Kate Beckinsale

  • Viv Albertine – Rachel’s Dream (1992)

    1991-2000ArthouseShort FilmUnited KingdomViv Albertine

    Shown as part of Channel 4’s Video Fantasies series, a selection of four innovative dramas deploying state-of-the-art visual and electronic effects. This was the only one of the four that had a futuristic basis. It was set perhaps a couple of decades ahead in a world being slowly drowned by technology, a world in which traffic jams are the norm instead of the exception, and where the people avoid getting caught in the rain for better reasons than simply not wanting to get wet. The Rachel of the title is the younger sister of an up-and-coming marketing executive who has just secured a contract with a wealthy but repulsive millionaire who is into toxic waste, which he stores in secret for large sums of money.Read More »

  • Whit Stillman – The Last Days of Disco (1998)

    1991-2000ComedyUSAWhit Stillman
    The Last Days of Disco (1998)
    The Last Days of Disco (1998)

    Roger Ebert wrote:
    “The Last Days of Disco” is about people who would like to belong to the kinds of clubs that would accept them as members. It takes place in “the very early 1980s” in Manhattan, where a group of young, good-looking Ivy League graduates dance the night away in discos. Unlike the characters in “Saturday Night Fever,” who were basically just looking for a good time, these upwardly mobile characters are alert to the markers of social status. New York magazine is their textbook, and being admitted to the right clubs is the passing grade.Read More »

  • Martin Scorsese – The Aviator (2004)

    Drama2001-2010Martin ScorseseUSA

    A biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes’ career, from the late 1920s to the mid-1940s.Read More »

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