Notre Musique - Too touchy-feely for some
hardcore Godardians, this is the most lucid of the master's recent films.
Tarnation - plays like a feverish dream,
where images come and go without any logic.
Point Blank - Lee Marvin is the unstoppable
Walker, cheated out of $40,000 and left for dead! Possible DVD of the Year!
55 Days at Peking - Samuel Bronston
Blockbuster - the finale of Nicholas Ray's career
Circus World - more Bronston
super-production - with John Wayne , Rita Hayworth and Claudia Cardinale.
Running a Circus 101! El
Cid - Moorish for "one who is both compassionate and a great
warrior" - Anthony Mann epic with Heston + Sophie Loren!
The Fall of the Roman Empire - In an era
when "Spartacus", "Cleopatra" or "Ben-Hur" were blossoming on the big screen,
Anthony Mann's swan song epic seems sadly forgotten.
Bend of the River - One of the best of the
Anthony Mann / James Stewart western team-ups!
A Dirty Shame - It will shock you, it will
teach you new ways of play spin the bottle and it may make you feel normal
again. The
Puppetmaster - Hou Hsiao-hsien's masterpiece about the childhood
and early adulthood of octogenarian Taiwanese puppet master and actor Li Tien-lu!
The Wayward Cloud - The most audacious film
to date from visionary director Tsai Ming-liang!
The Milky Way - Jonathan Rosenbaum
described as "dangerously close to being all notations and no text"
4 Films by Otar Iosseliani - Multi
award-winner at the Cannes, Venice and Berlin Film Festivals! Birth
- More than just a film about love, this is a film about memory, about emotions,
and with an ending that will haunt you. A masterpiece.
Double Indemnity (PAL) - Regarded by many
as the epitome of the film-noir genre. the new DVD is better, but not perfect.
There Was a Father - is an extremely quiet,
subtle and peaceful film - Ozu's most touching!
Blackmail - first sound film to be produced
in Britain, making it also Hitchcock's first sound film (The Silent version is
added as an extra!)
Captive's Island - a contemplative Japanese
film of revenge and haunting memories....
The Rite - Ingmar Bergman most erotic
explicit film... Monster
- Theron's career performance...
Heimat - but nothing ever expressed, so
deeply, the soul and feelings of a people.
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