The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it...
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout. - Don Birman is a struggling writer who deals with his writer's block through the bottle. He shares an apartment with his more responsible brother Nick, who is about to go on a weekend vacation. Nick is worried about leaving Don alone, but Don assures him he will be fine and will use the time alone to write. However, he is not fooling even himself, and plans to go on a bender. After drinking all the alcohol in the house, Don goes to a bar, and while his creativity seems to flow, things go from bad to worse."
Father Charles O'Mailey, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior. - "Going My Way" is a 1944 American musical comedy-drama film directed by Leo McCarey and starring Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald. Based on a story by Leo McCarey, the film is about a young new priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran. Crosby sings five songs in the film, with other songs performed onscreen by Metropolitan Opera's star mezzo-soprano, Risë Stevens (in the role of a famous Metropolitain Opera performer) as well as the Robert Mitchell Boys Choir (playing the role of juvenile delinquents turned into a choir). "Going My Way" was the highest-grossing picture of 1944 and began a 6 year run at the top of the 'Star' popularity charts for Bing Crosby."
Participant Media / First Look
Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical crime drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests. It is based on a series of stories by the "Spotlight" team that earned The Globe the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge. - For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 American war film produced and directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, and Joseph Calleia. The screenwriter Dudley Nichols based his script on the 1940 novel For 'Whom the Bell Tolls' by American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The film is about an American International Brigades volunteer, Robert Jordan (Cooper), who is fighting in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists. During his desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge to protect Republican forces, Jordan falls in love with a young woman guerrilla fighter (Bergman)."
In Casablanca in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate encounters a former lover, with unforeseen complications. Casablanca: easy to enter, but much harder to leave, especially if you're wanted by the Nazis. Such a man is Resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart in one of his most memorable roles), a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one -- especially Victor's wife, Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), the ex-lover who broke his heart. Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's transport out of the country and bitter Rick must decide what counts more -- personal happiness or countless lives hanging in the balance. Winner of three Academy Awards including "Best Picture", Casablanca remains one of Hollywood's greatest treasures 70 years after it first lit up the screen."
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II. - Mrs. Miniver is a 1942 American romantic war drama film directed by William Wyler, and starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. Inspired by the 1940 novel Mrs. Miniver by Jan Struther, the film shows how the life of an unassuming British housewife in rural England is touched by World War II.
Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film features a strong supporting cast that includes Teresa Wright, Dame May Whitty, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, Richard Ney and Henry Wilcoxon"
A24 / PASTEL / Plan B Entertainment
At once a vital portrait of contemporary African American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, MOONLIGHT is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths. Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, Barry Jenkins's staggering, singular vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are.
20th Century-Fox
Fox Searchlight Pictures, Regency Enterprises, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment
"12 YEARS A SLAVE" is based on an incredible true story of one man's fight for survival and freedom. In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty (personified by a malevolent slave owner, portrayed by Michael Fassbender) as well as unexpected kindnesses, Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist (Brad Pitt) forever alters his life.
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
