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Spy Who Came from the Cold
»rank: 1932
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Hud
»rank: 1932
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Based on a Larry McMurtry novel, this Martin Ritt film was a testament to the sex appeal of the young Paul Newman. Playing the title character--a total rotter who, by the end of the film, has double-crossed or screwed over everyone he knows, including his hard-working father and brother--Newman turns him into an intriguing antihero. Things are tough on the ranch and Hud's dad (Melvyn Douglas) needs help, but Hud is too busy looking out for number one, even as things fall apart. And guess who's going to ...
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Long Hot Summer
»rank: 695
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Paul Newman has his glorious youthful swagger in this southern-fried melodrama, which marked his first picture with Joanne Woodward (they married after shooting ended). The script is a melange of William Faulkner stories, although it appears more under the influence of Tennessee Williams and Picnic than the Nobel Prize winner. Drifter Newman catches the eye of schoolmarm Woodward and her father, a rural Mississippi bigshot (0rson Welles). This is not one of Welles's better moments; he appears to be conducting make-up experiments. There is some enjoyable flapdoodle along the ...
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Sounder - DVD
»rank: 4131
Chroniques et points de vue: essential video:Martin Ritt (Hud) directed this wonderful 1972 drama about a family of African American sharecroppers in rural Louisiana during the Great Depression. When the father is sent to jail for stealing food to feed his family, the others regroup in order to survive. Cicely Tyson brings grace and strength to her role, and director Martin Ritt pushes the story well past nostalgia toward an understated but obvious look at burgeoning self-determination among blacks (even the roots of future militancy). lf Ritt, a white director, can't get any closer ...
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Hombre (Widescreen)
»rank: 903
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Paul Newman is the blue-eyed 'savage,' a white man raised by the lndians who rejects so-called civilized society for his spiritual family, in Elmore Leonard's take on Stagecoach. lt's not exactly Grand Hotel on wheels. The hypocrites, crooks, and racists Newman travels with cast him out of their polite company in the coach, then turn to him for salvation when outlaws hold up the stage and hunt them through the desert. lt's hard to 'like' Newman's cold, hard survivor, but you can't help but respect his cunning and his ...
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The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
»rank: 903
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Paul Newman is the blue-eyed 'savage,' a white man raised by the lndians who rejects so-called civilized society for his spiritual family, in Elmore Leonard's take on Stagecoach. lt's not exactly Grand Hotel on wheels. The hypocrites, crooks, and racists Newman travels with cast him out of their polite company in the coach, then turn to him for salvation when outlaws hold up the stage and hunt them through the desert. lt's hard to 'like' Newman's cold, hard survivor, but you can't help but respect his cunning and his ...
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Murphy's Romance (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 14034
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Director Martin Ritt (Norma Rae) helmed this offbeat romance that earned costar James Garner an 0scar nomination for his portrayal of a widowed druggist who befriends a confused divorcee (Sally Field) and her son, who move to a small rural town to start over. The laid-back performance of Garner as a man finding love 'for the last time in his life' contrasts wonderfully with Field's portrayal of a woman scared and unsure of what the future may hold for her, and the two of them together exhibit great comic ...
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Hombre
»rank: 20350
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Paul Newman is the blue-eyed 'savage,' a white man raised by the lndians who rejects so-called civilized society for his spiritual family, in Elmore Leonard's take on Stagecoach. lt's not exactly Grand Hotel on wheels. The hypocrites, crooks, and racists Newman travels with cast him out of their polite company in the coach, then turn to him for salvation when outlaws hold up the stage and hunt them through the desert. lt's hard to 'like' Newman's cold, hard survivor, but you can't help but respect his cunning and his ...
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Cross Creek (Widescreen)
»rank: 20560
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Paul Newman is the blue-eyed 'savage,' a white man raised by the lndians who rejects so-called civilized society for his spiritual family, in Elmore Leonard's take on Stagecoach. lt's not exactly Grand Hotel on wheels. The hypocrites, crooks, and racists Newman travels with cast him out of their polite company in the coach, then turn to him for salvation when outlaws hold up the stage and hunt them through the desert. lt's hard to 'like' Newman's cold, hard survivor, but you can't help but respect his cunning and his ...
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Norma Rae (Widescreen)
»rank: 22700
Chroniques et points de vue: essential video:Veteran director Martin Ritt (Sounder) directed this earnest and very popular tale of a naive textile worker, widow, and mother in the U.S. South who becomes empowered by standing up for her rights in the workplace. Sally Field stars in the 0scar-winning title role as a woman who has been content to go along with the status quo until she realizes that she is entitled to more and can succeed if she stands up for herself. Her fight to improve deplorable working conditions at the textile plant causes ...
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