vhs video: Ben Gazzara

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Ben Gazzara

Jon Voight, Kyle Chandler

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

Kyle Chandler worth watching
Jon voight always brings to life any role he plays. Interesting storyline, different. Rodeo scenes very interesting.

Bridge at Remagen

George Segal, Robert Vaughn

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

A good war movie but there is one hidden treasure..
This is one of my favorite war movies. It was a bomb when it came out and it appears infreguently on tv. I won't waste time telling you the plot because that is not what makes this movie special for me. It is music. This is one of Elmer Bernstien's best ...

Buffalo 66

Rosanna Arquette, Jack Claxton

Universal Studios, 1999

Wicked Black Humor!!!
"30 years I haven't missed a game." says Billys mother. Buffalo has just missed a field goal on TV. "They haven't won the championships since 1966, and I missed that game 'cause that's the day I had Billy.." Billy went to prison. The movie starts with him just ...

The Thomas Crown Affair

Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo

MGM (Video & DVD), 2000

Excellent Movie
This movie is definately one of my favorites. Pierce Brosnan & Russo have amazing chemistry and the acting from the two is impeccable. I am also a James Bond fan, and this movie seems to have a James Bond feel to it. Furthermore, the twists and turns in the movie is ...

Vicious Circle

Ben Gazzara, Carolyn Lowery

Lions Gate/Trimark Home Ent., 1997

Perfect Mix
This film mixs espionage with soft core S & M wonderfully. Carolyn Lowery is a definite bonus in this feature, she fits the role well among other things. The plot twists in this movie will keep you guessing to the end. Forshadowing aspects of this movie do help you ...

Happiness (1998) (Unrated)

Jane Adams (II), Jon Lovitz

Vidmark / Trimark, 1999

A Must See
This movie reminds me as a dark comedy for personality disorders. Philip Seymor Hoffman does a fantastic job playing his rolse, as does Jon Lovitz, and the rest of the cast. Definitely a Must See!

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Ben Gazzara, Timothy Carey

Touchstone Video, 1995

Fine film noir
an indebeted club owner has to knockoff a prolific underworld figure as means of settling his tab. subtext abounds in this noir classic.

Anatomy of a Murder

James Stewart, Lee Remick

Sony Pictures, 1994

Preminger's most famous film, and one that holds up extremely well today...
I've been watching the entire Otto Preminger catalog lately, and I got around to seeing what is arguably his most famous film. Seeing it again makes me realise that it's a masterpiece of tension, performances, dialogue, and cinematography. There is so much to like ...

Husbands

John Armstrong, Bill Britten

Sony Pictures, 1999

Complex Comedy
In Ray Carney's new book about Cassavetes he talks about how the director spent a year re-editing this movie because he thought it was too "entertaining" and too "funny" in its first version. Ray Carney's Cassavetes on Cassavetes has hundreds of similar anecdotes by ...

Road House

Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch

MGM (Video & DVD), 1992

Patrick Swayze dirty dancing all over drunks and bad guys...
Roadhouse is a movie about a man who is a cooler at a mid-west bar and controls bars/clubs when they get out of control. Patrick Swayze is the zen-master who takes nothing personally and tries to live his life in peace until he takes a job working for the Double Deuce ...

Bloodline

Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara

Suspenseful, Sexy, Mason/Gazarra Worthy Adverseries
James Mason and Ben Gazarra were still virile and energetic enough to pull it off as two middle-aged adverseries for the eternally charming Audrey Hepburn. Enjoy it for what it is, a straightforward, by-the-numbers suspense thriller with plenty of '70s fashion and ...

Shadow Conspiracy

Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland

Walt Disney Video, 1998

Charlie Sheen/ Sutherland are great in this flic!
Charlie Sheen stars as an advisor to the president. He stumbles across what may be a shadow inside the government . He became hunted to be killed since they know that their conspiracy was uncoverd by him. Both Sheen and Sutherland deliver excellent performances. ...

Farmer & Chase

Todd Field, Ben Gazzara

Arrow Entertainment, 2001

a blockbuster that always keeps you guessing
a bank heist goes wrong and someone's gotto pay as usual it's the bankmanager stunningly played by ira stein, just watch the bullet in the foot scene with a nod to classic film noir and post german expressiosism that fassbinder would have been proud of, the tenor film ...

Saint Jack (Spec)

Elizabeth Ang, Lily Ang

New Concorde, 2001

Casablanca in the Far East (Time capsule of Singapore)
"Saint Jack" is a character movie, revolving around Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara), an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. He dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States to lead a ...

Blindsided

Jeff Fahey, Mia Sara

Universal Home Video, 1993

Great story, fantastic music, memorable movie
I have wanted to see this movie again, and have tried to find it to no avail. It was responsible for my new found interest in smooth jazz, and I really want the soundtrack as well. I would love to buy the movie, but it is too expensive at this time. It really stands ...