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Lost: The Complete First Season
»rank: 5287
de: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Chroniques et points de vue: :Along with Desperate Housewives, Lost was one of two breakout shows in the fall of 2004. Mixing suspense and action with a sci-fi twist, it began with a thrilling pilot episode in which a jetliner traveling from Australia to Los Angeles crashes, leaving 48 survivors on an unidentified island with no sign of civilization or hope of imminent rescue. That may sound like Gilligan's lsland meets Survivor, but Lost kept viewers tuning in every Wednesday night--and spending the rest of the week ...
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Twilight (Widescreen)
»rank: 6182
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:lf it hadn't been released in 1998 with a veteran cast of Hollywood's finest, you could swear that Twilight was a movie from the 1940s--the kind of intelligent mystery that would've made Humphrey Bogart feel right at home. To be sure, that was exactly the intention of director and co-writer Robert Benton (in collaboration with Nobody's Fool writer Richard Russo), but the film's blessing is also its curse. Benton and Russo are so enamored of vintage mystery plots and characters ...
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Escape to Witch Mountain/Return from Witch Mountain
»rank: 340
de: Walt Disney Video
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:lf it hadn't been released in 1998 with a veteran cast of Hollywood's finest, you could swear that Twilight was a movie from the 1940s--the kind of intelligent mystery that would've made Humphrey Bogart feel right at home. To be sure, that was exactly the intention of director and co-writer Robert Benton (in collaboration with Nobody's Fool writer Richard Russo), but the film's blessing is also its curse. Benton and Russo are so enamored of vintage mystery plots and characters ...
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Le Plaisir
»rank: 9472
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:lf it hadn't been released in 1998 with a veteran cast of Hollywood's finest, you could swear that Twilight was a movie from the 1940s--the kind of intelligent mystery that would've made Humphrey Bogart feel right at home. To be sure, that was exactly the intention of director and co-writer Robert Benton (in collaboration with Nobody's Fool writer Richard Russo), but the film's blessing is also its curse. Benton and Russo are so enamored of vintage mystery plots and characters ...
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A Time to Kill (Widescreen)
»rank: 491
Chroniques et points de vue:From :You wouldn't know it by watching the Batman movies they collaborated on, but this smart adaptation of John Grisham's novel proves that director Joel Schumacher and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have some talent when the right project comes along. Schumacher had previously directed Grisham's The Client, and brought equal craft and intelligence to this story about a young Southern attorney (Matthew McConaughey, in his breakthrough role) who defends a black father (Samuel L. Jackson) after he kills two men who raped his ...
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
»rank: 2674
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Hong Kong wuxia films, or martial arts fantasies, traditionally squeeze poor acting, slapstick humor, and silly story lines between elaborate fight scenes in which characters can literally fly. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has no shortage of breathtaking battles, but it also has the dramatic soul of a Greek tragedy and the sweep of an epic romance. This is the work of director Ang Lee, who fell in love with movies while watching wuxia films as a youngster and made Crouching ...
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Dangerous Liaisons (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 384
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:A sumptuously mounted and photographed celebration of artful wickedness, betrayal and sexual intrigue among depraved 18th-century French aristocrats, Dangerous Liaisons (based on Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses) is seductively decadent fun. The villainous heroes are the Marquise De Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte De Valmont (John Malkovich), who have cultivated their mutual cynicism into a highly developed and exquisitely mannered form of (in-)human expression. Former lovers, they now fancy themselves rather like demigods whose mutual desires have evolved beyond the ...
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Rock Star (Widescreen)
»rank: 3790
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:A sumptuously mounted and photographed celebration of artful wickedness, betrayal and sexual intrigue among depraved 18th-century French aristocrats, Dangerous Liaisons (based on Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses) is seductively decadent fun. The villainous heroes are the Marquise De Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte De Valmont (John Malkovich), who have cultivated their mutual cynicism into a highly developed and exquisitely mannered form of (in-)human expression. Former lovers, they now fancy themselves rather like demigods whose mutual desires have evolved beyond the ...
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A New Kind of Love
»rank: 3931
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:A sumptuously mounted and photographed celebration of artful wickedness, betrayal and sexual intrigue among depraved 18th-century French aristocrats, Dangerous Liaisons (based on Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses) is seductively decadent fun. The villainous heroes are the Marquise De Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte De Valmont (John Malkovich), who have cultivated their mutual cynicism into a highly developed and exquisitely mannered form of (in-)human expression. Former lovers, they now fancy themselves rather like demigods whose mutual desires have evolved beyond the ...
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Cry Freedom (Widescreen)
»rank: 3539
Chroniques et points de vue:Chronique amazon.fr:Ce film de sir Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) relatant l'amitié entre l'activiste noir sud-africain Steven Biko et un rédacteur en chef sympathisant (Kevin Kline) ne connut qu'un succès mitigé. Le style du réalisateur est particulièrement brillant dans la première moitié du film qui traite de la vie et de l'histoire de Biko, mais une fois le leader entre les mains de la police blanche, le récit se concentre sur le personnage de Kline et sur ses efforts pour fuir le pays avec ...
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