Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) (Blu-ray)
Rent It “I am at war — against ill winds, contrary currents, and incompetent officers. You’d best join my war, Mr.
November 17, 2011
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Rent It “I am at war — against ill winds, contrary currents, and incompetent officers. You’d best join my war, Mr.
DVD Talk Collector Series THE FILM: Please Note: The screen captures used here are taken from the 2004 DVD release, not the Blu-ray edition under review. “The horrible thing about life is this: Everyone has their reasons.” A tragicomic masterpiece and an all-around great, inventive, sparkling, deservedly revered movie, Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game ( La R gle du jeu ) (released in 1939) is …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: ” Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned? ” – Professor Henry Higgins I’ll admit from the get-go, I’m a huge Audrey Hepburn fan, but My Fair Lady is one of my least favorite films she starred in. It’s just too stuffy and too overstuffed
Highly Recommended The body of this review was what I had written previously for the original WWII in HD Blu-ray release. However, I have updated the extras section (as the A/V presentation is identical to the previous release), as well as the ‘Overall’ closing comments and my score has been adjusted accordingly
Skip It [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] David James Duncan didn’t just sue to have his name taken off this adaptation of The River Why ; he did his damndest to prevent the filmmakers from using the title of his universally adored c… Read the entire review
Rent It It’s kind of criminal that we’re more than a half-decade into Blu-ray now, and I can still count on one hand how many Hammer films have found their way to high-def the world over. Severin Films is doing what they can to ease that sting, though
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills provided by Kino Lorber and from other sources, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Jean-Claude (Gerard Depardieu, young and Byronesquely sexy like he was in Ma tresse ) and Pierrot (Patrick Dewaere) are very, very naughty boys. One would not put it so innocuously (the two are overgrown …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. From Ang Lee’s urbane but serious-minded portrait of the 1970s, The Ice Storm , to Richard Linklater’s openly comic and lovingly mocking take on the same, Dazed & Confused
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are from the previous DVD edition and not the Blu-Ray under review. I didn’t like Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear at first. As a big fan of J
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The images used here are promotional stills and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. Zolt n Korda’s 1939 epic The Four Feathers is an entertaining anachronism.