Tagline: Greatness comes to those who take it. The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, “Mongol” delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of…
Category: Period Films
My Brother Is An Only Child (2008)
Set in a small Italian town in the 60’s and 70’s, the film tells the story of two brothers who want to change the world — but in completely different ways. The elder, Manrico (Riccardo Scarmaccio,) is a handsome, charismatic firebrand who becomes the prime mover in the local Communist party. Accio (Elio Germano,) the…
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Tagline: The only thing that could come between these sisters… is a kingdom. Based on a novel by Philippa Gregory, “The Other Boleyn Girl” revolves around the ferociously ambitious Boleyn sisters, Mary (Scarlett Johansson) and Anne (Natalie Portman), who are rivals for the bed and heart of 16th century English King Henry VIII (Eric Bana)….
The Reader (2008)
Tagline: How far you go to protect a secret? A haunting love story based on the best-selling novel of the same name, “The Reader” is set in postwar Germany and tells the story of a man whose life has been shaped by an illicit affair with a passionate older woman during his youth. Bernhard Schlink’s…
Revolutionary Road (2008)
Adapted from the landmark novel by Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road is an incisive portrait of an American marriage seen through the eyes of Frank (three-time Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio) and April (five-time Academy Award nominee Kate Winslet) Wheeler. Yates’ story of 1950’s America poses a question that has been reverberating through modern relationships ever…
Savage Grace (2008)
Tagline: Truth is more shocking than fiction. Savage Grace is a film directed by Tom Kalin and written by Howard A. Rodman, based on the book Savage Grace by Natalie Robins and Steven M.L. Aronson. The story is based on the dysfunctional, allegedly incestuous relationship between heiress and socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland and her son,…