standards 'A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night'

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