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1.Bizet - Carmen / Maazel, Migenes, Domingo starring: Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, François Le Roux directed by: Francesco Rosi December 07, 1992
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This is an absolutely must have for any lovers of the opera Carmen. I originally purchased it as a VHS recording and have tried for years to locate it on DVD. The DVD version is rare indeed and the high cost (I paid $134.77) is worth every penny. The sound is highly superior to the VHS version though mine may have been played so long it sound has been affected. It was purchased from a video store. This presentation of the opera is shown as a movie. It contains close-ups not possible in a stage presentation and it shows villages, buildings, huge crowds, dust, actual bull fighting and many scenes totally impossible with a stage production. Also, the opera is intact. Nothing has been changed. Domingo and Migenes are excellent as are all the cast. A finer version of the opera is simply not possible.

2.Burnt by the Sun starring: Nino Abuladze, T. Akopova, Ion Aksenti, Nina Arkhipova, Vladimir Belousov (II) October 22, 1996
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This excellent movie is beautifully photographed, deeply affecting, intricate but clear, and it illustrates the monstrous abuse a totalitarian government perpetrates upon its citizens and their heroic battles against it. I highly recommend it.

3.The Seventh Seal starring: Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson directed by: Ingmar Bergman June 16, 2000
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Made in 1956, in black and white, this film was one of the first ones ever to explore the topic of death. Fans of Ingmar Bergman know that director explored the meaning of death in his work. Born and raised in a strict and religious family, Bergman was intrigued about the mysteries of life and death, purpose of life and meaning of punishment. This film, placed in 14th century Sweden immediately after Crusades were over and Black Plague decimated the population of Europe, explores exploitative power of religion., pristhood and church, hardship of life for artists and actors and one knight's desire to elude death until he finds answers to his own questions about life and death; purpose of life; belief in God and other existential questions. In attempt to gain time, he bargains with death to buy in some more ... Read More

4.Verdi - La Traviata / Levine, Stratas, Domingo starring: Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil, Allan Monk, Axelle Gall directed by: Franco Zeffirelli March 01, 1992
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Verdi - La Traviata / Levine, Stratas, DomingoI saw this production in 1986 and I was so impressed with this performance that I always want to have this particular version of la Traviata. I saw this DVD when I received this one a couple of weeks ago and my opinion didn't change.

5.The Eighth Day starring: Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou, Henri Garcin, Isabelle Sadoyan directed by: Jaco van Dormael March 24, 1998
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... from the moment you see a character with Down's Syndrome identifying with a tv history of Mongolia, until Spanish crooner Luis Mariano serenades him on a sweet chocolate trip out of time. I'm glad to see all the good reviews. I thought I was the only American who had ever seen this movie, but apparently it's left its mark on a few others. Auteil is wonderful as always, and Pascal Duquenne is remarkable. I believe the two of them shared that year's best actor prize at Cannes. Please, please, please put this film out on region 1 DVD!

6.Everybody's Fine starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli, Marino Cenna, Norma Martelli directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore June 22, 1994
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It seems that each of Tornatore's movies (such as "Cinema Pradiso", or "The Legend of 1900") is a journey. Here too, we are offered a journey - an ageing Sicilian father visiting his grown-up children in the North. They all pretend that they are getting along well in their lives, though, the turth is much different and painly obvious. The experience of the father is not single dimensional - Mastorianni delivers a rich character, who seeks to reconcile his hopes, his desire, yet inability to help. This movie is more than just an inability by a senile man to accept reality, as some reviewers suggest - there is deeper level here, of paternal love, of hope, of the complex uncertainties of life, of the need to understand one's life purpose in old age. This is a strong and moving experience, a journey ... Read More

7.Ayn Rand - WE THE LIVING starring: Rossano Brazzi, Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti, Goffredo Allesandrini directed by: Goffredo Allesandrini May 28, 1994
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Yes. Absolutely. You're busted by this film (you know whom you are) and you STILL will not admit it. Classic. The-Powers-That-Be (or think that they "Be", incorrectly, I must add) in Hollywood should produce this movie in English. There is a DEMAND for it. It would sell. Yep. Yet the hypocritical, "tell-us-what-we-should-think" and "tell-us-what-we-should-do" people in Hollywood will never produce this in English. Oh, no, they will not, for they are long-time admirers of socialism/communism. Fidel and Hugo Chavez are their heroes. Long live an economic system--socialism/communism--that has failed so often in history!! Thankfully, not all of the actors and actresses in Hollywood are communists that fall down and worship Fidel or kiss Hugo's butt. MY GOD! ... Read More

8.Latcho Drom starring: La Caita directed by: Tony Gatlif November 11, 1998
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A wonderful journey through two continents, exploring present-day music of the Roma people. Colourful, exciting, moving, you see the most extraordinary performances in the most inhospitable circumstances.....Tony Gatlif, himself part-Roma, was privileged to be able to join these groups of travellers and record their very special, and exclusive to them,culture.

9.Rashomon starring: Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki directed by: Akira Kurosawa August 14, 2001
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Let me start off by saying I love Kurosawa and have seen many of his films, but this one was a little slow and felt too simple and shallow. I got the point of what he was trying to say almost immediately (truth is relative and depends on the person and that everyone's version of a story is told to make him or her look best), and didn't need to go through every character's perspective to get that point. It felt like he painfully belabored the point and not much else was added to make the plot interesting. And in some places the acting was overdone for the plot/genre and was actually a little bit distracting to me. I'm not saying that I disliked the movie, I just didn't think it was that it could qualify as a masterpiece.

10.Germinal starring: Miou-Miou, Renaud (II), Jean Carmet, Judith Henry, Jean-Roger Milo directed by: Claude Berri February 13, 1996
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This is truly a wonderful film if you wish to get a sense for class conflict in nineteenth-century Europe. I regularly show the film to my European history classes and believe it is high time that a DVD version be released.

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