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Pelle the Conqueror
Troels Asmussen, Lena-Pia Bernhardsson
Trinity Home Ent, 2006
PELLE THE CONQUEROR is based on the first of the four volumes of Martin Andersen Nexo s epic novel. Talented Danish director Bille August focuses on Pelle when he and Lasse find work at Stone Farm. After being humiliated by the farm s young trainee manager Pelle is disappointed when Lasse does not stand up for him. Pelle admires Eric an older immigrant who is not cowed by the farm manager and who ...
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The Tin Drum - Criterion Collection
Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler
Criterion, 2004
STRANGE, DISTURBING & THOUGHT PROVOKING
+ More to it than meets the eye
+ The Tin Drum
+ Nightmarish.
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L' enfant
Jérémie Renier, Déborah François
Sony Pictures, 2006
Quietly Affecting
+ The Other Half
+ L'Enfant
This film sneaks up on you. About half-way through I put it aside and never got back to it, and would have been perfectly happy returning it unfinished. But then I discovered I had another day, so finished watching it, and by the final scene I was crying with Bruno and Sonia.
Sure, when the ...
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The Pianist
Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay
Universal Studios, 2003
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+ Rare, but True Depiction of Polish Suffering. Good Poles, Jews, Germans & Bad as Well - PERIOD. Cada School/Library Should Have
+ Polanski comes back with a masterpiece
+ Awesome Movie! Excellent Quality!
+ Superb - must see
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Missing
Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek
Universal Pictures, 2004
Shock and Awe: the First Round
+ Good movie..but didn't stand passing time!
+ Missing
Charles Horman, the young man whose "disappearance" following the murderous right-wing coup in Chile is the subject of this powerful film, was a classmate and friend of mine at Harvard College. After graduation, I didn't keep in touch with Charlie. In fact, the first I heard of his fate at the ...
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The Eel
Kôji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu
New Yorker Video, 2001
Blame and redemption!
+ The Eel
+ Get swept along with the story of the"eel"
+ Love conquers all!
+ 2nd REVISED REVIEW: Guilt and Redemption
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sex, lies, and videotape
James Spader, Andie MacDowell
Sony Pictures, 1998
A movie that touches the soul and frees the mind
+ Great Movie!
+ Great movie, bad director's commentary
I can't believe that it took me this long to watch this masterpiece of a movie. Despite the title, there's nothing raunchy about it, instead we are rewarded with perceptive insight into the lives of the main characters. James Spader, who also won the Best Actor Prize at the Cannes Film Festival ...
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Apocalypse Now Redux
Sam Bottoms, Marlon Brando
Paramount, 2001
Stick With the Original Version.
+ The Horror...
+ If God and Wagner had teamed up to make a film about Vietnam, starring a 400-pound bald Marlon Brando, this is what you'd get
+ Great Movie
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Rosetta / La Promesse [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - Belgium ]
Cineart
Under Bresson's effluvium !
Rosetta was winner of the Palme d' Or at Cannes, and enthusiastically acclaimed around the world.
The film breathes that existential sense of despair and hopeless, mirroring the merciless portrait of a young girl trying to survive a life of poverty. Her stomach cramps (The cure in "Dairy of a ...
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All That Jazz - Music Edition
Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange
20th Century Fox, 2007
Self-indulgent brilliance
+ Lotta singing, lotta dancing, a fair bit of drugs and sex... it's like life, only snazzier!
+ Awesome, in every sense of the word.
+ All That Jazz Rocks!
+ incredible film
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Taste of Cherry - Criterion Collection
Homayon Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri
Criterion, 1999
A unique piece of cinema...beautifully filmed, one of Kiarostami's (and Iranian cinema's) best films....
+ Good
+ Lives up to the hype.
+ A Taste of Cherry
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Yilmaz Guney Koleksiyon Seti (Box Set) (5 Dvd) Yol, Duvar, Süre, Umut, Hudutlarin Kanunu
Gala Film
Hudutlarn Kanunu, 1966
Umut, 1970
Sürü, 1978
Yol, 1981
Duvar, 1983
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The Conversation
Gene Hackman, John Cazale
Paramount, 2000
Great
+ ". .the Dangling Conversation"
+ In the Pantheon of Greatness
There are some works of art that are obviously derivative of others, and obviously inferior, because they simply ape the earlier work, tweak a few minor things, and try to pass off their theft as `homage'. The Conversation (1974), written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is not one of those ...
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi
KOCH LORBER FILMS, 2004
A look at rural Italy and its faith more than a century ago, a springboard to discuss social change
+ A Sweet and Bitter Harvest
+ The Tree of Wooden Clogs
+ Hard to swallow masterpiece
+ Witness the life of real 19th century peasants
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The Son's Room
Stefano Accorsi, Lorenzo Alessandri
Miramax Home Video, 2002
The Capriciousness of Life
+ "Very little of life is completely under one's control"
+ Moving
+ The Buddhist Way
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