Tagline: Love is a force of nature. An epic love story, set against the sweeping landscapes of Wyoming and Texas, that tells the story of two young men–a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy–who meet in the summer of 1963 while driving cattle on a mountain range. They unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection, one whose complications,…
Category: Period Films
Capote (2005)
In November, 1959, Truman Capote (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s and a favorite figure in what is soon to be known as the Jet Set, reads an article on a back page of the New York Times. It tells of the murders of four members of a well-known farm family —…
Casanova (2005)
Tagline: He won every woman’s heart. She won his. 1700s Venice – He was the legendary adventurer whose amorous dalliances would go on to inspire countless lovers throughout the centuries. She was the most virtuoso writer of her time who was waiting to find that rare man with a true understanding of steadfastness and passion….
Cinderella Man (2005)
“In all the history of the boxing game, you’ll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.” – Damon Runyon (1936) In the middle of the Great Depression, when an America in the grips of a devastating economic downturn was nearly brought to its knees, there came along…
Downfall (Der Untergang) (2005)
When writer – producer Bernd Eichinger read the galleys of historian Joachim Fest’s book “Der Untergang” (“The Downfall: Inside Hitler’s Bunker, The Last Days of the Third Reich”), he knew he had found the dramatic key to a film he had wanted to make for decades, but never thought possible due to its scope. Fess’…
Good Night, And Good Luck. (2005)
Tagline: We will not walk in fear of one another. In the mid-1950’s Edward R. Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly, help bring an end to the tyranny of the blacklist and the House Un-American Activities Committee’s anti-Communist hearings. With the platform provided by his CBS News program “See It Now,” Murrow challenges Joseph McCarthy…