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1.The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm starring: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Karlheinz Böhm, Walter Slezak, Barbara Eden directed by: George Pal, Henry Levin December 21, 1994
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Recently TCM showed Bros. Grimm in a widescreen transfer that had alll 3 camera angles visible. It was great! Write them and request a rebroadcast and then get your DVD Recorders ready! Don Atlanta

2.First a Girl (Hollywood Gold Volume 15) starring: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Anna Lee, Griffith Jones, Alfred Drayton directed by: Victor Saville November 28, 2000
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This little British-made gem of a film was one of the last movies to be released exclusively on VHS format. Too bad it wasn't one of the first to be released on DVD. It is similar in storyline to Victor/Victoria, but it is different enough that you can watch both and enjoy the comparisons without feeling that you have just watched the same film twice. Elizabeth (Jessie Matthews) is a British shop girl working in a fashion boutique that caters to the wealthy. She dreams of being a famous entertainer. One rainy day - while wearing the fancy clothes she is supposed to be delivering - she runs into Victor, aspiring Shakespearean actor and actual female impersonator who works the bawdy music halls of London. He is down to his last shilling when he gets a one-time engagement to work ... Read More

3.Great Expectations starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles directed by: David Lean April 20, 1988
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First, a word of warning to the modern viewer: If you are the type of viewer who cannot stand the overacting, dramatically altered 'Hollywood' ending, and absurdly ostentatious soundtrack score inherent to any film released in the 1940s, you may choose to look elsewhere for an adaptation of Dickens. If, however, you are able to accept the limitations and imperfections of the decade in which this was created, you will see a beautifully filmed masterpiece. Some of the camera work in this work is incredible. The director shows a sensitivity to setting and mood unparalleled in any other adaptation of 'Great Expectations'. Even some of the acting is brilliant, especially Alec Guiness's role as Herbert Pocket. Diehard fans of Dickens, especially those familiar with the controversy ... Read More

4.The Story of Robin Hood starring: Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch, James Hayter, James Robertson Justice directed by: Ken Annakin April 11, 1994
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Honestly, I can never have too much Robin Hood. I love each and every take out there, and that includes "The Story of Robin Hood", a little-known live action Disney version from the 1950's. I love the gorgeous Technicolor, the delicate matte painting backgrounds, the folk ballads, the archery, the Richard Todd. More on him in a minute. It's hard to imagine a more sedate version of the rollicking legend. Not that the film is boring; it isn't. It's just oddly calm. There's action, but no peril, plot, but no ideas. The film is a straightforward telling of the facts, so to speak, but we are never allowed any thrills or chills and there is never any doubt that it'll all turn out right in the end. The cast is decent, minus any real standouts. Joan Rice is a pretty, tom-boyish Maid Marion, ... Read More

5.Brides of Dracula starring: Peter Cushing, Martita Hunt, Yvonne Monlaur, Freda Jackson, David Peel directed by: Terence Fisher May 02, 1995
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Brides of Dracula was the first of Hammer's many sequels to their breakthrough hit, and it's not just the best of the series but one of their very best pictures. There's no Christopher Lee this time round - in fact, there's no Dracula at all - but there's a lot of imagination at play here in a beautifully plotted story that sees Peter Cushing's Van Helsing coming up against David Peel's Baron Meinster, a follower of Dracula's vampire cult, after Yvonne Monlaur's schoolteacher ill-advisedly releases him from the shackles his not-as-mad-as-she-looks mother keeps him in. There's a lot going on beneath the stylish surface here - a psychiatrist could probably have a field day with the curious relationship between Peel and Martita Hunt ("We pray for death, both of us. At least, I hope he prays"), not to ... Read More

6.Bonjour Tristesse starring: Jean Seberg, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Mylène Demongeot, Geoffrey Horne directed by: Otto Preminger July 21, 1998
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Juliette Greco is perfection as the aging nightclub singer at a chic Paris boite, who sings to strangers night after night of a "street with no address." Irretrievably ravaged by time and perfidious love, Greco gives the part nearly everything she has; in her excellent Givenchy gown she bespeaks chic even as she allows emotion to tremble through her quack of a voice. As she sings the haunting title track, Jean Seberg is twirling around on the dancefloor simultaneously drinking Greco in and obsessing about her own memories of a colorful, blue-splashed summer on the French Riviera, the summer in which the mystic numbers "7" and "e" combined to form a summer of death and disaster. Preminger is superbly understated here, his direction of Seberg assured and yet improvisatory. Some have criticized the ... Read More

7.Song Without End starring: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny directed by: Charles Vidor, George Cukor January 23, 1996
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I was really impressed with all the reports I have read on Song Without End. I notice it is not being offered on DVD at present. But I did buy it on Video originally and when I saw I could get it on DVD; a while back I thought it might have improved in quality of sound. Alas; the DVD has the same faults as the Video so obviously no technical re recording was attempted. I am not very versed in the history of Lizst and his affairs and the ones with whom he had his affairs. I mainly was disappointed at some of the technical flaws in the Movie BOTH on Video and then again on DVD. While I realize the Movie was originally probably made on 35 mm for Cinema showing..I want other viewers to look at it again and see the number of places where the sound is quite poor. 1. In One or two of the concerts ... Read More

8.Anastasia (1956) starring: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt directed by: Anatole Litvak September 06, 1995
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Thanks to the almighty God that they finally found the remainder of this poor child and the history of this girl is forever closed! No more speculations!

9.Anna Karenina starring: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster, Mary Kerridge directed by: Julien Duvivier April 22, 1997
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I have never read the book, and all I know of the story is what I saw in this movie. I don't think the story was developed very well. There was little dialogue and little to show that Anna was interested in Vronsky until all of sudden she's crazy about him. It's surprising also when she says his love for her has faded and thinks he is going to marry someone else -- We hadn't really seen anything to lead us to that conclusion. So the end is especially tragic because watching this movie you can't even tell if she was right in her suspicions. Also, I agree with the other reviewer that the quality of the picture and audio was poor.

10.Becket (Letterboxed Edition) starring: Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Gino Cervi, Paolo Stoppa directed by: Peter Glenville October 17, 1994
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Another "Burton" at his best, "Becket" gives us a superb Peter O'toole as Henry II. No better acting than these two give us has Hollywood ever produced and it's all there in this increibly important film. Thought provoking and ethiically important. The comlexity of being human faces us throughout the two and a half hours. Would that Hollywood were still producing motion pictures of this quality!

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