6.9

Valentino: The Last Emperor

2008, USA

• Actors: Valentino, Giancarlo Giammetti, Nati Abascal, Giorgio Armani, Jeannie Becker, Matthew Broderick, Michael Caine, Joan Collins, Alessandra Facchinetti, Dante Ferretti, Tom Ford, Anne Hathaway, Jacqueline Kennedy, Karl Lagerfeld, Matteo Marzotto, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Claudia Schiffer, Meryl Streep, André Leon Talley, Uma Thurman, Donatella Versace, Diane von Fürstenberg, Alek Wek, Anna Wintour
• Genre: Documentary
• Director(s): Matt Tyrnauer
• Available languages:
  • Italian Italian.

A story of friendship, a retrospective, and a look at haute couture as business: we watch Valentino Garavani (1932- ) and partner Giancarlo Giammetti from preparation for the 2006 Spring/Summer Collection in Paris to a July 2007 retrospective of Valentino's 45-year career, which included dressing Jacqueline Kennedy. The film documents a year of work, shows, business changes, and decisions. We follow a creation from sketch to runway: he's always in pursuit of beauty. We're in Paris, Rome, and Venice. He receives the French Legion of Honor medal; his acceptance speech brings tears. Reporters ask when he'll retire. Is the Roman retrospective his career's finale? Cue Puccini.

  6.6

Love Field

1992, USA

• Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Stephanie McFadden, Brian Kerwin, Louise Latham, Peggy Rea, Beth Grant, Johnny Ray McGhee, Cooper Huckabee, Troy Evans, Mark Jeffrey Miller, Pearl Jones, Janell McLeod, Bob Minor, Rhoda Griffis, Bob Gill, Ron Shelley, Michael Milgrom, Chestley Price, Nick Searcy, Moses Gibson, Dave Hager, Nora Heflin, Joe Maggard, Jonathan Wigan, Brian Kay, Charles K. Bortell, Jack Canon, Resa Reagan, Deborah Offner
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Jonathan Kaplan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Dallas housewife Lurene Hallett's life revolves around the doings of Jacqueline Kennedy. She is devastated when President Kennedy is shot a few hours after she sees him arrive in Dallas. Despite her husband Ray's prohibition, she decides to attend the funeral in Washington, D.C. Forced to travel by bus, she befriends Jonell, the young black daughter of Paul Couter. Sensing something wrong, her good intentioned interference leads the mixed race threesome on an increasingly difficult journey to Washington with both the police and Ray looking for them.

  8.0

JFK

1990, USA, France

• Actors: Sally Kirkland, Anthony Ramirez, Ray LePere, Steve Reed, Jodie Farber, Columbia Dubose, Randy Means, Kevin Costner, Jay O. Sanders, E.J. Morris, Cheryl Penland, Jim Gough, Perry R. Russo, Mike Longman, Edward Asner, Jack Lemmon, Vincent D'Onofrio, Gary Oldman, Sissy Spacek, Pat Perkins, Brian Doyle-Murray, Wayne Knight, Michael Rooker, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Grubbs, Beata Pozniak, Tom Howard, John William Galt, Joe Pesci, Ron Jackson
• Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Oliver Stone
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Details the actions of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who takes it upon himself to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Garrison is extremely suspicious of the official story presented by the FBI, and what he already knows and what he subsequently learns lead him to suspect that there is more to the story than the public is being told.