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A spoiled heiress must choose between three suitors: her jazz musician ex-husband, a stuffy businessman, and an undercover tabloid reporter. Director: Charles Walters. Writers: John Patrick (screenplay), Philip Barry (play). Stars: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra. Plot The successful jazz musician C.K. Dexter Haven (Bing Crosby) (with a Newport "robber baron for a grandfather") is divorced from wealthy Newport, Rhode Island, socialite Tracy Samantha Lord (Grace Kelly), but remains in love with her. She, however, is about to get married to a bland gentleman of good standing, George Kittredge (John Lund). Spy Magazine, a fictional tabloid newspaper in possession of embarrassing information about Tracy's father, sends reporter Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra) and photographer Liz Imbrie (Celeste Holm) to cover the nuptials. Tracy begins an elaborate charade as a private means of revenge, introducing her Uncle Willy (Louis Calhern) as her proper father Seth Lord (Sidney Blackmer) and the latter as her "wicked" Uncle Willy. Connor falls in love with Tracy, who must choose among three very different men in a course of self-discovery. After becoming tipsy at a party on the eve of her wedding and going off with Connor for a romantic swim, Tracy decides to go through with it until Kittredge takes umbrage. While in the process of telling her guests that the wedding is off, Tracy is surprised by a proposal from Dexter to take the groom's place. Realizing where her heart truly is, she accepts.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00363 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world. Director: Jim Jarmusch. Writer: Jim Jarmusch. Stars: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover. Plot William Blake (Johnny Depp), an accountant from Cleveland, Ohio, rides by train to the frontier company town of Machine to assume a promised job as an accountant in the town's metal works. During the trip, the train Fireman (Crispin Glover) warns Blake against the enterprise while passengers shoot buffalo from the train windows. Arriving in town, Blake discovers that the position has already been filled, and he is driven from the workplace at gunpoint by John Dickinson, the ferocious owner of the company. Jobless and without money or prospects, Blake meets Thel Russell (Mili Avital), a former prostitute who sells paper flowers. He lets her take him home. Thel's ex-boyfriend Charlie surprises them in bed and shoots at Blake, accidentally killing Thel when she tries to shield Blake with her body. However, the bullet still passes through Thel and wounds Blake, but he is able to kill Charlie using Thel's gun before dazedly climbing out the window and fleeing Machine on Charlie's horse. Company-owner Dickinson just happens to be Charlie's father, and he hires three legendary frontier killers, Cole Wilson, Conway Twill, and Johnny "The Kid" Pickett to bring Blake back 'dead or alive'. Blake awakens to find a large Native American man (Gary Farmer) attempting to dislodge the bullet from his chest. The Man, calling himself Nobody, reveals that the bullet is too close to Blake's heart to remove, and Blake is effectively a walking dead man. When he learns Blake's full name, Nobody decides Blake is a reincarnation of William Blake, a poet whom he idolizes but whom Blake is ignorant.[7] Blake learns of Nobody's past, marked both by Native American and white racism; it is detailed that he is the product of lovers from two opposing tribes, and how as a child he was abducted by English soldiers and brought to Europe as a model savage. He was briefly educated and learned of the proper William Blake's art and poetry before returning home, where his stories of the white man and his culture were laughed off by fellow Native Americans. He gained his name, Nobody, at this point, the literal translation of which is revealed to be "He who talks loud, saying nothing". Nobody resolves to escort Blake to the Pacific Ocean to return him to his proper place in the spirit-world.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00355 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

When he acquires a different kind of show for his station, a sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a terrifying new reality. Director: David Cronenberg. Writer: David Cronenberg. Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits. Plot Max Renn is the president of CIVIC-TV, a Toronto UHF television station specializing in sensationalistic programming. Displeased with his station's current lineup (which mostly consists of softcore pornography and gratuitous violence), Max looks for something that will break through to a new audience. One morning, he is summoned to the clandestine office of Harlan, who operates CIVIC-TV's unauthorized satellite dish which can intercept broadcasts from as far away as Asia. Harlan shows Renn Videodrome, a plotless television show apparently being broadcast out of Malaysia which depicts the brutal torture and eventual murder of anonymous victims in a reddish-orange chamber. Believing this to be the future of television, Max orders Harlan to begin unlicensed use of the show. Max experiences a hallucination, the first of many. Appearing on a talk show, he defends his station's programming choices to Nicki Brand, a psychiatrist and radio host, and professor Brian O'Blivion, a pop-culture analyst and philosopher who will only appear on television if his image is broadcast into the studio, onto a television, from a remote location. O'Blivion delivers a speech prophesying a future in which television supplants real life. Max dates Nicki, who is sexually aroused when he shows her an episode of Videodrome and coaxes him into having sadomasochistic sex with her while they watch it. Max goes once again to Harlan's office, where Harlan tells him that the signal delay which caused it to appear to be coming from Malaysia was a ploy by the broadcaster and that Videodrome is being broadcast out of Pittsburgh. Hearing of this, Nicki excitedly goes to Pittsburgh to audition for the show under the guise of a business trip, but never returns. Max contacts Masha, a softcore pornographer, and asks her to help him find out the truth about Videodrome. Through Masha, Max learns that not only is the footage not faked, but it is the public "face" of a political movement. Masha further informs him that O'Blivion knows about Videodrome.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00354 Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Director: Luis Buñuel. Escritores: Julio Alejandro, Luis Buñuel. Estrellas: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey. Viridiana es una película hispanomexicana de 1961, dirigida por Luis Buñuel, con Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal y Fernando Rey en los papeles principales. Está basada en la novela Halma, de Benito Pérez Galdós, y concebida como una continuación de la película Nazarín (1959), también dirigida por Buñuel.  Argumento La novicia Viridiana (Silvia Pinal), a punto de tomar los hábitos, debe abandonar el convento para visitar a su tío don Jaime (Fernando Rey), quien le ha pagado los estudios. Durante su visita, don Jaime, impresionado por el parecido entre Viridiana y su difunta esposa, la adormece e intenta violarla, pero finalmente no se atreve. Posteriormente, intenta retenerla cuando ella quiere volver al convento; le miente diciéndole que ya no podrá ordenarse monja, porque la ha poseído mientras dormía. Esto aleja aún más a Viridiana de su tío, que, tras la marcha de esta, se suicida. Viridiana, que se siente culpable de la muerte de su tío, renuncia a ser monja y se queda en la mansión a practicar la caridad cristiana, acogiendo a un grupo de vagabundos, a quienes brinda refugio y alimento pero que son, a fin de cuentas, quienes la atacarán y robarán. La llegada de Jorge (Francisco Rabal), hijo natural de don Jaime, cambiará definitivamente el destino de la joven.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00353] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life. Director: Blake Edwards Writers: Blake Edwards (screenplay), Hans Hoemburg (concept). Stars: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston. Plot In 1934 Paris, Toddy, a performer at Chez Lui in Paris, sees Labisse, the club owner, auditioning a frail, impoverished soprano, Victoria Grant. After her failed audition, Victoria reluctantly returns to her apartment to find herself deciding whether or not to spend her rent money for food. That night, when Richard, Toddy's lover, comes to Chez Lui as part of a straight foursome, Toddy incites a brawl. Labisse fires Toddy and bans him from the club. Walking home, he spots Victoria in a restaurant. She invites him to join her. As neither of them can pay for the meal, she dumps a cockroach in her salad to avoid paying, but it escapes and mayhem ensues. The duo run through the rain to Toddy's, and he invites her to stay when she finds that the rain has shrunk her cheap clothes. The next morning, Richard shows up to collect his things. Victoria, who is wearing his clothes, hides in Toddy's closet. When she thinks that Richard might harm Toddy, she kicks him out. Seeing this, Toddy is struck with the inspiration of passing Victoria off as a man and presenting her to Andre Cassell, the most successful agent in Paris, as a female impersonator. Cassell accepts her as Count Victor Grazinski, a gay Polish female impersonator and Toddy's new boyfriend. Cassell gets her a booking in a nightclub show and invites a collection of club owners to the opening. Among the guests is King Marchand, a shady owner of nightclubs in Chicago, and his ditzy moll Norma Cassidy and burly bodyguard Bernstein, a.k.a. Squash. Victor is an immediate hit, and King is smitten, but he is shocked when she is "revealed" to be a man at the end of the act. King, however, is convinced that "Victor" is not a man.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00352 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal. Director: Barry Levinson Writers: Larry Beinhart (book), Hilary Henkin (screenplay). Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche. Plot The President is caught making advances on an underage Firefly Girl inside the Oval Office, less than two weeks before the election. Conrad Brean, a top spin doctor, is brought in to take the public's attention away from the scandal. He decides to construct a fictional war in Albania, hoping the media will concentrate on this instead. Brean contacts Hollywood producer Stanley Motss to create the war, complete with a theme song and fake film footage of a photogenic orphan. The hoax is initially successful, with the President quickly gaining ground in the polls after appearing. When the CIA learns of the plot, they send Agent Young to confront Brean about the hoax. Brean convinces Young that revealing the deception is against his (and the CIA's) best interests. But when the CIA—in collusion with the President's rival candidate—reports that the war did happen but is drawing to an end, the media begins to focus back on the President's sexual abuse scandal. To counter this, Motss decides to invent a hero who was left behind enemy lines in Albania. Inspired by the idea that he was "discarded like an old shoe", Brean and Motss have the Pentagon provide the team with a soldier named Schumann around whom a POW narrative is constructed, complete with T-shirts, patriotic songs and, faux-grassroots demonstrations of patriotism. When the team goes to retrieve Schumann, they discover he is in fact a criminally insane Army convict. On the way back, their plane crashes en route to Andrews Air Force Base. The team survives and is rescued by a farmer, who kills Schumann after he attempts to rape his daughter. Seizing the opportunity, Motss stages an elaborate military funeral for Schumann, claiming that he died from wounds sustained during his rescue.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00351 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Una anciana judía y su chofer afroamericano en el sur de Estados Unidos tienen una relación que crece y mejora a lo largo de los años. Director: Bruce Beresford Escritores: Alfred Uhry (guión), Alfred Uhry. Estrellas: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd. Argumento La señora Daisy Werthan, es una viuda judía de 72 años que vive en Atlanta, Georgia, en la compañía de su trabajadora doméstica negra, llamada Idella. Después de un accidente en su automóvil Chrysler, el hijo de la señora Daisy, Boolie, le contrata un chófer porque ninguna compañía de seguros la asegurará. Ella se niega, pero Boolie está decidido a encontrar uno. Mientras tanto, ella está parada en casa incapaz de realizar sus compras, visitar a sus amigos y asistir a la sinagoga, por no poder conducir. Boolie encuentra a un hombre, Hoke Colburn. La señora Daisy en un principio se niega a la ayuda de Hoke, ante el hecho de que las personas puedan llegar a creer que es demasiado vieja y tonta para conducir. La señora Daisy llega a aceptar la ayuda de Hoke y el hecho de que ella necesita ayuda para transportarse. La señora Daisy descubre que Hoke no sabe leer, y por su antigua profesión como maestra le enseña cómo leer. La señora Daisy tiene que asistir a la fiesta de cumpleaños número noventa de su hermano en Mobile, Alabama. Hoke le revela, durante el viaje, que es la primera vez que él ha salido del Estado de Georgia. Durante su viaje de Atlanta a Mobile, la señora Daisy se ve confrontada en varias circunstancias durante el viaje, con los prejuicios sociales y raciales. Con el paso del tiempo la señora Daisy toma aprecio por Hoke. En 1965, mientras veían la televisión en la cocina, Idella muere. La señora Daisy se entristece por la cercanía y el tiempo que compartió con Idella, y acompañada por su familia son las únicas personas blancas en el funeral. Ante los importantes cambios sociales de la época, la señora Daisy observa con especial atención los prejuicios y la discriminación hacia los negros y los judíos por lo que asiste al discurso en Atlanta del Dr. Martin Luther King. Inicialmente invita a la cena a Boolie, pero este siente dudas debido a su posición y al qué pensarán sus asociados de que asista al acto, y sugiere a la señora Daisy invitar a Hoke. La señora Daisy no menciona la invitación a Hoke hasta que él está llevándola a la cena. Su renuencia a invitar a Hoke subraya el racismo pasivo que a menudo pasa desapercibido en comparación con el racismo más abierto y agravado.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00350 Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Two girls try to understand the meaning of the world and their life. Director: Vera Chytilová Writers: Vera Chytilová (story), Vera Chytilová (screenplay). Stars: Ivana Karbanová, Jitka Cerhová, Marie Cesková. Plot The opening sequence is that of a spinning flywheel with shots of airplanes strafing the ground. The shots of the airplanes are from US Navy footage shot in the Pacific Theatre during World War II. The first scene shows the two main characters sitting in bathing suits. Their conversation is robotic and from that point on they decide to be bad. The next scene shows Marie I and Marie II dancing in front of a tree. The tree has many fruits and resembles the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Once Marie I eats from the tree, they both fall and appear in their apartment. There is significant action here, with Marie I looking through the window at a parade and Marie II eating. The next few scenes are all similar. They show the two girls on a date with an older man, a "sugar daddy". Marie II eats voraciously and Marie I eventually starts acting like her, eating a lot of food. The girls eventually go to a nightclub with 1920s-style dancers and cause a ruckus. Marie II also goes to the apartment of a man who is a butterfly collector. In this scene, there are a lot of butterflies shown as still frames. At the end, she says that she wants to eat. Later on, they go to a factory. There are still frames of locks, and the building looks run down. They look for "nourishment" and stumble upon a feast presumably set out for communist leaders. They eat the food, make a mess and destroy the room. It then cuts to them being dunked in water like witches, as the director states how there can be no "clean resolution" to the destructive dinner. Věra Chytilová then brings the Maries back to the dining room, and make everything right again, and at the end a giant chandelier crushes them.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00349 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in TV journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love. Director: Jon Avnet Writers: Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne. Stars: Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing. Plot Sally "Tally" Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an ambitious, aspiring news reporter, who is hired by Miami local news director Warren Justice (Robert Redford) when she sends in a homemade audition tape. He carefully guides her career to new heights, all the while becoming increasingly attracted to her. Tally soon rises through the ranks of network news to become successful, while Warren's once-stellar career sinks into mediocrity. Furthermore, Tally's ascension takes her away from Warren when she is forced to relocate to Philadelphia. Tally struggles at her new post, in no small part due to the hostility of veteran reporter Marcia McGrath (Stockard Channing), who jealously protects her position as the top reporter. Warren turns up to inspire Tally, and the two partners begin a new career together. However, on a routine assignment in a Philadelphia prison, Tally and her cameraman are taken hostage in a prison riot and forced to endure hours of intense violence. Tally covers the groundbreaking story from within the walls of the collapsing prison as Warren looks on from outside, guiding her through her first national broadcast. This incredible act of bravery leads to Tally's eagerly anticipated advancement to a national network newscaster position and the continuation of the dynamic duo's rise to fame – but shortly after, disaster strikes when Warren is killed during an assignment.      Clasificación [ CM DVD 00348 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond. Director: Nicolas Roeg. Writers: Daphne Du Maurier (story), Allan Scott (screenplay) (as Alan Scott). Stars: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason. Plot Sometime after the drowning of their young daughter Christine (Sharon Williams) in an accident at their English country home, John Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his grief-stricken wife Laura (Julie Christie) take a trip to Venice after John accepts a commission from a bishop (Massimo Serato) to restore an ancient church. Laura encounters two elderly sisters, Heather (Hilary Mason) and Wendy (Clelia Matania), at a restaurant where she and John are dining; Heather claims to be psychic and—despite being blind—informs Laura she is able to "see" the Baxters' deceased daughter. Shaken, Laura returns to her table, where she faints. Laura is taken to the hospital, where she later tells John what Heather told her. John is sceptical but pleasantly surprised by the positive change in Laura's demeanour. Later in the evening after returning from the hospital, John and Laura have passionate sex. Afterwards, they go out to dinner where they get lost and briefly become separated. John catches a glimpse of what appears to be a small child (Adelina Poerio) wearing a red coat similar to the one Christine was wearing when she died. The next day, Laura meets with Heather and Wendy, who hold a séance to try to contact Christine. When she returns to the hotel Laura informs John that Christine has said he is in danger and must leave Venice. John loses his temper with Laura, but that night they receive a telephone call informing them that their son (Nicholas Salter) has been injured in an accident at his boarding school. Laura departs for England, while John stays on to complete the restoration. Under the assumption that Laura is in England, John is shocked when later that day he spots her on a boat that is part of a funeral cortege, accompanied by the two sisters. Concerned about his wife's mental state and with reports of a serial killer at large in Venice, he reports Laura's disappearance to the police. The inspector (Renato Scarpa) investigating the killings is suspicious of John and has him followed.     Clasificación [ CM DVD 00347 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)