DVD: Daniel Day-Lewis

DVD: Daniel Day-Lewis

DVD:

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano

Paramount Vantage, 2008

There Will Be Greed
Director Paul Thomas Anderson ("Magnolia") achieves something very rare in films, he manages to create a really extraordinary film whose main character Daniel Plainview played by Daniel Day-Lewis ("My Left Foot") is for the most part reprehensible. With the exception ...

Gangs of New York (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)

Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Jim Broadbent

Miramax Home Entertainment, 2003

Absolutely awful, but totally riveting, nonetheless!
This film/movie is absolutely awful, dreadfully violent, pretty disgusting, and likely to be nightmare-inducing, but it is totally riveting, nonetheless - I give it five stars, but I don't recommend watching it and won't do so myself again!

Gangs of New York [Blu-ray]

Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Jim Broadbent

Miramax, 2008

Absolutely awful, but totally riveting, nonetheless!
This film/movie is absolutely awful, dreadfully violent, pretty disgusting, and likely to be nightmare-inducing, but it is totally riveting, nonetheless - I give it five stars, but I don't recommend watching it and won't do so myself again!

The Last of the Mohicans (Director's Expanded Edition)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe

20th Century Fox, 2001

Hauntingly beautiful and with a great soundtrack... (and much better then the novel)
It distorted somewhat (for the better) the original novel (which is a "classic" but quite difficult to read due to the contrived prose). The exteriors are one of the best ever in a production of adventure&action films and the cast is PERFECT. It is a savage land ...

There Will Be Blood

Daniel Day-Lewis, Barry Del Sherman

Paramount, 2008

There Will Be Greed
Director Paul Thomas Anderson ("Magnolia") achieves something very rare in films, he manages to create a really extraordinary film whose main character Daniel Plainview played by Daniel Day-Lewis ("My Left Foot") is for the most part reprehensible. With the exception ...

A Room with a View [HD DVD]

Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter

BBC Warner, 2007

Bonham-Carter is a Show Stopper!
A Room with a View was only Bonham-Carter's second film, made when she was nineteen. To watch her in it, one would imagine her to be a much more experienced actress. Her performance strikes just the right balance of humor and drama and combined with clever dialogue, ...

There Will Be Blood (Two-Disc Special Collector's Edition)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano

Paramount, 2008

There Will Be Greed
Director Paul Thomas Anderson ("Magnolia") achieves something very rare in films, he manages to create a really extraordinary film whose main character Daniel Plainview played by Daniel Day-Lewis ("My Left Foot") is for the most part reprehensible. With the exception ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche

Warner Home Video, 2006

The best film nobody saw
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a masterpiece, the most underrated American film of the past 30 years. Poetic, haunting, subtle, and terribly sad, it says more about the crushing impact of repressive (i.e. communist) regimes than a thousand documanteries or ...

The Age of Innocence

Domenica Cameron-Scorsese, Geraldine Chaplin

Sony Pictures, 2001

Scorsese's beautifully filmed AGE OF INNOCENCE
We often forget that long before THE DEPARTED,THE AVIATOR and GANGS OF NEW YORK, director Martin Scorsese and the same crew made a sumptuous and beautifully intoxicating THE AGE OF INNOCENCE in 1993.This film is so intricate with each little detail that to revisit it ...

The Crucible

Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder

20th Century Fox, 2004

NOT SINCE I HAD A ROOT CANAL. . .
Not since I had to have a root canal a few years ago have I been filled with such a sense of DREAD while watching this very fine film! Though it is fictionalized - it is based on the famous Salem Witch Trials - The acting, costumes, and settings transport you back in ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Criterion Collection Spine #55)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche

Criterion, 1999

The best film nobody saw
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a masterpiece, the most underrated American film of the past 30 years. Poetic, haunting, subtle, and terribly sad, it says more about the crushing impact of repressive (i.e. communist) regimes than a thousand documanteries or ...

A Room With a View

Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter

BBC Warner, 2007

Room with a View
This Merchant/Ivory film is spot-on faithful to Forsters's Novel. The casting is supurb second only to the settings both in Italy and England. Nothing but Charming throughout. Its one of my 5 all time favorite movies.

The Bounty

Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins

MGM (Video & DVD), 2000

The most accurate and realistic version of the infamous mutiny
The 1935 black & White version of "Mutiny on the bounty" may have won an oscar for Best Picture at the time, but will likely strike modern viewers as dated and unrealistic. Marlon Brando's 1962 remake is the most epic, captivating and compelling version even though it ...

A Room with a View (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter

BBC Warner, 2004

Bonham-Carter is a Show Stopper!
A Room with a View was only Bonham-Carter's second film, made when she was nineteen. To watch her in it, one would imagine her to be a much more experienced actress. Her performance strikes just the right balance of humor and drama and combined with clever dialogue, ...

The Boxer (Collector's Edition)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Daragh Donnelly

Universal Studios, 1998

A classic film that is under-rated yet excellent
This film about the conflict in Northern Ireland between the British and the Irish is extremely well done with a balance between the lives of the characters and the larger structural historic forces that impact their relationships. Daniel Day Lewis plays the ...