Captivated (2006) -- Based on a classic Russian tale, CAPITIVATED tells the unlikely story of Therese, a Polish immigrant, and Andr , a Fulton Fish Market worker in contemporary in New York City. Both came to the Big Apple with big dreams: Therese to start a new life in a new country and Andre to become an accomplished writer. Both now work night-shift jobs just to keep afloat, she at a Polish Bakery baking loaves of bread before dawn and he gutting fish in the middle of the night
both are barely making a living and have scarcely enough room to nurture their dreams
Their paths cross when Andre moves in above Therese flat in the Lower East Side and into a not-so-ideal situation. His roommate Joe isn t particularly welcoming and the brash and off-putting Therese takes on an unwelcome shine to Andre.
Eventually Therese shows up with a seductive glimmer in her eyes and hassles Andre to help her write a letter to her boyfriend . Andre helps, but half-heartedly
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Taking Woodstock is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee - and it s a trip! Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969 s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was. Featuring a standout ensemble cast, and songs from a score of 60s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish - plus a new recording of Freedom from Richie Havens - Taking Woodstock is a joyous voyage to a moment in time when everything seemed possible. Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, Elliot feels empowered by the gay rights movement. But he is also still staked to the family business - a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco that is being run into the ground by his overbearing parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg (Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton). In the summer of 1969, Elliot has to move back upstate to the El watch
