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Bacall: 'Hollywood is a zoo' -
24 August 2009
-Screen legend Lauren Bacall has hit out at the current state of Hollywood, insisting modern movie stars are only interested in fame.-
-The How To Marry A Millionaire actress, who is considered part of Hollywood's golden age, blames tabloid culture for breeding an obse
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Lauren Bacall - filmography
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The Forger
(2012)
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Hayden Panettiere, Alfred Molina
Director: Lawrence Roeck
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Teenager Joshua is abandoned after his drug addict mother goes on the run. He finds himself in the affluent community of Carmel, California. After finding himself in trouble, the authorities attempt to track down his mother. However, a successful local artist and businessman offers to take in ..read more »
 
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Jack Cardiff - Cameraman
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jack Cardiff, John Mills, Thelma Schoonmaker
Director: Craig McCall
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Craig McCall directs this documentary tribute to cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who died in April 2009. After working as a cameraman for Hitchcock and for Powell and Pressburger in the 1940s, Cardiff was asked by director Michael Powell to oversee the cinematography for the 1946 film 'A Matter of ..read more »
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Scooby Doo And The Goblin King
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Wallace Shawn, Wayne Knight, James Belushi
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Feature-length animated adventure with Scooby and the gang. When a deranged magician begins transforming people into monsters, Scooby and Shaggy must travel to the creepy depths of Halloween land to stop him. During their mission, the pair encounter a host of colourful villains before eventually ..read more »
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These Foolish Things
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Zoe Tapper, Terence Stamp
Director: Julia Taylor-Stanley
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These Foolish Things follows the fluctuating fortunes of a young actress as she struggles to emulate her famous mother's glittering career on the London stage. These Foolish Things stars luminaries of the silver screen Lauren Bacall, Anjelica Huston and Terence Stamp and features a strong ensemble ..read more »
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Manderlay
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Danny Glover, Chloe Sevigny, Jeremy Davies
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Manderlay lay on a lonely plain somewhere in the deep south of the USA. It was in the year of 1933 that Grace and her father had left the township of Dogville behind them. By chance their cars stop in the state of Alabama in front of a large iron gate bearing a thick chain and a padlock. Beside the ..read more »
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Howl's Moving Castle
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Ryunosuke Kamiki, Akio Ohtsuka, Haruko Kato
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
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Sophie, a diligent teenage girl working in her family's hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when a handsome-but-mysterious wizard named Howl sweeps her off her feet. This innocent encounter enrages the vain and conniving Witch of the Waste, who transforms Sophie into a 90-year-old woman. ..read more »
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Birth
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche
Director: Jonathan Glazer
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Enigmatic psychological drama directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Nicole Kidman as Anna, a wealthy widow in her mid-30s living in New York's Upper East Side. Anna is finally recovering after the death of her husband, Sean, and is coming to terms with her new life to the extent that she is now ..read more »
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Dogville
(2003)
Starring: Harriet Andersson, Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall
Director: Lars Von Trier
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Unusual, theatrical drama by pioneering director Lars Von Trier, co-founder of the Dogme film movement - which uses pared-down filming techniques inspired by Bertolt Brecht. The entire film is shot on a bare wooden sound stage without special effects or artificial lighting, the streets and homes ..read more »
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Presence Of Mind
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Harvey Keitel, Sadie Frost, Jack Taylor
Director: Antonio Aloy
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Sadie Frost stars in this adaptation of Henry James' classic chiller 'The Turn of the Screw'. Upon the death of her incestuous father, a beautiful but repressed young woman (Frost) takes a post as governess for two children, Miles and Flora, who have been in the custody of their uncle, the Master (..read more »
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My Fellow Americans
(1996)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Dan Aykroyd
Director: Peter Segal
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Kramer and Douglas, two former presidents from opposite ends of the political spectrum, having individually discovered a cover-up by the current president (Aykroyd), flee together when they are almost assassinated by the Secret Service.
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Pret A Porter
(1994)
Starring: Sally Kellerman, Sophia Loren, Jean
Director: Robert Altman
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This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual Pret-a-Porter fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and ..read more »
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A Foreign Field
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, John Randolph, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Charles Sturridge
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An old soldier re-opens the past when he returns to the battlefield. Written by Roy Clarke, the story focusses on two WWII veterans who return to the scene of their battles, intent on visiting the grave of a fallen comrade. But with their visit, they re-open many old wounds from the past, re-..read more »
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All I Want For Christmas
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Thora Birch, Ethan Randall, Harley Jane Kozak
Director: Robert Lieberman
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Brother and sister, Ethan, 13, and Hallie, 11, are about to experience their first Christmas since the divorce of their parents, but the kids cook up a complex Christmas Eve plot to get rid of Mom's obnoxious new boyfriend and effect a reconciliation with Dad.
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Misery - Blu-ray
(1990)
Starring: James Caan, Richard Farnsworth, Kathy Bates
Director: Rob Reiner
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Sick of his 19th Century romantic heroine, Misery Chastain, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) kills her off and writes a more personal, modern novel. When his car crashes in remote mountains he is saved by 'number one fan' Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who adores Misery and has even named her pig ..read more »
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A Little Piece Of Sunshine
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Larry Lamb, Chris Cooper, Kitty Aldridge
Director: James Cellan Jones
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Televison drama adapted from a scenario penned by Frederick Forsyth. Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island hitherto under British rule, is set to become independent. However, in the run-up to the island's presidential elections the British governor of the island is shot and killed. The ..read more »
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Misery
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: James Caan, Richard Farnsworth, Kathy Bates
Director: Rob Reiner
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Adapted from a Stephen King novel, Rob Reiner's Misery cast James Caan as a writer at a career crossroads. The film opens with Paul Sheldon (Caan) completing work on his latest novel, a break from his popular series of novels featuring the character Misery Chastain. He gets into a severe car ..read more »
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Appointment With Death
(1988)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Piper Laurie, Carrie Fisher
Director: Michael Winner
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Peter Ustinov plays Agatha Christie's Belgian mastermind Hercule Poirot in this star-studded murder mystery. When a wealthy widower, Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie), is murdered while holidaying in Jerusalem, there is no shortage of suspects. Emily had been in the process of blackmailing the family ..read more »
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The Shootist
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Ron Howard, John Carradine, James Stewart
Director: Don Siegel
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About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne), You have a cancer. Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of duty. In his remaining two months, Books ..read more »
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Northwest Frontier
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Kenneth More, Ian Hunter, Kenneth More
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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In 1905 India, British army officer Captain Scott (Kenneth More) is charged with protecting the six-year-old Hindu prince from would-be Muslim assassins. Along with the prince's governess (Lauren Bacall), a cynical reporter, an arms merchant and a pair of upper class Brits, Scott attempts to sneak ..read more »
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Young Man With A Horn
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day
Director: Michael Curtiz
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Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard takes Rick under his wing and teaches him all he knows about playing. To the exclusion of anything else in life, Rick becomes a star trumpeter, but his volatile personality ..read more »
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Key Largo
(1948)
Starring: Thomas Gomez, Marc Lawrence, Edward G. Robinson
Director: John Huston
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Richard Brooks and John Huston's screenplay for Huston's Key Largo eschews the lofty blank verse of Maxwell Anderson's original play, concentrating instead on the simmering tensions among the many characters. Humphrey Bogart plays Frank McCloud, an embittered war veteran who travels to Key Largo in ..read more »
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The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Elisha Cook, Sonia Darrin, Martha Vickers
Director: Howard Hawks
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The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned to the home of the fabulously wealthy General Sternwood (Charles Waldron), Marlowe is hired to deal with a blackmailer shaking down the General's ..read more »
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The Paul Newman Collection
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Paul Newman, Janet Leigh, Lauren Bacall
Director: John Huston, Arthur Penn
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Five films starring Paul Newman. In 'Harper' (1966), Detective Lew Harper (Paul Newman) is hired by a millionaire's wife (Lauren Bacall) to find her missing husband. The LA private eye's investigations bring him into contact with a number of seedy characters, including a played-out actress (Shelley ..read more »
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Kenneth More Collection
Starring: Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Joyce Grenfell
Director: Bernard Miles, J. Lee Thompso, Henry Cornelius
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A collection of some classic Kenneth More films: 'Appointment with Venus', 'Stop Press Girl', 'Chance of a Lifetime', 'Genevieve', 'A Night to Remember', 'The Galloping Major', 'North West Frontier' and 'Reach for the Sky'
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Douglas Sirk Collection
on DVD
Starring: Rock Hudson, Sandra Dee, Jane Wyman
Director: Douglas Sirk
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Douglas Sirk's body of work collected for posterity. The man is a Hollywood icon to actors and producers that have followed in his footsteps. His influence is still felt in the work of Todd Haynes, Rainer Fassbinder, John Walters, Martin Scorsese and others.
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Lauren Bacall facts
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