Showing posts with label Classic Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classic Movies. Show all posts

Sunday, March 27, 2011

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)





Thursday, December 9, 2010

Book Review:Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple



Windows Phone 7 Plain & Simple
Microsoft Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0735643423 | 288 pages | PDF | 30 MB

Get the guide that makes learning Windows Phone 7 plain and simple!
This full-color, no-nonsense book shows you the quickest ways to set up and use your new phone — with easy-to-follow steps, screen-shots and concise, straightforward language.
Here’s WHAT you will learn:
Set up your phone straight out of the box
Make and answer calls, and enter your contacts
Read and send e-mail and text messages
Work with the calendar
Search and browse the Web
Play music and video, and take pictures


Monday, November 22, 2010

Documentary Review:Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain

  
Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain
Language: English
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
DVD Release Date: September 1, 2007
Run Time: 117 minutes
Actors: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Brian Catlos, Chris Lowney, Mustapha Kamal
Directors: Robert Gardner
Format: Digital Sound, NTSC, Widescreen
Description
Over a thousand years ago, the sun-washed land of southern Spain was home to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, living together and flourishing. Their culture and beliefs intertwined, and the knowledge of the ancients was gathered and reborn. Here were the very seeds of the Renaissance. But this world too quickly vanished. Greed, fear, and intolerance swept it away. Puritanical judgments and absolutism snuffed out the light of learning. Within a few centuries, the fragile union of these people dissipated like smoke. The time of tolerance was lost, forever.

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source: amazon

Friday, November 12, 2010

Movie Review:Going the Distance (2010)

Going the Distance (2010)
Country:USA
Language:English
Release Date:3 September 2010 (USA)
Genres:Comedy | Romance
Run time: 102 min
Plot:
A romantic comedy centered on a guy and a gal who try to keep their love alive as they shuttle back and forth between New York and San Francisco to see one another.
Director:Nanette Burstein
Writer:Geoff LaTulippe
Stars:
Drew Barrymore, Justin Long and Ron Livingston
IMDB INFO:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1322312/

Movie Review:Bus Stop (1956)


Movie: Bus Stop (1956)
Country:USA
Language:English
Release Date:31 August 1956 (USA)
Genres:Comedy | Drama | Romance
Run time: 96 min
Plot:
A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
Director:Joshua Logan
Writers:George Axelrod (screenplay), William Inge (play)
Stars:
Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray and Arthur O'Connell
IMDB INFO:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049038/

Movie Review:How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)



Country:USA
Language:English | French | Latin | Arabic
Release Date:5 November 1953 (USA)
Genres:Comedy | Drama | Romance
Run time: 95 min
Plot:
Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
Director:Jean Negulesco
Writers:Nunnally Johnson (screenplay), Zoe Akins (plays)
Stars:
Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall
IMDB INFO:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045891/


Movie Review: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)


Country:USA
Language:English | French
Release Date:August 1953 (USA)
Genres:Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance
Run time: 91 min
Plot:
Two singers, best friends Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris pursued by a private detective hired by Lorelei's fiancé's disapproving father to keep an eye on her, a rich, enamoured old man and many other doting admirers.
Director:Howard Hawks
Writers:Charles Lederer (screenplay), Joseph Fields (based on the musical comedy by)
Stars:
Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe and Charles Coburn
IMDB INFO:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045810/

Movie Review:The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)


Country:UK | USA
Language:French | German | English
Release Date:13 June 1957 (USA)
Run time: 115 min
Plot:
When Grandduke Charles, the prince-regent of Carpatha, a fictitious Balkan country which could start a European war by switching alliances, visits London for the coronation of the new British king in 1911, and spends his one evening off at the Coconut Girl club, the reputed stickler for protocol is so charmed by a clumsy American understudy that he orders his British attaché to invite her to the embassy for a private supper. Being overlooked and understanding German, she learns of the repressive attitude of the regent and the plans of his reformist, pro-German minor son, king Nicholas, to take over power by surprise, but doesn't dodge and tries to reconcile father and son. The queen-dowager decides to make her lady-in-waiting for the coronation day, so she stays in the picture to everyone else's surprise

Director:Laurence Olivier
Writers:Terence Rattigan (by), Terence Rattigan (screenplay)
Stars:
Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier and Richard Wattis
IMDB INFO:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050861/

Movie Review:Some Like It Hot (1959)


Country:USA
Language:English
Release Date:29 March 1959 (USA)
Genres:Comedy
Run time: 120 min
Plot:
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Director:Billy Wilder
Writers:Billy Wilder (screenplay), I.A.L. Diamond (screenplay)
Stars:
Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
IMDB INFO:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053291/

Movie Review:Niagara (1953)


Country:USA
Language:English
Release Date:February 1953 (USA)
Genres:Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
Run time: 92 min
Plot:
As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
Director:Henry Hathaway
Writers:Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch
Stars:
Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten and Jean Peters
IMDB INFO:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046126/

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Movie Review: War and Peace (1956)


War and Peace (1956)

Writers:Leo Tolstoy (novel), Bridget Boland (screenplay)
Country:Italy | USA
Language:English | Italian | Russian
Release Date:21 August 1956 (USA)
Genres:Drama | Romance | War
Run time: 208 min
Plot:
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
Director:King Vidor
Cast:
udrey Hepburn     ... Natasha Rostova
Henry Fonda     ...Pierre Bezukhov
Mel Ferrer     ... Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Vittorio Gassman     ... Anatol Kuragin
Herbert Lom     ...Napoleon

IMDB INFO:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049934/

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Book Review:Computer Organization and Design

Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface( 4th edition)

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 0123744938
Publication date:2008-11-10
Pages: 912 pages |Format: PDF | 252 Mb
The classic textbook for computer systems analysis and design, Computer Organization and Design, has been thoroughly updated to provide a new focus on the revolutionary change taking place in industry today: the switch from uniprocessor to multicore microprocessors. This new emphasis on parallelism is supported by updates reflecting the newest technologies with examples highlighting the latest processor designs, benchmarking standards, languages and tools. As with previous editions, a MIPS processor is the core used to present the fundamentals of hardware technologies.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Movie Review: Vertigo (1958)

Country:USA
Language:English
Release Date:21 July 1958 (Brazil)
Genres:
Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
Run time: 128 min
Plot:
A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Director:Alfred Hitchcock
Writers:Alec Coppel (screenplay), Samuel A. Taylor
Cast:
James Stewart        ... John 'Scottie' Ferguson
Kim Novak     ... Madeleine Elster / Judy Barton
Barbara Bel Geddes ... Midge Wood
Tom Helmore     ... Gavin Elster
Henry Jones     ... Coroner

imdb info:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052357/

Movie Review:Lawrence of Arabia (1962)



Country:UK
Language:English | Arabic | Turkish
Release Date:30 January 1963 (Canada)
Genres:Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Plot:
Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.
Director:David Lean
Writers:T.E. Lawrence (writings), Robert Bolt (screenplay)
Cast:
Peter O'Toole        ...  T.E. Lawrence
Alec Guinness     ... Prince Feisal
Anthony Quinn     ... Auda Abu Tayi
JJack Hawkins     ... General Allenby
Omar Sharif     ... Sherif Ali
José Ferrer     ... Turkish Bey (as Jose Ferrer)
imdb info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056172/

Friday, October 8, 2010

Ben-Hur (1959)


Won 11 Oscars
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 10 December 1959 (Argentina)
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | Romance
Run time: 214 min

Story line:
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after a long time but their different politic views separate them. During the welcome parade a brick falls down from Judah’s house and barely misses the governor. Although Messala knows that they are not guilty he sends Judah to the galleys and throws his mother and sister into prison. But Judah swears to come back and take revenge.

Director: William Wyler
Writers: Lew Wallace (novel), Karl Tunberg
Cast:
Charlton Heston …Judah Ben-Hur
Jack Hawkins …Quintus Arrius
Haya Harareet …Esther
Stephen Boyd …Messala
Hugh Griffith …Sheik Ilderim
Martha Scott …Miriam
Cathy O’Donnell …Tirzah
Sam Jaffe …Simonides
Finlay Currie …Balthasar / Narrator

imdb info:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052618/