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It was an offer I couldn't refuse! Godfather triology remastered
Advantages: A wonderful dvd that will stand the test of time
Disadvantages: Absolutely none
Years ago I had the video box set of the trilogy and it was pride of place in my video collection. However, times change and technology improves and now the dvd has taken over and so the wheel keeps on turning. One thing however, I am pleased to say has stood the test of time are the Coppola classics The Godfather, Godfather II and Godfather III. This review is based on the re-mastered Godfather Trilogy dvd collection. The Godfather The film ...
...in his study while in the background you can hear the music and laughter from the wedding guests in the garden. It is tradition that a Don cannot refuse a favour on the day of his daughter’s wedding and the Sicilians are very big on tradition and family values. So there are people waiting in line to see their Don on this special day. All with favours to ask...revenge, a movie part, American citizenship etc etc As you would imagine ‘the family’ has ...
 jinxyjo 11.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Godfather Trilogy: Remastered Collection (DVD)
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Oscar winning drama hits all the right notes
Advantages: Powerful bio-pic with Oscar winning perfdormance from Penn
Disadvantages: Real Life stories don't always have a happy ending ........
...similar subject matter , Milk is resolutely unsentimental and does not make the man out to be a saint. His obsessive campaigning cost him him dearly in personal terms - in the end it also cost him his life. Penn's central performance aside, the film is a brilliant evocation of the 1970's West Coast, complete with music and period detail . Dan Brown is equally excellent in his role as the reactionary ( probably closet gay also) Governor whose outrgae ...
...funny, and simultaneously very sad as the film draws to its shocking conclusion ( if you don't know Milk's story) Milk was one of the films of the year in 2008. Penn's Oscar was thoroughly deserved . ...
bookaddict 08.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Milk
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Lewd and Lurid in Barcelona
Advantages: Fab cinematography, great performances from Cruz, Bardam and Rebecca Hall
Disadvantages: All a bit lewd and lurid
...very seductive indeed. Vicky (Rebecca Hall), is a sensible young girl, engaged to Doug (Chris Messina), who has an air of practicality about him but at the same time is hazardous. Vicky is a student studying Catalan culture so when she gets an invite to visit Barcelona from her rich friend Judy (Patricia Clarkson) and her spouse, Mark (Kevin Dunn) she jumps at the opportunity as she thinks the visit will help with her M A thesis. Vicky takes along ...
...art, gastronomy and sex. Prudent Vicky rebukes him but Cristina mocks her for her beliefs and accepts. And so the main questions in the film are : Is it better to behave like Vicky, loving one man and believing in marriage or like Cristina who is lustful and just out for excitement and adventure? In Woody Allen's film, both these female characters are doomed. Allen seems to portray women as easy targets, negative, fickle and capable of making mistakes ...
 Praski 08.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona (DVD)
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Ok but could have been better
Advantages: Excellent acting by the youngest children
Disadvantages: Skewed view of India, cliched characters
...of obstacles on the way). Slumdog does exactly the same so the theme is as old as the hills. From an Indian perspective, it makes me sad that the only view of India the West really gets is the poverty. I'm not denying that there are millions of people who live in unspeakable poverty in India but then there are millions who don't. The slum scenes are accurate but why is every Western film about India about the slums? A straw poll at work revealed ...
...his work, the music of Slumdog isn't half as good as his earlier work in films like Roja and Dil Se and many others. I didn't hate the film - but I just wanted to write this to point out that it is very clearly a film made by a British director for a Western audience. It may be set in India, but it isn't Indian. Just as a contrast, the film The Namesake or even the unknown American film Outsourced, depict India in a far more balanced, nuanced, subtle ...
 mouche202 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Slumdog Millionaire
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He Who Reads Aloud
Advantages: Broadly faithful to the novel, impressive performances.
Disadvantages: Muddled middle.
The Reader (Der Vorleser) is hardly the first film to be adapted from a best-selling, highly-regarded novel, nor is it especially trailblazing in the leap it makes from its original language into the one in which it graces the screen. What makes the transition challenging, perhaps, is the nature of the story; set in Germany, written by a German, addressing a very German problem, it must have been a daunting project for director Stephen Daldry (Billy ...
...was at the author's insistence that his story was filmed in English - perhaps in an effort to bring out the film's more universal themes, and to broaden its focus. If these were his aims, they are successful, more or less, although in the re-telling of Michael Berg's story, some elusive feeling and atmosphere present in the novel is lost along the way. Michael's story is narrated by his older self (Ralph Fiennes, putting on a vaguely Germanic accent, ...
 Puggers 21.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Reader (DVD)
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