Tagline: He didn’t resist temptation. He pursued it. ‘The Libertine’ follows the adventures of John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, in London of the 17th century. He has a passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry, and he writes a scurrilous play which lampoons the monarch who commissioned it, Charles II, leading to…
Category: Period Films
Lords of Dogtown (2005)
Tagline: They came from nothing to change everything. In Venice, California in the mid ’70’s, the sport of surfing brought together a group of teenagers from a rough neighborhood. Riding the waves at the Pacific Ocean Park pier, a graveyard of a former amusement park, the boys from “Dogtown” joined the Zephyr skate team (or…
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Tagline: “My world is as forbidden as it is fragile; without its mysteries, it cannot survive.” In 1997, novelist Arthur Golden offered readers an intoxicating and riveting story of a hidden world in his acclaimed novel, Memoirs of a Geisha. The sweeping romantic epic spent two years on The New York Times best-seller list, sold…
The New World (2005)
Tagline: Once discovered, it was changed forever. The New World is an epic adventure set amid the encounter of European and Native American cultures following the founding of the Jamestown Settlement in 1607. Inspired by the legend of John Smith and Pocahontas, this classic story into a sweeping exploration of love, loss and discovery, both…
North Country (2005)
Tagline: All she wanted was to make a living. Instead she made history. A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States — Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit. When…
Oliver Twist (2005)
Orphaned at an early age, Oliver Twist is forced to live in a workhouse lorded over by the awful Mr. Bumble, who cheats the boys of their meager rations. Desperate yet determined, Oliver makes his escape to the streets of London. Penniless and alone, he is lured into a world of crime by the sinister…