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*About the series*
Pioneer of a style of acting he calls “nouveau shamanic,” Nicolas Cage stretches the boundaries of screen performance to their limits, pursuing a heightened, kabuki-like expressionism that is instinctive, abstract, and thrillingly unpredictable. That he has deployed this approach across offbeat independent projects and major Hollywood blockbusters alike makes him a truly one-of-a-kind star: the leading man as wild man, a force so galvanic that, even when working with major directors like Spike Jonze (Adaptation.), David Lynch (Wild at Heart), Werner Herzog (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans), and Martin Scorsese (Bringing Out the Dead), he often emerges as the film’s co-auteur, reshaping its texture through his live-wire physicality and risk-taking choices few other actors would dare attempt.
*Featuring*
• FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (Amy Heckerling, 1982)*
• RUMBLE FISH (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983)*
• VALLEY GIRL (Martha Coolidge, 1983)
• BIRDY (Alan Parker, 1984)
• PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED (Francis Ford Coppola, 1986)
• MOONSTRUCK (Norman Jewison, 1987)
• RAISING ARIZONA (Joel Coen, 1987)
• VAMPIRE’S KISS (Robert Bierman, 1988)
• WILD AT HEART (David Lynch, 1990)*
• LEAVING LAS VEGAS (Mike Figgis, 1995)
• CITY OF ANGELS (Brad Silberling, 1998)
• SNAKE EYES (Brian De Palma, 1998)
• BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (Martin Scorsese, 1999)
• ADAPTATION. (Spike Jonze, 2002)
• MATCHSTICK MEN (Ridley Scott, 2003)
• THE WICKER MAN (Neil LaBute, 2006)
• BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (Werner Herzog, 2009)
*Indicates programming available only in the U.S.
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