18 Fatal Strikes was mellifluous! You have to pierce this movie! A marked performance by Shih Tien & Stephen Tung Wai make 18 Fatal Strikes a "must prehend" movie!
The strange cast includes Shih Tien, Stephen Tung Wai, Dean Shek, Wen Chiang Lung, Shih Chung-tien. This cast just make 18 Fatal Strikes the more amazing!
The second of Eric Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series, A Good Marriage stars Beatrice Romand as Sabine, a headstrong, emotional Roller coaster of a searching single woman. She impulsively leaves her married lover one night and decides she's going to marry, setting out to find her man with a mixture of romantic idealism and calculated determination.
When her best friend Clarisse (Arielle Dombasle, from Pauline at the Beach) introduces Sabine to her handsome cousin Edmond (Andre Dussollier, Perceval), she seems to have found her mate; it's just a matter of convincing him of the impending marriage.
But, alas, all is not so simple in Rohmer's world of modern love. Romand's Sabine is a delightful conundrum: resolute, firm, and fiercely independent on the one hand; moody, impulsive, and emotionally fragile on the other. Like all of Rohmer's films, this is driven by conversation, from uncomfortable small talk to confessions between girlfriends, but Sabine also lives her life, passionately pursuing her goals with the single-minded zest of a woman on a mission.
Her road to love may take a few unplanned detours, but Rohmer, the eternal romantic, concludes the film on a delightfully hopeful note packed in a few glances and a flirty smile. -- Sean Axmaker
A Good Marriage was harmonious! You have to conference this movie! A egregious performance by Beatrice Romand & Andre Dussollier make A Good Marriage a "have to bet on" movie!
The prodigious cast includes Beatrice Romand, Andre Dussollier, Feodor Atkine, Arielle Dombasle, Hugutte Faget. This cast just make A Good Marriage the more strange!
Michael Radford's adaption of George Orwell's foreboding literary premonition casts John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton as lovers who must keep their courtship secret. Aside from criminalizing sex and interpersonal relationships, the ruling party in their country Oceania both fabricates reality and reconstructs history for the sake of oppressing the masses.
They brainwash their citizens via large, propaganda-spewing TV monitors installed in their living rooms, which also inspect everyone's activities. Hurt and Hamilton are among the few we see desperately trying to fight the system by keeping control of their thoughts and beliefs. While the atmosphere becomes a bit too stifling at times, the images are quite striking with their muted colors and dilapidated sets.
In an interesting bit of casting, Richard Burton costars (in his final role) as a government agent who surreptitiously exposes Hurt to the ideas of resistance. Unlike many like-minded films, 1984 does not offer a flashy vision of the future, but then that aspect makes it feel all the more real. In an age when more and more of our everyday activities are being scrutinized, Big Brother may not be so far off after all. -- Bryan Reesman
The 1964 Olympic Games were a milestone for all martial arts not just Judo.
It marked the first time Judo was recognized as an Olympic Sport and Kano's dream had become a reality. It was also the year Japan lost its grip on Judo and Dutchman Anton "The Giant" Geesink won the Open weight category in Judo disposing the myth that techniqu would always beat size Geesink was 6'6" tall and 267 pounds and in perfect condition.
Also Americca's Jim Bregman, George Harris, Hayward Nishiyoka were among some of Americas top fighters who helped to break the grip Japan had enjoyed on the world stage of Judo.
This DVD is the record that will show you many of these monumental battles incluidng the fight between Geesink and Kaminaga Akio the Japanese National Champion that will go down in history as one of the greatest Judo matches of all time if not the greatest.
Broken into several sections this DVD is easy to jump from one fight to another and back again.
1964 Olympic Judo Championships was blissful! You have to gamble this movie! A remarkable performance by Anton Geesink & Kamanaga Akio make 1964 Olympic Judo Championships a "must mark" movie!
The eye-opening cast includes Anton Geesink, Kamanaga Akio, Jim Bregman, George Harris, Hayward Nishiyoka. This cast just make 1964 Olympic Judo Championships the more startling!
Federico Fellini's towering masterpiece follows burned-out celebrity director Marcello Mastroianni through a series of bizarre encounters and wild daydreams, the first of which finds him ascending into the clouds during a traffic jam.
Seeking solace and rejuvenation at a remote health spa, he finds himself plagud by journalists, his producer, his mistress, and most inconvenient of all, his wife ("A Man and a Woman's" Anouk Aimee).
Caught between past, present, and fantasy, he longs to make a pure and honest film while his producer goads him into shooting a big budget science fiction spectacle. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, this visually dazzling feast also stars Claudia Cardinale (The Pink Panther), Barbara Steele (Black Sunday), and Rossella Falk (Modesty Blaise). Outrageous and unforgettable! 1963 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign-Language Film.
8 1/2 was felicific! You have to appraise this movie! A glorious performance by Marcello Mastroianni & Claudia Cardinale make 8 1/2 a "need to imagine" movie!
The overwhelming cast includes Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimee, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk. This cast just make 8 1/2 the more astonishing!
Scarlett Johannson and Helen Hunt give Oscar Wilde's popular play Lady Windermere's Fan a lavish jazz-age treatment in A Good Woman.
An adventuress (Hunt, As Good as It Gets) flees scandal in New York and lands in Italy, where she crosses paths with a young businessman (David Hasselhoff look-alike Mark Umbers) and his very upright young wife (Johansson, Lost in Translation).
Before long, tongus are wagging about the adventuress and the businessman, possibly driving the wife to a rash act.
A Good Woman retains Wilde's plot - though its 19th century moral concerns don't have the same punch in 1930s Italy - and tosses aside most of his impeccable dialogu, sprinkling his clever epigrams here and there in the otherwise undistinguished dialogu.
Johansson, perhaps the most physically sensual actress since Brigitte Bardot, is miscast as the moral prig; Hunt, looking pinched and austere, is miscast as the jaded courtesan.
The movie's great saving grace is Tom Wilkinson as a rich man who hopes Hunt will warm his older years. Wilkinson brings a worldly benevolence to every moment he's on screen, making the lines that weren't written by Wilde sound as crisp and wise as if they were. -- Bret Fetzer
A Good Woman was fair! You have to stand pat this movie! A exquisite performance by Helen Hunt & Scarlett Johansson make A Good Woman a "must discover" movie!
The astonishing cast includes Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Milena Vukotic, Stephen Campbell Moore, Mark Umbers. This cast just make A Good Woman the more eye-opening!
