DVD: Michel Simon     DVD:     Michel Simon      The Lord of the Rings Christopher Guard, William Squire Warner Home Video, 2001 Fantasy Fantastic I read the books in the early 70's and passed them on to friends. I still have a set in the house and recently bought all the movies. The movies are not quite up to the books but the last ones are close. I throughly enjoyed them.             The Train Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield MGM (Video & DVD), 1999 A First-Rate WW2 Action/Thriller Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker Shadow Watcher Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake Directed by John Frankenheimer, THE TRAIN (1964) is a nail-biting thriller starring Burt Lancaster as the leader of the French Resistance who, ...             Pauline at the Beach Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle MGM (Video & DVD), 2003 Pauline at the Beach One of Eric Rohmer's most enjoyable meditations on love and its discontents, "Pauline" is abetted by the presence of Langlet, an endearing and assured young actress. Rohmer takes his time observing his five characters and lets us get to know their (often deceptive) ...             The Passion of Joan of Arc (Criterion Collection Spine #62) Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain Criterion, 1999 The Reason Film Became An Art Form! I saw The Passion of Joan of Arc first in a fuzzy video created by silent film buffs years ago. It was beautiful. When the Danish copy was found, I was thrilled. The local Dryden Theatre showed the film with the Danish subtitles years later while the film curator ...             Sky Fighters Benoît Magimel, Clovis Cornillac Kino Video, 2006 Excellent movie! The film centers around the Mirage 2000 and the French Air Force. I only gave this movie 4 out of 5 stars for two reasons. The first is the audio wasn't great. The timing between the lips and the sound is a little off. The second is because the story is only B movie ...             Richard Strauss - Capriccio / Runnicles, Te Kanawa, Hagegard, Troyanos, San Francisco Opera Kiri Te Kanawa, Håkan Hagegård Kultur Video, 2003 Capriccio's beauty and subtle music in a masterful performance! Capriccio is a difficult nut to crack as some critic commented somewhere but in a performance like this, the opera becomes a delight and worthy of all our attention. Te Kanawa is in radiant voice becoming Madeleine in voice, drama and acting. Troyanos, already ...             Saved From The Flames - 54 Rare and Restored Films 1896 - 1944 Josephine Baker, Django Reinhardt Flicker Alley, 2008 Wonderful! Wonderful! Fans of Prince Ranian wil cherish a 1900 film of human torso "Kobelkoff," showing off his unique dance stylings. "Danse Serpentine," "The Talion Punishment," and "Kiriki" feature breathtakingly beautiful coloring by hand and stencil. In the ...             Chaos Vincent Lindon, Catherine Frot New Yorker Video, 2003 Sex Slavery in France and How to Beat It This movie is one of my favorite films. Radhika Brakni is terrific as a young, beautiful Moslem girl who escapes her father's plot to sell her in marriage to an older man only to find herself kinapped by a sex slavery ring. Using her wits, she uses her sexuality (and ...             Port of Shadows - Criterion Collection Jean Gabin, Michel Simon Criterion, 2004 T'AS DE BEAUX YEUX, TU SAIS ! Marcel Carné's PORT OF SHADOWS (Le Quai des Brumes) belongs to the list of movies we had to see in school in the seventies. This film is part of the French cultural heritage and was regularly showed by the film clubs of our schools. Some of the greatest actors of that ...             The Two of Us (Criterion Collection) Michel Simon, Alain Cohen Criterion Collection, 2007 THE ENEMY WITHIN 1967. First full-length movie written and directed by Claude Berri. This film earned three awards during the 1967 Berlin International Film Festival. This Criterion DVD also presents Claude Berri's short film LE POULET which earned the Oscar in 1962. Masterpiece.             Boudu Saved from Drowning [Region 2] Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia My Favorite Renoir So you're a self-proclaimed film buff & you've sat through the Renoir masterpieces "The Rules of the Game" and "The Grand Illusion" and performed the obligatory genuflecting before two of the greatest contributions to film ever. Two gold stars for you. Now what? ...             The Lord of the Rings [Region 2] Christopher Guard, William Squire Fantasy Fantastic I read the books in the early 70's and passed them on to friends. I still have a set in the house and recently bought all the movies. The movies are not quite up to the books but the last ones are close. I throughly enjoyed them.             L' Atalante Michel Simon, Dita Parlo New Yorker Video, 2003 Jean Vigo: master of masters! L' Atalante (1934), name of the mythical Goddess, specialist in getting away of men, means for Truffaut, one of his ten preferred ones. Its unlucky story has known multiple obstacles, beginning with the death of Jean Vigo, once the footage was over, the changes made by ...             Boudu Saved from Drowning - Criterion Collection Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia Criterion, 2005 My Favorite Renoir So you're a self-proclaimed film buff & you've sat through the Renoir masterpieces "The Rules of the Game" and "The Grand Illusion" and performed the obligatory genuflecting before two of the greatest contributions to film ever. Two gold stars for you. Now what? ...             Drole de Drame Louis Jouvet, Françoise Rosay Homevision, 2003 A first-rate absurdist farce. A true classic. I've been looking for a good clean version of this film for many years, having spent many blissful & lucky summer hours at the old Thalia movie theater in NYC devouring the great French films of the 1930s. Now at last the treasure has arrived. Three of the giants of ...          products you might be interested in   search for DVDs atalante, capriccio, collection, criterion, francisco, runnicles      toavi.com    web we recommend Fantasy Fantastic randomly chosen book: Beginning Apologetics 4: How to Answer Atheists and New Agers