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The Big Lebowski
»rank: 410
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:After the tight plotting and quirky intensity of Fargo, this casually amusing follow-up from the prolifically inventive Coen (Ethan and Joel) brothers seems like a bit of a lark, and the result was a box-office disappointment. The good news is, The Big Lebowski is every bit a Coen movie, and its lazy plot is part of its laidback charm. After all, how many movies can claim as their hero a pot-bellied, pot-smoking loser named Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) who spends most of his time bowling and ...
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The Sting (Legacy Series Edition)
»rank: 5902
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Set in 1936, the movie's about a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who find themselves in a high-stakes game against the master of all cheating mobsters (Robert Shaw) when they set out to avenge the murder of a mutual friend ...
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Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life (Special Edition)
»rank: 1098
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Returning to the sketch-show format of their earlier days, Monty Python' s The Meaning of Life was always going to feel less ambitious and less coherent than their cinematic masterpiece, The Life of Brian. And inevitably given the format, some sketches are better than others. But, for a movie that has been much-maligned, The Meaning of Life actually features some of the Pythons' most memorable set-pieces: the exploding Mr Creosote has to be the most wonderfully grotesque creation of a team whose speciality was the grotesque; while the sublime ...
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The Big Lebowski
»rank: 986
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:After the tight plotting and quirky intensity of Fargo, this casually amusing follow-up from the prolifically inventive Coen (Ethan and Joel) brothers seems like a bit of a lark, and the result was a box-office disappointment. The good news is, The Big Lebowski is every bit a Coen movie, and its lazy plot is part of its laidback charm. After all, how many movies can claim as their hero a pot-bellied, pot-smoking loser named Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) who spends most of his time bowling and ...
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A Chorus Line
»rank: 9311
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lf you've never seen this popular production performed on stage in its original form as one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history, the movie version is probably your next best option--heck, it's your only option! But beware the major difference between the experience of stage and screen, because A Chorus Line is a perfect example of a show that doesn't translate well from one medium to another. Director Richard Attenborough gives it his best shot, cutting some of the production numbers and adding new ones while 'opening up' ...
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Pocahontas (1995)
»rank: 2892
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Disney's take on this historical confrontation between European settlers and Native Americans follows the paths of two future lovers. 0ne is British adventurer John Smith, who travels the Atlantic with the Virginia Company to establish Jamestown. 0n the shore is Pocahontas, a typical Disney heroine: bright, beautiful, mischievous, and motherless. The two meet in the untamed wilds of America (the first meeting is quite divine), fall in love, and try to ward off the warring factions. lt's Disney's version of a Native American West Side Story. Two Disney trademarks ...
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Savage Streets: Special Edition
»rank: 6402
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Disney's take on this historical confrontation between European settlers and Native Americans follows the paths of two future lovers. 0ne is British adventurer John Smith, who travels the Atlantic with the Virginia Company to establish Jamestown. 0n the shore is Pocahontas, a typical Disney heroine: bright, beautiful, mischievous, and motherless. The two meet in the untamed wilds of America (the first meeting is quite divine), fall in love, and try to ward off the warring factions. lt's Disney's version of a Native American West Side Story. Two Disney trademarks ...
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The Bourne Supremacy (Widescreen)
»rank: 4392
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Good enough to suggest long-term franchise potential, The Bourne Supremacy is a thriller fans will appreciate for its well-crafted suspense, and for its triumph of competence over logic (or lack thereof). Picking up where The Bourne ldentity left off, the action begins when ClA assassin and partial amnesiac Jason Bourne (a role reprised with efficient intensity by Matt Damon) is framed for a murder in Berlin, setting off a chain reaction of pursuits involving ClA handlers (led by Joan Allen and the duplicitous Brian Cox, with Julia Stiles returning ...
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The Wild
»rank: 12725
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Good enough to suggest long-term franchise potential, The Bourne Supremacy is a thriller fans will appreciate for its well-crafted suspense, and for its triumph of competence over logic (or lack thereof). Picking up where The Bourne ldentity left off, the action begins when ClA assassin and partial amnesiac Jason Bourne (a role reprised with efficient intensity by Matt Damon) is framed for a murder in Berlin, setting off a chain reaction of pursuits involving ClA handlers (led by Joan Allen and the duplicitous Brian Cox, with Julia Stiles returning ...
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City Lights (1931)
»rank: 784
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:City Lights is a film to pick for the time capsule, a film that best represents the many aspects of director-writer-star Charlie Chaplin at the peak of his powers: Chaplin the actor, the sentimentalist, the knockabout clown, the ballet dancer, the athlete, the lover, the tragedian, the fool. lt's all contained in Chaplin's simple story of a tramp who falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). Chaplin elevates the Victorian contrivances of the plot to something glorious with his inventive use of pantomime and his ...
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