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Persona
Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

Persona: One of the great contributions to film.

+ Great film, Good quality DVD
+ Bergman's Dissonance
+ Persona
  
  











  



  
Citizen Kane (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Georgia Backus, Fortunio Bonanova

Turner Home Ent, 2001

A cinematic staple; a film that stands the test of time, proving to be one of the greatest...

+ Great Movie in 1941 and Today.
+ The Best Movie I've Ever Seen Has Just Gotten Better!
+ ABIDE BY YOUR RULES, AMAZON
+ KANE is great...but Thompson is a moron!!!
  
  











  



  
Dracula - The Legacy Collection (Dracula / Dracula (1931 Spanish Version) / Dracula's Daughter / Son of ...
Bela Lugosi, Sheila Manners

Universal Studios, 2004

Just a minor point...

+ Fun But Flawed

...I'm just watching the original Dracula now, and I noticed something unintentionally funny: about 2/3 of the way through, Mina and Harker are on the balcony, and Mina says -- happily! -- Look, the fog's lifting. See how plainly you can see the stars. And then, scarcely 50 seconds later (after a ...
  
  











  



  
Sunset Boulevard (Special Collector's Edition)
William Holden, Gloria Swanson

Paramount, 2002

2 MONKEYS LAID TO REST

+ Classic!
+ Excellent Movie and Wilder's Best!
+ Sunset Boulevard
+ Gloria Swanson is the best
  
  











  



  
Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner

Criterion, 2005

A beautiful disaster

+ Jules et Jim - magnifique!
+ a taste of the Belle Epoque for our time
+ Essential cinema: Truffaut's 'Jules et Jim.'
+ Jules et Jim
  
  











  



  
Seconds
Rock Hudson, Salome Jens

Paramount, 2002

"Isn't it easier to go forward when you know you can't go back?"

+ A completely unique and shattering classic. . .
+ Ahead Of It's Time
+ Seconds
+ "What do you got left?"
  
  











  



  
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Bette Davis, Joan Crawford

Warner Home Video, 1997

Clash Of The Movie Titans: The Famed Hudson Sisters

+ Bette Davis Lover
+ Clasic thriller
+ Great film with two famous stars
+ Bette Davis
  
  











  



  
GoodFellas (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta

Warner Home Video, 2004

Scorsese's Best

+ Fuhgeddaboudit

Martin Scorsese is one of my fav movie directors and Goodfellas is probably my favorite ganster movie (alongside with Godfather Part 1 and 2). Here De Niro delivers one of his best performances as an actor and this kind of character fit him so well. On Joe Pesci, this was the first time I saw him ...
  
  











  



  
A Streetcar Named Desire (Original Director's Version)
Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando

Warner Home Video, 1997

A line is straight, or a street. But the heart of a human being?

+ Blanche favors the light.
+ Lousy Commentary
+ "A Streetcar Named Desire": A MUST For Any Collection Worth Its Cinematic Salt...
  
  











  



  
Rebecca - Criterion Collection
Judith Anderson, Florence Bates

Criterion, 2001

"I am Mrs. de Winter now. . ."

+ Rebecca - Better choices.
+ Hichcock's BEST

If you haven't read Daphne du Maurier's classic novel, the basis for this gorgeous adaptation by Hitchcock and David O. Selznick, you should - even if you've seen the movie twenty times, du Maurier's Gothic tale will offer up additional riches, not the least of them a slower approach to the ...
  
  











  



  
The Mission (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons

Warner Home Video, 2003

The reviewer's got it wrong!

+ The Mission 1986 - Post review
+ Bravo for "The Mission"
+ The Mission
  
  











  



  
American Beauty (Widescreen Edition)
Annette Bening, Thora Birch

Dreamworks Video, 2000

Heart Rot

+ One of my favorties from 1999
+ Love it!
+ One of the best
  
  











  



  
The Thin Red Line
Kirk Acevedo, Penelope Allen

20th Century Fox, 2002

Moby Dick goes to war

Movies are all about expectation management. If you go into this one expecting a thrilling war movie, you will be sorely disappointed. I think most of the criticisms given here are justified. There is not much character development; the pacing is slow; the story doesn't seem to go anywhere. So ...
  
  











  



  
Vertigo (Collector's Edition)
Isabel Analla, Raymond Bailey

Universal Studios, 1998

Hitchcocks masterpiece?

+ Greatness
+ Amazing Film!
+ the fear factor 50 years later
  
  











  



  
City of Hope
Jace Alexander, Angela Bassett

Sony Pictures, 1995

Pay no attention to Maltin...

+ A big idea
+ Slightly didactic, immensely powerful
+ Sayles is a Master
  
  











  



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