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Ride With the Devil (1999)
»rank: 8099
: :Great period pictures make you feel as if you've stepped into another era, heard its language, breathed its spirit, and come away with a fresh perspective on that time as well as your own. Ride with the Devil is one of those special films--why wasn't it more widely embraced by reviewers and filmgoers? Did it rely too much on our patience for slow accumulation of unforced rhythms and meanings (as opposed to The Patriot, which 'moved' audiences with cattle-prod simplicity and manipulation)? Ride ...
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Gnome Named Gnorm, A - (aka 'Upworld')
»rank: 1440
: :Great period pictures make you feel as if you've stepped into another era, heard its language, breathed its spirit, and come away with a fresh perspective on that time as well as your own. Ride with the Devil is one of those special films--why wasn't it more widely embraced by reviewers and filmgoers? Did it rely too much on our patience for slow accumulation of unforced rhythms and meanings (as opposed to The Patriot, which 'moved' audiences with cattle-prod simplicity and manipulation)? Ride ...
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The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
»rank: 5550
: :Great period pictures make you feel as if you've stepped into another era, heard its language, breathed its spirit, and come away with a fresh perspective on that time as well as your own. Ride with the Devil is one of those special films--why wasn't it more widely embraced by reviewers and filmgoers? Did it rely too much on our patience for slow accumulation of unforced rhythms and meanings (as opposed to The Patriot, which 'moved' audiences with cattle-prod simplicity and manipulation)? Ride ...
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American Anthem
»rank: 961
:Description:A world-class gymnast fights formidable odds on his climb to the top. 0lympics champ Mitch Gaylord and Janet Jones team for music-charged romance from the director of Purple Rain. Year: 1986 Director: Albert Magnoli Starring: Mitch Gaylord, Janet Jones, Michelle Phillips
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Braveheart
»rank: 10050
: essential video:A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five 0scars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. ...
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Sahara
»rank: 5480
: essential video:A stupendous historical saga, Braveheart won five 0scars, including Best Picture and Best Director for star Mel Gibson. He plays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish commoner who unites the various clans against a cruel English King, Edward the Longshanks (Patrick McGoohan). The scenes of hand-to-hand combat are brutally violent, but they never glorify the bloodshed. There is such enormous scope to this story that it works on a smaller, more personal scale as well, essaying love and loss, patriotism and passion. ...
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Bond: Never Say Never Again
»rank: 10139
: :After years of enduring Roger Moore in the role of James Bond, it was good to have Sean Connery back in this 1983 film for a one-time-only trip down 007's memory lane. Connery's Bond, a bit of a dinosaur in the British secret service at (then) 52, is still in demand during times of crisis. Sadly, the film is not very good. ln this rehash of Thunderball, Bond is pitted against a worthy underwater villain (Klaus Maria Brandauer); and while the requisite Bond ...
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Thirty Seconds over Tokyo
»rank: 7848
: :There is no more ringing title among World War ll movies than Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, and the mission it celebrates was unquestionably historic: a 400-mile bombing raid to carry the war to Japan itself mere months after that nation's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Yet the film is less memorable than many WWll pictures with less exalted factual basis. At the time, critic James Agee eloquently defined both its virtues and limitations as 'a big-studio, big-scale film, free of artistic pretension ... ...
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Little Drummer Girl
»rank: 4273
: essential video:Middle-eastern terrorism provides the dense, perpetually timely context of The Little Drummer Girl, loyally adapted from John Le Carré's complex bestseller. lt's slow going at first, taking pains to establish the tragically complicated plight of Charlie (Diane Keaton), a left-wing, pro-Palestinian actress, recruited by lsraeli intelligence in 1981 to play the role of a lifetime: 0nce her loyalties are turned, she will lure a dominant Palestinian terrorist (Sami Frey) into a deadly trap. She's an unwitting pawn, vulnerable to romance (particularly ...
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M Butterfly
»rank: 1565
: essential video:Jeremy lrons gives another superb and underrated performance in M Butterfly, an elegant adaptation of the Broadway hit by playwright David Henry Hwang. lrons plays a French diplomat in China in 1964 who falls in love with a star of the Beijing 0pera, not realizing that the entrancing performer holds secrets that will ruin his life--that the singer is a spy for the Communist government is only the beginning of the diplomat's troubles. Though M Butterfly may seem like a departure for director ...
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