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5 to 7 (DVD)
Anton Yelchin, Bérénice Marlohe, Olivia Thirlby, Lambert Wilson, Frank Langella, …
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R41
Discovery Miles 410
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Anton Yelchin and Bérénice Marlohe star in this American comedy
drama. In New York City, struggling writer Brian Bloom (Yelchin)
meets 33-year-old French woman Arielle (Marlohe) on a smoking break
and agrees to meet her again a week later, during the only time
she's free, between the hours of five and seven. Once they meet
again, Brian is devastated to discover Arielle is married with two
young children. Although he's shocked at first, Brian continues
involving himself in Arielle's open marriage but can the pair
sustain their relationship under these unusual circumstances?
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Frost/Nixon (DVD)
Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon, Matthew Macfadyen, …
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R64
Discovery Miles 640
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Ships in 8 - 13 working days
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Based on Peter Morgan's stage play, Ron Howard directs this
dramatised account of the 1977 TV interviews between scandalised
former President Richard Nixon and British talk-show host David
Frost. Three years after the Watergate scandal that led to his
demise, former president Richard Nixon (Frank Langella) sat down
with Frost (Michael Sheen) to discuss, for the first and only time,
the details of his term in the White House and his spectacular fall
from grace. With the famously steely Nixon confident that he could
come out tops in the encounter, and Frost's side questioning
whether this was a step too far, media commentators prepared
themselves for a PR exercise. But when the interviews got underway,
observers were astonished when both men abandoned their usual
stances, and chose to conduct an open, honest and frank exchange of
views, covering all the areas of concern that had previously
remained off-limits. In addition to covering the interviews
themselves, the film also traces the difficulties that had to be
overcome, and egos that had to massaged, before the historic events
could finally take place.
Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight in a small Mexican village;
Elizabeth Taylor devouring homemade pasta and tenderly wrapping him
in her pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a
drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying
an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York City
street. Captured forever in a unique memoir, Frank Langella's
myriad encounters with some of the past century's most famous human
beings are profoundly affecting, funny, wicked, sometimes shocking,
and utterly irresistible. With sharp wit and a perceptive eye, Mr.
Langella takes us with him into the private worlds and privileged
lives of movie stars, presidents, royalty, literary lions, the
social elite, and the greats of the Broadway stage. What, for
instance, was Jack Kennedy doing on that coffee table? Why did the
Queen Mother need Mr. Langella's help? When was Paul Mellon going
to pay him money owed? How did Brooke Astor lose her virginity? Why
was Robert Mitchum singing Gilbert & Sullivan patter songs at
top volume, and what did Marilyn Monroe say to him that helped
change the course of his life? Through these shared experiences, we
learn something, too, of Mr. Langella's personal journey from the
age of fifteen to the present day. "Dropped Names" is, like its
subjects, riveting and unforgettable.
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