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lover Eddie (Henry Fonda), she has little idea of the tragic consequences that lie in front of them. Once released, Eddie struggles against a society that refuses to ...
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Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Drama - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring: Shelagh Fraser, Barbara Flynn, Keith Drinkel, Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Colin Douglas
Advantages: Great atmospheric and artistic Bond film Disadvantages: Nothing really
Following a 2 year gap from 1965, Bond returned to the big screen in 1967 with this offering, YouOnlyLive Twice, once again starring the charismatic Sean Connery, but with Lewis Gilbert in the director's chair for this one.
The Plot
With the Cold War ever intense, criminal organisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E. tries another tack. American and Russian spacecraft have disappeared in outer space, and they are blaming each other. Anxious to avoid all out war, Bond is dispatched to Japan to seek out the perpetrators. This time, he comes face to face with S.P.E.C.T.R.E.'s number 1, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Bond's arch enemy.
The Cast and Performances
Connery returns again as Bond for the 5th time, in what was supposed to be his last outing as the MI6 agent. He went on to do another two Bond films. Donald Pleasance is excellently chilling as ...
This was supposedly Sean connery's final James Bond film. We were later to find out that this was not to be. It was a very memorable film, and one, which was, remembered for a certain gadget- the Little Nellie.
American and Soviet spacecraft's are mysteriously disappearing and the two nations are blaming each other. M is aware that if this continue, we could be faced by a nuclear war. James Bond is assigned to find out were these ships are going and prevent the world from being destroyed.
Bond goes to Tokyo and teams up with the Japanese secret service. Bond learns the SPECTRE group may be behind the attacks. Bond- for the first, and only time, becomes Japanese. He looks very good too! Bond also discovers that SPECTRE is hiding in an in active Volcano.
After a long time in waiting- we finally come to see the real Blofeld ...
Advantages: Gorgeous music, well acted, lovely to watch Disadvantages: -
I was struggling to find films to hire out that I wanted to watch, so when my partner pointed out the film 'Once' in Sainsburys as we did our shopping, I told him I would get it from our online rentals service. It turned up last week and we got around to watching it last night, looking forward it after reading some good write-ups about it.
Once tells the tale of a random guy and a random girl both living in Dublin who meets when she sees him busking one evening. She loves his songs, and it turns out that she is a bit musical too. The pair form a friendship and begin to write and play together, all the while discovering their feelings for each other. The girl wants to help the guy get his songs out into the world, and the movie tells this story through some of the most wonderful music I have ever heard.
Although the film is ...
mummy2harry 03.09.2008
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Once (DVD)
Joan and Eddie are in love but he is a career criminal. She uses her influence to get him out of prison and after their marriage he vows to go straight. However, things don't go according to plan and they both go off the rails...
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
CINEMA CLUB; SONY DADC
Release date
09/08/2004
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
CCD 30074
Cinematographer
Leon Shamroy
Barcode
5014138300746
Music Director
Alfred Newman
Composer
Alfred Newman
Director of Photography
Leon Shamroy
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Sound
Dolby Digital Mono
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital Mono English
DVD Description
Henry Fonda and Sylvia Sidney play ill-fated lovers in Fritz Lang's fatalistic psychological thriller, YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE. The film opens as Joan (Sidney), a secretary in the public defender's office, excitedly awaits the release of her thrice-convicted criminal lover Eddie (Fonda). The two try to build a life together, despite the scepticism of Joan's sister and boss, and succeed for a while until destiny seems to take control. Eddie butts up against a society that refuses to give ex-cons a second chance and tumbles back into contact with old gang connections. When he winds up back in jail--this time with a death sentence--he once again escapes only to commit a murder in the process and take Joan and their new baby with him as he wildly flees. The images are stark, as Lang darkly portrays the doomed couple's headlong descent through a cold society and the inescapable forces of fate. The suspense runs high and the cinematography is sweeping as the camera follows the couple from their ramshackle honeymoon to their desperate getaway and ultimately to their tragically climactic demise. Fritz Lang's obsession with fate and the moral dualism of society and its criminal underground as depicted in his earlier films, DESTINY, M, and FURY, is precisely expressed anew in this brutal and uncompromising film that paved the way for BONNIE AND CLYDE and NATURAL BORN KILLERS.
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