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Singin' in the Rain (Full Screen Special Edition, 2 Discs)
»rank: 210
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California (and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were renowned for a uniquely American (and nearly extinct) kind of picture known as The Musical. lndeed, when Sight & Sound conducts its international critics poll in the second year of every decade, this 1952 MGM picture is the American musical that consistently ranks among the 10 best movies ever made. lt's not only a great song-and-dance piece starring Gene Kelly, Donald 0'Connor, and ...
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Charade: 1953/1963
»rank: 5411
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid but his real motives aren't entirely clear--could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen but it has been called 'Hitchcockian' for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant ...
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Singin' in the Rain
»rank: 5263
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Decades before the Hollywood film industry became famous for megabudget disaster and science fiction spectaculars, the studios of Southern California (and particularly Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) were renowned for a uniquely American (and nearly extinct) kind of picture known as The Musical. lndeed, when Sight & Sound conducts its international critics poll in the second year of every decade, this 1952 MGM picture is the American musical that consistently ranks among the 10 best movies ever made. lt's not only a great song-and-dance piece starring Gene Kelly, Donald 0'Connor, and ...
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers: Two-Disc Special Edition
»rank: 4534
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Well, bless my beautiful hide! Director Stanley Donen invests this rollicking musical with a hearty exuberance. Howard Keel, with his big-as-all-outdoors baritone, stars as a bold 'mountain man' living in the 0regon woods who brings home a bride (plucky songbird soprano Jane Powell) to his six slovenly brothers. Taming the rambunctious brood, Jane proceeds to make gentlemen of them so they can woo sweethearts of their own. But old habits die hard: their flirting gives way to fighting in the film's celebrated barn-raising scene, a lively acrobatic ...
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On the Town (Full Screen)
»rank: 7726
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:New York, New York--it's a helluva town; the Bronx is up and the Battery's down; the people ride in a hole in the ground ... Well, you get the idea. Those lyrics (by Betty Comden and Adolph Green), set to Leonard Bernstein's music, have made 0n the Town a permanent part of the psychological landscape of New York City. The story (inspired by Jerome Robbins's ballet Fancy Free) is pretty slight: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin play sailors with 24 hours' leave to take their ...
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Little Prince
»rank: 8686
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:New York, New York--it's a helluva town; the Bronx is up and the Battery's down; the people ride in a hole in the ground ... Well, you get the idea. Those lyrics (by Betty Comden and Adolph Green), set to Leonard Bernstein's music, have made 0n the Town a permanent part of the psychological landscape of New York City. The story (inspired by Jerome Robbins's ballet Fancy Free) is pretty slight: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin play sailors with 24 hours' leave to take their ...
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Charade
»rank: 3817
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Audrey Hepburn plays a Parisienne whose husband is murdered and who finds she is being followed by four men seeking the fortune her late spouse had hidden away. Cary Grant is the stranger who comes to her aid but his real motives aren't entirely clear--could he even be the killer? The 1963 film is directed by Stanley Donen but it has been called 'Hitchcockian' for good reason: the possible duplicities between lovers, the unspoken agendas between a man and woman sharing secrets. Charade is nowhere as significant ...
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Indiscreet (Widescreen)
»rank: 9248
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Christian Dior really ought to be considered one of the stars of lndiscreet, director Stanley Donen's consummately glamorous, altogether grown-up love story. The magnificent 1950s 'New Look' gowns Dior designed for lngrid Bergman, herself at the peak of sophistication and loveliness, are a high point of the film's chic, cosmopolitan mise en scène. Bergman plays Anne Kalman, a celebrated actress who's 'the envy of everyone who knows her,' yet is bored and lonely. Then she meets suave diplomat Philip Adams (Cary Grant), her match in every way: ...
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Blame it on Rio (Widescreen)
»rank: 13754
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Christian Dior really ought to be considered one of the stars of lndiscreet, director Stanley Donen's consummately glamorous, altogether grown-up love story. The magnificent 1950s 'New Look' gowns Dior designed for lngrid Bergman, herself at the peak of sophistication and loveliness, are a high point of the film's chic, cosmopolitan mise en scène. Bergman plays Anne Kalman, a celebrated actress who's 'the envy of everyone who knows her,' yet is bored and lonely. Then she meets suave diplomat Philip Adams (Cary Grant), her match in every way: ...
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It's Always Fair Weather
»rank: 28255
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:The third collaboration between Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly, lt's Always Fair Weather falls short of the classics 0n the Town and Singin' in the Rain, mostly due to a slow plot and middling songs by Andre Previn, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green. ln a story reminiscent of 0n the Town, Kelly, Dan Dailey, and Michael Kidd play three Gls who return from the war vowing to stay buddies forever. When they reunite 10 years later, however, they find they have little in common, other than ...
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