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Somewhere in Time (Widescreen)
»rank: 7287
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lt's silly, it's superficial, it's so desperately earnest about its tale of time-spanning love that you almost wish for a cheap flatulence gag just to break the solemn mood. But there's something so unabashedly gushy and entertaining about Somewhere in Time that you can't begrudge its enduring popularity. The film has become a staple of romantic-movie lovers since its release in 1980, and endless showings on cable TV have turned it into a dubious classic of sorts--a three-hanky weeper that anyone ...
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Regarding Henry
»rank: 7287
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Get shot in the head and become a better person. This 1991 Mike Nichols (Wolf) film stars Harrison Ford as a big-shot cold-hearted lawyer who gets a bullet in his brain during a holdup. The film de-emphasizes the traumas of recovery to focus on the title character's personality change after the fact. The canny Ford gets to work from his full, familiar palette of arrogance to boyishness, and even builds Henry from top to bottom after the wounded fellow awakens with ...
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The Road to Avonlea: Season Three
»rank: 2130
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Chroniques et points de vue:From :Get shot in the head and become a better person. This 1991 Mike Nichols (Wolf) film stars Harrison Ford as a big-shot cold-hearted lawyer who gets a bullet in his brain during a holdup. The film de-emphasizes the traumas of recovery to focus on the title character's personality change after the fact. The canny Ford gets to work from his full, familiar palette of arrogance to boyishness, and even builds Henry from top to bottom after the wounded fellow awakens with ...
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Powder
»rank: 3395
Chroniques et points de vue:From :For all its flaws, Powder is still worthwhile for attempting to be unique and well intentioned. The film's qualities were overshadowed after its 1995 release when it was revealed that writer-director Victor Salva had served 15 months in prison for molesting a child actor during production of the 1988 TV movie Clownhouse. Controversy aside, Powder is a welcome step off the beaten path with sufficient strengths to balance its weaknesses. Fantasy and drama combine in the story of a teenager known ...
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Two for the Road
»rank: 3395
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Best known for light, entertaining musicals such as Singin' in the Rain, director Stanley Donen grew more adventurous (and less successful) in the latter stages of his career, but this edgy romantic comedy from 1967 has proven to be one of Donen's best, most enduring films. Jumping back in forth in time, the film chronicles the marital ups and downs of a stylish British couple (Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn) as they travel on various vacations over the course of their ...
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The Hurricane (Widescreen)
»rank: 7482
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln his direction of The Hurricane, veteran filmmaker Norman Jewison understands that slavish loyalty to factual detail is no guarantee of compelling screen biography. ln telling the story of boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter--who was wrongly convicted of murder in 1967 and spent nearly two decades in jail--Jewison and his screenwriters compress time, combine characters, and rearrange events with a nonchalance that would be galling if they didn't remain honest to the core truth of Carter's ordeal. Because of that emotional integrity--and ...
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Paper Moon
»rank: 7482
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A sweet and subtle gem of a movie. Newly orphaned Addie (Tatum 0'Neal) falls into the care of small-time con artist Moses Pray (Ryan 0'Neal, Tatum's real-life father) and turns out to be better at grifting than he is. Set in Depression-era Kansas, Paper Moon is a miracle of unity. The set design and cinematography combine to give both the flavor of documentary photos and the visual quality of movies from the period, and every performance meshes with the overall tone ...
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Notre-Dame de Paris (Plein écran)
»rank: 2701
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Que ceux qui ont manqué le spectacle musical Notre-Dame de Paris lors de sa tournée mondiale se rassurent. L'enregistrement d'une représentation donnée au Palais des congrès de Paris, en 1999, est disponible en vidéo et en DVD. lnspirée du chef-d'œuvre de Victor Hugo, écrit en 1831, Notre-Dame de Paris fait revivre le Paris de 1482, où les mendiants vivaient dans la Cour des Miracles, où les prêtres et les capitaines de police étaient sensibles aux charmes des jeunes bohémiennes et où les ...
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Mon Oncle Antoine (Criterion Collection)
»rank: 2701
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Mon 0ncle Antoine is Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A poignant, starkly honest, but humane film, shot through with authenticity from beginning to end. Realized with an unflagging artistic vision, Mon 0ncle Antoine poetically portrays a young boy's coming of age, vividly capturing the 1940s Quebec mining town in which he lives. Along with winning many awards in the 33 years since its release, this film has also left a visible influence on succeeding generations of Canadian filmmakers like Atom Egoyan. ...
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Gorillas in the Mist (Widescreen)
»rank: 8532
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Sigourney Weaver more than earned her 0scar nomination for Best Actress in Gorillas in the Mist, dominating every frame of Michael Apted's biopic about primatologist Dian Fossey. Tenderly mothering an orphaned gorilla infant or terrorizing an African poacher with a staged lynching, the statuesque star is never less than fiercely focused, a glamorous warrior for animal rights. As the amateur scientist who researched and spotlighted Rwanda's endangered mountain gorillas in National Geographic, Weaver is the passionate heart that keeps an ...
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