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Coming Wednesday 18 April at 8pm we will show in Cafe Amsterdam the film "Moneyball" (2011). It's a biographical sports drama film, based on a true story, directed by Bennett Miller and starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Storyline: Billy Beane, the general manager of the American baseball team Oakland Athletics, is upset by his team results in the 2001 postseason. With the departure of of his star players he is forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget to outsmart the richer clubs. On a visit to another baseball club Beane meets Peter Brand, a young economics graduate with radical ideas about how to assess player' value. Beane and Brand decide to work together for the Oakland Athletics recruiting players that the scouts call flawed, but according computer statistics could be still of value. This way they assemble a team of undervalued players with far more potential than the club's finances would otherwise allow. Early in the season the new method seems to be a failure, but then the results start to become better... On the background Baene's own disappointing baseball career and the relation with his daughter play a role in the film.
"Moneyball" was nominated for six Oscars, got good reviews and has been considered by many as Bratt Pitt's best film. Also for people who are not into baseball or sports in general, this is still an exciting and intelligent feel good film with a classic underdog story.
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Coming Wednesday 11 April at 8pm we will show in Cafe Amsterdam the film "Midnight in Paris" (2011), written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni and Michael Sheen. "Midnight in Paris" is a romantic comedy set in Paris and has the light tone which Woody Allen's recent films characterizes. The film achieved the highest gross of any of Allen's 41 films and received enthusiastic critical response. The film also won a Oscar for best original screenplay and has been nominated as one of the ten best films of the year.
Storyline: American Gil and Inez travel to Paris as an holiday on their parents' business trip. Gil is a successful Hollywood writer (but doesn't like Hollywood) and is now struggling on his first novel. He falls in love in Paris and thinks they should move there after being married. But Inez doesn't share his romantic feelings for the city and goes dancing with friends, while Gil at midnight wanders the streets and met people dressed in 1920' clothing and encounters Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway....
Come to see this sparkling, charming and clever light comedy coming Wednesday evening in our cafe.
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Coming Wednesday 4 April at 8pm we will have the British film "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (2011) in Cafe Amsterdam. This is a recent (brought in circulation December last year) espionage and thriller film directed by Swedish Tomas Alfredson and starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy and John Hurt. The film is based on the bestselling novel with the same name by John le Carre.
The film is set at the height of the Cold War years at the beginning of the seventies. George Smiley, a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government, which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets.
"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" has received favourable reviews, got lots of film awards and three Oscar nominations and was in England a big box-office success. Although the film has action as well, this isn't a James Bond spy movie, but with a dense puzzle of anxiety, paranoia and espionage it's a fascinating thriller. |
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Coming Wednesday 28 March at 8pm we will show the film "Hugo" (2011), directed and co-produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Ben Kingsley, Jude Law, Christopher Lee, Sacha Baron Cohen and Asa Butterfield. This American adventure drama film is based on Brian Selznick's bestselling children's novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret".
Storyline: Hugo is a 12 year old boy living within the walls of a train station in 1931 in Paris. He learned to fix the station clocks from his father and his uncle. After his father died, a mechanical man, who is supposed to write with a pen, is the only thing that connects him with his father. Convinced the mechanical man contains a message from his father, Hugo tries to fix it. He steals parts to repair the mechanical man, but is caught by a store owner Georges Melies (a real existing French pioneer film maker). He becomes friends with Georges Melies and his daughter and discovers they have a connection with his father.
Hugo received five Oscars at the Academy Awards a month ago, out of its 11 nominations. The film got almost universal critical acclaim and has appeared on many critics' top ten lists for best films of 2011.
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Dear all,
Coming Wednesday 21 March at 8pm we will show in our cafe the British film "Made in Dagenham" (2010), directed by Nigel Cole and starring Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins and Andrea Riseborough.
"Made in Dagenham" is a comedy/drama of a true British history which happened in 1968.
In 1968 the Ford auto factory in Daganham was one of the largest employers in the UK. In addition to the thousands of male employers, there were also 187 underpaid woman who assembled the car seat upholstery in poor conditions. Refusing to tolerate the inequality any longer Rita O'Grady leads a strike by her fellow female workers for equal pay for equal work. The strike eventually led to the Equal Pay Act of 1970.
"Made in Dagenham" has been described as a properly feelgood film and as an entertaining good humoured comedy. 
review: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/30/made-in-dagenham-film-review trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ509hHkHO8 |
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