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![For Whom The Bell Tolls [DVD] [1943]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51eU0S7depL._SL160_.jpg "For Whom The Bell Tolls [DVD] [1943]")
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Gary Cooper,
Ingrid Bergman,
Akim Tamiroff,
Arturo de Córdova,
Vladimir Sokoloff
Director:
Sam Wood
 A Classic!!, 2009-05-28
This film has got to be one of the classics,in my opinion.Set in the Spanish civil war,it is a story of love and courage and also high drama.The charectors are hugely engaging in both depth and humour.Many have said it is a dark story,and,partly that is true,but,there is also a great depth to the human emotions on show.The action pieces are even by todays standards are exciting giving more than just cgi+pyrotecnics that seem to dominate todays cinema.
All in all a classic piece of cinema,only one more thing to say-BUY IT!.
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![Nowhere Boy [DVD] [2009]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51qw1z4ffML._SL160_.jpg "Nowhere Boy [DVD] [2009]")
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Anne-Marie Duff,
Kristin Scott Thomas,
Thomas Sangster,
Aaron Johnson,
David Morrissey
Director:
Sam Taylor-Wood
Psychodrama of a young star, 2010-07-29
This is an evocative drama that captures 1950s living and attitudes with unnerving clarity. 'You might remember that you were sisters once...' chides a 17-year-old John (Aaron Johnson) at the two women warring over his guardianship and attention. John's mother Julia, played with vulnerable passion by Anne-Marie Duff has been establishing a new relationship with her son, 'stolen' at age five by the protective if less affectionate Aunt Mimi. We may be overused to Kristin Scott Thomas playing cool and somewhat aloof women, but her portrayal of Mimi Smith is beautifully poised between a necessary disciplinarian and a genuinely loving surrogate mother. I think that Duff and Thomas hold the film together brilliantly.
Between their affections, troubled teenager John struggles to feel loved in a fractured family. Aaron Johnson is believable as a middle-class lad of above-average intelligence who is a no-hoper in the eyes of his schoolmasters. Through his musical mother, John finds inspiration to take up an instrument and discover new music. Julia teaches him how to strum a banjo, Mimi (attempting to make peace) buys his first guitar but uses it as an instrument of emotional blackmail, unwittingly driving John closer to his mother.
There is a pivotal scene where the psychodrama's root is revealed - tear-jerking, and just on the right side of melodrama - and signals a short-lived reconciliation between the two women. John lives in hope...
This is a fine film. Gradually, episodes in John Lennon's life are being portrayed in digestible celluloid presentations. I'm still not sure that he was entirely reconciled to the early tragedy in his life, but I think he would have approved at this well-handled attempt to tell an unhappy story. Well done everyone.
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![Gone With The Wind [1940] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41M0XWWRMRL._SL160_.jpg "Gone With The Wind [1940] [DVD]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Clark Gable,
Vivien Leigh,
Thomas Mitchell,
Barbara O'Neil,
Evelyn Keyes
Director:
George Cukor, Sam Wood, Victor Fleming
Gone with the Wind is a sprawling mosaic of a picture, one of the best-loved and most successful in movie history, but also one of the most frustrating. Wonderfully epic in scope, the decline and fall of the antebellum South as seen through the eyes of feisty, independent and wilful heroine Scarlett O'Hara makes the first half of the picture an absolutely riveting spectacle. From the aristocratic old world of Tara to the horrors of Atlanta under siege, Gone with the Wind features any number of indelible scenes and images: the genteel girls taking an enforced siesta during the Twelve Oaks barbecue, a horrified Scarlett walking through the wounded, the flight from burning Atlanta, and Scarlett's moving pledge against a burnished sunset set to Max Steiner's glorious music score. But the second half shifts gear, the melodramatic quotient is upped yet further as tragedy piles upon tragedy, and despite its unwieldy length everything feels rushed. Add to that the central problem that the audience never really understands, why Scarlett could ever fall for weak-chinned Ashley in the first place, and the picture begins to unravel unsatisfactorily. Behind the scenes problems doubtless contributed, with directors coming and going, Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable apparently barely able to stand the sight of each other, and producer David O Selznick's endless rewrites and interference. Nonetheless, this 1939 box-office smash remains one of Hollywood's finest achievements, an irresistible spectacle chock-full of the finest stars in the filmic firmament striking sparks off one another. They really don't make 'em like this anymore. On the DVD: No extra features on this DVD, which is a pity given the amount of material that must be available, but it has to be admitted this disc is worth the asking price simply to drink in the astonishing quality of the picture, sumptuously presented in its original 1.33:1 "Academy" ratio. The mono sound is vivid, too, showcasing Max Steiner's headily romantic score. --Mark Walker
A kid's review of the best film ever, 2010-03-13
My dad showed me this film when I was four or five and I still love it. All my friends think this is boring and stupid, but I love it. Rhett Butler is my favourite character in the film. I don't know why, he just is. The colour on this DVD set is just amazing, and there are tiny little details that you don't see the first time you watch it. The audio is also fantastic and clear. Now "improvments" have been make on the film, which is great! It's just the original film and nothing else. The extras are just as great as the condicion of the film itself. The best extra in my opinion is the making of "Gone with the Wind". This set has become one of my very favourite sets in my collection. I recommend it to all! GET THIS SET!
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Anne-Marie Duff,
Kristin Scott Thomas,
Thomas Sangster,
Aaron Johnson,
David Morrissey
Director:
Sam Taylor-Wood
Psychodrama of a young star, 2010-07-29
This is an evocative drama that captures 1950s living and attitudes with unnerving clarity. 'You might remember that you were sisters once...' chides a 17-year-old John (Aaron Johnson) at the two women warring over his guardianship and attention. John's mother Julia, played with vulnerable passion by Anne-Marie Duff has been establishing a new relationship with her son, 'stolen' at age five by the protective if less affectionate Aunt Mimi. We may be overused to Kristin Scott Thomas playing cool and somewhat aloof women, but her portrayal of Mimi Smith is beautifully poised between a necessary disciplinarian and a genuinely loving surrogate mother. I think that Duff and Thomas hold the film together brilliantly.
Between their affections, troubled teenager John struggles to feel loved in a fractured family. Aaron Johnson is believable as a middle-class lad of above-average intelligence who is a no-hoper in the eyes of his schoolmasters. Through his musical mother, John finds inspiration to take up an instrument and discover new music. Julia teaches him how to strum a banjo, Mimi (attempting to make peace) buys his first guitar but uses it as an instrument of emotional blackmail, unwittingly driving John closer to his mother.
There is a pivotal scene where the psychodrama's root is revealed - tear-jerking, and just on the right side of melodrama - and signals a short-lived reconciliation between the two women. John lives in hope...
This is a fine film. Gradually, episodes in John Lennon's life are being portrayed in digestible celluloid presentations. I'm still not sure that he was entirely reconciled to the early tragedy in his life, but I think he would have approved at this well-handled attempt to tell an unhappy story. Well done everyone.
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![Gone With The Wind [70th Anniversary 5 Disc Collector's Version] [DVD] [1939]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51sFUFh6v4L._SL160_.jpg "Gone With The Wind [70th Anniversary 5 Disc Collector's Version] [DVD] [1939]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Clark Gable,
Evelyn Keyes,
Ann Rutherford,
Laura Hope Crews,
Harry Davenport
Director:
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
First off, if you're a GwtW fanatic, you must buy this four-disc collection. But then again, you probably don't need to read this to make that decision. For the rest of us, know that the kitchen-sink approach has been established here with two full discs of extras. The film's restoration under Warner's brilliant Ultra-Resolution process is the major contribution to the set. However, the bare-bones version released years ago isn't bad and the film still doesn't pop off the screen as do films from the headier days of Technicolor (like the earlier Ultra-Resolution DVD release of Meet Me in St. Louis). That said, the set is worthy of the most popular movie ever made. Rudy Behlmer's feature-length commentary is dry but an exhaustive reference guide to the entire history of the film. Need more? There's the excellent full-length documentary The Making of a Legend (1989) narrated by Christopher Plummer, plus two hour-long older biographies on the two main stars. There are many new vignettes on the rest of the cast, all narrated by Plummer (a nice touch to tie everything together). The new 30-minute interview/reminisce with Oliva de Havilland will be interesting to older fans, but tiresome for the younger set. The usual sort of trailers and premiere footage is here along with a curious short ("The Old South", directed by Fred Zinnemann) that was produced to help introduce the world to the history of the South. --Doug Thomas
A kid's review of the best film ever, 2010-03-13
My dad showed me this film when I was four or five and I still love it. All my friends think this is boring and stupid, but I love it. Rhett Butler is my favourite character in the film. I don't know why, he just is. The colour on this DVD set is just amazing, and there are tiny little details that you don't see the first time you watch it. The audio is also fantastic and clear. Now "improvments" have been make on the film, which is great! It's just the original film and nothing else. The extras are just as great as the condicion of the film itself. The best extra in my opinion is the making of "Gone with the Wind". This set has become one of my very favourite sets in my collection. I recommend it to all! GET THIS SET!
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![Gone With The Wind - 70th Anniversary Edition [DVD] [1939]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517Ex-DNjML._SL160_.jpg "Gone With The Wind - 70th Anniversary Edition [DVD] [1939]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Clark Gable,
Evelyn Keyes,
Ann Rutherford,
Laura Hope Crews,
Harry Davenport
Director:
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
First off, if you're a GwtW fanatic, you must buy this four-disc collection. But then again, you probably don't need to read this to make that decision. For the rest of us, know that the kitchen-sink approach has been established here with two full discs of extras. The film's restoration under Warner's brilliant Ultra-Resolution process is the major contribution to the set. However, the bare-bones version released years ago isn't bad and the film still doesn't pop off the screen as do films from the headier days of Technicolor (like the earlier Ultra-Resolution DVD release of Meet Me in St. Louis). That said, the set is worthy of the most popular movie ever made. Rudy Behlmer's feature-length commentary is dry but an exhaustive reference guide to the entire history of the film. Need more? There's the excellent full-length documentary The Making of a Legend (1989) narrated by Christopher Plummer, plus two hour-long older biographies on the two main stars. There are many new vignettes on the rest of the cast, all narrated by Plummer (a nice touch to tie everything together). The new 30-minute interview/reminisce with Oliva de Havilland will be interesting to older fans, but tiresome for the younger set. The usual sort of trailers and premiere footage is here along with a curious short ("The Old South", directed by Fred Zinnemann) that was produced to help introduce the world to the history of the South. --Doug Thomas
A kid's review of the best film ever, 2010-03-13
My dad showed me this film when I was four or five and I still love it. All my friends think this is boring and stupid, but I love it. Rhett Butler is my favourite character in the film. I don't know why, he just is. The colour on this DVD set is just amazing, and there are tiny little details that you don't see the first time you watch it. The audio is also fantastic and clear. Now "improvments" have been make on the film, which is great! It's just the original film and nothing else. The extras are just as great as the condicion of the film itself. The best extra in my opinion is the making of "Gone with the Wind". This set has become one of my very favourite sets in my collection. I recommend it to all! GET THIS SET!
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![Movies That Matter - Cinematic Landmarks [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41LB-ZayenL._SL160_.jpg "Movies That Matter - Cinematic Landmarks [DVD]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Charlton Heston,
Omar Sharif,
Julie Christie,
Vivien Leigh,
Clark Gable
Director:
David Lean, William Wyler, George Cukor, Victor Fleming, Sam Wood
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![Goodbye Mr Chips [1939] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y7WSw51VL._SL160_.jpg "Goodbye Mr Chips [1939] [DVD]")
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Robert Donat,
Greer Garson,
Terry Kilburn,
John Mills,
Paul Henreid
Director:
Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin
One more terrific film from a terrific year for movies--1939, the year of Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz and Stagecoach, among others--Sam Wood's Goodbye Mr Chips is a deeply stirring work starring Robert Donat as the old schoolmaster who looks back upon his life. Told mostly in flashbacks, the film wraps itself around a history of an older England as seen through the generations of boys who pass through Mr Chips's classroom. Greer Garson is her usual classy, sexy-intelligent self as Donat's wife, their earlier courtship one of the film's highlights. Get a box of tissues at the ready, for this one. --Tom Keogh
Goodbye Mr Chips, 2009-04-04
Robert Donal plays the part brilliantly. He starts off young and uncertain in his job as a teacher. The meeting of his wife is very well done, chatting on a mountain where they were fog bound. Meeting up with her again, they got married and she joined him in the school where she encouraged Mr Chips to entertain his class over tea and cakes. Mrs Chips dies in childbirth - a very moving part of the film. He ages very well, ending up retired but still in the school. A very good film - it's funny, sad, very well acted and ends nicely (I won't tell you the end)
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![Gone With The Wind [Blu-ray] [1939]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XSOCbFDTL._SL160_.jpg "Gone With The Wind [Blu-ray] [1939]")
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Clark Gable,
Vivien Leigh,
Leslie Howard,
Olivia De Havilland,
Harry Davenport
Director:
Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
Clark Gable, Evelyn Keyes, Ann Rutherford, Laura Hope Crews, Harry DavenportDirectors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
All time classic looks great on Blu-ray, 2010-05-01
Now more than 70 years old, this film is still one of the greatest ever made. What more is there to say about it that hasn't already been said. Being too young to have seen it at the cinema I had to rely on TV screenings until I bought the film on VHS many years ago. The VHS version was OK but never really did the spectacle of this great film justice. I finally decided to upgrade when we bought a new Blu-ray home cinema system, and I'm mighty glad that I did. The film looks and sounds absolutely beautiful. I was a little surprised that the only annoying parts of the film - the prologue and the intermission - have been left in, but you can always skip past them or go out and make a cup of tea!
I shall be enjoying this film even more than before for many years to come. Wonder if I'll still be around for the centenary edition?!
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Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring:
Daniel,
August,
Shirin Barthel,
Richard Blondel,
Jasmine Byrne
Director:
Gaspar Noé, Larry Clark, Marco Brambilla, Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney
x porn!, 2010-06-20
horny little film that shows real sex.if you are into porn than you will enjoy!
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