London, 1943. Officers Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, members of MI5 who are developing an effective counter-espionage system (Double Cross) during the war, devise an improbable and ingenious plan to deceive the Nazis and make them believe that the allies will land in Greece instead of in Sicily. The ploy consists in letting the corpse of Major William Martin drift adrift near the Spanish coast, provided with a file of information proving his existence and the false invasion plan. The major in question is actually a poor devil who died poisoned and ‘lent’ to his homeland who invents a new identity for him. Leading the Mincemeat operation, with Montagu and Cholmondeley, are also Ian Fleming, James Bond’s father, and Jean Leslie, secret service secretary who inspires the romance of William Martin and falls madly in love with the two officers...
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In 1920s Hollywood, silent cinema was at its technical peak, but was about to be supplanted by the advent of sound. Jack Conrad is a star known for his wild parties, while Nellie LaRoy and Manny Torres are two young people in search of success: she soon becomes an actress while he struggles as a production assistant. Inspired by the title of the famous book by Kenneth Anger Hollywood Babylon, the new invigorating film by Damien Chazelle tells with great deployment of means the rise and fall of its heroes, in a corrupt and promiscuous world but also full of great creative energy...
Read More ...Decorated war veteran Will Sharp is desperate for money because his wife is suffering from cancer and needs urgent experimental surgery that costs more than $230,000. He enlists the help of Danny, his adoptive brother, who, to help him, proposes a $32 million bank robbery, the largest in the history of Los Angeles...
Read More ...The story of a fugitive named Lin Ford (Charlie Hunnam) who tries to hide his tracks in the vibrant and chaotic Bombay of the eighties. Alone in an unfamiliar city, Lin struggles to escape the problems he’s running away from in this new place...
Read More ...The Crowded Room, a project that had been on hold at the New Regency for a decade, is adapting Daniel Keyes’ book for the big screen. It tells the story of Billy Milligan, a man with 24 multiple personalities. During a trial for the robbery and rape of three women on the Ohio State University campus, Milligan pleaded mentally ill and was able to prove that two of his personalities, the lesbian Adalana and the Yugoslav communist Ragen, had committed the crimes without that he was aware of it...
Read More ...In Blacksmith, a small town in the Midwest, the daily life of the Gladney family runs unperturbed: Jack, Babette and their four children, born from previous marriages. A routine punctuated by television sessions, father-son comparisons, reasoned or unreasonable talks about this or that piece of news, talk about this or that other product and ritual visits to the supermarket, where everyone indulges in the frenetic consumption of objects, messages, noise. A background noise that haunts Jack, a professor at College on the Hill, where he founded a department of Hitler studies. For some time now man has been living in a dull and constant fear of death...
Read More ...1952. Sammy Fabelman is six years old and doesn’t want to go to the cinema, he is afraid to face that world of giants. His mother assures him that movies are unforgettable dreams, his father reassures him by describing the prodigy of a machine that makes still images move. In front of their child, Mitzi and Burt each assume their own role: poetry on the one hand, technology on the other. In room Cecil B. DeMille’s Greatest Show on Earth does the rest...
Read More ...An important poet from America who lives in his world as a poet, a fictitious world, is suddenly shaken by the civil war that divides his family, thus living a real drama. Thus he is forced to leave writing, his practical passion, being enveloped by sadness...
Read More ...After having communicated to him the desire to divorce, leading to a violent marital altercation, Harper witnesses the death of her husband, James, without knowing whether it is a suicide, as he threatens, or a fatality. The guilt and obsession with causing her tragedy lead Harper to seclude himself in a mansion in the English countryside of Gloucestershire...
Read More ...North Carolina, 1950s. Gradually abandoned by her mother and her brothers, little Kya grows up alone with a violent father, who is also destined to disappear, in a house in the swamp. Surrounded by water and nature, the girl builds a world of her own, while the inhabitants of the nearby village mock and ignore her...
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