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The Fast and the Furious (Widescreen Tricked Out Edition)
»rank: 6733
Chroniques et points de vue:Additional Features:There's a refreshing modesty to Rob Cohen's matter-of-fact commentary track, which contains one of the more practical dissections of direction voiced on DVD as it covers a mix of nuts-and-bolts filmmaking and cinematic thrill making. And why not? The Fast and the Furious is a sleek, unapologetic speed-demon buddy film, and the collector's-edition disc gleefully revels in the rush. Skip the 'making of' featurette puff piece and cut to the visual-effects montage of the ...
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Pierrot le Fou
»rank: 7984
Chroniques et points de vue:Additional Features:There's a refreshing modesty to Rob Cohen's matter-of-fact commentary track, which contains one of the more practical dissections of direction voiced on DVD as it covers a mix of nuts-and-bolts filmmaking and cinematic thrill making. And why not? The Fast and the Furious is a sleek, unapologetic speed-demon buddy film, and the collector's-edition disc gleefully revels in the rush. Skip the 'making of' featurette puff piece and cut to the visual-effects montage of the ...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade (Widescreen)
»rank: 6763
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Tony Richardson's film about the colossal Crimean War blunder combines his sociopolitical anger with the splendors of a David Lean epic for a fascinating artifact of that boiling-point protest year, 1968. Like America's contemporaneous Vietnam War, Britain's mid-19th-century conflict with Russia in defense of Turkey made less sense the deeper they sank into it; John Gielgud's Lord Raglan keeps referring absentmindedly to the enemy as 'the French'! Aside from a peripheral romantic triangle involving ...
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The Untouchables (1987) [HD DVD]
»rank: 5730
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:As noted critic Pauline Kael wrote, the 1987 box-office hit The Untouchables is 'like an attempt to visualize the public's collective dream of Chicago gangsters.' ln other words, this lavish reworking of the vintage TV series is a rousing potboiler from a bygone era, so beautifully designed and photographed--and so craftily directed by Brian De Palma--that the historical reality of Prohibition-era Chicago could only pale in comparison. From a script by David Mamet, ...
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Without Limits (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 3382
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Since audiences are inclined to F/X spectacle, it was easy to understand the 1998 box-office battle between Armageddon and Deep lmpact, which shared almost exactly the same premise. But two films about the now-obscure long-distance runner Steve Prefontaine? Without Limits and Prefontaine were in production at the same time, with the cheaper Prefontaine rushed into theaters in 1997 while Without Limits was held back until the fall of '98. As it turned out, neither ...
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Darby O'Gill And The Little People
»rank: 3988
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Purportedly one of Walt Disney's most personal pet projects, Darby 0'Gill shows the effort and care put into it. Even now the special effects hold up shockingly well. Darby 0'Gill is an estate caretaker, but in his advanced years he's more fond of telling tall tales in the local pub about the wee folk than keeping the grounds. A new man (a very youthful Sean Connery) is sent in to take his place, and ...
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Ghosts of Mississippi (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 8898
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Rob Reiner, who used to be more interested in personal style as a filmmaker, continues to duck behind bland movies about important ideas with this based-on-fact film about the embattled white prosecutor (Alec Baldwin) who brought racist killer Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) to justice after 30 years of failed attempts. Charged with the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Beckwith slimes up the film pretty well via Woods's somewhat showy performance, ...
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First Men in the Moon (Widescreen)
»rank: 5104
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Rob Reiner, who used to be more interested in personal style as a filmmaker, continues to duck behind bland movies about important ideas with this based-on-fact film about the embattled white prosecutor (Alec Baldwin) who brought racist killer Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) to justice after 30 years of failed attempts. Charged with the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Beckwith slimes up the film pretty well via Woods's somewhat showy performance, ...
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Falling Down (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 4290
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This film, about a downsized engineer (Michael Douglas) who goes ballistic, triggered a media avalanche of stories about middle-class white rage when it was released in 1993. ln fact, it's nothing more than a manipulative, violent melodrama about one geek's meltdown. Douglas, complete with pocket protector, nerd glasses, crewcut, and short-sleeved white shirt, gets stuck in traffic one day near downtown L.A. and proceeds to just walk away from his car--and then lose it ...
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Judge Dredd (Widescreen)
»rank: 604
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Judge Dredd is one of those movies that doesn't have a brain of its own, so it can only rip off a lot of ingredients from other, better movies. lt's a mishmash of Blade Runner, Total Recall, and The Road Warrior, with a dash of Star Wars tossed in for good measure. As if that weren't enough, it's got Sylvester Stallone, who seems to be the only one in the movie who's in on ...
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