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Entries Tagged as 'Dreams and visions'

The Age of Innocence (1993)

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Synopsis
In New York City of the 1870s, Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is among the well-heeled attending an Academy of Music performance of the opera Faust. Newland is taken aback by the appearance of the Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), who’s left her husband in Europe and become an object of great scandal by returning to [...]

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Tags: Based on novel · Concert · Dreams and visions · Museums and galleries · Unconventional romance

A Very Long Engagement (2004)

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Synopsis
On the 6th of January 1917, five condemned French soldiers are brought to a trench in Somme: a once cheerful carpenter, who accidentally shot himself scattering away rats; a welder so disillusioned by the war that he burns his hand in an attempt to win a discharge; a brave farmer (Clovis Cornillac) who wounds [...]

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Tags: Based on novel · Crooked officer · Dreams and visions · Interrogation · Military · Museums and galleries · Prostitute · Train

The Blues Brothers (1980)

November 19th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Synopsis
Upon his release from Joliet Correctional Center, “Joliet” Jake Blues (John Belushi) is met by his brother Elwood Blues (Dan Aykroyd) in an old Mt. Prospect police car. Elwood takes Jake directly to St. Helen Blessed Shroud Orphanage to visit The Penguin (Kathleen Freeman), the nun who raised them. She reveals that the Cook [...]

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Tags: Brother/brother relationship · Concert · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · Famous line · Femme fatale · Interrogation · Master and pupil · Music

Blade Runner (1982)

November 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Synopsis
In Los Angeles – overcrowded and choked in pollution - of the year 2019, the Tyrell Corporation leads the field of robot design with the “Replicant,” a being virtually identical to a human, but superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence. After a mutiny in an off-world colony, Replicants have [...]

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Tags: Alternate universe · Ambiguous ending · Based on novel · Cult favorite · Dreams and visions · End of the world · Famous line · Femme fatale · Forensic evidence · Interrogation · Man vs. machine