DVD: Maurice Ronet

DVD: Maurice Ronet

DVD:

Maurice Ronet

Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield

United Artists, 2008

Virginia McKenna in the performance of her career
Virginia McKenna ("A Town Like Alice", "Born Free") gives the performance of her career in CARVE HER NAME WITH PRIDE, a spellbinding and dramatic true-life account of one woman's heroic actions during the darkest days of World War II. Young English widow Violette ...

Purple Noon

Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet

Times Film Corporation

Essential French cinema: Clément's 'Plein Soleil.'
Alain Delon takes identity theft to the extreme in this stylish French thriller. Based on Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley, René Clément's (1913-1996) film, Purple Noon (Plein Soleil)(1960) stars Delon in the role of Tom Ripley, a "suave, agreeable and ...

La Ronde
Jane Fonda, Anna Karina

KINO VIDEO, 2005

GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEE (BEST FOREIGN FILM) Adapted by Tony winning playwright Jean Anouilh (Becket), Roger Vadim's La Ronde deftly transplants Arthur Schnitzler's famous amorous cycle from 19th Century Vienna to a lavishly re-created widescreen Art Nouveau Paris. Vadim's cast includes Jean Luc Godard muse Anna Karina and The Phantom of Liberty's ...

The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle)

Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet

Pathfinder Home Ent., 2003

The Unfaithful Wife
Murder maestro Chabrol is one of the heralded French New Wave directors whose intelligent twists on genre (thrillers are his domain) ushered in an exciting new era in filmmaking. In "Wife," he offers a fresh take on the standard crime-of-passion tale, with the intense ...

Sorciere (1956) (Full Sub)

Nicole Courcel, Michel Etcheverry

Ivy Films, 2007

Do not be misled by the title.
This is one of my favourite movies of all time. First seen as a teenager in the fifties and happily rediscovered as a pensioner. Marina Vlady is beautiful in a way that none of her contemporary screen sirens could match. Although the title conjurs up a negative image ...

Elevator to the Gallows - Criterion Collection

Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet

Criterion, 2006

Top floor film noir from one of the greats
This was Louis Malle's first. Previously he had worked with Jacques Cousteau on "The Silent World" (interestingly enough) and now tried his hand at film noir. Several things fell into place to make this debut a memorable one. First, he was able to get Jeanne ...

Elevator to the Gallows
Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly

Elevator to the Gallows is many things: A tight, delicious crime thriller; the debut of director Louis Malle (Zazie dans le metro, Atlantic City, Au Revoir, Les Enfants, and many more works of subtle genius); a movie with perhaps the greatest jazz soundtrack of all time, created improvisationally by trumpeter Miles Davis; but above all, Elevator ...

The Fire Within - Criterion Collection

Maurice Ronet, Jeanne Moreau

Criterion Collection, 2008

Spleen
Very enchanting film well worth watching several times. Not as depressing as it sounds, it is about an ex-alcoholic, tired of life and/or unable to connect with other humans, visiting the friends who he used to party with for a last time. Beautiful shots, interesting ...

Lost Command

Anthony Quinn, Alain Delon

Sony Pictures, 2002

Few if any Good Guys in this One
In "Lost Command", Anthony Quinn plays Colonel Raspeguy, a French paratrooper of peasent origins who finds himself caught up in the battles of the dying French empire. The film begins in May 1954 as Giap's Communist Vietminh overrun the French positions around Dien ...

Don Juan (Or If Don Juan Were a Woman)

Brigitte Bardot, Robert Hossein

Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), 2001

Brigitte Looks Fabulous!
While the story is a bit odd, it is interesting. The film is very stylish and Brigitte looks absolutely fabulous! Besides, it is better than most of what Hollywood dishes out even today. But, I suppose having the gorgeous Brigitte grace our TV screens for a couple ...

La Piscine (The Swimming Pool) - PAL DVD
Alain Delon, Jane Birkin

AmCo, 2001

This is very rare PAL DVD (EUROPEAN TV VIDEO STANDARD) without region coding, officially released in Russia by studio "CP DIGITAL". DVD has two soundtracks: original FRENCH and RUSSIAN (voice-over), it also has optional (removable) RUSSIAN subtitles. CUSTOMERS FROM NORTH AMERICA and JAPAN: Please, make sure your DVD player supports PAL DVDS ...

Purple Noon [Region 2]

Casta Diva - A Romanticized Biography of Bellini

Maurice Ronet, Caterina Mancini

Bel Canto Society, 2004

Casta Diva - Romamticized Biography of Belini
The brief life of Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) is in wonderful 98 minutes film from the days he was a student in Naples to the openning of his famous opera "Norma". The film is with full of his beautiful music. Acting is excellent and the direction is good.

Beau Pere

Patrick Dewaere, Ariel Besse

Fox Lorber, 1998

A Brave Film, not only for 1981, but even for 2003
BEAU-PERE (Stepfather) is a beautifully woven story of love that just happens to touch on the aspect of an older man falling in love with a fourteen year old girl - and his step-daughter at that! Remi (Patrick Dewaere) is a salon piano player, narrating how lonely is ...

The Scarlet Lady
Monica Vitti, Maurice Ronet

Pathfinder Home Ent., 2003

Antonioni favorite Monica Vitti (L'AVVENTURA LA NOTTE) stars as Eva a French perfume heiress whose life comes to a crashing halt after learning that her knavish boyfriend Julien (Robert Hossein) has squandered her fortune. Eva's plan of revenge is to kill Julien and then herself--but not before she spends the last week of her life on a posh ...