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February 10th, 2010 by dahlia2956628
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If you judge that all evangelists are phonies, then you need to look this video. Billy Graham is a proper believer, a man who never compromised his vision of bringing the gospel to the people. He even told President LBJ that he wanted to peep him devote his life to Christ after his presidency: you’ve got to adore this unwavering understanding in Christ. It’s no wonder Graham is so influential. This is a incredible video that brings Billy Graham to life.

In this PBS production, we rep an overview of Reverend Graham’s life, from his youth as a Fuller Brush salesman to being the most prominent living evangelist in the world. There is also a microscopic history of the evangelical movement in the U.S. from its inception, and some early film clips of Rev. Graham’s early crusades that are worthy, and that also include some of his “team” who have been with him since the beginning, among them George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows.

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This documentary centers on a crusade in Portland, Oregon, where they note the extensive planning, the pre-event rehearsals, the people going door-to-door with announcements, the prayer teams. When one includes the titanic choir, and all the technicians, a crusade can involve as many as 30,000 people, all coordinated for one purpose, to lead people to Jesus.

I am positive the producers of this documentary would argue that they were giving us a “balanced portrait,” but unfortunately, it is done with the undercurrent of a snobbish attitude, in the words emphasized and in the people they chose to interview. They dwell at length with a obvious Charles Templeton, a man who calls himself a “friend” of Graham’s but speaks with the tongue of a snake, and thinks Rev. Graham has committed “smart suicide” and is preaching an “outdated faith.” Written and hosted by Randall Balmer, there is remarkable that made me dismal, with a feeling that those who created this documentary sadly were not familiar with their subject, but rather had a pre-concieved view they tried to indicate.

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There is a final ten diminutive interview with Rev. Graham which is a delight. If you can obtain past the supercilious tone of this documentary, it is well worth watching, especially for footage of young Billy Graham, ample and angular, preaching his heart out; a charismatic soldier for the Lord, who has become a powerful loved general in His army. Running time is approximately 1 hour and 46 minutes.

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February 9th, 2010 by dahlia2956628
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This 2004 Golden Globe award winner for Best Foreign Language film, directed by Afghani Siddiq Barmak, is a attractive indictment of the repressive, fundamentalist Taliban regime and its treatment of women. Filmed on a shoestring budget, the film is a composite of a number of correct stories, coalescing into one. It is harrowing view at a feudal sort of government that equated women with itsy-bitsy more than chattel. Forced to be totally dependent on men, the examine arises as to what would be their fate, if all the men in their world were to no longer be there for them.

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This is the mutter that confronts one particular woman, a widowed doctor, who treats patients in secret. Unfortunately, the hospital, if one can call it that, has not paid her for some time, and she can no longer work there. Moreover, it has become too uncertain for her to go the streets, as she is a lone woman forbidden to recede the streets without the accompaniment of a member of the male sex. As her household consists solely of three generation of women, having lost her husband and her brother, circumstances are dire indeed.

She must devise some thought of getting or earning their daily bread, if they are to survive. She turns to her young timorous daughter, a girl on the cusp of womanhood. She decides that her comely daughter must disguise herself as a boy and go out into the world to attend secure some food for the family, or they will die. Thus, the daughter is transformed into a boy called Osama. The mother then takes Osama to peek a suitable used comrade of Osama’s unhurried father, who now runs a puny dusty shop. There, Osama is left to work, stirring cauldrons of steaming milk, scenes that are positively medieval.

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Passing as a boy, Osama is obliged to do those things that a male is expected to do. So, when the Taliban police arrive to the shop looking for boys for indoctrination at a mullah speed school, Osama has no choice but to go. Thus, begins the downfall of Osama. Despite the best efforts of Espandi, an enterprising street urchin who has befriended Osama and knows her secret, Osama is to continue a harrowing scoot that only one of her sex may fade.

This is an bewitching film that, despite being somewhat choppy and disjointed in the telling, provides a birds-eye belief at what life was like for women under the Taliban. The graceful imagery of the film is a strong counterpoint to the harshness of Taliban rule. It is a mercy for women that the Taliban is no longer in power. This film certainly brings home the absolute cruelty of that regime towards women.

Though the director uses non-actors for the roles in the film, each one of them does a yeoman’s job with the given role. Arif Herati, who plays the role of Espandi, has a titanic deal of conceal presence. Marina Gobahan, who has the starring role of Osama, is great as the fearful and fearful girl who reluctantly inappropriate dresses as a male in order to abet her family. Her scare of being killed and her horror of the Taliban is palpable throughout the film. Her eyes are most expressive, world weary and infinitely unlit. It were those very eyes that drew the director to cast her in the role of Osama. This is a film that will leave its label on the viewer.

The DVD offers slight by plot of special features, though it does offer a moderately bright interview with the director that runs about twenty minutes in length.

OSAMA is a stark and grim film that highlights the oppressive regime of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Based on a right legend, this film follows the life of a 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother. After the Taliban shut down the hospital that the mother works at she is desperate to win work but her efforts are bleak because she cannot go out in public without being escorted by a male. With no men in her family and no one else to support her the girl is transformed into a boy to wait on abet the family. Aside from escorting her mother through the streets she finds work in a shrimp foods shop. Each time she ventures outside she fears her life because if she is caught the Taliban will do serious wound to her. In addition, she fails to fully personify a boy since she speaks with a high squawk, wears feminine slippers, and doesn’t know the ample prayer rituals. But soon enough she is forced to join a Taliban school. During sessions of religious and military training her secret is cessation to being revealed. The only other boy who knows the truth names her Osama in an exertion to try to ward off suspicions from the other boys. After her disguise is revealed and the Taliban has arrested her she is distinct to suffer an unspeakable sentence for imitating a boy. Her future is bleak and desperate. There is no gratified ending in this film, and the audience is left with a sunless feeling of despair and shock. Surely we’ve all heard the atrocities committed by the Taliban since 9/11/01, but OSAMA enables the viewer to fetch a much ogle of the horrendous events in Afghanistan under the Taliban. This is the first film to arrive out of this impoverished country since the extinguish of the Taliban regime, but I hope it’s not the last. There are a multitude of stories of Taliban victims that deserve to be heard. These people should not suffer alone. Putting a human face on this tragedy often results in the outside world idea the horrors that happened. OSAMA is an obedient film that succeeds on many levels, and is highly recommended.

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February 9th, 2010 by dahlia2956628
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Do you gain in urban legends? Did you ever feel like someone was following you, or something astronomical was going on around you and you couldn’t figure out what it is? If so, this is really the indicate for you.

This present is not for exiguous children. It is a terror present and features some very grotesque scenes of violence. Of course, all of the violence is frail appropriately. If there ever was a display that proved that all “cartoons” are not fair for children, this is the one.

Boogiepop Phantom is an anime based on a series of novels in Japan. The narrative is told in a fractured scheme, each of the 12 episodes features a character and how the events that have happened have affected them. This can be edifying and poor. The plan the chronicle is told forces you to focus on one character at a time and keeps your attention. However soon you will inaugurate noticing characters from previous episodes interacting with the ones in later episodes, and you’ll launch to inspect some very evident things going on. Boogiepop Phantom (the character) makes appearances in most of the episodes, but her motives are never given until the destroy of the series.

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One of the most consuming things about this reveal is that most of the events happening during the series are taking site after a battle between a student and the Manticore. This battle is only shown in flashback for a few seconds twice. You never really discover the whole thing, objective flashes of it (and you have to conclude your DVD to really examine what’s going on) .

There have been many comparisons between this prove and Serial Experiments: Lain, but they are two seperate entities. Both shows are very in-depth and require the viewer to judge about things in a different perspective, but really that’s all there is between them. Lain tells the myth of one girl who is learning who she is (more or less), and Boogiepop Phantom is telling more of a customary fable (if you can call it that) .

As for technical aspects, this DVD residence is nearly flawless. Each disc has a attractive video transfer, and there were no video problems that I could explore. The audio is given as English 5.1, Japanese 5.1 and a dubbing director’s commentary. The English 5.1 channel soundtrack is the best one I’ve ever heard. Sound effects, voices and music all fabricate spend of the 5 speakers and it’s haunting how fine this site sounds. For instance, each next episode preview features random lines of dialogue from the coming episode. The both 5.1 soundtracks have the a different explain coming out of each speaker, layering over one another until you don’t know where to turn because there are voices all around you. The English dub of this expose is very estimable, and I judge it captures the unique Japanese track very well.

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All in all, this is an incredible DVD region, and an fantastic series. It deserves all 5 stars that I have given it, and more.

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BoogiePop Phantom is a series that I found highly addictive, with its ups and downs tempered by the fact that it was atmospherically charged by the transitions taking spot and that the characters in it were fleshed out so well. Each episode focuses on the life of one person as the events launch transpiring, and the people they hurry across and the things that they cause, no matter how mundane the interaction is or how unpleasant, can sometimes be an intricate allotment of someone else’s story. Sometimes this leads to oddities with a sea of outlandish scenes, distorting pieces that seem confusing at first until you spy them later and then understand exactly what went on in that determined someone’s life. Then again, it sometimes does quite the opposite, making it all the more exclusive. The pulse of the note is enigmatic because of the plot its told and the contrivance the music is incorporated into it, with fragmentations of completion being fed to the watcher slowly and the mood being region like a tablepiece to accent the motions. Within it there are depths of gross darkness, mysterious revelation, and sadness mingling beneath an electric sky, digging deeper and deeper into everything until its finally revealed exactly who the manitcore and BoogiePop are and why the world has become so perplexed. By then, however, the describe painted will have sent ripples through a microcosm of society that will be changed forever.

For anyone who enjoys a series that meticulously feeds you itsy-bitsy pieces of a broadening horizon, letting you discover things that accent the plot people judge and feel, then this would be a work for you. It is a darkened sky, though, complete with the fleeting images of demise and dying dreams, but that only adds to the aspects of what is taking station herein. Be warned that it does have moments in its swagger that seem pointless in one episode to another and that sometimes frightens newer seekers, but this is because the series is actually one recount being painted on twelve individual canvases. Seek them all and ingest them in order, shining that the plan will be a shaded affair, and you’ll win yourself addicted.

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February 8th, 2010 by dahlia2956628
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February 8th, 2010 by dahlia2956628
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I saw this movie shortly after it came to video and idea it was a radiant suitable movie. Then a couple years later, I saw it again. And it unbiased kind of stuck in my brain. I’ll be reading or listening to something, and it will remind me of the movie. In conversations I bring up this film all the time because it is so relevant to considerable issues of our time. Racism, vigilante action, moral issues, etc. The more you perceive this movie, the more it makes you judge.

And if you’re not fervent in thinking about some of the larger philosophical issues at hand, there’s serene plenty of stuff for you. You’ve got Matthew McConaughey who does a phenomenal job, and looks spacious while at it. Oliver Platt imbues his character with objective the good amount of sleaze and charm that you can’t wait on but cherish him. Donald Sutherland is absolutely lovable as the old-school gentleman (and you and your friends can argue over whether he’s a lush or or a drunk/alcoholic) . Sandra Bullock does a believable job, and the men tend to salvage Ashley Judd rather ravishing in this role. And let’s not forget Samuel L. Jackson, who makes his character so loyal that you understand the plot he’s in and why he does what he does.

So basically, there’s something for everyone here. Thinking stuff with generous looking people (male and female) who act well. Can’t go obnoxious with this one.

John Grisham novels are difficult to rate as movies. On one hand Grisham’s work translates to well to pop culture that his books are almost cinematic. On the other, the “book-is-never-as-good-as-the-movie”-ism applies. Some of Grisham’s books have been quite good- “The Firm” was a terrifically challenging movie (Tom Wing was letter-perfect for the role of Mitch McDeere), and “The Rainmaker” (which gave Matt Damon his open) certainly surprised me with a touching fable of an underdog who upsets the system. Some have been mediocre to bad- “The Pelican Brief” and “The Chamber” fit the latter category, “The Client” the obsolete. “A Time to Ruin”, in my view, is the best of them all because the author gives his audience a tough choice to compose about what justice is. Pack in some kindly acting performances and this is one blooming darn salubrious movie.

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The status? After his young daughter is viciously raped and assaulted by rednecks (no, John Rocker doesn’t have a cameo), Samuel L. Jackson guns down the two assailents on their procedure to court. He is subsequently build on trial by the local DA, and defended by an idealistic white attorney. Jackson’s trial becomes a swirling tempest for local hatreds to be aired.

Director Joel Schumacher certainly surprised me with suitable work, despite being the man who made “Batman & Robin”. It helps to assemble some serious acting talent- Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey (the DA) are both recognized actors (Spacey having won an Oscar for “The Usual Suspects”, and Jackson is *long* overdue for getting one himself), so the stout surprise was Matthew McConaughey’s agreeable performance as the idealistic, passionate attorney who defends Jackson. McConaughey is a terrific actor- laid attend, easy-going but with impartial enough passion and intensity. This movie set him on the draw and it is easy to peer why he is a talent in interrogate. Sandra Bullock and Ashley Judd have roles here but don’t effect distinguished of an impression. Donald Sutherland and Keifer both have parts too- the old-fashioned as Matthew McConaughey’s mentor (a role he’s quite suitable in, incidentally) and the latter as a local redneck.

Finally, a word about the plot: the best movies give us a sticky plight that can’t be resolved easily. The tricky choice in “Crimson Tide” is a splendid example of a decision that could go either arrangement and gives the audience something to debate about afterwards. Here we’re given a tricky choice- vengeance or justice? Do we acquit Samuel L. Jackson because in our hearts he did what we all would do in his status? Or do we punish him for taking the law into his have hands? It’s a rough choice to build, and the movie refuses to give us an easy respond.

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February 8th, 2010 by dahlia2956628
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People seem to adore or disapprove this movie. I adore it. Dustin Hoffman plays professor on “sabbatical” to write a book on astronomy and computers. There is some allusion to his having been driven to his sabbatical (or from his job) because of his refusal to lift a stand over some undefined bid at his location of employment. In any case, he retreats to a farmhouse in rural England with his glowing wife, played by Susan George.

When some of the local underemployed thugs launch bullying him–(The script and Peckinpah’s direction of the actors hits bull’s-eye here; having lived in England, I saw the same sort of behavior–punks all over, I guess, have mannerisms of bullying uncommon to their culture.)

The violent climax to this film is–you abominate to say it–beautiful. It certainly isn’t gorey by today’s standards. This, perhaps, is what makes people so depressed about this movie–their bear reaction to the violence. Hoffman conveys wonderfully both the fright and the satisfaction his character is experiencing.

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At one level, this film exists as a simple anecdote of revenge. At another level, the movie affirm’s Peckinpah’s vision of violence as a rite of manhood. Whether this rite is a regrettable one . . . well, that remains arguable, and this ambiguity is section of what makes this such a watchable, and re-watchable, movie.

Aside from the notoriety, and aside from the viciousness (the film leaves you most of all with a taste of viciousness in your mouth, a sour, bitter, metallic taste, akin to that feeling you gain reading “The Tin Drum”, the part of metal stuck in the help of your throat), what you catch from “Straw Dogs” is a manifestation of personal demons (specifically, Sam Peckinpah’s personal demons, but also, both more generally and more acutely, masculine demons) and an exploration of a determined type of male sexuality.

To do the film justice, you need to trail your brain in. Which, on the surface, may not appear to be the case, because the legend - what it is - is relatively simple. It’s an English western.

David, a mathematician (Dustin Hoffman), is on sabbatical from the university where he teaches. He has left the states and returned with his wife Amy, (Susan George) to the itsy-bitsy English village in which she grew up. From the word go, David has to contend with the fact that Amy has a history in the town. He also has to contend with the fact that she is younger than him, and bored. Her boredom serves as a distraction from the reason unhurried his sabbatical. Amy on the other hand has to live with a aloof, “uncommon” American who does not give her the attention she requires.

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Within the town, there are various echoes at work: there is a character called Niles, played by David Warner, who has a known history of problems relating with women (to the extent that he has served time for undisclosed offences) ; there are the locals, who divide their time between procrastinating over work on David and Amy’s roof, and leering at Amy (who periodically informs David about the carry out she has on them, how they “lick her all over with their eyes”) ; and there is David himself, spending a petite more time than he really should looking at teenager Sally Thomsett.

All of which feeds into the unpleasant rape scene (a scene of which Peckinpah is quoted as saying - in the fine biography “If it moves . . . destroy ‘em” - “I wanted to film the best rape scene ever” - a line ripe with complexity and upright disorder) : Amy is raped by Charlie, leader of the leering locals, who may or may not be her childhood sweetheart (two earlier scenes display that (a) something went on years earlier and (b) Charlie took it further then than Amy was jubilant with) .

At some point during the bad protracted rape, for whatever reason (and there is something manifest at work in her face, palpably desire but desire for what - who knows? ) she stops fighting and starts (horrible this, but just - this is what happens in the film:) - starts to participate. The participation is taken (by some) to be a playing out of a clear retrogressive masculine attitude (that all women - deep down etc etc etc) . However you justify it - and it does require interpretation, importantly - the participation is at the sunless heart of “Straw Dogs”‘ notoriety. The fact that this is followed by the appearance of a second man, and a second rape, only compounds the inconvenience - the cloudiness - that will inevitably surround any attempt to precisely snort what is going on here.

At which point, the echoes become unruffled more manifest: you have Niles, despised because of his weakness for young girls (and as such - in the context of the character’s lives - a “awful” man), you have the men who rape Amy (a fact that remains undisclosed within the body of the film), men who later attempt to avenge themselves on Niles (in a luminous reworking of “Of Mice and Men”), and you have David - a man in whom, perhaps, all of these violent urges conflict.

The film culminates in a series of extremely violent (and ridiculous) altercations, veering wildly between extremes (shotguns firing off left, legal and centre, characters riding tricycles and playing bagpipe records, mantraps, boiling beefy, fire, pokers, broken glass, wire) . But the central relationship - the whole dynamic of the film - between David and Amy continues to fight definition, remaining ultimately unresolved and unclear.

In the extinguish, aside of everything else (aside of the fact that this film lingers with you, you do not leer “Straw Dogs” and leave it at that, those “Straw Dogs” prefer up position with you, for a while), you have the fact that this film would not secure made today - the Dustin Hoffman character is too complex and too unsympathetic, and there are too many (coldly shimmering) questions raised by what goes on.

It is dissatisfying but intentionally so: this is Peckinpah’s “Salo”: it demonstrates that resolution is the most unsightly abstraction, that what gets wrapped up leaves the viewer with no plot for thought: that which is left inaugurate, is that which remains discussed. At the demolish, almost a week after last watching the film, I am reminded of what Ian McEwan wrote in his unique “Sunless Dogs”: “…I came face to face with improper. I didn’t quite know it at the time, but I sensed it in my dismay - these animals were the creations of debased imaginations, of perverted spirits no amount of social theory could record for. And . . .when conditions are lawful . . . a unpleasant cruelty, a viciousness against life erupts, and everyone is surprised by the depth of hatred within . . . (But) This is what I know: Human nature, the human heart, the spirit, the soul, the consciousness itself - call it what you like - in the destroy, it’s all we’ve got to work with. It has to accomplish and expand, or the sum of our misery will never diminish.”

That is - at last - “Straw Dogs”‘ role: to fabricate, to expand, to present us what can be, what needn’t be, but what is, and hope that something else (not necessarily finer) but something else, prevails.

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February 8th, 2010 by dahlia2956628
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This unbiased proves the ill attitudes of the general public. So expeditiously to lay judgment. This prove is Intelligent. And when I’m done watching it always always always leaves me wanting more. Every single comedy I’ve ever seen has had more dramatic episodes (And now.. a very special Blossom) It makes the characters more staunch. And the comments above about how it was painful to stare and embarrassing. That is the appeal of Micheal’s character. He gets into these positions where he does embarrass himself. Its honest in his nature. Fair be overjoyed they are not trying to notify you a lesson in the point to like so many comedies before them. Touching briefly on a serious issues only to forget about it the next episode. THAT’S Painful..

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But as fitfully droll and clever as it was, Police Squad!, for some reason, couldn’t pull in the audiences that had flocked to stare Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams’ Airplane objective two years earlier. The series suffered from extreme ratings from the inaugurate and never found its audience. One of the running gags on the present was the introduction of a “special guest star” who was immediately killed off in the some disagreeable fashion fair after the introduction. Lorne Green, William Shatner, Georg Stanford Brown and Florence Henderson were among the guest stars who were shot, stabbed, machine-gunned and poisoned. Unfotunately, the guest star for the sixth episode was John Belushi who died apt before the episode was to air. ABC had to pull the reveal until a unique introduction could be filmed. Apt after that, the series was cancelled after impartial six episodes, cutting short the race of one of the funniest series of all time.

Fortunately, the team of Zucker/Zucker/Abrahams resurrected the Police Squad! series in the perform of the Naked Gun series in the leisurely 1980’s. The premise, and Leslie Nielsen, finally got the exposure it deserved and the result was three hilarious films that did very well at the box office. However, when the three films were released on DVD, there was no corresponding release of the unique series on DVD.

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Now, finally, the recent series is coming to DVD on November the 7th. Hopefully many will remove the DVD and realize what a crime it was for ABC to execute this hilarious series so soon.

I’ve been waiting for this to approach out on DVD for many years now. This is hands down my well-liked TV series of all time - albeit a very short lived one. As many writers have already well-known, the entire “series” consists of only 6 episodes. But rest assured that these 6 short episodes are packed with wit. This is a explain that you have to pay attention to - there are many visuals gags and plays on words. It’s wonderful.

I’m delighted to finally have the chance to retract this in a digital format. As great as I liked the Naked Gun films, they fair weren’t the same. For me, Police Squad will always be Leslie Nielsen and Alan North (with Rex Hamilton as Abraham Lincoln, of course!) .

If you’re a fan of any of the Zucker, Abrahams, Zucker films (e.g. Airplane, Naked Gun, etc.) then you definitely should judge adding this to your collection. It’s definitely some of their best work in my humble belief.

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It was an queer year. 1976 saw the release of Logan’s Bustle with its occasionally heavy handed parable about the youth culture, Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards gathered steam at the box office and included a trailer for some movie called Star Wars. Along came Nicolas Roeg with his arthouse science fiction account and totally mystified everyone. David Bowie is perfect as the alien in this classic science fiction film. He’s left his arid, dying planet and reach to Earth in hopes that some of “his” inventions could do enough capital so that he can remove resources from our planet to set his.

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Unfortunately, Bowie’s character pretends to be human all too well–he’s sucked into the very flaws that cripple humanity. He becomes a victim of our culture rather than master of it. Roeg’s film is fragmented and spooky (particularly the scene where Candy Clark discovers that Bowie’s character has various attachments to fabricate him seem human) . The visually unsettling photography and editing attend bring an edge to the film. Roeg manages to fuse science fiction to his European art sensibilities very well. In fact, Man is probably Roeg’s most much film outside of Don’t Survey Now his gothic occupy on the dismay film.

I’ll win to the point about the dissimilarity between the first-rate Anchor Bay release and the Criterion release. Both studios had released this film for the first time (there was a previous Fox-Lorber bare bones edition) . The Criterion edition looks sharper with better clarity and richer color than the Anchor Bay edition. Detail is better on the Criterion edition and there appears that the Anchor Bay release wasn’t digitally restored as the colors are a bit muted and dilapidated in some sequences. Both feature the chunky length European sever that Roeg intended for the US market as well. The 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound mix for the Anchor Bay is kindly to the 2.0 fresh soundtrack on the Criterion. The entire sound system is mature nicely but hold in mind this was never meant to sound as aggressive as the 5.1 ES (or 6.1) releases of more original movies.

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As to the extras, both have beneficial extras. The Anchor Bay features a short documentary “Watching the Alien” (a immense play on words related to one of Bowie’s songs as well as the film), the modern theatrical trailer, TV spots, talent bios, a safe poster and mild gallery as well as Paul Mayersberg’s modern screenplay in DVD-ROM format. All of these are enormous extras to be clear and are included on the second disc which allows for a higher bit rate for the movie and, hence, very top-notch video as well. A brand about the packaging–Anchor Bay’s edition of the movie was pretty but came in a very flimsy case with a glide over sleeve. When you took that off the movie and extras disc were held by flimsy plastic holder. The exterior had an image from the modern poster and there was a short booklet included as well discussing the film. While normally I could care less about packaging it does bug me when it’s as poorly designed as this one which seems like a compromise between an Amray (hard plastic) and snapcase (what Warner ancient until recently for all their releases) . It doesn’t stand up to wear and saunter well and the discs could potential plunge out.

Criterion’s transfer is a unusual, restored high definition digital transfer supervised by Roeg (which explains the color corrections compared to the Anchor Bay edition which was pulled from restored negatives but done three years before) . The audio commentary isn’t current but is from 1992 (I have it may be the same one on the unusual Criterion laserdisc release) and features Roeg and star David Bowie recorded together and Buck Henry recorded on his absorb. The commentary track is exceptional but that will only matter if commentary tracks are significant to you. Some folks never listen to them and never retract more than a cursory discover at the extras. The second disc includes qualified audio interviews with May Routh who designed the costumes and production designer Brian Eatwell. There’s another audio interview with author Walter Tevis recorded in 1984 in which Tevis discusses his new and the film. There’s some expansive stills, behind-the-scenes photos dominate these and were taken by David James. This portion features an introduction by James. The trailers are included as is Tevis’ new modern. Finally there’s a 28 page distinguished essay by Graham Fuller about the film and an appreciation of novelist Tevis by another novelist Jack Matthews. Criterion’s packaging has the movie in a hard Amray two disc holder and, in turn, within a cardboard shroud that houses the movie and the current. It’s very nice and will stand up a better to wear and gallop.

Both versions have their strong points. If you purchased the Anchor Bay edition and are elated with the exceptional transfer, then you may not want to take this original location. The crisper, sharper images and richer colors for the Criterion is the strong selling point while the audio 5.1 on the Anchor Bay has nice presence and sounds better than the audio mix for the Criterion edition. The extras for both are quite beneficial although the commentary track gives the Criterion edition the edge in my mind. The image quality and color are better on the Criterion Edition of “Man” but the Anchor Bay remixed sound has the edge for audio. If you don’t have the Anchor Bay or are looking to upgrade to a better looking characterize, the Criterion is the stronger of the two. Criterion wins by a nose due to the extra featurettes and audio commentary as well as the Roeg supervised transfer.

A thin, pale, androgynous David Bowie is THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH — Special Edition (Anchor Bay), a two-disc station of Nicolas Roeg’s film.

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Previously available on DVD, this widescreen (enhanced for 16×9 TVs) edition looks sharper, the tidy DTS surround sound is THX common and there’s a unusual, fascinating 24 shrimp featurette, “Watching the Alien.”

Slow absorbing and beautifully photographed, this movie adaptation is faithful in theme to Walter Tevis’s original. An alien being, disguised as a human, comes to earth to leer a plan to place his home planet from turning into an arid wasteland. He funds this project by designing inventions worth gazillions and becomes bigger than Bill Gates. Unfortunately, he also becomes horrible by our earthly ways and sinks into a mystical malaise of depression and alcohol. A sweet and chirpy Candy Clark lures him into an affair that, strangely, doesn’t succor.

This hypnotic and arresting film long ago achieved cult site. More than anything, it’s a visual meditation about an outsider, stymied by material success, who is on a slither benefit to a home that cannot in fact be reached. (Hey, who can’t recount to that? )

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Fully restored and uncensored (there’s corpulent frontal nudity), this novel digital transfer is from novel materials. Recommended.

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February 7th, 2010 by dahlia2956628
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Here is one of the large shiny, action movies in the tradition of “Lawrence of Arabia!” The gripping screenplay by Robert Ardrey, an African historian, is crammed with ideas: colonialism, religion, fate, politics, etc. At the same time, it is an extraordinary recreation of the battles surrounding that period of history and the siege of Khartoum. The battle sequences were directed by none other than Yakima Canutt, the legendary director for the chariot hasten in “Ben-Hur.” Charlton Heston’s performance as General Gordon is one of his finest. Laurence Olivier’s performance as the Mahdi is outstanding and will leave you a tiny spooked as he reveals the mind of an Islamic fanatic. This film was not a hit in the United States. I enjoy that is because it was released in the summer and a movie about the desert should never be released then. (”Lawrence of Arabia” was released lawful before Christmas.) If released in the winter, it would have done great better business and been given more respect as allotment of the traditonal end-of-year distinguished films. It was also released in Cinerama, the defunct crooked camouflage process, making the film’s improbable photography and direction truly spectacular. And it explains some of the photography angles. I seek the DVD is not preserving the recent 2.75 Cinerama/Ultra Panavision aspect ratio (”Hello, MGM! Wake up!”) but no matter. This is one of the finest historical films you will ever ogle. And with the new trajedies, it is even more pertinent. History does order itself! One of the finest lines in the film is when General Gordon, Charlton Heston, says to the Mahdi, Laurence Olivier, “While I may die of your miracle, you will surely die of mine.” It really does not regain grand better than this.

Though the historical events in this film took spot in 1884-85, there are aspects of it that remind one of today’s headlines; this is a sadly underrated film, with a amazing cast, massive battle scenes, and a beautifully written script about an amazing man.

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There are scenes that seize “artistic license”, but the film is quite factual in its facts on General Gordon; a military genius who hated war, a deeply religious man who worked to destroy slavery, and who fell in esteem with the desolate scorching sands and the people of the Sudan.

The pairing of Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier is improbable, and their scenes together are riveting. Heston is gaunt in this film, to closer record the slightly built Gordon, and speaks with a subtle but advantageous English accent; Olivier is the fanatic who calls himself The Mahdi (”The Expected One”), waging a holy war with his followers to kill anyone who opposes his beliefs, with the aim of conquering the world for his fundamentalist faith.

Other fantastic performances arrive from Richard Johnson as Col. Stewart, Ralph Richardson as Prime Minister Gladstone, Nigel Green as Gen Wolseley, and Johnny Sekka is a delight as Gordon’s servant Khaleel.

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After British-led Egyptian forces are massacred by The Mahdi’s insurgents, the British government asks Egypt to give up the Sudan, and General Gordon is called to evacuate the European and Egyptian civilians from the Sudan; he stays to ward off the terrorists and the siege of Khartoum takes spot.

The sweeping panoramas of the desert and the Nile river are sumptuous (cinematography by Edward Scaife), and the Frank Cordell bag is terrific, though it owes a bit to Maurice Jarre’s music for “Lawrence of Arabia”; released 6 years earlier, “Lawrence” has some comparisons to this film, as they are both about adventurous men of courage who felt comfortable in Arab lands.

This film sparked my imagination and made me want to know more about Gordon’s spicy life and the history that surrounded him, and it is one I could explore repeatedly. Total running time is 134 minutes.

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“…but there is this: A world with no room for the Gordons, is a world that will return to the sands”.