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Casablanca (1942) - DVD Review
Posted on 09.15.01 by Widge @ 7:18 pm
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Film:
DVD:

Written by: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch & Casey Robinson, based on the play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Joan Allison & Murray Burnett
Directed by: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Dooley Wilson

Features:

  • "You Must Remember This," a documentary hosted by Lauren Bacall
  • All-new introduction by Lauren Bacall
  • Theatrical trailer for the film, along with several other classic Bogart flicks

Released by: Warner Brothers
Region: 1
Rating: NR
Anamorphic: N/A; appears in its original 1.33:1 ratio

My Advice: Own the better edition

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Arthur (1981) - DVD Review
Posted on 06.03.01 by Widge @ 8:41 pm
Arthur DVD cover art

Film:
DVD:

Written & Directed by: Steve Gordon
Starring: Dudley Moore, Liza Minelli, John Gielgud, Geraldine Fitzergerald, Ted Ross

Features:

  • Theatrical trailers
  • "Behind the Scenes" information

Released by: Warner Brothers
Region: 1
Rating: PG
Anamorphic: Hell no.

My Advice: Avoid it because of the crappy DVD presentation.

Arthur Bach (Moore) is a millionaire playboy. He's also a drunk and an embarrassment to his family. Constantly going out at night, picking up hookers and bringing them home to his stately manor--he keeps winding up in the papers. It's only through the efforts of his manservant Hobson (Gielgud) that you imagine he's survived this long. But hey, he's enjoying life, he's about to get married to a wonderfully rich girl, and he's got fifty pairs of short pants hanging in his closet. What could possibly go wrong? Well, he just might slip up and fall in love with the wrong girl for his family, but the right one for him.

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Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1999) - DVD Review
Posted on 05.20.01 by Widge @ 5:44 pm
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels DVD cover art

Film:
DVD:

Written & Directed by: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Nick Moran, Jason Flemyng, Jason Statham, Dexter Fletcher, Vinnie Jones

Features:

  • U.S. & U.K. theatrical trailers
  • Cast & crew bios
  • Production featurette
  • Cockney rhyming dictionary

Released by: Universal
Region: 1
Rating: R
Anamorphic: No

My Advice: Rent it.

It seemed like the perfect plan. Four friends decide to pool their resources and give the card playing prodigy among them, Eddie (Moran), the chance to win at high stakes poker. Unfortunately, like most perfect plans, the thing goes right into the toilet, threatening to drag all four of them down, taking Eddie's dad (Sting) and most of the neighborhood with them.

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Brazil (1985) - DVD Review
Posted on 05.13.01 by Widge @ 11:54 pm
Brazil Criterion Collection DVD cover art

Film:
DVD:

Written by Terry Gilliam, Charles McKeown & Tom Stoppard
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Starring Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert DeNiro, Ian Holm, Michael Palin

Features:

  • Director's cut with Gilliam audio commentary
  • "What is Brazil?", a 30-minute documentary
  • "The Battle of Brazil: A Video History", 60-minute documentary
  • In-depth coverage of the many drafts and treatments of the script, with comments from McKeown and Stoppard
  • Production designer Norman Garwood on the look of the film
  • Costume designer James Acheson on the costumes and their inspirations
  • Composer Michael Kamen on his work for the film
  • In-depth look at the storyboards for the original dream sequences with writeups on their content
  • In-depth look at the special effects, including some raw footage
  • Theatrical trailer, with publicity and production stills
  • 94-minute "Love Conquers All" version of Brazil overseen by the studio, with audio commentary by Gilliam expert
    David Morgan

Released by: Criterion.
Rating: R.
Region: 1
Anamorphic: No.

My Advice: Own It.

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Chicken Run (2000) - Movie Review
Posted on 06.22.00 by Widge @ 1:26 am
Chicken Run movie poster

Written by: Karey Kirkpatrick with additional dialogue by Mark Burton & John O'Farrell, based on a story by Peter Lord & Nick Park
Directed by: Peter Lord & Nick Park
Starring: Julia Sawalha, Mel Gibson, Miranda Richardson, Benjamin Whitrow, Tony Haygarth

My Advice: Don't miss it.

Ginger (Sawalha) is a chicken with a dream. She wants to escape from the farm she is kept captive in, her egg-laying abilities and those of her comrades exploited by the Tweedys (Richardson and Haygarth). She has all of these marvelous plans for escape--but she insists on getting the rest of the farm's population out as well. Suffice to say, it's one disappointment after another. That is, until one day, a rooster from America named Rocky (Gibson), literally drops in on the farm--and he inspires Ginger to think that perhaps there is a way out after all.

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