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A LOOK INTO THE 23RD CENTURY (1976)

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A LOOK INTO THE 23RD CENTURY (1976)

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Chinatown (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Open, She's No Good Atmospheric credits and the introduction of detective Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) with an aggrieved client (Burt Young), the opening of Roman Polanski's Chinatown, 1974, also starring Faye Dunaway and John Huston.

Chinatown (1974) -- (Movie Clip) Dying Of Thirst Lots of 1930's Los Angeles as detective Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) tails water department boss Hollis Mulwray (Darrell Zwerling), early in Roman Polanski's Chinatonw, 1974.

Sleepless In Seattle (1993) -- (Movie Clip) Not Even When I Was Young Leaving her parents’ Christmas dinner in (Annapolis) Maryland, having just announced their engagement, Walter (Bill Pullman) and Annie (Meg Ryan) head back to Washington D.C. in separate cars, and she hears Jonah (Ross Malinger) call the radio show (Caroline Aaron the host) on behalf of his widowed dad (Tom Hanks), early in Sleepless In Seattle, 1993.

Sleepless In Seattle (1993) -- (Movie Clip) A Million Tiny Little Things Christmas Eve after dark, hesitant bride-to-be Annie (Meg Ryan) stops by a Baltimore diner where the staff (Linda Walem, LaTanya Richardson) are listening to the same radio show she heard in the car, Caroline Aaron the host, Tom Hanks the reluctant widowed dad Sam, in Sleepless In Seattle, 1993.

Sleepless In Seattle (1993) -- (Movie Clip) Men Never Get This Movie! Writer-director Nora Ephron, Meg Ryan as Annie (engaged to “Walter”) and Rosie O’Donnell as pal Becky dig into director Leo McCarey’s An Affair To Remember, 1957, with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, while Meg considers a letter to the widowed father (Tom Hanks) she heard on the radio, in Sleepless In Seattle, 1993.

Sleepless In Seattle (1993) -- (Movie Clip) All I Could Say Was Hello (Significant SPOILER!) Meg Ryan as (otherwise) engaged Annie is benevolently stalking Tom Hanks, as single-dad Sam, (with Ross Malinger as his son and Rita Wilson, Tom’s real-life wife, as his sister, though Meg assumes she’s a girlfriend), then explaining to Becky (Rosie O’Donnell) back in Baltimore, leading to a second reference to Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, in An Affair To Remember, 1957, in Sleepless In Seattle, 1993.

Gandhi (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Day Of Prayer And Fasting Spring, 1919, Jinnah (Alyque Padamsee) introduces Ben Kingsley (title character) to fellow Muslim leader Patel (Saeed Jaffrey) and friends, Nehru (Roshan Seth) joining, in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, 1982.

Sidewalk Stories (1989) -- (Re-release Trailer) Trailer for the restoration and re-release of writer-director and star Charles Lane’s award-winning contemporary silent film Sidewalk Stories, 1989.

Maytime (1937) -- (Movie Clip) Mademoiselle Mornay Miss Mornay (Jeanette MacDonald, in an epic flashback), with Nicolai (John Barrymore) then performing selections from Les Hugenots for the court of Louis Napoleon, in MGM's Maytime, 1937.

Main Event, The (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Why Smell Like A Flower? Beginning off-camera, playing a double-entendre joke about drugs, we meet Barbra Streisand as perfume entrepreneur Hillary, then visit her workout, early in the aerobics fad, in The Main Event, 1979, produced by Jon Peters (Barbra’s husband), co-starring Ryan O’Neal.

Middle Of Nowhere (2012) -- (Movie Clip) Five Years With Good Time Writer-director Ava DuVernay’s opening, the film which won her the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival, Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi) from Los Angeles visits husband Derek (Omari Hardwick) at a faraway prison, in Middle Of Nowhere, 2012.

Middle Of Nowhere (2012) -- (Movie Clip) Y'all Need To Get Better Organized Now working as a nurse, marking the completion of four years of her husband’s expected five-year prison term, former medical student Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi) meets bus driver Brian (David Oyelowo) and dreams of Derek (Omari Hardwick), in Ava DuVernay’s Middle Of Nowhere, 2012.

Gandhi (1982) -- (Original Trailer) Eight Academy Awards® including Best Picture went to Gandhi (1982), the true story of the man who freed India from colonial rule through non-violent protest.

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