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TITUS Also known as “Titus” (Argentina / France / Spain / Venezuela), “Titusz” (Hungary)
• Character: Chiron • Director: Julie Taymor • Writer:William Shakespeare (play), Julie Taymor (screenplay) • Release Date: 11 February 2000 (USA) • Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / War • Tagline: If you think you know Shakespeare....Think again. • Synopsis: War begets revenge. Victorious general, Titus Andronicus, returns to Rome with hostages: Tamora queen of the Goths and her sons. He orders the eldest hewn to appease the Roman dead. He declines the proffered emperor's crown, nominating Saturninus, the last ruler's venal elder son. Saturninus, to spite his brother Bassianus, demands the hand of Lavinia, Titus's daughter. When Bassianus, Lavinia, and Titus's sons flee in protest, Titus stands against them and slays one of his own. Saturninus marries the honey-tongued Tamora, who vows vengeance against Titus. The ensuing maelstrom serves up tongues, hands, rape, adultery, racism, and Goth-meat pie. There's irony in which two sons survive. • Co-Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Harry J. Lennix, Angus Macfadyen, Kenny Doughty, Alan Cumming, Constantine Gregory • Filming locations: Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy |
RIDE WITH THE DEVIL Also known as “Wer mit dem Teufel reitet” (Austria - TV title / Germany - TV title / Switzerland - TV title/ German title), “Cabalga con el diablo” (Spain), “Cabalgando con el diablo” (Argentina), “Cavalcando con il diavolo” (Italy), “Cavalgada com o Diabo” (Brazil), “Chevauchée avec le diable” (France), “Civil War” (USA - working title), “Paholaisen satulassa” (Finland), “Ride with the Devil” (Germany), “Ride with the Devil - Die Teufelsreiter” (Germany), “To Live On” (USA - working title), “U sedlu sa djavolom” (Serbia)
• Character: Pitt Mackeson • Director: Ang Lee • Writer:Daniel Woodrell (novel), James Schamus (screenplay) • Release Date:24 November 1999 (limited) • Genre: Drama / Romance / Western • Synopsis: Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Missouri when the Civil War starts. Women and Blacks have few rights. Jack Bull's dad is killed by Union soldiers, so the young men join the Bushwhackers, irregulars loyal to the South. One is a Black man, Daniel Holt, beholden to the man who bought his freedom. They skirmish then spend long hours hiding. Sue Lee, a young widow, brings them food. She and Jack Bull become lovers, and when he's grievously wounded, Jake escorts her south to a safe farm. The Bushwhackers, led by men set on revenge, make a raid into Kansas. At 19, Jake is ill at ease with war. As his friends die one after another, he must decide where honor lies • Co-Stars: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Cheryl Weaver, James Caviezel, Simon Baker, Jeffrey Wright, Ric Averill, Buck Baker, Mark Ruffalo, Zach Grenier, Tom Wilkinson, John Ales |
THE LOSS OF SEXUAL INNOCENCE Also known as “Fin de l'innocence sexuelle, La” (Canada - French title / France), “The Loss of Sexual Innocence” (Germany / Spain), “A Perda da Inocência” (Portugal), “Adiós a la inocencia sexual” (Spain - video title), “Instintos ocultos” (Argentina - video title), “Perdida de la inocencia sexual, La” (Colombia - cable TV title), “Perdita dell'innocenza, La” (Italy), “Süütuse kaotus” (Estonia), “The Death and Loss of Sexual Innocence” (USA - working title), “Viattomuuden loppu” (Finland)
• Character: Nic, aged 16 • Director: Mike Figgis • Writer: Mike Figgis • Release Date:28 May 1999 (USA) • Genre: Drama • Synopsis: Confused, non-linear film tells the sexual story of a film director from his life at age 5, age 12, age 16, a man embarking on his first film in 1950's Tunisia, and finally to his current life. Along the way he has sexual exploits with an older woman (Kelly McDonald) as a teen (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), gets involved with an Italian couple Tunisia that culminates in the killing of a local boy and the brutal revenge murder of the woman (Saffron Burrows), and ultimately is married to a cold woman (Johanna Torrel). • Co-Stars: Julian Sands, Saffron Burrows, Kelly Macdonald, Bernard Hill • Filming locations: Carlisle, Cumbria, England, UK |