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Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / The Perfect Husband [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eliska Balzerová
  • Ana Belén
  • Peter Firth
  • Beda Docampo Feijóo
  • Tim Roth
  • Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Release date: 2000-04-25
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Juan Bautista Stagnaro
Price: £25.95

Review The Perfect Husband [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Review Fox Lorber / Maryam [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Maz Jobrani
  • Shohreh Aghdashloo
  • Ramin Serry
  • David Ackert
  • Shaun Toub
  • Mariam Parris
Release date: 2003-08-12
Run time: 87 min.
Creator: Shauna Lyon
Price: £8.15

Review Maryam [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Review Platinum Disc / Mesmerized [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Andrews
  • John Lithgow
  • Dan Shor
  • Michael Laughlin
  • Jodie Foster
  • Michael Murphy
Release date: 1999-06-22
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Mark Seiler
Price: £1.65

Review Mesmerized [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Platinum Disc:


Review Columbia TriStar / Black Dragon [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jackie Chan
  • Chun Hsiung Ko
  • Anita Mui
  • Ma Wu
  • Ah Lei Gua
  • Jackie Chan
Release date: 2003-12-23
Run time: 105 min.
Creator: Robert Riskin
Price: £6.14

Review Black Dragon [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Vanguard Cinema / The Height of the Sky [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lyn Clinton
  • Grant Moninger
  • Tom Crone
  • Evan Palazzo
  • Jennifer Weedon
  • Jackie Stewart
Release date: 2000-08-01
Run time: 116 min.
Creator: Michael Harvkey
Price: £9.97

Review The Height of the Sky [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Vanguard Cinema:


Review Anchor Bay / Woyzeck [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Willy Semmelrogge
  • Eva Mattes
  • Klaus Kinski
  • Wolfgang Reichmann
  • Werner Herzog
  • Josef Bierbichler
Release date: 2000-08-15
Run time: 82 min.
Creator: Georg Büchner
Price: £8.25

Review Woyzeck [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Quantum Leap / The Tempest
Actors & Directors
  • Ted Sorel
  • William H. Bassett
  • Ron Palillo
  • William Woodman
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 127 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £29.99

Review The Tempest / Quantum Leap:


Review Tva Films / Le Pianiste [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Roman Polanski
  • Maureen Lipman
  • Adrien Brody
  • Thomas Kretschmann
  • Frank Finlay
  • Katarzyna Figura
Release date: 2003-05-27
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Wojciech Kilar
Price: £8.67

Review Le Pianiste [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tva Films:


Review Columbia TriStar / Grey Owl [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Vlasta Vrana
  • Annie Galipeau
  • Stewart Bick
  • Neil Kroetsch
  • Richard Attenborough
  • Pierce Brosnan
Release date: 2000-02-15
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Jake Eberts
Price: £5.75

Review Grey Owl [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Of all the biopics directed by Sir Richard Attenborough, Grey Owl is the most curious. Unlike the great and significant lives celebrated in Ghandi, Chaplin and Shadowlands, here Attenborough gives us the story of a man who has long been forgotten. Pierce Brosnan stars as Archie Grey Owl, whom we initially meet as a solitary trapper in 1930's outback Canada. His life story seems simple enough at first, but with the introduction of a wannabe pupil (Annie Galipeau), some cracks appear around the edges. Love complicates matters enormously, yet ultimately comes to explain Archie's big secret and why the film is structured in a cyclical fashion. Brosnan was reportedly disappointed with the final version of the film, feeling it ought to have focused on the more depressing aspects of Grey Owl's life. But that would have been at the expense of the touching love story, and potentially of the simply stunning scenery on which the camera lavishes much attention. The final public revelation of Grey Owl's secret resulted in him being dismissed as nothing but a fraud in his day. Attenborough's tale of boyhood dreams and commitment to cherished principles may not be as memorable as his more high-profile biopics, but will hopefully ensure the subject won't be forgotten again quite so quickly. -Paul Tonks.

Review Columbia TriStar / The Winslow Boy [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Nigel Hawthorne
  • Rebecca Pidgeon
  • Gemma Jones
  • Matthew Pidgeon
  • David Mamet
  • Jeremy Northam
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Sarah Green
Price: £11.97

Review The Winslow Boy [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Direct Source / Jane Eyre [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michele Dotrice
  • Delbert Mann
  • Constance Cummings
  • Peter Copley
  • Peter Blythe
  • Ian Bannen
Release date: 2004-04-01
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: John Williams
Price: £2.15

Review Jane Eyre [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Direct Source:


Review Lions Gate / Dust [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Adrian Lester
  • Nikolina Kujaca
  • Anne Brochet
  • David Wenham
  • Milcho Manchevski
  • Joseph Fiennes
Release date: 2003-11-11
Run time: 127 min.
Creator: Kevan Van Thompson
Price: £3.07

Review Dust [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lions Gate:


Review Kino / Othello [1922] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ferdinand von Alten
  • Werner Krauss
  • D.W. Griffith
  • August Blom
  • Romeo Bosetti
  • Theodor Loos
  • Ica von Lenkeffy
  • Dimitri Buchowetzki
  • Emil Jannings
Release date: 2001-06-26
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Carl Hagen
Price: £15.14

Review Othello [1922] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:


Review Columbia TriStar / Stander [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Dexter Fletcher
  • David O'Hara
  • Ashley Taylor (IV)
  • Thomas Jane
  • Deborah Kara Unger
  • Bronwen Hughes
Release date: 2004-12-21
Run time: 116 min.
Price: £5.77

Review Stander [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Quantum Leap / King Richard II
Actors & Directors
  • William H. Bassett
  • David Birney
  • Paul Shenar
  • John Devlin
  • William Woodman
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 172 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £15.99

Review King Richard II / Quantum Leap:


Actors & Directors
  • Marianne Denicourt
  • Deborah Findlay
  • Alan Corduner
  • Sandra Goldbacher
  • Kyle MacLachlan
  • Nicky Henson
Release date: 2007-10-25
Creator: Adrian Johnston
Price: £35.36

Review Me Without You [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Tva Films:


Review Warner Home Video / Mister Johnson [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Bruce Beresford|Maynard Eziashi|Pierce Brosnan|Edward Woodward
Release date: 1993-08-02
Run time: 97 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Mister Johnson [1990] / Warner Home Video:

British East Africa, 1923. Harry Rudbeck, an ambitious army officer, wants to build a road to bring the outside world to the backwater town where he is posted. Struggling to find ways around Foreign Service bureaucracy, he relies on his resourceful African clerk, Mr. Johnson. But when Johnson's can-do attitude runs afoul of British law, Rudbeck must make a painful decision. The film is deliberately paced, and the topnotch cinematography, art direction, and soundtrack all conspire to immerse you into the sweltering heat of East Africa. Maynard Eziashi gives winning performance as Johnson, a man so intent on becoming important that it destroys him. Like many of director Bruce Beresford's movies, Mister Johnson is a clear-eyed look at the way a collision of two cultures can lead to tragedy. Rudbeck must ultimately face the fact that his own ambition leads to the death of his friend, and Pierce Brosnan (as Rudbeck) and Beresford refuse to sentimentalise the man at all. Among Beresford's films, this is much closer in tone to Breaker Morant than to the kinder, gentler Driving Miss Daisy. [+]
-Geof Miller.

Review BBC Warner / Wives and Daughters [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Judith Coke
Release date: 2001-04-24
Run time: 300 min.

Review Wives and Daughters [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / BBC Warner:

Given the great success of Pride and Prejudice (1995) and that Jane Austen wrote so little, the BBC and screenwriter Andrew Davies looked elsewhere for material of comparable quality. Wives and Daughters by Mrs (Elizabeth) Gaskell is set around 1860 and tells the story of 17-year-old Molly (Justine Waddell), beloved daughter of the widowed Dr Gibson (Bill Paterson). A mercenary stepmother (Francesca Annis) and inconstant stepsister (Keeley Hawes) bring refined havoc to genteel country life, with complications ensuing when both young women fall in love with the youngest son of Squire Hamley (Michael Gambon). This is a wonderfully observed insight into Victorian village life, encompassing comedy, romance and high emotion in a four-episode, five-hour adaptation. Making the most of Davies' subtle and detailed screenplay, there are great, flamboyant performances by Michael Gambon and Francesca Annis. Keeley Hawes, Barbara Flynn and Ian Glen are excellent too, but the revelation is the beguiling central performance by Justine Waddell, also the star of Great Expectations (1999). The photography and production design are gorgeous, as is John Keane's music. Wives and Daughters is as compelling and entertaining as any Jane Austen, and possibly Andrew Davies' best literary adaptation to-date. -Gary S. Dalkin Andrew Davies' 1999 adaptation of Mrs Gaskell's Wives and Daughters was hailed as the rediscovery of a "forgotten" classic novel and found the BBC on the crest of a wave with costume dramas-led by Pride and Prejudice. [+]
Handsome and beautifully filmed, if anything, it surpassed the quality of even that highly praised landmark production. "We should all look pretty strange under a microscope," botanist Robert Hamley tells our heroine Molly Gibson and of course Mrs Gaskell places all her characters under intense scrutiny, with affection but without judgement. Davies' screenplay peals back the layers, giving full vent to the comedy, tragedy and satire that drive this tale of provincial life to its highly satisfactory conclusion. Justine Waddell imbues Molly with an increasingly exasperated but remarkably forbearing intelligence, while Francesca Annis, as the outrageously self-absorbed step-mother Hyacinth, paints a wonderful portrait of affectation without ever totally alienating our sympathy. Michael Gambon's immensely touching Squire Hamley won him a Best Actor BAFTA, but all the performances are uniformly excellent, contributing immeasurably to five hours of television drama of the highest calibre. On the DVD: Presented in 16:9 format with a Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack, this two-disc presentation retains all the hallmarks of the original BBC viewing experience. The picture quality is lush-the production lighting is excellent-and the sound quality sharp. The only gripe is with the extras: the Omnibus documentary "Who the Dickens is Mrs Gaskell?" is brutally truncated, cutting off talking heads like novelists Fay Weldon and Margaret Drabble in their prime and giving limited insight into how the production was made. As an audio bonus, there is also 30 minutes of John Keane's music. -Piers Ford.

Review V.I.E.W. Video / Verdi - the King of Melody [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sandro Ruffini
  • Raffaello Matarazzo
  • Anna-Maria Ferrero
  • Gaby André
  • Pierre Cressoy
  • Camillo Pilotto
Release date: 2004-05-24
Run time: 118 min.
Creator: Piero Pierotti
RRP: £26.99
Price: £9.09

Review Verdi - the King of Melody [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / V.I.E.W. Video:


Review BFS Entertainment Entertainment / Sharpe's Eagle [1993] (Region 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tom Clegg
  • Sean Bean
  • Brian Cox
  • Daragh O'Malley
  • Michael Cochrane
  • Assumpta Serna
Release date: 2000-07-25
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Eoghan Harris
Price: £8.13

Review Sharpe's Eagle [1993] (Region 1) (NTSC) / BFS Entertainment Entertainment:


Models & Brands:
The Perfect Husband [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Maryam [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mesmerized [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Black Dragon [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Height of the Sky [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Woyzeck [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Tempest, Le Pianiste [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Grey Owl [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Winslow Boy [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Jane Eyre [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Dust [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Othello [1922] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Stander [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), King Richard II, Me Without You [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mister Johnson [1990], Wives and Daughters [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Verdi - the King of Melody [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sharpe's Eagle [1993] (Region 1) (NTSC)

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