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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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The Irony of Fate, or "Enjoy Your Bath" from Image Entertainment Price: $44.99 Customer Review:  The start of this movie is much stronger than the ending. Perhaps it's because I start out drinking vodka along with the characters, and get a little sleepy as the move goes along (it is a long movie). I have only seen this movie on VHS, but will be purchasing on DVD mainly for the subtitling. This... |
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War and Peace from Kultur Price: $35.96 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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Eisenstein - The Sound Years (Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 & 2, Alexander Nevsky) - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $71.96 Customer Review: Alexander Nevsky: For those familiar with this classic of the Russian cinema, little need be said. For others, here are the high points: the story is set in medieval Russia and it essentially is about a great warrior who is drawn out of seclusion to lead the fight to defend the homeland against... |
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Stalker from Image Entertainment Price: $44.99 Customer Review: When I slipped Andrei Tarkovsky's "Stalker" into my VCR I just layed back, openned up a bag of chips, and began contemplating the useless, insignificant quote left by some small time critic on the box: 'this film is the Slavic equvilant to David Lynch's "Eraserhead" (Who like that's a good... |
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Russian Ark from Wellspring Media, In Price: $23.98 Customer Review: In the history of cinema, it is the Russians who are generally credited with elevating film editing to a modern art form. It is ironic, and strangely fitting, therefore, that it should be the Russians who, almost a full century later, have now produced the first full-length feature film ever to be... |
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Solaris - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $35.96 Customer Review: In Solaris, Chris Kelvin is a psychologist who goes onto a space station orbiting above an ocean planet. There has been a lot of strange things happening on the station, and some of the crew members have died. Chris is to go there to find the source of the problems, and decide if the mission should... |
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I Am Cuba from Image Entertainment Price: $26.99 Customer Review: I had the pleasure to view this film on wide-screen at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts cinema venue back around 1996 or so. It was utterly breathtaking...and a special treat for me since I also speak Spanish and Russian as foreign languages (I for one, didn't mind the subtle Russian dubbing... |
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Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $31.96 Customer Review: Andrei Rublev is a unique and challenging masterpiece set in Medieval Russia, loosely based on the life of a real monk renowned for his Icon paintings. Starkly and beautifully photographed in black and white, its austere settings and classic compositions as well as its depiction of an earlier,... |
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Dersu Uzala from Image Entertainment Price: $26.96 Customer Review: I don't agree with the complaints about picture quality. Our copy had excellent picture and sound except for the first 30 seconds or so. The cogent subtitles were highly visible yellow below the wide screen picture. We have the "Delux Letterbox Edition". Maybe the bad picture quality was in earlier... |
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Prisoner of the Mountains from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Price: $13.46 Customer Review: This beautiful award winner moves me every time I watch it, and there are scenes that are forever etched in my mind. Taking place in Chechnya, it has the same Central Asian rugged terrain that we've seen in recent news stories of Afghanistan, one of the many reasons that makes this an interesting... |
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The Mirror from Kino Video Price: $23.96 Customer Review: I admit that I was not properly prepared when I first watched "The Mirror" (or "Mirror" or "The Looking Glass" or whatever it's really supposed to be called.) It was not my first Tarkovsky movie, but I found it disjointed, confusing, incohesive, etc. I even thought of turning it off in the middle... |
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Burnt by the Sun from Columbia Tristar Hom Price: $26.96 Customer Review: As the other Russian reviewers, I am well aware of the director's dishonest political stance, and it does bother me. The historical relevance of the film is questionable, moreover, it quite obviously caters to the West, with all the West's sensibilities--a huge flag with Stalin's face, for example,... |
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The Cuckoo from Columbia Tristar Hom Price: $26.96 Customer Review: Somewhere in the isolated and stark Lapland countryside a few days before Finland pulls out of World War II a Finnish sniper is chained to a rock after being accused of being a pacifist and a reluctant fighter. After he is deserted and left for dead he struggles and perseveres to unhinge the chains... |
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Mother and Son from Fox Lorber Price: $17.99 Customer Review: Words are an inefficient form of communication when dealing with matters of spirituality, and a film like 'Mother And Son' exists in the spiritual realm, alas, I will attempt to speak of this film in the hopes that someone may take note and open his heart to Sokurov's untangible creation. The... |
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Alexander Nevsky from Image Entertainment Price: $22.49 Customer Review: It is amazing to think that when this film was released in1938, many dismissed it as merely propaganda, as war loomed ahead with Germany. Though certainly the conditions of the time influenced the script, the film is an epic masterpiece. The history depicted in the story is of the Russians in 1242,... |
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Brother from Image Entertainment Price: $26.99 Customer Review: In Brother (Brat) Sergei Bodrov jr. portrays with great skill a young Russian returning from the war and attempting to re-enter Russian Society. In the end, Danila (Bodrov) ends up as a hitman with an almost noble sense of justice. With the "bad guys" wasted, and the situation under control Danila's... |
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Ballad of a Soldier - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $26.96 Customer Review: Though little time is spent detailing the front line, World War II is present in the forefront of every scene in "Ballada o Soldate." Why, then, are only two deaths witnessed through the course of this film: that of a Russian soldier who gives up his position and that of a beautiful woman killed by... |
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The Cranes are Flying - Criterion Collection from Criterion Collection Price: $26.96 Customer Review: This is one of my favorite movies. It's quality is typical of what I have come to expect of a Criterion reconstruction. Something along the lines of HDTV black and white. It's that good. The story itself is situated at the begining of Russia's Great Patriotic War (WWII). The story covers every inch... |
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Kino-Eye/ Three Songs Of Lenin from Image Entertainment Price: $22.49 Customer Review: As you might expect, a 70 year old communist propoganda film is not gripping entertainment. The first "song" is the saga of how the revolution liberated a woman from the oppression and ignorance of Islam. A powerful topic that not many people would dare to tackle today. She goes from being... |
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Que Viva Mexico from Kino Video Price: $26.96 Customer Review: I was introduced to Eisenstein in college (Radio/TV/Film), but saw the film (Russian soundtrack -- Spanish subtitles) while living in Mexico. Eisenstein's gift to us is two-fold. First, the sheer artistry of his images. Second, and even more important to me, the images themselves were drawn from... |
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Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1 from Image Entertainment Price: $22.49 Customer Review: During World War II, with Russia in the grip of Stalin and with Hitler at its door, the greatest Russian director of his day, and perhaps ever, joined the greatest Russian actor of his day, to depict the dark and brooding story of the rise and fall of a ruthless Russian Tsar who tyrannized Russia... |
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Operation "Y" & Other Shurik's Adventures from Image Entertainment Price: $26.99 Customer Review: This is a classic Russian comedy I saw for the first time when I was in Moscow almost 10 years ago. The DVD doesn't have a lot of special features, but it is in the original Russian and offers both Russian and English subtitles, so anyone can view it. This is just as funny now as it was the first... |
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The Diamond Arm from Image Entertainment Price: $26.99 Customer Review: This movie is one of those films that never grow old. It's been the total hit for more than 30 years. Sparkling humour won't let you be bored. The acting is great! Phrases from the movie are now popular aphorisms! The movie arises in you the warmest feelings! Enjoy this movie! |
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Prokofiev - War and Peace / Gergiev, Othotnikov, Kirov Opera from Kultur Price: $26.96 Customer Review: A simple but effective production of a fine opera. The first half, Peace, is a bit more effective than the second. The opera is about World War II more than the French invasion of Russia. The actors were all effective as actors and vocally. |
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