A Taberna das Ilusões Perdidas (1960)
CAUGHT...in the wild, frantic, furious...rat race!
Gênero : Comédia, Drama, Romance
Runtime : 1H 45M
Director : Robert Mulligan
Escritor : Garson Kanin
Sinopse
An aspiring musician arrives in New York in search of fame and fortune. He soon meets a taxi dancer, moves in with her, and before too long a romance develops.
Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.
Em 1906, em uma pequena cidade da Georgia, sul dos Estados Unidos, a quase adolescente Celie, violentada pelo próprio pai, torna-se mãe de duas crianças. Separada dos filhos, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg, que foi indicada ao Oscar de melhor atriz por este filme em 1985), é doada à Mister (Danny Glover, de Máquina Mortífera), que a trata como companheira e escrava ao mesmo tempo. Cada vez mais calada e solitária, Celie passa a compartilhar sua tristeza em carta.
Xavier recebe antes de iniciar seu último ano na Faculdade de Economia uma proposta de trabalho no Ministério da Fazenda, mas precisa falar espanhol e não conhece nada da língua. Para aprender decide cursar o último ano em Barcelona, e vai morar com outros estudantes de várias nacionalidades no mesmo apartamento.
18-year-old school boy Helmut falls in love with fellow pupil Britta. He starts working for a Peace movement to get to know Britta. Britta, however, suddenly moves to San Francisco to live with her father and whilst there, finds a new boyfriend. Helmut studies, literature and politics in his home town and have a relationship with another girl from his former school, now studying medicine at the same university but they break up after having an affair with her roommate. Helmut begins a lot of short affairs with different women but still searches for his first girl.
Veronique (Anne Wiazemsky) é uma estudante francesa de filosofia que forma um grupo com mais quatro amigos da universidade para debater temas políticos e sociais. Adeptos do maoísmo, os jovens se cansam de teorizar e decidem partir para medidas mais extremas contra o que eles consideram injusto.
Um visitante do Leste Europeu, Viktor Navorski, torna-se residente no terminal do aeroporto de Nova Iorque quando uma guerra civil faz o seu país desaparecer e o torna num apátrida, sem qualquer documento válido para a Imigração dos EUA.
Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.
Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959, The Cry of Jazz is filmmaker, composer and arranger Edward O. Bland's polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called "the death of jazz." A landmark moment in black film, foreseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades, it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in Windy City nightclubs, all shot in glorious black & white.
In this short film, prominent jazz musicians of the 1940s gather for a rare filming of a jam session. This highly stylized chronicle features tenor sax legend Lester Young.
Aos 75 anos, o mal-humorado Rocky adota seu neto órfão. Agora, aos 100 anos de idade, ele volta a morar com seu neto, um cirurgião cardíaco de Ohio.
With this project Pat Metheny has created a whole new way to make music. Based on a childhood fascination with his grandfather's player piano, Metheny commissioned new inventors to build an exciting array of acoustic mechanical musical instruments capable of responding to his touch on the guitar, resulting in a completely unique approach to solo performance.
A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.
Richard (Pierce Brosnan) está prestes a se aposentar, mas perde todo seu dinheiro (e da sua família), investido ao longo da vida inteira, para um jovem investidor francês, inescrupuloso. Sua ex-mulher, Kate (Emma Thompson), com quem vive uma relação de amor e ódio, bola, então, um plano para “recuperar” o dinheiro. Eles terão que viajar para Paris e tentar roubar uma valiosa joia, da noiva do empresário em questão. Para isso, vão contar com a ajuda do casal de amigos vividos pelos atores Timothy Spall e Celia Imrie, em uma série de trapalhadas.
Will is a 30-something website manager who uses local café, Coffee Town, as his office. When the owners of the shop discuss plans to convert Coffee Town into a bar, Will enlists the help of his two best friends Chad and Gino to save his freeloading existence. In order to thwart the plans of Coffee Town's owners, the trio stages a robbery to create the illusion of an unsafe neighborhood not suitable for the proposed venue. Also standing in their way is Sam, a disgruntled barista with delusions of grandeur and Will's heartache over unrequited love for Becca.
Jonah is proud to be the loner at the teenage mental health clinic, taking pleasure in making the other patients uncomfortable. But when he is forced to share a room with the newly admitted Richard, the boys become locked in a battle of wills.
Rose Marie, aged five or six, sings three numbers, "Heigh Ho, Everybody, Heigh Ho", "Who Wouldn't Be Jealous of You", and "Don't Be Like That". She's animated throughout, acting as well as singing.
Sarah Vaughan features the "Divine One" in her prime, wrapping her sultry voice around jazz standards such as "Lover Man", "Misty" and "I Got Rhythm and soaring on popular showtunes such as "Over The Rainbow" and "Maria". One of the greatest voices of the 20th Century, her renditions of songs by Harold Arlen, Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Burke, the Gershwins and Stephen Sondheim are pure diva magic. These three performances demonstrate why Sarah Vaughan is invariably mentioned in the same breath as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
As Jerry Golding scales the heights of show business, he breaks the heart of his father, who'd hoped that Jerry would follow in his footsteps. Sorrowfully, Cantor Golding reads the Kaddish service, indicating that, so far as he is concerned, his son is dead. A tearful reconciliation occurs when Jerry dutifully returns to sing the "Kol Nidre" in his ailing father's absence.
A series of "vampire" style murders on campus has Sarah scared of her own shadow - It doesn't help that her new dorm mate Lilith wears only gothic clothing, is afraid of crosses, avoids daylight and resembles a member of the undead. Sarah becomes convinced that Lilith has something to do with the horrendous murders. When Sarah can't convince others of her outlandish theory...she becomes the next target.
Anil and Swathi live in the same room without invading each other's personal space. Things get interesting when they exchange letters and gradually fall in love.