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#Steep# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
A must have for any skiing or outdoor enthusiast. This isn’t your typical warren miller or matchstick ski movie (they’re great as well), its more of a documentary style film with interviews from skiing legends such as Doug Coombs, Shane McConkey, Glen Plake, etc… What I loved about this movie was how they explored the emotions that drive these athletes to seek such extreme skiing and take such enormous risks. The film shows the glamorous side of extreme skiing, but it also hits home on the risk side of the sport and how nearly all those interviewed had lost a good friend in the mountains. Some of those interviewed eventually lose their lives as well. I can’t recommend this film highly enough…for those of you wondering why you love to ski, this could be the answer you’ve been looking for.
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Warning: You’re about to experience the most breath taking, exhilarating and inspirational ride of your life. The world’s best skiers go beyond their dreams to conquer the steepest runs ever faced. From the sheer cliffs of Grand Teton, to the treachery of Chamonix France, to the untouched Alaskan peaks of Valdez, these extremers sacrifice their lives for a thrill but what a thrill it is. Fantastically beautiful images of the most magnificent peaks on the globe along with devastating avalanches and fatal spills only serve to push them harder. But you’re about to discover — not everyone who goes up the mountain — returns.
Best ski film ever produced – K. Burton – Western, Wy
This is a documentary not a 45 min “show me all the best the ski stars have to offer” from last year. This film interviews a few of the truly great skiers that influenced extreme skiing around the world from it’s inception to now. This film beautifully explains the balance between risk and reward. It states that risk is an inherent part of life and that each of us can find joy in our own level of risk, but do not hide from the so called “dangerous” things in life just to stay “safe”. Getting off the couch and into elements of nature, where you actually could die, is where the paradox of truly living begins and gratitude for this life is found.
exciting documentary – Joan Eckton –
This is a very interesting and exciting documentary on extreme skiing. Interesting interviews and story that shows how this sport started and how it has evolved. Shows the people behind the sport and really gets into the mindset that makes them tick. The best part for me was the footage of skiing, from the classic shots, to the modern helicopter shots, to the helmet-mounted cameras. Kept me on the edge of my seat.
I’m not a skier by the way. I think anybody interested in learning about interesting people will enjoy this.
Not so much Mark Obenhaus, but William A. Kerig – Gail Drake –
William A. Kerig was the mind behind this whole damn documentary, Mark was a bit more on the bystander with a few ideas side of things. The credit should go to Mr.Kerig. So wake up people.
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#Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Count Dracula’s Great Love# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
I haven’t seen Elvira since I was a teenager back in the early ’80s, anxiously awaiting her cleavage…er, her appearance each weekend as she poked fun at some schlocky movie. I really got a kick out of seeing her again. I forgot how cool the opening and closing sequences were for her show. I also forgot how extremely corny and cheesy some of her segments were. She’s got a “Cooking with Elvira” segment on here that takes corniness to new levels.
The movie itself wasn’t too bad actually. It’s a Spanish film from the early ’70s about four women and a man who are riding a horse-drawn carriage through the Transylvanian Alps in the summer. A wheel falls off the carriage and wouldn’t you know it, the only place that they can go for help is Count Dracula’s castle. Of course they don’t know he’s Count Dracula, they think he’s a doctor. So they spend a few nights there (help is a long way off). Of course their numbers start dwindling rather quickly. Unfortunately the second half of the movie seems to lose its way; it just gets rather boring. The ending comes as a bit of a surprise though – it’s the first time I’ve ever seen a vampire do that! Overall it has some nice Gothic atmosphere and I think just about every babe in here gets topless at one point or another. They also wear these low-cut dresses throughout the whole movie that show off plenty of cleavage.
As far as the technical aspects, it’s an old, unrestored print, but it’s exactly what you would expect for a 30+ year old Spanish film being shown on Elvira’s Movie Macabre. It’s perfectly watchable, and I was actually impressed that it looked as good as it did. It was originally widescreen, but here we get it in fullscreen. The opening credits now display the title as “unt Dracula Great Love”. The dubbing job is pretty bad, I’ve seen dialogue that was in better sync with the actors mouths during a Godzilla movie. However, I didn’t find it distracting at all. The voice acting is sort of a mixed bag, Count Dracula comes off as about the most un-threatening vampire I’ve ever seen, but most of the other characters (save for one of the girls) is done quite well. And this is the complete, unedited print of the movie, with all the nudity still intact. Way to go Elvira! You really do know how to show a guy a good time!
Overall, I really enjoyed this. You have the option of watching the movie with or without Elvira, so not only are you getting the full cheesy show with “The girl with the curves that’ll rattle your nerves”, you’re also getting a fairly descent print of a fairly enjoyable movie as well.
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Five travelers are forced to take refuge in the legendary Castle Dracula. Unfortunately, the infamous Count Dracula (Paul Naschy) is alive and well and he’s more than eager to take in his new guests. But when one of the travelers falls in love with Dracula, she must choose between her mortal soul and an eternity as Count Dracula’s Great Love.
AWFUL movie! Not even Elvira can save this turkey. – spas49392@aol.com – Massachusetts
I am amazed anyone could say this is a good movie. The plot is completely ridiculous and all over the place. Dracula spends half the movie trying to bring his daughter back to life, then in the space of two seconds he inexplicably changes his mind and dumps her in the canal. The first forty minutes seemed like a good setup, but the rest is just ridiculous. Elvira is usually good for a laugh, but this is one movie even she can’t make worth suffering through.
The dubbing is indeed as bad as everyone says–a fight scene in which no one even remotely connects fist to flesh is particularly hilarious. The guys swing at the air while one moans for no reason. It’s like an Ed Wood film in Spanish. In fact, this Drac bears some resemblance to the Lugosi stand-in in PLAN 9.
Not even cheesy fun. Just boring. But yeah, for the guys, there are some topless women. And the single creative touch is what the mirror shows when Karen hits the sheets with Drac.
Good film – Atrocious DVD… Don’t buy – The T – FL, USA
The movie is Ok, I’m not writing this to review the actual film but the DVD itself. The quality is terrible, especially for the price. You get a very, very bad transfer with awful colors and great loss of detail, but the biggest problem is that the thing seems to have been taken from a bootleg, filmed in an actual movie theater, as the screen is not complete! No matter what you do, you will never see the whole screen, and never is it more evident than in the credits where some words are cut. In the movie, some scenes just lack coherence because of this. For example, when Naschy first appears after opening the door of his Sanatorium to his visitors, we CAN’T SEE HIM because the screen is cut!!!
Terrible DVD. Wait for a decent release to buy this movie, which deserves the kind of treatment DEIMOS has given to Naschy’s Werewolf films….
Great movie…horrible bootleg – John M. Bernhard –
This is terrific Paul Naschy film, but my comments address the presentation of this DVD only.
This is a bootleg. They ripped off Sinister Cinema’s transfer and matted the opening minutes of the movie to cover up the Sinister watermark that is present for the opening sequences.
Don’t buy this rip off version, get a copy from Sinister themselves on VHS or DVD-R.
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Tags: #Bell, Book and Candle# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
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Gillian Holroyd (Kim Novak) runs a little primitve art shop in Greenwich Village, on the first floor of a building also shared by Shep Henderson (James Stewart), a publisher, and her aunt Queenie (Elsa Lanchester). She likes Shep a lot but admires him from a distance until an odd problem with his phone on Christmas Eve – engineered by busybody Queenie – sends him to her shop to use hers. They take a liking to each other, and he decides to find her at the club she’s going to with her aunt that evening – accompanied by his girlfriend Merle (Janie Rule). Gillian’s brother Nicky (Jack Lemmon) plays the bongos in the house jazz band at the club, which is filled with all kinds of weird people – very weird as it turns out, because it’s a club for witches. Soon Gillian sets her sights on taking Shep away from Merle – who she’s loathed since they knew each other in college – and Nicky gets involved in helping to write a book about “their kind of people” with drunken occult writer Sidney Redlitch (Ernie Kovacs) who has been summoned suddenly to New York by Gillian’s spell. Troubles ensue…
Director Richard Quine’s romantic comedy reteams Stewart and Novak immediately after Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO, which was released 7 months earlier. Obviously there are some fascinating comparisons to be made; the first and most obvious is that both are films about romantic obsessions, in both cases brought about initially by deceptions on the part of Novak’s character. Both films also feature a frustrated second woman in the life of Stewart’s character – Midge (Barbara Bel Geddes) in Vertigo and Merle in this film – and though their functions are otherwise fairly different, interestingly enough both are artists. Obviously this film is a comedy, and one will correctly assume that it’s not going to have an unhappy or tragic ending, but like VERTIGO it does keep one guessing as to the specific nature of it’s ending up until the last few minutes. Both films have scenes with the Stewart characters finding out about the true nature of the Novak characters, getting angry and refusing to accept it – though, again, the consequences are radically different. And both films have gotten flack for the characters that Novak plays – for being sexist or too accepting of the patriarchal norm; in both cases Novak’s character tries to assert herself, and faces negative consequences.
Or so it might seem. In BELL BOOK AND CANDLE we’re told several times that a witch (or warlock – apart from the name, no distinction is made between the sexes and their abilities or places in the world of magic) will lose her (or his) powers, become “human” if s/he falls in love. So Gillian ultimately falling for Shep – as opposed to just casting a spell on him – can be seen as a sign of feminine weakness, giving up her power for the traditional female role. Not a completely invalid reading but – it’s a little more complicated. One of the things I like about this film is that we’re not seeing a group of all-powerful, dominating witches, but a group of fairly pathetic people scrounging around like the rest of humanity. Gillian may lose her powers but – so what? They don’t help her brother much, or her aunt, who both seem to live in a genteel sort of poverty. And I think that if the film is telling us anything about what “magic” is, it’s that love is a kind of magic and force that’s mysterious and incredibly potent – and that real feeling is more powerful than any spell.
The film also gets it’s share of disparaging “Stewart’s too old” sorts of remarks, but I have to say that Stewart actually looks – and acts – a little younger here than he did in the previous film – and Novak comes across as much older, or at least much more mature and self-assured. So this wasn’t really a problem for me. The cast all in all is excellent; Kovacs not surprisingly almost steals the show as the non-stop yammering and drinking writer, Lemmon is his usual somewhat smarmy and yet lovable self, Lanchester and Hermione Gingold – as a famous witch who turns out mostly to have the power of self-promotion – are both delightful. Stewart does well in a role that I’m not sure he’s perfect for; a decade of playing mostly darker roles leaves him a little too intense sometimes, and a little too self-conscious for this lighter material. I think he does fine – but I’m thinking perhaps a Cary Grant or even Rock Hudson might have done as well.
So ultimately, it’s Kim Novak who is the real star and draw here, playing every bit as mysterious, sexy-but-vulnerable and beautiful as she is in VERTIGO. It’s not a role that requires quite the range, and it doesn’t go to places as dark, but it is something that requires a high level of agility, to be able to stay away from coming off as too demanding or controlling, and yet to never appear weak, and she manages it brilliantly. Having rewatched the Hitchcock film recently also, I have to say it’s a total mystery to me as to why she didn’t become the biggest star in Hollywood – she had the beauty, the ability to play comedy and drama, and a powerful mysterious sexiness. Maybe – despite playing “fake” characters in a couple of her best-known roles – she was just too real for the phoniness of Tinseltown.
This is a fine transfer and you shouldn’t hesitate to acquire it, but I should tell you that the brand-new The Kim Novak Collection is supposed to have an upgraded transfer, along with other must-sees like PICNIC and PAL JOEY. If you’re a serious Novak fan, that’s the set to get.
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Novak is a witch who casts a spell on a book publisher (Stewart) to make him fall in love with her. He is most unhappy when he finds out what happened
Magically Delicious – Gregor von Kallahann –
I’ve been reviewing films featuring the late actress Janice Rule for a project I’m working on and found a certain irony in her casting as James Stewart’s rather straight-laced fiancee. I vaguely remembered seeing the film on TV when I was a teenager, and knowing what I do about the rather non-conformist Ms. Rule, assumed that she was likely one of the “beatnik-y” witches. Her character was kind of “witchy” all right (or, if you like, you can substitute any rhyming word that comes to mind), but not in a GOOD way. Her one saving grace is that she’s a bit of a painter, and not too bad a one at that. But she’s ultimately something of a square, a social elitist and a sour, sour soul. Jimmy can do better, of course, even if he needs a little magic to push him along.
Despite the fact that they can maniulate human emotions, Kim Novak and her fellow witches(Elsa Lanchester, Jack Lemmon and Hermione Gingold) really are witches in a good sense–not mean-sprited or evil, just free-spirited bohemians who just happen to be able to work magic spells. They don’t do mortals any REAL harm, and in fact there’s no active proscription agains fraternizing with us. Even a “love affair” is OK, as long as the witch-partner therein doesn’t actually fall in love. Cuz, as everybody knows–except maybe for Samantha Stevens a few years later–that’s one sure way to lose your powers.
BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE is very light fare indeed, but it’s utterly charming. Its milieu, the world of benevolent urban witches in the mid-twentieth century would later take on darker hues in the ’60s with ROSEMARY BABY, but that was a decade away at this point. There’s not even a hint of Satan-worship in this whimsical flick. Kim Novak has a cat who doubles as her “familiar,” but he really doesn’t get too familiar (and never really what you’d call diabolical). Kim’s not above settling old scores and using her witchy wiles to win Jimmy over, but that just seems a magical extension of what movie femmes fatales always do anyway.
This was Kim and Jim’s second pairing in the space of one year (1958). They had previously teamed up for Hitchcock’s VERTIGO, a more celebrated film certainly, but in some ways the chemistry the two stars exhibit here seems a little more natural. That may be because they’d gotten used to working together, or maybe it’s just has to do with Jimmy Stewart getting to play an unequivocally nice guy again, after getting a little obsessive and creepy in the earlier film. But hey, if you’re programming your own double feature some weekend soon, you could certainly do worse than BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE and VERTIGO. Pop some popcorn in the microwave, boil some eye of newt in the caudron, and curl up for a solid evening of entertainment.
One of my faverite films – Kit – USA
Magical fun . I love this movie . Wonderful cast and it’s good movie .
Bewitching – Rod R. Dysinger – Zanesville, Ohio USA
Interesting movie from 1958. I was not at all familiar with this film before viewing it. The writers of the sitcom “Bewitched” obviously “borrowed” many of the concepts from this film. This is an often overlooked little movie that is intriguing in its own right. James Stewart and Kim Novak were both right on target with their portrayals in this quirky gem. I would definitely recommend it to anyone that was a fan of “Bewitched”.
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#Vampires – Los Muertos# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
I first viewed this movie when it was a pay-per-view offering several years ago. I thought I would be watching just another Hollywood vamp movie. “Wrong!” This is one smart, stylish vampire film. For the first time I can recall, the vampire is smarter than the people hunting them. This is kind of like Van Hellsing in reverse. But it is a flim that will hold your attention. If you liked John Carpenters Vampires, you’ll love this.
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A VETERAN HUNTER TEAMS UP WITH A CREW OF SLAYERS TO KEEP A PACK OF BLOOD-THIRSTY VAMPIRES FROM INVADING THE UNITED STATES INTHIS ACTION-PACKED, THRILL-RIDE SEQUEL TO JOHN CARPENTER’SVAMPIRES.
John Carpenter’s 30 Days of Innocent Blood Near Dark – Doktor Polidori – Boston, Ma., U.S. of C.
This really isn’t that bad; it helps that the last twenty minutes of so are decently done. Beside the stupidity of having a spiritual condition (undeath) palliated by drugs, and the shredding of the mythology developed for the first movie (wood isn’t special, it’s just that stakes are useful for dragging out folks into the sunlight, so the wooden shells shouldn’t signify), the general level of competence is pretty low.
Jon Bon Jovi may have been a mediocre semi-entity of a rock-star, but as an actor…he’s a mediocre semi-entity of a rock star. Ms Muriel Fouilland, who plays the master vampire, is good enough, and I believe is inspired-by/ripped-oiff–from Anne Parillaud in “Innocent Blood”, but the dubbed-in wild-cat noises also taken from that movie detract from her appearances…Natasha Wagner offers up as aggressive a piece of non-acting as I’ve seen this side of high-school plays and pr0n.
Diego Luna, who plays Sancho (“The Kid”) is the only one of the main players worth seeing again. With his exception, the less English a character speaks, the better the acting job…a little reminiscent of the early Prof. Quatermass movies, in which a good English cast was saddled with a has-been American lead…..
Vampires – Los Muertos – D. R. Funk – Fort Wayne, IN USA
If you like Vampires and John Bon Jovi, you will like this. Never make top 10, but enjoyed it.
WOW! (and not the good wow) – George E. Peterson –
this movie was sad! Jon! you should stick to singing! PLEASE! your acting was and is horrible! I take that back the 5 minutes you had in that submarine movie was pretty good. I’m glad I only rented this and didn’t buy it.
VAMPIRES – Rebecca L. Polen –
THERE WERE SOME THINGS THAT MADE THIS MOVIE UNIQUE FOR A VAMPIRE MOVIE OTHER THAN THAT IT WAS JUST A VAMPIRE MOVIE.
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#The Kim Novak Collection (Picnic / Jeanne Eagels / Bell, Book and Candle / Middle of the Night / Pal Joey)# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
It’s been a great year for Kim Kovak. Five of her films in this collection and two(“Pushover” & “5 Against the House”) from Sony’s Columbia FILM NOIR CLASSICS I & II have all been re-mastered with beautiful new prints. If you factor in the recent re-mastering of “Vertigo”(Universal) and “The Man With the Golden Arm”(Warner) you just can’t go wrong if you’re a fan of this undefinable actress. I say that because I’ve always thought she was one of the most mysterious persons ever to appear on the screen. She was hired by Harry Cohn to be Columbia’s answer to Fox’s Marilyn Monroe. But that was unfair of both Cohn and Columbia. You always knew what you were getting with Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Mamie van Doren, and the rest of the “Blond Bombshells” of the Fifties. And you certainly knew what you were getting with some of Ms Kovak’s co-workers at Columbia: Lizabeth Scott, Cleo Moore and the great Gloria Grahame. But you never did with Kim Kovak because there was always something beneath the surface that she wasn’t going to let you see. That is best represented in her performance in “Vertigo”. She seems to be telling the audience that she is more than just a pretty face up there on the screen. You can see a playful side of her by going on YOUTUBE and checking out her mystery guest appearence on “What’s My Line” on Feb. 05, 1956. She uses a cockney accent to confuse the panelists as to her identity(and she almost succeeds). The real gem of this new collection is the rarely seen “Middle of the Night”(1959). Directed by Delbert Mann(“Marty”); I agree with the commentary by Stephen Rebello that it is one of her greatest performances. In the commentary, Ms Kovak mentions that the cast had a five to eight week rehearsal before filming started and it really shows. Her co-star, Fredric March, also gives one of his best performances. She also had the good fortune to work with great directors – Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger, Delbert Mann, George Sidney, Billy Wilder and Richard Quine to mention just a few. They all brought out the best in her performances. Sony should be commended for their continued excellence in not only this collection, but previous collections on Cary Grant, Frank Capra, Stanley Kramer, Samuel Fuller, etc. Let’s hope we see future collections on such Columbia stars such as Jean Arthur, William Holden, Rita Hayworth, and Glenn Ford.
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Picnic
It’s Labor Day weekend, and fresh off a freight train is Hal Carter (William Holden), a happy-go-lucky drifter who’s looking for a brand new start in life. A robust, handsome show-off, Hal has come to Kansas to seek gainful employment in his old fraternity brother Alan’s family granary. But despite his high hopes and expectations, Hal’s ambitious plans soon go away when his sexual magnetism attracts every woman in town, including 19-year-old Madge Owens (Kim Novak) — the alluring young beauty queen who also happens to be Alan’s girlfriend.
Jeanne Eagels
The short and tortured life of Broadway actress and silent screen star Jeanne Eagels was a perfect vehicle for Miss Novak. As a small-town beauty whose ambition for the legitimate stage drove her to self-destruction, the film showcased Novak’s dramatic talents in one of her favorite roles. Richly photographed in Black and White, and directed by George Sidney (Kiss Me Kate, Viva Las Vegas), with strong support from the legendary Agnes Moorehead and Jeff Chandler.
Bell, Book, and Candle
Meet Gillan Holroyd (Kim Novak), Greenwich Village’s most seductive sorceress. Powerful, glamorous, and a wee bit bored, Gillian knows that witches can’t fall in love. But they can have fun… especially if their lover belongs to another woman! So when Gillian discovers handsome new neighbor Shep Henderson (James Stewart) is the fiance of an old college nemesis (Janice Rule), she promptly puts the befuddled publisher under her spell. But while her sex hex may have heated up Shep’s heart, it has also unthawed her own, leading to a romantic complication that not even Pyewacket, Gillian’s mind-reading cat, could have foreseen. Presented in eye popping Technicolor transfer that beautifully captures James Wong Howe’s stunning cinematography, Bell, Book and Candle co-starring Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Hermione Gingold, and Elsa Lanchester is “a delightful spoof on witchcraft with the cast members at their very best.” THE MOTION PICTURE GUIDE!
Middle of the Night
Paddy Chayefsky’s story, pairing her with actor Frederick March, allowed Novak to again display the richness of her talent. Novak is a young divorcee who falls into an uneasy romantic relationship with her clothing manufacturer boss (March), who is more than twice her age. The anxieties and opinions of family and friends press on the couple and strain the fragile relationship. Directed by Delbert Mann on location in New York, the terrific supporting cast includes Martin Balsam and Lee Grant.
Pal Joey
Pal Joey stars Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, and Kim Novak in a sophisticated musical comedy. Sinatra plays Joey Evans, a cabaret singer who romances wealthy socialite Hayworth into financing his own nightclub, but then falls for voluptuous chorine Novak. Pal Joey took 17 years to get to the screen. Based on a series of stories written as letters by John O’Hara for THE NEW YORKER, the letters were all signed “Your Pal Joey” by a mythical dancer. O’Hara later adapted the stories as a book for the Broadway musical which starred Gene Kelly. When Columbia bought the film rights, studio chief Harry Cohn wanted Kelly for the lead and Hayworth for the younger role of Linda. But Kelly was already contracted to MGM and the project was shelved. At one time, Billy Wilder was interested in doing the picture with Marlon Brando and Mae West-but the studio passed. It finally took the combined talents of Hayworth, Sinatra, and newcomer Kim Novak to bring Pal Joey to the screen. The gossip columns were filled with stories of an impending battle over credits. Sinatra was at the height of his film popularity, but Hayworth’s contract stipulated she receive top billing. The battle however, was never fought. Sinatra gladly took the second slot-”I don’t mind being in the middle of that sandwich,” he quipped. Pal Joey contains some of Rogers and Hart’s best songs including “My Funny Valentine,” and one of Sinatra’s biggest hits, “The Lady Is A Tramp.” Hayworth’s vocals were dubbed by Jo Ann Greer, Novak’s by Trudi Erwin. Pal Joey was nominated for four Academy Awards(r) (1957) for Art Direction-Set Decoration, Sound Recording, Costume Design (by Jean Louis) and Film Editing. Although Pal Joey was a huge commercial success, it would be Rita Hayworth’s swan song for Columbia. The studio machine that had turned Margarita Cansino into the glamorous Rita Hayworth, would now turn its attentions to Chicago-born Kim Novak, the last in a long line of studio-made stars.
Novak Lights Up the Screen – Earl A. Myers, Jr. –
Kim Novak was definitely more than a pretty face. She was in fact quite a talented actress. The 5 films chosen for this collection display that talent to the fullest. Barring Jeanne Eagels, which was a bit hokey for my taste, Novak exhibits a wide range of emotions and fullness of heart. Always the love interest, she more than holds up her end in contrast to her male counterparts. Middle of the Night, which I reviewed separately, is especially a noteworthy performance. In my mind. it is by far her greatest on screen accomplishment. This assemblage of Novak films is one to enjoy and revisit when the nostalgia of Hollywood’s filmmaking was markedly superior than it is today.
Kim Novak comes alive again on the screen. – M. Guillory – Texas, USA
I have been a Kim Novak fan since I was a teenager in the 1960s. This 5-movie set is a very nice one, with high quality sound and video. I am very happy with this purchase and adding such a fine set of movies to my collection.
Looks can be deeptive – Movern Law – Hebrides
Kim Novak. I didn’t think about her as a kid. Strangely it was the hoopla around the crazily unappreciated KISS ME, STUPID,
that threw me into a meditation about her, and then Dino–which compelled me to compose the poem “The Secretary of Liquor–because both Novak and Martin were taken with a shrug of the shoulder as a type when I now think it’s the opposite:
that both their acting and attitude, was overshadowed by the PERSONA THEY SO BRILLIANTLY CREATED. Novak’s real beauty and Dino’s brilliance are internal, unshowy, self deferential, modest; and just because everyone went to their movies, a little before my time, it doesn’t mean that they weren’t true artists. (Whenever Jerry Lewis speaks he talks about his mortification at Dino’s “fate” in the overall sense, including his mask. The best movie actors are mostly just THERE; and often still, like the trees that frame the scenes where they exchange confidences. I’m saying that the actors we’re most fascinated by are by and large the ones who don’t seem to be aware that they are being looked at, but they still, to use TS Eliot’s phrase, like roses that are looked at.
Mark Rudman, one of whose jobs is to stay off the internet unless he can write some free flowing epistolary poem, like earlier poets whose impulse is like that of James Wright: “Today I was happy so I made this poem,”
Each moment of time is a mountain
An eagle rejoices in the oak trees of heaven
Crying This is what I wanted
And the word that binds these differentials is: now. (See: The Macheteros, who are also the opposite of how–not how we see them–how we approach otherness with jaundiced eyes.)
Dino on Wright’s poem: “might as well keep ‘truckin,” hey what’s so funny, I said ‘truckin,’ not…”
Cross my heart, I forgot I was once the poetry critic for amazon.com…no wonder I resist writing prose without remuneration…
such is life…
Gracias,
Morvern and MJ
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#The Way We Were (Special Edition)# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
I’ve been collecting some of my all-time favs and this one couldn’t be neglected! This is a classic! These are the memorable ones, the best when the couple splits at the end for a worthwhile reason, one that is bigger than they are; one that when they catch sight of each other in years to come that we can feel the longing and the unquestionable love between them. I don’t care how many times I watch these classics…I STILL end up with tears dripping off my cheeks!!
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Sensitive and moving tale of the romance of two individuals whose political and religious ideologies are exact opposites. Streisand plays a Jewish stu
Excellent movie – BJ – Erie, Pennsylvania United States
How can you not get swept away with the performances of Barbra and Robert Redford!
Political firecracker. – ADRIENNE MILLER – TENNESSEE
The Way We Were is a profound film of two people who love each other but can’t seem to make it work due to their opposing political views. Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford are movie magic together, their chemistry is electric and their acting is impeccable. I loved how honest this film was, the ending is sad but it’s nice to see a romantic drama have a realistic outcome and not one that is wishy-washy or contrived. Definitely worth checking out, enjoy!
One of My All Time Favorites – swans6250 –
This movie is one I loved so much, I had to add it to my collection so I could watch it more than once. It makes me cry every time. DVD was in great shape, too.
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#House of Flying Daggers# Best Cheap Discount Sales Reviews
There’s much that’s beautiful in this movie: the actors, their acting, their costumes and makeup, the natural landscapes, the pacing, etc.
And the movie is also quite powerful. The many martial arts scenes are indeed artistic and they manage to blend in elements of surreal fantasy without coming across as tacky, a triangle of romance unfolds, and, more generally, the movie is able to elicit a wide range of emotions, both simple and complex, subtle and intense.
All of this makes for a great movie in that distinctive Chinese style, but it’s also dinstinctively Chinese in another way: it moves along nicely with plenty of action which builds a feeling of hope, but then everything comes tragically crashing down at the end. This is a movie where someone can effectively die twice (!), thus amplifying our feelings of loss and grief even beyond their normally painful levels.
While some people might “like” this sort of tragic ending (which is very reminiscent of ancient Greek tragedy), I found that it cancelled much of my enjoyment of the movie prior to the ending, hence my rating of 4 stars rather than 5.
If you’re OK with tragic endings and/or like Chinese movies, I can certainly recommend this movie, but beware if you have a need for the classic American happy ending.
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Set in the waning days of the Tang Dynasty, two police deputies try to save a dancer, who has ties to a revolutionary faction known as the House of Fl
I *hate* this movie! – S. Oller –
I *hate* this movie! I saw the rating it had on Amazon and I read the description on the back of the box and I thought the movie sounded *awesome*! Then I ended up getting it for really cheap on Blu-ray (for which the quality is not exactly stellar) and was met with one of the most unpleasant-to-watch movies I’ve seen in a while.
The movie starts off great. I was very much intrigued by the story and the fight scene in the beginning is, I think, pretty cool. But as the movie progresses and the love story unfolds between the two characters, I start enjoying the movie less and less until it finally bottoms out at the end with the conclusion of a stupid fight made stupid by the love story that sparked it. The love story for this movie is wretchedly terrible! I was not pulled in in the slightest and I thought it was absolutely unrealistic. The love story is a classic example of a bad love story where all of the characters make stupid decisions and then suffer the melodramatic consequences of their actions. The whole mess infuriated me. Not only that, but the movie is *extremely* drawn out. I was fighting the urge to fall asleep the whole time and was begging the movie to end. Now, there is an interesting twist in the movie that I really liked, but it didn’t make the rest of the movie any better.
Also, another point of disappointment in the movie that I want to talk about is the fight scenes. The fight scene in the beginning is, as I said before, pretty cool. But the vast majority of the subsequent fight scenes are very bland for me. They aren’t very impressive to watch nor are they exciting. Another problem I had is that the fighting felt very infrequent. Now, I’m not saying that a martial arts film has to have constant fighting in it, but that fighting should *drive* the story. This movie succeeds on that part, but the story is so drawn out that the fighting itself gets lost in the mess and becomes a victim of the drawn out nature of the movie along with the bad love story. Not only that, but I really felt that there were a lot of cuts in the fight scenes and, in general, they didn’t look realistic. I couldn’t get pulled into something that looks so fake. And the CG with the flying daggers? That’s just really unrealistic and further contributes to my dislike of this movie.
In summary: Verbally, I cannot fully express my hate for this movie. The love story was bad and, to me, was very unrealistic and even ridiculous at times. This movie was a love story first and a martial arts film third or fourth. The fight scenes were downright terrible and I regret paying any amount of money for this movie. I never want to watch this movie again.
Excellent movie – Ricardo Gonzalez Ramirez – Girardota, Antioquia, CO
good, and include spanish lenguage (español iberico, no latino…pero los sub estan bien)…so i good for me.
Brilliant Cinematography and much much more – B –
I keep this short and sweet,I loved this film with it’s brilliant cinematography. It’s stunning, Explosive and Spectacular. A brilliant martial art film and the visual effects are really good. Anyway the storyline is good as well. A very good film one of the best around and a must buy for any true movie fan.
bad quality – J. Walls – delaware
rented hd , have fios connection 25/15 always stream good hd, but lately amazon’s quality has been droppn down to below sd quality, when i paid more money to watch hd
i know its not my connection, amazon you need to fix whatever it is dropping hd quality out
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With the latest addition to this `legend’ already in theaters (saw it, really liked it, will review it soon) I decided to brush up on a few of these films I had yet to see. My friends all suggested `Robin and Marian’, and since I love the two leads I decided to give it a go.
I’m glad I did.
Overall I found `Robin and Marian’ to be a wonderful film. The acting, the concept, the imagery; everything came together very well here. For me, the loss of a star comes from the odd tonal shift the film encountered during the first ten minutes or so. It just seems very disjointed.
`Robin and Marian’ opens like `Monty Python of Nottingham’, completely in tune with its comedic timing and a wonderful spoof on itself. I was rolling, it was that hilarious. Every gag was fresh and intelligent. Then, suddenly, the film took a more serious tone, dropped the outlandish quality of the opening and subdued its comedic tones to a more subtle undercurrent. It went from a cull out laugh-riot to a more dramatic film with flourishes of `the funny’.
It just felt odd.
That said, the film winds up coming together for a great cinematic experience, I’m just still stumped by the strange tonal shift in the films outset.
The film takes place 20 years after the story most of us are aware of. Robin went off to war and left Marian alone. Upon his return he finds Marian in a convent and being sentenced to prison by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham. Of course, Robin has to play the hero and save the day, but he only aggravates the Sheriff and causes more problems for himself and Marian. Soon he is once again a hunted man.
I love both Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn, and Hepburn especially is outstanding here. Like I said, after those first ten minutes the film takes a far more serious tone, and Hepburn understands that and elevates that shift with every ounce of her acting talent. She really sinks her teeth into the pain Marian is undergoing, trying desperately to understand her love of Robin. Connery has a more difficult task of balancing the humor with the drama. He gets it right, for the most part, but his charisma makes him better suited for the humor here and at times he comes off mismatched with Hepburn when concerning the more dramatic scenes. Robert Shaw is deliciously evil here, and I loved Ian Holm’s brief appearance as Prince John.
In the end, `Robin and Marian’ works and I highly recommend it. Don’t be misled by the films opening sequences. The film is not that type of a film (although I was really hoping it was going to be, since they totally nailed that formula). The final battle scene can be a tad overdone, especially when you consider the shift the film took. That final scene reverts back to the films comedic opening, yet it doesn’t hit as hard since the focus has been shifted over the course of the films center. Still, Connery and Hepburn shine here and make this take on the famed character well worth your time and attention.
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When Robin returns from the Crusades after King Richard, he faces the crazed King John, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and Marian who became a nun when he
A Lion in Sherwood – Doc Holliday – Great Northwest
Robin and Marion screenplay by the late James Goldman, playwright/screenwriter of “Lion in Winter” with Katherine Hepburn, Peter O’Toole and Anthony Hopkins, and brother of William Goldman-”Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, “Marathon Man”, etc.
Somewhat, similar to “Lion in Winter”, Robin and Marion is a tongue-in-cheek, parody of aging in Robin Hood’s Sherwood Forest. Wonderful supporting cast (Robert Shaw, Richard Harris and Nicol Williamson) with an ensemble feel. Great fun, cynical, witty–a real treat from Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn.
Robin and Marian – D. Rondy – TROY, MICHIGAN, US
A different take on ROBIN Hood, but if you like sean Conrey you will love the movie. Audrey Hepburn is great as usual. Lots of action.
Violent, vulgar, and lustful tale! – Roy Dan – United States
Most of the other reviews are terrible, i.e., this is really a useless love story. Robin is an ultra-violent lair, the maid is lustful and loose, and everyone else in this film is vulgar and irreverent! My wife left after 30 minutes. I didn’t last much longer. The DVD went into the trash… For most of you out there, don’t bother.
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