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Review A&E Home Video / Twelfth Night [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Kafno
  • Christopher Hollis
  • Frances Barber
  • Richard Briers
  • Julian Gartside
  • Tim Barker
Release date: 2005-08-30
Run time: 155 min.
Creator: William Shakespeare
Price: £9.68

Review Twelfth Night [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / A&E Home Video:


Review Sony Pictures / We Own the Night [UMD Mini for PSP] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Eva Mendes
  • Mark Wahlberg
  • James Gray
  • Robert Duvall
  • Joaquin Phoenix
  • Alex Veadov
Release date: 2008-02-12
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: Mark Cuban
Price: £6.41

Review We Own the Night [UMD Mini for PSP] [2007] / Sony Pictures:


Review Water Bearer Films / Beautiful Mystery [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kei Shuto
  • Masayoshi Nogami
  • Ren Osugi
  • Tatsuya Nagatomo
  • Genji Nakamura
  • Kaoru Yamashina
Release date: 2001-09-04
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Rokuro Mochizuki
Price: £11.06

Review Beautiful Mystery [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Water Bearer Films:


Review Walt Disney Video / The English Patient [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ralph Fiennes
  • Anthony Minghella
  • Juliette Binoche
  • Naveen Andrews
  • Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Willem Dafoe
Release date: 1998-03-25
Run time: 162 min.
Creator: Paul Zaentz

Review The English Patient [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Winner of nine Academy Awards and almost every critic's heart, The English Patient (based on Michael Ondaatje's prizewinning novel of love and loss during World War II) is one of the most acclaimed films of modern times. Hana, a nurse (Juliette Binoche), tends to an archaeologist (Ralph Fiennes) who has been burnt to a crisp in a plane crash. As their relationship intensifies, he flashes back to his overwhelming passion for a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas). Meanwhile, Hana begins a new romance with a man who defuses bombs (Naveen Andrews) and Willem Dafoe almost steals the show as the thumbless thief Caravaggio. The intricately layered flashback narrative, sounding the depths of the lovers' hearts, improves with repeated viewings. -Geoff Riley.

Review Kino / Tchaikovsky [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Vladislav Strzhelchik
  • Evgeni Leonov
  • Innokenti Smoktunovsky
  • Kirill Lavrov
  • Igor Talankin
  • Antonina Shuranova
Release date: 2001-09-04
Run time: 157 min.
Creator: Yuri Nagibin
Price: £58.51

Review Tchaikovsky [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Kino:

It's a common complaint that opera singers can't act, and actors can't sing opera. In this handsome 1988 film of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin, director Petr Weigl attempts to solve the problem by letting each group of performers do what they do best. Thus the music is a studio recording with some great voices in the principal roles, and the film is a lip-synched performance shot in stunning locations by a good-looking cast of players. On the positive side this means that the whole thing looks gorgeous, and sun-drenched dachas, glittering ballrooms and snowy steppes are all captured with painterly verve. The musical performances are also splendid, with Bernd Weikl making a passionate, tortured Onegin, Teresa Kubiak a honeyed, fresh-sounding Tatyana, and Solti conducting with driven intensity. But realism and opera rarely make happy bed-fellows, and the down-side of this film is that the naturalistic "speaking-style" lip-synching and understated acting are entirely at odds with the grand musical gestures, and occasionally give rise to a somewhat absurd alienation effect. Thus while Kubiak's voice is at full blast, Magdalena Vasaryova looks like she's making polite chit-chat at a cocktail party. But the project feels like a brave experiment, nonetheless, and if the whole isn't quite the sum of its different elements, those elements are still jolly good. On the DVD: Eugene Onegin on disc has excellent picture quality (which is fortunate in such a visually exquisite film), though the sound is a little distant and muffled. The film starts with the entry of the peasants in Act 1, but the DVD includes the Prologue and music before this point as an audio bonus. [+]
There are subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese, and a series of trailers for other Decca DVDs. -Warwick Thompson.

Review Image Entertainment / The 47 Ronin, Parts 1 and 2 [1941]
Actors & Directors
  • Chojuro Kawarasaki
  • Kenji Mizoguchi
  • Utaemon Ichikawa
  • Kunitaro Kawarazaki
  • Yoshizaburo Arashi
  • Daisuke Katô
Release date: 1999-07-06
Run time: 241 min.
Creator: Yoshikata Yoda
Price: £268.19

Review The 47 Ronin, Parts 1 and 2 [1941] / Image Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / Forever and a Day [1943]
Actors & Directors
  • Connie Leon
  • May Beatty
  • Cedric Hardwicke
  • Edmund Goulding
  • René Clair
  • Joy Harington
  • George Kirby
  • Frank Lloyd
  • Doreen Munroe
  • Herbert Wilcox
Release date: 1998-11-03
Run time: 104 min.

Review Forever and a Day [1943] / Image Entertainment:


Review Image Entertainment / Lucrezia Borgia [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Edwige Feuillère
  • Maurice Escande
  • Roger Karl
  • Gabriel Gabrio
  • Aimé Clariond
  • Abel Gance
Release date: 2000-07-04
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Alfred Schirokauer

Review Lucrezia Borgia [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review Universal Studios / The Great Waldo Pepper [1975] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bo Brundin
  • Susan Sarandon
  • George Roy Hill
  • Robert Redford
  • Geoffrey Lewis
  • Bo Svenson
Release date: 1998-07-14
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: William Goldman
Price: £186.30

Review The Great Waldo Pepper [1975] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Image Entertainment / Mesmer [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Thalbach
  • Peter Dvorsky
  • Donal Donnelly
  • Alan Rickman
  • David Burke
  • Roger Spottiswoode
Release date: 2000-05-23
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Dennis Potter
Price: £6.99

Review Mesmer [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:


Review New Yorker Video / Chunhyang [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jung-hun Lee
  • Kwon-taek Im
  • Sung-nyu Kim
  • Hyo-jeong Lee
  • Seung-woo Cho
  • Hak-young Kim
Release date: 2001-10-09
Run time: 120 min.
Creator: Myung-gon Kim
Price: £29.71

Review Chunhyang [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Yorker Video:


Review Fox Lorber / The Quarrel [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Saul Rubinek
  • Merlee Shapiro
  • Eli Cohen
  • R.H. Thomson
  • Jay Aitchess
  • Arthur Grosser
Release date: 2000-04-25
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: Chaim Grade
Price: £51.95

Review The Quarrel [1993] / Fox Lorber:


Review New Line Home Video / Silk [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Vogel
  • Kôji Yakusho
  • Keira Knightley
  • François Girard
  • Michael Pitt
  • Sei Ashina
Release date: 2008-02-26
Run time: 107 min.
Creator: Cam Galano
Price: £8.29

Review Silk [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / New Line Home Video:


Review Universal Studios / Seven-Per-Cent Solution [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Vanessa Redgrave
  • Robert Duvall
  • Laurence Olivier
  • Herbert Ross
  • Alan Arkin
  • Nicol Williamson
Release date: 1998-04-08
Run time: 113 min.
Creator: Stanley O'Toole

Review Seven-Per-Cent Solution [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:


Review Empire Pictures / Almost Peaceful [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Zabou Breitman
  • Simon Abkarian
  • Michel Deville
  • Denis Podalydès
  • Vincent Elbaz
  • Lubna Azabal
Release date: 2005-03-29
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: Robert Bober
Price: £11.16

Review Almost Peaceful [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Empire Pictures:


Review Anchor Bay / Bluebeard [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Marilù Tolo
  • Raquel Welch
  • Virna Lisi
  • Nathalie Delon
  • Edward Dmytryk
  • Richard Burton
  • Luciano Sacripanti
Release date: 2000-07-11
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Maria Pia Fusco
Price: £188.28

Review Bluebeard [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Anchor Bay:


Review Simitar / Rachel's Man [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • Mickey Rooney
  • Michal Bat-Adam
  • Moshé Mizrahi
  • Leonard Whiting
  • Rita Tushingham
  • Dalia Cohen
Release date: 1997-10-15
Run time: 111 min.
Creator: Rahel Fabian
Price: £52.97

Review Rachel's Man [1975] / Simitar:


Review Hallmark / Cleopatra [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rupert Graves
  • Leonor Varela
  • Timothy Dalton
  • Billy Zane
  • Franc Roddam
  • John Bowe
Release date: 1999-08-31
Run time: 177 min.
Creator: Stephen Harrigan
Price: £38.50

Review Cleopatra [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Hallmark:


Review Image Entertainment / Mahler [1974] (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rosalie Crutchley
  • Robert Powell
  • Georgina Hale
  • Miriam Karlin
  • Lee Montague
  • Ken Russell
Release date: 1998-11-24
Run time: 115 min.
Creator: Roy Baird

Review Mahler [1974] (NTSC) / Image Entertainment:

From its stunning opening sequence, featuring Georgina Hale (who plays the wife of Gustav Mahler in this Ken Russell film) isolated in full mummy wrap and writhing with erotic yearning to the lush strains of her husband's music, Mahler distinguishes itself as the most poetic and archetypal of Russell's great-composer works. A kind of cinematic response to Luchino Visconti's 1971 adaptation of Death in Venice, in which Dirk Bogarde plays a Mahler-esque composer in search of beauty in the plague-filled city, Mahler stars Robert Powell as the great Jewish romantic from 19th-century Vienna, drafting enormous symphonic works in the midst of rising anti-Semitism. Converting to Christianity as a means of survival, Mahler carries on with his work but experiences an erosion of his health and sense of identity. Meanwhile, his self-effacing spouse represses her own creative drives to keep the resident genius afloat, plugging every leak and receding all but invisible into the woodwork. While the film is the least ostentatious of Russell's movies about music, it is hardly conventional-a mix of lyrical tableaux and comic fantasy that adds up to a stirring, dream-like experience. -Tom Keogh.

Review Monterey Video / Solomon Northup's Odyssey:
Actors & Directors
  • Joe Seneca
  • Mason Adams
  • Michael Tolan
  • Avery Brooks
  • Gordon Parks
  • Petronia Paley
Release date: 2005-01-08
Run time: 117 min.
Creator: John Carter
Price: £8.50

Review Solomon Northup's Odyssey: "Twelve Years a Slave" [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Monterey Video:


Models & Brands:
Twelfth Night [1987] (REGION 1) (NTSC), We Own the Night [UMD Mini for PSP] [2007], Beautiful Mystery [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The English Patient [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Tchaikovsky [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The 47 Ronin, Parts 1 and 2 [1941], Forever and a Day [1943], Lucrezia Borgia [1935] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Great Waldo Pepper [1975] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mesmer [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Chunhyang [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Quarrel [1993], Silk [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Seven-Per-Cent Solution [1976] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Almost Peaceful [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bluebeard [1972] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rachel's Man [1975], Cleopatra [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Mahler [1974] (NTSC), Solomon Northup's Odyssey: "Twelve Years a Slave" [1984] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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