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Capote
2005 • 114 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media
Director: Bennett Miller
Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Craig Archibald, Bronwen Coleman, Kate Shindle, David Wilson Barnes, Michael J. Burg, Catherine
Keener, Kwesi Ameyaw, Andrew Farago, Ken Krotowich
Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer
develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.
Captain America: The First Avenger
2011 • 125 minutes • Colour • Paramount Pictures
Director: Joe Johnston
Cast: Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan,
Natalie Dormer, Neal McDonough
After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America,
a superhero dedicated to defending America's ideals.
Carol's Journey
2002 • 115 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media
Director: Imanol Uribe
Cast: Clara Lago, Juan José Ballesta, Álvaro de Luna, María Barranco, Carmelo Gómez, Rosa Maria Sardà, Alberto Jiménez, Lucina Gil
Carol, a twelve-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the
Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment.
Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once new and foreign. But she soon journeys into
adulthood through a friendship with Maruja, the village teacher, and a young local boy, Tomiche.
Carolina
2003 • 113 minutes • Colour • TVA International
Director: Marleen Gorris
Cast: Julia Stiles, Alessandro Nivola, Shirley MacLaine, Mika Boorem, Azura Skye, Edward Atterton, Randy Quaid
A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family to pursue dreams of success in Hollywood.
Carpool
1996 • 89 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: Tom Arnold, David Paymer, Rhea Perlman
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his
wife gets sick...
Cast Away
2000 • 144 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Tom Hanks, Viveka Davis, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Lari White
From the director of “Forrest Gump” comes a contemporary drama about a man in isolation who is forced to transform himself both
physically and emotionally in order to survive. The action turns on the character of Chuck Nolan (Tom Hanks), a corporate troubleshooter
at a Federal Express office in Moscow who survives a plane crash, only to find himself stranded on a deserted island. Having once divided
up his life in minutes and hours, he must now adjust to a new environment where time is measured in months and years.
The Cat and the Canary
1979 • 98 minutes • Colour • Quartet Films
Director: Radley Metzger
Cast: Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller, Olivia Hussey, Beatrix Lehmann, Carol Lynley
When an elderly man dies, some of his relatives gather to hear the reading of the will. When it is read by his attorney, the old man lets it be
known how much he despised and loathed his worthless kin. As a result, his will is structured in such a way as to set up a dogfight
between his potential heirs as to who will collect his fortune. A remake of the 1939 Bob Hope classic, but with the comedic elements
removed and the suspense heightened.
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