PERIOD PIECE
CYRANO DE BERGERAC (1990)
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
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Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, Love & Friendship focuses on the machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon (Kate Beckinsale), who, while waiting for social chatter about a personal indiscretion to pass, takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate. While there, the intelligent, flirtatious, and amusingly egotistical Lady Vernon is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica — and herself too, naturally. She enlists the assistance of her old friend Alicia (Chloe Sevigny), but two particularly handsome suitors (Xavier Samuel and Tom Bennett) complicate her orchestrations.
Adapting Jane Austen’s unpublished early novella Lady Susan, Whit Stillman returns to the Sundance Film Festival (where his Metropolitan premiered in 1990) in top form with his latest comedy of manners. Kate Beckinsale excels in her role as the deliciously devious Lady Vernon and delivers each line with relish. With exquisite period detail and a script teeming with bon mots and witty dialogue, Love & Friendship is a rare –and rarified– treat.
JANE EYRE
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN – DEAD MAN’S CHEST – PG13
This time around, Johnny returns as Captain Jack Sparrow and is caught in yet another tangled web of supernatural intrigue. It turns out, Captain Jack owes a blood debt to the legendary Davey Jones, ruler of the ocean depths and captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman. If Jack can’t figure a crafty way out of this one, he’ll be cursed to an afterlife of eternal servitude and damnation.
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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN – CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL – PG13
Orlando Bloom gives us a look at the first full length feature trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
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TWELFTH NIGHT
“Twelfth Night” – one of William Shakespeare’s most wild and raucous romantic comedies – begins when Viola and Sebastian, nearly identical-looking siblings, survive a disaster at sea.