Set in the heights of the Himalayas and shot in a studio outside London, the film is a radiant example of predigital artifice (production design by Alfred Junge, optical effects supervised by W. Percy Day) used to create an emotionally charged environment out of thin air.
What to expect: This peaceful 42-bedroom ocher country house, set in the heights of Ramatuelle, has a lot more than just sightlines of the vineyards and the Bay of Pampelonne.
This was a long-developing hot-property project, with the kind of subject matter a sweeping period romance and love-triangle costume drama set in the Netherlands at the height of tulip mania that traditionally has Oscar voters salivating in Pavlovian response.
Set in the East Village at the height of the AIDS era, "Rent" tells the story of a number of artists and thinkers who are not only troubled by the exigencies of the world — scrambling for rent to keep a fleabag over your head, being H.I.V. positive — but a number of self-generated problems as well.
Set in the late 19th century, at the height of the "Scramble" for African territories by the great European powers, Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo, a proud and highly respected Igbo from Umuofia, somewhere near the Lower Niger.
Among them were "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine" in 1971, about the Vietnam War protests led by the Berrigan brothers, and "In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer" in 1968, which was set at the height of the cold war and examined the loyalty of the scientist known as the father of the atomic bomb.
6 30 P.M. (HBO2) THE IRON GIANT (1999) In this animated tale set during the height of cold-war nuclear anxiety, a young boy named Hogarth (voiced by Eli Marienthal) discovers and befriends a 50-foot-tall robot (Vin Diesel) from outer space that has crash-landed in his small town.
Buying by institutional and retail investors, mainly in the west, hit a new high of 1,064 tonnes, 16% above the previous record set in the first half of 2009, at the height of the global financial crisis.
Set during the height of the Third Crusade in the year 1191 AD, you play as an Assassin, a member of a secret and feared society.
