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Annie Hall, made in 1977, is a classic. Why, oh why, did I wait so long?

First of all it’s a legend, and a very laughable epic at that, about a Fresh York Jewish comedian, played by Woody Allen and his WASP girlfriend, played by Diane Keaton. It pokes fun at many social mores that we lift for granted and I found myself laughing throughout. There’s the Original Yorker who never learns to drive, the mid-westerner who orders a pastrami sandwich on white bread with mayonnaise (which seems almost grotesque to a Unusual Yorker like me), the pretentious movie critic, the neuroses of current romances, and the differences between the Recent York and Los Angeles intention of life.

The film runs along at such a hasty move that there is almost no time at all between droll moments. And, to do it even better, there are some astounding film techniques. For example, while Diane Keaton and Woody Allen are talking about photography, there are subtitles on the conceal about the physical relationship that they are really thinking about.

If the film were made today the phone calls would have been made on cell phones. But surprisingly, that is the only detail that might be changed. Annie Hall has really truly stood the test of time. And I loved it.

`Annie Hall’, directed by Woody Allen and written by Allen and Marshall Brickman is eminently rewatchable, which is the one quality that makes it an well-behaved DVD buy. I have seen this movie at least a half dozen times, and I am smooth discovering bewitching things in the film. What makes this so strange to me is that the first time I saw it, after having seen `Manhattan’, I really did not believe it was as valid as the later film.

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My initially vulgar belief of the movie was primarily due to the numerous cinematic gimmicks harking abet to his earlier, plainly less thoughtful movies. These include flashbacks to dopey teachers and classmates, almost as a parody of Jean Shepherd; subtitles showing what the characters are really thinking of one another during a conversation; a cartoon segment where Allen and the Tony Roberts character appear with the heinous witch from Snow White; speeches to the audience; and the most celebrated, a surprise appearance by Marshall McCluhan in a movie theatre lobby to refute a college instructor pontificating about McCluhan’s ideas.

The single most notorious scene from the movie is the encounter between Allen’s character, Alvy Singer and Annie Hall, played brilliantly by Diane Keaton, after their tennis match with Annie dressed in her classic layered view with vest, men’s tie, and balloonish trousers. The mountainous sound bite from this encounter is the Annie Hall exclamation `La Di Dah, La Di Dah, Dah Dah…’ and Singer’s reaction wondering how he could be enthusiastic in anyone making such comic exclamations. From this one scene came a whole leisurely 1970’s fashion trend, the `Annie Hall’ seek of layered, mannish clothes. This scene also sets the stage for my latest insight into the movie, which is the progression of Annie, with a lot of befriend from Alvy, from an unserious girl with a decent singing screech to a serious woman with a few excellent ideas and a connection to a serious Hollywood music personality, played convincingly by Paul Simon with an watch to having her performances commercially recorded.

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While so worthy can be said of the loves, frustrations, and disappointments of Alvy Singer, the movie is, after all, named `Annie Hall’, not `Alvy Singer’. Not to say that this incarnation of the Woody Allen fictional persona is not central to the myth. In the epic of Alvy Singer that frames our encounter with Annie, there are encounters with two early marriages to characters played by Carol Kane and Janet Margolin, plus less than bewitching romantic encounters with Shelley Duvall. The Allen talent for pulling in major actors and future major actors for brief appearances is in fat bloom. There are kindly runt parts for Colleen Dewhurst and Christopher Walken. There are even smaller parts for surprise appearances by Jeff Goldblum, Sigourney Weaver, and Beverly De’Angelis. Unbiased as Allen is playing his usual, highly autobiographical character, male costar Tony Roberts plays the typically untroubled successful male who is constantly on the execute for something or other, whether it be a business deal of a romantic laision. (It objective occurred to me that it is logical that Roberts did not play the male costar in `Manhattan’, as the Michael Murphy character simply did not fit the typical Tony Roberts character as it appears in `Play It Again, Sam’, `A Midsummer’s Night Sex Comedy’, and `Annie Hall’.

While I have not reviewed all of Allen’s later movies, I will venture the idea that not only is `Annie Hall’ better than all the films which precede it, it is as superb or better than his best later movies (such as `Hannah and Her Sisters’, `Crimes and Misdemeanors’, and `Husbands and Wives’), if only because it is so effective a mix of both character inspect and humor. Some of Allen’s jokes from this movie are some of his best known. In fact, I come by the same sense watching this movie as I do when I contemplate `Hamlet’. So many lines sound like clichés because they have been so widely quoted.

There are a lot of things which could be said about this movie which are really about themes which accelerate through almost all of Allen’s films such as doting on sexuality, phony intellectuality, fancy of Manhattan, and death. One clever riff on death is when Annie is though-provoking into Alvy’s apartment, Alvy discovers a book of Sylvia Plath’s poems, which contradicts Hall’s later statement when she is absorbing out that all the books about death were given to her by Singer. (Plath was a famously depressive poet who committed suicide in mid-career) .

Allen’s movie DVDs are uniformly free of adore extras such as commentary tracks and `Making of’ documentaries, and this is no exception. At the risk of repeating myself, I will say that the singular attraction of Allen’s body of work in general and `Annie Hall’ in particular is its rewatchability. As unrealistic as the many cinematic gimmicks are, the characters are intensely valid. They are people with which we can sincerely associate. Try that with your usual Ben Stiller character.

Highly recommended classic among both Allen movies and all movies in general.

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C. S. Forester certainly began the saga of his Napoleonic-Era naval hero Horatio Hornblower “in media res.” Here is Hornblower as a dashing captain, with the stories of his younger days and later glories both yet to be penned. “Captain Horatio Hornblower” actually covers the key events in Forester’s first trio of Hornblower adventures, “Beat to Quarters,” “Ship of the Line” and Flying Colours.” Hornblower (American Gregory Peck playing the quintessential English hero) is sent on a secret mission to the far side of South America where he has to capture a Spanish frigate not once but twice, all because of the problematic delay in having new orders catch up with him in the time of wooden sailing ships. Chance throws Hornblower together with Lady Barbara Wellesley (Virginia Mayo), the sister of the Duke of Wellington. She is engaged to some admiral and he is already married, but there is no doubt that they are meant for each other. Besides, even Fate has to take a backseat to Hornblower’s sense of duty. Even when he is captured by the French it is but another opportunity for grand adventure. Like many fans I came to the Hornblower novels and this rousing 1951 film directed by Raoul Walsh. The happy ending falls into place a bit too neatly, but that is what happened in the original novels and not simply a Hollywood decision. The sea battles with the fully rigged ships are as fine as you can find from the good old days of movie-making, but my favorite scene is the touching one when the Captain and Lady Barbara deal with the final moment’s of the youngest member of the ship’s company. “Captain Horatio Hornblower,” like the novels, achieves that feeling that we are truly in the middle of an epic tale, with well-established characters who we readily believe have already had long and glorious histories. I think Lt. Bush (Robert Beatty) gets a lot of the credit for that as the unofficial “narrator” of the tale. So, if you have loved the imported A&E adventures of the young Horatio Hornblower, you certainly need to get around to watching the original film version and reading Forester’s novels. If not, you will just be a scurvy dog, matie.

After starting on Patrick O’Brian, I have also discovered Horatio Hornblower first with the first A&E episode “The Duel” (Ion Gruffyd, Robert Lindsay), and now with the 1951 movie “Captain Hornblower” starring Gregory Peck. I have *not* read the Hornblower books yet, so my review is from the perspective of someone new to naval fiction and naval movies.

Gregory Peck is one of my favorite actors, which makes this film an easy choice to watch (for me, at least). However, the character of Hornblower (with his trademark Hmm..mmm) and the events covered by the movie are probably closer to the original series than the recent A&E series. [At least, judging from Parkinson's biography covering the same ground as the novels, this would appear to be the case]. If you are a Hornblower purist, you will probably prefer the Gregory Peck movie version for this reason, even though the battle scenes are more sustained and far more exciting in the A&E versions (judging from The Duel).

Captain Hornblower condenses two (or is it three?) books into one – the book in which he is posted on direct orders from the Admiralty, and must round Cape Horn to reach a Spanish rebel, Don Julian Alvorado on the other side of Nicaragua. This feat of seamanship is well-portrayed, with the movie starting at the point where the ship has been at sea for months and has been becalmed. Hornblower takes a wild gamble in assuring the crew and his officers that the wind will pick up that night and that they will sight land within the next day. Amazingly, he pulls this off. In private, his journals reflect his fears and uncertainty, thus allowing us a glimpse at the private Hornblower.

The first part of the movie focuses on Hornblower’s difficult decisions during this secret mission (when he cannot confide in any of his officers, including his second-in-command Lt Bush). He must decide whether to trust Don Julian Alvorado (who is clearly a madman), whether to attack a much larger Spanish frigate with twice the gunpower, and what to do when political events overtake this little expedition.

What is not made clear (at least when I watched the film for the first time) is that Hornblower had really no choice but to go along with Alvorado (or El Supremo) as he likes to call himself. Spain is allied with Napoleonic France, and Hornblower must re-provision his ship. The nearest British port of call is St Helena – on the other side of South America. Hornblower was not simply following Admiralty orders, he was also taking a risk to keep his crew alive.

There are several battles, including one major battle when Hornblower’s ship loses one of its mast and is nearly wrecked. Fortunately, brilliant seamanship on his part allows him the upper hand.

During this first part, Hornblower also develops a love interest in Lady Barbara Wellesley (a fictional character, although she is supposedly the sister of the future Duke of Wellington). She is engaged to an admiral Sir Rodney Leighton, but she prefers Hornblower. He was reluctant to have her aboard at first, but had no choice (she was fleeing yellow fever, it would have been professional suicide to leave her behind, with her connections). Unfortunately for Hornblower, he must reveal the truth after Lady Barbara declares her love for him. He is married. The rest of the voyage is strained, with both anxious to return to Britain as soon as possible.

The second part of the movie begins with Hornblower’s return to the British Isles, only to learn that he is a widower and has an infant son. From there, he is placed under the command of Leighton (now Lady Barbara’s husband). Admiral Leighton disapproves of Hornblower’s independence, but our hero’s quick thinking and independent ways pay off in a crucial action against some French ships that have escaped the blockade.

In the third part of the movie, Hornblower is taken prisoner along with his lieutenant, and is to be sent to Paris to be tried and executed for piracy (sailing under French colors). Of course, he escapes eventually and returns home to discover that Lady Barbara has been widowed.

This is a quick summary of the movie, which hardly does justice to many of its finer points. There are some deviations from the book (the story was adapted, by the way, by Forester himself). For example, Sir Percy Leighton becomes Sir Rodney Leighton. [He is of a different social background in the books than in the movie]. Lady Barbara is not engaged to be married at the beginning of the voyage, and she appears proud and haughty to Hornblower. And of course, the collapsing of the three books into one movie means that certain details must be omitted (thus Lt Bush recovers remarkably quickly, or so it would seem). The pace of the adaptation is however just right – the story continues to sustain the viewer’s interest.

The sea battles are well-depicted, and the story was filmed in real ships (of the period, I think) and mostly at sea. However, the battles are less bloody than in the A&E version (perhaps a nod to 1950s sensibilities), and the ships are certainly cleaner than expected. I thought that the ships would be closer together when they engaged in battle.

Despite these minor caveats, this film was delightful to watch. I would recommend this movie strongly to anyone interested in this period (the Napoleonic wars), or anyone interested in nautical fiction. The A&E series covers the very early career of the very young Hornblower, when he is still a midshipman and then makes lieutenant. (At the rate the producers are going, it will take a while before they reach the same events covered by this movie). Even if they do cover this period, watch this movie, if only for Gregory Peck’s portrayal of Hornblower as as as Forester’s own adaptation of his novels for the screen.

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This may be my favorite Disney movie ever. (I normally prefer Pixar.)

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The reviewers who did not like it clearly expected something for small kids. It is not. It is very abstract in places, especially the art, which is really quite amazing. Watch for the design of the panthers, and the bats. And the landscapes. Wonderful stuff.

And the dialogue and the delivery especially is just hilarious. How you can get such delivery in an animated film is beyond me.

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Warmly recommended for mature viewers with an edgy sense of humor.

THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE is the funniest movie that I have seen in years. I initially had passed on watching it in the theater because I thought it looked childish, but was convinced to give it a try now that it was out on video. Boy, was my initial impression wrong.

The story revolves around a selfish prince who is turned into a llama by one of his subjects. With the help of a kindly peasant he attempts to regain his throne, and in the process finds there’s more to him than he previously thought or wanted there to be. While the moral is a good one, it really plays a secondary role to the comedy, which is literally non-stop. GROOVE takes the rapid-fire humor that Disney perfected in Aladdin and combines it with cartoon-style hijinx, the wit of David Spade, and a hilarious lack of reverence for the traditional Disney animated genre. Spade plays his role to perfection, and luckily never crosses the line into being obnoxious. Seinfeld fans are in for a treat, as Puddy plays a very special side-kick role. You really can’t take your eyes off the screen for a minute, because you’re guaranteed to miss a gag of some sort. The humor works mainly on an adult level, even though kids will be rolling from the funny visuals and some of the more obvious jokes.

The DVD itself is a good one. The digital transfer was excellent and the sound quality is top notch. The commentary track is one of the better that I’ve heard, with interesting and funny insight from all contributors. Animated menus. There’s a deleted scene that was probably best left out, but is interesting to watch anyway, plus a few other fun features.

In the end, this is one of the best Disney flicks to come along in years. Hardcore Disney fans will eat it up. But even if you’re not a fan of Disney’s usual animated features you should give GROOVE a shot. Cast aside your pre-concieved notions and you just might be in for a very pleasant surprise. I was. FIVE STARS.

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There is a point in Intolerable Cruelty where George Clooney is giving a key note speech professing his love that is long enough to make you suspect the Coen brothers have “sold out” into schmaltz. Wrong! The film, in typical Coen style, dives into as many twists and turns as is needed in a good thriller. Fortunately, the film is a comedic farce.

Clooney plays Miles Massey, the most prominent divorce lawyer in southern California. A man so good at what he does he has a prenuptial contract named after him. Massey’s good and he knows it. Near the beginning of the film, he and his assistant, Wrigley (Paul Adelstein), are chatting about how boring Massey’s life has become while a sweating client sits between them as the client’s wife describes how she was used as a sex slave. Massey is that confident of himself.

And confidence is what Clooney is all about. He is simply incredible. Swaggering around like a peacock while checking to make sure his teeth are clean, Clooney gives his best performance. There is no denying his charm here. Even when he’s being a prig.

Enter Marylin Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones), a woman who’s only goal is to marry a rich man, catch him in some indiscretion and divorce him for half of what he’s worth. She wants to be independent she claims. Massey falls for her completely. She is his match in game-playing and confidence and he must have her.

Thus sets up the Coens’ romantic comedy farce. It’s bizarre at times, but humorous throughout as one coincidental incident sets-up another and turns all the characters on both of their ears. This is probably their fluffiest piece ever, but highly entertaining nonetheless.

This film seemed to be a modern version of the romantic comedies of the 50’s & 60’s. it was overloaded with dialogue, some sight gags, & a few well-timed sexual references provided the laughs. George Clooney plays divorce lawyer Miles Massey who is at a crossroads in his life. Catherine Zeta Jones plays Marilyn Rexroth who is divorcing her cheating husband. The latter appears immune to the formers charms. But soon, the predictable path to the films conclusion is clearly in sight. The courtromm scenes dragged & CZJ & GC simply lacked the sexual sparks that would have made this a four star film. I give it three stars because, the supporting cast of Julia Duffy, Billy Bob Thornton, & Cedric the entertainer provided the laughs. Perhaps, Anjelina Jolie & Brad Pitt would have pulled it off?

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This is a powerful and beautifully done documentary, it moved me to tears when I first saw this in 2006, I have been waiting for so long to finally see the dvd version out on the market. Anyone who enjoys documentaries, especially on Africa, will really find this film powerful and painful to watch. If you don’t have the time to read the book King Leopold’s Ghost, definitely see this film, you will not forget it, and you will not be the same person after watching this.

King Leopold’s Ghost the book is profoundly challenging, and this movie which shares the same title and used the book as source material, is even more so. What the book describes, the movie shows, and the difference in impact is astounding. Using a steady stream of atrocity photos accompanied by Cheadle’s unwavering voice overs, this can be very hard to watch. The sheer inhumanity of what took place in the Congo falls into the worst of the worst of human history, right up there with Auschwitz.

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The tale of western imperialism and the drive by European powers to carve out a chunk of Africa for themselves, the movie details the fate of the Congo, colonized by King Leopold of Belgium. The drive to export more and more rubber led to the enslavement and wholesale slaughter of literally millions of natives. The brutality and wickedness of what took place is presented in detail in this film.

The film is important as both a reminder of the depths of what men can fall to, as well as a historical account of western Imperialism. It is unflinchingly accurate. Relying on historical documents, first person accounts from both Congolese and European alike, and even government documents, it conveys a historical authority that only intensifies the film’s impact.

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5/5 Stars. This movie will profoundly disturb you, and that is a good thing. Only by learning from the mistakes of the past can we move towards healing the wounds the west inflicted on the African continent.

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Combining excellent imagery, appropriate graphics, and expert narration, this documentary boldly goes into historical depth and will not lose its viewers in the process. Rather than cultural bias, historical pragmatics are at the heart of this somewhat new approach to Spain under Muslim rule. It is not a revisionist view for most of us who have been following developments in this field for the past 25 years; it is now completely accepted among scholars that the divisions between the muslims and other groups in Spain were exaggerated in the past. However, Islam in the middle ages was anything but marginal in its level of sophistication. What better way to demonstrate this than with the wonderfully technical yet never dry diagrams of the Alhambra in this film. Olé (yes, the muslims gave Spain that word, too)!

“When the Moors Ruled in Europe,” is a British television documentary made for BBC4, the experimental channel, by that remarkable young woman, Bettany Hughes. It is a real eye-opener as she travels Spain, thinking and talking about those seven centuries when the Moors, as they were known then, we would now call them Moslems, ruled the Iberian Peninsula, Spain and Portugal.

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Hughes shows us their surviving, stunning architecture, in Cordoba, their capital city, Granada, even Madrid, and gives us a look at the surviving irrigation systems, by which they encouraged the arid peninsula to bloom, creating a rich agricultural economy. She proves that, at that time and place, Islam was a great progressive force: she shows us their leadership in translating and keeping alive the Greek and Roman classics, science, medicine, marine navigation, and astronomy, and reminds us that many words in our vocabulary come from the Arabic. She touches upon the fact that they welcomed Jews, and their knowledge. Most important of all, she reminds us that we currently use Arabic numerals, and that the great leaps forward in bookkeeping that underlay the businesses that bankrolled the famed Renaissance of the 16th century, could never have occurred if clerks were still struggling with those clumsy Roman numerals. Nor, of course, could Europe have rediscovered the Roman and Greek classics, another major ingredient of the Renaissance, had the Moslems not preserved them.

The presenter explains how the united monarchy of Spain in the late 15th century, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, drove the Moslems out, culminating in that great celebration of 1492, when they sent Christopher Columbus off, they thought, to find a western sea route to Asia (though, of course, it turned out America was in the way). What’s even more interesting, she shows us the costs of this long, epic battle. Less sophisticated Moslem troops poured in to fight from North Africa: they vandalized the beautiful statuary progressive Islam had created in its 700 year rule: fundamental Islamism, as Judaism, Forbids representation of human beings, and so these troops destroyed the statues’ faces. Progressive Islam was never actually fully to recover from the know-nothingism of these soldiers; until the current day the religion, most would agree to its detriment, is dominated by fundamentalists.

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But the cost to Spain was also high: it has denied and misrepresented its own history through generations of the royal family, down even to the late dictator, Francisco Franco, to minimize Arab contributions and influence. And it created the Inquisition, to sniff out secret Arabs and Jews, marranos and moriscos, as they were called, torture and burn them alive at the stake, and, finally, expel them. Many of these people went to the Netherlands, then a Spanish colony, where they spearheaded a great intellectual and medical flowering, another important precursor of the Renaissance, giving us such leaders as Erasmus, and Spinoza. And many people will tell you that Spain never recovered from the forced expulsion of its best and brightest intellectual lights.

Hughes does a good job of making all this ancient history come alive, interviewing interesting people (thank goodness, the Spanish-speaking interviewees have subtitles, but I wish the whole program had), and showing us and explaining such remarkable and beautiful sights as the Arabic palace of Alhambra. She’s quite a gal, showing an interest in ancient history when she was four, studying Latin and Greek as a teenager, going to Oxford on scholarship, and going from strength to strength now. Atta girl, Bettany.

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For the not so big portions, a small household hand brush can be used to wipe out the dirt and then it is vacuumed which makes carpet well cleaned and dry. The fourth process is Bonnet method which involves club soda and cleaning product; both are mixed with each other and spread over the surface and small machine known as round buffer or bonnet is rotated over the mixture. This method involves more time in drying and is not recommended for deep cleaning.
People also make use of shampoos for cleansing of carpets.

This system was most popular till 1970 but it soon lost ground when Encapsulation system of carpet cleaning came. Encapsulation process is considered to be the new technology in which soil particles are crystallized into dry residues. It’s deep cleaning compound crystals soaks the filth before clearing it from the carpet. For this procedure, rotary machines, bush applicator or compression sprayer are utilized for application of solution and then vacuum cleaner is used to clear dry residue. This process increases the beauty of the carpet better.

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chemical manufacturers established the five key cleaning procedures after twenty years of their research, especially dry-cleaning and Green based chemicals.

The commercial processes of carpet cleaning involve steam cleaning i.e. Hot Water extraction involving the use of detergent based solutionsSecond process is dry cleaning that uses very low moisture and relies on the dry compounds supplemented by the application of cleansing solutions. This process is often very fast and labor intensive in comparison to wet extraction systems. The next method Dry compound method requires biogradable powder and cleaning compound for cleaning carpets These compounds are scattered all over the carpet and then brushed or scrubbed over it.

For the not so big areas, a small household hand brush can be utilized to wipe out the dirt and then it is vacuumed which makes carpet well cleaned and dry. The fourth process is Bonnet method which involves club soda and cleansing product; both are mixed with each other and spread over the carpet and small machine known as round buffer or bonnet is rotated over the mixture. This process takes more time in drying and is not recommended for deep cleansing.
Shampoos are also being generally used for carpet cleaning.

This process was most popular till 1970 but it soon lost its position when Encapsulation system of carpet cleaning appeared. Encapsulation process is considered to be the latest technology in which soil particles are crystallized into dry residues. It’s deep cleaning compound crystals soaks the filth before clearing it from the carpet. For this process, rotary machines, bush applicator or compression sprayer are used for application of solution and then vacuum cleaner is utilized to clear dry residue. This system enhances the beauty of the carpet better.

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Movie-5 stars, extras 0 stars, tranfer for Blu-ray (anamorphic widescreen I might add) 4 stars

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Really what is Columbia thinking? “Starman” is one of John Carpenter’s finest films with an Oscar nominated performance by Jeff Bridges, a sharp catch by Jack Nitsche and a clever, thoughtful script that takes the same themes as Spielberg’s “E.T.” and develops them better. We win no extras. Nada. Nothing. We also fetch to pay a fairly hefty amount for the Blu-ray (it’s retailed at $29.00) . Warner does a better copy of releasing their Blu-rays. Heck, even Fox and Universal have been making an disaster to do a decent job with their films and TV shows on Blu-ray of slow. “Starman” on Blu-ray is at least in widescreen and has a nice presentation with nice detail.

Sony didn’t really have to do considerable. England got a DVD edition of this with a commentary by John Carpenter. All they had to do was port that version over for this edition and throw on the fresh promotional featurette made wait on in the day. It wouldn’t have been hard. Don’t fetch me despicable, this is a terrific movie and it looks colossal but it’s a LOUSY anxiety on behalf of Sony. That’s surprising given that they won the format war. You’d quiz a better misfortune than this truly slothful package.
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What can you do? I philosophize write Sony or wait to peep if the UK version has the commentary track and other extras ported over to the Blu-ray. Since it’ll be situation free purchase that. If you must win this cheap edition of the film try and pay as shrimp as possible as this nearly bare bones (it has BD Live capacity and-whoopee!–trailers) editon of an exceptional film SHOULD retail at about $15.99 for what we glean.

This film is simply impossible not to like. Jeff Bridges is unforgettable as an alien from an incomparably advanced urge who is stranded on Earth (after taking human manufacture) and seeking to return to his beget civilization, and his profitable performance as such earned him an Oscar nomination. He really gets into the role, and plays it to perfection. His gestures and mannerisms as the alien trying to understand human beings are uncannily plausible. Karen Allen is also qualified in her role as an ordinary human being caught up in the struggle between Bridges, seeking to rush the Earth, and those darned substandard Great Government agents who fright the alien and scrutinize to bewitch and slay him. Darned gummint, isn’t that objective like them? Buy,Download, Or Stream Starman! Click HereThere are few special effects in the movie, and none are needed–this is a movie that gets through by sheer superior storytelling and astonishing acting by Bridges and Allen. It manages to be touching without being sappy, and although our human government is viewed as being narrow-minded and overly paranoid, the alien in the demolish forms a high and joyous thought of mankind, which I found uplifting and optimistic.Well worth watching and owning.

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The definition of the Japanese word ronin describes it as a samurai who has lost his master from the raze of or the drop of his master. John Frankenheimer (with some final draft relieve with the script from David Mamet) takes this thought of a masterless samurai and brings to it a post-Cold War setting and sensibility that more than pay homage to the sizable stories and film of the ronin. One particular legend about ronin that Frankenheimer references in detail is the classic legend of the 47 Ronin. Ronin shows that in the latter-stages of his career, Frankenheimer was collected the master of the political/spy-thriller genre. He infuses the film with a trusty hard-edge and was able to mix together both intelligence and energy in both the quieter and action-packed sequences in the film.

Buy,Download, Or Stream Ronin! Click HereThe film begins quietly with the introduction of the characters to be enthusiastic. We meet each individual in this collected 10-minute scene that shows Frankenheimer’s skill as a director more than Michael Bay can in two-hours of mind-numbing action. Robert De Niro as one of the two American mercenaries (or contractors) instantly becomes the focal point for everyone. His casual, but attentive reconnoitering of the Paris bar where the first meet occurs helps gain tension without being overt. It’s with the introduction of Jean Reno as the Frenchman in the group that we obtain the buddy-film dynamic as De Niro and Reno rapid develop a believable camaraderie born of the times for such men during and after the Frigid War. The rest of the cast is rounded out by an expedient and high-energy turn from Sean Bean as an English contractor who might not be all that he brags to be. The other American in the group was played by Skipp Sudduth who in his maintain understated plot more than kept up with the high-caliber of actors around him. Finishing off and adding the darker and seedier aspects of the cast were Stellan Skarsgard as a weak Eastern Bloc (maybe ex-KGB) operative and Jonathan Pryce as a wanted IRA commander wanted by all. The only wreck in all the male testosterone in the film was able played by the sparkling, yet tough Natasha McElhone. Like Sudduth, McElhone more than keeps up and matches acting skills with the likes of De Niro, Reno and Skarsgard.

The film moves from the meeting of the group to the accurate operation which brought all these disparate characters together. Taking a page from Hitchcock, Frankenheimer and Mamet introduces what would become the film’s MacGuffin. A MacGuffin being a space intention which helps motivates each character of its importance and yet we’re left to have only that the item is notable without ever finding out why. The MacGuffin in Ronin ends up being a silver case which the IRA terrorists, the Russian Mob and seemingly every intelligence agency in Europe wants to collect their hands on. It’s up to De Niro and his group to select the case from another party and this was where Frankenheimer’s skill in seemlessly blending spy-thriller and action film shows. From the set-up of the team and their plans, to a reach double-cross during an arms deal to the exact operation to acquire the case, Ronin begins to proceed at a clipped and tension-filled sail. There’s no overly extraneous dialogue. Mamet’s script-doctoring fleshes out the legend and adds a sense and feel of incandescent professionalism to the characters. Outside of the Bean’s braggart Englishman who gets his commeuppance from DeNiro’s strict professional, everyone in the group had a skill to contribute to the operation and all did it well and believable.

Buy,Download, Or Stream Ronin! Click HereThe action sequences mostly fervent car chases through the narrow streets of Nice, France to the metropolitan thoroughfares and tunnels of Paris. Frankenheimer shines in creating and directing these sequences. Sequences which he’d decided against the exhaust of CGI. Using what he’d learned and perfected from his contain past as a outmoded run car driver and from his beget classic film Big Prix, Frankenheimer musty valid life cars and drove them through valid (albeit choreographed) traffic to give the sequences that sense of reality and urge that one couldn’t acquire with CGI. The car lag scene within the Paris thoroughfare tunnel against traffic has to go down as one of the best car skedaddle keep on film. I and those I saw the film with were on the edge of our seats as both protagonists and antagonists weaved their procedure through Parisian traffic at high-speed and gunfire. The crashes caused by this car slide looked believable and horrific yet the audience doesn’t study away from the veil. With unprejudiced abit of attend from second unit directors Luc Etienne and Michel Cheyko, Frankenheimer resplendent considerable did most of the filming of the car chases. At times being in the car itself and doing some of the driving.

The fable itself, after all the characterizations and high-energy, tense action sequences, was really bare bones and in itself its beget MacGuffin. The fable objective becomes a prop procedure to attend demonstrate the mercenaries’ special sense of honor in regards to working with people who might’ve been enemies in the past and the shaded world they now live in after the collapse of the dark and white sensibility that was the Frosty War. One runt bit of trivia that I found engaging was the fact that Ronin included quite abit of actors who portrayed past James Bond villains: Sean Bean (Janus), Jonathan Pryce (Carver) and Michael Lonsdale (Drax) .

In the ruin, Ronin became the last titanic film from a gigantic director. I don’t count Reindeer Games as anything but Frankenheimer picking up a check and the studio dabbling overmuch in the final glimpse and feel of that film. Frankenheimer’s Ronin is a blend of intellectual dialogue, hard-edged characters, and tense-filled action that he manages to blend together to fabricate a beautiful and knowing film. The narrative may not have made precise sense in the ruin, but the pace the audience takes with DeNiro, Reno and McElhone’s character in getting there made for a large time for all.

This movie is an instant classic for Robert De Niro and Jean Reno fans. Natascha McElhone is a dazzling dazzler combining a sensuous understated beauty with a journeyman actor’s presence. With a simple study or a roll of her eyes she speaks volumes. De Niro has never been tougher or more compelling as the everyman, Sam. He reminds me of Bogart in his grittier roles. Jean Reno is rapid becomming one of my accepted actors. He is a man’s man with a accurate delivery and deep sunless eyes. He also adds the aura of the world weary but stoic Frenchman to the mix. I appreciate French and the bits of French dialogue interspersed in the movie resonate with wryness. The interplay and rapport between the Jean Reno and Robert DeNiro characters plays lawful and is one of my well-liked things about this relatively realistic action film. Frankenheimer has a satisfactory view for detail and the cutters have done a reliable job. This record will maintain you on edge for most of its running length. The action scenes are slit in ample swaths that leave you wanting more. Acquire this film and an Audi S8 while you’re at it. You wont be sorry.
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