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.Le Samouraï City Travel Guides > VHS > By Genre starring: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier, Jacques Leroy directed by: Jean-Pierre Melville May 16, 2000 This film has the indelible reputation of being a classic French film Noir; as being the inspiration for John Woo's THE KILLER, and Jim Jarmusch's GHOST DOG, and certainly influenced Jean Reno in THE PROFESSIONAL. It, in turn, was most certainly influenced by Alan Ladd's premiere role as "Raven" in THIS GUN FOR HIRE. Director Jean-Pierre Melville was a veteran of several French crime films. This one was easily his best. He died six years later. It was released in America in 1972 under the title, THE GODSON. This is a very dark tale of a meticulous assassin living very secluded and alone in a rundown apartment house; inconspicuous, hiding in plain sight, a Spartan existance, a monk's simplicity and pure dedication to vocational ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Le Samouraï |
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.L' Amant City Travel Guides > VHS > By Genre starring: Jane March, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Frédérique Meininger, Arnaud Giovaninetti, Melvil Poupaud directed by: Jean-Jacques Annaud January 07, 1997 THE MOST sensual film of this genre we've seen ! Based on a true story, exceptionnaly well filmed, beautiful images and both protagonists are gorgeous ! If you can afford it, buy it, you'll surely want to see it more than once ! >>See More Reviews & Details on L' Amant |
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.Weekend City Travel Guides > VHS > By Genre starring: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Valérie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Léaud directed by: Jean-Luc Godard January 01, 1998 Jean-Luc Godard's film Week End is loaded with his obsessions with outrageous characters, political and philosophical ideas, and so on, and many viewers have claimed this to be a full on political film. From what I could gather after seeing a poor yet manageable copy of this film, I saw that this is possibly his best effort in terms of abrasive, surreal though bravura directing. He leaves the camera on his characters, with their flaws almost shining off them (which serves as an asset in some scenes), and yet most of the time it feels like he's directing a comedy of these events- comedy of errors. Consider the scene where the woman has the monologue in her panties and bra, how she leads up such telling, informatory details to a payoff that gives ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Weekend |
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.Breathless City Travel Guides > VHS > By Genre starring: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville directed by: Jean-Luc Godard This movie is full of a bunch of slow moving character developments. There's a bunch of long dialogues between men and women that are very drab and superficial. People tell me to watch this film for the amazing jump cut edits...well I did and big deal. Let's face it this guy is no Scorcese when it comes to doing innovative stuff with the camera, writing compelling scripts, and getting a likable cast up on the screen. Personally I think this guy just writes films for film school types and completely ignore us the audience. >>See More Reviews & Details on Breathless |
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.Zombie City Travel Guides > VHS > By Genre starring: Lucio Fulci, Tisa Farrow, Ian McCulloch, Richard Johnson, Al Cliver directed by: Lucio Fulci February 17, 1998 I enjoy watching zombie movies and I'd heard a lot about this one before I managed to get my hands on a copy. Some people had told me it was a classic of low budget filmmaking, others had warned me it was an absolute steaming pile of zombie pap. Now, having finally watched it, I don't think it's either of these things. The acting is bland in general, with the exception of veteran British actor Richard Johnson (looking a bit out of place, but having a great time hamming it up as the slightly mad Dr. Menard) and smirky Roger Moore look-alike Ian McCulloch. Al Cliver isn't too bad as a tough-guy tourist caught up in the zombie infestation, Tisa Farrow (yes, that's Mia's little sis) drifts through much of the movie looking distant and dazed, and Auretta ... Read More: >>See More Reviews & Details on Zombie |
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.Last Year at Marienbad City Travel Guides > VHS > By Genre starring: Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sascha Pitoëff, Françoise Bertin, Luce Garcia-Ville directed by: Alain Resnais March 24, 1998 The most tedious film I've ever seen. I had to watch it in film school and I nearly went out of my mind with boredom. VERY hard to sit through. You keep waiting for a story to emerge and it just never does. I suspect that the whole thing might have been a grand joke on the part of the director ... make a nonsense "art" film and see what significance his audience reads into it!! >>See More Reviews & Details on Last Year at Marienbad |
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.Land and Freedom City Travel Guides > VHS > By Genre starring: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor, Icíar Bollaín, Tom Gilroy, Marc Martínez directed by: Ken Loach April 20, 1999 The acting in the film is exceptional, especially the female protagonist. The problem with the film is that it doesn't adequately develop its two principal concerns: the Stalinist/Marxist betrayal of the Spanish Civil War and the developing romantic relationship between the protagonists. Lesser concerns are left undeveloped as well, such as David Hart's life after his return from the revolution. All we know is that his granddaughter reads Hart's old letters and newspaper clippings after his death. The lifetime effect of the revolution on Hart is anyone's guess. The film's virtue is its historical accuracy. The significance of the Spanish Civil War can hardly be explored in 109 minutes. The film needed to be much longer. >>See More Reviews & Details on Land and Freedom |
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.Paradise Road City Travel Guides > VHS > By Genre starring: Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Ehle directed by: Bruce Beresford March 13, 2001 This movie was awesome!!! At first I was reluctant to watch it but my girlfriend forced me to. If it wasn't for her I never would have seen it. >>See More Reviews & Details on Paradise Road |
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.Rififi City Travel Guides > VHS > By Genre starring: Jules Dassin, Jean Servais, Carl Möhner, Robert Manuel, Marie Sabouret directed by: Jules Dassin April 24, 2001 Rififi needs editing? Hardly. Rififi needs nothing but bowing down to. Some college Joes from Collegeville need editing. The permanent kind. Can there honestly be a place in the world out there called "Collegeville"? >>See More Reviews & Details on Rififi |
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.Bian Lian City Travel Guides > VHS > By Genre starring: Xu Zhu, Renying Zhou, Zhigang Zhang directed by: Tian-Ming Wu September 12, 2000 This is an extraordinarily great movie, a all time favourite in my opinion. I watched this movie two times about 10 years ago, the second time with my parents. This movie harshly critises the severe gender discrimination in China, at the same time revealing the great hardworking and kind characteristics of the Chinese people. I am supposed to participate in a speech contest later. Suddenly re-telling this movie came to my mind, thus wanting to do some research and buy a DVD here. On second thought, I will re-tell this movie based on my memory first in the speech contest before buying this DVD. >>See More Reviews & Details on Bian Lian |