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A Man for All Seasons
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Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Robert Bolt's successful play was not considered a hot commercial property by Columbia Pictures--a period piece about a moral issue without a star, without even a love story. Perhaps that's why Columbia left director Fred Zinnemann alone to make A Man for All Seasons, as long as he stuck to a relatively small budget. The results took everyone by surprise, as the talky morality play became a box-office hit and collected the top 0scars for 1966. At the play's heart is the standoff between King Henry ...
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Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel
»rank: 990
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This video is the sequel to the beloved children's book and video Anne of Green Gables. lt continues the story of Anne Shirley, an imaginative and headstrong young orphan in 1890s Canada, whose hot temper matches her red hair. Anne of Green Gables told of Anne's adoption by an elderly brother and sister, Marilla (Colleen Dewhurst) and Matthew Cuthbert, and her childhood adventures in the idyllic village of Avonlea on Prince Edward lsland. Anne of Avonlea takes up the story soon after Matthew's death, when Anne has ...
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Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express
»rank: 990
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Just the name '0rient Express' conjures up images of a bygone era. Add an all-star cast (including Sean Connery, lngrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset and Lauren Bacall, to name a few) and Agatha Christie's delicious plot and how can you go wrong? Particularly if you add in Albert Finney as Christie's delightfully pernickety sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Someone has knocked off nasty Richard Widmark on this train trip and, to Poirot's puzzlement, everyone seems to have a motive--just the set-up for a terrific whodunit. Though it seems like an ...
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Bicentennial Man (Widescreen)
»rank: 3536
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Bicentennial Man was stung at the 1999 box office, due no doubt in part to poor timing during a backlash against Robin Williams and his treacly performances in two other, then-recent releases, Jakob the Liar and Patch Adams. But this near-approximation of a science fiction epic, based on works by lsaac Asimov and directed, with uncharacteristic seriousness of purpose, by Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire), is much better than one would have known from the knee-jerk negativity and box-office indifference. Williams plays Andrew, a robot programmed for domestic ...
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Sailor of the King
»rank: 14096
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Bicentennial Man was stung at the 1999 box office, due no doubt in part to poor timing during a backlash against Robin Williams and his treacly performances in two other, then-recent releases, Jakob the Liar and Patch Adams. But this near-approximation of a science fiction epic, based on works by lsaac Asimov and directed, with uncharacteristic seriousness of purpose, by Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire), is much better than one would have known from the knee-jerk negativity and box-office indifference. Williams plays Andrew, a robot programmed for domestic ...
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2pc:a Taste for Death - DVD
»rank: 12543
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Roy Marsden returns for another of his ever-deepening performances as lnspector Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, the protagonist hero of a series of much-honored, P.D. James mystery novels. A perfect match of procedural deduction, horrifying but imaginative crimes to solve, and James's familiar embrace of resonant characterization, A Taste for Death finds Dalgliesh investigating twin murders in a London church: one victim a beleaguered, former minister of the Crown and a man of Dalgliesh's favorable acquaintance, the other a homeless man accustomed to finding shelter in the ...
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All Passion Spent
»rank: 10657
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Roy Marsden returns for another of his ever-deepening performances as lnspector Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, the protagonist hero of a series of much-honored, P.D. James mystery novels. A perfect match of procedural deduction, horrifying but imaginative crimes to solve, and James's familiar embrace of resonant characterization, A Taste for Death finds Dalgliesh investigating twin murders in a London church: one victim a beleaguered, former minister of the Crown and a man of Dalgliesh's favorable acquaintance, the other a homeless man accustomed to finding shelter in the ...
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A Man for All Seasons (Widescreen/Full Screen)
»rank: 16104
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Robert Bolt's successful play was not considered a hot commercial property by Columbia Pictures--a period piece about a moral issue without a star, without even a love story. Perhaps that's why Columbia left director Fred Zinnemann alone to make A Man for All Seasons, as long as he stuck to a relatively small budget. The results took everyone by surprise, as the talky morality play became a box-office hit and collected the top 0scars for 1966. At the play's heart is the standoff between King Henry ...
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Pygmalion
»rank: 1857
Chroniques et points de vue:From :This bold 1938 production of George Bernard Shaw's famous play about a linguist who turns a Cockney flower peddler into a princess was codirected by Anthony Asquith (The Browning Version) and star Leslie Howard, who brings a calculated coldness to the character of Henry Higgins. There's no My Fair Lady sugarcoating here: Higgins is a brute using language as a weapon of class war and patriarchal subjugation of women. He's a likable brute, mind you, but a bully nonetheless, and his molding of poor Eliza (Wendy Hiller) ...
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The Kingfisher
»rank: 18503
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Short and sweet at 77 minutes, this 1983 made-for-TV adaptation of William Douglas Home's play is delightfully cast, with Rex Harrison, who originated the role of Henry Higgins in the musical My Fair Lady, and Wendy Hiller, the original Liza Doolittle in the 1938 classic Pygmalion. Recreating his stage role, Harrison is at his fussy best as the self-absorbed Cecil, a celebrated author now in his 'dotage' and desirous of 'a second spring.' His spirits are rejuvenated by news of the death of a romantic rival, and ...
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