A film by Francis Ford Coppola about the famous “Cotton Club” in Harlem. The story follows the people that visited the club, those who ran it, and is accompanied by the Jazz music that made it so famous in the 1930s.

A very well done movie, and besides the great music, Coppola was able to put me back to the past (music, fashion, set decoration). He shows us, black artist who were allowed to appear at stage, but were not allowed to sit and drink with the white guests. Some of the actors were real singers or dancers, so they were authentic too. Starring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Gregory Hines and brother Maurice Hines (fantastic dancers), Bob Hoskins, Nicolas Cage, Novella Nelson, Lonette McKee, Larry Marshall (as Cab Calloway) and Laurence Fishburne. It is complex, and accurate in its portrayal of the time when gangsters owned stars and the city. So if you would like to see a mix of mob and dance film with a lovely soundtrack, you will be enraptured by this movie.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fru1zRGhs-Y

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A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere. This is truly a magnificent film. Directed by Spike Jonze with Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Tilda Swinton and Chris Cooper, who won an Oscar for best actor in a supporting role.

Plot:

Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean’s “The Orchid Thief” into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.

Trailer:

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2459408409/

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What a depressing film. I loved it! Cage and Shue both actors are superb, and bring the excellent screenplay to life with the help of some masterful dramatic cinematography.

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Plot:

Because his wife left him and took his son with her, screenwriter Ben Anderson has started drinking, a lot. He’s getting more and more isolated and he troubles women in bars because he wants to have sex with them. When he gets fired, he decides to leave everything behind and move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. In Las Vegas he meets Sera, a prostitute with some problems as well who he moves in with.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqPFTUUtwq8&feature=related

oh, you gotta love this ridiculous movie, its hilarious!

Plot:

On her deathbed, a mother makes her son promise never to get married, which scars him with psychological blocks to a commitment with his girlfriend. They finally decide to tie the knot in Vegas, but a wealthy gambler arranges for the man to lose $65K in a poker game and offers to clear the debt for a weekend with his fiancée. Suddenly the man is insanely jealous, and pursues his fiancée and her rich companion, but finds pitfalls in his path as the gambler tries to delay his interference.

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcJ475n_Pi8