 | The Lion King (A Walt Disney Masterpiece) [Read More ...]
Description: Not an ideal choice for younger kids, this hip and violent animated feature from Disney was nevertheless a huge smash in theaters and on video, and it continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed Broadway production. The story finds a lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his... |
 | M Butterfly [Read More ...]
Description: Jeremy Irons gives another superb and underrated performance in M Butterfly, an elegant adaptation of the Broadway hit by playwright David Henry Hwang. Irons plays a French diplomat in China in 1964 who falls in love with a star of the Beijing Opera, not realizing that the en... |
 | The Lion King - Special Edition [Read More ...]
Description: Not an ideal choice for younger kids, this hip and violent animated feature from Disney was nevertheless a huge smash in theaters and on video, and it continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed Broadway production. The story finds a lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his... |
 | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century [Read More ...]
Description: As this landmark series demonstrates, the cataclysmic effects of World War I last to this day. "The war to end all wars" has influenced the Atomic Age and the Cold War, and is now shaping the conflicts in Bosnia and the Middle East. Period film footage and eyewitness accounts pow... |
 | The House of the Spirits [Read More ...]
Description: The House of the Spirits is a generational tale of life among the ruling class in a South American country, as adapted from the Isabel Allende novel, but the political realities coexist very uneasily with the magical realism in this Bille August film. The star power alone (Jerem... |
 | The Mission [Read More ...]
Description: Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) directs this fuzzy effort at a David Lean-like epic without David Lean's sense of emotional proportion. Lean's most important screenwriting collaborator, Robert Bolt, in fact wrote The Mission, which concerns a Jesuit missionary (Jeremy Irons) w... |
 | Reversal of Fortune [Read More ...]
Description: One of the most intriguing criminal trials of the 1980s involved Claus von Bülow, who was accused of sending his rich wife Sunny into a permanent coma with an overdose of insulin. Director Barbet Schroeder, working from Nicholas Kazan's evocative, darkly humorous script, turns t... |
![]() | Danny Champion on the World [Read More ...]
Not just for kids:We watched this movie just this weekend, with our three teenagers, who were enthralled. Great for all ages! |
 | The French Lieutenant's Woman [Read More ...]
Description: Writer Harold Pinter (Betrayal) and director Karel Reisz (Isadora) take an experimental spin with John Fowles's magnificent novel set in Victorian England, and come up with something puzzling. Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the forbidden lovers in Fowles's story, but in a par... |
![]() | Betrayal [Read More ...]
Review: A Masterpiece: No play will ever surpass this look at infidelity, friendship, and trust :Three people, intertwined by friendship, marriage, and work, live with the realities and consequences of the extra-marital affair between two of them. The story is told in reverse, covering a... |
 | Lolita (1997) [Read More ...]
Review: Lollies, lollies, lollies, get your jailbait here!:In order to celebrate left wing loooooon Bernie Ward being sentenced for kiddie p*rn charges today, I'm going to review the movie Lolita. But nay, not the classic Stanley Kubrick Film, but instead this god-awful 1997 remake! I ca... |
 | Stealing Beauty [Read More ...]
Description: Critics were decidedly mixed about this 1996 drama from Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci, and the movie enjoyed only a brief theatrical release. Now it's best known for its early appearance by Liv Tyler as a 19-year-old beauty named Lucy who summers at a villa in Tuscany with... |
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 | The Man in the Iron Mask [Read More ...]
Description: Footnotes in movie books are likely to reduce this swashbuckling adventure down to a simple description: it was the first movie to star Leonardo DiCaprio after the phenomenal success of Titanic. As such it automatically attracted a box-office stampede of Leo's young female fans, ... |
 | Amazing Grace with Bill Moyers [Read More ...]
Description: One of the highest rated and most acclaimed editions in this series, this unique program presents adaptations of an enduring hymn, from country music to gospel to folk, in one of PBS' highest-rated programs ever. Judy Collins sings in Columbia's St. Paul's Chapel, then recalls ho... |
 | Nijinsky [Read More ...]
Review: ...a Michaelangelo masterpiece discovered at Texas university...:"...The screenplay was written by Edward Albee directed by Tony Richardson and star Rudolph Nureyev as Vaslav. Claude Jade as Romola
and Paul Scofield as Diagilev..."
When a Texas university buys a virtually new vi... |
 | Ken Burns's America - The Statue of Liberty [Read More ...]
Description: Ken Burns's fourth short film gives us a clear taste for the style that he made famous with The Civil War and Baseball. The first half of this hour-long program examines the design and construction of the Statue of Liberty using drawings, photographs, and readings (Jeremy Irons g... |
 | El Rey Leon (The Lion King) [Read More ...]
Description: Not an ideal choice for younger kids, this hip and violent animated feature from Disney was nevertheless a huge smash in theaters and on video, and it continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed Broadway production. The story finds a lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his... |
 | Swann in Love [Read More ...]
Description: Everybody talks about reading Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, but do you know anyone who actually has? Here's a way to fake it: this film from Volker Schlöndorff dramatizes one section of the ponderous novel, casting Jeremy Irons as a French aristocrat who makes himself som... |
 | Kafka [Read More ...]
Description: The sophomore effort by Steven Soderbergh (sex, lies, and videotape) is an audacious and stylistically impressive experiment in a completely different direction from his debut. Working from a script by Lem Dobbs, Soderbergh follows the miserable day-to-day existence of Franz Kafk... |
