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Now, Voyager (Keepcase)
Bette Davis, Paul Henreid
Warner Home Video, 2005
Magnificent Warner Brothers' Trio
+ I've seen them all but I own this one!
+ Now, Voyager
+ Now Voyager
+ What could be better...
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Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
William Holden, Gloria Swanson
Paramount, 2002
Hollywoodland
+ DONT GET NO BETTER!! SWANSON AN HOLDEN DID THIS!!
+ A masterpiece
+ Another great classic
+ Classic!
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The Pianist
Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay
Universal Studios, 2003
Gut wrenching...
+ Fantastic story and picture quality/sound
+ Great Service
+ Beautiful
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The Ox-Bow Incident
Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
20th Century Fox, 2003
The Darkest of "Films Noire"
+ Morality play meets Wild West
+ Great Classic Western
+ Not your usual Western, but it is all about suspense, not action.
+ Nothing to do in this old west Nevada burg but drink, fight,
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Full Metal Jacket (Deluxe Edition)[HD DVD]
Adam Baldwin, Bruce Boa
Warner Home Video, 2007
Finally a widescreen version
+ FULL METAL BLU-RAY
+ what is not your malfunction
I have previously owned the standard definition DVD of Full Metal Jacket and only purchased it because I was unable to find a wide screen version. Well, the HD-DVD version is now available and is exactly what I wanted. It is shown in it's widescreen glory, and the image quality is crystal clear in ...
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Captains Courageous
Bernice Hansen, Freddie Bartholomew
Warner Home Video, 2006
Captains Courageous
+ Spoiled little Rich kid snob saved from himself by gruff old fisherman
+ A film classic with humor, intelligent content and values
+ Still Gripping
+ CaptainsCourageous
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Casablanca [HD DVD]
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
Warner Home Video, 2006
As Time Goes By . . .
+ never got it
+ Simply a Classic
+ Everyone is in love with Rick
+ You must remember this ...
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Taxi Driver (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster
Sony Pictures, 2007
"All the animals come out at night......."
+ A slum-land superhero for realists.
+ Powerful
This is the main observation of Travis Bickle, rookie NYC cab driver who has recently returned from active duty in the Viet Nam war. He cruises the mean and scummy skid row streets on the midnight shift, loathing the locals while he steals from his employer by "doing it off the meter".
Played ...
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Little Big Man
James Anderson, Carol Androsky
Paramount, 2003
Exactly as described with fast shipping
+ DUSTIN HOFFMAN
+ Little Big Man
+ DVD movie
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L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti
Criterion, 2001
Simply beautiful!
+ Its Greatness Precedes Its Reputation
+ L'Avventura
+ Assigned viewing feeling
+ Antonioni's first hit ushers in a slow and meditative style well-worth getting acquainted with
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The World of Suzie Wong
William Holden, Nancy Kwan
Paramount, 2004
An excellant love story
+ MOvie DVD - World of Suzie Wong
+ Great Movie!
+ Who wouldn't fall in love with Suzie Wong?
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition)
Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier
Sony Pictures, 2008
A Dated Film But Still Worth Watching
+ Pretty Good
+ Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
+ lilies of the field
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Rashomon - Criterion Collection
Minoru Chiaki, Fumiko Homma
Criterion, 2002
A Watershed Moment in the History of Cinema
+ Amazing
+ A classic movie that raises fundamental questions
Rashomon was the first Japanese movie widely distributed in the West. Fair to say, it was probably the first Asian movie almost all of it's Western audience had ever seen. This masterpiece introduced the filmgoing world to one of the greatest writer/director/editors ever (Kurosawa), one of the ...
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn
Sony Pictures, 2000
JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, OPUS 16
+ Classic Movie Ahead Of It's Time!
+ Suddenly, an outlaw film!
***** 1959. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, this adaptation from Tennessee Williams' Suddenly Last Summer. earned three nominations for the Academy Awards and Elizabeth Taylor a Golden Globe. Outstanding screenplay by the American writer filled with symbols and cymbals. Masterpiece.
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From Here to Eternity
Claude Akins, Harry Bellaver
Sony Pictures, 2001
A classic that lives up to its reputation
+ Fine Film about Military Life on the Cusp of WWII
+ The best movie I ever saw
From the days when doorstop novels (or at least large chunks of them) were turned into films rather than mini-series, From Here to Eternity may be toned down to please both the censors and the US Army, whose co-operation was vital to the film, but it's still a superb piece of film-making that slips ...
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