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Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition)
Marcel André, Michel Auclair
Criterion, 2003
A cartoon comes to life
+ If they would let me, I'd give it ten stars!
+ Undiscovered treasure
+ C'era una volta......
+ A Masterpiece
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The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection
Luc Andrieux, Patrick Auffay
Criterion, 2006
Unforgettable
+ It Endlessly Rewards Close Attention
+ Intriguing.
+ A cinematic masterpiece
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Robinson Crusoe on Mars - Criterion Collection
Paul Mantee, Victor Lundin
Criterion Collection, 2007
Classic Sci-Fi, A Childhood Favorite!
+ Space Age Sci-Fi Classic
+ Great movie
+ cool
+ Still enthralled
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General Idi Amin Dada - Criterion Collection
Idi Amin, Fidel Castro
Criterion, 2002
Idi Amin... the Greatest revolutionary leader of our time!
+ Should I laugh or cry?
+ Idiot Amin at its "best" ...
+ Much More Complex Than Previously Thought
+ "Triumph of the Will" for the 1970's
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Ingmar Bergman - Four Masterworks (Criterion Collection)
Criterion Collection, 2007
Beautiful restoration of four key works
+ Outstanding value!
+ The artist and the technician
This is a technically striking and visually pleasing restoration of four of Bergman's key works. The extras on the disks are sparse, as might be expected. My personal choice was to skip the learned commentary for now, as I wanted to re-experience the three dramas (after about four decades) from my ...
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Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection
Giulietta Masina, Franca Marzi
Criterion, 1999
What Pretty Woman Should Have Been
+ Great
+ My most favorite movie in 45 years of watching films
+ lovely and disturbing
+ Surprisingly, a powerful emotional experience...
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The Furies - Criterion Collection
Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Huston
Criterion, 2008
Underrated Western Given the Deluxe Treatment!
+ Eugene O'Neill Goes West
+ A classic film with an excellent story.
+ If you're a man, don't mess with Miss Vance Jeffords unless you want to sing soprano. If you're a woman, buy an eye patch
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Classe Tous Risques - Criterion Collection
Lino Ventura, Sandra Milo
Criterion, 2008
A French Gangster Film Upstaged in 1960 by Godard's Breathless.
+ a real masterpiece!
+ French gangsters minus trench-coats and the famous Code, but with the excellent Lino Ventura
Perhaps best known for his superb 1991 film, Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter), Claude Sautet's earlier, crisp black-and-white, 60s gangster film, Classe tous risques (Consider All Risks), stars Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo (two icons of French cinema), and Sandra Milo. Banned from 1961 ...
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Drunken Angel - Criterion Collection
Takashi Shimura; Toshirô Mifune; Reisaburo Yamamoto; Michiyo Kogure; Chieko Nakakita; Noriko Sengoku; Shizuko Kasagi; Eitarô Shindô; Masao Shimizu; Taiji Tonoyama; Yoshiko Kuga; Chouko Iida; Isamu Ikukata; Akira Tani; Sachio Sakai; Katao Kawasaki; Kumiko Kisho; Toshiko Kawakubo; Haruko Toyama; Yukie Nanbu
Criterion Collection, 2007
A doctor that makes you cheer for the bad guy.
+ a fine early Kurosawa film
+ scruffy, alcoholic angels
+ Drunken Angel
+ Kurosawa's alcoholic doctor and terminal gangster.
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The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot
Criterion, 1999
One of the best movies ever made
+ Death? A Reason to Believe? 14th Century Black Plague? Readon
+ A film with brains
+ Excellent
+ Bergman tackles a topic of death
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Brazil - The Criterion Collection (3-Disc Boxed Set)
Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Jim Broadbent
Criterion, 2006
Weird, wacky, wonderful
+ Terry Gilliam's vastly underrated masterpiece
+ A Remarkable Achievement
+ "1984" Meets "Brave New World"
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The Ice Storm - Criterion Collection
Christina Ricci, Tobey Maguire
Criterion Collection, 2008
A definite improvement on the previous edition
+ Lesser known actors in this.
+ Well done Criterion
+ A tale of two families
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Ace in the Hole - Criterion Collection
Kirk Douglas
Criterion, 2007
See Kirk Douglas act like a total ace-hole!
+ Bad news sells best.
+ True Movie Geeks Rejoice!
+ Easily one of the best movies I saw this year.
+ A great film with a major flaw!
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The Red Balloon (Released by Janus Films, in association with the Criterion Collection)
Red Balloon
Janus Films, 2008
AT LAST ON DVD !
+ Exquisite
+ A delightful classic for any age
+ A Sentimental and Whimsical Classic
+ The Red Balloon
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Fires on the Plain - Criterion Collection
Eiji Funakoshi, Osamu Takizawa
Criterion, 2007
Gears of war
+ Not brutal to view, at times unconvincing portrayal, but the story is there!
+ This picture turned me off because it was so real.
+ a devatating anti-war film
+ one of the greatest anti-war movies ever made
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