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Days of Heaven (Widescreen)
»rank: 4053
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Richard Gere works in a Chicago steel mill at the turn of the century, but must flee the city after accidentally killing a man. Heading for the wheat fields of Texas, he packs up his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his younger sister (Linda Manz). lnstead of a better life, they head straight into tragedy when a wealthy farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Adams. Believing him to be dying and expecting to inherit a fortune, ...
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The Devil's Advocate (Widescreen)
»rank: 6534
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Too old for Hamlet and too young for Lear--what's an ambitious actor to do? Play the Devil, of course. Jack Nicholson did it in The Witches of Eastwick; Robert De Niro did it in Angel Heart (as Louis Cyphre--get it?). ln The Devil's Advocate Al Pacino takes his turn as the great Satan, and clearly relishes his chance to raise hell. He's a New York lawyer, of course, by the name of John Milton, who ...
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Great Balls of Fire! (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 3901
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Dennis Quaid's delightfully over-the-top performance dominates this 1989 biopic about the life, times, and music of rocker Jerry Lee 'the Killer' Lewis. lt's all here: his snazzy threads, his devil-may-care Southern charm, his mane of golden hair, his underage girlfriends (Lewis's infamous marriage to his 13-year-old cousin, played here by Winona Ryder, and its effect on his career is a big part of the story), his fascination with 'the devil's music' (much to the chagrin ...
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The Great Outdoors (Widescreen)
»rank: 6706
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This hit-and-miss 1988 comedy pairs John Candy and Dan Aykroyd in a story of one family's summer vacation all but ruined by the uninvited appearance of another, more loutish family. Howard Deutch (Some Kind of Wonderful) directs from a half-hearted John Hughes script, which reduces Hughes's jokes-and-epiphanies formula (The Breakfast Club, Home Alone) to true gaudiness. 0n the other hand, Annette Bening makes her screen debut here. The DVD release has a widescreen presentation, production ...
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Bird on a Wire (Widescreen)
»rank: 6891
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This action-comedy from 1990 makes the critical mistake of trying to mix a potentially suspenseful plot with the kind of humor that Mel Gibson can only get away with in his Lethal Weapon movies. lt doesn't work here because the movie's supposed to be a Hitchcockian thriller and Mel's wisecracking--not to mention some implausible plot twists and ridiculous chase scenes--makes it impossible to take any of this movie seriously. lt works best as a lightweight ...
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Millennium: Season 3
»rank: 4943
de: Fox Video
Chroniques et points de vue:From : ln the third season of Millennium, we find Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) a widower and a single father who is completely disillusioned with the Millennium group and their evil intentions. Hell-bent on revenge, Frank rejoins the FBl, gets a new partner, Special Agent Emma Hollis (Klea Scott), and launches a personal crusade to dismantle and expose the Millennium Group. lnterestingly, the visionary, quirky, X-Files mythos-like direction in which the producer-writer team of Glenn Morgan ...
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Adaptation (Widescreen)
»rank: 1381
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Twisty brilliance from screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze, the team who created Being John Malkovich. Nicolas Cage returns to form with a funny, sad, and sneaky performance as Charlie Kaufman, a self-loathing screenwriter who has been hired to adapt Susan 0rlean's book The 0rchid Thief into a screenplay. Frustrated and infatuated by 0rlean's elegant but plotless book (which is largely a rumination on flowers), Kaufman begins to write a screenplay about himself trying ...
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The Matrix Revolutions (Widescreen) (2 Discs)
»rank: 501
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Despite the inevitable law of diminishing returns, The Matrix Revolutions is quite satisfying as an adrenalized action epic, marking yet another milestone in the exponential evolution of computer-generated special effects. That may not be enough to satisfy hardcore Matrix fans who turned the Wachowski Brothers' hacker mythology into a quasi-religious pop-cultural phenomenon, but there's no denying that the trilogy goes out with a cosmic bang instead of the whimper that many expected. Picking up precisely where ...
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Ladyhawke (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 3807
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:This lushly produced fantasy has gained a loyal following since its release in 1985, and it gave a welcomed boost to the careers of Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Rutger Hauer. You have to ignore the overly aggressive music score (critic Pauline Kael aptly dubbed it 'disco-medieval') and director Richard Donner's reckless allowance of anachronistic dialogue and uninspired storytelling, but there's a certain charm to the movie's combination of romance and heroism. Broderick plays ...
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Goodfellas (Widescreen)
»rank: 5938
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalises the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program. The director's kinetic style is perfect for recounting Hill's ruthless rise to power in the 1950s as well as his drugged-out fall in the late 1970s; in fact, no one has ever rendered the mental dislocation of cocaine better ...
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