Artemisia 1997  R, 98 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Agnes Merlet
Cast: Valentina Cervi, Michel Serrault, Miki Manojlovic, Luca Zingaretti, Emmanuelle Devos, Frederic Pierrot, Jacques Nolot, Dominique Reymond, Maurice Garrel, Brigitte Catillon
Artemisia Gentileschi (Valentina Cervi) (1593-1652) was the daughter of the painter Orazio Gentileschi (Michel Serrault), and she became a Baroque artist in her own right. This biography deals with Artemisia's early years as an apprentice and the rape trial that resulted from her affair with her teacher, Angostino Tassi (Miki Manojlovic).
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Miracle at St. Anna 2008   R, 160 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Spike Lee
Cast: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alfonso, Omar Benson Miller, Pierfrancesco Favino, Valentina Cervi, Matteo Sciabordi, John Turturro, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Leguizamo, Kerry Washington, D.B. Sweeney, Omero Antonutti, Robert John Burke, Omari Hardwick
In the 1980s, postal worker Hector Negron (Laz Alfonso) unexpectedly shoots a customer, and now Daily News reporter Tim Boyle (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) searches for the story behind the shooting. Through flashbacks, the story is told about four World War II soldiers–Cpl. Negron, Sgt. Stamps (Derek Luke), Sgt. Cummings (Michael Ealy), and Pfc. Train (Omar Benson Miller)–from the all-Black "Buffalo Soldier" Division who are trapped behind enemy lines. Their fellow soldiers have been killed, and they are the sole survivors, but they find relative safety in an Italian village and relate to some of the residents. As the flashbacks progress, they reveal how Negron's shooting relates to an encounter in that village 40 years ago.
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| 1. Artemisia (1997)
2. Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
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