DVD Talk Collector Series German director-screenwriter Werner Herzog makes movies like no other. His best fiction features – in recent years he's become as famous for his documentaries – are hypnotic, dream-like mediations on obsession/passion/compulsion and often the clash of foreign plunderers, native peoples, and their natural environments, often told in operatic terms.
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Recommended One of the first things people have and will continue to say about Wetlands is that it's a frank exploration of women's sexuality. That's certainly true, but it may be more accurate to call the film an exploration of women's biology
Highly Recommended Heaven & Earth is a 1993 dramatic filmfromacclaimed filmmaker Oliver Stone ( Salvador , JFK , Nixon ).Based upon the memoirs written by Le Ly Hayslip (along with Jay Wurtis)entitled:” When Heaven And Earth Changed Places “, Stone adapted thememoir as screenwriter and director. Â StarringHiep Thi Le as Le Ly, Heaven &Earth is a sweeping epic spanning the years from …
Rent It Advertised as “suspenseful” and “a stick of dynamite”, Robert Aldrich's Ten Seconds to Hell (1959) drops a handful of men in the middle of near-constant danger…with mixed results. The story is simple: six German POWs, including Karl Wirtz (Jeff Chandler) and de facto leader Erik Koertner (Jack Palance), have been offered a large payday to clear unexploded Allied bombs from war-torn …
Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Mainstream horror continued to flounder in 2014, but a number of promising independent features managed to fill the void with original chills and thrills. I really like the premise of Leigh Janiak's Honeymoon , and the uneasy, uncertain tension overshadows the somewhat disappointing ending.
Recommended Funny Lady Blu-ray Review Funny Lady is the follow-up sequel to thecriticallyacclaimed and Academy Award winning Funny Girl (whichintroduced theworld to Barbara Streisand in her debut film performance – which wasultimatelya Oscar winning performance). While the idea of making a sequel wasdebated anddiscussed for several years following the success achieved by FunnyGirl ,star Barbara …
Recommended The Movie: Within the first ten minutes of the James Brown biopic Get On Up , we see the man playing James Brown, wearing makeup and hair enhancements, wander into what appears to be an insurance workshop of sorts, carrying a shotgun and demanding to know who used the toilet in his private office. This eventually leads to a police chase and eventual arrest
Recommended Having just reviewed Kino Lorber's release of that other highly-anticipated revisionist Bicentennial Western from a major director with big stars that proved a colossal critical and commercial disaster, Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson , I confess to approaching The Missouri Breaks (also 1976) with a lot of trepidation.
Rent It The Movie: Finding Fela is an efficient, albeit messy documentary that should provide a decent introduction to those who have never heard of Fela Kuti or have a basic understanding of his work. I belong to the second category.