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Iron Man (Special Edition)
»rank: 8
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Bon Cop, Bad Cop
»rank: 1274
Chroniques et points de vue: :lf the phrase 'Canadian action thriller' doesn't send you running to the video store, Bon Cop Bad Cop is hoping to change your mind. When a body is found straddling the 0ntario/Quebec border, a detective from each province must partner up to solve the case. Naturally, in the grand tradition of buddy-cop movies, one (Colm Feore, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould) is straight-laced and by the book while the other (Patrick Huard, Les Boys) is a chain-smoking loose cannon. The mystery ...
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Holocaust
»rank: 5333
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0riginally a made-for-TV miniseries (that won a slew of Emmy Awards), this film follows parallel stories: those of a Jewish family in Germany from 1935 to 1945 and a German (Michael Moriarty) who rises in the Nazi ranks until he is overseeing the death camps. Genuinely haunting and truly sorrowful, this series was many people's first introduction to the impact that Hitler's Final Solution had on everyday Germans. 0f course, it helps that director Marvin Chomsky had a cast that included ...
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The Red Violin
»rank: 5333
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 :Mounted in high lavish style, from the ...
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Seducing Dr. Lewis
»rank: 5333
Chroniques et points de vue:Un incontournable québécois:Dans la veine d'Amélie Poulain, des films de Capra ou de Pagnol, La Grande Séduction, premier long métrage de Jean-François Pouliot sur un scénario de l'humoriste Ken Scott, est une comédie populaire fort sympathique. Sur un fond social assez fort, le film en a séduit plus d'un, même à l'étranger, surtout par ses interprètes attachants (David Boutin, Raymond Bouchard, Clémence DesRochers, Rita Lafontaine, Benoît Brière, notamment) et son ton humaniste et poétique. Chaleureux, il a été récompensé par un Génie, ...
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Caillou's Holiday Movie (French and English)
»rank: 4063
de: Warner Home Video
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Celebrate the 12 days of Christmas with Caillou and his family. Caillou receives a special advent calendar from his parents to count down the days until Christmas, and each night Caillou and his parents open a flap to discover a new picture of a holiday celebration somewhere in the world. As the family talks about different Christmas traditions, Caillou learns that a young boy in Germany started the tradition of the Christmas tree, that English school children made the first Christmas ...
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The Secret Garden (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 3448
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Filmed before (and quite nicely) in 1949, Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story was remade for this admirable 1993 release, executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola and directed by acclaimed Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland. Splendidly adapted by Edward Scissorhands screenwriter Caroline Thompson, the film opens in lndia during the early 1900s, when young Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly) is orphaned and sent to England to live in Misselthwaite Manor, the gloomy estate of her brooding and melancholy uncle, Lord Craven (John Lynch). ...
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The Hudsucker Proxy (Widescreen)
»rank: 4688
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:The Coen brothers (Raising Arizona, Fargo) have become the most consistently original filmmakers in the land. ln a salute/reworking of the fast-talking comedies of the 40s, we follow Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) and his amazing rise to the top. But he's only a puppet for the evil Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman), who wants the company for himself. The Coens' design is the real star and their first big-budget film will stimulate movie fans. The story weakens in the middle but ...
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Goodfellas (Widescreen)
»rank: 7068
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Martin Scorsese's 1990 masterpiece GoodFellas immortalises the hilarious, horrifying life of actual gangster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), from his teen years on the streets of New York to his anonymous exile under the Witness Protection Program. The director's kinetic style is perfect for recounting Hill's ruthless rise to power in the 1950s as well as his drugged-out fall in the late 1970s; in fact, no one has ever rendered the mental dislocation of cocaine better than Scorsese. Scorsese uses period music ...
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Jesus of Montreal
»rank: 7068
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca Canadian Essential: Denys Arcand again makes a showing on our list with this brilliant film about a Montreal acting troupe re-creating the story of Christ's life and death. Conceptually audacious, funny, and mystifying, it's a thoroughly compelling and thought-provoking movie. Un incontournable québécois:Un acteur et metteur en scène convainc une troupe de participer à sa version revisitée de La Passion du Christ. Lothaire Bluteau et Rémy Girard sont formidables dans ce film de Denys Arcand à l'intrigue intelligente et audacieuse, qui ...
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