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March 14th, 2010 by jaeden9468853
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Contained in these ten DVD’s are objective about every historical moment in baseball.

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Inning 1 Baseball from its inception in the 1840’s to the 1900’s This explores baseballs roots from Abner Doubleday to the beginnings of what we know as original day baseball.

Inning 2 1900 to 1910. The beginning of the World Series. Gigantic footage and photos of dilapidated parks and players.

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Inning 3 1910 TO 1920. Covers Babe Ruth, the Shadowy sox, Grover Cleveland Alexander and more. Footage of Fenway being built

Inning 4 1920 to 1930 Really the beginnings of the Yankee dynasty but the Cardinals rule the Natonal league with the noted gass house gang.

Inning 5 1930 to 1940. More footage of all the titanic stars of the day, Ruth, Di Maggio, Williams and more.

Inning 6 1940 to 1950. The effects of war on the American pastime. The pleasing splinter goes to war, he comes attend and picks up where he left off.

Inning 7 1950 to 1960. The Yankee dynasty continues. Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, The shot heard around the world, Don Larsons perfect game. The Giants and Dodgers remove and leave.

Inning 8 1960 to 1970. The Los Angeles Angels are born, The Kansas City A’s become the Oakland A’s, The Royals and Mets are born. The Padres are born and travel into a limited stadium outside of San Diego. And then there was the Seattle Pilots. Those amazin Mets derive the World series. Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax catch agents but are unsuccessful in changing baseballs anti trust act and re label with the Dodgers. Maris passes the Babe with an asterisk.

Inning 9 1970 to 1994. Curt Flood loses his war against baseball but the players eventually bag. The players union gets stronger. The Reds advance to power. The A’s regain a couple world series. Roberto Clemente’s life carve short. Washington loses another team called the Senators.

The film also has some vast commentary interspersed through out all of the DVD’s. At the raze of each DVD is a trivia game based on the decade that the DVD covered.

While the movie is based for the most share on Original York teams this is truly a must for all baseball fans. There is no other collection of materials that covers baseball like this one does in terms of breadth and depth.

This site isn’t cheap, but it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. Burns’ storytelling is always interesting, focusing on the evolution of not only the game of baseball, but in an indirect plot, American history as well. It is particularly meaningful that he interviewed some baseball greats (Williams, Mantle, Buck O’Neil) before they passed on. My only complaint is that the series stops at 1994. (I would worship to study a coda/epilogue made covering the achievements and scandals of the last 13 years.) If you are a baseball fan, this is defintely worth having. Some nice special features too.
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March 13th, 2010 by jaeden9468853
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I’m editing my review. In my case, I’m an obsessive fan of these movies, and maybe nothing would’ve met my expectations. If you haven’t seen these films, lift this DVD IMMEDIATELY! You will not be sorry, and more than likely you’ll glean my criticisms baseless and nit-picky.

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I wrote the modern after skipping around the discs and being extremely disappointed by what I saw. Since then, I’ve sat down and watched both movies on this disc and my thought has changed somewhat. The plight was my expectations, not the true product.

On the whole, these films DO contemplate improbable when compared to every other DVD release available (MGM and the R2 Pathe discs from France) . However, they don’t view nearly as helpful as I fill possible. I judge this film deserves the royal treatment, an all fresh, high definition transfer by seriously skilled people.

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Unfortunately, while the resolution is kindly, it is anamorphic, and appears to be a straight NTSC transfer (and not a PAL-to-NTSC conversion as I previously belief), there is impartial something not suitable. The colors are map too hot when compared to the right film, and there fair seems to be a layer of fuzz or blur over the whole thing that is not reveal on the large cloak.

I give it 5 stars because the films are incredible. The two greatest foreign films I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched them each about 15 times, and never grow tired of them. I lovely great learned French watching these movies.

However, this DVD seriously lacks. This movie is in dire need of a unusual and improved subtitle translation. While the subtitles produce sense on the whole, I’ve studied the French script, and there is a astronomical deal missing in the translation.

There are no special features.

For YEARS, these films have been out of print in America, the originals going for upwards of $50 a allotment on ebay. Clearly someone was paying attention and realized there’s enough people who indulge in this movie to gain it available again. But slapping this site together, while allowing current viewers the opportunity to peer the films, is an insult to fans who’ve waited a LOOOONG time for a favorable American release. But a cheap release is better than none at all.

Caveat: Perhaps if enough people win this DVD, MGM will wake up and release a advantageous special edition. For $14, it’s a big deal for two masterpieces, but we could’ve done better than this.

Two large steps forward, and one 1/2 step relieve. Contrary to the impression from the disc specs on the attend of the jacket, the current MGM/Fox double feature disc DOES note the films 16:9 enhanced. They are also, surprisingly a grand step up from the earlier R2 PAL discs, which for the longest time were the only procedure to satisfyingly peruse these on a widescreen point to or front projector.

Unfortunately they mild aren’t a home hasten. The describe in general consistently looks a minute too ‘hot’ - inequity is jacked up which blows out the details in the highlights in many shots- also there is an at times over bearing yellow tint to the image in the countryside exteriors. Some EE and ringing are also visible in a few shots. Magnificent detail on the other hand is considerable improved over the PAL disc and artifacts related to compression are a monumental improvment over the first MGM release.

These should have been color timed a bit cooler- but on the whole, this modern release easily represents the most watchable versions of these two classics yet (at least, not counting the widescreen Image laserdisc spot that is now long out of print) .

Its a shame that this release is so finish, and yet detached misses the label. At least this one will suffice for a few years until the film are (hopefully) properly presented on one or both of the High Def formats.

The films themselves fetch 5 stars easy- the recent disc gets 3.5 for PQ and AQ.
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March 12th, 2010 by jaeden9468853
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This is a generous comedy. It seems some people want to have every dark movie be akin to Boyz ‘N the Hood or Do the Correct Thing. First off, everything does not have to be great. This is made to manufacture you laugh. Genuine performances turned in by Brian Hooks, and the awesome bit allotment turned in by Earl Stephens, a.k.a. E-40. Oh no, but don’t forget Faizon Esteem. If you’re trapped in the the house by dreadful weather or whatever, rob this up for non-stop laughs.

This movie is your average laughable dismal comedy, Brian Hooks plays a man who has been in jail twice and is out on parole, one more strike and he is out (25 to life), its a humourous comedy about the miscoincidenes that happen to him impartial after he is out of jail, he is caught in a stolen car and is then seeked by the police.
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March 11th, 2010 by jaeden9468853
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Companeros! (1970) This is a very absorbing spaghetti western from director Sergio Corbucci (Trim Fuzz) . The anecdote teams Italian superstars Franco Nero (Django) and Tomas Milian (Traffic) as reluctant mercenary pals teamed up to retrieve revolutionary Fernando Rey (The French Connection) from the clutches of his captors before creepy awful guy Jack Palance (Craze) can slay him. A generous filled with “all of the admire” of Rey’s hometown that only Rey knows the combination to is the prize. With a broad Ennio Morricone pick up, a fleet poke (despite a lengthy running time of exactly two hours) and a light hearted advance, Corbucci really scores with this buddy western. Nero and Milian have tons of hide presence and chemistry, and they are well matched against Palance, who is a lot of fun as a crazed pot smoking nutjob with one wooden hand and a pet falcon. As is usual with Italian films, everybody is dubbed (the Italians don’t usually narrate sound while shooting, putting all of the sound in later in post production!) but the leads provide their beget voices, and it also seems almost everybody is speaking English since the words mostly match the lip movements of unprejudiced about everybody in the cast, making the dubbing far less noticeable than otherwise. The script also deserves some praise, with comic lines and salty dialogue that combine with the plentiful action and stuntwork to develop this a highly recommended movie for those who like a pleasurable western now and again and a must for fans. Check this one out!

Right from the opening of the film, I knew it was going to be something astronomical. From the shot of the church to Ennio Morricone’s quick-witted obtain. There are mountainous performances, gigantic laughs, and obviously some chilly hand held action in this film. It’s a fun trip man! Franco Nero and Tomas Milian are a enormous team and Jack Palance as the post smokin’ poor guy is objective perfect. This is one of Corbucci’s last expansive westerns and certainly one you wouln’t want to miss.

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March 10th, 2010 by jaeden9468853
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“Expeditiously Times at Ridgemont High” Is a strong contender for the best teen movie from the eighties.

The case for the movie is easy to make: It is written by Cameron Crowe, who wrote Jerry Maguire, Say Anything, and Almost Illustrious. It is beautifully filmed and directed. (Director is Amy Heckerling, who apart from being awefully cute has made such improbable movies as Clueless.) It is droll and precise. And it has a glorious cast of young actors who where unknowns then.

The surfer/stoner is famously played by Sean Penn in one of his first roles, and he is awesome. Jennifer Jason Leigh is perfect as the young innocent fifteen-year-old. (Amazingly she was about 20 when she played it, but you’d never know it.)

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And Phoebe Cates… As Amy Heckerling says in a featurette: The boys objective loves Phoebe… the rental cassettes always track a lot around the residence where she takes off her top, they’ve been freeze-framed so worthy…” Which is as splendid a reason as any to catch the DVD version, they slow-mo and freeze-frame a lot better… But seriously, Phoebe is a improbable actress who has been woefully underused by Hollywood. And she is also objective stunningly cute to boot. Even if this film had nothing else going for it, net it for her. (She is also qualified in the later film Princess Caraboo, and she is buck nude in the light “Paradise”, which I hope they will achieve on DVD soon.)

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One of the classic high school movies, Rapid Times spawned a slew of teenage talent on the large mask, but no one was more memorable in this movie than Sean Penn as Spicoli. Amy Heckerling cuts out a lop of Southern Californian life from a San Bernardino high school that shows both honor students and misfits alike. While the signature moments belonged to Spicoli, there were many other expansive scenes such as the ongoing burger war in which Deem Reinhold finds himself on the short raze of the spatula. Meanwhile his diminutive sis, a seemingly innocent Jennifer Jason Leigh, experiments with dating and sex with an humorous pair of misfits, Brian Backer and Robert Romanus. Phoebe Cates tries to status her young prodigy straight but to no avail. Forest Whitaker even has a indispensable moment in this movie as the bruising defensive lineman who takes out the destruction of his prized car on the opposing team. Miniature did he know that Spicoli had a hand in it. But, it is the hilarious relationship between Spicoli and Mr. Hand (Ray Walston) that steals the prove. Like A Flash Times may appear a bit dated, but it hasn’t lost any of its humor.

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March 9th, 2010 by jaeden9468853
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Arguably the best crime film of 1968, and certainly one of the most influential films of the genre….”Bullitt” established novel directions in the mood and style of crime thrillers, and firmly established McQueen as one of the key anti-hero stars of the 60’s. Based on the gritty new “Tranquil Eye” by Robert L. Pike, this was the first, and only, time McQueen portrayed a police officer (albeit a maverick one) in his movie career. In 1968 Steve was then riding high on the success of his previous heist film, “The Thomas Crown Affair”, and “Bullitt” impartial propelled his star even higher into the cinematic heavens!

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The place is tight, economical and well crafted….taciturn, spiteful Detective Frank Bullitt (McQueen) is charged with the protection of a key watch important to an upcoming trial curious Mafia connections. Whilst hidden away in a supposed catch plot, the perceive and his police guard are brutally gunned down by unknown assailants. The heat is turned up on Bullitt by his tough Captain (Simon Oakland) and the manipulative, opportunistic politician Walter Chalmers (Robert Vaughn) to advance up with the fair answers rapidly! Between the draining investigation, Bullitt struggles to gain his relationship with his cultured, sensitive girlfriend, Cathy (Jacqueline Bisset)

Primarily coming from a TV series background, Englishman Peter Yates (directing his fourth movie) did a commendable job as director on “Bullitt”…producing a complex, intense crime thriller with a original style that would ultimately influence many other films. Yates would later to go onto bellow tough guy Robert Mitchum in the helpful 1973 “sleeper” crime film “The Friends of Eddie Coyle”!

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And of course “Bullitt” is reknowned for it’s now legendary car poke between Frank Bullitt’s 390 GT Mustang and the two hitmen in their gloomy, Dodge Charger 440 Magnum barrelling through the city streets and highways of San Francisco….objective don’t pay too remarkable attention to how many times they pass that slow-moving, green VW Beetle!!

The DVD transfer is friendly in both sound and narrate quality, and the Dinky Edition Collectors Dwelling with the additional goodies (Single sheet poster, shooting draft, lobby cards etc.) is a steady bonus for enthusiastic film fans!!

One of my favourite cop thrillers….McQueen sizzles on veil!!

I have read GQ and other men’s fashion magazines for the last 20 years. No single person is mentioned as a men’s style icon more often than Steve McQueen, and this movie defines his style most clearly. What I deem that is not often understood, is why his style is so beloved. It is minimalist, yes, but also, this is someone not playing the middle class America game.

1) He lives in a itsy-bitsy apartment. The furniture is ordinary, with a few hip 60’s touches. (Spy for the portray over his bed, his paisley bathrobe, the wintry paper hanging lampshade, and a couple of hippie style items on the walls) . You fetch the impression he owns about six pairs of clothes at most. He eats cheap frozen dinners (except for the occasional date at the icy San Fran Restaurant) . He is not wasting this time and life keeping up with the Jones’s.

2.) He is not climbing the career ladder. On this case, he doesn’t give a idea to politics. He is not chasing the American ideal of success.

3.) Search For closely and you will inspect his car, the most eminent in any movie ever, is a olive drab color. Not candy apple brilliant red. It is a Mustang, a symbol of blue collar America. It is dusty, and he parks it in the street, not a garage. He does not look it for door dings every time he goes out to it. It has dents in it. You gain the impression he doesn’t exercise his free time polishing and waxing it.

4.) He doesn’t expend his time chasing money. He spends it on his job, trying to do what he thinks is upright, not what is favorable for office politics and promotion.

5.) His clothes are 60’s pre-hippie fashion perfection (search for for the extremely tapered legs, the suede loafers, and of course the noted tweed blazer and blue turtleneck) .

In summary, I contemplate it is droll that people idolize McQueen’s personal style in this movie and yet they don’t realize why. It is not fair the stoicism, or minimalism. It is the primitive fashion American values (deem Mature West) . Unbiased something to consider about as you eye one of my well-liked movies of all time.
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March 8th, 2010 by jaeden9468853
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This 2008 British 5-part miniseries of THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK succeeds on so many levels. There is a primal reason why we need to hear this legend time after time, and yet hope that we can somehow change the ending…

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Anne Frank’s wartime diary gave a poignant face to the Holocaust, an event unparalled in the annals of human cruelty. Deborah Moggach (the writer of the Keira Knightley version of PRIDE & PREJUDICE) casts a original glance over the novel material, stripping away any possible shred of melodrama to enlighten even more raw human emotion than seen in other versions of the yarn.

And newcomer Ellie Kendrick is nothing short of a revelation as Anne. Looking eerily like the precise Anne at times, Kendrick brings her vividly to life with all the angst, fright, rage and humour that the role requires. The rest of the cast follows suit. I was especially surprised by how gracious Iain Glen and Tamsin Greig were as Anne’s parents. There’s a heartbreaking scene between Anne and her father–missing from other versions of the story–which had me absolutely floored.

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It seems that each version of the chronicle brings us closer and closer to the essence of the accurate Anne. This latest version is refreshing and raw in it’s depiction of one of the most captivating chapters in original history.

Bonus features will likely include “Rutka: A Diary of the Holocaust” which introduces audiences to Rutka Laskier, a fourteen-year-old Holocaust victim whose beget diary–written in the Polish ghetto of Bédzin–was only discovered and published in 2006. This 50-minute doco was share of the UK and Australian DVD releases.

This latest adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” is by the BBC (released in 2008, comprising 5 episodes of 30 minutes each) . The screenplay is by Deborah Moggach, and is directed by Jon Jones. This adaptation stars Ellie Kendrick as Anna Frank, a feisty 13-year-old Jewish girl who finds her world turned upside down when the Nazis invade Holland in 1942. When her older sister, 16-year-old Margot (Felicity Jones) receives a summons from the Nazis to characterize for deportation, the Frank family, including father Otto (Iain Glen) and mother Edith (Tamsin Grieg) go into hiding in a Secret Annex above Otto’s office. They are helped by a group of valid Gentile friends, namely Miep Gies (Kate Ashfield), Mr Kleiman (Roger Frost), Mr Kugler (Tim Dantay), and Bep Voskuijl (Mariah Gale) . The Franks are later joined by the Van Daans, comprising father Hermann (Ron Cook), mother Petronella (Lesley Though-provoking), and son Peter (Geoff Breton), and soon after by dentist Albert Dussell (Nicholas Farrell) .

Living under such constraints puts a lot of stress on the occupants of the Secret Annex, and the account unfolds through Anne’s observations (told partly through voiceovers) as the precise Anne Frank had made these observations about her life in hiding in her beloved diary. Anne’s chafing under the restrictions of living in hiding is credibly portrayed here(especially the conflicts with Mrs Van Daan and Dussell), as is her adolescent angst which comes across most clearly in her tense relationship with her mother, whom Anne felt did not truly understand her, in inequity to her beloved Pim/Dad whom Anne was very stop to. The budding romance between Anne and Peter Van Daan is also explored with a titanic degree of sensitivity, and it is incredible to watch these adolescents manage to connect on an intimate level, despite the harrowing circumstances they accumulate themselves in. Anne’s heartfelt conversation with her father is one of the most poignant scenes here and Anne’s reflections on her parent’s marriage is very insightful, especially from one so young. Ellie Kendrick delivers a finely nuanced performance as the adolescent Anne who harbors so many desires and ambitions, hopes for an unfettered and normal life, and the yearnings of a teenage girl. Her intimate observations regarding her body’s cycle and all that it signifies are altogether poignant and heartrending to search for.

The sense of dismay and wretchedness is palpable from the first moments, and pervades the explain. But there are also light-hearted moments to offset the bleak atmosphere, as when Mrs Van Daan refuses to eat cabbage because it gives her gas, and the laughable teeth-pulling scene enchanting a positive fuss-pot and the dentist. But, brilliant their final fate (as anyone who is familiar with Anne Frank’s myth will know) makes this a heartrending look indeed. This series ends with Anne, her family, the Van Daans and Dussell being led away by the authorities after their hiding plot was discovered (they were betrayed, and the identity of the person/s who betrayed them has never been confirmed till today, though there are many books written on the subject and speculations on the identity of the person/s concerned) . The fates of all eight Jews in hiding is also revealed.

I would highly recommend this latest adaptation of “The Diary of Anne Frank” to anyone who has an interest in the Holocaust, who has read and loved Anne Frank’s “Diary of a Young Girl”, and also to teachers of History, may we never forget. There is also a bonus feature which is an interview with Anne Frank’s cousin, Buddy Elias.

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I have watched two previous conceal adaptations of “The Diary of Anne Frank”. The 1959 B&W movie (total running time:180 mins) starring Millie Perkins as Anne Frank and Joseph Schildkraut as Anne’s father, Otto. Though this movie was well-acted and credibly portrayed the fears and frustrations of people in hiding, I felt the movie was wanting in terms of being faithful to the modern source, i.e. Anne’s diary. This movie is not an altogether historically upright representation of staunch events. The Franks had gone into hiding before the Van Daans, but this is portrayed otherwise in the movie. Peter Van Daan [Van Pels] was extremely terrorized in dependable life, but his demeanor is portrayed differently here, and his romance with Anne is overly exaggerated in typical Hollywood style. This movie ends with the select of the Franks’ and their friends in hiding.

The second version I watched was “Anne Frank - The Whole Yarn” (Walt Disney Studio Release 2001 -total running time 120 mins) and is a well-acted and beautifully filmed movie based on Melissa Muller’s biography of Anne Frank. The movie was beautifully filmed with grand attention to period details and the pleasurable casting choices made this an though-provoking viewing experience. Ben Kingsley played the role of Otto Frank and Hannah Taylor-Gordon plays Anne Frank. Her resemblance to the real-life Anne is quite uncanny. Her portrayal of Anne is simply astounding - strong-willed, impetuous, candid, ambitious, and yet, underlying all that fierceness of spirit is a young girl on the brink of womanhood who yearns to be concept of as a woman and not a girl, and longs for freedom and cherish. This adaptation ends not with the seize of hidden Jews in the Secret Annex, but with the sisters in the Bergen-Belsen camp, and with their deaths.

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March 7th, 2010 by jaeden9468853
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When I first saw John Hillcoat’s film The Proposition I was literally shrinking and dumbstruck with what I had fair witnessed. As a long-time aficionado of the dread genre I could say that allotment of me has become desensitized to onscreen violence and nothing really shocks me. Even though I’ve seen films with more violence throughout its running time, The Proposition objective had a heavy sense of despair, just ambiguity, and a Miltonian feel throughout. The film felt like how it would be if one approved an offer from one of the damned to stroll down to the Nine Circles of Hell. As noteworthy as I didn’t want to win that offer the curiosity of what I might ogle won out. That’s how I was able to sit through the entirety of Hillcoat’s ultra-violent and nihilistic epic of lawless and amoral individuals in the untamed wilderness of 1880’s Australian Outback.

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I must agree with film critic Roger Ebert when he said The Proposition seemed to mirror another shaded and violent record. Hillcoat’s film shares so considerable the same themes and tone as Cormac McCarthy’s brutal modern, Blood Meridian, that one almost wondered if the film was adapted from McCarthy’s substantial current. But similarities aside, Hillcoat and Slash Cave’s (director and writer respectively) film can clearly stand on its fill two bloody legs.

The film begins with a bloody siege and shootout and we’re soon introduced to two of the three Burns’ brothers. We soon fetch out that both brothers, Charlie (played by Guy Pearce) and Mikey (played by Richard Wilson) are outlaws wanted for a multitude of putrid crimes with a fresh one the senseless rape and slay of the Hopkins family. One Capt. Stanley (Ray Winstone) who acts as law in this particular situation of the Outback. He’s gives older brother Charlie a proposition. He’ll spare the younger brother’s life from the hangman’s noose if Charlie finds their older brother Arthur (played with Kurtz-like menace by Danny Huston) and kills the outlaw leader. The quest is dwelling as Charlie accepts and sets out to collect his brother. Whether Charlie will go through with killing his older brother Arthur is one thing the audience won’t procure out until the final minutes of the film. Even though there’s no love-lost between Charlie and Arthur, there’s calm the ragged bond of family that makes Charlie’s quest a complex one.

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We realize early on that Charlie is very protective of his simpler, younger brother Mikey and would do anything to build his life. Guy Pearce does a broad performance as the conflicted and brooding Charlie Burns. There’s a tranquil intensity in Pearce’s performance. He’s shapely aloof through most of the film, but one could feel the palpable rage impartial roiling beneath his brooding countenance. Pearce’s Charlie is one who is only a trigger away from exploding into outright violence. Charlie is definitely a child and creation of the lawless Outback the film is spot in.

Arthur Burns on the other hand is introduced as an almost warrior-poet who would study the sun location and spout poetry as easily as gun down an innocent or carve a man’s throat without missing a beat. Danny Huston does a bravura performance as the charismatic and wholly amoral Arthur. His performance easily matches that of Pearce’s scene for scene. Another performance that I must point out as being very strong in the film is Ray Winstone as Capt. Stanley, the Ahab of the narrative with his obsession to bring civilization to the lawless Outback and to bring Arthur Burns to ultimate justice even if it means dealing with the lesser heinous that is Charlie Burns.

The Proposition will be talked about alot for its unflinching recognize at violence onscreen. Though there’s been films that have more violence per hour than Hillcoat’s film, but the uncouth brutality of the killings, maimings and rape in The Proposition has such an air of realism to it that one cringes at every gunshot harm and knife slashing. Like Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, The Proposition’s scenes of depravity makes one want to run into the shower and cleanse off the dirt, grime and stink of the film. It’s in this unflinching and realistic portrayal of death and violence that the film shares alot with McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. The images are difficult to eye, but our curiosity makes us explore through squinted eyes to study the beefy breadth of the violence. In time, fair through the audiences acceptance of the oncreen violence do we soon become complicit in whats going on the mask.

It is a shame that The Proposition had such a tiny release in the US. I reflect this film would’ve done as well as Eastwood’s Unforgiven in giving the audience a different, darker side of the Worn West mythology (though its really the Australian Stale West) . John Hillcoat has crafted himself a brutal and nihilistic film that’s very hard to ogle but also difficult to ignore. The Proposition is a film I highly recommened people glance in the theaters before it disappears, but failing that they should search out for the dvd once its released in that medium. This film is that salubrious.

This film has often been compared to Eastwood’s spare and dusky UNFORGIVEN. There are certainly many similarities in tone. But if anything, there is even less redemption available at the ruin of this Australian western than at the destroy of that Oscar winner.

Simply effect, Ray Winstone plays the equivalent of the “modern sheriff” in a very little, expressionless dusty “western” town in Australia. The worst bandits in his set, the Burns brothers, are his valuable goal, and when he corners and captures the two youngest brothers, Mickey and Charley (Guy Pearce), he offers Charley a proposition. He and his simple younger brother will be released if Charley goes out and kills his psychopathic older brother Arthur. If not, Mickey will be hung on Christmas Day, a few days away.

The fallout from this simple proposition is bleak, bleak, bleak. The film is lifeless engaging and takes time to set tone and to let us appreciate the extraordinary Australian scenery. As John Pain (as a bounty hunter) says, it’s the most horrific spot he’s ever been. The scenery is attractive (sunsets, smart rocks) and brutal…long expanses of sand and scruff. But the dreary saunter is punctuated with moments of extremely graphic violence. Each bullet hole or knife pain (or spear injure) is painful to recognize. I’m not positive when I last saw a movie that made violence appear so terrible, so painful and so frightful.

Everyone in the film is spacious. Guy Pearce…exceedingly grubby…is torn between deciding how to deal with one of his brothers inevitably dieing. Ray Winstone gives a rich performance…impartial when we deem we’ve got this guy figured out, he shows another layer. And then another. He wins our sympathy finally. Emily Watson is his wife, and her performance is a litle colorless…it’s the biggest weakness in the characterizations. Not her fault…she’s impartial too passive to be entirely believed.

The best performance comes from Danny Huston (John’s son, Anjelica’s brother) as Arthur, the psycho. His character appreciates nature and poetry, but also raping and dreary, painful murders. He’s a conundrum that’s never fully explained…but Huston is riveting. His oily, sweaty, dirty face is etched with emptiness…I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but trust me.

Other nice touches include an intelligent soundtrack (co-written by Carve Cave, who wrote the script) and lots of stuff focusing on the uneasy melding of the “white” man and aboriginies. This adds an extra layer of sadness, and of grief, to all the proceedings.

I would give the movie 4.5 stars, if I could. It doesn’t quite arrive 5 (the bound is objective occasionally over-indulgent…a couple of semi-important characters unbiased topple from the legend), but it’s very compelling, very brutal filmmaking. NOT FOR KIDS!!!
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March 6th, 2010 by jaeden9468853
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I can confirm that the aspect ratio on this area is 4:3 and the portray is letterboxed (and there are 4 disks, not 7) . What a shame that this agreeable series would be released with such putrid visual quality when the current was broadcast in beefy high definition. Why on Earth would they do this? If you have an weak 4:3 TV you will be blissful with these, but the visual presentation on a high def TV will be a severe disappointment. The quality of information in this series is absolutely reliable (unequivocal five stars) but the quality of the DVD presentation is abominable (one star) so an average of 3 stars from me. To order, the series itself is gracious, the very best location of programs about geology I have ever seen. The information presentation is suited and the visual presentation of the modern broadcast was equally salubrious and would be here also if they had unprejudiced dilapidated a 16:9 aspect ratio. It is beyond view why they would treat this comely series in such a fashion when there was objective no reason to do so.

Has anyone seen it on these DVDs who can say whether it’s widescreen or surrounded with dark bars?

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I have the modern single episode from 2007 on one DVD in 1:33:1 from “Best of the History Channel, Vol. III 2007 Premier Collection (10 DVD Spot) “.

I watched the “How the Earth Was Made” series this year (2009) on the History Channel in HD widescreen. This listing now says it is 1:33:1 (I preordered it and it was sent before I knew what its aspect ratio was -amazon is often depraved in that respect, for instance: this listing says 7 discs but there are 4. No biggee.) .

It’s a kindly series, but loses its appeal in such a slight report on a colossal shroud and zooming it causes pixelation and stretched narrate (the earth, sun, etc. are oblong, people’s faces are distended) . The box does not say its aspect ratio at all. I returned it based on the listing here. I didn’t want to originate the box because of Amazon’s return policy -my period of return was due and there were no reviews here.
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A Summer Place Movie Streaming

March 5th, 2010 by jaeden9468853
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What can one say about this film. I assume this Delmer Daves’ masterpiece. It was the first of four productions that teamed Daves and Troy Donahue (Parrish, Susan Slade and Rome Adventure followed) .Troy Donahue was never celebrated for any sizable acting prowess, but he did record the last breed of the innocent clean-cut naive teenager. This was Donahue’s strong point and Daves old that persona expertly and effectively to extract the longing for the eternal youthful spirit in all of us. That is why this film is so viewable to this day. To paraphrase Richard Egan’s character in the film: Our only purpose is to fancy and be loved. That is what this film is all about. Visually it is breathtakingly and lushly photographed by Harry Stradling. The dialog is juxtaposed between crisp witty cynicism at times and then sparkling tender passages of poetic expressions of treasure. The Max Steiner acquire and fancy theme have become interwoven into our everyday society as effectively as they mirrored the emotions of the characters in this film. The memoir at its most basic level is one of adultery and teenage savor canvassed on an island on the Maine skim. However, the motivations and the ramifications of the characters’ actions bustle remarkable deeper. The expert cast includes Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Constance Ford, Beulah Bondi and the actors’ actor Arthur Kennedy. This film was based on the Sloan Wilson fresh. This is one of my accepted films. I highly recommend it. The VHS copy is very expedient.

DVD please? I saw this movie when it aired on A&E, and it captivated me as a child, and unruffled does as an adult. The theme song is broad, and I peaceful get myself listening to it!!! I became a fan of Sandra Dee’s after I saw her in “Gidget” and “Imitation Of Life” and I belief her performance was so actual and heart-wrenching. Constance Ford, as her bitchy, controlling mother Helen, gives a strong portrayal of a bitter, frosty, miserable woman who takes her peril out on everyone around her, even her daughter. (She really gives Mommie Dearest a rush for her money) . The scene where she forces Molly to submit to a pelvic exam after she and lover-boy Johnny (the leisurely Troy Donahue) have an accident on the beach (the boat capsizes) is detestable and makes the viewer grimace. The fact that the doctor was faded and defective looking, and began to unbutton Molly’s blouse without her consent, as she screamed, “Oh please, no, I want my father! I’ve been a beneficial girl! I haven’t done anything nefarious!!” makes it discouraged, but it also makes you abhor Ford’s character, as I’m positive that was the contrivance. Richard Egan as Molly’s father Ken, is so pretty and gentle at times (he was equally effective in Walt Disney’s “Pollyanna” as Dr. Chilton) is a man who is trapped in a loveless marriage who finds and falls in adore again with Dorothy McGuire, as Sylvia, his first care for, who also happens to be the mother of Molly’s boyfriend, Johnny!!! One of Egan’s best lines is as he and Helen are having an explosive argument. Ken finishes off his extinguish by saying, “Why must you roar on making sex itself a filthy word!” Arthur Kennedy, as Johnny’s drunken father Bart was one of the actor’s best later performances. The conflict between the two couples and the scrape that follows (Molly becomes pregnant by Johnny) was considered spirited for its day, but considering how diminutive is shown, you have to wonder what all the fuss was about!!! (Although the “King Kong” reference could maintain some debate on that subject) . The argument between Molly and her mother at the beginning of the movie, sums up the times and also, in a procedure, the relationships between mothers and daughters. Molly: “Daddy, do I have to? ” Ken: “Do you have to what? ” Molly: “Wear this middy blouse to shore like a twelve-year-old! And she says I have to wear this armor-padded bra to flattenme out and a girdle! This thing even hurts, and I couldn’t squeeze into this girdle with dynamite!”

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It appears to be a soapy melodrama, but it really is a touching share of nostalgia. Let’s hope a DVD release is in the works!!! We all need to regain away to “A Summer Position”!!!!!!!!

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