Banjoes, Fiddles & Riverboats: John Hartford and the General Jackson

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

Runtime

2h 7m

Director

Richard Donner

Cast

Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Tim Robbins

Cast

Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman, Ray Wise

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her childhood self.

Runtime

1h 59m

Director

Isao Takahata

Cast

Miki Imai, Yoko Honna, Yōko Honna

In March 2005, Neil Young was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. Four days before he was scheduled for a lifesaving operation, he headed to Nashville, where he wrote and recorded the country folk album Prairie Wind with old friends and family members. After the successful operation and recovery period, he returned to Nashville that Augus...

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

Jonathan Demme

Cast

Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ben Keith

Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact that he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz?

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

John Huston

Cast

Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet