“Oliver Stone’s unrelenting epic about a Vietnamese woman’s experience of war…moments of power and empathy…the women’s movie to end all women’s movies.” -David Denby, New York Magazine “In a time when few American directors are drawn toward political controversy, Stone seeks it out. He loves big subjects and approaches them fearlessly…viewing the war through the eyes of a …
The Dogs of War, the 1980 adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s novel about a mercenary-led coup in a small African dictatorship, stars the one and only Christopher Walken as the existentially-minded head of a group of for-profit soldiers. John Irvin (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) directs, with cinematography by the legendary Jack Cardiff (Stairway to Heaven, Black Narcissus, The Red …
Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale about a band of intrepid explorers descending to the hidden reaches of our world is brought to the screen in phantasmagoric CinemaScope® with Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959). Braving exploding volcanoes, tumbling rockslides, and flesh-eating reptiles, James Mason stars as a courageous if irascible geologist, Pat Boone as his indomitable …