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DIRECTOR: MARTIN SCORSESE
STARS: GEORGE HARRISON, JOHN LENNON, PAUL McCARTNEY, RINGO STARR, ERIC CLAPTON, TERRY GILLIAM, RAVI SHANKAR, YOKO ONO, TOM PETTY, GEORGE MARTIN
ROADSHOW ENTERTAINMENT
OFTEN referred to as 'the quiet Beatle', George Harrison's contribution to the success of the Fab Four is sometimes overlooked. Looking to redress the balance, legendary director Martin Scorsese mixes archival footage with all-new interviews to tell the fascinating story of George's life. Rare photographs and home movies trace his journey from working-class lad to mega-rich star and there are plenty of familiar faces on hand to deliver personal insights and anecdotes. The overall picture you get is that the public perception of Harrison is way off the mark. Far from being shy and retiring, he was just as powerful a force as Lennon and McCartney and one of the most influential rock guitarists of all time.
DIRECTORS: VARIOUS
CAST: STEVE BUSCEMI, KELLY MACDONALD, MICHAEL PITT, SHEA WHIGHAM, MICHAEL SHANNON
WARNER HOME VIDEO/HBO
ON THE eve of Prohibition in America, one man stands to make a killing, and he’s not a mobster… at least not publicly. In a government plagued by endemic corruption, Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson (Buscemi) rules Atlantic City with a soft word and an iron fist. “Rest assured that, dry though the country may be, I am in the midst of concluding arrangements that will keep Atlantic City wet as a mermaid’s twat,” he says in the first episode of the slow-burning gem that is Boardwalk Empire. But it’s not so simple. Things get tricky when Thompson falls for a strong-willed Irish immigrant (Macdonald) and, as the money starts rolling in from illegal bootlegging operations, he makes some serious enemies, among them a couple of young, ambitious crooks named Al Capone (Stephen Graham) and Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza). Created and written by Terence Winter (The Sopranos) and produced by Martin Scorsese and Mark Wahlberg, Boardwalk Empire won eight Emmy Awards in 2011 and was recently renewed for a third season. The five-disc first season box set includes some great extras, including a ‘Speakeasy Tour’ of Chicago and New York with cast members from the show and a fascinating documentary about Atlantic City in the 1920s.
Directors: Paul Crowder & John Dower
Stars: Franz Beckenbauer, Johan Cruyff, Giorgio Chinaglia, Rodney Marsh, Carlos Alberto, Ahmet Ertegün
NARRATED by actor Matt Dillon, Once in a Lifetime is a fascinating documentary about the epic rise and fall of US soccer club the New York Cosmos.
Set up by Ahmet Ertegün (co-founder of Atlantic Records), his brother Nesuhi and powerful Warner Communications President Steve Ross, the Cosmos joined the struggling North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1971 and quickly rose to the top.
Looking to take the sport to new heights in America – despite opposition from traditionalists who thought of soccer as a “foreigners’ game” – the Cosmos persuaded Brazilian superstar Pelé to join the club in 1975. Lured by big money and the glamour of New York in the ’70s, other famous players, including German maestro Franz Beckenbauer, followed and crowds of more than 70,000 were soon piling in to Giants Stadium for home games. Not to be outdone, the stands were often packed with celebrities and politicians, and the legendary Studio 54 became the Cosmos’s unofficial clubhouse.
Unfortunately, mismanagement and infighting ultimately caused the club and the entire NASL to collapse in the mid-1980s. But in a postscript to the twisted tale that’s not included in the doco, the New York Cosmos is back! A new team with Pelé as its honorary president plans to join the successful Major League Soccer competition in the next couple of years.
Director: Larysa Kondracki
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Vanessa Redgrave, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Roxana Condurache, David Hewlett
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Director: Zack Snyder
Stars: Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Cugino, Oscar Isaac, John Hamm
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Comment by Cameron Murray
on How To Lose Friends And Alienate People
The Legless Critic
I fully expected the film to devolve into a typical romantic comedy, so it didn't really bother me.