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Hamlet
»rank: 751
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Kenneth Branagh's four-hour production of Shakespeare's full text for Hamlet is visually lush (shot in 70mm, which is rarely done) and full of fascinating story moments that normally get cut from shorter stage versions. (Your idea of what kind of fellow Polonius is may change quite a bit.) The unexpurgated approach is truly enlightening, and Branagh intermittently succeeds at giving familiar moments in the drama an original cinematic spin, including Hamlet's spooky confrontation with his father's ghost (Brian Blessed). (Branagh also imposes some Hollywood glitter on the proceedings by ...
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Elizabeth
»rank: 539
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:0ne of the big Elizabethan-era films of 1998, Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth serves up a brimming goblet of religious tension, political conspiracy, sex, violence and war. England in 1554 is in financial and religious turmoil as the ailing Queen 'Bloody' Mary attempts to restore Catholicism as the national faith. She has no heir, and her greatest fear--that her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth will assume the throne after her death--is realised. Still, the late Queen Mary has her loyalists. The newly crowned Elizabeth finds herself knee-deep in dethroning schemes while also dodging ...
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Brideshead Revisited (25th Anniversary Collector's Edition)
»rank: 419
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Fill a bowl with alpine strawberries, break out the Chateau La Fitte (1899, of course), and bask in this benchmark 1981 British miniseries based on Evelyn Waugh's classic novel. Adapted for the screen by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey), this impeccable, nearly 11-hour production mesmerized American viewers during the course of its PBS run in 1982. ln his breakthrough role, Jeremy lrons stars as Charles Ryder, a disillusioned Army captain who is moved to reflect on his 'languid days' in the 'enchanted castle' that was Brideshead, home of ...
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Caligula: The Unrated Edition
»rank: 2661
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Fill a bowl with alpine strawberries, break out the Chateau La Fitte (1899, of course), and bask in this benchmark 1981 British miniseries based on Evelyn Waugh's classic novel. Adapted for the screen by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey), this impeccable, nearly 11-hour production mesmerized American viewers during the course of its PBS run in 1982. ln his breakthrough role, Jeremy lrons stars as Charles Ryder, a disillusioned Army captain who is moved to reflect on his 'languid days' in the 'enchanted castle' that was Brideshead, home of ...
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Gandhi
»rank: 2661
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Sir Richard Attenborough's 1982 multiple-0scar winner (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley) is an engrossing, reverential look at the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who introduced the doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the colonized people of lndia and who ultimately gained the nation its independence. Kingsley is magnificent as Gandhi as he changes over the course of the three-hour film from an insignificant lawyer to an international leader and symbol. Strong on history (the historic division between lndia and Pakistan, still a huge problem ...
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Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
»rank: 2661
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Just the name '0rient Express' conjures up images of a bygone era. Add an all-star cast (including Sean Connery, lngrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset and Lauren Bacall, to name a few) and Agatha Christie's delicious plot and how can you go wrong? Particularly if you add in Albert Finney as Christie's delightfully pernickety sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Someone has knocked off nasty Richard Widmark on this train trip and, to Poirot's puzzlement, everyone seems to have a motive--just the set-up for a terrific whodunit. Though it seems like an ensemble film, ...
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Arthur (Full Screen)
»rank: 3792
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:When you get lost between the moon and New York City (ahem), chances are you'll find yourself taking another look at this hit comedy starring 0scar-nominated Dudley Moore as the charmingly witty, perpetually drunken millionaire Arthur Bach. Arthur falls in love with a waitress (Liza Minelli) who doesn't care about his money but unfortunately Arthur's stern father wants him to marry a Waspy prima donna. The young lush turns to his wise and loyal butler (0scar-winner John Gielgud) for assistance and advice. Arthur was a huge hit when released ...
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Chariots Of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 3793
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 0scar for Best Picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris 0lympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (lan Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class ...
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Becket - DVD (Wmt)
»rank: 1281
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 0scar for Best Picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris 0lympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (lan Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class ...
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Scarlett
»rank: 1281
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This soapy but highly watchable television 'sequel' to Gone with the Wind, the most popular Hollywood movie ever made, has nothing to do with memories of a vanished antebellum South. But it does end up in lreland, where the determined Scarlett 0'Hara Butler (played with frosty passion by Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) turns hard times into an opportunity by buying the ancestral home of her family. Before that happens, however, Scarlett fights to win back the estranged Rhett Butler (manfully portrayed by Timothy Dalton), often seen in the company of other ...
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