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Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Classic Collection 2
»rank: 7747
de: Acorn Media
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The Big Chill (Widescreen)
»rank: 6630
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:This seminal film about the reunion of thirtysomething friends works even better than when first released in 1983. The fine performances of the ensemble cast and a rockin' soundtrack always made this eminently enjoyable. However, the characters' often pompous blather occasionally stalled the action. Baby Boomer introspection has become so common that such navel gazing seems less problematic than it did in the early 1980s. Seven former classmates from the University of Michigan gather ...
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Il Postino (Widescreen)
»rank: 2224
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ltalian star and filmmaker Massimo Troisi was dying of heart failure even before this film, his dream project, began production, and he prevailed upon British director Michael Radford (White Mischief) to see him and the film through to the end. (The 40-year-old Troisi, a beloved comic actor in ltaly, died the day production wrapped.) Based on true events, Troisi plays a shy postman who strikes up an unlikely friendship with exiled Chilean poet Pablo ...
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The Boxer (Widescreen)
»rank: 6257
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Yet another potent (although critically underrated) drama from Jim Sheridan and Daniel Day-Lewis, the lrish director and British star (respectively) of My Left Foot and ln the Name of the Father. The story focuses on Danny Flynn (Day-Lewis), a promising boxer who had been imprisoned at age 18 for associating with lRA terrorists. After serving a 14-year sentence, he returns to his Belfast neighborhood at a time when local lRA leader Joe Hamill (Brian ...
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Streets of Fire (Widescreen)
»rank: 7016
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Walter Hill's updated (1984), highly stylized take on biker movies still looks like a determinedly eccentric project that happens to work at times, but not at others. Michael Paré plays a biker who agrees to rescue his ex-girlfriend (a rocker played by Diane Lane) from kidnappers (led by Willem Dafoe). The ensuing battle against a nocturnal background of industrial blight, chrome, and loud music is like some fever dream of a Springsteen fan who ...
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A Man And A Woman
»rank: 8209
Chroniques et points de vue:From :French filmmaker Claude Lelouch continues to take critical heat for this 1966 international hit, which has been labeled 'schmaltzy' and dismissed as overly stylized for its simple story line. While it certainly can't be mistaken for a masterpiece of the French New Wave (Lelouch was left in the dust that year by such wonders as Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Feminin), A Man and a Woman has a jumpy impressionism that engages a viewer precisely because ...
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When a Man Loves a Woman (Widescreen)
»rank: 6831
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:When a Man Loves a Woman is a dumb title (not another classic pop song, please) for a very smart movie. A kind of gender-switch take on The Lost Weekend, it's about a woman (Meg Ryan) whose alcoholism almost destroys her family. That may sound like just another TV movie, but When a Man Loves a Woman is so authentic in detail and emotion, that everything about it seems fresh, urgent, and engrossing. That's ...
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Death of a Cheerleader
»rank: 8554
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:When a Man Loves a Woman is a dumb title (not another classic pop song, please) for a very smart movie. A kind of gender-switch take on The Lost Weekend, it's about a woman (Meg Ryan) whose alcoholism almost destroys her family. That may sound like just another TV movie, but When a Man Loves a Woman is so authentic in detail and emotion, that everything about it seems fresh, urgent, and engrossing. That's ...
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Wonder Boys (Widescreen)
»rank: 6498
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:When a Man Loves a Woman is a dumb title (not another classic pop song, please) for a very smart movie. A kind of gender-switch take on The Lost Weekend, it's about a woman (Meg Ryan) whose alcoholism almost destroys her family. That may sound like just another TV movie, but When a Man Loves a Woman is so authentic in detail and emotion, that everything about it seems fresh, urgent, and engrossing. That's ...
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Apartment Zero
»rank: 6498
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A tense psychological thriller, Apartment Zero concerns the intertwining of a loner, film buff Colin Firth (The English Patient) and his new mysterious boarder (Hart Bochner) in present-day Argentina. The new roommate is enigmatic and outgoing, befriending everyone that the poor loner could not. But Firth soon suspects a connection between his boarder's appearance and the reports of bodies in the streets murdered for political reasons. The heart of the film lies in the ...
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