RECOMMENDATION: DESCRIPTION: A war drama directed by Mel Gibson, based on the true story of Desmond Doss. Desmond is a pacifist who is determined never to harm or take a life. He even refuses to carry a weapon. Despite this, he enlists in the army during World War II. During military training, he is mocked […]
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DESCRIPTION: A film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s trilogy – the most widely read novel of the 20th century, published in over 150 million copies. The hobbit Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood) inherits a golden ring from his eccentric uncle (Ian Holm). It soon turns out to be a long-lost relic possessing immense power. The survival or […]
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RECOMMENDATION: DESCRIPTION: A story based on true events. Eighty-year-old Alvin Straight, upon hearing about the illness of his brother with whom he has had no contact for years, sets off on a 300-mile journey full of unexpected encounters – on his small tractor/lawnmower. David Lynch astonished the world with his simple, unpretentious, and profoundly humanistic […]
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RECOMMENDATION: DESCRIPTION: An adaptation of James Jones’s famous novel, chronicling the fate of a company of American soldiers fighting in the Battle of Guadalcanal. We witness the landing on the island, which unexpectedly meets resistance from the Japanese. The Americans fight bloody clashes with the enemy and evacuate the survivors. In a situation where the […]
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RECOMMENDATION: DESCRIPTION: The life odyssey of a straightforward and not particularly bright young man from Alabama who, by a strange twist of fate, becomes entangled in all the most important social and political events of his generation, from the Vietnam War to the Watergate scandal. He personally meets three U.S. presidents and becomes the inspiration […]
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RECOMMENDATION: DESCRIPTION: An adaptation of a short story by Karen Blixen. The film is set in 19th-century Denmark, in a small village on the coast of Jutland. The main characters, Martine and Filippa, are elderly, devout Protestant sisters who, after the death of their father – a pastor – took over the care of a […]
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RECOMMENDATION: DESCRIPTION: A biographical drama directed by Miloš Forman, based on the play by Peter Shaffer, who also wrote the screenplay. The film is a fictionalized account of the lives and rivalry of two composers: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri. It won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. […]