Contempt

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  • Title: Le Mépris
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With Christopher Nolan‘s big-budget of adaptation looming, we take a quite different look at a film exploring Homer‘s classic tale. Written and directed by French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard, 1963’s Contempt centers on playwright Paul Javal (Michel Piccoli), whose marriage falls apart after he agrees to help rework the script for American producer Jerry Prokosch (Jack Palance) and German director Fritz Lang‘s (playing an exaggerated version of himself) production of Homer’s The Odyssey.

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The Mask of Zorro

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  • Title: The Mask of Zorro
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Arriving in theaters 17 years after Zorro, the Gay Blade, 1998’s The Mask of Zorro gave us Anthony Hopkins as the classic hero Don Diego de la Vega who we see imprisoned by the corrupt Spanish Governor Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson) on Spain’s retreat from its former colony. With his wife (Julieta Rosen) killed, and his daughter Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) stolen to be raised by his mortal enemy, Diego remains imprisoned for 20 years when Montero’s return gives him a chance at vengeance and to instruct a new pupil (Antonio Banderas) in the ways of Zorro.

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MacGyver – Trumbo’s World

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  • Title: MacGyver – Trumbo’s World
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MacGyver Monday takes us back to another adventure featuring science-adventurer Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) who goes deep into the Amazon jungle with his old friend Charlie (Peter Jurasik) to investigate what unusual event is affecting the animals of the region. Deep in the jungle they find both the cause of the animals’ flight and a plantation owned by a driven man named Trumbo (David Ackroyd).

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Eye for an Eye

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  • Title: Mu zhong wu ren
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Mu zhong wu ren, released to Western audiences as Eye for an Eye, Eye for an Eye: The Blind Swordsman, and Defiant, stars Miao Xie as the blind bounty hunter. Learning his name only at the end of the film, Cheng Xiazi’s strict regimen is interrupted when he meets a wine maker (Weiman Gao) who is raped, and her family slaughtered, on her wedding day. Receiving no help from the local police, who are fearful of the attackers powerful criminal ties, our hero champions Ni Yan’s need for vengeance.

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