Title
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Contents |
Along came Molly
(Low risk love) |
- Credits; Plot
- Making fun of Mr. Safe
- The Director: John Hamburg
- The Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Ben Stiller, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec Baldwin
- Language
- Portrayal of Jewish US Cinema
- Toilet Humour
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Artificial Intelligence
(The heart of the machine) |
- Credits; Plot
- The Director: Steven Spielberg
- The Actors: Haley Joel Osment, Frances O'Connor, Jude Law, Sam Robards, William Hurt
- Language
- The Ghost in the Machine
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Bad Company
(A comedy of terror) |
- Credits; Plot
- Something Bigger Than Ourselves
- The Director: Joel Schumacher
- The Producer: Jerry Bruckheimer
- The Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Peter Stormare
- Language
- The Wasted Years
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Being Julia
(On with the show) |
- Credits; Plot
- All the World's a Stage
- The Writers: William Somerset Maugham, Ronald Harwood
- The Director: István Szabó
- The Actors: Jeremy Irons, Annette Bening, Juliet Stevenson, Michael Gambon, Miriam Margolyes
- Language
- That's Entartaiment
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Billy Elliot
(Born to dance) |
- Credits; Plot
- Tough Images
- The Director: Stephen Daldry
- The Actors: Julie Walters, Gary Lewis, Jamie Bell, Jamie Draven
- Language
- The Miners' Last Stand
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Bridget Jones: The edge of reason
(No longer alone) |
- Credits; Plot
- Keeping up with the Jones's
- The Writer: Helen Fielding
- The Director: Beeban Kidron
- The Actors: Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Renée Zellweger, Gemma Jones / Jim Broadbent
- Language
- A Different Class
- The North South Divide
- Thai Prisons
- Drug Dramas
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Calendar girls
(Stripping for charity)
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- Credits; Plot
- Game for a Laugh
- The Director: Nigel Cole
- The Actors: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Also starring
- Language
- The Real Calendar Girls
- The Women's Institute
- Instant Celebrity
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Chicago
(Getting away with murder) |
- Credits; Plot
- A Proper Musical
- The Play and the Musical
- The Director: Rob Marshall
- The Actors: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah, John C. Reilly
- Language
- Telling a Story the Musical Way
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Confidence
(A grifter's game) |
- Credits; Plot
- Performing a Sam with Style
- The Director: James Foley
- The Actors: Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman, Andy García
- Language
- Con Men through the Ages
- Are you superstitious?
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Coyote ugly
(Follow your dream) |
- Credits; Plot
- Post-Feminist Magic
- The Director: David McNally
- The Songwriter: Diane Warren
- The Singer: LeAnn Rimes
- The Actors: John Goodman, Adam García, Piper Perabo, María Bello
- Language
- Married to a Mystery
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
(The urban jungle)
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- Credits; Plot
- Croc Out of Water
- Unknown Territory
- The Director: Simon Wincer
- The Actors: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski
- Language
- The Far Continent
- Old and New Inhabitants
- Poms and Ockers
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Dragonfly
(A message from Beyond) |
- Credits; Plot
- Tales From Far Side
- The Director: Tom Shadyac
- The Actors: Kevin Cotsner, Linda Hunt, Kathy Bates, Susanna Thompson, Ron Rifkin, Joe Morton
- Language
- The Living Dead
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Evelyn
(A father's struggle) |
- Credits; Plot
- Looking on the Bright Side
- The Real Evelyn
- The Director: Bruce Beresford
- The Writer: Paul Pender
- The Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Alan Bates, Sophie Vavasseur, Julianna Margulies, Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn
- Language
- The Power of the Media
- David and Goliath
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Far from heaven
(Behind closed doors)
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- Credits; Plot
- The Colour of Things
- The Director: Todd Haynes
- The Composer: Elmer Bernstein
- The Actors: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson
- Language
- Pride and Prejudice
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Gangs of New York
(The quest for revenge) |
- Credits; Plot
- A Time-Machine Experience
- The Director: Martin Scorsese
- The Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brenda Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Cameron Díaz, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas
- Language
- Roots, Blody Roots
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Gosford Park
(A manor house mystery) |
- Credits; Plot
- Anatomy of Collusion
- The Director: Robert Altman
- The Actors: Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Clive Owen, Alan Bates, Jeremy Northam, Emily Watson, A Brilliant Ensemble
- Language
- The Digital Butler
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Intolerable cruelty
(Till wealth do US part) |
- Credits; Plot
- The Fight for Love and Money
- The Director, Producer, Writer and Editor: The Coen Brothers
- The Actors: Catherine Zeta-Jones, George Clooney, Billy Bob Thornton, Geoffrey Rush
- Language
- For Better or Better
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Jurassic Park III
(Thrilling adventure) |
- Credits; Plot
- The Director: Joe Johnston
- The Actors: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan
- Language
- 165 Million Years of History
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Laws of attraction
(Never lost a case)
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- Credits; Plot
- From Insults to Injury
- The Director: Peter Howitt
- The Actors: Julianne Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Parker Posey, Michael Sheen, Frances Fisher
- Language
- Ireland, An American Obsession
- Ireland in the movies
- Mother and daughter
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises |
Lost in traslation
(Tokyo frienship) |
- Credits; Plot
- Tokyo Rules
- The Director: Sofia Coppola
- The Actors: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Anna Faris, Giovanni Ribisi
- Language
- Japan: A Short History
- From Japan With Love
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Love Actually
(The feelgood factor) |
- Credits; Plot
- Unpredictable Facets of Love
- The Director: Richard Curtis
- The Actors: Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Bill Nighy, Also Starring
- Language
- Is Love Truly Universal?
- Love Quotes
- Music was my First Love
- Connections
- London on Screen
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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My life without me
(Preparing for the end)
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- Credits; Plot
- In It Alone
- The Director: Isabel Coixet
- The Actors: Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Deborah Harry, Scott Speedman, Leonor Watling, Amanda Plummer, María de Medeiros, Jessica Amlee and Kenya Jo Kennedy
- Language
- The Famous Five Stages of Grief
- The Experience of Bereavement
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Pirates of the Caribbean
(Ship of the Damned) |
- Credits; Plot
- Yo-Heave-Ho and Bottle of Rum
- The Director: Gore Verbinski
- The Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Jonathan Pryce
- Language
- Gentlemen of Fortune
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Relative values
(A matter of class)
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- Credits; Plot
- The Earl and the Floozie
- The Director: Eric Styles
- The Writer: Noel Coward
- The Actors: Julie Andrews, Stephen Fry, Colin Firth, William Baldwin, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Edward Atterton, Sophie Thompson
- Language
- The Stately Homes of England
- Mind Your Tongue
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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Sky Captain
(A retro-futuristic fantasy)
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- Credits; Plot
- Comedy and Comics
- The Director: Kerry Conran
- The Actors: Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, Sir Lawrence Olivier: The Hologram
- Language
- Science Fiction on the Screen
- Science Fiction: The Origins
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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The Bourne supremacy
(In search of the past) |
- Credits: Plot
- Trial by Ordeal
- Not the Film of the Book
- The Director: Paul Greengrass
- The Actors: Matt Damon, Joan Allen, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban
- Language
- Superheroes
- The Moral Maze
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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The door in the floor
(The power of grief) |
- Credits; Plot
- Words and Images
- The Director: Tod ("Kip") Williams
- The Writer: John Irving
- The Actors: Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Jon Foster, Elle Fanning
- Book to Film
- Language
- Once Upon a Time
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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The hours
(Three women's lives) |
- Credits; Plot
- The SAtrands of Time
- The Director: Stephen Daldry
- The Actors: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Toni Collette, Stephen Dillane
- Language
- A Writer's World
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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The mummy returns
(Cold hand of death) |
- Credits; Plot
- Virtual Reincarnation
- The Director: Stephen Sommers
- The Actors: Rachel Weisz, Brendan Fraser, John Hannah, Arnold Vosloo, Oded Fehr, Freddie Boath
- Language
- Gods and Monsters
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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The pianist
(A story of survival) |
- Credits; Plot
- The Returns of the Master
- Wladyslaw Szpilman
- The Director: Roman Polanski
- The Actors: Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman, Thomas Kretschmann, Emilia Fox
- Language
- The Chosen People
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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The quiet american
(Love and betrayal) |
- Credits; Plot
- Through a Glass Darkly
- The Director: Phillip Noyce
- The Writers: Graham Greene, Christopher Hampton
- The Actors: Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser
- Language
- The Divided Land
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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The steppford wives
(The american way of love)
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- Credits; Plot
- The American Way of Love
- The Director: Frank Oz
- The Writer: Ira Levin
- The Actors: Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Bette Midler, Christopher Walken, Matthew Broderick
- Language
- The American Dream
- Women and Work
- Glossary and Dialogue Guide; Exercises
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The terminal
(A long long wait) |
- Credits; Plot
- Shop Till You Drop
- The Director: Steven Spielberg
- The Actors: Tom Hanks, Stanley Tucci, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diego Luna, Chi McBride, Kumar Pallana, Zoe Saldana
- Language
- Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
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Number
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Cover photo |
Contents |
185 |
Robert DeNiro |
- A high bidder
- Who's afraid of kids?
- Less is more
- The Summerhill experiment
- The price of fame
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- Voyage to the Antartic
- England's empress
- Life and death at sea
- Ripples in time
- The legend lives on |
186 |
Annette Bening |
- Dead stars club
- 10th anniversary
- Guns under fire
- Working mother
- Enigmatic hero
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- Noah's arc goes digital
- Roosevelt's adirondacks
- Patients know best
- Walking Around the capital
- Bhangra! |
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Bruce Willis |
- Special effects sculptor
- Huntsville, Texas
- A winning match
- The revenge of the welsh
- Boxing welcomes women
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- The Fortunate Islands
- Is this art?
- A picture of youth
- The Sopranos |
190 |
Angelina Jolie |
- Ageing is not necessary
- Brand new
- Wild at heart
- Finding the right course
- Can I try on that computer? |
- The language Barrier
- Get high in London
- Your ideal travel companion
- San Francisco.com
- Carl Anderson Superstar |
| 193 |
Keanu Reeves |
- An englishman abroad - London's new voices
- Beatiful creature
- Winning words
- The dataplay revolution
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- The Wild Wild West
- Mind your language, Lizzie
- The good boy goes bad
- The room
- Commonwealth sport |
195 |
Nicole Kidman |
- Britain from abroad
- Continental concerns
- Nicole Kidman
- Mother of punk
- What's your phobiap |
- Scotland's gem
- Learning on-line
- When Harry met hobbit
- The termite inspector
- The Boss is back |
218 |
Leonardo DiCaprio |
On CD:
- Michael Moore
- Frying the french
- The Hebrides
- Do you Speak Up
- London's car wars
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- Leonardo DiCaprio
- The real Xanadu
- Hillary Clinton
- Free your books
- How do you Philp
- The oval ball game |
224 |
Catherine Zeta-Jones |
- The invisible frontier
- Forever friendsp
- English for children
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
- We can help you? |
- The celtic connection
- Secret societies
- Ice hockey
- Gloria Gaynor
- Powder |
225 |
Julianne Moore |
On CD:
- Paul Newman
- Fat is beautiful
- City of industry
- Oh, yes it is!
- All that jazz
- Mnemonics
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- The red planet
- Julianne Moore
- Your life in brief
- Return of the glory days
- English made easy |
228 |
Rachel Weisz |
On CD:
- Joan Gers
- Krueger National Park
- Life in the capital
- Scene of the crime
- Sounds of South Africa
- The sacrifice of Issac
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- Empowering women
- Rachel Weisz
- Marrying abroad
- Michael Moore
- In the dog house |
232 |
Colin Firth |
On CD:
- Donna Leon
- A question of identity
- Dinner in the dark
- Jurassic Coast
- The bells are ringing!
- Mixed-race majority
- After the wink
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- Big fears for a big nation
- Colin Firth
- A time of tradition
- Rosamond Carr
- Letter from America
- Not cricket! |
234 |
Scarlett Johansson |
On CD:
- Avi Shlaim
- The end of the night sky
- A sticky problem
- The Vegas of Europe
- Football poetry
- A telephone call |
- Scarlett Johansson
- A scientific genius
- A live devoted to animals
- Travelling in style
- A touch of romance
- Ideal idioms
- Letter from America |
235 |
Ben Stiller |
On CD:
- George Monbiot
- American Pi
- The wild west
- Beatlemania
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- Global justice
- Ben Stiller
- Ethical shopping
- Internet high flyer
- Dangerous jobs
- The Atkins diet
- How to be hip
- Chance decisions
- Letter from America
- The bully |
| 236 |
Pierce Brosnan |
On CD:
- Peter Collett
- Earthships
- Life goes on
- The whisky Cruise
- Sound therapy
- Strawberry lunch
- Killing rabbits |
- Pierce Brosnan
- That wedding ...
- Rebel without a pause
- Body language |
237 |
Glenn Close |
On CD:
- Robert Mankoff
- In hardy country
- Home os the hoodoos
- A helping hand
- Defeating the devil
- The tribute band boom
- Hot or cold |
- Going to the polls
- Glenn Close
- Will britain sober upp
- The future is online
- Charlie Brown |
238 |
Kim Basinger |
On CD:
- Marcus Hutchinson
- Living language
- Set sail for the UK
- Misterious London
- Any question answered!
- Music and Madness
- Made out of meat
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- To be or not to be
- Kim Basinger
- The good life
- Speak Up games |
239 |
Angelina Jolie |
On CD:
- Emily Mayer
- Playing in the ghetto
- In the land of legend
- The british eccentric
- The big picture
- A song for Jenny |
- Angelina Jolie
- Genetic fingerprinting
- Americans abroad
- Not the Ireland I recall
- Fashionable words |
240 |
Matt Damon |
On CD:
- Korky Park
- Urbanite philosophy
- A natural wonder
- Cruel to be kind
- The book town boom
- A start is reborn
- Five stories |
- Crisis at the sun
- Matt Damon
- The language of Bush
- A new kind of hero
- The joys of spelling
- Letter from America |
241 |
Catherine Zeta-Jones |
On CD:
- Germaine Greer
- The joy of the Juilliard
- Go with the flow
- Wonderful spam
- Sidney
- Islamic comedy
- W. Somerset Maugham |
- Deep throat revealed
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Condoleezza Rice
- A new era of Spiritualism
- The art of recycling
- The security obsession |
242 |
Reneé Zellweger |
On CD:
- Peter Jay
- The fashion frontier
- Bridget is back!
- Fear of flying
- A changing skyline
- The city of St Francis
- Birthright |
- The fox finally wins
- Martha Stewart
- Taxi ... Taxi!
- Perfect harmony
- Speech therapy
- Gambling |
243 |
Annette Bening |
On CD:
- Easy english
- Lisa Stansfield
- Being british
- Karma cabs
- Lady Liberty
- Double negatives
- Nonsense!
- Waiting for her
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- Annette Benning
- Letter from America |