Jane Hamilton

The Aria -- Our desire to comply is entangled with our need to resist.

Aria -- Introspective journey of a nameless character, overwhelmed by sin that turns into a personal redemption, a self-inflicted punishment that allows him to take away from this reality his sins to rid the world and take them in the air.

Fun's in fashion when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (plus Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott) enter the ultrachic Parisian world of high fashion in Roberta. The third Astaire/Rogers film, a silky screen adaptation of the 1933 Broadway hit, has all that fans had some to expect from the pair's movies: a jaunty romantic plot, fabulous sets, memorable music and above all, incomparable dance magic to match the score. "The most pleasant moments in Roberts," Time reported, "arrive when Astaire and Rogers turn the story upside down and dance on it." Astaire may sing I Won't Dance. But his feet betray him.

This screen adaptation of Anton Chekhov's timeless play stars Charlotte Rampling as Lyubov, a Russian woman who returns from France to her family's estate in 1900 and discovers that the family fortune's been squandered. It seems the only way to save her beloved home is to sell the surrounding orchard land for development -- but Lyubov is unwilling to sacrifice any part of the property, and her despair grows as the mortgage date draws nearer.

An all-star cast brings one of the 20th century's greatest plays to the big screen. Anton Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Charlotte Rampling, "at the peak of her powers" (LA TIMES) stars as Madame Lyubov an aging but still beatiful Russian aristrocrat. Alan Bates is "pitch perfect" (NY TIMES) as her brother.

An all-star cast brings one of the 20th century's greatest plays to the big screen. Anton Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD is the timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family torn apart by buried secrets and changing times. Charlotte Rampling, "at the peak of her powers" (LA TIMES) stars as Madame Lyubov an aging but still beatiful Russian aristrocrat. Alan Bates is "pitch perfect" (NY TIMES) as her brother.

Lyubov Ranevskaya's family is riddled with debt and is forced to sell their land to Lopakhin, a crude businessman who intends to build a housing development in what was once the family's cherry orchard.

Young Nurses In Love. Russian agents raid an American sperm bank in order to get the sperm of geniuses Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein to take back to Russia with them.

Fun's in fashion when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (plus Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott) enter the ultrachic Parisian world of high fashion in Roberta.

Fun's in fashion when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (plus Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott) enter the ultrachic Parisian world of high fashion in Roberta.

Fun's in fashion when Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (plus Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott) enter the ultrachic Parisian world of high fashion in Roberta.