SHIbuya HARAJYUKU OTAKU AKIHABARA miyazaki Fujiyama,MUSIC,DVD,kitchen,DVD OTAKU mania Amazon associate helper, write reviews on your weblog<

SAYO Style mania GV-MVP/RX3 Notebook PC Live report
Domino pizza of door-to-door delivery pizzaThe bifidus bacterium of MORISHITA JINTANSt Valentine's Day of the DaimaruAccessoriesTiffany 16 stone braceletLouis Vuitton diamond logo charmMMRO II Recommendation spec. personal computerLUV MACHINESImpact! It is the Ezo "Kita" purple sea urchin of fatty tuna shoots loan cash impression with a mouth!The scallop of large satisfactory ! northern countries and - [ of how much ] botan shrimp are ! tightly.getting to know the technique of motorbike expensive sale -- Ta -- if -- -

OTAKU ultimate rare goods：141goods
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 >>

Art Print Title: Big Ben in London, England Lit up at NightArtist: Paul DesnySize: 28 x 20 inches
< Big Ben in London, England Lit up at Night Art Poster Print by Paul Desny, 28x20 >

price：~~$28.99~~
AllPosters.com

AllPosters.com is the world's #1 seller of posters, prints, photographs, specialty products and framed art. We're dedicated to bringing our customers the best selection of high quality wall décor that is perfect for their home or office. Browse our catalog of over 300,000 items that include entertainment and specialty posters, decorative prints, and art reproductions. Whether you're looking for your favorite movie or music poster, a framed Monet reproduction, or a print of the Eiffel Tower you will find it at AllPosters.com. Visit our Amazon store today at www.amazon.com/allposters to find Special Offers and search by subject category or artist. AllPosters.com provides unmatched service with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. We ship internationally to over 80 countries. Decorate your home today with your favorite pictures.

Print Title: Fig LeafArtist: Paul DesnySize: 8 x 8 inchesPlease visit www.amazon.com/artdotcom to check for promotions from time to time.
< Fig Leaf Art Poster Print by Paul Desny, 8x8 >

price：~~$6.99~~
Art.com

Art.com is the world's largest retailer of art prints, posters, photographs, and framed artwork. With our huge selection of over 400,000 prints, you'll easily find the perfect piece for your home, office, or classroom. Our art is printed on quality paper. When you order framed artwork, the piece is built by our team of in-house professionals. Visit our Amazon store today at www.amazon.com/artdotcom to find Special Offers and search for products based on 'Artist Name' and 'Subject Categories' such as Movie, Music, Vintage, TV, Children, Travel, Kitchen, Museum Art, Animals, Floral, Motivational, and Sports. Art.com is dedicated to providing you with high quality products and service by offering you 100% satisfaction guaranteed. We ship internationally to over 80 countries. Decorate your home today with your favorite pictures that express and celebrate your distinct tastes.

Print Title: Gingko LeafArtist: Paul DesnySize: 12 x 12 inchesPlease visit www.amazon.com/artdotcom to check for promotions from time to time.
< Gingko Leaf Art Poster Print by Paul Desny, 12x12 >

price：~~$12.99~~
Art.com

< Lola [VHS] >

price：~~$98.27~~

< The Marriage of Maria Braun [VHS] > < Scenes From a Marriage - Criterion Collection > < The Long Goodbye > < Berlin Alexanderplatz - Criterion Collection > < Good Bye, Lenin! > < Nashville >

price：~~$84.13~~

customer 's review
(Reconstruction)

(Superb cult movie!)

(The Marriage of Maria Braun)

(Fassbinder's Best Film)

(MASTERPIECE)

"The Marriage of Maria Braun" is an interesting movie that gives the audience a look at the other side of WWII in Europe. I'm not about to make any case for sympathy towards the German side in that war but people are people and the civilians and returning soldiers had an enormous challenge to rebuild their lives, their families, and their country. We get a sense of this by watching the post-war life of a woman who had married in the midst of an air raid and only had a day-long honeymoon. As she waited for her husband to come home from the war, she finds the need to make adjustments. The movie is about those adjustments and I don't think it would be fair to elaborate because I had no hint of what was to come next and that helped me appreciate the movie all the more. Let's just say that Maria Braun reminded me a lot of Scarlet O'Hara.

I thought that "The Marriage of Maria Braun" was a very good movie because of how well I felt it brought out its' message of survival and its' consequences. I was satisfied that I had gotten the director's intended message but then I saw this sequence between what seemed to be the proper end and the cast and credits. What was that all about? I milled it over and wondered whether or not the director, Rainer Fassbinder, was trying to make a statement about the division of Germany. I could understand how one character's success and materialism represents West Germany. It's alliance with the West was enriching but may have involved compromising aspects of it's self-respect. Another character's imprisonment represented the confinement and lack of freedom of East Germany. I wonder if the point was to suggest that, after such a long seperation, the potential reunion was going to be difficult. If the ending throws you off, don't worry, the previous two hours says enough.

This film consolidated in all the world to Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Even he had a huge number of avid viewers who knew about him by other titles. This picture became the First German Film really commercial all over the world. Hanna Schygulla shone as a real Super Nova with this complex , intelligent and crude tale.

Fassbinder interweaved a web which linked almost fifteen years of live story through the eyes of a loyal woman whom suddenly after she marries, his husband is requested to participate in the War. From that day she will wait for him, day after day until she decides to make a breakthrough with the life when the hunger and the misery slowly will surround her whole family.

The rest of the story runs for you. Magnificent script, an anthological ending who still is shocking. Indeed this was film of the famous Trilogy with Lola and Veronika Voss.

The sudden death of Fassbinder in 1982, left the German Cinema literally orphan and his place still keeps empty.

The marriage that only elapsed a day and all night long.

You have got to be kidding. This film is a waste of time unless you like to view softcore porn of the interracial flavor. Sure, she wants to be successful, but why is it important to show all the sick details? To get the"full emotional impact"? So you can really feel what she went through? The psuedo-intellectual (this review makes no claim at intellectual) arguments and reviews simply don't hold water. What is this film trying to say? It simply tries to show what one woman went through during and after the war in her attempts to become propsperous while"waiting for her love". What a load of crap. While"waiting for her love", whom she hears is dead, she engages in love affairs, in which she simply claims to have detatched emotion from...well...er...motion...Again, what a load of crap. She is simply trying to make herself look good, and trying to lose herself by giving in to every (so-called)"guilty pleasure"she can to avoid feeling or experiencing what is really going on around her. This movie is a waste of time, and I would place it in the same category as a Clint Eastwood film for its gratuitous and unnecessary"love"scenes.
Without a doubt this is Fassbinder's best film. Many of his others are too whacked or just have poor acting and plot, but with this one he was on target. This movie provides a shattering view of what it was like for a woman in post war Germany. Often we have seen movies that show what it was like in occupied europe during or after the war, but few movies have provided what the German civilian experience was like.

Fassbinder provides his usual chaotic and striking images, which can sometimes be a little odd and weird, but work well here. From the nutty marriage in the beginning to the final tragic end, this movie provides a tour-de-force of what the ruin and devastation of the war was like for Germany and its people.

Hanna Schygulla is an impressive and sexy actress! Her forward style combined with her good looks makes for a fascinating combination. She lights up every scene in this movie. There are some controversial moments in this film, which considering that it was done in the 1970s are pretty avant-garde. Interracial activities may be considered standard now in US movies, but 30 years ago this was very much a taboo subject. While this only comprises a small segment of the film, we can see that Fassbinder loved to deal with this kind of forbidden fruit.

There is probably a lot of German cinematic technique that I am glossing over, which a film student would go ape over. I see the movie as a social-historical epic and thus my perspective is different. On many different levels this movie has interest, but I think its portrayal of the human cost of the Second World War on the German pysche is the most revealing. Even though a people may survive a devastating conflict, the emotional scars can linger for generations. Germany is still not a complete country pyschologically today because of the legacy of Hitler and the war, even with recent unification. Hence what appears on the surface to be Germany's almost bizarre aversion toward any kind of war today, even if justified. Those who have seen holocaust films like "Schlinder's List" should compare this film to see the other side of the coin (If they can). It might certainly prove educational. You won't see this kind of movie being made in Hollywood, ever!
An utterly shattering experience, unlike anything you have ever seen before. Fassbinder was a master of the cinematic medium, creating vibrant characters, brilliant dialogue and unforgettable images. Incredible in every way, with Hanna Schygulla in one of her best performances.If you truly love great cinema, you must see this film.
Hanna Schygulla was a true star in this remarkable, semi-allegorical drama by Rainer Werner Fassbinder about a woman whose new marriage soon becomes a long history of waiting for reunification with her husband as he goes off to war, gets lost on the Russian front, ends up in prison, and goes to America. Meanwhile, the phantom marriage suspends the title character in a destiny that leads to power and wealth while still anticipating his return. One of several cinematic metaphors by Fassbinder for the identity and experience of post-war Germany, this 1978 film looks more than ever like a masterpiece.--Tom Keogh
Rerations
< The Marriage of Maria Braun [VHS] > < Scenes From a Marriage - Criterion Collection > < The Long Goodbye > < Berlin Alexanderplatz - Criterion Collection > < Good Bye, Lenin! > freaks

< The Wrong Movement [VHS] >

price：

< Mayerling (1968) [VHS] > < Mayerling [VHS] > < Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots > < Belle de Jour > < The Last Metro [Blu-ray] > < Repulsion- Criterion Collection [Blu-ray] >

price：~~$40.00~~
MGM (Warner)(1998-09-01)

customer 's review
(A Visual and Musical Delight)

(Saturated With Khachaturian's Best Music&Entertaining Too!)

(Great film!)

(Not Perfect, But Vastly Entertaining)

(Schmaltz)

I saw the 1968 version of Mayerling in April of 1969 at a base theater
while I was in basic training in the Air Force. I note this because the
subject of the film and its well-dressed actors and its European scenery
were so different from the military surroundings and military "dress"
which I was enduring at the time. I had not heard about the story of
Prince Rudolph and Princess Maria before. But suspected Mayerling's tragic ending from the start, but I think it did take the film a long time to reach its conclusion. However, I believe Mayerling was a visual delight and the musical score was beautiful too.
The cast was excellent with Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve along with
Ava Gardner and James Mason. To many the story of these tragic lovers
seemed unbelievable and some criticized the dresses the women wore as too
1960's in style. I did not notice this.
I have n't seen Mayerling in over thirty years and I think I will buy my
own DVD and see it again. Seeing this film again will remind me of what
I was doing when I first saw it, as I think many films and popular music
do for many people.
IN A NUTSHELL: A FILM WORTH SEEING&HEARING

This seems to be one of those movies that is either loved, hated or ignored by movie fans. Interestingly, most of the reviews I have seen make mostly relevant points both pro and con. Nevertheless, I do admit feeling some very tugging emotions during many parts of the movie and not just the romantic interludes between the Grand Duke and his very charming young mistress "Maria Vetsera" played by Catherine Deneuve. There is a sense of real urgency between "Grand Duke Rudolf" played by Omar Sharif and his father "Emperor Franz Josef" played by a convincing James Mason. A "wall" has been built between the two and the Grand Duke makes it clear to his all powerful sulking father that it will be up to him [the Emperor] to remove it. A task perhaps to great for even the all powerful. I find myself wishing for this universal issue between this father and son to be resolved and its possible historic importance only adds to the urgency.

OKAY - THERE ARE SOME ODDITIES ABOUT MAYERLING

Nevertheless, although there is much good to be said for the movie as a whole, it does contain some very difficult to take flaws. Casting aside, the wardrobe department made itself very obvious in the choice of eyeshadows, blushes and hairdos that are right out of the 1960s. This emphasis on the 1960's howwever only affects the women so they seem a bit out of place when they are seen typically with uniformed high ranking officials whose wardrobe is very accurately right out of antiquity. This is a needless distraction that detracts from the exquisitely time perfect sets that are genuine in most respects. Also, Ava Gardner [Empress Elizabeth] seems out of place and there is a mix of foriegn and English actors that are for better or worse ample and very correctly attired.

AH: BUT THE MUSIC BY KHACHATURIAN

The entire film is lifted quite a bit by the very appropriate and well timed saturation of Khachaturian's Best Music from the ballet Spartacus. Most of it sounds like variations from the Adagio movement which is one of the most longing and romantic orchestral overtures ever written and very strongly suggestive of the last vestages of the Holy Roman Empire and this doomed romance which is of course the setting for the entire film.

----- * THE CAST --*

Omar Sharif - Crown Prince Rudolf
Catherine Deneuve - Maria Vetsera
James Mason - Emperor Franz Josef
Ava Gardner - Empress Elizabeth
James Robertson-Justice - Prince Of Wales
Genevi?ve Page - Countess Larisch
Andr?a Parisy - Princess Stephanie
Ivan Desny - Count Josef Hoyos
Fabienne Dali - Mizzi Kaspar
Veronique Vendell - Lisi Stockau
Howard Vernon - Prince Montenuevo
Irene von Meyendorf - Countess Stockau

----- * THE PRODUCTION CREW --*

Terence Young - Director / Screenwriter
Robert Dorfmann - Producer
Claude Anet - Book Author
Michael Arnold - Book Author
Dennis Cannan - Dialogue Writer
Joseph Kessel - Screenwriter
Henri Al?kan - Cinematographer
Francis Lai - Composer (Music Score)
Monique Bonnot - Editor
Georges Wakh?vitch - Production Designer
Maurice Colasson - Art Director
Tony Roman - Art Director
Marcel Hellman - Executive Producer
Marcel Escoffier - Costume Designer
Jacques Carrere - Sound/Sound Designer
Joseph DeBretagne - Sound/Sound Designer

----- * AWARDS --*

Best Foreign Film - English Language (nom) 1969 Golden Globe

BOTTOM LINE:

Sentimental and very compelling period piece with great personalities brought to the screen by great actors. The tone set by Khachaturian's Spartacus [Adagio Movement] recurs thematically throughout the film and seems just perfect for the bittersweet mood of this tragic romance.

James Mason is as handsome as ever. It's a really well worth seeinf film. I highly recommend it.
I have been told that the French predecessor of this film is better, but I don't see how. The compelling true story of the downfall of the Hapsburg family is recounted here with an emphasis on the personal tragedy of Prince Rudolph. Here is a man trapped in a loveless marriage, domineered by his tyranical father, deprived of the love of a mother who tries to dazzle everyone, caught in the uprisings of democratic politics, and addicted to cocaine to dismiss his pain. To add to his personal pain, he meets a beautiful, penniless noblewoman, whose family is basically out of favor, and falls hopeless in love. The politics, the personal manipulation, the suffering of the lovers is beautifully presented by MGM in their grand style. Sharif may not be the optimal Rudolph, but who could be immune to Catherine Deneuve's charm. James Mason is a perfect cold and stern Emperor, and Ava Gardner (miscast) fares adequate as the Emperess. It is James Roberton Justice, who plays the Prince of Wales, who steals the movie. His every scene is a joy. The European character actors who fill out the cast do a fine job, and the story unfolds as the tragic love should. Whether you believe that Rudolph killed his mistress and himself, or that his father had the secret police remove him, you will enjoy this movie. Good musical score too!
In early 1889, Crown Prince Rudolph, son of Emperor Franz Joseph and heir to the Hapsburg Empire, took his teenage mistress, Baroness Maria Vetsera, to a hunting lodge called "Mayerling." What happened there has been the subject of a good deal of speculation, but the most popular version is this: That sometime in the early morning hours of January 30th, Rudolph killed Maria with a single shot from his revolver, and then, some hours later, took his own life. How they came to this moment in time is the subject of the film, "Mayerling" which stars Omar Sharif as Rudolph and Catherine Deneuve as Maria.

The film is highly sympathetic to the lovers, portraying them as kindred souls beset by the prejudices and stupidities of everyone around them. Rudolph's liberal political views and Maria's innocence are made much of, and the idea that they were driven to the desperation of a suicide pact is central to the persuasiveness of this film. Unfortunately I have a hard time buying any of it, and perhaps it's partly because I know too much about the real couple and their situation, but I think it's also because the film is so heavy-handed that we feel more bludgeoned than persuaded. Sharif is wooden as Rudolph, but in all fairness some of the lines he's asked to deliver are almost laughable. The Oedipal subtext between Rudolph and his mother, Elizabeth, has no real purpose beyond titillation, and it is frankly difficult to believe in Deneuve as ingénue. Had all the roles been written with more authenticity the story might well have worked as a tragedy, but Terence Young, who apparently drew on the novels of Claude Anet and Michel Arnold to write the screenplay, has taken the easy route here, complete with cardboard villains and people's heroes. Not even James Mason as Franz Joseph or the ravishing Ava Gardner as Empress Elizabeth can propel this particular film out of the category of Bad Romance.

The look of the film owes more to the era in which it was made than that which it seeks to portray. Makeup, hairstyles, even costumes reflect a sixties sensibility which may have put audiences at ease in 1968, but which are jarring today. Frankly, this is one of the things that can really turn me off of a film; I tolerate it in "Doctor Zhivago," but in "Mayerling" it becomes so distracting, that any credibility this film might have had for me goes right out the window whenever I see an actress with overdone, sixties-style eyeliner or lots and lots of hair woven into intricate, sixties-inspired dos. I suggest you give this one a miss unless you're in the mood for some schmaltz.
Rerations
< Mayerling (1968) [VHS] > < Mayerling [VHS] > < Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots > < Belle de Jour > < The Last Metro [Blu-ray] > freaks

< Song Without End [VHS] > < Chopin: Desire For Love > < A Song to Remember [VHS] > < Immortal Beloved > < Impromptu > < Harvest of Sorrow - Tony Palmer's Film About Sergei Rachmaninoff >

price：~~$35.95~~
Sony Pictures(1996-01-23)

customer 's review
(SONG WITHOUT END)

(Transfer to Video and DVD quite imperfect)

(If only the song WOULD end...)

(A Perfect Time Killer)

The item was sent as promised, wrapped well and arrive in a timely manner.

Thank you.
I was really impressed with all the reports I have read on Song Without End. I notice it is not being offered on DVD at present. But I did buy it on Video originally and when I saw I could get it on DVD; a while back I thought it might have improved in quality of sound.
Alas; the DVD has the same faults as the Video so obviously no technical re recording was attempted.
I am not very versed in the history of Lizst and his affairs and the ones with whom he had his affairs.
I mainly was disappointed at some of the technical flaws in the Movie BOTH on Video and then again on DVD.
While I realize the Movie was originally probably made on 35 mm for Cinema showing..I want other viewers to look at it again and see the number of places where the sound is quite poor.
1. In One or two of the concerts Lizst's playing is really beautiful. BUT when the audience applauds him it is like the applause is off some where in another room. Notice the variation in sound.
2. When Lizst visits his Mother the first time notice when Lizst speaks the sound is perfect but when his mother speaks it is like she is off some place else.
I found it to be the same on both Video and DVD so I have no doubt that no effort was made in transferring from Tape to DVD to enhance some of the troublesome spots where sound failed.
I wish I was more up on the truth of the real Lizst as some other writers were but as far as the technical side of the Movie I was disappointed in several areas.
Get this straight before coming any closer: this is NOT a documentary on Franz Liszt. The Hollywood goons must have been flipping through a book of musicians' biographies (ooh! tormented, soul-searching MUSICIANS!), incidentally stumbling onto Liszt's particularly marketable name. Knowing professionals respect the name, aware that the revolutionary pianist-composer's profound contributions to 19th century music are to be taken seriously. The aforementioned goons, however, took their cue from some funny sentences about Marie D'Agoult, Carolyne Wittgenstein, George Sand, and a few other candidates for good close-ups. (What's this? Liszt had affairs with... oh, mhm... I'll write that down, and we can just...)
Disregarding the consideration for extensive research, these very goons thereby set out to leave a greasy, black stain on one of history's great legacies. Liszt is portrayed as a silly, red-faced, chortling British man, with short wavy hair, a dogged disposition, and --most importantly of all-- a lusty appetite for the prettified, warbling, melodramatic Russian Princess. In reality, Carolyne Wittgenstein was a sloppy, chain-smoking, obsessive woman, but Hollywood would have none of that. (Oh, sure! we'll just leave out this, and we can pretend that she...)
Other goodies are thrown in; Countess D'Agoult glares teary-eyed at us from around every corner; near the beginning of the movie, Chopin, made into a cherubic bon vivant, drops in to see his ol' pals, bringing with him George Sand, who appears to be wearing a magician's outfit- tophat, cape, and all; with them, and to remain a nuisance for the rest of the film, is plump, stupid "Votan", Liszt's "eternally devoted manager"; Liszt's crone mother hobbles around in a dim hut, offering her piano to a mob of torch-wielding Hungarian peasants.
It goes on... the story of Liszt's concert career is all the time exploited, to show off the makeup and comstumes, with a soundtrack that is bittersweet at best; Jorge Bolet provided the piano solo work, the 'sweet' part of the equation. The 'bitter' shows up in ridiculously orchestrated bits of Liszt's popular stuff: "Un Sospiro", "Libestraume", etc.
Not only does the (originally great) music take a turn for the worse... The acting is laughable, the casting abominable, the script methodically crafted to cram in as much disgusting sentimentality as possible.

STAY AWAY FROM IT!
I have gone through this film twice and still find this interesting.

This is not a documentary and as such don't expect too much depth or insight from this portrayal of Liszt, or else most of audience might be bored to death. Who cares about his study with Czerny or his religious faith in such a film anyway?

Instead, we have quite a lot of romances with pretty faces, elegant dresses and magnificent palaces. There was even a brief mention about Chopin and Wagner in the background. Visual effect was excellent and even the actor on the piano was so remarkable.

I'm not too sure though if Boglet would suit the taste of all piano lovers, probably not: Liszt is Liszt, who can compare with him when even Anton Rubinstein wanted to be his pupil. But for the general audience, it's just marvelous. The sound is wonderful too, not just the music,the dialoges too.

The plot was forceful and the rhythm fast and there is not a single scene that is boring. The result: one could easily sit still in front of it for the whole length of 130 minutes and for twice.

Highly recommended.
I have gone through this film twice and still find this interesting.

The plot was forceful and the rhythm fast and there is not a single scene that is boring. The result: one could easily sit still in front of it for the whole length of 130 minutes and for twice.

Highly recommended.
Fifteen years after directing the florid and commercially successful Chopin bio-pic, the 1945A Song to Remember, director Charles Vidor headed up this lush, Technicolor production about Franz Liszt--only to die a few weeks into shooting and be replaced by George Cukor. (Cukor insisted the credit remain with Vidor, and indeed there is little of Cukor's touch visible in this film.)Song Without Endstars Dirk Bogarde as Liszt, and while the actor's stints at the piano are effectively dubbed by Jorge Boyet, the story really concerns the composer's entangled love life. Much, much less flamboyant than Ken Russell'sLisztomania,Song Without Endis, in its own way, just as indulgent, extravagantly presuming that love is the major inspiration for the creation of music. No film about a composer would be complete without a few of his famous contemporaries, andSong Without Endmakes a point of bringing George Sand and Chopin himself to the proceedings. The sets are impressive, and the cinematography is by James Wong Howe.--Tom Keogh
Rerations
< Song Without End [VHS] > < Chopin: Desire For Love > < A Song to Remember [VHS] > < Immortal Beloved > < Impromptu > freaks

< Anastasia (1956) [VHS] > < The Inn of the Sixth Happiness > < For Whom the Bell Tolls > < Gaslight > < The Ghost and Mrs. Muir > < Casablanca >

price：~~$12.98~~
20th Century Fox(1995-09-06)

customer 's review
(Good movie)

(A FLAMBOYANT ROMANCE FROM THE GOLDEN AGE)

(Anastasia)

(NIce movie big lie!)

(Thoroughly enjoyable!)

I bought this for my father. He loves it. It's a good movie.
Njoy
Anatole Litvak's ANASTASIA is a lovely romance, generously laced with sardonic wit, and charm. The chemistry between Ingrid Bergman, and Yul Brynner is quite intense, and their performances are enchanting, as is that of the great Helen Hayes. The movie is magical, the color is glorious, and the sound is, unfortunately, sub-standard. A classic like this deserves better.
This is a warm fuzzy kind of movie; bought it for my Mom for her birthday as the golden oldies are a safe bet ;0)
Thanks to the almighty God that they finally found the remainder of this poor child and the history of this girl is forever closed! No more speculations!
The performances by Bergman and Brynner really escalate this film into greatness. I wish more people would see this. Its such a beautiful and subtle film.
Ingrid Bergman gives one of her memorable, haunting, and haunted performances as an amnesiac chosen by a White Russian general (Yul Brynner) in 1928 to play the part of Anastasia, the long-rumored but missing survivor of the Bolsheviks' murderous attack on the czar's family. The twist is that Bergman's mystery woman seems to know more about the lost Anastasia than she is told. Based on the play by Marcelle Maurette and Guy Bolton, this film--directed by Anatole Litvak (Out of the Fog)--really does get under one's skin, not least of all because of its intriguing story but even more because of the strong chemistry between Bergman and Brynner.--Tom Keogh
Rerations
< Anastasia (1956) [VHS] > < The Inn of the Sixth Happiness > < For Whom the Bell Tolls > < Gaslight > < The Ghost and Mrs. Muir > freaks

< Anastasia > < The Inn of the Sixth Happiness > < For Whom the Bell Tolls > < Gaslight > < The Ghost and Mrs. Muir > < Casablanca >

price：~~$4.99~~
20th Century Fox(2003-07-01)
Usually ships in 24 hours

customer 's review
(Good movie)

(A FLAMBOYANT ROMANCE FROM THE GOLDEN AGE)

(Anastasia)

(NIce movie big lie!)

(Thoroughly enjoyable!)

I bought this for my father. He loves it. It's a good movie.
Njoy
Anatole Litvak's ANASTASIA is a lovely romance, generously laced with sardonic wit, and charm. The chemistry between Ingrid Bergman, and Yul Brynner is quite intense, and their performances are enchanting, as is that of the great Helen Hayes. The movie is magical, the color is glorious, and the sound is, unfortunately, sub-standard. A classic like this deserves better.
This is a warm fuzzy kind of movie; bought it for my Mom for her birthday as the golden oldies are a safe bet ;0)
Thanks to the almighty God that they finally found the remainder of this poor child and the history of this girl is forever closed! No more speculations!
The performances by Bergman and Brynner really escalate this film into greatness. I wish more people would see this. Its such a beautiful and subtle film.
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 03/02/2004
Ingrid Bergman gives one of her memorable, haunting, and haunted performances as an amnesiac chosen by a White Russian general (Yul Brynner) in 1928 to play the part of Anastasia, the long-rumored but missing survivor of the Bolsheviks' murderous attack on the czar's family. The twist is that Bergman's mystery woman seems to know more about the lost Anastasia than she is told. Based on the play by Marcelle Maurette and Guy Bolton, this film--directed by Anatole Litvak (Out of the Fog)--really does get under one's skin, not least of all because of its intriguing story but even more because of the strong chemistry between Bergman and Brynner.--Tom Keogh
Rerations
< Anastasia > < The Inn of the Sixth Happiness > < For Whom the Bell Tolls > < Gaslight > < The Ghost and Mrs. Muir > freaks

< Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg > < Out of the Ashes > < Amen > < A Day in October > < Conspiracy > < The Grey Zone >

price：~~$2.46~~
FIRST RUN FEATURES(2002-11-05)
Usually ships in 24 hours

customer 's review
(It's only in that moment that I've lived...)

(foreign version of Schindler's List)

(A bit confusing...)

(Didn't Get it)

(Shindler's List is King!)

Kjell Grede's "Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg" is a noble but ultimately flawed effort. The story focuses on the efforts of Raoul Wallenberg to save Jews in Budapest during WWII's final days. Although he comes from one of Sweden's wealthiest families, there's nothing outstanding about Raoul. He's an ordinary guy with ordinary talents who hasn't done anything remarkable; as the film begins, he's an importer of luxury foods. But on a train trip, he happens to see Jewish corpses being tossed out of a death camp-bound freight car, and a father, who jumped out of the car to be with his dead son, shot and killed. This experience changes Raoul's life. As he tells the skeptical committee considering him for relief work, it's only in that moment that he feels he's ever actually lived.

Grede's film focuses on the very last days of Wallenberg's Hungarian mission: the exhausting scramble to bribe German and Hungarian officials, racing against the clock to try to save the Jewish ghetto, a dramatic standoff with a Hungarian fascist, despair alternating with hope, and finally Wallenberg's mysterious disappearance into the Soviet Union.

The best moments of the film are when Stellan Skarsgard (Wallenberg) and Katharina Thalberg (Marja) are on-screen. Thalberg is especially good as the Jewish woman whose children have been killed and who refuses to wear anything but a man's overcoat because, when the Germans come to kill her, she wants them to see her naked, as a real person rather than a statistic. Skarsgard, whose acting style is low-key anyway, plays Wallenberg with a subdued intensity that seems just right.

But ultimately, neither Skarsgard nor Thalberg can save the film. The writing tends at times to be melodramatic--ruining, for example, the final confrontation between Wallenberg and the Hungarian fascist. There's too little exposure of Wallenberg's interior, so his motives for risking life and limb to save Jews remain a bit cloudy (despite the "It's only in that moment that I've lived" scene).

Still, the film is worth seeing. It highlights the remarkable efforts of Wallenberg, and it underscores the fact--so easy to forget in our rather cynical age--that every life, no matter how "insignificant," is worth superhuman efforts to save.
Excellent story with graphic images that put you in Wallenberg's shoes. Incredible man. Incredible story. Must see film for Third Reich buffs.
This movie may be a bit confusing to someone (like me) who does not know the history of Raoul Wallenberg. However, the movie improves upon a second viewing.
Your asking me to review a movie I still have not received. When I get it, I can review it then.
Good Evening Mr. Wallenberg has a great premise, but horrible filmmaking. The special effects are cheesy - there's no blood when the people are shot, which is totally bogus. Also, the copy that I received (which is being sold as authentic) is a cheap reproduction of a VHS tape (so it appears). The sound is horrible. The image is pixelated, and it freezes when you try to rewind it. This movie sucks a big doo-doo man! Don't ever, ever, ever in your life compare it to the likes of Steven Spielberg's 'Shindler's List'.
On Schindler's List there were hundreds of names.

On Raoul Wallenberg's there were tens of thousands.

"A film of epic ambitions" (The New York Times), Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg chronicles the last days of the war in Budapest. It is a moving and sensitive portrait of internationally known hero, Raoul Wallenberg, a small-scale businessman whose life was transformed after he witnessed bodies being thrown from a train on its way to Auschwitz.

International film star Stellan Skarsgård (Aberdeen, Dancer in the Dark, Good Will Hunting, Amistad, Breaking the Waves, The Hunt for Red October) "is merely perfect" (New York Post) as Raoul Wallenberg, an attache to the Swedish Embassy who moved to Budapest, Hungary in 1944 to help Jews escape Adolph Eichmann's deadly path. Wallenberg saved over 60,000 people in Budapest's Jewish ghetto by helping them escape Hungary with Swedish papers ("Wallenberg passports"), or getting them placed in protective housing. His greatest challenge came in 1945, when he saved the lives of some 65,000 Jews in the ghetto by forcing the hand of theGerman general responsible for their fate. On January 17, 1945, Wallenberg was taken to Moscow as a Soviet prisoner. He was never released, and his fate has remained a mystery.
Rerations
< Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg > < Out of the Ashes > < Amen > < A Day in October > < Conspiracy > freaks

< Bon Voyage! > < Follow Me, Boys! > < The Happiest Millionaire > < Summer Magic > < The Ugly Dachshund > < The Misadventures of Merlin Jones >

price：~~$2.00~~
Walt Disney Home Entertainment(2004-02-03)
Usually ships in 24 hours
customer 's review
(It was wonderful)

(Bon Voyage)

(Not Fred's Best)

(Was this trip necessary?)

(Good family movie.)

It was wonderful, I never thought that it would arrive sooner than I thought and the movie was awesome.
THE STORY: This Walt Disney live action movie stars Fred MacMurray as Harry Willard, Jane Wyman as his wife Deborah, Tommy Kirk and Kevin Corcoran as their sons Elliott and Scooter, Deborah Walley as their 18 year old daughter, and her love interest "Nick" is played Michael Callan. Beautiful French scenery, some drama, comedy and romance. Deborah Willard has been planning a trip to Europe by boat for 22 year, and now her husband Harry and 3 kids are finally going. Harry is a very loyal husband, a good father and owns a plumbing contracting business. They take a ship to France, and one the jourey their older children meet some romantic counterparts. They visit Paris and Monte Carlo, and Deborah is preyed upon by a local man until Fred finally punches him out shooting him halfway across the casino after getting unexpectedly drunk. Mr. Willard gets lost in the Paris Subways when his son drags him there for a tour. Elliott is hilarious as he tries different disguises and tricks in order to pick up local girls. A scene that raised eyebrows was when a French call girl attempted to pick up Mr. Willard, and later his unwitting son, (not your typical Disney). Harry has to come to his son's rescue when a local hustler attempts to blackmail the family on false charges that his son Elliott has taken advantage of their young daughter. In the end the parents everyone finally gets what they want form their dream vacation.

BEHIND THE SCENES&TRIVIA: Directed by James Nielson. filmed both on location in Europe and at the Disney Studio. At the studio, a recreation of the Paris sewer where Harry takes a tour and gets lost was filmed. The hotel suites were also created there on the soundstages and interiors of the cruise ship. The outdoor footage on the cruise ship was shot on a real ship, the "S.S. United States" while it was actually en transit to Europe.. But the casino was a real one, the Palm Beach Casino on the French Riviera and the casino staff got to sit in as themselves. Exteriors of the hotels were shot at Salon Kleber. Walt Disney went to Paris to check on the filming of the movie.
The opening credit sequence is very entertaining, and was put together by Disney animators Bill Justice and X. Atencio. The titles are faux postcards of Europe, interspersed with footage from actual sites like Paris and Monte Carlo. The jaunty title song is by the Sherman Brothers, after Walt vetoed their slow pretty waltz they offered and requested a more upbeat song like "California Here I Come", but for Europe. This was their fourth film

The film was not well received by critics at the time, but it did well enough with the public. They felt it was too slow and long for starters and there was not enough to keep smaller children interested. It is a little long and goes back and forth in the storyline a few times, clocking in at 2 hours and 10 minutes. It was nominated for two Academy Awards®, one for Best Sound for studio sound veteran Robert Cook, and one for Best Costume Design for Bill Thomas. I think those were for the dresses worn by Jane Wyman in the movie. Emile Curry probably should have gotten a nod for his lavish design of the hotel suites, he was in charge of set design onnearly every Disney movie while Walt was alive. The screenplay was by Bill Walsh, based upon the book of the same title by Marrijane&Joseph Hayes. The film premiered in theatres on May 17, 1962. Almost 8 years later it was shown on the "Wonderful World Of Disney" television show in 3 parts over 3 consecutive Sunday nights, starting on January 11, 1970 and did not air on the show again. It was first released to VHS in 1987, and to DVD in 2007.

It does not appear that Disney re-mastered the film for this DVD, but it was well preserved and has good color for the period, and does not have noticeable scratches or sound problems. However, when we blew it up on a high quality projection system we could see some strange background cross-hatching now and then. It is in full screen mode, but Disney Studios made quite a few films that way during the 1960's. The sound is mono, as originally recorded. There are no extras on the DVD, but I can think of a few from the Disney vault that would have been nice without costing new production dollars. Disney made a series of featurettes on travel called "People and Places" in the 1950's. It would have been nice to see one of these travelogues, and maybe a short cartoon. The film trailer should have been included, and they could have put some trailers in for other films from the period, it would only help them sell more DVD's.
Overall, if you are a big Disney fan like me, who appreciates their huge library of lesser known family films I recommend it. But I also recommend that Disney put a bit more effort into their DVD releases for the price.

I usually love movies starring Fred MacMurray, but this is an exception. The plot is very slow to develop and did not hold our family's attention very well. BON VOYAGE was surprising because most of our dvds with Fred MacMurray are our very favorites (Follow Me, Boys; Absent-Minded Professor, etc.) I ended up donating this one to a local charity.
Draggy family comedy about Americans on vacation abroad wasn't anywhere near top-drawer Disney when it was first released back in 1962--trite, unfunny and decidely kid-unfriendly with its tiresome bickering parents, dreary teen romance subplots and several bizarre un-Disneylike scenes involving drunkeness, a bidet, a French hooker, public urination and even a few mild four-letter words.

It doesn't play any better today in an un-color corrected DVD transfer that frequently makes MacMurray, Wyman and other cast members look like corpses.

One of the biggest live action misfires to be personally overseen by Walt Disney, this DVD edition (with no extras) is a bum trip. Stay home.
I love the old movies and Fred McMurray so I enjoyed this though I do think it was longer than it needed to be. I love him lost underground. If you are not into old movies and Disney flicks you probably won't enjoy this.
Rerations
< Bon Voyage! > < Follow Me, Boys! > < The Happiest Millionaire > < Summer Magic > < The Ugly Dachshund > freaks

< Neolit verkhnei i srednei Desny > A. S Smirnov

price：
Akademiia nauk SSSR, Institut arkheologii

< Berlin Alexanderplatz.(Video recording review): An article from: Cineaste > Jared Rapfogel

price：~~$9.95~~
Cineaste Publishers, Inc.(2008-12-11)
Available for download now

This digital document is an article from Cineaste, published by Cineaste Publishers, Inc. on December 22, 2008. The length of the article is 2210 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title:Berlin Alexanderplatz.(Video recording review)
Author:Jared Rapfogel
Publication:Cineaste(Magazine/Journal)
Date:December 22, 2008
Publisher:Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
Volume:34Issue:1Page:60(3)

Article Type: Video recording review

Distributed by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 >>