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Amelie from Miramax Home Entertainment Price: $14.99 Customer Review:  Am?lie was the most charming, unusual and totally unexpected film I`ve ever had the pleasure to see. It features a quirky cast of characters, beautiful and unusual cinematography, a magnificent soundtrack, and an original, magical story. The film begins with a random, startling voiceover:... |
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The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $29.96 Customer Review: "The Rules of the Game" directed by Jean Renoir is now ranked #1 on many film critic lists. Renior built a comedy of manners around old stories. When this film was viewed in Paris in 1939 there was a near riot. The critics hated it for political reasons, but also because characters were walking... |
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La Belle Noiseuse from New Yorker Video Price: $31.96 Customer Review: I am not sure what the person before me knows about French cinema and the history of this film in particular but before posting comments that border sheer ignorance PLEASE do some research. This true masterpiece of a film was shot in 1.33 and that is how La Belle Noiseuse it was shown during the... |
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Amores Perros from Studio Home Entertainment Price: $11.24 Customer Review: "Amores Perros" comes as a roaring sigh in this era of commercial filmmaking over-flowing the market. It is a masterwork done with passion, intelligence and absolute brilliance. With this film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has announced his genius to the world and his status as a new major... |
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Malena from Miramax Price: $28.04 Customer Review:  This lovely and heart-wrenching movie was made even more special by the fact that the two main characters barely speak (well, one of them IS the narrator). I had never heard of the beautiful actress Monica Belluci (Malena) but now look forward to seeing her perform again. She was exquisite and spoke... |
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Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red) from Buena Vista Home Vid Price: $29.99 Customer Review: This is just beautiful, beautiful master film making from one of the best director of films of any country (Kieslowski). The movies are rightly understated, smart and well crafted. I highly suggest watching them in order BLUE, WHITE, and RED and watch how things just comes perfectly together in RED.... |
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Breathless from Fox Lorber Price: $19.98 Customer Review: I first watched "Breathless" in a film class my Senior year in college and I was amazed by it. Although this film was made many years ago, I was blown away by the production techniques used. Some people in my film class thought the movie was stupid and made no sense, while others (including myself)... |
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Talk to Her (Hable con Ella) from Columbia Tri-Star Price: $21.56 Customer Review: I've seen several Pedro Almodovar films and been amazed by his amazing ability behind the camera and also the development of the stories around his characters. The greatest mark of a director, of good film is when people don't appear to be acting but instead as if the watcher feels like they're... |
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Poirot - Set 8 from Acorn Media Publishi Price: $23.99 Customer Review: The Case of the Missing Will - This is a great episode! It's so complex it feels like it should be a 2-hour fare! All the relationships with characters made me watch it again DIRECTLY after seeing it the first time! - 4.5 stars The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman - again more complex than many... |
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The Red Violin from Lionsgate Price: $11.24 Customer Review: This delightful tale takes us through the 300-year "travels" of a Cremona-built violin famous for its red color (and how it got that way!). From Italy to Austria to England to China and finally to the auctioneer in Montreal, we're treated to the compelling intrigue of various owners and their... |
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Francois Truffaut's Adventures of Antoine Doinel (The 400 Blows / Antoine & Collette / Stolen Kisses / Bed & Board / Love on the Run) - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $89.96 Customer Review: OK, so I've only seen Antoine et Colette, the second (& shortest) of the films on this collection, but I thought it was great. At 30 minutes and with nothing scandalous or taboo, it is perfect for a French high school or college classroom. The story is timeless - boy falls in love with girl,... |
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L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment) from Fox Home Entertainme Price: $11.24 Customer Review: I remember seeing the poster for this movie at a movie theater where it was playing last year - movie sounded interesting but didn't see it at the time. Forgot about it until a couple of weeks ago, when I saw Around the World in 80 Days - the lead female character was played by Cecile de... |
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The City of Lost Children from Columbia/Tristar Studios Price: $20.96 Customer Review: This is one of my ultimate favourite movies. The visual effects are simply stunning and the expressions and faces of the characters are incredible (Daniel Emilfork makes Rowan Atchison look like a slacker)! The story line, while a little convoluted, is at least interesting. I feel a little like The... |
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War and Peace (Special Edition) from Image Entertainment Price: $71.99 Customer Review: I just spent the weekend watching the new DVD special edition of this work. In one word: amazing!! The sheer scope of the picture, location shots, costumes, acting, etc. combines to present an authentic vision of early 19th century Russia. You actually feel like you have been transported back in... |
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Il Postino from Miramax Home Entertainment Price: $14.99 Customer Review: I definitely didn't plan on watching this movie. In fact, I had asked for a science fiction flick set in the future recommended by my brother, a movie which just happened to have the same English title. Imagine my shock when instead of seeing a futuristic picture set in 2010, at home I find myself... |
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The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares) from Buena Vista Home Vid Price: $23.99 Customer Review: THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS is a miracle movie. As conceived and directed by Denys Arcand this film is a brilliantly entertaining story, full of hilarious dialogue and situations, full of intellectual stimulation, brilliant metaphors and similes, full of probing philosophy, while standing as the finest... |
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Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $35.96 Customer Review: I was only a girl when I saw 'Les enfants du paradis' for the first time. But this film would have a lasting impression on my consciousness. It is set in the theatre world of nineteenth century Paris and directed by Marcel Carne with a scenario by poet Jacques Prevert. And features such... |
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Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition) from Criterion Collection Price: $31.96 Customer Review: Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946) is not only one of the greatest films I have seen - a perfect blend of poetic fantasy and psychological depth - it's also one of my all-time favorites. The restored version from the Criterion Collection is among the best DVDs I have seen, both for the... |
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King Of Hearts from Mgm/Ua Studios Price: $11.21 Customer Review: A fairy tale set in a French town caught between the opposing armies of the First World War, "King of Hearts" has lost none of its beguiling charm in the 35 years since its original release, nor has its message grown stale. Alan Bates shines as Charles Plumpick, a simple private in a Scottish... |
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Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $35.96 Customer Review: Grand Illusion is sometimes considered as one of the greatest movies ever shot. It was Orson Welles' favorite. Even though many consider that "Rules of the Game" is more important and brillant. The two movies are very different, both incredible. Grand Illusion is easier to catch immediatly while... |
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Orphic Trilogy - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $71.96 Customer Review: This is the first box set released by the Criterion Collection. "Brazil" was on three discs but was only one movie so I don't think it counts. In this 3 disc box set there are 3 feature films by Jean Cocteau. The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d'un po?te) |
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Monsieur Ibrahim from Columbia Tristar Hom Price: $26.96 Customer Review:  The coming-of-age movie is a really tricky thing to pull off. Most of them are either raunchy and vapid, and then others are too introspective and just cloying. Well, this lightweight of a French film, which has gotten rave reviews for Sharif's justifiably great performance, is a little bit of both... |
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Eyes Without a Face - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $23.96 Customer Review: This startling work combines the plot of a splatter movie with the cold, composed style of 1950's Stanley Kubrick. You can sense in it the French appreciation of Poe, Cornell Woolrich, and the Gothic. It has many touches of dark humor and irony that complement the ominous, poetic visual style.... |
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Zulu from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Price: $11.96 Customer Review: The massacre of nearly 1,500 British soldiers of the 24th Regiment of Foot on January 22nd, 1879 at Isandhlwana, Natal Province by warriors of the Zulu Nation is on record as the worst disaster ever inflicted on a modern army by a primitive one. After the battle at Isandhlwana, the Zulu warriors... |
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not from Columbia Tri-Star Price: $23.96 Customer Review: In HE LOVES ME, HE LOVES ME NOT, Audrey Tautou once again has proven that she cannot be pigeonholed into the type of character she played in AMELIE. Each of her films validates the claim that Tautou is much more versatile and talented. In this film Tautou plays Angelique, a young woman in love with... |
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