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- Stephen Daldry
- R
- 3 min
Sep 20, 2024 · The Reader, directed by Stephen Daldry, is a thought-provoking and emotionally charged film that takes viewers on a journey into the complexities of love, guilt, and self-discovery.
'The Reader' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on The Roku Channel, Plex Channel, Hoopla, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, YouTube, Google Play Movies, Kanopy ...
- Setting The Tone
- Just The Fax
- Dialing in
- Hanging Up
Before Moviefone entered the world, there were exactly two ways to hunt down movie times. You could either scrounge through newspapers, or go straight to the box office and hopef or the best. Both were a pain in the ass. Inspired by this universal frustration, Leatherman and co. decided to do something that had never been done before; they were goi...
Back in the late 80s/early 90s when Moviefone first started, sending ticket orders over the internet was nearly unfathomable. So what’d they use instead? Good, ol’ fashioned fax machines. As Leatherman told Gizmodo, “When new tech became available, we’d jump on it pretty quickly. But if it didn’t exist yet, we just had to try to make it ourselves.”...
As Moviefone perfected its process and dug its way into the country’s cultural consciousness, the hotline started popping up in more and more cities. And at least for Leatherman, that meant a whole lot more work than you’ve probably ever realized. Each new city meant new theaters, new addresses, and a whole new system of roads and cross streets. Fo...
But a few years later, the internet happened. Sure, it had always been there, looming in the background, but as that grating dial-up tone started sounding off in more and more homes across the country, the Moviefone calls started to decline. Adapting, again, Leatherman and his coworkers set up shop at Moviefone.com and its subsequent smartphone app...
The Reader is a 2008 romantic drama film directed by Stephen Daldry, written by David Hare on the basis of the 1995 German novel of the same name by Bernhard Schlink, and starring Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross, Bruno Ganz and Karoline Herfurth.
Michael Berg (David Kross), a teen in postwar Germany, begins a passionate but clandestine affair with Hanna Schmitz (Kate Winslet), an older woman who enjoys having classic novels read to her....
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- Drama, Romance
- R
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THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her.
