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george kaplan

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OK, I've decided to test out the academy award voting to be used at the end of the second draft, by applying it to the first one. Here's the deal:

1 - everyone at HTF is a member of the Academy, so anyone can vote.

2 - I'll be providing a list of the films here. Later today when I have more time, I'll try to copy over the billings and synopses, but you can always go to the first draft to look at them there.

3 - We'll be voting in the following categories:

Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Screenplay
Best Score
Best Cinematography

4 - I'll be providing a list of eligible candidates for each category. Once I've done that, nominations will be open.

5 - You can nominate up to 3 per category. You do this by sending me a private message. Do not post it here, and do not send me an email. You do not need to rank order your nominations, and you can have fewer than 3 (or even none) in any category. Just not more than 3 per category.

6 - I'll tally the nominations and then provide the list for the actual voting, which will go the same as the nominating, although this time you have to cast only a single vote in each category.

7 - I'll then open one winning envelope per day.

I'll be back in a few minutes with the eligible candidates for each category.
 

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Here are the eligible candidates for each category:

Best Picture

A Sitting Room Between Us
Accidental Murder
All the Gold in Montana
Beastly Numbers
Blast From the Past
Doctor Faustus
Helen and Paris
It's Tight Like That
Lex Luthor
Mirror Image
Morning Deli
New Jersey Dust
Nine Afternoons
Red Light
The Grand Expatriates
There's Something About Marilyn

Best Director

Woody Allen (There's Something About Marilyn)
Ingmar Bergman (Nine Afternoons)
Luis Buñuel (A Sitting Room Between Us)
James Cameron (Beastly Numbers)
The Coen Brothers (It's Tight Like That)
Walter Hill (New Jersey Dust)
Alfred Hitchcock (Accidental Murder)
Wong Kar-Wai (Morning Deli)
Stanley Kubrick (Doctor Faustus)
Akira Kurosawa (Helen and Paris)
Sam Peckinpah (All the Gold in Montana)
Martin Scorsese (Red Light)
Steven Spielberg (Lex Luthor)
Oliver Stone (Mirror Image)
Quentin Tarantino (Blast From the Past)
Francois Truffaut (The Grand Expatriates)

Best Actor

Humphrey Bogart (Red Light)
Marlon Brando (Doctor Faustus)
Robert DeNiro (Mirror Image)
Robert Duvall (Doctor Faustus)
Clint Eastwood (All the Gold in Montana)
Errol Flynn (Beastly Numbers)
Harrison Ford (Accidental Murder)
Cary Grant (There's Something About Marilyn)
Jeremy Irons (The Grand Expatriates)
Tony Leung (Helen and Paris)
Marcello Mastroianni (A Sitting Room Between Us)
Toshiro Mifune (Morning Deli)
Bill Murray (Lex Luthor)
Edward Norton (Mirror Image)
Sam Shepard (All the Gold in Montana)
Will Smith (It's Tight Like That)
Denzel Washington (Nine Afternoons)
Bruce Willis (New Jersey Dust)

Best Actress

Ingrid Bergman (The Grand Expatriates)
Juliette Binoche (Morning Deli)
Audrey Hepburn (Blast From the Past)
Grace Kelly (Accidental Murder)
Queen Latifah (It's Tight Like That)
Vivien Leigh (Blast From the Past)
Jennifer Jason Leigh (Red Light)
Gong Li (Helen and Paris)
Heather Locklear (New Jersey Dust)
Marilyn Monroe (There's Something About Marilyn)
Julianne Moore (Nine Afternoons)
Jeanne Moreau (A Sitting Room Between Us)
Michelle Pfeiffer (Beastly Numbers)
Marisa Tomei (Lex Luthor)

Best Supporting Actor

Woody Allen (Morning Deli)
Kevin Bacon (Mirror Image)
Jean-Paul Belmondo (A Sitting Room Between Us)
Kenneth Branagh (Beastly Numbers)
Steve Buscemi (There's Something About Marilyn)
Russell Crowe (Blast From the Past)
Johnny Depp (Lex Luthor)
Taye Diggs (It's Tight Like That)
Robert Forster (Red Light)
Charles Grodin (Lex Luthor)
Charlton Heston (Blast From the Past)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Morning Deli)
Burt Lancaster (The Grand Expatriates)
William H. Macy (Nine Afternoons)
Liam Neeson (Beastly Numbers)
Paul Newman (Accidental Murder)
Warren Oates (All the Gold in Montana)
Brad Pitt (Helen and Paris)
Oliver Reed (The Grand Expatriates)
Kevin Spacey (Red Light)
Harry Dean Stanton (New Jersey Dust)
Jimmy Stewart (There's Something About Marilyn)
Jacques Tati (A Sitting Room Between Us)
Christopher Walken (Doctor Faustus)
Orson Welles (Accidental Murder)
Owen Wilson (Nine Afternoons)
Chow Yun Fat (Helen and Paris)

Best Supporting Actress

Jean Arthur (There's Something About Marilyn)
Monica Bellucci (Doctor Faustus)
Bjork (Nine Afternoons)
Cate Blanchette (Doctor Faustus)
Joy Bryant (It's Tight Like That)
Rae Dawn Chong (New Jersey Dust)
Jennifer Connelly (Mirror Image)
Viola Davis (It's Tight Like That)
Catherine Deneuve (Red Light)
Jami Gertz (New Jersey Dust)
Ruth Gordon (Lex Luthor)
Angelina Jolie (Beastly Numbers)
Grace Kelly (Blast From the Past)
Diane Lane (All the Gold in Montana)
Jennifer Lopez (All the Gold in Montana)
Giulietta Masina (A Sitting Room Between Us)
Gwyneth Paltrow (Morning Deli)
Meg Ryan (Accidental Murder)
kristen scott thomas (Helen and Paris)
Emma Thompson (The Grand Expatriates)
Sigourney Weaver (Mirror Image)

Best Cinematography

John Alcott (Doctor Faustus)
Nestor Almendros (All the Gold in Montana)
Robert Burks (Accidental Murder)
Dick Bush (New Jersey Dust)
Jack Cardiff (Nine Afternoons)
Stanley Cortez (The Grand Expatriates)
Raoul Coutard (A Sitting Room Between Us)
Roger Deakins (It's Tight Like That)
Conrad L. Hall (Beastly Numbers)
James Wong Howe (Red Light)
Janusz Kaminski (Helen and Paris)
Andrew Lesnie (Blast From the Past)
Joseph Ruttenberg (There's Something About Marilyn)
Barry Sonnenfeld (Lex Luthor)
Robert Surtees (Mirror Image)
Gordon Willis (Morning Deli)

Best Screenplay

Woody Allen (Morning Deli)
Pedro Almodóvar (A Sitting Room Between Us)
Francis Ford Coppola (Beastly Numbers)
Cameron Crowe (Blast From the Past)
Steven E. DeSouza (New Jersey Dust)
The Farrelly Brothers (There's Something About Marilyn)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Grand Expatriates)
Ben Hecht (Red Light)
Charlie Kaufman (Lex Luthor)
Akira Kurosawa (Nine Afternoons)
Elmore Leonard (All the Gold in Montana)
David Mamet (Helen and Paris)
John Ridley (It's Tight Like That)
Quentin Tarantino (Mirror Image)
Orson Welles (Doctor Faustus)
Billy Wilder (Accidental Murder)

Best Score

Beethoven (Doctor Faustus)
Elmer Bernstein (All the Gold in Montana)
Carter Burwell (It's Tight Like That)
philip glass (Helen and Paris)
Bermard Herrmann (Accidental Murder)
James Horner (Mirror Image)
Alberto Iglesias (Morning Deli)
Henry Mancini (Lex Luthor)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Nine Afternoons)
André Previn (There's Something About Marilyn)
Nino Rota (A Sitting Room Between Us)
Miklós Rózsa (The Grand Expatriates)
Neil Tennant (New Jersey Dust)
Vangelis (Blast From the Past)
Franz Waxman (Red Light)
John Williams (Beastly Numbers)

I'll try to post the film summaries in a while.
 

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[c]SteveGon Presents
A Peaches Production
Starring
Clint Eastwood and Sam Shepard
Co-Starring
Jennifer Lopez and Diane Lane
With
Warren Oates as Lewis Dobbs
In
A Film By Sam Peckinpah

All the Gold in Montana

Photographed by Nestor Almendros
Original Screenplay by Elmore Leonard
Original Score by Elmer Bernstein
Directed by Sam Peckinpah
[/c]

Synopsis:
Clint Eastwood is cattle rancher Hank Dobbs, making a living in late 1800's Montana with his young Mexican wife Ophelia, played by Jennifer Lopez. Staying with them is Lucy (Diane Lane), Hank's daughter from his first marriage. Hank and Ophelia have no children, but they are raising Esteban, the son of Hank's wayward younger brother Lewis (Warren Oates). Lucy is unhappy with her station in life and longs for a life in Europe - a dream fostered by cheap romance novels. She also resents Ophelia and Esteban. One day Lewis shows up with a cache of gold he's stolen from the famous Mexican bandit Mad Carlos. Turns out that Lewis has been riding with Carlos and his gang for some time. Then Lewis discovered that he is seriously ill with only a short time to live. Faced with his own mortality and wracked with guilt over his abandonment of Esteban and the boy's now-dead mother, Lewis has made off with Carlos' gold, intending it for Esteban's future. Soon after Lewis' arrival, Carlos shows up looking for him. Hank is determined to return the gold to Carlos, in the hope of placating him, but the bandit wants more than the return of his loot - he wants Lewis' head on a platter! Hank is determined to not turn over his brother, but he is outnumbered by Carlos and his men. Then Ophelia shows that she is no timid housewife, an act that both fascinates and enrages Carlos. To add to the fray, a posse of Texas Rangers shows up looking for Carlos and company. These Rangers are led by the infamous Levi Jones (Sam Shepard), a lawman who doesn't particularly care if innocents get caught in the crossfire as long as he brings in his man! Meanwhile, Lucy has her own plans for the gold - she sees it as her ticket out of Montana and she is determined to get her way...

Genre: Western
 

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[c]FourSides Films
Presents
Martin Scorsese's

Red Light

Written by Ben Hecht
Starring
Humphrey Bogart and Jennifer Jason Leigh
Co-Starring
Kevin Spacey and Catherine Deneuve
With
Robert Forster as the Police Captain
Original Score by Franz Waxman
Director of Photography: James Wong Howe
Directed by Martin Scorsese
[/c]

Synopsis:
An original story involving a police vice detective (Bogart) trying to find a killer (Spacey) with the help of a prostitute (Leigh) while trying to fix his relationship with (Deneuve) and keep his boss (Forster) happy.

Genre: Crime / Film Noir

Black & White
 

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[c]Justin Doring
Presents
A Film by Francois Truffaut

The Grand Expatriates

Starring
Jeremy Irons and Ingrid Bergman
Co-Starring
Burt Lancaster and Emma Thompson
With
Oliver Reed as Briand
Music by Miklós Rózsa
Cinematography by Stanley Cortez
Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Directed by Francois Truffaut
[/c]

Synopsis:
A poignant yet occasionally whimsical film about four expatriates and their days in Paris between the World Wars.

Genre: Drama
 

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[c]JH Pictures
Presents
A Stanley Kubrick Film
of
Orson Welles' Adaptation
of
Christopher Marlowe's

Doctor Faustus

Starring
Marlon Brando as Dr. John Faustus
Robert Duvall as Mephistopheles
Co-starring
Cate Blanchette as The Good Angel
Monica Bellucci as The Bad Angel
With
Christopher Walken as Lucifer
Music by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Cinematography by John Alcott
Adapted for the screen by Orson Welles
Produced by JH
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
[/c]

Synopsis:
Dr. John Faustus, bored with conventional academic study, decides to learn to practice magic. He eventually summons up Mephistopheles, a devil. Despite M's warnings of the horrors of hell, Faustus agrees to enter into a bargain with Lucifer: 24 years of Mephistopheles' services (which are near godlike) in exchange for his soul...

Genre: Historical Fantasy
 

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[c]George Kaplan
Presents
Harrison Ford and Grace Kelly
In
Alfred Hitchcock's

Accidental Murder

Co-Starring
Paul Newman and Meg Ryan
With
Orson Welles as Inspector McGuffin
Written by Billy Wilder
Cinematography by Robert Burks
Music composed by Bernard Herrmann
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
[/c]

Synopsis:
Jack Russell (Harrison Ford) has the perfect life and the perfect wife (Grace Kelly). That is, until his wife dies in a tragic accident. Two years pass before he starts dating again, when he accidentally bumps into his wife's college roommate Stacy (Meg Ryan). But everytime they go out, Stacy swears she sees his wife in the distance. Jack is skeptical, until they find some of his wife's jewelry she was wearing when she died. Together, Jack & Stacy start investigating, but when Stacy is killed in the same type of accident as his wife, Jack finds himself wanted by the police for two murders. A mysterious videotape holds the key to everything, but now it's disappeared. His quest to elude the police, find the tape, clear his name and discover the truth about his wife leads him into a non-stop journey filled with romance, mystery and danger.

Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Romance

What the critics are saying:

"Easily Hitchcock's greatest movie" - Lew Crippen

"Better than Rear Window, Vertigo and North by Northwest combined" -Brook K.

"Hitch's best and funniest cameo ever is worth the price of admission by itself" - Roger Ebert

"It made me laugh, it made me cry, it was a real tour-de-force" - Rich Malloy

"This movie was so good, I may never go back to watching horror films" - Justin S.

"Makes Lawrence of Arabia look like a B movie" - Rob Tomlin

"My God. After seeing thousands and thousands of movies, finally one I have nothing negative to say about" - Pauline Kael

"Merde, I finally have to admit that the best film ever made isn't French. It's this one" - Jean-Luc Godard

"I had plastic surgery to have an extra thumb sewn on my hand, just so I could give this film 3 thumbs up" - Gene Siskel

"The greatest score I've ever heard" - John Williams

"Burks' camera work made me feel like a hack" - Gordon Willis

"This script is going to give me writer's…, um, well I can't think of the term right now, but I may be afraid to ever pick up a pen again" - David Mamet

"I've never knighted somebody twice, but after seeing this film, I might just do that to Sir Alfred" - Queen Elizabeth

"Would have been better with more car crashes and explosions" - Richard Roeper

"I refuse to even see this movie because of the rumors of an explicit lesbian sex scene, which undermines the very fabric of our society" - Michael Medved

"I know that Welles is behind this thinly veiled attempt to blame me for Ince's death, and I don't care if it has won 17 oscars, I'm going to see every last print burned!" - William Randolph Hearst

"This movie just weirded me out. But I have to admit, that scene on the Eiffel Tower was incredible." - Chuck DeLa

"The best that technicolor has ever looked. My new goal when restoring films is to make them look 1/10th as good as this" - Robert Harris

"Every HTF member has got to see this. No, really, if you don't we'll revoke your membership. It's that good!" - Ron Epstein
 

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[c]Mythworld Productions
Proudly Presents
James Cameron’s

Beastly Numbers

Written by Robert A. Heinlein
Adapted for the screen by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring
Errol Flynn and Michelle Pfeiffer
Co-Starring
Angelina Jolie and Kenneth Branagh
With
Liam Neeson as Corporal Bronson
Score by John Williams
Director of Photography: Conrad L. Hall
Directed by James Cameron
[/c]

Synopsis:
Anything can begin at a party in California - and it does in this film. It's the story of four very sensual geniuses who suddenly find themselves the targets of alien hostilities. The aliens want to prevent one of them from making a world altering discovery in mathematics, but they're too late. The group escapes by fleeing their universe, and that's when the adventure really begins. This is a film where nothing is out of the question, if you can find the right universe in time.

Genre: Instructional/Blockbuster/Science Fiction
 

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[c]Cary T Production
Presents
A Wong Kar-Wai Film
Screenplay by Woody Allen

Morning Deli

Starring
Toshiro Mifune and Juliette Binoche
Co-Starring
Gwyneth Paltrow and Woody Allen
With
Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Chef
Photographed by Gordon Willis
Original Score by Alberto Iglesias
Directed by Wong Kar-Wai
[/c]

Synopsis:
Culture clashes when Julie (Binoche) falls in love with an asian man (Mifune) and Gina (Paltrow) falls for an older man (Allen). The two men seeks love advice from a deli chef (Hoffman).

Genre: Comedy/Romance
 

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[c]Angry Sicilian Productions presents
A film by Akira Kurosawa

Helen and Paris

Starring
Gong Li and Tony Leung
Co-Starring
Brad Pitt and Kristin Scott-Thomas
With
Chow Yun Fat as Patrocles
Score by Philip Glass, featuring the Brodsky Quartet, Yo Yo Ma and Joshua Bell
Cinematography by Janusz Kaminski
Written by David Mamet
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
[/c]

Synopsis:
Akira Kurosawa re-interprets Homer's Iliad, and brings a multi-cultural cast to bear on this epic tale of war among gods and mortals. David Mamet's screenplay is both intimate and sweeping, and focuses more intensely than does the source material on Helen of Troy (Gong Li) and her abductor, Paris (Tony Leung). We see the Trojan War unfold through their eyes. With Brad Pitt as Menelaus, Kristin Scott-Thomas as Aphrodite and Chow Yun-Fat as Patrocles.

Genre: Epic
 

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[c]Warner Brothers Presents
A Witty Post-Script Filmworks Production
Of A Walter Hill Film

New Jersey Dust

Starring
Bruce Willis and Heather Locklear
Co-starring
Harry Dean Stanton and Jami Gertz
With
Rae Dawn Chong as Sarah Jamison
Cinematography by Dick Bush
Score by Neil Tennant
Screenplay by Steven E. DeSouza
Directed by Walter Hill
[/c]

Synopsis:
In the year 1988, Jack Yates (Willis) has scored a premium shipment of Bolivian Flake. One of the richest dealers on the Jersey Shore, Yates has everything...Money, cars, a seaside mansion and the love of a horny, often naked and cocaine-addicted woman named Cynthia Braxton (Locklear). Unfortunately, Sarah Jamison (Chong) is horning in on the territory. She kidnaps Braxton and tortures her in a oceanside warehouse. Caught between a rock (no pun intended) and a hard place, Yates falls under the assistance of police officers Roger Winstanley (Stanton) and Laura MacGillicuddy (Gertz). It all comes together in a violent, explosive conclusion on the docks of a shipping yard, The drama involves all-around corruption...The corruption of cocaine, the corruption of drug-addicted love, the corruption of the police force, the corruption of late-80s money hunger. In a time like this, goodness breezes away, just like the dust.

Genre: Drama/Action/Dark Comedy

Character summary:
Bruce Willis as cocaine dealer Jack Yates
Heather Locklear as his horny and cocaine-addicted girlfriend Cynthia Braxton
Harry Dean Stanton as NJPD officer Roger Winstanley
Jami Gertz as NJPD recruit Laura MacGillicuddy
Rae Dawn Chong as Sarah Jamison, Yates' rival dealer
 

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[c]Gabe D
Presents
Bill Murray and Marisa Tomei
In
Steven Spielberg's

Lex Luthor

Co-Starring
Johnny Depp and Ruth Gordon
With
Charles Grodin as the President
Written by Charlie Kaufman
Cinematography by Barry Sonnenfeld
Music composed by Henry Mancini
Directed by Steven Spielberg
[/c]

Synopsis:
This movie will give us a look at Superman from Lex Luthor's point of view. Bill Murray stars as Luthor, a sympathetic super-genius scientist who just can't win. His well meaning plots are constantly being ruined by that bumbling blowhard from another planet, Superman (played by Johnny Depp). Compounding Luthor's frustration is the fact that the press, led by some nobody reporter named Kent (also played by Depp), has unfairly labeled him a villain. The only person in Luthor's corner is his overprotective mother (played by Ruth Gordon). Also starring Marisa Tomei as Lois Lane, a reporter who finds herself in a romantic quadrangle with Luthor, Kent and Superman. Superman takes every chance to publicly humiliate Luthor, who can't understand why the public can't see that caped menace for the obnoxious egotistical jerk that he is. His frustration builds and builds until he cracks, hatching a revenge plot involving kryptonite and world domination.

Genre: Fantasy/Comedy
 

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[c]Nine Afternoons

(a DeLaFilms Production)
Starring
Denzel Washington and Julianne Moore
Co-Starring
William H. Macy and Bjork
With
Owen Wilson as The Anonymous figure
Original score composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Director of photography: Jack Cardiff
Written by Akira Kurosawa
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
[/c]

Synopsis:
A 3-hour epic drama illustrating nine events in the separate yet strangely intertwined lives of two couples from marriage to betrayal to divorce to recapitulation. Starring Denzel Washington and Bjork Gudmundsdottir as Hank and Isabel Jefferson, William H. Macy and Julianne Moore as Lonnie and Paulina Joplin, and Owen Wilson as the anonymous figure who will transform their lives -- for better, and for worse.

Genre: Drama
 

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[c]There's Something About Marilyn

A Film by Woody Allen
Starring
Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe
Co-Starring
James Stewart and Jean Arthur
With
Steve Buscemi as Ed
Director of Photography: Joseph Ruttenberg
Score by André Previn
Written by The Farrelly Brothers
Directed by Woody Allen
[/c]

Genre: Comedy
 

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[c]Fischer Entertainment
Presents
A Quentin Tarantino film

Blast from the Past

Starring
Vivien Leigh and Audrey Hepburn
Co-Starring
Russell Crowe and Charlton Heston
With
Grace Kelly as Grace
Original Score by Vangelis
Written by Cameron Crowe
Director of Photography: Andrew Lesnie
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
[/c]

Genre: Action/Drama/Comedy
 

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[c]Spicoli Pictures Ltd.
Presents
An Oliver Stone Film

Mirror Image

Starring
Robert DeNiro and Edward Norton
Co-Starring
Jennifer Connelly and Sigourney Weaver
With
Kevin Bacon as Mike Moon
Music by James Horner
Cinematography by Robert Surtees
Written by Quentin Tarantino
Directed by Oliver Stone
[/c]

Synopsis:
Oliver Stone's controversial new film dealing with cloning

Genre: Crime/Thriller/Suspense
 

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[c]Equipoise Productions
Presents
A Coen Brothers film

It's Tight Like That

Starring
Will Smith as Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey
Queen Latifah as Gertrude "Ma" Rainey
Co-starring
Taye Diggs as "Tampa Red" Whitaker
Joy Bryant as Nettie Dorsey
With
Viola Davis as Mahalia Jackson
Directed by The Coen Brothers
Screenwriter: John Ridley
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Composer/Music Supervisior: Carter Burwell[/c]


Synopsis:
The life of influential bluesman and "father of gospel music" Thomas A. Dorsey, focusing on the years between his heading Ma Rainey's Wild Cats Jazz Band in about 1925, and the year after the death of his wife Nettie in 1932, when he turned away from secular blues and wholeheartedly embraced gospel music, going on to redefine that genre by adding blues and jazz musical elements.

Genre: Drama (with much music and humor)
 

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[c]Jean Pike Productions
Presents

A Sitting Room Between Us

A New Luis Buñuel Comedy
Starring
Marcello Mastroianni as Tomás
Jeanne Moreau as Contessa Eva
Co-Starring
Jean-Paul Belmondo as Jean-Claude
Giulietta Masina as Valentina
With
Jacques Tati as Pierrot
Written by Pedro Almodóvar
Director of Photography: Raoul Coutard
Original Music Composed By Nino Rota
Directed by Luis Buñuel[/c]


Synopsis:
Suave, sophisticated Tomás and the vital but earthy Jean-Claude vie for the affections of the Contessa, who is attracted to each for very different reasons. Vanentina, a divorcée who has more than enough funds command either Tomás or Jean-Claude to do her bidding presents a serious challenge for whichever man Eva chooses. But the Contessa is not without her resources, as no man or woman is immune to her charms.

Meanwhile, Pierrot, Tomás’ inept, clumsy manservant who silently observes the action helps bring about the satisfactory though surprising conclusion.

Genre: Comedy
 

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If anyone who didn't provide a synopsis for their film would like to add one now, go ahead and post it, and I'll modify your entry accordingly.
 

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Just bumping this, hoping to get more votes. A few people have voted, but we've still got lots of multi-way ties that need more votes to be broken.
 

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