When the gang that killed the marshal returns to find this hellscape, its members are brutally dispatched before the drifter rides off into a desert that shimmers with primordial, hallucinatory heat. All this chauvinism gets balanced by the inclusion of a third commentary featuring critic Kat Ellinger, whose enthusiasm for the film (and its restoration) is infectious from the start. Henry Hathaway and cinematographers W. Howard Greene and Charles Lang use Technicolor in remarkably counterintuitive ways in The Shepherd of the Hills, emphasizing the auburn warmth of log cabins and fireplaces and only letting certain wardrobe pieces depart from the muted chromatic palette. At first, he was Clinton's inferior but the scandals associated with Clinton allowed Blair to become his equal and moral superior. On the face of it, bringing together John Sturges, who had helmed top-shelf westerns like Bad Day at Black Rock and The Magnificent Seven, and iconic star Clint Eastwood, fresh off his directorial debut Play Misty for Me, would seem like a match made in genre heaven. Kino use a two-channel Master Audio track that’s clean and clear, and places significant emphasis on Lalo Schifrin’s unfortunately rather middling score. I thoroughly enjoyed it; for the performances and the historical perspectives. IMO. But when this regimen has her feeling whole again, Seitaro picks up and leaves (it’s implied that he’s only interested in her so long as she’s sick). You may have already requested this item. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Unable to add item to List. At one point in the film, Harry is described by his boss, Major Dalby (Nigel Green), as “insubordinate, insolent, and a trickster, perhaps with criminal tendencies.” But Caine’s performance is so muted, his face rarely changing from a placid expression, that he comes across more as aloof and unflappable than the cad that Dalby describes. After casually killing them with the skill and aplomb of Eastwood’s Man With No Name from Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy, the drifter runs into Callie (Marianna Hill), an attractive woman who picks an argument with him seemingly for the attention, which spurs the drifter to drag her into a nearby barn and rape her. When the film’s hero, Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), awakens blurry-eyed, putting on his thick pair of glasses before going about his mundane morning tasks, he feels very much like an ordinary bloke. In the film’s opening, we see Ringo kill a young hotshot looking to make a name for himself, and whom Ringo gives multiple chances to walk away. He also recalls how he met Saltzman, who signed the actor to his first big movie contract after seeing him in Cy Endfield’s Zulu. 1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 88 min.) Manufacturers, Arrow Video’s impeccable box set allows you to follow the development of one of contemporary Japanese cinema’s true visionaries. There’s the ubiquitous emotional triangle (love, per se, not necessarily factoring into events), often with the focus on a strong, catalyzing woman caught between two very different men; an abiding interest in perverse, or at any rate extremely fetishistic, forms of eroticism; and a fixation on the human body, prone as it is to endless varieties of usually disturbing metamorphosis, in fraught relationship with its immediate environment. The Special Relationship runs like the theatrical cut of a Carlos-size picture: A might-have-been mammoth deconstruction of how America and English politics have been informed by media and one another over the years. Directed by Richard Loncraine. The Special Relationship (DVD, 2010) The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging (where packaging is applicable). Then, out of nowhere, the accused gangsters break out into an impromptu rendition of “We’ll Meet Again,” a moment that surreally blends menace and mirth.

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After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Both Kotoko and the film soon spiral downward into one of Tsukamoto’s most heartbreaking final scenes. But like the unduly sentimentalized James Stewart, Peck was willing to toy with this persona, which wasn’t cemented in 1950 at the time of The Gunfighter’s release. Only 4/5 because Dennis Quaid should have rested on his laurels after "Great Balls of Fire." A Snake of June, from 2002, is one of Tsukamoto’s most radical productions. In granting considerable time and space to observe the slow revelations of his characters, and rooting them so firmly in natural splendor, he turns this artificially constructed scenario into something that feels not only authentic, but genuinely spiritual. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2015.

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. But the film rather perversely keeps placing him in one situation after another that defer that action until the final half hour. Worth my dime and my time. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. The extras are rounded out by five minutes of behind-the-scenes footage. As ever, Michael Sheen is fab as Tony Blair. Cast: Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Lee Sun-kyun, Park So-dam, Cho Yeo-jeong, Lee Jung-eun, Jang Hye-jin, Jung Ziso, Jung Hyeon-jun Director: Bong Joon-ho Screenwriter: Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won Distributor: The Criterion Collection Running Time: 131 min Rating: NR Year: 2019 Buy: Video, Soundtrack. Colors are terrific though—with the infernal reds, aquatic blues, and hot whites especially standing out—while the exteriors and facial and fabric details are sharp, with appealing levels of grain. Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Top picked items. You may send this item to up to five recipients. At one point, Braddock uses a photo of Stamp taken from his role in Poor Cow for the purposes of identification, leading Frears to joke in the commentary included on this disc that he’d got there years before Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey. Presented in its original 16:9 aspect ratio, The Special Relationship looks and sounds quite handsome on DVD. In 1993, Tony Blair was a rising young star in British politics. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Cast: Michael Sheen, Dennis Quaid, Hope Davis, Helen McCrory Director: Richard Loncraine Screenwriter: Peter Morgan Distributor: HBO Home Entertainment Running Time: 91 min Rating: TV-14 Year: 2010 Release Date: November 30, 2010 Buy: Video, Review: Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. and Three Ages on Kino Lorber DVD, Review: Dolittle, Like Its Animals, Is Flashy but Dead Behind the Eyes, Blu-ray Review: Greg Mottola’s The Daytrippers on the Criterion Collection, Review: Midway Delights in the Thrill of Battle Without Actual Peril. Director Richard Loncraine ; producer Peter Morgan ; writers Frank Doelger, Tracey Scoffield, Ann Wingate. Cox touches on the location shooting at Old Tucson and Lone Pine, California; the talented constellation of crew members that Clint Eastwood would work with again on his directorial projects; elements that Cox feels don’t particularly work in the film’s favor; and lots of comparisons between Joe Kidd and other westerns foreign and domestic. Grain levels are well-managed and flesh tones lifelike. Not that the bloodsuckers were the only ones targeting matrimony. This is obviously by design, but there are only so many times you can show the effect of cocaine through fast motion or mental deterioration through fish-eye lenses before the techniques start to feel less expressive than lazy and obvious—crutches for a filmmaker who used up his entire bag of tricks in the first 30 minutes. Separate up to five addresses with commas (,). Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Your request to send this item has been completed. The script is good and the film is well made, but it's really the casting that makes this so worthwhile. One scene, in which a moment of tenderness between Harry and Marion is presented through split-screened close-ups, may be the finest sequence of Aronofsky’s career, exquisitely expressing the characters’ intimacy as well as their fundamental distance. Most of the extras here have been carried over from Blue Underground’s prior Blu-ray and DVD editions, including the self-serious and esoteric commentary featuring director Harry Kümel and a second with actor John Karlen and journalist David Del Valle that verges on proving Kümel’s apparent reservations about heterosexual masculinity entirely justified. Clinton’s deep flaws become even more apparent when Milosevic and the Kosovo War end up pitting Blair and Clinton against each other for UN support. Morgan’s dialogue, enjoyable and rarely pandering, is out front and crisp, mixing well with the atmosphere and score. Special Relationship, The on DVD (883929147120) from HBO Home Video. Suffering amnesia as the result of a car crash that killed his girlfriend, medical student Hiroshi (Tadanobu Asano) discovers that the body currently on his dissecting table belongs to her. Whatever the cost for artsploitation perverts’ future enjoyment, Kümel’s impulse to remain on the waning edge of eroticism turns what could’ve been another cheap thrill into a genuinely unsettling examination of the human race’s most happily sanctioned form of vampirism: man-woman couplings.

Meanwhile, film historian J.E. For Blair, once again played by a note-perfect Michael Sheen, Clinton is a “superstar,” as one advisor puts it, and Blair can’t help but be a bit nervous when he first meets the grey fox in the oval office. Wow. and Score, to name two great and, to be more direct, intensely homophiliac debasements of the sanctity of heterosexual newlywed-lock. When his death is still remote, set for a certain day, and expected to come in a certain manner, he remains calm. Except this time the monster isn’t some amphibious abomination that results from extreme genetic mutation, but the insidious forces of class and capital that divide a society’s people. Where the first film concluded with homo-eroticized destructiveness, the sequel proffers the reinstitution of the nuclear family, albeit against a backdrop of utter devastation. Please try again. Kino’s transfer of a 2K restoration boasts a sharp, richly detailed image with color balancing that stays true to the film’s mostly drab color scheme, while still presenting a fairly high dynamic range of colors and strong black levels that help to emphasize cinematographer Otto Heller’s moody lighting. In 1993, Tony Blair was a rising young star in British politics. I enjoyed this not to heavy entertaining movie. All in all, The Special Relationship is delightful, dishy fun. Whatever exactly transpires, the film ends with Tsukamoto’s most unambiguous embrace of the married couple as a desiring machine geared for mutual gratification.