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Criterion Coll: High & Low [DVD] [1967] [Region 1] [US ...
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review Although best known for his samurai classics, Japanese master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa proved himself equally adept at contemporary dramas and thrillers, and 1962's High and Low offers a powerful showcase for Kurosawa's ...More…
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True Grit [DVD] [1969] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review John Wayne hams it up as a one-eyed, broken-down marshal in this 1969 adaptation of Charles Portis's bestselling novel. Kim Darby plays the formal-speaking adolescent who goes to Wayne for help tracking down her father's killer ...More…
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City of Angels [DVD] [1998]
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review Some critics complained that City of Angels could never compare to Wim Wenders's exquisite German film Wings of Desire, which served as the later film's primary inspiration. The better argument to make is that any such ...More…
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Father Christmas [VHS]
Amazon UK — Artist Childrens Audience Rating Universal, suitable for all EAN 5014226609621 Release Date 2001-11-12 SKU 87,B00004D02L,6.0,B00004D02L,02More…
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Twelve Monkeys [DVD] [1996]
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review Inspired by Chris Marker's acclaimed short film La Jetée, 12 Monkeys combines intricate, intelligent storytelling with the uniquely imaginative vision of director Terry Gilliam. The story opens in the wintry wasteland of the year ...More…
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The Taming of the Shrew [DVD] [2001]
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review The 1967 Franco Zeffirelli film of The Taming of the Shrew had all the ingredients to make it a high point in Shakespearian cinema. In Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor it starred the most bankable couple in Hollywood history as the ...More…
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12 Angry Men [DVD] [1957]
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review Sidney Lumet's directorial debut Twelve Angry Men remains a tense, atmospheric (though slightly manipulative and stagey) courtroom thriller, in which the viewer never sees a trial and the only action is verbal. As he does in his ...More…
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof [1958] [DVD]
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review Cat on a Hot Tin Roof offers a smouldering, angry Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie, the feline in question. Paul Newman is her ex-athlete husband, Brick Pollitt, an alcoholic who frustrates and disappoints his wife and his overbearing father ...More…
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When We Were Kings [DVD] [1997]
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review Muhammad Ali's 1974 knockout of George Foreman to regain the heavyweight championship of the world at the age of 32 was probably the greatest sporting moment of the 20th century. Leon Gast's documentary on the "Rumble In ...More…
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Wives and Daughters [DVD] [1999]
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review 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 ...More…
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Ghost [DVD] [1990]
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review The biggest hit of 1990, Ghost is part comedy, part romance, part supernatural thriller. Patrick Swayze, previously best known for Dirty Dancing, stars as Sam, the banker who is killed following a mugging. Caught in a limbo between ...More…
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Amelie [DVD] [2001]
Amazon UK — Amazon.co.uk Review With its use of special effects to express the main character's internal emotions, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie could have been mistaken for a French version of Ally McBeal; however, unlike Ally--"woe is me for I cannot ...More…