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30-06-2008 13:45
It won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and who could forget that speech from Gwyneth Paltrow?
Another Best Picture winner next for musical Chicago starring Renee Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones.
Everyone loves a legend--but in Chicago, there's only room for one. Velma Kelly burns in the spotlight as a nightclub sensation.
When she shoots her philandering husband, she lands on Chicago's famed murderess row, retains Chicago's slickest lawyer, Billy Flynn, and becomes the centre of the town's most notorious murder case--only increasing her celebrity.
Roxie Hart, seduced by the city's promise of style and adventure, dreams of singing and dancing her way to stardom. When Roxie's abusive lover tries to walk out on her, she too ends up in prison. The ambitious Billy recognizes another made-for-tabloids story, and postpones Velma's court date to take on Roxie's case.
Infamy is Roxie's ticket to stardom. Billy turns her crime of passion into celebrity headlines, and in this town, where murder is a form of entertainment, she becomes a bona fide star--much to Velma's chagrin.
As Roxie fashions herself out to be America's latest sweetheart, Velma has more than a few surprises in store for her. Tensions climax as the two women stop at nothing to outdo each other in their obsessive pursuit of fame and celebrity.
The film is Miramax's most successful box office hit grossing over $300 million dollars worldwide when it was released in 2002.
The film describes the astounding arc of Brown's life, starting with a childhood in which his debilitating cerebral palsy causes everyone but his mother to believe he is brain-damaged.
Brown begins to shatter this perception by using his left foot and a piece of chalk to scrawl a one-word message on the floor to his mother.
Though Brown's subsequent growth into an artist of great profundity is nothing short of miraculous, he is never presented in the film as anything more nor less than human.
My Left Foot was one of Miramax's early successes as the film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, it won only two best Actor for Daniel Day Lewis and Best Supporting Actress for Brenda Fricker.
Just piped at the post is Danny Boyle's 1996 Brit flick Trainspotting that launched the career of Ewan McGregor.
Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never dreamed of, this is the story of Mark and his so-called friends--a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. This tragi-comedy charts the disintegration of their friendship as they proceed, seemingly inevitably, towards self-destruction.
Mark alone has the insight and opportunity to escape his fate--but does he really want to "choose life"? On and off heroin, he continually weighs the pros and cons of straight living: "car, career, family, fucking big television, washing machines, compact disc players, electrical tin openers, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, starter home, leisurewear, and a choice of sweaters..."
When he breaks it all down, choosing life doesn't seem all that promising and he's off to the next scheme and score.
The film was a universal critical hit and John Hodge went on to be nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars.
And Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction has landed the number one spot as Miramax's best movies starring John Travolta, Samuel L Jackson and Uma Thurman.
An inside look at a memorable community of criminals. Prizefighter Butch Coolidge has decided to stop payment on a deal he's made with the devil.
Honey Bunny and Pumpkin are a couple of young lovers and small time thieves who decide they need a change of venue.
Meanwhile, two career criminals, Vincent Vega and Jules, go about their daily business of shooting up other crooks who are late on payments to their boss.
While one is asked to babysit their boss' dangerously pretty young wife, the other suddenly realizes that he must give up his life of crime.
Released in 1994 the film established Tarantino as one of the industry's most original directors and this is perhaps his most famous movie.
It won the Palme d'or at the Cannes film festival and was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, winning Best Original Screenplay.
Grossing $212.9 million at the global box office it became the first indie movie to surpass the $100 million barrier.
FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw
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