วันศุกร์ที่ 17 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554

Star Wars(1977)

Star Wars(1977)
Genre:Scifi/Adventure
Duration:121min
Colour:Colour(Technicolor)
Country:USA
Studio:Twentieth Century Fox
This high-octane 1977 space fantasy is like nothing that came before it and influenced sci-fi movies for years to come. In a far-off galexy Luke Skywalker is living on a farm with his aunt and uncle when he stumbles upon a distress message from a capture princess, held by the evil Empire on something called the Death Star. Before you can say "hyperspace", Luke joins up with the sage Ben Kenobi, mercenary pilot Han Solo, Chewbacca the Wookie, and a pair of curious droids in an effort to free Princess Leia from the Empire and their ominous enforcer, Darth Vader. This special Efects laden clash between good and evil is pure popcorn-chomping fun.
Cast
Mark Hamill:Luke Skywalker, Harrison Ford:Han Solo, Carrie Fisher:Princess Leia Organa, Peter Cushing:Grand Moff Tarkin, Alec Guinness:Ben Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anthony Daniels:C-3P0(voice), Kenny Baker:R2-D2(voice), Peter Mayhew:Chewbacca, James Earl Jones:Darth Vader (voice)
Behind the Scenes
Director:George Lucas,Writer:George Lucas, Producer:Gary Kurtz, Executive Producer:Gorge Lucas, Film Editors:Richard Chew, Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas,Cinematographer:Gilbert Taylor, Original Music:John Williams
Trivia
HArrison Ford did not memorise his lines for the intercom com=nversation in the cell block in order to make the dialogue sound spontaneous and realistic.
Awards
Oscar Winners:Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Effect-Visual, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Best Sound, Special Achievement Award:Ben Burtt for Sound Effect.
Oscar Nominations:Best Supporting Actor,Best Director, Best Picture,Best Writing.

Riders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Riders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Genre:Action2Adventure
Duration:115 min
Colour:Colour
Country:USA
Studio:Paramount Pictures
Hollywood heavyweights Gorge Lucas and Steven Spielberg team up to bring you one of the best adventure film ever. Harrison Ford stars as Indiana Jones, a professor of archaeology who tracks down are historical treasures and artifacts in his spare time, often at great personal peril. It has come to the U.S. government's attention that the Nazis are trying to locate the Ark of the Covenant, an ancient chest said to contain the Ten Commandment   tablets. Legend has it that the Ark also holds a mysterious and powerful force that would make any army in its possession unbeatable. It's up to Indiana Jones to find it before the Germans do.
Cast
Harrison Ford:Indiana Jones, Karen Allen:Marion Ravenwood, Paul Feeman:Dr.Rene Belloq, Ronald Lacey:Major Arnold Toht, John Rhys-Davies:Sallah, Denholm Elliott:Dr.Mancus Brody, Alfred Molina:Satipo.
Behind the Scenes
Director:Steven Spilberg, Writers:Gorge Lucas and Phillip Kuafman(story), Lawrence Kasdan(screenplay), Producer:Frank Marsal, Executive Producers:Howard G. Kazanjian, George Lucas, Film Editor:Michael Khann.
Trivia
When Indiana finds himself face-to-face with a cobra, there is a barely detectable sheet of glass separating the two.
Awards
Oscar Winners:Best Art Direction,Best Effect-Visual,Best film Editing,Best Sound, Special Acheivement Award-Sound Effect Editing.

วันพุธที่ 15 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Genre:Drama
Duration:222min
Colour:Colour(Technicolour)
Country:UK
Studio:Horizon Pictures/Columbia Pictures
An epic movie if ever there was one, Lawrence of Arabia stars Peter O'Toole as the charasmatic title character, a bored British officer who seek adventure in the desert during the First World War.Lawerence manages to convince his superiors to allow him to make his desert journey so that he can passibly assist in forming a coalition among fractious Arab tribes against their common enemy, the Turkish. Once there, Lawrence experiences success beyond his wildest imagination and is lionised for his vision and leadership. Clad in the flowing robes and headdress of an Arab leader, Lawrence has grand plans that rest in his palms as precariously as grains of sand.
Cast
Peter O,Toole:T.E.Lawrence, Alec Guninness:Prince Feisal,Anthony Quinn:Auda abu Tayi,Jack Hawkins:General Lord Edmund Allenby,Omar Sharif:Sherif Ali ibin el Kharish,Jose Ferrer:Turkish Bey,Anthony Quayle:Colonel Harry Brighton,Claude Rains:Mr. Dryden.
Behind the Scenes
Director:David Lean,Writers:T.E. Lawerence(writings), Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson(screenplay), Producers:David Lean,Sam Spiegel, Film Editor:Anne V. Coates, Cinematographer:Freddie Young, Original Music:Maurice Jarre.
Trivia
The film's production was moved to spain, but ahooting was halted for three months because writer Robert Bolt had been jailed for participation in a nuclear disarmament demonstration.
Award
Oscar Winners:Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography,  Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Music, Best Picture, Best Sound.
Oscar Nominations:Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing.

The Lord of the Rings:The Return of the King (2003)

The Lord of the Rings:The Return of the King (2003)
Genre:Drama/Fantasy
Duration:200min
Colour:Colour
Country:USA
Studio:New Line Cinema/WingNut Film
The third instalment of director Peter JAckson's award-winning adaptation of the classic antasy trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien,The Return of the King returns to the land of Middle Earth  for the final confrontation between an unlikely band of heroes an the evil power of Sauron, Lord of the land of Mordor. Consciasly evoking the ancient epics of early medieval northern Europe, The Return of the King is the heroic saga of the modern age, reaching a climax not on the battlefield but in an internal battle of wills, with the insidious power of Sauron's One Ring. Either he or it must be destroyed and with him will stand or fall of Middle Earth.
Cast
Elijah Wood:Frodo Baggins, Sean Astin:Samwise Gamgee, Cate Blanchett:Galadriel, Orlando Bloom:Legolas, Andy Serkis:Gollum/Smeagol, Ian McKellem:Gandalf, Viggo Mortensen:Aragorn, John Rhys-Davies:Gimli, Bernard Hill:King Theoden.
Behind the scenes
Director:Peter Jackson, Writers:J.R.R. Tolkien(novel),Fran Walsh,Philippa Boyens,and peter Jackson(screenplay), Producers:Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne, Fran Walsh, Executive Producers:Micheal Lynne, Mark Ordeky, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein.
Trivia
This film made an astronomical 1408% profit for New Line Cinema off their initial costs.
Award
Oscar Winner: Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Makeup, Best Music-Original Song, Best Picture, Best Visual Effects, Best Writing-Adapted Screenplay.

วันพุธที่ 8 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Genre:Drama/Adventure
Duration:161 min
Colour:Colour
Country:UK/USA
Studio:Columbia Picture
British POWs hekd in a Burmese prison camp are forced to build a strategic rail bridge in this gipping World War II drama. After their capture, British soldiers are ordered by their ruthless Japanese camp commander Colonel Saito To construct a bridge that will greatly aid the enemy. Sir Alec Guinness turns in an Oscar-winning performance as Colonel Nicholson, the British commanding officer who first stand up to Saito but finally agrees to build the bridge as a monument to the fortitude of his men. As the company reluctantly resume construction under Nicholson's direction, the Allies hatch a plan to destroy it. The Bridge on the River Kwai is a brilliant microcosm of the pure insanity of war.
Cast
William Holden:Shears, Jack Hawkins: Major Warden, Alec Guinness: Colonel Nicholson, Sessue Hayakawa: Colonel Saito, James Donald:MAjor Clipton, Geoffrey Horne: Lieutenant Joyce, Andre Morell: Colonel Green, Peter Williams: Captain Reeves.
Behind the Scenes
Director:David Lean, Writers:Pierre Boulle(novel),Micheal Wilson and Carl Foreman(screenplay), Producer: Sam Spiegel, Flim Editor: Peter Taylor, Cinematographer: Jack Hildyard, Original Music: Malcolm Arnold.
Trivia:The blacklisted screenplay writers Michel Wilson and Carl Foreman didn't receive credits when the film was first re;eased. This resulted in French novelist Pierre Boulle, who didn't speek English' winning the Oscar for best Adepted Screenplay.
Awards
Oscar Winners: BGest Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Film Editing,Best Music, Best Picture,Best Writing-Adepted Screenplay
Oscar Nomination:Best Supporting Actor.

วันอังคารที่ 7 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554

No Country for Old Men (2007)


No Country for Old Men ( 2007 )
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Duration: 122 min
Colour: Colour
Country: USA
Studio: Paramount Vantage/Miramax Flims


Cast
Tommy Lee Jones:Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, Javier Bardem: Anton Chigurh, Josh Brolin: Llewelyn Moss, Woody Harrelson: Carson Wells, Kelly MacDonald: Carla Jean Moss, Garret Dillahunt:Deputy Wendell, Tess Harper: Loretta Bell


Hunting antelope in the Texas wilderness, Llewelyn Moss comes upon a grug deal gone bad, with several bodies, one badly injured man, and a satchel contain $2 million. Rather than reporting the crime scene to the police. Moss takes home a submachine gun, pistol, and the cash. Unfortunately for Moss, a cold-bloded killer name Anton Chigurh is also on the trail of this money and will stop at nothing to track it down . Bearing witness to the cat and mouse carnage is veteran lawman Ed tom Bell-the film's moral centure-who tries to defect futher damage while questioninh the world in wish it takes place.


Behind the Scences
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Writers: Cormac McCarthy(novel),Ethan Coen and Joel Coen(screenplay),Producers:Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Scott Rudin,Executive Producers:Robert Graf, Mark Roybal


Trivia:None of the three men characters-Sheriff Bell,Aton Chigurh,and Liewelyn Moss-are ever on screen together. The only character to even talk to all three is Carla Jean Moss.


Award
Oscar Winner:Best Director, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Writing-Adapted Screenplay



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วันจันทร์ที่ 6 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2554

Men in Black (1997)

Men in Black (1997)
Genre: Comedy/Sci-Fi
Duration: 98 min
Colour: Colour
Country: USA
Studio: Columbia Tristar-Motion Picture Group
 

Agent K, a veteran member of a secret agency that regulates the movement of aliens on Earth ,finds himself in need of a new partner and recruits the wisecracking NYPD cop James Edwards. Sporting sharp suits and sunglasses that earn them the moniker "Men in Black," they are on the hunt for the intergalactic terrorist, or Bug, that landed illegally to find a source of power know as "the Galaxy." The Bug dosen't care who it destroy in its path. Even if it involves a planet whose government is willing to destroy Earth just keep it from its quarry. Agent K and the newly renamed Agent J must race against time to stop the Bug before Earth is destroyed.
 

Cast
Tommy Lee Jones: Agent K, Will Smith
: James Edwards(Ajent J), Linda Fiorentino: Dr.Laurel Weaver, Vincent D'Onofrio: Edgar, Rip Torn:Chief Zed, Tony Shalhoub.


Behind the Scenes
Director: Barry Sonnenfield, Writers: Lowell Cunningham(comic), Ed Solomon (screenplay), Producers: Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parker, Executive Producer: Steven Spielberg, Original Music: Danny Elfman


Trivia: When the alien ship files over New York's Shea Stadium, the player who loses his concentration and gets hit with a fly ball is Bernard Gilkey.


Award
Oscar Winner: Best Makeup
Oscar Nomination:Best Art Direction, Best Music



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