DVD: Daniel Ades

DVD: Daniel Ades

DVD:

Daniel Ades

Matthew Edison, Paul Brogren

Universal Studios, 2003

An adventure on life's movie highway
I originally downloaded this movie without having any knowledge of it's content. After watching it 6 or 7 times I purchased the retail version. I showed it to friends and family and all of them at least liked it. Many loved it. I have since purchased copies for 5 of my ...

Fires Within

Jimmy Smits, Greta Scacchi

MGM (Video & DVD), 2001

Changing places
I bought this video only because Vincent D'Onofrio is in it. I had previously purchased The Whole Wide World which is an amazingly wonderful,mostly unseen film of immense power and D'Onofrio's portrayal of Robert Howard in that film just blew me away. He has to be the ...

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo

Starz / Anchor Bay, 2000

Poetical Fanaticism
This was one of a handful of German films that made one think Western Civilization had a chance. I remember well seeing this for the first time back during my college days. We had all been through the New Wave and had grown a bit weary of the French "A Man and A Woman" ...

Real Genius

Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret

Sony Pictures, 2002

Real Genius
I purchased this movie for my husband who absolutely LOVES this movie...We watched the movie with our 8-year-old and 4-year-old sons and they loved it too!

The Last Movie

Julie Adams, Daniel Ades

The Last Movie - noble and uneven
At least half of THE LAST MOVIE is a brilliant film. The idea of cutting between the making of a Western, the Western itself, and even the making of "the real movie" about these things has certainly been imitated since, but here is the original. A further plot point ...

The Missouri Breaks

Daniel Ades, Luana Anders

MGM (Video & DVD), 2005

underrated and sublime
saw this film the other night on cable, pan & scan sadly, and was utterly blown away. forget anything anyone has said about pacing, brando's over the top perf., the ending, just bask in the glow of one of the most literate and sophisticated scripts ever. the ...

The Missouri Breaks [Region 2]

Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson

underrated and sublime
saw this film the other night on cable, pan & scan sadly, and was utterly blown away. forget anything anyone has said about pacing, brando's over the top perf., the ending, just bask in the glow of one of the most literate and sophisticated scripts ever. the ...

Real Genius [Region 2]

Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret

Real Genius
I purchased this movie for my husband who absolutely LOVES this movie...We watched the movie with our 8-year-old and 4-year-old sons and they loved it too!

Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo

Poetical Fanaticism
This was one of a handful of German films that made one think Western Civilization had a chance. I remember well seeing this for the first time back during my college days. We had all been through the New Wave and had grown a bit weary of the French "A Man and A Woman" ...

Little Havana [Region 2]

Jimmy Smits, Greta Scacchi

Changing places
I bought this video only because Vincent D'Onofrio is in it. I had previously purchased The Whole Wide World which is an amazingly wonderful,mostly unseen film of immense power and D'Onofrio's portrayal of Robert Howard in that film just blew me away. He has to be the ...