A hot-shot race-car named Lightning McQueen gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he finds the true meaning of friendship and family. PG 96 min Animation, Adventure, Comedy. PG min Action, Adventure, Fantasy. A young girl institutionalized by her abusive stepfather retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.
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G min Adventure, Family, Fantasy. A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land. PG min Adventure, Comedy, Family.
Twelve-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger, and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be for ever known as Peter Pan. R min Comedy, Drama, Mystery.
During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.
R min Comedy, Drama, Romance. In , to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared. PG 75 min Animation, Action, Crime. There's a mystery afoot in Gotham City, and Batman must go toe-to-toe with a mysterious vigilante, who goes by the name of Red Hood.
Subsequently, old wounds reopen and old, once buried memories come into the light. Votes: 58, Votes: 32, G min Animation, Drama, Family. A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses. Votes: 57, PG min Biography, Drama. The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan , and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G. G 88 min Animation, Adventure, Comedy.
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M Action, Adventure, Drama. There was the Kitchen Sink movement of the late s , which was incendiary in its way, but before that, British films tended to fit their country's stiff-upper-lip stereotype. Which is what makes 's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp all the more surprising: England's greatest film ever, it turns out, is an emotional epic.
It's pretty rare that two filmmakers co-direct, co-write, and co-produce—or, at least, share a title card saying that do—but so it went with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, close friends who dubbed themselves The Archers. The British Powell directed; his Hungarian partner, Pressburger, wrote; both produced. Pressburger's scripts tend to be almost novelistic in scope, with myriad turns and characters from earlier portions returning for later bits, but with a feeling of order and concision.
All of this means that The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is especially suited for its new release from Criterion on Blu-ray, a transfer that might be the sharpest the company has done yet. The plot ought not to work as well as it does, considering its range, but Pressburger knew how to cram a lot of story into a short amount of space through subtle layering, making it feel almost like several films have been superimposed into one. The movie is tripartite in structure, with an intro and a reprise—with fresh parts—as a coda.
The titular fellow would have been familiar to all Brits as the subject of a popular cartoon strip. But this Blimp—a. We first see him as an old man, doing training exercises in WWII-era London, and being upstaged by a Johnny-come-lately officer.
Then we journey back to the turn of the century, courtesy of a tracking shot across the waters of a Turkish bath that knits the present to the past. On leave from the Boer War, Candy, as just about everyone refers to him, goes to Berlin to try and put a halt to anti-British propaganda. They are reconciled, and by the time of World War II Candy is the grand old lobster of the Low cartoons—angry, hurt, and bewildered to find his age and military experience held in low esteem, if not contempt, by a newer, younger generation.
The crowning blow comes when some upstart young men of the new army jump the gun in training maneuvers and capture him, boiling red and boiling mad, in a Turkish bath hours before the sham battle is to begin.
The resulting film took four months to shoot, utilizing the vast resources of the Denham Studios and actual locations in war-torn London and the English countryside. No less than Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself tried to prevent Colonel Blimp from being made; he and his administration objected to what they considered to be slurs on the British military, to the friendship between Candy and the German officer and to the implication in the final scenes that unless the British fought dirty, they would lose the war.
Roger Livesey, as Clive Candy, was singled out for honors for his amazing portrayal, aging convincingly and sympathetically from an idealistic young officer to a bald, overweight, querulous old man. But even in this fragmented, mutilated form, it had the power to intrigue and influence a younger generation of American film lovers. This eventually led to a major reassessment of the work of these two unique and gifted filmmakers by the British Film Institute in the early s.
This Criterion release, made from that restored negative, enables film lovers to enjoy this superlative achievement. A special Blimp-specific paint formulation is applied using a unique laser-based application process to create the look shown here. To ensure helium retention, and protect against ultraviolet light, pollution and rupture, the finished, shaped envelope is secured using space-age heat seal technology. Ballonet air bags inside the envelope maintain the perfect shape and assist with trim and weight distribution, while the air valve and blower allow the pilot to exhaust and add air when needed.
The new water ballast — which holds up to gallons, or approximately 1, pounds, of water — allows the pilot to harmlessly reduce weight while in flight. The new Blimp's gondola is made completely of a carbon-fiber composite that weighs in at 2, pounds — making it more than pounds lighter than previous models.
With seating for 12 and panoramic windows all around, the new Blimp offers a comfortable ride that provides spectacular aerial views for its passengers. A wide, comfortable passenger ladder and a large doorway near the rear of the gondola make it easy for passengers to enter, find a seat and exit after their ride. The new Blimp is the first Goodyear model to have an on-board restroom, which is similar to those found on airplanes, for passengers and crew.
When secured to the mast, the equipment on the ground support rack supplies power to run equipment like the blowers and instrument panel, and can be used to start the forward engines if desired. Three four-cylinder, horsepower engines are located on either side of the envelope and at the tail and can propel the airship at speeds of up to 73 miles per hour.
The new Blimp has an "inverted Y" configuration at the tail, and the fin control surfaces operate in tandem as "ruddervators" for directional navigation using fly-by-wire electrical control.
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