Wings of the Dove (1997) [VHS]

Wings of the Dove (1997) [VHS] Overview

Highly acclaimed as one of the year's most outstanding movies, THE WINGS OF THE DOVE is a provocative tale of passion, temptation, and greed. Helena Bonham Carter (HOWARDS END) delivers a stunning, award-winning performance as Kate, a beautiful young society woman whose desire for a common journalist (Linus Roache) presents her with an impossible decision: leave him, or marry -- and face a life of poverty. Events take an unexpected twist, however, when Kate befriends a lonely young heiress (Alison Elliott) whose own tragic secret offers an irresistible ... but dangerous ... solution. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards(R), this intriguing story of forbidden love is a motion picture event you won't soon forget!

Wings of the Dove (1997) [VHS] Specifications

Queen of the costume drama Helena Bonham Carter finally got a chance to loosen her corset a bit with this exquisitely mounted (Sandy Powell's costumes were nominated for an Academy Award) romantic drama based on Henry James's classic novel. Set in turn-of-the-century London and Venice, Wings of the Dove is a stately departure--more PBS than MTV--for Iain Softley, director of Hackers and the birth-of-the-Beatles biopic Backbeat. But there's enough romantic intrigue to perhaps fuel a week's worth of daytime TV talk shows: My Lover Seduced a Dying Heiress for Her Money.

Bonham Carter, who won several critics association honors for her performance (she was nominated for a Golden Globe and Oscar as well) stars as Kate, who is engaged in a secret affair with Merton (Linus Roache), a journalist whose poor financial standing makes marriage impossible. Kate's manipulative aunt (Charlotte Rampling) threatens to disown her unless she marries the more suitable Lord Mark (Alex Jennings). Opportunity--admittedly sordid--arrives in the form of Millie (Alison Elliott), an American heiress whom Kate befriends. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she suggests to Merton that he seduce her to make her last days happy, and ensuring that Millie will leave Merton her money when she dies. Merton reluctantly agrees, just as Kate begins to have second thoughts that threaten to sabotage the scheme.

One of the most rapturously reviewed films in recent years, Wings of the Dove is a must-own film for the Merchant-Ivory crowd. But guys: don't dismiss this as a "chick flick." Beneath its Masterpiece Theatre exterior beats the wild and untamed heart of Dawson's Creek. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews

With itself as sumptuous as this could move into them and live happily ever after. The atmosphere and attitudes actor and makes everything so believable images that linger on the minimal plot, relax and enjoy every moment.

Even the predictable plot does not prevent you from looking at each frame for the final scenes. Linus Roache frontal nude scenes are plentiful and free. Oh no ... wrong movie, sorry!

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Lady and the Tramp [VHS]

Lady and the Tramp [VHS] Feature

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Lady and the Tramp [VHS] Overview

Disney's first animated feature in CinemaScope is now available in widescreen presentations on video, and it is definitely good to get the whole picture. One of the studio's most original and charming movies, the 1955 film tells the story of a rakish, street-smart dog named Tramp, who helps an aristocratic pooch named Lady out of some trouble and then commences a romance with her. Sweet, funny scenes abound, and the combination of innocence and sophistication would have done well in a live-action picture. Peggy Lee cowrote the songs and provides the voice of the Siamese cats in one of the film's best-known musical sequences. This newly restored version spruces up both sonics and visuals, and a letterbox version is available. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

I collect most of the Disney classics, before being blocked forever, which is a shame. I think everyone should be able to see them, because they are all good movies. Disney has never failed to entertain us all.

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The Bells of St. Mary's (Colorized) [VHS]

The Bells of St. Mary's (Colorized) [VHS] Overview

After watching director Leo McCarey's 1945, black-and-white ode to sentimentality, it's intriguing to note how everything old becomes new again. As evidenced by 1998 box-office fare such as Stepmom and One True Thing, the "disease of the week" mentality has been tugging at filmgoers' hearts for decades. The Bells of St. Mary's is the "sequel" to McCarey's Oscar-winning Going My Way, for which star Bing Crosby incredulously took home a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the paternal priest, Father O'Malley. But in The Bells of St. Mary's, Crosby's undernourished, laconic technique barely registers against the luminous, playful gravity of Ingrid Bergman, who embodies the heart of a faith-abiding but forward-thinking nun named Sister Benedict. O'Malley is transferred to her poverty-stricken school, and the two square off, ultimately forming a respect and liking for each other despite the fact that the good Sister has taken ill with tuberculosis and Father O'Malley must send her away from her beloved parish to save her life. Sure, The Bells of St. Mary's feels outdated and even trivial in light of the successors to its throne, but it's still a contender. McCarey had the touch for striking a chord that hearkens back to everything we didn't get as kids. He fills a need, as it were, with his ability to reveal our human frailties. Too, he's got Ingrid Bergman, who makes us fondly remember every teacher who lovingly and patiently made a difference in our lives. The Bells of St. Mary's recalls better days and romanticizes a gentler way of being, as suggested when Sister Benedict, after overhearing Father O'Malley remark that sometimes a man must fight his way through life, offers simply in response, "Why not make him think his way through instead?" --Paula Nechak

Customer Reviews

"The Bells of St. Mary" (1945) is the follow-up of the multi-Oscar-winning 1944, "Going My Way." Both star Bing Crosby in one of his signature roles, Father Chuck O'Malley. This charmer aimlessly, the place of a sick priest Father O'Malley in St. Mary's School, where he must fight with a group of nuns led by Sister Benedict (Ingrid Bergman). Sister Benedict is said to be a Tough Cookies and a supporter of the rules, but soon realize that she is no good, and the light Father O'MalleyTouch brings even more of their humanity. They make a great couple, and everything seems fine, in Santa Maria. The children put on plays they wrote adorable, and the worst problem the school is a tyrant who is dispatched easily when Sister Benedict teaches one of his students for activation. Well, it's a different problem - the school is divided and in desperate need of a new building. Benedict, turns to his sister miserly Horace P. Bogardus (Henry Travers), who has just builtbeautiful new facility on the opposite side. Will be able to convince him to St. Mary's?

The plot of "The Bells of St. Mary" is rather convoluted and confusing. Sure, the film primarily as a vehicle for Bing and Bergman, and are very well together. Bergman's beauty shines through their habit, Bing and begins to sing some songs, including the Oscar-nominated "Are not you glad that you are?" Predictably, the association has been a huge box-office appeal, and "TheBells of St. Mary "has grossed more than $ 21,000,000 dollars, making it one of the biggest hits of 1940.

Director Leo McCarey also helm "Going My Way", and knew laughter and tears from the audience (which then get direct weeper An Affair to Remember "). He covered the holes meandering plot and script with serious levels of cuteness and warmth. Although the film does not explicitly Christmas, makes for a great film festival, becausehis warm tone. The film received several Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Director (Leo McCarey) and actor and actress.

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How to Steal a Million [VHS]

How to Steal a Million [VHS] Overview

Audrey Hepburn was never more sleek and glamorous than in this delightful romantic caper costarring Peter O'Toole and directed by William Wyler. She's the chic daughter of a renowned art collector and covert forger (the always eccentric Hugh Griffith) who's deposited his best work, a famous statue, in a Paris museum. Trouble is, technology can now detect such forgery, so Hepburn plots to steal the statue with the help of O'Toole, an amateur thief and covert inspector. Of course, neither of them knows the whole truth about the other. They make an utterly charming couple, with O'Toole stealing the show in an uncharacteristically lighthearted turn. --Bill Desowitz

Customer Reviews

- Nicole Bonnet, having recently shot Simon Dermott and watched him grab his left arm now, "Your arm is much better."
- Simon: "Oh, no, no. It hurts, it hurts!"
- Nicole: "It 's other arm!"
- Simon: "The infection is spreading."

Audrey Hepburn, with its timeless charm and neck swan disarmament is so damn nice, I get fired, too. When accidentally pulls the trigger by Peter O'Toole - he was breaking his house, after all - the sequencebelow presents not only his talent for light comedy, GAMS and not only they, not too shabby seen through her pants, but also cause their sparkling chemistry with her male. I have seen in his most vaunted Gestures O'Toole (Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, my favorite year, etc.), but honestly I never liked most in this breezy romantic caper. And is a part of it perhaps because we see Audrey Hepburn in her eyes. Throughout the film gives his views changingAdmiration and resentment and misunderstanding. Of course, Hepburn, channeling their inner Screwball, also asked O'Toole oscillating with its own set of side view looks like. While O'Toole is evil as self-indulgent, for me, at least not as unbearable as in his other pictures. Here is proving an effortless comic timing and a lot of charm and is very funny.

The plot: Looks like the French aristocrat Nicole Bonnet (Hepburn) was practically abandonedreform of their master forger of art of his father. At this stage, it focuses more on reducing the effort he could to the country. But as he forged Cellini statue of Venus gives the museum a museum and a specialist will then examine the art of game, a wild brainstorm Nicole Hits on this: why not a thief steals the Venus? Fortunately, only a man dashing thieves had broken into his house, and even if they were shot, over, parted on the track (because this type ofthe film).

Based on a story by George Bradshaw, How to steal a million hits the mark of two hours, which really did not notice until the movie ended. The frothy plot, guests carefree living often playful dialogue led bankable stars, and Combine the romantic setting of the city of light - all these elements to watch the film a fun, and it's really good, like stealing a million is not so " important "or imageis considered one of the best ever produced by Hepburn and O'Toole. As they often do not bring a touch of style and sophistication Hepburn, and in this sensational in her Givenchy, and really, a great love story may be far away? Peter O'Toole, flashing in those electric blue eyes and rich, noble delivery of its engines and its canary in this elegant two-seater Jaguar. Their interaction is observed quite funny. However, the heart of the movie night Art MuseumHeist, capers, and how it unfolds, is a demonstration of pure elegance. And then we are treated to an unexpected mark also issued to stay together in a small closet. To echo Sentiment breath Hepburn: "wonderful."

Hepburn and O'Toole has good support from a cast of expert Hugh Griffith and eyebrows outside the control of a cameo, little by Charles Boyer. Classic character actor Eli Wallach plays a take-over of American art collectors and, okay, maybe its Side Story is notreally necessary, but it's damn Eli Wallach!

The DVD includes bonus features: audio commentary (recorded tracks separately) with Eli Wallach and director William Wyler's daughter Catherine Wyler, who represents most of the discussion talkie, the excellent 45 Minutes & E Biography on Audrey Hepburn the teaser trailer, theatrical trailer and two TV spots.

The only knock on this film is that I'm not a fan of the hive, even if it means pulling out Hepburn. But Hepburncan probably rock a buzzcut and soften even the praise of fashion.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) [VHS]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) [VHS] Overview

Jack Finney's classic science fiction novel has been the basis of three big-screen adaptations, beginning with the 1956 chiller Invasion of the Body Snatchers and most recently as 1994's underrated Body Snatchers. This acclaimed 1978 version from director Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff) is every bit as creepy as the '56 original, and it fits perfectly into the cycle of paranoid thrillers that thrived in American movies of the 1970s. Kaufman stylishly directs from an intelligent screenplay by W.D. Richter, while Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams lead a distinguished cast (including Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, and Veronica Cartwright) and must fight for survival as the population of San Francisco is systematically cloned by alien "pods" from a distant, dying planet. The atmosphere of dread and paranoia grows increasingly intense as the complexity of the alien invasion is gradually revealed, until nobody can be trusted to be who they appear. Finely tuned performances enhance the film's eerie atmosphere, highlighted by moments that will lurk in your memory long after the movie's over. MGM's DVD release includes a full-length audio commentary by Kaufman, a "pod culture" retrospective, Body Snatchers trivia, production notes, and the original theatrical trailer. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

An alien race is around the Earth in the form of tiny spores, plant takes the form of deceptive flowers. This is not the first to start a group of four people to take care of long notes and many abrupt changes in the behavior of those around them, and now the truth: people are by aliens through a process of pod-like, the person concerned replicated to clone is replaced with a stranger. grows in a few days, the four are among the few people still as a paranoiaexponentially and trust no one can be done.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers does an excellent job of creating an atmosphere seething with tension and paranoia. The cast is excellent with Brooke Adams, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, and as the four struggle to escape the clutches of the aliens. The chemistry between them to flow in a way that often can not see that this film was a great watch, even if they have an interesting story behind it.In addition, some first-rate special effects (especially during scenes pod), and you have a sci-fi thriller, almost as much as the bite Thing (Collector's Edition packs). It 's a bit of something for everyone.

Do material for fans of science fiction and horror is to see.

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