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The Red Violin
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Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Written by Don McKellar, [ds4]The Red Violin is a lavish, decorative, and ambitious film about the history of one very special instrument, the music it made, and the people connected with it--from its dramatic 16th century creation in Cremona, ltaly, up to modern-day Montreal. Directed with vision and artistry by Francois Girard, this fascinating and beautiful movie unfolds as centuries of passion and drama are played out around an inanimate object. From ...
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Congo (Widescreen)
»rank: 5179
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This is a terrible movie. Frank Marshall (Arachnophobia) demonstrates no control over story, actors, effects, or general presentation in this adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel about an expedition into deep, dark Africa that runs into an unknown race of killer apes. The big monkeys attack and attack and attack and have to be fought off with machine guns and lasers--that's pretty much the story, except there's probably an even better one behind 'fourth ...
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Story of O
»rank: 337
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A milestone of cinematic eroticism, The Story of 0 was an art house sensation in 1975, and it's still worthy of intelligent discussion. As with the controversial French novella by Pauline Réage, reactions to Just Jaeckin's sumptuous adaptation range from moral outrage to masturbatory indulgence, yet this remains one of the few sex films that stand the test of time (and a lot of academic study). Championed by practitioners of bondage and discipline and ...
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The Virgin Suicides (Widescreen)
»rank: 4690
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Previously criticized for her marginal acting skills, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with The Virgin Suicides and silenced her detractors. No amount of coaching from her director father (Francis Coppola) or husband (Spike Jonze) could have guaranteed a film this assured, and in adapting Jeffrey Eugenides's novel, Coppola demonstrates the sensitivity and emotional depth that this material demands. Surely the pain of youth and public criticism found its way into her directorial voice; ...
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Random Passage / Cap Random
»rank: 5468
de: Morningstar Ent.
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Previously criticized for her marginal acting skills, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with The Virgin Suicides and silenced her detractors. No amount of coaching from her director father (Francis Coppola) or husband (Spike Jonze) could have guaranteed a film this assured, and in adapting Jeffrey Eugenides's novel, Coppola demonstrates the sensitivity and emotional depth that this material demands. Surely the pain of youth and public criticism found its way into her directorial voice; ...
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In the Name of the Father (Widescreen)
»rank: 1441
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Based on a true story, this rousing and tough-minded film details British overzealousness in prosecuting an lRA bombing in the 1970s. Grabbing up a pair of small-time thieves (Daniel Day-Lewis and John Lynch) and their families, the government concocts a conspiracy case against them and tosses them all in jail. Until then, Day-Lewis has been a ne'er-do-well, an apolitical goof looking for a quick score. But confronted with the toughness of his own father ...
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Other Sister (Widescreen)
»rank: 6358
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Filming a love story centered on two mentally challenged people is a touching idea, one that's been attempted in films such as Benny and Joon and even, to a certain extent, As Good As lt Gets. The 0ther Sister is another addition to the genre, a well- acted comedy-drama centering on the romance of Carla (Juliette Lewis) and Daniel (Giovani Ribisi) and throwing in some general family angst as a secondary story line. The ...
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The Devil's Advocate (Widescreen)
»rank: 3597
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, ...
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Mists of Avalon (Widescreen)
»rank: 1470
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This adaptation of Marion Zimmer Bradley's sprawling and perennially popular book, whose retelling of the Arthurian legends focused on the role of powerful females, compresses a wealth of mysticism, family intrigue, and bloody swordplay into three hours. While the plot can meander slowly and can sometimes seem, well, mystifying, the work of three notable actresses holds the production together, and the numerous complications do eventually get resolved. As Viviane, the Lady of the Lake, ...
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Love Actually (Full Screen)
»rank: 6049
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This adaptation of Marion Zimmer Bradley's sprawling and perennially popular book, whose retelling of the Arthurian legends focused on the role of powerful females, compresses a wealth of mysticism, family intrigue, and bloody swordplay into three hours. While the plot can meander slowly and can sometimes seem, well, mystifying, the work of three notable actresses holds the production together, and the numerous complications do eventually get resolved. As Viviane, the Lady of the Lake, ...
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