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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Omar Sharif,
Julie Christie,
Geraldine Chaplin,
Rod Steiger,
Alec Guinness
Director:
David Lean
Now this is a bit more like it. Some of the older films plucked off the shelves for a high definition upgrade haven’t been the most deserving of candidates. But a sweeping epic such as Dr Zhivago? That’s absolutely ripe for a quality Blu-ray release, and it’s got one right here. Directed by the late, great David Lean, and starring Omar Sharif in his most famous role, Dr Zhivago is, of course, the story of the title character. Set across five decades, he finds himself married to one woman and in love with another, while the war and revolution around him continues to take its toll. That’s a simplified version of the narrative, grant...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Kenneth Branagh,
Julie Christie,
Billy Crystal,
Gerard Depardieu,
Charlton Heston
Director:
Kenneth Branagh
It's the greatest work of literature, but nobody had ever filmed Hamlet uncut--until Kenneth Branagh went about the task for his lavish 1996 production. The result is a sumptuous, star-studded version that scores a palpable hit on its avowed goal: to make the text as clear and urgent as possible. Branagh himself plays the melancholy son of the Danish court, caught in a famous muddle about whether to seek revenge against his royal father's presumed slayer... the man who now sits on the throne and shares the bed of Hamlet's mother. (Or, as the song "That's Entertainment" summarizes the plot: "A ghost and a prince meet / And everyone winds up mincemeat.") As a directo...
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Ralph Fiennes,
Michael Bryant,
Richard E Grant,
Sir Ian Holm,
Julie Christie
Director:
Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov
This animated feature-length life of Jesus boasts a stellar pedigree. Originally a BBC Wales production, it showcases the voices of some of Britain's finest actors in any medium: Ralph Fiennes as a brooding and humble Jesus, Miranda Richardson as Mary Magdalene, Richard E. Grant as John the Baptist and David Thewlis as Judas. The lovely, flute-heavy score is by Oscar-winner Anne Dudley (The Full Monty). And clearly a lot of expense has gone into the Claymation-like animation. But while it's hard to find fault with the rendering of this familiar story--it is respectful and definitely done, you might say, by the Book--it would have been nice if there had been a tad m...
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Warren Beatty,
Julie Christie,
Rene Auberjonois,
William Devane,
John Schuck
Director:
Robert Altman
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Donald Sutherland,
Julie Christie,
Hilary Mason
Director:
Nicolas Roeg
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Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring:
Julie Christie,
Greta Scacchi,
Christopher Cazenove,
Julian Glover,
Susan Fleetwood
Director:
James Ivory
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Oskar Werner,
Julie Christie,
Cyril Cusack,
Anton Diffring,
Jeremy Spenser
Director:
François Truffaut
The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society depicted in Fahrenheit 451 is a culture without books. Firemen still race around in red trucks and wear helmets, but their job is to start fires: they ferret out forbidden stashes of books, douse them with petrol and make public bonfires. Oskar Werner, the star of Truffaut's Jules and Jim, plays a fireman named Montag, whose exposure to David Copperfiel...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Omar Sharif,
Julie Christie,
Geraldine Chaplin,
Rod Steiger,
Alec Guinness
Director:
David Lean
David Lean's wintry adaptation of Boris Pasternak's melodramatic Russian Revolution romance, Doctor Zhivago, is a masterpiece of epic filmmaking, but one that risks leaving the viewer cold. Though none of the film was shot in the then USSR, Lean's assured technique nevertheless illuminates the breathtaking backgrounds magnificently: from the snowy wastes of the Urals to the strife-torn streets of Moscow, Lean stages a series of wonderful set-pieces showing war, revolution and its terrible aftermath. The problem lies in the foreground. Omar Sharif's entirely passive Zhivago is, we are told, a romantic poet of great sensitivity who internalises all his emotions and e...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
James Robertson Justice,
Leslie Phillips,
Stanley Baxter,
Kathleen Harrison,
Julie Christie
Director:
Ken Annakin
United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Mono ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: Murdock Troon, an enthusiastic member of the local cycling club, gets involved with Charles Chingford, a local businessman, when the two of them are involved in an accident. Then Murdock meets Chingford's daughter, Claire, who persuades him to give up the bicycle, buy a sports car, and learn to drive. At first he is horrified, but the thought of dating the attractive Claire, he relents, and takes his first driving lesson.-The star of this slapstick comedy is not a person but an antique Bentley sports car, the source of several misadventures. Murdoc...
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Julie Christie,
Alan Bates,
Margaret Leighton,
Michael Redgrave,
Dominic Guard
Director:
Joseph Losey
Writer Harold Pinter and director Joseph Losey always hoped to make an adaptation of Proust's A la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Their version of L.P. Hartley's novel The Go-Between offers tantalising hints as to how the Proust film might have turned out. An old man (Michael Redgrave) thinks back to a summer many years before when, as a young boy, he stayed with the aristocratic Maudsley family in their beautiful house in the Norfolk countryside. On the threshold of adolescence, intensely curious about sex, he became the go-between for Marian Maudsley (Julie Christie) and local farmer Ted Burgess (Alan Bates) as they conducted an affair behind the backs of the M...
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