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Bonnie and Clyde [HD DVD]
»rank: 5217
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:0ne of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labelled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, 'it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance'. The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway ...
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1941 (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
»rank: 4926
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Watching this director's cut, it's finally possible to see why the studio made Spielberg mercilessly hack up this comedy: it's a screaming movie (everyone screams a lot), and screaming movies do not need character development. So all those character-development scenes hit the cutting-room floor and, surprise, they were all critical to Spielberg's pace for the humor in this film. The screaming wasn't that funny then--and it still isn't--but what is funny are the reinserted development scenes, showcasing the now-evident sense of hysteria in the Los Angeles community, ...
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Splendor in the Grass (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 9324
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Elia Kazan's pedal-to-the-metal approach to psychosexual melodrama paid off handsomely when he had layered material by Tennessee Williams or John Steinbeck to work with. The very raw material here is an original by hot-blooded playwright William lnge, about a pair of teenagers in the American Midwest in the 1920s whose lives are ruined by the repressive sexual climate of the period. The girl, played by Natalie Wood, is literally driven batty by her pent-up adolescent lust and ends up in the bin---which admittedly plays better than ...
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Bonnie and Clyde (Special Edition)
»rank: 12503
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:0ne of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labelled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, 'it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance'. The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway ...
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Heaven Can Wait (Widescreen)
»rank: 2935
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:A gung-ho and merciful angel (Buck Henry) pulls Joe Pendleton (Beatty), a football star, out of his body before his time, forcing the higher powers to come up with a substitute host. Joe settles on a vicious multimillionaire whose wife and partner are trying to kill him. Light, breezy, with not a mean bone in its body, Heaven is based on the 1941 film Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Beatty is wonderfully daft and innocent as Joe, Jack Warden is on top of his form as Joe's ...
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Truth Or Dare (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 14933
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Norman Mailer may have come up with the title Advertisements for Myself, but in this case, Madonna is the one who really wrote the book. Truth or Dare, an engaging behind-the-scenes look at the pop star's Blonde Ambition tour, is a feature-film advertisement for herself that Roger Ebert cleverly dubbed 'an authorized invasion of privacy.' How much of it is calculated and how much of it is genuine, what Madonna chooses to reveal about herself and what she actually reveals in the process, are up to the ...
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
»rank: 14933
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Vivien Leigh, so stirringly memorable as Blanche in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, stars in this 1961 adaptation of Williams's only novella, giving a nuanced, slightly neurotic performance that is haunting and all the more tragic by its being one of the actress's last performances before her sad death at age 53. Leigh plays Karen Stone, a 50-ish theater actress whose comeback vehicle never gets off the ground; en route to Rome for a brief escape, she's devastated by the sudden death of her beloved husband. ...
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Bonnie and Clyde [Blu-ray]
»rank: 17365
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:0ne of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labelled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, 'it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance'. The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway ...
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Bugsy [EXTENDED CUT]
»rank: 2727
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:0ne of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labelled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, 'it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance'. The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway ...
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Bugsy (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 22752
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Bugsy represents an almost miraculous combination of director, writer and star on a project that represents a career highlight for everyone involved. lt's one of the best American gangster movies ever made--as good in its own way as any of the Godfather films--and it's impossible to imagine anyone better than Beatty in the movie's flashy title role. As notorious mobster and Las Vegas visionary 'Bugsy' Siegel, Beatty is perfectly cast as a man whose dreams are greater than his ability to realise them--or at least, greater than ...
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