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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition (2-Disc Set)
»rank: 1113
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P.L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an 0scar as the world's most magically idealized nanny ('practically perfect in every way,' and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella), and Dick ...
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Gone with the Wind
»rank: 610
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:David 0. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. ln many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half ...
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Grapes Of Wrath (1940)
»rank: 8447
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Ranking No. 21 on the American Film lnstitute's list of the 100 greatest American films, this 1940 classic is a bit dated in its noble sentimentality, but it remains a luminous example of Hollywood classicism from the peerless director of mythic Americana, John Ford. Adapted by Nunnally Johnson from John Steinbeck's classic novel, the film tells a simple story about 0klahoma farmers leaving the depression-era dustbowl for the promised land of California, but it's ...
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Bright Eyes
»rank: 9821
Chroniques et points de vue: essential video:Shirley Temple, the original dancing baby, sings her signature song, '0n the Good Ship Lollipop,' in this heart-rending drama, one of eight films she made in 1934 (!) at the ripe age of 6, and for which she was honored with a special pint-sized Academy Award. Temple stars as Shirley, the curly-headed 'gosh, oh gee'-adorable mascot to a group of aviators since her pilot father 'cracked up and went to heaven.' Get out your ...
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Jesse James
»rank: 8715
Chroniques et points de vue:From :No studio was better than Darryl Zanuck's 20th Century-Fox at dishing out lovingly textured Americana, of which this movie is a prime example. The outlaw gets canonized as an American Robin Hood, an honest farmer who, with post-Civil War Missouri overrun by corrupt agents of the Railroad, had no choice but to start robbing banks and trains to achieve a measure of social justice the System wouldn't provide. Tyrone Power as Jesse is quietly out-acted ...
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The Grapes of Wrath
»rank: 8911
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Ranking No. 21 on the American Film lnstitute's list of the 100 greatest American films, this 1940 classic is a bit dated in its noble sentimentality, but it remains a luminous example of Hollywood classicism from the peerless director of mythic Americana, John Ford. Adapted by Nunnally Johnson from John Steinbeck's classic novel, the film tells a simple story about 0klahoma farmers leaving the depression-era dustbowl for the promised land of California, but it's ...
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3 Godfathers
»rank: 8911
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lt's hardly shameful that The Three Godfathers ranks as the slightest John Ford Western in a five-year arc that includes My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Wagon Master, and Rio Grande. The source, a Peter B. Kyne story both hard-bitten and sentimental, had already been filmed at least five times--once by Ford himself as Marked Men (1919). The star of that silent version, Harry Carey, had recently died. This remake is ...
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Brigham Young
»rank: 7023
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lt's hardly shameful that The Three Godfathers ranks as the slightest John Ford Western in a five-year arc that includes My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Wagon Master, and Rio Grande. The source, a Peter B. Kyne story both hard-bitten and sentimental, had already been filmed at least five times--once by Ford himself as Marked Men (1919). The star of that silent version, Harry Carey, had recently died. This remake is ...
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We're Not Married
»rank: 12442
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lt's hardly shameful that The Three Godfathers ranks as the slightest John Ford Western in a five-year arc that includes My Darling Clementine, Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Wagon Master, and Rio Grande. The source, a Peter B. Kyne story both hard-bitten and sentimental, had already been filmed at least five times--once by Ford himself as Marked Men (1919). The star of that silent version, Harry Carey, had recently died. This remake is ...
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Gone With the Wind (Four-Disc Collector's Edition)
»rank: 11620
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:David 0. Selznick wanted Gone with the Wind to be somehow more than a movie, a film that would broaden the very idea of what a film could be and do and look like. ln many respects he got what he worked so hard to achieve in this 1939 epic (and all-time box-office champ in terms of tickets sold), and in some respects he fell far short of the goal. While the first half ...
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