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Because hanging gives an erection…

Advantages: Faithful to the original text, and so much effort was put into the films
Disadvantages: Wished to find more prominent actors in them

Beckett on Film DVD The 4-DVD box set consists of 19 film adaptations of plays by Samuel Beckett. These plays are: Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, Act Without Words I, Act Without Words II, Krapp's Last Tape, Rough for Theatre I, Rough for Theatre II, Play, Come and Go, Breath, Not I, That Time, Footfalls, A Piece of Monologue, Rockaby, Ohio Impromptu, Catastrophe, What Where. * To start with, I will not talk about each of these plays ...
...Exempt Studio: Tyrone Productions DVD Release Date: 23 May 2005 Run Time: 647 minutes For more information about each of the plays included in this project, go to <www.beckettonfilm.com>. Summary: Highly recommended especially for students of literature, and those who love Beckett enough to watch this entire project. ...

sottovoce82 16.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Beckett On Film (DVD)

The Bell Sounds

Advantages: Amazing story, Great Acting, wonderful movie
Disadvantages: Nothing

...he did not commit. The story follows Ruben "Hurricane" Carter (Denzel Washington) a professoinal boxing champion that is hunted throughout his life by a racist policeman intent on putting him behind bars for the rest of his life. It is his time in prison that Ruben tries to reach out to people and tell his side of the story by writing a book in prison. It is this book causes a change of events that lead to people reaching out to help Ruben. For ...

jai247 01.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Hurricane (DVD)

Pure class

Advantages: Sidney Poitier
Disadvantages: None

...the best films I've seen in a long time. The film won an Oscar for Best Picture in 1967. The plot A senior police officer specialising in homicide, Virgil Tibbs, is passing through a small town on his way home to Philadelphia when he suddenly finds himself dragged to the local police station and accused of the murder of an important businessman. The only reason for the locals' suspicion of him is that he happens to be black. Eventually, after much ...
...is requested by his boss in Philadelphia to stay on and help the Chief solve the crime. The Chief is not happy that the "nigger" as he calls him has to stay around and does his best to persuade him to leave, but the wife of the murdered man, impressed by Tibbs' investigating skills, demands that Tibbs stays. Tibbs has the intelligence, but the Chief has local knowledge and - it is soon clear that the Chief cannot work without Tibbs and that Tibbs ...

sunmeilan 05.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of In The Heat Of The Night (DVD)

Love, betrayal, loneliness and hunger

Advantages: fantastic story, writing, cast, everything!
Disadvantages: none for me

...cover says: Tom Cruise Interview with the Vampire The Vampire Chronicles Brad Pitt Antonio Banderas Stephen Rea and Christian Slater I've included this info as it is written on the DVD to show how clear they make it that Tom Cruise is the star of this film! His name even appears before the film name whereas as the rest of the cast are listed below (in smaller writing too, may I add) ~~~The Plot~~~ "The spellbinding screen adaptation of ...
...masterpiece". ~~~Other Info~~~ Interview with the Vampire was released in 1995 (for some reason the film seems much older than that to me!) The film is rated 18 for the strong language, sex, nudity and bloody violence! Running time: 118 minutes DVD Extras: On this special edition these are the extras: Audio commentary by the director Special Introduction Documentary 'In the shadow of a Vampire'- a full length documentary! Interactive menus ...

leanne8686 16.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Interview With The Vampire (Special Edition) (DVD)

Third of the Graham Greene "Catholic Trilogy"

Advantages: Good film at a great price
Disadvantages: None

The End of the Affair is the third of Graham Greene's "Catholic Novels" to be adapted for the silver screen following "Brighton Rock" and "The Power and the Glory". Edward Dmytryk had made several excellent film noirs in the 1940s (Crossfire; Farewell, My Lovely) before running into trouble with HUAC. For a period in the 1950s he moved to England where he directed several films, one of them being this film. It's his experience in directing those ...
...would say give many of the scenes a strange macabre tone. I've always been a little disappointed by several of Deborah Kerr's films except in films where she playing slightly neurotic characters like in Black Narcisuss or The Innocents and The End of the Affair is another of those roles where she really excels. Van Johnson is an actor I feel like I know but in reality I don't which may have something to with fact that this probably the first film ...

Phoust 16.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The End Of The Affair (DVD)