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Screening time: 16:00Betty Page HallRunning Time: 138 min.

The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne Baxter plays Eve Harrington, a willingly helpful young fan who insinuates herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships. George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill and Thelma Ritter also appear, and the film provided one of Marilyn Monroe's earliest important roles.

Praised by critics at the time of its release, All About Eve was nominated for 14 Academy Awards (a feat that was unmatched until the 1997 film, Titanic) and won six, including Best Picture. As of 2009, All About Eve is still the only film in Oscar history to receive 4 female acting nominations (Davis and Baxter as Best Actress, Holm and Ritter as Best Supporting Actress). All About Eve was selected in 1990 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry and was among the first 50 films to be registered. All About Eve appeared at #16 on AFI's 1998 list of the 100 best American films.

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Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter,

George Sanders, Celeste Holm

Music: Alfred Newman

Cinematography: Milton R. Krasner

Editing: Barbara McLean

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fiAll About Eve (1950)

fiScreening time: 16:15Arol Flin Hall (small)Running Time: 141 min.

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Producore: Stanley Kubrick

Writer: Stanley Kubrick,

Arthur C. Clarke

Starring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood,

William Sylvester, Daniel Richter

Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth

Editing: Ray Lovejoy

The film deals with thematic elements of human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and extraterrestrial life, and is notable for its scientific realism, pioneering special effects, ambiguous and often surreal imagery, sound in place of traditional narrative techniques, and minimal use of dialogue.

The film has a memorable soundtrack — the result of the association which Kubrick made between the rotary motion of the satellites and the dancers of waltzes, which led him to use the The Blue Danube waltz by Johann Strauss II, and the famous symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, by Richard Strauss, to portray the philosophical evolution of Man theorized in Nietzsche's homonymous work.

Despite receiving mixed reviews upon release, 2001: A Space Odyssey is today recognized by many critics and audiences as one of the greatest films ever made.

fi2001: A Space Odissey (1968)

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Director: Martin Scorsese

Producer: Irwin Winkler

Writer: Nicholas Pileggi,

Martin Scorsese

Starring: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro

Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco,

Editing: Thelma Schoonmaker


Goodfellas is based on the non-fiction book "Wiseguy" by Nicholas Pileggi, who also co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Scorsese. The film follows the rise and fall of three gangsters, spanning three decades.

Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted and so improvisation and ad-libbing came out of rehearsals. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines that the actors came up with that he liked best, and put them into a revised script the cast worked from during principal photography. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards but only won one for Pesci in the Best Actor in a Supporting Role category.

Goodfellas is often considered one of the greatest films ever, both in the genre of crime and in general and was deemed "culturally significant" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress.

The word "fuck" is used in the film approximately 300 times, ninth most in film.

fiGoodfellas (1990)

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Director: Clint Eastwood

Producer: Clint Eastwood

Writer: David Webb Peoples

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman

Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris

Music: Lennie Niehaus

Cinematography: Jack N. Green

Editing: Joel Cox

The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging and retired gunslinger who takes on one more job years after he had hung up his guns and turned to farming. A dark Western that deals frankly with the uglier aspects of violence and the myth of the Old West, it stars Eastwood in the lead role, along with Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek and Frances Fisher.

Eastwood dedicated the movie to former directors and mentors Don Siegel and Sergio Leone. The film won four Academy Awards including Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Hackman), Best Director, Best Film Editing and Best Picture.

Unforgiven was acknowledged as the fourth best film in the western genre. Eastwood stated that this would be his last western film.

Screening time: 18:20Arol Flin Hall (small)Running Time: 131 min.

fiUnforgiven (1992)

fiScreening time: 20:45Betty Page HallRunning Time: 112 min.

Director: John Huston

Producer: Arthur Hornblow Jr.

Writer: W. R. Burnett, Ben Maddow

Starring: Sterling Hayden,

Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen

Music: Miklós Rózsa

Cinematography: Harold Rosson

Editing: George Boemler

The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 film noir directed by John Huston. The caper film is based on the novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett and stars an ensemble cast including Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, and, in a minor but key role, Marilyn Monroe, an unknown at the time who was pictured but not mentioned on the posters.

The film tells the story of a group of men planning and executing a jewel robbery. It was nominated for four Academy Awards.

In 2008, The Asphalt Jungle was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant in the american film history".

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fiThe Asphalt Jungle (1950)

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Director: Matthew Vaughn

Writer: Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn

Narrated by: Ian McKellen

Starring: Claire Danes, Charlie Cox,

Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro

Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais

Music: Ilan Eshkeri

Cinematography: Ben Davis

Editing: Jon Harris

The film is based on Neil Gaiman's novel of the same name, illustrated by Charles Vess, originally published by Avon Books.

The adapted screenplay was written by Vaughn and screenwriter Jane Goldman. When asked how the book inspired his vision for the movie, he said that he wanted "to do Princess Bride with a Midnight Run overtone." One of the difficulties with adapting the novel was its earnest and dark nature: an adult fairy tale in which sex and violence are presented unflinchingly. As a result of changes, the movie version has a greater element of whimsy and humor, with Gaiman's blessing given to the screenwriters. This led him to acknowledge that the film would have to compress the novel, leaving out portions of the work. Budgetary concerns also factored into the adaptation, even with the level of 2006 technology.


fiStardust (2007)

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Director: John Madden

Producer: David Parfitt, Edward Zwick

Writer: Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard

Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck,

Joseph Fiennes, Judi Dench

Music: Stephen Warbeck

Cinematography: Richard Greatrex

Editing: David Gamble

The film is largely fictional, although several of the characters are based on real people. In addition, many of the characters, lines, and plot devices are references to Shakespeare's plays.

The main source for much of the action in the film is Romeo and Juliet, which the events in the film ultimately inspire Will to write. Will and Viola play out the famous balcony and bedroom scenes; like Juliet, Viola has a witty nurse, and is separated from Will by a gulf of duty (although not the family enmity of the play: the "two households" of Romeo and Juliet are supposedly inspired by the two rival playhouses). In addition, the two lovers are equally "star-crossed" — they are not ultimately destined to be together (since Viola is of nobility promised to marry Lord Wessex and Shakespeare himself is already married). There is also a Rosaline, with whom Will is in love at the beginning of the film.


fiShakespeare In Love (1998)

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Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Producer: Carlo Ponti, Pierre Rouve

Writer: Michelangelo Antonioni,

Tonino Guerra, Edward Bond

Starring: David Hemmings, Sarah Miles,

Vanessa Redgrave

Music: Herbie Hancock , the Yardbirds

Cinematography: Carlo Di Palma

Editing: Frank Clarke

Blowup is the first English language film for Michelangelo Antonioni. It tells the story of a photographer's accidental and incidental involvement with a murder. The film was inspired by the 1959 short story "Las babas del diablo" (i.e. "The devil's drool/drivel") by Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar, and by the work, habits, and mannerisms of Swinging London photographer David Bailey. The film was scored by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, although the music is source music, as Hancock noted: "It's only there when someone turns on the radio or puts on a record."

Blowup was controversial as the first British film to feature full frontal female nudity. MGM did not gain approval for the film screening under the MPAA Production Code in the United States. The code's collapse and thorough revision was foreshadowed when MGM released the film through a subsidiary distributor and Blowup was shown widely in North American cinemas.


fiBlowup (1966)

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