Michael Alvarez


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Dreamscape (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Cerebral Peeping Tom Ready for his first dream-linking experiment, overseen by scientists Novotny (Max von Sydow) and DeVries (Kate Capshaw), psychic-genius subject Alex (Dennis Quaid) has more success than expected connecting to steel-worker Hardy (Fred Waugh), the first big special effects scene, in Dreamscape, 1984.
Dreamscape (1984) -- (Movie Clip) Doctor Deep Freeze Ambivalent, playful and petulant psychically gifted genius Alex (Dennis Quaid) has been persuaded to take part in a dream research project, doesn’t mind admitting he’s more interested in fetching scientist Dr. DeVries (Kate Capshaw), in Dreamscape, 1984.
Dreamscape (1984) -- (Movie Clip) He Was An Authentic Genius Introducing principals via the pacey opening with Virginia Kiser running from a nuclear fireball, awakening Eddie Albert, Madison Mason checking on him, then Dennis Quaid in a photo, Max von Sydow as Dr. Novotny, Kate Capshaw as Dr. Devries, Christopher Plummer as Blair, then finally at the Los Alamitos track, in the popular sci-fi/thriller Dreamscape, 1984.
Dreamscape (1984) -- (Movie Clip) This Nuclear Madness An abrupt edit begins another nuclear-horror nightmare which again turns out to be in the mind of the widower president (Eddie Albert), comforted by his daughter (Kate Charleson) then receiving Christopher Plummer as mysterious government player Blair, whose motives not revealed, in Dreamscape, 1984.
Dreamscape (1984) -- (Movie Clip) With A Little Help From Science At the pub at the college where research scientist Novotny (Max von Sydow) has brought his gently-kidnapped genius former subject Alex (Dennis Quaid) to talk him into taking part in an experiment about dreaming, detailing the premise in the sci-fi hit Dreamscape, 1984.
Dersu Uzala (1975) -- (Movie Clip) Three Mighty People Native Dersu (Maksim Munzuk, title character) winning over Russian military cartographer Arseneyev (Yuriy Solomin) and his crew, with wisdom and sharpshooting, director Akira Kurosawa working on location in Sibera, in the Soviet-financed Dersu Uzala. 1975.
Dersu Uzala (1975) -- (Movie Clip) I Buried A Friend Here Director Akira Kurosawa’s opening of his first completed feature in more than four years, financed by Soviet Russia’s MosFilm, from his own script with Yuri Nagibin, from the memoir of Russian explorer Vladimir Arseniev, played by Yuriy Solomin, Dersu Uzala. 1975.
Fanny And Alexander (1982) -- (Movie Clip) Not For Pleasure Alone The absorbing opening, introducing Bertil Guve as "Alexander," mostly alone in the family home in Uppsala, holiday season in early 20th century Sweden, from Ingmar Bergman's Fanny And Alexander, 1982.

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