DVD: tragedy (anniversary shakespeare collection)

DVD: tragedy

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127 reviews
Tom Cruise, Andrew Dougherty

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

SUNNY AND WARMER
Name a Hollywood actor who would have accepted the role of Rainman and then turned it into an Academy Award performance over 20 years ago. I can't. Hoffman's performance is consistent with the inconsistencies of autism, a disease still unfamiliar to most. The plot is simple. Cruise is all but ignored in his father's will, with 3 million dollars set aside in an anonymous trust.He soon learns that ...

The Grapes of Wrath

97 reviews
Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell

20th Century Fox, 2004

Just a Great Movie!
I love this movie and have to admit I enjoy it more than the book. The book is about too preachy for me, but the movie focuses on the story and clarifies it. An amazing achievement for all involved and Henry Fonda probably had his greatest performance in this picture. John Ford, Gregg Toland and others involved with this picture did a fine job. Jane Darwell gives a wonderful performance as Ma ...

9/11 - The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition

213 reviews
Tony Benatatos, Jamal Braithwaite

Paramount, 2002

9/11 - The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition
This is a poignant DVD in one of the worst days in history. Excellent DVD and would highly recommend. Thank you! Pam

Othello

60 reviews
Laurence Fishburne, Irène Jacob

Turner Home Entertainment, 2000

Great movie for the classroom!
I'm a teacher who taught Othello this semester and this video REALLY helped bring the script alive! Excellent choice for the Shakespeare buff or someone looking to expand their horizons.

The Big Country

109 reviews
Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons

MGM (Video & DVD), 2001

Eastern gentleman tries to tame the wild west
There have been many fine reviews of this film already. Thus, I will largely confine my remarks to one of the themes of the film: the incompatabilities that most contributed to the breakup of marriage plans between Jim McKay (Gregory Peck) and Pat Terrill(Carroll Baker). But, first, I would like to point out that, although not hinted in the film, the feud between the Hannasseys and Terrills was ...

In Memoriam - New York City, 9/11/01

56 reviews

Hbo Home Video, 2002

sad pilgrimage
Over the years I have collected a lot of DVDs recalling this terrible day. I recently purchased this DVD and have yet to receive it and watch it but since (9/11) I have had this need to be in New York. So next March I have booked a 10 day stay in New York and I feel it will bring some kind of closure for me.....I really need to confront this While the trip will be a great experience the ...

Terms of Endearment

76 reviews
Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger

Paramount, 2001

A Film of Joy, Tragedy and Hope.
One of the top grossing films of 1983, including sweeping away 5 Oscars, Terms of Endearment, not only is a heart-felt relationship between a sensitive and compassionate daughter (Debra Winger) and her over bearing mother, (Shirley MacLaine) but also what it means to get caught-up in the day to day: and faced with the really tough things in life like seeing one's child go through unnecessary ...

Driving Miss Daisy (Special Edition)

103 reviews
Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy

Warner Home Video, 2003

Not to be missed
Jessica Tandy - Morgan Freeman . . . this pair of consummate actors under skilled direction turn a pretty good script into one of those movies you won't forget - and which you will return to with gusto from time to time. Tandy received the Oscar (she was then 81 years old), and Freeman was nominated as Best Actor but denied the statuette he deserved, which was surprisingly awarded to Daniel Day ...

Grizzly Man

379 reviews
Franc G. Fallico, Amie Huguenard

Lions Gate, 2005

Fading into disillusionment
Tragic yet unapologetic, Werner Herzog's "Grizzly Man" is an in-depth character study of a man who grew increasingly uncomfortable living in society (perhaps because he failed at it) so sought refuge in the Alaskan wilderness with ferocious Grizzlies. Many viewers have complained that the film is about Timothy Treadwell, not bears, but one glance at the title tells you who the protagonist of this ...

Supernatural - The Complete First Season

312 reviews
Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles

Warner Home Video, 2006

AWESOME!!!
The first season keeps you wondering whats going on..Jeffery Dean Morgan is amazing!! Well worth the watch!

Regarding Henry

62 reviews
Harrison Ford, Annette Bening

Paramount, 2003

great movie
I liked this movie as much now as I did when I originally watched it. I purchased it to watch with my daughter and she too enjoyed it. I think that Harrison Ford did an excellent job.

On Golden Pond (Special Edition)

90 reviews
Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda

Lions Gate, 2003

WONDERFUL FILM! FONDA'S LAST ROLE IS GRAND!
I thought I had seen this film at one time or another, but when I sat down to watch this film with my parents, wife, aunt(who requested to watch it) and uncle, I realized that I had never seen this film until now. Fonda & Hepburn give wonderful performances in this very real sometimes funny and sometimes heartbreaking film. I found this film very moving, as my parents and aunt and uncle are ...

Field of Dreams (Widescreen Two-Disc Anniversary Edition)

204 reviews
Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan

Universal Studios, 2004

field of dreams
Field of Dreams...was about baseball,but in a fantasy way.I really love it.Kevin Costner,Amy Madigan,Earl Jones,and the rest of the cast were real great in this movie too.It's a family movie i would highly recommened everyone to watch it.

A Raisin in the Sun

50 reviews
Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil

Sony Pictures, 2000

An American Classic In Black And White
"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" So begins what is perhaps Langston Hughes' most famous poem "A Dream Deferred" and ends with the line, "Or does it explode?" The writer Lorraine Hansberry lifted the quotation from Hughes' powerful poem for her equally powerful award-winning play that ultimately became the 1961 film starring Sidney Poitier, Claudia ...

Crimes and Misdemeanors

73 reviews
Caroline Aaron, Alan Alda

MGM (Video & DVD), 2001

This sort of thing only happens in the movies...
Central to this film is the ancient tragic question; is there a higher equalizer for our actions, or do we have to judge ourselves because there is no higher authority and meaning? Woody suggests the latter in the spirit of Sophicles and the Greeks. Bringing the two stories together at the end with Allen and Landau might be the best scene in Woody's career. In this scene Allen puts a twist on ...

Macbeth / McKellen, Dench (Thames Shakespeare Collection)

48 reviews
Ian McKellen, Judi Dench

A&E Home Video, 2004

Far Better than Orson Welles Version
My daughter made 1st witch in her 6th grade school play. In my youth I did Hamlet and Richard III, so I KNOW the difficulty and skill to do Shakespeare correctly. This is done WELL. Short of Lord Olivier's performances, which are rare at best, there is no better production company of those that really do define the best trained Shakespearean actors available. And while my daughter is not Lady ...

The English Patient (Miramax Collector's Edition)

334 reviews
Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche

Miramax Home Entertainment, 2004

Technically it is still a master piece.
It is an interesting film, but not more than that. What does it shows? That the English were particularly sectarian during WW2 on the African front. Nothing new under the sun. Anyone who had a slightly different name or a slightly surprising or uncommon attitude was at once considered as a spy unworthy of any trust. This created myriads or even legions of misunderstandings and human errors along ...

Boyz 'N the Hood

117 reviews
Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II

Sony Pictures, 1998

Which Path Would You Take?
Boyz N The Hood is considered by many as the definitive "Hood" movie and is even more astounding to learn that Writer & Director John Singleton was only 23 when this was released. The greatest aspect of this movie is that it's a film about acceptance when focusing around the main character Tré. He's a representative for those of us who have all told lies about our lives simply to fit in with the ...

Bridge to Terabithia (Widescreen Edition)

266 reviews
Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb

Walt Disney Video, 2007

excellent surprise
I was watching tv with my niece one night and Bridge to Terabithia came on a movie channel. From the advertisements I recalled it looked something like the Spiderwick Chronicles, something else I hadn't seen but wasn't interested in at all. I decided to put on Terabithia for my niece, and long after she went to bed I was hooked on the movie. I was so hooked in fact, that when a tragic event ...

William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

98 reviews
Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons

Sony Pictures, 2005

Shakespeare tells us to doubt
This play by Shakespeare is worth a pound of gold, at least. It reveals with crudity one side of Shakespeare and Shakespeare's time most people would like to ignore: his supposed anti-Semitism. Everyone wants to ignore it because no one can see the double talk Shakespeare is a great master of. In his days Jews were seen as vultures, tolerated vultures but vultures all the same. Of course ...