Review, buy War: Bridge On The River Kwai, The / The Guns Of Navarone / From Here To Eternity [1957], Paris Underground [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Days of Glory [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Beyond Borders [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Ride with the Devil [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fleet Air Arm At War And Peace, Jarhead/Born On The Fourth Of July, Samson [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Farewell to Arms [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Das Boot [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Last Days of Patton [1986] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Ravagers [1965] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Three Came Home [1950] (NTSC), In the Presence of Mine Enemies [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Love Light [1921] (REGION 1) (NTSC), One of the Missing [1979], Straight Into Darkness [2005], A Bright Shining Lie [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Trench [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Saul Levitt's The Andersonville Trial [1970] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Bridge On The River Kwai, The / The Guns Of Navarone / From Here To Eternity [1957]

Bridge On The River Kwai, The / The Guns Of Navarone / From Here To Eternity [1957] (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Burt Lancaster
Frank Sinatra
J. Lee Thompson
Montgomery Clift
Donna Reed
Alexander Mackendrick
Fred Zinnemann
David Lean
Deborah Kerr

Release date: 2004-05-17
Run time: 418 min.
Price: £19.99

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Review Image Entertainment / Paris Underground [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Paris Underground [1945] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Image Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Gregory Ratoff
Maurice Cass
Nina Borget
André Charlot
Charles Andre
Constance Bennett

Release date: 2005-04-26
Run time: 97 min.
Creator: Alexander Tansman
Price: £6.35

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Review Weinstein Company / Days of Glory [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Days of Glory [2007] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Weinstein Company)

Actors & Directors

Sami Bouajila
Bernard Blancan
Roschdy Zem
Samy Naceri
Rachid Bouchareb
Jamel Debbouze

Release date: 2007-06-12
Run time: 119 min.
Price: £7.66

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Review Paramount / Beyond Borders [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Beyond Borders [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Paramount)

Actors & Directors

Noah Emmerich
Martin Campbell
Teri Polo
Linus Roache
Angelina Jolie
Clive Owen

Release date: 2004-03-23
Run time: 126 min.
Price: £3.23

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Review Universal Studios / Ride with the Devil [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Ride with the Devil [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Universal Studios)

Actors & Directors

Skeet Ulrich
Ang Lee
Tobey Maguire
Glenn Q. Pierce
Jeremy W. Auman
Scott C. Sener

Release date: 2000-07-18
Run time: 139 min.
Price: £4.02

Review Ride with the Devil [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Universal Studios:

Great period pictures make you feel as if you've stepped into another era, heard its language, breathed its spirit, and come away with a fresh perspective on that time as well as your own. Ride with the Devil is one of those special films-why wasn't it more widely embraced by reviewers and filmgoers? Did it rely too much on our patience for slow accumulation of unforced rhythms and meanings (as opposed to The Patriot, which "moved" audiences with cattle-prod simplicity and manipulation)? Ride with the Devil-smart, handsome, tenderly awed by how individual lives get ambushed by history-is ripe for rediscovery. The Civil War of battlefields and plantation houses is nowhere to be seen here. Instead we see the war as an improvised and largely blundering but very bloody feud among neighbours in the border state of Missouri. In this bucolic war zone-more than a little reminiscent of the Balkans in the late 1990s-the Taiwanese-born director Ang Lee (The Ice Storm) traces the destinies of several young Southern bushwhackers (guerrilla fighters) as they experience violence, the seasons, and different kinds of love. Skeet Ulrich draws the aristocratic glamour role (and top billing), but he's overshadowed by Tobey Maguire as a first-generation American, the magnificent Jeffrey Wright (a shameful oversight at Oscar time) as a freed slave fighting beside his former master, and singer Jewel in a very natural acting debut as the young widow who graces all their lives. The title The Birth of a Nation was already taken, but by the end of this movie you feel it would have applied here. -Richard T. Jameson, Amazon. com.

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Review Simply Media / Fleet Air Arm At War And Peace

Fleet Air Arm At War And Peace (Simply Media)

Actors & Directors

Emeric Pressburger
Michael Powell

Release date: 2007-06-11
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £19.50

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Review Universal Pictures UK / Jarhead/Born On The Fourth Of July

Jarhead/Born On The Fourth Of July (Universal Pictures UK)

Release date: 2006-09-18
Run time: 256 min.
RRP: ~~£24.99~~
Price: £3.87

Review Jarhead/Born On The Fourth Of July / Universal Pictures UK:

Jarhead Based on Anthony Swofford's excellent memoir about his experiences as a Marine Sniper in Gulf War I, Jarhead is a war movie in which the waiting is a far greater factor upon the characters than the war itself, and the build up to combat is more drama than what combat is depicted. To some viewers hoping for typical movie action, this will seem like a cruel joke. But it's not. It's just the story as it was written, and if you liked the book, you will probably like the movie. If you didn't, then the movie won't change your mind. The movie follows the trajectory of Swofford (played with thoughtful intensity by Jake Gyllenhaal) from wayward Marine recruit (he joined because he "got lost on the way to college") to skilled Marine sniper, and on into the desert in preparation for the attack on Iraq. No-nonsense, Marine-for-life Staff Sgt. Sykes (Jamie Foxx), the man who recruited Swofford and his spotter Troy (Peter Sarsgaard) into the sniper team, leads them in training, and in waiting where their lives are dominated by endless tension, pointless exercises in absurdity (like playing football in the scorching heat of the desert in their gas masks so it will look better for the media's TV cameras), more training, and constant anticipation of the moment to come when they'll finally get to kill. When the war does come, it moves too fast for Swofford's sniper team, and the one chance they get at a kill-to do the one thing they've trained so hard and waited so long for-eludes them, leaving them to wonder what was the point of all they had endured. As directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty), the movie remains very loyal to the language and vision of the book, but it doesn't entirely work as the film needs something more than a literal translation to bring out its full potential. [+]

Mendes' stark and, at times, apocalyptic visuals add a lot and strike the right tone: wide shots of inky-black oil raining down on the vast, empty desert from flaming oil wells contrasted with close-ups of crude-soaked faces struggling through the mire vividly bring to life the meaning of the tagline "welcome to the suck. " But much of the second half of the movie will probably leave some viewers feeling disappointed in the cinematic experience, while others might appreciate its microcosmic depiction of modern chaos and aimlessness. Jarhead is one of those examples where the book is better than the movie, but not for lack of trying. -Dan Vancini Born on the Fourth of July The second film in Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy moves from the brutality of war in Platoon to its equally traumatic aftermath. Based on the memoir of combat veteran Ron Kovic, the film stars Tom Cruise as Kovic, whose gunshot wound in Vietnam left him paralyzed from the chest down. He is deeply embittered by neglect in a veteran's hospital and by the shattering of his patriotic idealism because of the horror and futility of the Vietnam conflict. While painfully and awkwardly adjusting to his disability and a changing definition of masculinity, Kovic joins the burgeoning movement of antiwar protest, culminating in a climactic appearance at the 1976 Democratic national convention. A powerfully intimate portrait that unfolds on an epic scale, Born on the Fourth of July is arguably Stone's best film (if you can forgive its often strident tone), and Cruise's Oscar-nominated role is uncompromising in its depiction of one man's personal anguish and political awakening. -Jeff Shannon.

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Review Polart / Samson [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Samson [1961] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Polart)

Actors & Directors

Elzbieta Kepinska
Serge Merlin
Andrzej Wajda
Tadeusz Bartosik
Jan Ciecierski
Alina Janowska

Release date: 2004-12-28
Run time: 115 min.
Price: £11.49

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Review 20th Century Fox / A Farewell to Arms [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

A Farewell to Arms [1957] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (20th Century Fox)

Actors & Directors

John Huston
Oskar Homolka
Vittorio De Sica
Mercedes McCambridge
Rock Hudson
Charles Vidor
Jennifer Jones

Release date: 2005-05-24
Run time: 152 min.
Price: £4.52

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Review Columbia TriStar / Das Boot [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Das Boot [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Columbia TriStar)

Actors & Directors

Herbert Grönemeyer
Jürgen Prochnow
Klaus Wennemann
Hubertus Bengsch
Wolfgang Petersen
Martin Semmelrogge

Release date: 1997-12-10
Run time: 209 min.
Price: £5.26

Review Das Boot [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Wolfgang Petersen's harrowing and claustrophobic U-boat thriller Das Boot was released as both a theatrical film and a six-hour mini-series, and remains the most expensive production ever made by a German studio. The expanded "Director's Cut" of the movie was re-released 1997 and it is this version that is available for home viewing. This epic story became an instant classic on its first release, provoking critical and audience acclaim worldwide for its sympathetic and entirely truthful portrayal of a German U-boat crew. Faithfully adapted from the bestselling novel by Lothar-Günther Buchheim, Petersen and his committed cast (led by the amazing Jürgen Prochnow) were concerned to ensure that every detail was rendered with painstaking accuracy-both physical and psychological-and the result is not only the best submarine drama ever made but also arguably the finest cinematic portrait of men at war and the terrible madness they must endure. On the DVD: The 200-minute "Director's Cut" version of the movie not only has several major scenes restored that were not in the theatrical release but also has been digitally remastered with significantly improved sound (new sound effects have been added) and anamorphic picture. (The six-hour TV version has yet to be released. ) Here, the viewer can watch the movie in the original German, with or without subtitles, or in an English dubbed version that uses the voices of many of the original cast. On the utterly engrossing commentary track, director Wolfgang Petersen and star Jürgen Prochnow talk animatedly and in great detail about every aspect of making this epic story-from model shots using Barbie dolls to meeting the Captain of the original U-boat. This is one of the most consistently rewarding commentaries on disc. Also included is a five-minute featurette that promotes this new version. [+]

-Mark Walker.

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