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Review Criterion / Fighting Elegy [DVD] [1966] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Junko Asano
  • Takeshi Katô
  • Seijun Suzuki
  • Hideki Takahashi
  • Yusuke Kawazu
  • Isao Tamagawa
Release date: 2005-01-11
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Yusuke Kawazu
Price: £13.50

Review Fighting Elegy [DVD] [1966] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Criterion:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Jane Eyre - Parts 1 and 2 [VHS] [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Gemma Walker
  • Katharine Irwin
  • Zelah Clarke
  • Alan Cox
  • Timothy Dalton
Release date: 1990-07-02
Run time: 238 min.
Creator: Zelah Clarke
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.90

Review Jane Eyre - Parts 1 and 2 [VHS] [1983] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Platinum Disc / Buffalo Soldiers [DVD] [1970] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Russ Mannarelli
  • John Cardos
  • John "Red" Fox
  • Bill Collins
  • Robert Dix
  • Steve Drexel
  • Dick Dixon
  • Robert DoQui
Release date: 2004-03-01
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Mort Tubor

Review Buffalo Soldiers [DVD] [1970] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Platinum Disc:


Review Columbia TriStar / Baadasssss! [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Pamela Gordon
  • T.K. Carter
  • Mario Van Peebles
  • Joseph Culp
  • Don Dowe
  • Keith Diamond
Release date: 2004-09-14
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Nneka Goforth
Price: £7.94

Review Baadasssss! [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Columbia TriStar:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Emma [VHS] [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Denys Hawthorne
  • James Cosmo
  • Greta Scacchi
  • Douglas McGrath
  • Alan Cumming
  • Gwyneth Paltrow
Release date: 2003-02-03
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Jane Austen
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.96

Review Emma [VHS] [1996] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Most people didn't mind Gwyneth Paltrow's English accent in this charming, 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel (which also inspired Clueless). But even if it doesn't sound quite right to you, there are plenty of authentic and wonderful Brit thespians in this film by screenwriter-turned-director Douglas McGrath (co-author of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway), including Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply), Alan Cumming (Buddy), Phyllida Law (Much Ado About Nothing), Ewan McGregor (the Scots star of Trainspotting) and Sophie Thompson, outstanding and finally heartbreaking as the chattering Miss Bates. Paltrow plays Austen's benign busybody, Emma Woodhouse-so busy trying to arrange the lives of others that she is sidestepping her own. McGrath brings a kind of pretty and light touch to the production, his best move the wise delegation of creative authority to the actors themselves. -Tom Keogh Most people didn't mind Gwyneth Paltrow's English accent in this charming 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Emma. There are also plenty of authentic and wonderful Brit thespians in this film by screenwriter-turned-director Douglas McGrath (co-author of Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway), including Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply), Phyllida Law (Much Ado About Nothing), Ewan McGregor and Sophie Thompson who offers an outstanding and finally heartbreaking turn as the chattering Miss Bates. Paltrow plays Austen's benign busybody, Emma Woodhouse-so busy trying to arrange the lives of others that she is sidestepping her own. McGrath brings a kind of pretty and light touch to the production; his best move the wise delegation of creative authority to the actors themselves. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com Emma Thompson scores a double bull's-eye with this marvellous adaptation of Jane Austen's novel. [+]
Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as Elinor Dashwood-the one with "sense"-she also wrote the witty screenplay. Austen's tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson's deeply romantic sister, Marianne (the one with "sensibility"). Winslet attracts the wooing of shy Alan Rickman (a nice change of pace from his bad-guy roles) and dashing Greg Wise, while Thompson must endure an incredibly roundabout courtship with Hugh Grant, here in fine and funny form. All of this is doled out with the usual eye-filling English countryside and handsome costumes, yet the film always seems to be about the careful interior lives of its characters. The director, an inspired choice, is Taiwan-born Ang Lee, who brings the same exquisite taste and discreet touch he displayed in his previous films. Thompson's script won an Oscar. -Robert Horton, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Studios / Cinderella Man [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Giamatti
  • Paddy Considine
  • Craig Bierko
  • Renée Zellweger
  • Russell Crowe
  • Ron Howard
Release date: 2005-12-06
Run time: 144 min.
Creator: Penny Marshall
Price: £3.00

Review Cinderella Man [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Universal Studios:


Review HBO Home Video / A Handful of Dust [DVD] [1988] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • James Wilby
  • Rupert Graves
  • Anjelica Huston
  • Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Charles Sturridge
  • Judi Dench
Release date: 2004-11-16
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Kristin Scott Thomas
Price: £5.76

Review A Handful of Dust [DVD] [1988] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / HBO Home Video:

Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's Jazz Age satire, A Handful of Dust is a brutal story of a failed marriage with shattering consquences. James Wilby stars as a country gentleman, Tony Last, who loves rattling around his expansive estate, Hetton Abbey. Tony's wife, Brenda (Kristin Scott Thomas), however, pines for London's excitement and commences an affair in the city with penniless aristocrat John Beaver (Rupert Graves). The fallout of Brenda's betrayal includes a family tragedy and creative divorce settlement ultimately undone when fed-up Tony goes on a naturalist trek through Brazil and becomes the hostage of a mad, illiterate explorer (Alec Guinness). One might wonder whether it's more appropriate to laugh or tremble at these events, and director Charles Sturridge's handsome, graceful production ingeniously accommodates the story's streaks of dark comedy and horror. With brief, memorable supporting roles for Anjelica Huston and Stephen Fry. -Tom Keogh.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Woman In White [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Justine Waddell
  • Andrew Lincoln
  • John Standing
  • Tim Fywell
  • Susan Vidler
  • Tara Fitzgerald
Release date: 1998-06-01
Run time: 130 min.
Creator: Wilkie Collins
RRP: £12.99
Price: £25.99

Review Woman In White [VHS] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Warner Home Video / The Phantom of the Opera [HD DVD] [2004] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Gerard Butler
  • Minnie Driver
  • Joel Schumacher
  • Miranda Richardson
  • Emmy Rossum
  • Patrick Wilson
Release date: 2006-04-18
Run time: 143 min.
Creator: Gaston Leroux
Price: £9.99

Review The Phantom of the Opera [HD DVD] [2004] [US Import] / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Studios / The Good Shepherd [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Matt Damon
  • Michael Gambon
  • Robert De Niro
  • Robert De Niro
  • Keir Dullea
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Lewin Webb
Release date: 2007-04-03
Run time: 168 min.
Creator: Tariq Anwar
Price: £5.48

Review The Good Shepherd [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import] / Universal Studios:


Review Miramax / The Wings of the Dove [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Charlotte Rampling
  • Helena Bonham Carter
  • Linus Roache
  • Iain Softley
  • Alison Elliott
  • Elizabeth McGovern
Release date: 1999-09-14
Run time: 102 min.
Creator: Harvey Weinstein
Price: £3.32

Review The Wings of the Dove [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Miramax:

Queen of the costume drama Helena Bonham Carter finally got a chance to loosen her corset a bit with this exquisitely mounted (Sandy Powell's costumes were nominated for an Academy Award) romantic drama based on Henry James's classic novel. Set in turn-of-the-century London and Venice, Wings of the Dove is a stately departure-more PBS than MTV-for Iain Softley, director of Hackers and the birth-of-the-Beatles biopic Backbeat. But there's enough romantic intrigue to perhaps fuel a week's worth of daytime TV talk shows: My Lover Seduced a Dying Heiress for Her Money. Bonham Carter, who won several critics association honours for her performance (she was nominated for a Golden Globe and Oscar as well) stars as Kate, who is engaged in a secret affair with Merton (Linus Roache), a journalist whose poor financial standing makes marriage impossible. Kate's manipulative aunt (Charlotte Rampling) threatens to disown her unless she marries the more suitable Lord Mark (Alex Jennings). Opportunity-admittedly sordid-arrives in the form of Millie (Alison Elliott), an American heiress whom Kate befriends. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she suggests to Merton that he seduce her to make her last days happy, and ensuring that Millie will leave Merton her money when she dies. Merton reluctantly agrees, just as Kate begins to have second thoughts that threaten to sabotage the scheme. One of the most rapturously reviewed films in recent years, Wings of the Dove is a must-own video for the Merchant-Ivory crowd. But guys: don't dismiss this as a "chick flick". [+]
Beneath its Masterpiece Theatre exterior beats the wild and untamed heart of Dawson's Creek. -Donald Liebenson.

Review Paramount / The Duellists [DVD] [1977] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Albert Finney
  • Edward Fox
  • Harvey Keitel
  • Keith Carradine
  • Cristina Raines
  • Ridley Scott
Release date: 2002-12-03
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Joseph Conrad
Price: £5.44

Review The Duellists [DVD] [1977] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Paramount:

One of the great directorial debuts, Ridley Scott's The Duellists is an extraordinary achievement which weaves an epic-in-miniature set around the edges of the Napoleonic Wars. Based on a story by Joseph Conrad, in turn inspired by real events and filmed in part where those events took place, this is the tale of a 15-year conflict between two French army officers: the level-headed Armand D'Hubert (Keith Carradine) and the obsessive Gabriel Feraud (Harvey Keitel). Each time they meet they duel, until the original purpose of the conflict is all but lost. Beyond the two American stars, who fill their roles with rare commitment-accents not withstanding-Scott assembled a stellar cast: Albert Finney, Edward Fox, Pete Postlethwaite, Diana Quick, Cristina Raines, Robert Stephens, Tom Conti, John McEnery, Maurice Colbourne and Jenny Runacre. The production values are astonishing and the film revels in the exquisite painterly visuals which have become a Scott trademark. Howard Blake's elegiac theme adds immeasurably to the impact of a film influenced by Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1974), and anticipating Scott's own Best Picture Oscar-winning Gladiator (2000). A haunting work of spectral beauty, it is also a worthy companion to Scott's shamefully neglected 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992). On the DVD: The Duellists is transferred at 1. 77:1 with full sound atmospherically remixed in Dolby Digital 5. 1. [+]
A new 29-minute documentary finds Scott discussing The Duellists with Kevin (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) Reynolds, which is particularly enlightening given the relative merits of the two swashbucklers. Scott's absorbing commentary track provides an in-depth look into the film-making process. Equally, film music aficionados will be delighted to find not just an isolated music track, but an informative commentary by composer Howard Blake, though he does sometimes talk over the beginning or end of cues. Most unusual but very welcome is the inclusion of Scott's first short film, Boy and Bicycle (1965), a 25-minute b/w mood piece starring Tony Scott, with music by John Barry. Other extras are a storyboard-to-screen comparison, the American trailer and four galleries of posters, stills and production photos. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Miramax / Brideshead Revisited [DVD] [2008] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Hayley Atwell
  • Thomas Morrison
  • Patrick Malahide
  • Matthew Goode
  • Julian Jarrold
  • David Barrass
Release date: 2009-01-13
Run time: 133 min.
Creator: Jeremy Brock
Price: £8.19

Review Brideshead Revisited [DVD] [2008] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Miramax:


Review MGM / Rembrandt [DVD] [1936] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Elsa Lanchester
  • Edward Chapman
  • Charles Laughton
  • Alexander Korda
  • Gertrude Lawrence
  • Walter Hudd
Release date: 2001-06-19
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Gertrude Lawrence
Price: £25.95

Review Rembrandt [DVD] [1936] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / MGM:


Review Distrimax / Padre Pro [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Padre Jesutia
  • Miguel Rico Tavera
Release date: 2009-04-14
Creator: Padre Jesutia
Price: £3.14

Review Padre Pro [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Distrimax:


Review Studio Latino / Fray Martin de Porres [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Raymundo Calixto Sanchez
  • Dad Dager
  • Aroldo Betancourt
  • Juan Carlos Gardie
  • Muriel Laboriel
Release date: 2007-09-18
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Emiliano González De León

Review Fray Martin de Porres [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Studio Latino:


Review Platinum Disc / In Praise Of Older Women [DVD] [1978] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Karen Allen
  • Monique Lepage
  • Arthur Grosser
  • Michael Kirby
  • Tom Berenger
Release date: 2004-12-07
Run time: 114 min.
Creator: Karen Allen
Price: £22.95

Review In Praise Of Older Women [DVD] [1978] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Platinum Disc:


Actors & Directors
  • Philip Kwok
  • Kuo Chue
  • Chiang Sheng
  • Chang Cheh
Release date: 2007-02-07
Creator: Chiang Sheng
Price: £15.95

Review Flag of Iron [DVD] [1980] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Red Sun:


Review Criterion / The Scarlet Empress [DVD] [1934] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Marlene Dietrich
  • Josef von Sternberg
  • John Lodge
  • Sam Jaffe
  • Louise Dresser
  • C. Aubrey Smith
Release date: 2001-05-08
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Eleanor McGeary
Price: £13.87

Review The Scarlet Empress [DVD] [1934] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Criterion:


Review Sommerville House / Wedding in White [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Doris Petrie
  • Carol Kane
  • Leo Phillips
  • Doug McGrath
  • William Fruet
  • Donald Pleasence
Release date: 2006-09-20
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Tony Lower
Price: £4.82

Review Wedding in White [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Sommerville House:


Models & Brands:
Fighting Elegy [DVD] [1966] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Jane Eyre - Parts 1 and 2 [VHS] [1983], Buffalo Soldiers [DVD] [1970] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Baadasssss! [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Emma [VHS] [1996], Cinderella Man [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], A Handful of Dust [DVD] [1988] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Woman In White [VHS], The Phantom of the Opera [HD DVD] [2004] [US Import], The Good Shepherd [HD DVD] [2007] [US Import], The Wings of the Dove [DVD] [1998] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], The Duellists [DVD] [1977] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Brideshead Revisited [DVD] [2008] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Rembrandt [DVD] [1936] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Padre Pro [DVD] [2007] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Fray Martin de Porres [DVD] [2006] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], In Praise Of Older Women [DVD] [1978] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Flag of Iron [DVD] [1980] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], The Scarlet Empress [DVD] [1934] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Wedding in White [DVD] [1972] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

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