CARMEN AND GEOFFREY (2005)

 




















Directed by: Linda Atkinson, Nick Doob
Starring: Carmen de Lavallade, Geoffrey Holder, Jennifer Dunning, Boscoe Holder, Leo Holder, Judith Jamison, Gus Solomons Jr, Dudley Williams

80 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

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This intimate documentary follows the careers of two remarkable personalities: Carmen de Lavallade, a dynamic dancer and choreographer from California who moved to New York with Alvin Ailey and began a legacy of modern dance in America, and her husband Geoffrey Holder, a Trinidad-born choreographer, set and costume designer, painter and a man about town with productions such as "The Wiz". 

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LOVE ON THE RUN (1979)

 

Directed by: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dorothee, Dani, Daniel Mesguich, Julien Bertheau, Jean-Pierre Ducos, Marie Henriau, Rosy Varte, Julien Dubois, Pierre Dios, Alain Ollivier, Monique Dury, Emmanuel Clot

94 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
Antoine Doinel is having a love affair with the vinyl seller Colette Tazzi. After five years of troubled marriage (with several separations), Antoine and Christine Doinel have a private audience with the judge and conclude an amicable divorce process. His former sweetheart and presently lawyer, Colette Tazzi, sees Antoine leaving the court. She goes to a bookstore to buy his autobiographical novel that was published a couple of years ago. When Antoine goes with Alphonse to the train station he sees Colette on another train, and he jumps from the platform to the train and travels with her. They recall their adolescent love and disclose their sentimental relationships; but when Colette tells how she raises money for her self-support, Antoine is disappointed and seeks out Sabine.

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BED AND BOARD (1970)

 

Directed by: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claude Jade, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel, Hiroko Berghauer, Daniel Boulanger, Silvana Blasi, Pierre Fabri, Barbara Laage, Billy Kearns, Claude Vega, Jacques Jouanneau, Daniele Girard, Jacques Robiolles, Yvon Lec, Marie Irakane, Ernest Menzer, Jacques Rispal, Philippe Leotard, Pierre Maguelon, Guy Pierrault, Marcel Mercier, Joseph Merieau, Christian de Tiliere, Nobuko Mati, Iska Khan, Marie Dedieu, Jacques Cottin

100 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
Antoine Doinel and Christine Darbon are married and Antoine works dying flowers, and Christine is pregnant and gives private classes of violin. When Christine is near to have a baby, Antoine decides to find a new job, and he succeeds due to a misunderstanding of his employer. In a business meeting, he meets the Japanese Kyoko and they have an affair. When Christine accidentally discovers that Antoine has a lover, they separate. But later they miss each other and realize that they do love each other.

STOLEN KISSES (1968)

 

Directed by: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Claude Jade, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Harry-Max, Andre Falcon, Catherine Lutz, Martine Ferriere, Jacques Rispal, Serge Rousseau, Paul Pavel, Jacques Delord, Roger Trapp, Martine Brochard, Robert Cambouakis, Francois Darbon, Albert Simono, Marie-France Pisier, Jean-Francois Adam, Christine Pelle, Jacques Robiolles, Marcel Mercier, Joseph Merieau

91 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
After being discharged from the army for insubordination, Antoine Doinel visits his former girlfriend Christine Darbon, and her father finds a temporary job of night watchman for Antoine in a hotel. The naive Antoine is deceived by a private eye in his first night shift, and fired on the next morning. The investigator invites the clumsy Antoine to work in his company, where he is assigned for some minor jobs, until he has to investigate why the owner of a shoes store, Mr. Georges Tabard, is detested by his employees. Meanwhile Antoine falls in love for the gorgeous Mrs. Fabienne Tabard.

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ANTOINE AND COLETTE (1962)

 

Directed by: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Rosy Varte, Francois Darbon, Jean-Francois Adam, Pierre Schaeffer

32 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
After indulging in much delinquency in his youth, seventeen year old Antoine Doinel, having been provided opportunity to get out of that delinquent life, is now an upstanding member of society working for Philips Records, which allows him to indulge in his love of music. At the Youth Concerts, he has noticed the same young woman at several performances, she who he would like to get to know. She is Colette, the two who do begin to date. Colette treats Antoine like a buddy, while Antoine has fallen in love with her. His pursuit of getting Colette to be his exclusive girlfriend is helped on the surface in the fact that Colette's parents like him and encourage their dating. He uses grand romantic gestures to try and prove his love. Will Colette ultimately fall under Antoine's romanticism?

THE 400 BLOWS (1959)

 

Directed by: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Albert Remy, Claire Maurier, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay, Georges Flamant, Pierre Repp, Daniel Couturier, Luc Andrieux, Robert Beauvais, Yvonne Claudie, Marius Laurey, Claude Mansard, Jacques Monod, Henri Virlojeux, Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy

99 minutes
(NR - adult themes)
Country of origin: France

PLOT:
Seemingly in constant trouble at school, 14-year-old Antoine Doinel returns at the end of every day to a drab, unhappy home life. His parents have little money and he sleeps on a couch that's been pushed into the kitchen. His parents bicker constantly and he knows his mother is having an affair. He decides to skip school and begins a downward spiral of lies and theft. His parents are at their wits' end, and after he's stopped by the police, they decide the best thing would be to let Antoine face the consequences. He's sent to a juvenile detention facility where he doesn't do much better. He does manage to escape however.

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THE GETAWAY (1994)

 




















Directed by: Roger Donaldson

Based on the novel by: Jim Thompson
Screenplay by: Walter Hill, Amy Holden Jones
Starring: Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen, James Woods, Jennifer Tilly, Richard Farnsworth, Burton Gilliam, Philip Seymour Hoffman, David Morse, James Stephens

116 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business" man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately, he has to cooperate with the same person that put him in incarceration in the first place.

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