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Eight Men Out
John Cusack, Clifton James
MGM (Video & DVD), 2001
Gotta love baseball!!!
+ entertaining account of the 1919 world series scandal
+ Eight Men Out (20th Anniversary Edition)
+ Eight men out,Eight great actors.
+ The 1919 White Sox
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The Howling (Special Edition)
Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee
MGM (Video & DVD), 2003
The Howling
+ The Howling
+ The Howling
+ The best along with American Werewolf from a great decade
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Alligator
Robert Forster, Robin Riker
Lions Gate, 2007
This alligator has a 'tude, never mind an appetite
+ Titanic Terror Courtesy of Terrifically Talented Team
+ Great Movie
+ The best movie about a man-eating alligator ever!
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City of Hope [VHS]
Vincent Spano, Tony Lo Bianco
Sony Pictures, 1995
Pay no attention to Maltin...
+ A big idea
+ Slightly didactic, immensely powerful
+ Sayles is a Master
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Men With Guns
Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado
Sony Pictures, 2003
Stunningly beautiful, sad, insightful.
+ Human Rights
+ 100% Guatemala
+ Powerful
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (Widescreen Edition)
Freddie Highmore, Mary-Louise Parker
Paramount, 2008
I love this seller
+ Spiderwick Chronicles Blu-ray
+ VERY IMPRESSED
+ Blu-ray: I have not read the books but for this film alone, I had a fun time watching it!
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Forget the Alamo: the border as place in John Sayles' Lone Star.: An article from: Journal of Cultural ...
Daniel D. Arreola
Thomson Gale, 2005
This digital document is an article from Journal of Cultural Geography, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 7443 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation ...
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Sayles on Sayles (Directors on Directors)
John Sayles
Faber & Faber, 1998
For lovers of Sayles' work this book is essential
If you're new to Sayles' movies or a long time fan, this book is a must. Gavin Smith asks probing and significant questions and Sayles provides insights about himself that are refreshingly matter of fact. The book is organized chronologically and examines each of Sayles' films. I have only ...
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Passion Fish
Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard
Sony Pictures, 1999
One of the Enduring Classics of the 1990s
+ I loved this movie!
+ PASSION FISH
A paralyzed daytime soap actress leaves the Big Apples and returns to her family's now dilapidated Bayou manor and discovers the difficulty of keeping health care workers, finds one who was a coke head with her fast-running boyfriend in Chicago and, together they seek & find what little redemption ...
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Dillinger in Hollywood: New and Selected Short Stories
John Sayles
Nation Books, 2004
Unpretentious Stories by the Noted Screenwriter
John Sayles, better known as a screenwriter and filmmaker, has been quietly publishing short stories since the 1980's. In this collection, he has compiled ten stories written over the span of twenty-four years, the oldest of which lends its title to the book. Some of these stories focus on the ...
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Thinking In Pictures: The Making Of The Movie Matewan
John Sayles
Da Capo Press, 2003
An well-written snapshot of independent film making
+ Creative compromises
+ excellent book about making movies
"Thinking in Pictures" is a very good guide to the processes involved in making movies. Sayles writes about the germination of the movie and then the myriad decisions and compromises and joys that went into realising it on screen. If you've ever wondered about the tensions between the creative ...
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Wild Thing [VHS]
Rob Knepper, Kathleen Quinlan
Paramount Home Video, 1988
Late night on Max
+ What a film
+ a vagabond hero classic
I remember seeing this on late night Cinemax. I fell in love with it. I thought it was fantastic. A young boy grows up on the streets, living by his wits. He emerges untamed, and the ultimate urban survivalist and fights the major bad guys with what he finds in the alleys and the dumpsters.
One of ...
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The Lady in Red
Pamela Sue Martin, Robert Conrad
New Concorde, 2002
The Lady in Red
+ The Lady in Red
+ the lady in red
+ Amazing look at a poor girl stuggling to make a living.
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Battle Beyond the Stars
George Peppard, Robert Vaughn
New Concorde, 2001
Movie is Great! DVD transfer sucks!
+ battle beyond the stars
+ Classic grade B SF
This movie is fun all around. Fun script, Color, Art direction, Music great for its time.
I recomend renting before you buy though if your a collector.
The film print they chose for dvd transfer is horrible.
I am not being picky either. Its worst i have ever scene on dvd especially at beginning ...
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The Secret of Roan Inish
Jeni Courtney, Eileen Colgan
Sony Pictures, 2000
roan inish
+ Loved The DVD
+ Still great
+ Beautiful Modern Faery Tale
+ Secret of Roan Irish
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