Doctor Zhivago (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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David Lean focused all his talent as an epic-maker on Boris Pasternak's sweeping novel about a doctor-poet in revolutionary Russia. The results may sometimes veer toward soap opera, especially with the screen frequently filled with adoring close-ups of Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, but Lean's gift for cramming the screen with spectacle is not to be denied. The streets of Moscow, the snowy steppes of Russia, the house in the country taken over by ice; these are re-created with Lean's unerring sense of grandness. The movie is so lush and so long that it becomes an irresistible wallow, even when logic suffers--like Gone with the Wind before it and Titanic after. Sharif, who achieved stardom in Lean's previous film, Lawrence of Arabia, mostly looks noble, but the supporting cast is spiky: Rod Steiger as a fat-cat monster, Tom Courtenay as a self-righteous revolutionary, and Klaus Kinski and Alec Guinness in smaller roles. Geraldine Chaplin, in her adult debut, plays the doctor's compliant wife. Robert Bolt's screenplay won one of the film's five Oscars, with another going to perhaps the most immediately recognizable element of the movie: Maurice Jarre's romantic music, with its hugely popular "Lara's Theme" weaving in and out of a swooning score. --Robert Horton

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Lara inspires lechery in Komarovsky (her mother's lover who is a master at surviving whoever runs Russia) and can't compete with passion for the revolution of the man she marries, Pasha. Her true love is Zhivago who also loves his wife. Lara is the one who inspires poetry. The story is narrated by Zhivago's half brother Yevgraf, who has made his career in the Soviet Army. At the beginning of the film he is about to meet a young woman he believes may be the long lost daughter of Lara and Zhivago.

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Why? Why? Wh... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......2007-09-16

This simplified version of the revolution in Russia just doesn't hold up over time. Where's the revolution? Why do we care that Zhivago and Lara want each other? Isn't Geraldine Chaplin ten times classier than Julie Christie? Worse, the absurdity of seeing English actors with an Egyptian lead playing Russians feels very 1960s. The movie sports a tediously repetitive score and a made-for-TV script, making for a long sit at three-and-a-half hours. In the IMDb trivia notes it says that Lean suffered at the hands of the critics, though the film was popular and won so many Oscars. I can see why the critics howled, and not with glee. Watch this one only if you have a particular interest in any of the actors. SPOILER ALERT. By the end of it I was yelling at the screen "Zhivago, you wimp! Don't just stand there with your suitcases and that long face. Go after her!" He acts like a passive twit who deserves to lose the girl. They say that director Lean wanted 1960s-yummy Peter O'Toole for the role, but I can't quite see him playing such a weak man. Sharif is also sexy, and surely more powerful than this flaccid lead would suggest. He has zero, and I mean no chemistry with the barbie-esque Christie, who only needs a gingham dress to remind me of one of the gals from Petticoat Junction.

Dr. Zhivago.......2007-09-06

This is an Excellant remastered DVD of th original movie.. Great Sound and Picture Quality! The Two Disc special with extra footage/info about the story was great!

Watch Out!.......2007-07-13

The movie is fine, but this is not a "2-disc special edition". It is really a 2-1/2 disc package. Unlike other long movies that continue on disc 2, the movie is all on disc 1, part one on side A and part two on side B. No big deal unless you have a multi-disc player and don't want to flip the disc every time you watch the movie. Disc 2 is only special features. Again, the movie is great, but watching the entire length can be a pain.

Doctor Zhivago.......2007-06-27

Based on Boris Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel, David Lean's second masterpiece (after "Lawrence of Arabia") is a sumptuous, absorbing epic in the grand tradition of filmmaking. Sharif and Christie (often glimpsed in adoring close-ups) are ravishing to watch, as Lean turns an earth-shattering moment in world history into high romantic drama. Brimming with unforgettable images of the Russian steppes captured by Oscar-winning lensman Carlo Ponti, Lean's snowy, romantic spectacle is just what the "Doctor" ordered, with marvelous ensemble work by Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, and Klaus Kinski.

Got exactly what I asked for when I asked for it.......2007-06-08

I forgot my step-dad's 60th birthday and had to overnight/express ship this DVD set to him and it actually ended up working out better than if I had remembered. He has wanted this movie for years because he went to the premier in the 60's on the east coast. He was home when it arrived on a Saturday and he ended up feeling more special because of all of the fuss and the hand delivery by FedEx. The film is stunning, as ever. I borrowed it as soon as my parents had watched it and it held up beautifully on my HDTV (61" screen) which I did not expect. I was highly satisfied with the whole process and the product. I completely recommend using the ticker on items that tells you how soon you can get them anywhere in the country - fabulous little feature. Excellent service.

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the complications of a novel put into film- brilliantly done
Okay
Eroticatic-
What is all about beyond intimacy?
Not what I expected

Sex and Lucia (Unrated Edition)
Starring: Paz Vega , Tristán Ulloa , Najwa Nimri , Daniel Freire , and Elena Anaya
Director: Julio Medem
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ASIN: B0004Z32NI
Release Date: 2004-10-19

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Sex and Lucia engages mind and body with its time-bending narrative and images of beautiful Spaniards having vibrant sex. The story shifts between past and present, fact and fiction, so a plot summary won't capture it, but… A young writer named Lorenzo falls into a passionate relationship with a waitress named Lucía. But he also finds himself drawn to a young nanny taking care of a child who just might be the result of an anonymous fling Lorenzo had with a woman he met on an island the year before. Lorenzo fantasizes about the lives of all of these women until a horrific event sends him into a suicidal depression. This may sound obscure or flat, but Sex and Lucía unfolds clearly and beautifully, featuring stunning visual images of both nature and flesh, and weaving a poetic spell much like the director's previous film, The Lovers of the Arctic Circle. --Bret Fetzer

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the complications of a novel put into film- brilliantly done.......2007-09-06

most people watch this movie for the amazing intimate scenes, but the kicker is really the mind-bending way it tells the very human and emotionally charged story- complicated and artistic plot twists acted out on film rarely accomplished by any but hitchcock or krzysztof kieslowski, from a passionate female latin viewpoint. amazing. gorgeous. watch it completely alone or with someone who won't mind pausing for you to express your love for the film...

Okay.......2007-05-13

It definately kept your interest. Mainly because it was hard to follow and the story is so strange that you just had to see what was happening next.

Eroticatic-.......2007-01-10

A very romanic and very erotic movie. Paz Vega is one of the most beauitful actress to come along in years, and has moved into the mainstream of movie making. The story is a wondrous love story. I would recommend it for adults.

What is all about beyond intimacy?.......2006-07-19

This dramatic movie exposes many sex activities. Beyond all that, what is the message to send for the viewer? "Do you want to have wild sex with strangers?" Or "do you want to have intimacy sex with your lover?" With all the sex enjoyment, love and "blood" relationship is the final count after all. This is the destiny but not up to our choice. This is why Lorenzo falls into suicidal depression. This is why Lorenzo bursts into sorry tears to Comandrona. This is why Lucia rejects Tony's sex even there is a strong indication of sex enjoyment. Are these sex activities necessary? Let's look at it in different way. Can the movie have same visionary and emotional impacts without sex scenes? The answer is clear. Overall I enjoy this move very much, even have a shock for many days.

Not what I expected.......2006-07-05

In a word this movie was disappointing. It's supposed to be about beautiful Spaniards having sex on a magnificent Mediterranean island. Well there wasn't that much sex and the photography was nothing special. Add that to a plodding pace and poor plot and you don't get a very good film

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Love this contraversial film
The MTV generation has found its film
Got myth?
A frenzied, bent out of shape film...
Not What the Title Implies

Natural Born Killers
Starring: Woody Harrelson , Juliette Lewis , Tom Sizemore , Rodney Dangerfield , and Everett Quinton
Director: Oliver Stone
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ASIN: B00003BDXG
Release Date: 2000-01-25

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Oliver Stone would like to have the last word on America's media culture of voyeurism and violence, but whatever he's trying to say in this grisly, unconventional movie comes across terribly garbled. Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis play traveling serial killers who become television celebrities when a Geraldo-like personality (Robert Downey Jr.) turns their madness into the biggest story in the country. Stone extensively rewrote an original script by Quentin Tarantino, and he employs a mosaic of different film stocks, video, and pop pastiches to create a sense of blurred lines between visual phenomena. (The background on Lewis's character's life as an abused child, for instance, is presented as a sitcom starring Rodney Dangerfield.) But the result of these experiments is a pompous, even amateurish effort at grasping the reins of a real-life national debate. One almost wants to tell Stone to sit down and raise his hand next time if he thinks he has something to say. The controversial director would like Natural Born Killers to be nothing less than a monumental achievement, but it's one of the emptier entries in his filmography. --Tom Keogh

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Love this contraversial film.......2007-09-13

I love this contraversial film, it was a real headline runner when it came out. The mixed message from Stone of dream, soap opera, media cirkus is probably more valid today then when it first came out.

The MTV generation has found its film.......2007-09-04

A crazy, zany movie that looks as if it only got made after the inmates took over the asylum. Quentin Tarantion penned a script that Stone and his associates bought and remade into what we now know as Natural Born Killers. A crazy film that needs to be seen multiple times to understand. Once is definitely not enought.

The movie's point is hidden behind the violence and gore but it's very effective in its message. It's a movie that needs no explaining. The title itself makes it one to watch. The scenes, the angles, the characters, you will not forget this movie if you see it.

The DVD features a commentary from Oliver Stone, a few deleted scnes, including a shocking one with Ashley Judd that'll leave you in awe, and a feturette.

The bad thing is, it's non-anamorphic. This is the only Director's Cut that I know of and it sucks that it's not anamorphic.

However, I still recommend this movie.

Got myth?.......2007-08-28

This film's theme is a common one. Catcher in the Rye, Clockwork Orange, Dubliners, Fahrenheit 451, Idiocracy, Waiting for Godot - the list goes on. The theme is what happens when a society no longer has a myth. If you miss this point you miss the film's point. People who pan this film typically aren't getting the point; instead, they're seeing it through a sociological lens. Oliver Stone - long-time disciple of mythologist Joseph Campbell - presents another depiction of this postmodern theme. The death of mythology is old news: Giambattista Vico predicted this four centuries ago, author James Joyce attempted to refecundate myth though his works Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, and Joseph Campbell observed we're currently waiting for the new myth to arrive. The NeoCon establishment - disciples of Leo Strauss - have attempted to build a new myth of "public presumption" of endless war of Good against Evil. But because it's a lie it won't last long. Or it will destroy us. Which brings us back to Natural Born Killers.

In a world without myth we create our own. Natural Born Killers depicts with considerable black humor how people living in a cultural vacuum of dead mythologies violently struggle to create their own living mythology. The killers, Mickey and Mallory, are psychotic, schizophrenic - (who knows?) - but schizophrenia is at root an inability to derive meaning from symbols. The pair run amok in an awful symbolic void, latching onto a smorgasbord of comic heroes, game shows, sitcoms, childhood memories, and courtship rituals. What's happening to them is exactly what happens to primitive societies exposed to "white man's culture": They collapse, succumb to vice, and disintegrate. Meantime, Mickey and Mallory struggle to establish a meaningful personal mythology of their own throughout the film: Marriage vows on a bridge, the "communion with angels" scene, reverence for any small kindness done them, the ritual act of mercy at each killing.

The film raises hairs on the neck - and it's meant to - because Stone depicts what we've become and where we're headed. Beneath tawdry commercialism, career mania, suburban flight, vapid FOX news, political correctness, endless war and all we've come to accept as "normal" there is a very real and disturbing primal chaos that finds no living symbols or mythology to focus and balance its energies. This is an unprecedented development in the history of mankind and so what we face is unprecedented.

Shocking, violent, finely directed with a fine soundtrack. A powerful film of the chaos of being human in a dehumanized world.

A frenzied, bent out of shape film..........2007-08-25

The NYTimes said this film was the "most radical film released by a major studio since A Clockwork Orange", and they were right. This one is actually more radical, especially in the way the story is told. While A Clockwork Orange is brilliant (and better than this film), its story was told in a rather straightforward manner. Here Oliver Stone goes crazy with 35mm, 16mm, video, and even animation to comment on America's love of violence, and the media's obsession of it. The film has some of the most intense editing ever, and it becomes completely surreal in the final third where it stops making logical sense and becomes something you can only experience (there was a guy who said "what the f***" very loudly in the theater during this last third). The film is rather ugly (it was based on a script by Tarantino), but Stone makes the most of it, making it much more interesting (the sitcom parody with Rodney Dangerfield is a brilliant bit of casting) and memorable than if Quentin had done it. There are some really stupid scenes (when Mickie and Mallory feel sad after killing a Native American, but feel no remorse towards any of the other killings), and there are times Stone overindulges himself, but it's definitely worth watching for the great performances (Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis, Rodney Dangerfield (my favorite standup by the way), Robert Downey Jr. as an Aussie tabloid reporter, and Tommy Lee Jones) and the hallucinatory frenzy of it all...

Not What the Title Implies.......2007-05-18

THIS IS NOT THE DIRECTORS CUT.

I give the Directors Cut 5 stars, and ordinarily I would give even the edited version at least 4, but when I purchased "The Oliver Stone Collection" edition of this movie, I assumed the movie contained therein would be the Directors Cut. IT IS NOT.

The deleted scenes are great to have, but those scenes were also contained in the old beat-up VHS of NBK I owned years and years ago and lost. Attempting to replace it (my DIRECTORS CUT version), I bought this one on DVD. I was extremely disappointed that this is not the version I had come to love.

Very little of the movie is deleted, but purists seeking to obtain the TRUE version of this movie should stay away. Remember when Robert Downey Jr. gets a hole shot in his hand? Gone (or at least cut away far faster than it's supposed to). Remember when Tommy Lee Jones gets his head mounted on a stick? Gone. These are just two examples.

For those of you specifically seeking the Directors Cut, this is not it. I love this movie to death, but I was looking for something specific and did not get it. Very misleading labeling, if you ask me.

Les Enfants Terribles: Criterion Collection

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L.E.T. - Wonderful!
Let's blame Cocteau
Good, but not great, and I don't know why...
at last!
Sibling play

Les Enfants Terribles: Criterion Collection
Starring: Nicole Stéphane , Edouard Dermithe , Renée Cosima , Jacques Bernard , and Melvyn Martin
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Manufacturer: Criterion
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ASIN: B000PKG6OY
Release Date: 2007-07-24

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L.E.T. - Wonderful!.......2007-09-17

Good... Not too weird, not too normal. Good. A nice pack of adequate French cinema and twisted Cocteau fantasia. Don't we all love the Dargelos persona? Isn't it a nice manipulation of victory over fear by re-designating the symbolism or the perception of symbolism assigned to the people involved in our lives; or relationships. Huh? Yeah. It's pretty good. Thank the Lord it's on DVD in the US. America could use some decency.

Let's blame Cocteau.......2007-08-27

This is a film I wish Jean-Pierre Melville never made. It's so removed from his milieu that I can't help being reminded of Alfred Hitchcock's involvement with the romantic comedy, MR AND MRS SMITH. It seems, however, that Melville wanted to do it so he has only himself to blame.

Here we are treated to a couple of overbearing teenagers orphaned early in the story -- apparently without emotional effect. Their story in the first part of the film is mostly confined to their shared bedroom in which torment each other at the top of their lungs. Some people are fascinated by this psychopathology, but it was pure hell for me.

Nicole Stéphane as the sister has been revered for her performance -- yet I found it constantly over-the-top. I tolerated the performance of the actor playing the brother, Edouard Dermithe, better -- while he was roundly jeered by the critics. Because I don't speak French, I am reacting to only part of his performance.

An hour into the movie, and 46 minutes before the end, the film finally opens up and shows some momentum. That's about the time the American appears. He sings a pleasant ballad with a pleasant-enuf voice. Then the film begins to descend again, but it ends before it sinks to previous depths.

Jean Cocteau's source novel is considered a classic. Many people rank this film as a classic. That may be all you need to know about it.

If, like me, you want to see everything Melville did, than you have already decided to see this film. Just be aware that it is nothing like Melville's others ... I'm happy to say.

Good, but not great, and I don't know why..........2007-08-26

"Les Enfants Terrible" is a collaboration between one of France's greatest authors, Jean Cocteau, and one of its greatest directors, Jean-Pierre Mellville. It should be, and according to many, is, a superb, excellent film. But to me there was something... missing. I don't know what.

The plot of the movie centers around a brother and sister who have an unusually close relationship. It's not made clear in the movie if it's an incestual relationship, but the overtones are certainly there (indeed, when they make references to the "games" they play, one can easily substitute the word "sex", and remove all doubt).

Both children, apparently around sixteen, spend a great deal of time isolated in the room they share, and woe betide anyone who invades their sanctum. All is reasonably well until the sister marries a wealthy man, who soon dies, giving her, her brother and their friends a large house to live in.

From a technical standpoint a lot to admire in this film. There's a great deal of poetry in the visuals, some wonderful acting, and some powerful dialogue. But for me, as I said, something was missing. I'm not sure what it was. I SHOULD have liked this movie more than I did. Perhaps on subsequent viewings, I will like it more.

For now, though, it gets three stars. But at least it's a SOLID three stars, and I certainly don't feel as though I wasted my money by buying it.

at last!.......2007-08-23

This restoration is awesome. As for the eternal, unresolved debate over whether this is "a Cocteau Film" or "a Melville Film"--I consider it to be Cocteau's masterpiece. That's not easy to say when you consider ORPHEUS and LA BELLE ET LA BETE, is it? Look what we're getting in pristine condition: Cocteau, Stephane, Dermithe AND Bach/Vivaldi...wow

Sibling play.......2007-08-16

Earlier this year, in the spring, Ms. Nicole Stephane main female character of this movie has passed away. What better way to pay tribute to the acress, but to revisit this old classic movie based on Jean Coctoeau's book that was directed by famous French director Melville. Although I never read the book, I wanted to check out the movie with risque theme of incest.

I found movie fascinating, although some of the acting I found to be overdramatic and certain actors miscast. But the idea of the movie and deep tragedy of the situation between brother and sister, kept me at the edge of my seat until the end.

If you watch this movie, you must see the documentary commentary about making of the movie. Drama did not start and end with the story presented in this classic, but it is the drama behind the camera that was unnerving all along. Save time to watch this brief commentary because it will give you some great insight about the complex relationship between actors, director and writer during the creative process.

I could not stop thinking about another movie with the similar theme : "The Cement Garden" made from Ian McEwan's book. While the idea of the incest is common for both of these works of art, the characters in "The Cemenet Garden" are much better casted and developed. In any case, watching this movie will be time well spent.

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Corazón Salvaje es todo un clásico
The best story every told, but the DVDs do not show enough
Magnificent
A MUST HAVE
Bad surprise !

Corazon Salvaje
Starring: Edith González , Eduardo Palomo , Ana Colchero , Ariel López Padilla , and Enrique Lizalde
Director: Alberto Cortés (II) , and José Rendón
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ASIN: B000BT99D4
Release Date: 2006-02-07

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The two sons of a wealthy landowner—only one of whom is legitimate—become rivals for the love of a beautiful but ambitious woman. Juan del Diablo, the illegitimate son of a wealthy landowner, grew up untamed on the beaches of San Pedro. His father's dying wish for Juan to bear the family name is ignored, and Juan remains in poverty while his half brother Andres moves to Mexico City. They meet fifteen years later when Andres marries Aimee, Juan's lover. Juan's jealous rage is tamed only by the love of Monica, Aimee's sister and Andres' former fiancée. Though Juan is an uneducated, sometimes violent man, Monica discovers in him a heart of gold.

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Corazón Salvaje es todo un clásico .......2007-08-24

Vi la novela completa hace muchos años. Este año me enteré que había salido en DVD una versión resumida y no he parado hasta tenerla. Esta versión está centrada en los protagonistas, Juan del Diablo y Mónica (increible química entre los dos actores protagonistas), dejando a un lado la mayoría de las historias de los personajes secundarios. Aún así la historia sigue teniendo mucha fuerza y pasión que te tienen enganchada hasta el final. Cuidada puesta en escena, decorados, trajes de época e incluso música, con la preciosa canción de Mijares. La interpretación del malogrado actor (murió por un problema de corazón) Eduardo Palomo raya la perfección, con un Juan del Diablo que llega a enamorarte. Es imposible imaginarse a otro actor intentando interpretar este personaje. Recomiendo este DVD a quienes les guste las historias románticas y quieran enamorarse de todo un "Corazón Salvaje"

The best story every told, but the DVDs do not show enough.......2007-08-15

I have seen this soap many many times. I cry everytime I see the ending, and I'm filled with a melancholy, because it takes me back to my childhood, when Juan was a hero, an idol, a dream. This soap was truly a masterpiece and no other has come close. This story was about more than love, it was about forgiveness, justice, and how in the end they always prevail. It's rare we see this on tv or even in real life. Nowadays soaps and shows are filled with superficial drama, and no substance to fill our minds. This soap was always different in that it gave us more, there was always more. There was romance but there was also an innocence and fraility that prevented it from being just another raunchy tv show. There was emotion in the scenes, the characters, the stories, and in the end they all intertwined beautifully. Will I watch it again? Yes, maybe in a few months when I feel like escaping for a few hours from a world that has clearly lost all its sense of classic love and beauty.

Magnificent .......2007-08-14

The above DVD will take you to a romantic world with a lot of barriers that should be faced by the star.

A MUST HAVE.......2007-06-25

This telenovela was absolutely great!!! My only complaint is that they should have made it a 3 CD telenovela. How the makers could allow a novela with the late Eduardo Palomo and Edith Gonzalez be a 1 CD novela is beyond me. All the actors did a superb job and the novela left me wanting more. It is so good that if they every came out with a revised edition with more CDs' I would DEFINATELY purchase it again!!

Bad surprise !.......2007-04-06

There are so many good scenes that are cut in this version. If you have seen the original version you are going to be disappointed, and the editing is too abrupt.
There should have made a complete DVD version of the Telenovela, since it has been one of the best ever done...

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The best latin film in the last years!!!!
Refreshingly familiar but also new
Best Mexican Movie Ever
THE BEST SURPRISE IN MEXICAN CINEMA

Amar Te Duele
Starring: Luis Fernando Peña , Martha Higareda , Ximena Sariñana , Armando Hernández , and Pedro Damián
Director: Fernando Sariñana
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ASIN: B000JBXH78
Release Date: 2006-12-26

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Teenagers Renata (Martha Higareda) and Ulises (Luis Fernando Pena) search for love and freedom amidst class divides, prejudice, peer pressure and urban violence in this moving Romeo and Juliet story set in the shopping malls, working class barrios and wealthy neighborhoods of Mexico City.

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The best latin film in the last years!!!! .......2007-05-09

I was very pleased with this film, latin originated films have been improving in all spects,
it is also a beautiful story and they made an exellent job in casting for every character.

This film makes you feel involved in the story.

This is a beautiful film that I will always remember and I'm thankfull that Amazon helped me find
this movie here in the U.S. because I coudn't find it anywhere in the U.S.

P.S. please provide more latin films. Thank you.

Refreshingly familiar but also new.......2007-03-31

I enjoyed this. It's a reminder of how classic the premise of Romeo and Juliet really is, but it's always nice to see the story cast in new and innovative ways. This film does that. Martha Higareda is lovely as Renata, and in general Fernando Sariñana does a great job of getting the most out of his young actors. For American viewers this will also have the refreshing complexity of recent Mexican film in that it shows the class frictions and prejudices.

I did think the ending played out a little to conveniently tragic. It's not exactly as the original, of course. That ending might have been too elaborate to get into this story realistically. Instead the director goes for a gritty, believable sort of realism.

Best Mexican Movie Ever.......2007-03-03

It is the best Romo & Juliet movie ever. I can watch it over and over and over again and not get sick of it. Evertime I watch I cry. I just shows that when two people love each other they will do whatever they have to do to be together.

THE BEST SURPRISE IN MEXICAN CINEMA.......2006-12-26

This is one of the most powerful, tender, and well-acted films of forbidden love I have ever seen with an amazing cast with a beautifully interwoven soundtrack of the best Spanish rock bands in Mexico. I bought the DVD in Mexico in '02 just a year after its theatrical release without having seen it. I only asked about it since I was seeing posters all over the city.

I was glad that I bought it and showed it to my Spanish students. The result was nothing but tears and amazement at a beautifully told story of an impossible love because of an extreme difference in class. A teenage boy from a humble upper low class family falls in love with a upper class teenage girl; a love that is frowned upon in reality in actual Mexico City, where the story takes place.

Be ready to feel for the characters, understand the societal structure, and sense the frustration that the two main characters face while they struggle to be together for love. An amazing film for being a teenage love story... This was truly an Oscar-worthy film!

Natural Born Killers - Oliver Stone Collection

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Love this contraversial film
The MTV generation has found its film
Got myth?
A frenzied, bent out of shape film...
Not What the Title Implies

Natural Born Killers - Oliver Stone Collection
Starring: Woody Harrelson , Juliette Lewis , Tom Sizemore , Rodney Dangerfield , and Everett Quinton
Director: Oliver Stone
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ASIN: B0000542DH
Release Date: 2001-01-16

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The story of a husband and wife who are serial killers involved in a cross country killing spree that elevates them from fugitives into media celebrities.

DVD Features:
Alternate endings:(4:42)
Audio Commentary:Director's Commentary
Deleted Scenes:(22:44)
Other:"Chaos Rising" (36:36)

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Love this contraversial film.......2007-09-13

The MTV generation has found its film.......2007-09-04

Got myth?.......2007-08-28

A frenzied, bent out of shape film..........2007-08-25

Not What the Title Implies.......2007-05-18

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Yawn...
An erotic movie with a plot.
Absolutely perverted NAZI-TRASH for sickos
Theresa Ann Savoy...
1970s porno takes on the Third Reich

Salon Kitty
Starring: Helmut Berger , Ingrid Thulin , Teresa Ann Savoy , John Steiner , and Sara Sperati
Director: Tinto Brass
Manufacturer: Blue Underground, Inc.
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ASIN: B0007KI9SS
Release Date: 2005-04-05

Description

From Tinto Brass, the Director of CALIGULA

Berlin, 1939: At the dawn of World War II, power-mad SS Officer Wallenberg (Helmut Berger of THE DAMNED) is ordered to find and train Germany's most beautiful women to work in the opulent brothel of Madam Kitty (Ingrid Thulin of CRIES AND WHISPERS). Here these Nazi nymphs will submit to the bizarre passions and carnal degradations of the Reich's highest-ranking men and women while Wallenberg secretly records their acts for blackmail. But when an innocent young prostitute (Teresa Ann Savoy of CALIGULA) uncovers the conspiracy, her revenge will ignite a holocaust of pain, pleasure and shocking sexual perversion. The story is true. The depravity is real. The film is SALON KITTY.

John Steiner (MANNAJA), Tina Aumont (TORSO) and John Ireland (RED RIVER) co-star in this infamous epic co-written and directed by Tinto Brass and featuring exquisite production design by Oscar© winner Ken Adam (BARRY LYNDON, GOLDFINGER). Released in America as the heavily censored MADAM KITTY, this controversial shocker has been fully restored from the director's own personal vault print and features extended scenes of sexual atrocities. EXTRAS:
o International Trailer
o U.S. Trailer
o Tinto Brass Bio
o New `Collectible' cover art

Customer Reviews:

Yawn..........2007-04-30

Christ, this movie was so boring. I wasn't even paying attention towards the end. How did it end, anyway? Ah, it's not important. Stick to the classics: The Night Porter or The Damned. That acting is much better and things actually happen.

An erotic movie with a plot. .......2007-03-21

Salon Kitty has good actors and plenty of erotic stage production. The elaborate costumes with nazi symbols all over them did a good job in conveying the nazi era and mind-set. The feeling of madness, anger, depression and fear was present in all the characters. The need for power and being a slave to lust was also conveyed very well. Altogether, an accurate account of decending into a living hell.

Absolutely perverted NAZI-TRASH for sickos.......2007-01-10

This movie is visually an absolute masterpiece of Tinto Brass. Nevertheless it is an absolutely perverted NAZI-TRASH for sickos. One of the worst case scenarios - the HOLOCAUST - is torn into dirt by the sexual actions of the NAZI's and their victims. Due to the FREEDOM OF SPEECH & ART this movie is legal in the USA but in Germany STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. I really wonder why AMAZON sells crab like this but it is a must-see for everybody who is close to suicide or needs the LAST KICK before taking heroin or crystal meth ... ! 5 Stars on the PERVERSOMETER for the crazy idea but "-5 STARS" for hurting minority feelings and excessive RACISM.

Theresa Ann Savoy..........2006-03-11

... Rocks my world. I purchased this video only because of the deliciously beautiful Ms Savoy, who played the emperor's sister in "Caligula." The movie didn't dissapoint me as she frolics unashamedly throughout, however the film is a very disturbing look at a certain section of the Nazi government. Revisionists may disagree with the portrayal but I found it very realistic. Nothing they did surprises me anymore. Great film.

1970s porno takes on the Third Reich.......2005-09-30

Classic Teto Brass. I could definetly see the similarities with Caligula. Very professional production. But lots of wierd fetish stuff like sex with amputies, and disfigured people (most real). However, even though this was an NR version there was no coitus. A few distant shots of a very hairy crotch, and plenty of shots of limp male organs. Good acting though, and a very good story. If you are watching this for the sex scenes, go rent a Penthouse video. This was all about fetish and androgity. There are some very strange perversions and they show just how sick the Third Reich really was, as I understand pretty accurate. If you are an adult and enjoy real movies, this is as real as they get. If you are a prude and don't enjoy seeing the human body in all it's forms (some not very pleasant to look at), than definetly skip this one.

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Fine film, but...
STILL THE BEST!
Better than remake
This Is a Job For George Feltenstein
The Original and Still Best Version of the Classic Tearjerker

Love Affair
Starring: Irene Dunne , Charles Boyer , Maria Ouspenskaya , Lee Bowman , and Astrid Allwyn
Director: Leo McCarey
Manufacturer: Madacy Records
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ASIN: 6305052131
Release Date: 1998-07-07

Customer Reviews:

Fine film, but..........2007-07-27

This is a Hollywood classic, every bit as good as the other [...] reviewers contend. BUT the picture on the DVD made in Canada by Madacy Entertainment Group is decidedly mediocre. It hasn't been technically enhanced, and there are occasional blotches and sound difficulties. Buy it; the price is right. But then wait for a better DVD to come along.

STILL THE BEST!.......2007-06-19

As much as I admire Cary Grant for his presence and easy charm, he lacks the worldliness and dramatic depth of Charles Boyer whom I earlier admired in 'Algiers.' He's more graceful and expressive and his consumate Frenchness makes the contrast between he and Dunne all the more interesting and romantic. As for Irene Dunne, she's so effervescent compared to Kerr. Kerr seemed somewhat brittle for all her sincereity and warmth.

Better than remake.......2007-05-22

I agree with the above reviews. I can only add that after seeing "Love Affair", "An Affa