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List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £3.75
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Anna Lee, Richard Haydn
Director:
Robert Wise
The most widely seen movie produced by a Hollywood studio, The Sound of Music grows fresher with each viewing. Though it was planned meticulously in pre-production (save for the scene where Maria and the children take a dipping in an Austrian lake that nearly cost a life), on each viewing one is struck anew by the spontaneous almost improvisatory air of the acting, notably of Julie Andrews under Robert Wise's direction. There are also the little human touches he brings to, for instance, the scene where Maria leads the children to the hills, over bridges and along tow paths where the smallest boy trips up and momentarily gets left behind: it creates a feeling that most of us have encountered. From the opening pre-credit sequence of muted excitement as the camera roves over the Austrian Alps (photographed in magnificent colour), where little phrases from the wind instruments on the soundtrack are flung as if on the breeze, foreshadowing the title song to follow, the production never puts a foot wrong.
 One of a kind, 2010-01-20
Last year my husband and I visited Salzburg and went on the Sound of Music tour. We were told of the 40th anniversary so I was eager to obtain the collector's edition. It contains many little titbits associated with the production and it is absolutely wonderful. I will treasure it and look forward to watching it with my granddaughter.
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe
Director:
Carol Reed
Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most dramatically involving and artistically impressive musicals of the 1960s, directed by Carol Reed with a delightful enthusiasm that would surely have impressed Dickens himself. Mark Lester plays the waifish orphan Oliver Twist, who is befriended by the pickpocketing Artful Dodger (Jack Wild) and recruited into the gang of boy thieves led by Fagin (played to perfection by Ron Moody). The villainous Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) casts his long shadow over Oliver and his friends, but the young orphan is still able to find loving care in the most desperate of circumstances. Full of memorable melodies and splendid lyrics, Oliver! is a timeless film, prompting even hard-to-please critic Pauline Kael to call it "a superb demonstration of intelligent craftsmanship", and to further observe that "it's as if the movie set out to be a tribute to Dickens and his melodramatic art as well as to tell the story of Oliver ...
My review, 2010-02-03
It is a classic 1 of my fav, also great 2 see at the thearter!
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Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Peter O'Toole, Claude Rains, Norman Rossington, Donald Wolfit, Fernando Sancho
Director:
David Lean
In 1962 Lawrence of Arabia scooped another seven Oscars for David Lean and crew after his previous epic, The Bridge on the River Kwai, had performed exactly the same feat a few years earlier. Supported in this Great War desert adventure by a superb cast including Alex Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole gives a complex, star-making performance as the enigmatic TE Lawrence. The magnificent action and vast desert panoramas were captured in luminous 70mm by Cinematographer Freddie Young, here beginning a partnership with Lean that continued through Dr Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970). Yet what made the film truly outstanding was Robert (A Man For All Seasons) Bolt's literate screenplay, marking the beginning of yet another ongoing collaboration with Lean. The final partnership established was between director and French composer Maurice Jarre, who won one of the Oscars and scored all Lean's remaining films, up to and including A Passage to India in 1984. Fully restored in 1989, this complete version of Lean's masterpiece remains one of cinema's all-time classic visions. --Gary S Dalkin On the DVD: ...
Well worth watching, 2010-02-28
For fans of Lawrence of Arabia this is a must. Well filmed and very enjoyable. Only downside was the long music introduction but that can be skipped.
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle
Director:
Ken Hughes
This remastered, pan-and-scan 30th-anniversary edition of that kiddie-car caper is flawed, but nevertheless a solid family fare. It retains a quaint charm while some of the songs--including the title tune--are quite hummable. A huge plus is Dick Van Dyke, who is extremely appealing as an eccentric inventor around the turn of the century. With nimble fingers and a unique way of looking at the world, he invents for his children a magic car that floats and flies. Or does he? The special effects are tame by today's standards and the film is about 20 minutes too long--but its enthusiasm is charming. The script was cowritten by Roald Dahl and based on the novel by Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond adventures. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Fantastic Family Floght of Fancy!, 2010-02-21
This film is what "Willie Wonka" should have looked like - beautiful, sumptuous colour - and is coupled with elements of "Allo Allo!" and the Chuckle Brothers. Well Roald Dahl did co-write the script.
It is mainly remembered for the "Vulgarian" scenes in a Balkan country ruled by a comedy Gert (Goldfinger) Fröbe and the sinister Childcatcher (Robert Helpman) but these are only in the final quarter of the film - for the parents there is actually a better version of Mamma Mia (if that is hard!) before that, and a mad inventor. Why Dick van Dyke (Caractacus Potts) became the archetypal Cockney, I don't know, but what could be more Cockney than setting up your own fairground booth? your customers then simply *have* to be Arthur Mullard and Barbara Windsor! and chirpy Cockney dance routines don't come much better than "The Old Bamboo"...done better than the best of one of these modern dance videos...
Benny Hill also turns up on Vulgaria as a toymaker in a country where children are banned! Is this his most serious ever role before Professor Peach in "The Italian Job"?
Lionel Jeffries is great as Caractacus's father, although he was IIRC actually younger than Dick Van Dyke. Only a real trouper could sing a jaunty song in a lavatory suspended from a Zeppelin and partly immersed in the sea !
Wherever you look, great actors in minor roles. Richard Wattis (Mr. Scrumptious's flunkey), James Robertson Justice (Mr. Scrumptious), Max Wall (imprisoned inventor), Stanley Unwin (Gert Fröbe's advisor). It all makes for true family entertainment which never suspends its belief in what is happening!
I doubt the maker of James Bond could make such a great film nowadays. No clear product placement, money in shillings, cars with the steering wheel on the right ;-) side, and none of the Americanisms that clutter the Harry Potter films and spoil them. Just great family fun!
This film is *very* long (two and a quarter hours) but is worth it! starring two children, so something for the kids throughout.
I also note that there are two versions to choose from here on Amazon, this is just the film, there is another version with a bonus CD, so check which one you want.
Oh, did I say "recommended"? ;-)
List Price: £21.99
Our Price: £7.19
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Rod Taylor, Betty Lou Gerson, Cate Bauer, Lisa Daniels, Ben Wright
Director:
Clyde Geronimi, Hamilton Luske, Wolfgang Reitherman
Back in 1961, Walt Disney got a little hip with 101 Dalmatians, making use of that flat Saturday morning cartoon style that had become so popular. The result is a kitschy change in animation and story. Pongo and Perdita are two lonely Dalmatians who meet in a London park and arrange for their pet humans to marry so they can live together and raise a family. They become proud parents of 15 pups, who are stolen by the dastardly Cruella De Vil, who wants to make a fur coat out of them. Cruella has become the most popular villain in all of Disney--she is flamboyantly nasty and lots of fun. But it is the Dalmatians who shine in this endearing classic, particularly those precocious pups. Telling the story from the dogs' point of view is a clever conceit, a fundamental flaw of Disney's 1996 live-action remake. --Bill Desowitz
101 Dalmatians - BIG HIT, 2010-03-05
Bought this for my 3-year old granddaughter and it has been a really big hit. As soon as she comes in, she wants to see the "dalamations" and all her toy animals have been transformed into dalmations to try and make them up to the big number of 101.
One useful thing about DVDs is the ability to move back or forward to different scenes and I have found that on this DVD, as with some of the other children's DVDs - certain scenes are watched over and over, while she watches something she particularly enjoys. This also seems to be good for learning about life and motivations.
The villain, Cruella is an absolutely amazing creation. Her driving skills, the car, and her characterisation are all fantastic and the scene near the end where she is driving after the lorry with the pups in it is absolutely fantastic. Some of the puppies, especially Rolly, are also memorable. Some other great characters are Sergeant Tibbs and the Colonel.
Pongo and Perdie are of course the stars of the film and some of the scenes are particularly appealing to children, especially near the start, where Pongo manages to tip both his "pets" into the pond while trying to get them to meet. Another good scene is where Pongo and Perdie are struggling through the snow with the puppies. While I have mentioned these scenes in particular, the whole film is really enjoyable.
The film is now, of course, quite old and the only negative aspect is that Roger smokes a pipe. I mention this only because it is so surprising to see that, these days.
List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £9.99
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Brian Worth, Eileen Moore, Bryan Forbes
Director:
Guy Hamilton
Alastair Sim at his best, 2009-05-28
Great adaptation of the classic JB Priestly novel. Alastair Sim is marvelous as the rather ambiguous inspector of the title, and develops the storyline superbly. The suporting cast (with a very young Bryan Forbes) also add to the atmosphere being created during the tale. I had wanted to buy this for some time and eventually found it at a very reasonable price, so jumped at the chance of purchasing it. If you want a great story, and excellent acting, pick this up as soon as you can, you won't be disappointed.
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Our Price: £4.95
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton
Director:
Clyde Geronimi
Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist. It's not really all that much about the title character--how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here, alongside Maleficent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. --David Kronke, Amazon.com
sleeping beauty, 2010-03-08
I am very happy with the dvd, my grandchild has done nothing but watched it
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Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens
Director:
Fred McLeod Wilcox
This 1956 pop adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of the best, most influential science fiction movies ever made. Its space explorers are the models for the crew of Star Trek's Enterprise, and the film's robot is clearly the prototype for Robby in Lost in Space. Walter Pidgeon is the Prospero figure, presiding over a paradisiacal world with his lovely young daughter and their servile droid. When the crew of a spaceship lands on the planet, they become aware of a sinister invisible force that threatens to destroy them. Great special effects and a bizarre electronic score help make Forbidden Planet as fresh, imaginative and fun as it was when first released.
this is perfection i give it 20 stars , 2010-02-18
in my humble view this is about as perfect as you can get , for its time and era it was so good, this has been remastered and cleaned up alot and the differnece is amazing, play it on a big screen and it looks fantastic, yes i know the acting is a bit iffy but who cares , as a whole this is one hell of a film, it scared the pants off me when i first saw it on telly, (black and white) and the soundtrack when the idd monsters footprints walk across the ground in front of the ship and up the stairs gave me nightmares for years, try it on a big screen with the advanced sound we have now and it still has the power to make my artm hairs stand on end , this is a must for any sci collection
update update !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
have a read in this months (feb) copy of sci fi now magazine, this was voted the best sci fi movie ever, its nice to know there are people with taste out there
regards to all
List Price: £21.99
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Director:
Wolfgang Reitherman
Disney's 1967 animated feature seems even more entertaining now than it did upon first release, with a hall-of-fame vocal performance by Phil Harris as Baloo, the genial bear friend of feral child Mowgli. Based on fiction by Rudyard Kipling, the film goes its own way as Disney animation will, but the strong characters and smart casting (Louis Prima as "King Louie" of the Apes; George Sanders as the villainous tiger, Shere Khan) make it one of the studio's stronger feature-length cartoons. Songs include "The Bare Necessities" and "Trust in Me". --Tom Keogh
What are the subtitles?, 2010-03-02
Can you please, anyone who owns it, write what subtitles are included on the main feature.
Thanks!
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Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne, Roy Atwell, Stuart Buchanan
Director:
David Hand
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was nicknamed "Disney's Folly" by contemporary observers; they doubted that the short cartoons shown before the main film could ever successfully make the transition from filler to feature presentation. Surely, no one would sit still for over an hour to watch an animated film, their eyes smarting from the bright colours on screen? Fortunately, Walt Disney and his army of artists persisted and the world's first full-length animated feature was finally released in 1937 to widespread acclaim.Adapted from the Grimm fairytale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is chillingly dark in places, reflecting its roots in European folklore, but the deft Disney touch ensures that the overall tone remains light and the story develops apace, swept along on the perfect musical score. Any lingering gloom is quickly dispelled by the superbly characterised dwarfs and by the humorous antics of the various irresistible fauna that threaten to steal the show in several scenes. The pioneering animation is breathtaking and songs such as "Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho" and "Whistle While You Work", now firmly embedded in popular culture, are seamlessly interwoven with the a...
Fantastic Edition, Great for Kids, 2010-02-23
Especially nice to have the book accompanying the dvd, it made it more of a special present.
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