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A bunch of nuts in a great film

Advantages: Awesome cast give great performances
Disadvantages: Some bits can be difficult to watch

...me from Poltergeist 2) and one of the patients is Michael Berryman (better known as a hill person from the original version of The Hills Have Eyes). Another one of the patients is Vincent Schiavelli (best known as the subway ghost who trains Patrick Swayze how to move objects in Ghost). Randles planned escape fails due to excessive alcohol, the aftermath of the party when the patients are lined up by the head Nurse as they all behave like naughty ...
...bed with one of the women Randle had invited into the hospital and is welcomed back to the group like a conquering hero having had sex with her. His stutter had gone completely until Nurse Ratched mentions telling his mother. The blame for Billy's suicide can only placed on one person, Nurse Ratched and Randle's almost fatal attack on her is not without merit. We are left to assume that Randle has been given possibly a lobotomy after attacking and ...

atytyut2434 04.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (DVD)

The King of Fellini Films

Advantages: autobiographical, symbolic, surreal, heavy, dramatic, italian
Disadvantages: none at all

...film is loosely based on Fellini's own life and fast times in 1950s Rome. Marcello Mastroianni portrays Guido who is desperately trying to get his film finished, but has no idea how to end it. Throughout the film, Fellini uses (and creates) some of cinema history's most amazing images through techniques like flashbacks, slow dissolves and the shadowplay should have won it's own award. This film also marks a change in the style of film Fellini himself ...
...of his career. Gone are the Neorealistic masterpieces of his younger years "I Vitelloni" "Il Bidone" and "Nights of Cabiria" were all amazing films, but to watch 8 1/2 you wouldn't believe its by the same man. Fellini began heavily visual films after this movie, and went to some extremes with this as well ( see "Satyricon"). This is one of those movies that anyone interested in the true masterworks that changed the face of world cinema should not ...

snag2772 22.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Fellini's 8 1/2 (DVD)

You can't call a cat spider!

Advantages: A lovely story
Disadvantages: They turned it into a really bad musical

This is such a nice film, definately one to watch when you're sick, it will make you feel so much better. Basically the outline of the story is a group of children find this guy passed out in the barn, when they wake him up and ask who he is he replies "Jesus Christ!", this taken literally by the kids think its the second coming. A great performance by Hayley Mills but she is definately over shadowed by the boy who plays her younger brother, he's ...
...old (I think it was made in 1961) it hasn't lost any of its appeal. A timeless classic, like many of Hayley Mills films. Black and white films are always dismissed for the computer generated special effects films that we come to expect nowadays, but should be appreciated more. Definately give this one a look, a perfect Sunday afternoon treat. Enjoy ...

mistresslenore 25.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Whistle Down The Wind (Special Edition) (DVD)

Not a good week for Her Majesty!

Advantages: Excellent film
Disadvantages: none

...vividly that incredible week at the beginning of September 1997 - the week Princess Diana died. Particularly I remember the complete shock, followed by an outpouring of public grief never known before and probably never likely to be known again in our lifetime, and the hostility vented against the Royal Family for not showing their emotions and instead opting for the 'stiff upper lip!' I was never a big Diana fan, although I did feel her death was ...
...to note that one of the things that this film did not do, at least in my mind, was to come down on one side or another and I think that all the events were depicted in a very honest way. The key players in this film are obviously the Queen herself, Prince Philip, Prince Charles, the Queen Mother and Tony and Cherie Blair. Princes William and Harry are not shown at all which I think was a very good decision as even after all the time that had elapsed ...

kingfisher111 24.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Queen (DVD)

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Special Edition)

Advantages: A classic film, beautifully acted
Disadvantages: A little slow moving at times

...2. "The Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," a 48-minute documentary featuring the actors, the moviemakers, and writer Ken Kesey recounting the history of the original novel to its stage and movie adaptations I found this bonus feature a good addition to the film. I did find that it went on a bit too long though and lost interest. That said though some aspects are fascinating despite it being a little slow. 3. Eight additional scenes An ...
...they did not include them into the final cut of the film. Overall I would say it is a very good film and the extras which come with the special edition are worth watching and are great value for money (£5.97 from Amazon). The 133 min film and over an hour of extras are great for first time viewers and original lovers of the film who would like to see the extras. I would definitely recommend this film. ...

mark1323 25.09.2006 · Read full review
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Review of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Special Edition) (DVD)