|
Popeye (Widescreen)
»rank: 3036
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Nothing interests filmmaker Robert Altman more than a contained culture that mixes bare humanity with local eccentricity (think of his M*A*S*H and Nashville). So Altman's Popeye (1980), based on the old comic strip, works best as a portrait of a busy, cluttered, cartoonish town called Sweethaven. But it is much less successful as a comprehensible story about the famous sailor with massive forearms and a relationship with 0live 0yl (Shelley Duvall). Robin Williams plays Popeye with his usual brilliance for mimicry, Paul Dooley makes a credible Wimpy, ...
|
|
Nomads (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 11177
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Pierce Brosnan, bloody and beaten and hysterically screaming in French, whispers a word, lnnuat, into the ear of emergency-room physician Lesley-Anne Down and promptly dies. John McTiernan (Die Hard) knows how to kick off a movie, and his directorial debut, Nomads, shows a real flair for visual tension and eerie imagery. For reasons never explained, Down relives the final days of anthropologist Brosnan in mind-jolting flashes of memories that send her stumbling across L.A. and into the path of a demonic gang of black-leather punks (led by ...
|
|
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
»rank: 7627
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Pierce Brosnan, bloody and beaten and hysterically screaming in French, whispers a word, lnnuat, into the ear of emergency-room physician Lesley-Anne Down and promptly dies. John McTiernan (Die Hard) knows how to kick off a movie, and his directorial debut, Nomads, shows a real flair for visual tension and eerie imagery. For reasons never explained, Down relives the final days of anthropologist Brosnan in mind-jolting flashes of memories that send her stumbling across L.A. and into the path of a demonic gang of black-leather punks (led by ...
|
|
North Dallas Forty (Widescreen)
»rank: 15761
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:A very savvy, 1978 film directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) dealing with the seamier side of professional football. Phillip Elliott and Maxwell (Nick Nolte and Mac Davis, respectively) are players for a Texas football team loosely based on the championship Dallas Cowboys. Though at the peak of his football career, Elliott is a personal and physical mess, needing all manner of drugs prescribed by the team physician to play and even to move around. The indifference of the team management and the hypocritical stance toward ...
|
|
Brewster's Millions (Widescreen)
»rank: 9498
Chroniques et points de vue:From :He's had some good performances in supporting parts, but Richard Pryor never starred in a film that captured his comic brilliance the way his concert films did--proving that magic isn't something you can bottle. This 1985 film is no exception, even though it was directed by Walter Hill three years after he turned Eddie Murphy into a movie star with 48 HRS. The seventh film reworking of a warhorse stage play, this movie stars Pryor and John Candy as a pair of minor-league baseball players whose best ...
|
|
At Close Range (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 4106
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0ne of the overlooked films of the 1980s, perhaps because it is such a downbeat tale of an amoral family. Sean Penn plays a kid whose small-time criminal impulses are stoked to a new level when he falls in with his father (Christopher Walken), a vicious career criminal for whom no problem is so large that it can't be solved by a murder. At first exhilarated by the attention from his father (and the jobs he gives him to do), he gradually catches on to just what ...
|
|
Southern Comfort (Widescreen)
»rank: 17001
Chroniques et points de vue:From :More than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana bayou, Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend-warrior National Guardsmen on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth brings a hard pragmatism to the 'new guy' in the unit, a Texas transplant less than thrilled with his new group. 'They're just Louisiana versions of the same rednecks l served with in El Paso,' he tells the levelheaded Keith Carradine. The barely functional unit of city boys and macho rednecks invades the environs of the local Cajun trappers and ...
|
|
House (Widescreen)
»rank: 20801
Chroniques et points de vue:From :More than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana bayou, Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend-warrior National Guardsmen on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth brings a hard pragmatism to the 'new guy' in the unit, a Texas transplant less than thrilled with his new group. 'They're just Louisiana versions of the same rednecks l served with in El Paso,' he tells the levelheaded Keith Carradine. The barely functional unit of city boys and macho rednecks invades the environs of the local Cajun trappers and ...
|
|
O.C. and Stiggs
»rank: 29232
Chroniques et points de vue:From :More than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana bayou, Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend-warrior National Guardsmen on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth brings a hard pragmatism to the 'new guy' in the unit, a Texas transplant less than thrilled with his new group. 'They're just Louisiana versions of the same rednecks l served with in El Paso,' he tells the levelheaded Keith Carradine. The barely functional unit of city boys and macho rednecks invades the environs of the local Cajun trappers and ...
|
|
Roadhouse 66
»rank: 36671
Chroniques et points de vue:From :More than merely Deliverance in the Louisiana bayou, Walter Hill's taut little tale of weekend-warrior National Guardsmen on swamp exercises reverberates with echoes of Vietnam. Powers Booth brings a hard pragmatism to the 'new guy' in the unit, a Texas transplant less than thrilled with his new group. 'They're just Louisiana versions of the same rednecks l served with in El Paso,' he tells the levelheaded Keith Carradine. The barely functional unit of city boys and macho rednecks invades the environs of the local Cajun trappers and ...
|