“A CHARMER! The theft is ingenious and Demi Moore is fascinating, doing some of her best work ever.” Elle
“Caine is utterly charming…Demi Moore is back for real.” Hollywood Reporter
“A polished and lustrous exercise in ’60s nostalgia.” Variety
Synopsis:
From director Michael Radford (THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, IL POSTINO) comes FLAWLESS, a clever diamond-heist thriller set in swinging 1960s London. Demi Moore plays Laura Quinn, a bright, driven and beautiful executive at the London Diamond Corporation who finds herself frustrated by a glass ceiling after years of faithful employment, as man after man is promoted ahead of her despite her greater experience. Michael Caine is Hobbs, the nighttime janitor at London Diamond who is virtually invisible to the executives that work there, but over the years has amassed a startling amount of knowledge about how the company runs. Hobbs has his own bone to pick with London Diamond. Observing Laura’s frustration, he convinces her to help him execute an ingenious plan to steal a hefty sum in diamonds. But unbeknownst to Laura, Hobbs plans go even farther than he’s let on, and together they set in motion a thrilling heist of dizzying proportions, the likes of which London has never seen.
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WatchMojo NewsletterMADRID, Spain (AP) — A Nicolas Cage impersonator was treated like a star as he watched Real Madrid play AS Roma last week in Champions League match.
Paolo Calabresi, an Italian TV presenter, watched the match with Madrid president Ramon Calderon from his box at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.
“The truth is I was a little scared they would find me out, but from the first moment everyone was friendly with me,” Calabresi told Marca newspaper on Wednesday. “We knew there would be many repercussions. My phone won’t stop ringing.”
Videos posted on Spanish media Web sites showed Calabresi, whose English has an accent, being presented with a personalized Nicolas Cage team jersey from Calderon.
Calabresi also met and posed for photographs with Madrid forward Robinho.
The 43-year-old Rome native bears a resemblance to the actor, who won the best actor Oscar for Leaving Las Vegas in 1996.
He gained access by using the name of the same U.S. agency that had arranged a similar meeting for actor Sylvester Stallone at the Bernabeu last year.
Calabresi said the plan was originally initiated three years ago, when the two clubs last met.
Madrid lost the match 2-1 and was eliminated from the Champions League 4-2 on aggregate.
FUNNY GAMES (Michael Haneke) In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, director Michael Haneke retells the story, through the eyes of middle-class housewife Anna (Naomi Watts), of how she and her husband George (Tim Roth) and their 10 years old son Georgie, submitted both physically and mentally to the tortures and death enforced upon them by two young unexpected visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near the lake.
Release date: March 14th/2008
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Check out the upcoming film Dark Matter! Dark Matter is coming to New York theatres April 11th and then expanding.
Take a look at the official website: http://www.darkmatterthefilm.com/
The feature film debut of renowned opera and theater director Chen Shi-Zheng, Dark Matter delves into the world of Liu Xing (Chinese for “Shooting Star”), a Chinese science student pursuing a Ph.D. in the United States in the early 1990s. Driven by ambition, yet unable to navigate academic politics, Liu Xing is inexorably pushed to the margins of American life, until he loses his way.
Liu Xing (Liu Ye) arrives at a big Western university with plans to study the origins of the universe. At first, his experience is a heady rush of expectation and optimism. He finds other Chinese students to share a cheap apartment with him, and flirts with an attractive American girl who works in a local tea shop. When the head of the department, Jacob Reiser (Aidan Quinn), welcomes Liu Xing into his select cosmology group, it seems that only hard work stands between him and a bright future in American science. At an orientation for foreigners sponsored by a local church, Joanna Silver (Meryl Streep), a wealthy patron of the university, notices the earnest student. An unspoken bond forms between them.
Liu Xing becomes Reiser’s protégé, accompanying him to a prestigious conference where he makes an impressive debut. He is drawn to the study of dark matter, an unseen substance that shapes the universe, but it soon becomes clear that his developing theories threaten Reiser’s conflicting theories and well-established studies. Excited by the possibility of a breakthrough, Liu Xing is deaf to warnings that he must first pay his dues. When he is eclipsed within the department by Laurence, a more dutiful Chinese student, Liu Xing is forced to go behind Reiser’s back to publish his discoveries. When the article draws ire instead of accolades, he turns to Joanna, who naively encourages him on his collision course.
Liu Xing clings to the idea of American science as a free market of ideas, and American society as wide open to immigrants. But in the end, his dissertation is rejected, and the girl in the tea shop brushes him off. His roommates find jobs, leaving him behind. Too proud to accept help from Joanna, and unwilling to return home to his parents, Liu Xing becomes a ghost-like presence at the university. Left alone with his shattered dreams, he explodes in a final act of violence.
Inspired by actual events, Dark Matter was written by Billy Shebar with a story by Shebar and Chen Shi-Zheng. The film was financed by American Sterling Productions, and produced by Janet Yang of American Sterling Productions and Mary Salter and Andrea Miller of Saltmill LLC. Kirk D’Amico and Linda Chiu are executive producers. Dark Matter was the Alfred P. Sloan prize winner at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
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