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[PrinceKamalKhan]

A 1967 Western entitled Chuka. The star is Rod Taylor(The Time Machine) but I got it because the leading lady is none other than Fiona Volpe herself, Miss Luciana Paluzzi.

[PlayItBogart]

There, I think I've got enough movies that once my final finals are over, I could just spend the whole week watching DVDs.

-Basic Instinct: Ultimate Edition
-Basically, It Stinks Too
-Mission: Impossible
-Licence to Kill (Ultimate Edition, Single Disc)

I don't care what anybody thinks, I love Licence to Kill, not so much as a Bond film, but as an 80s REVENGEANCE!!! flick.

[mrsbonds_ppk]

The James Bond Story
James Bond UE Vol. 2 set
The Saint B&W Episodes Set 1

goodies...goodies

[Professor Dent]

Children of Men.

[Roebuck]

''Russian Ark''- Alexander Sokurov's movie famously filmed in one location (The Hermitage), with 2000 actors and done in a single 90 minute tracking shot.The most ambitious piece of digital film making we've yet seen, and it looks fabulous.

and ''The Valley of Gwangi'' - Cowboys verses dinosaurs as only Ray Harryhausen does 'em.

[Tiin007]

Red Eye.
Simpsons Season 2.

[Vauxhall]

Most recently bought BORAT and CASINO ROYALE. I've got a few others in mind though to buy, including a few "classics" which have somehow escaped me so far.

[MarcAngeDraco]

Recently bought Star Wars Episodes 5 and 6 for my son's birthday (the DVDs with both the original and digitally enhanced versions, and the graphic novels).

[PlayItBogart]

-Good Night and Good Luck
-Stay Alive
-Aeon Flux
-Carlito's Way - Rise to Power.

Can you tell I just got my income tax return? I wasn't expecting to get anything. And I still got plenty to spare. I think I'm gonna eBay myself a copy of Mega Man X4.

[Blofeld's Cat]

-Aeon Flux

So you're the one!?

[DamnCoffee]

Saw - Uncut
Flightplan

[PlayItBogart]

Goldeneye UE Single Disc
The Maltese Falcon
Gold (w/ Roger Moore)

[Qwerty]

Notes on a Scandal.

[PlayItBogart]

Notes on a Scandal? Is that anything like Snakes on a Plane?

[Roebuck]

Jet Li's ''Fearless''. Suppose you could treat this as a prequel to Fist of Fury as it chronicles, wildly inaccurately, the life of Huo Yuanjia (sifu of the fictional Chen Zhen ). The set-pieces by Yuen Wo Ping, as beautifully filmed as everything else here, are unfortunately short on ambition. There's nothing new here for Wuxia fans. The real treat is the bookending sequences, where Huo Yuanjia takes on four consecutive challenges from foreign fighters. Li gets to show off how much more impressive he is without the aid of wires, including a demonstration of his skill with the Sanjiegun.

[Mamadou]

"The Contender"

"The Commitments"

"Romeo & Juliet" (Franco Zeffirelli's version)

[Blunt_Instrument]

Saw: Special Edition off Ebay

[Professor Dent]

An Evening With Kevin Smith 2 & Spider-Man 2.1.

[TortillaFactory]

Liar Liar.

It was cheap.

[The Dove]

Remington Steele season 3 and Moonlighting season 4

[Judo chop]

The Ten Commandments -

[DamnCoffee]

Saw II
True Lies

[DaveBond21]

John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982)

[bond 16.05.72]

Nixon 1996 (Directors Cut) 212 mins R1

I'd almost given up on finding this, I remember Oliver Stone mentioning he was working on this but then heard little else, I should have known it wasn't a priority release and arrived only on R1 very low key. Though I tracked it down on Amazon recently for very reasonable price. Any chance to see more of this superb piece of the cinema is a chance I'm not gonna miss.

JFK remains probably my favourite film of all time and Nixon is it's companion piece. Watching it again I think the gap between the 2 films has got smaller, Nixon is easily Stone's 2nd best in my opinion.

Their is so many things to admire about this film, most of all is Hopkins without doubt alongside Stevens the Butler in the amazing Remains of the Day, this must be my favourite performance of Sir Anthony. This and his Stevens performance is an example of why he is such a good actor and not the showboating of his Oscar Winning performance in SOTL which in comparison isn't in the same league. Stone as already explained he wasn't bothered about AH's resemblance to Nixon and it doesn't make any difference. Hopkins delivers a complex and detailed portrayal, his mannerisms and ticks.

It's true to say that he goes for a portrayal which gives you a side of Nixon not seen in public but he also invests the man with humanity which some would probably be surprised knowing Stone's view's. It's a picture of a man who did great thing and could have been greater but the same things that made him determined and successful were also the elements which were his downfall, the terrible actions he commits while being the most powerful man in the world and the cover ups and treachery which go on in the White House. Which are eventually his undoing Most notably the Watergate scandal, which this film documents in detail while not showing the actual burglary. Already dealt with in another film. ( All the Presidents Men) We see a deep complex troubled man with many flaws and AH portrays this brilliantly, showing Nixon uncertain but also in ruthless mode, a scene which is inserted back in for the directors cut sees Nixon in meeting simply filling his cabinet with fear as well as contrasting with his lack of confidence and awkwardness in other scenes, he make it possible to empathize with a figure who has been demonised so much, a tall feat but he manages it.

Joan Allen is simply astonishing as Pat Nixon, bearing a resemblance to to the real thing but her performance is the clincher, heartbreaking at times and adds to Hopkins humanization of RN, they simply work like a dream together and the chemistry is amazing.

Nixon also in possession of a killer ensemble, JT Walsh & James Woods are brilliant as Nixon's right hand men Eirhlech & Hardeman. Ed Harris as Howard Hunt, David Hyde Pierce as John Dean, Paul Sorvino almost unrecognizable as Kissinger.

Also so colourful turns from Bob Hoskins as J Edgar Hoover, his moments with Hopkins can't fail to raise a smile and Hoskins is simply having a ball. JR himself Larry Hagman takes a bow as a shady oil tycoon who initially backs Nixon's 2nd run for office. The film is full of too many performances to go into too much detail but Nixon has one of the most starry impressive casts of the last 20 years and everyone is essential to working of this epic undertaking.

Mary Steenburgen as Hannah Nixon, is particularly impressive as RN's god fearing quaker Mother, who obviously was more than significant in Nixon's character buliding, Stone brilliantly and poignantly illustrates the parallels between RN's 2 brother's death's and them paving the way for him to go to Law school, the same way John & Bobby Kennedy's deaths make it possible for Nixon to become President. A fact which overshadows his life throughout. The guilt is etched quite impressively on Hopkins face.


Stone's attention to detail like with JFK is meticulous and his partnership with Robert Richardson cinematography are nothing short of genius. It's shame RR and Stone no longer work together, Richardson is most notably working with Scorcesse recently, see Casino & The Aviator for an example of his lighting, very reminiscent of the work he did with Stone and something that marks Richardson out as a particularly individual DP who stamps his mark over everything he works on. Their use of shot footage blending with actual real footage and the different film stocks incorporated was brilliantly used in JFK & NBK and Nixon is no exception. Stone's most recent work is lacking his touch.

John Williams score like with JFK is another example of JW's versatility, best know for coming up with toe tapping fan fares, his work with Stone shows a subtlety not expressed in his more famous work. He underpins the scenes with an ominous feel and is never intrusive, a perfect accompaniment to the sombre feel the film imbues.

Quite simply no one does the kind of thing better than Stone, I know he the kind of Director you either love or hate and his work as fallen off of late but when firing on all four cylinders he matches and probably betters anything Scorcesse's done in the last 20 years.

This being a Special Edition the extras on show are impressive as well, deleted scenes and Stones intro to each individual one but it's the commentaries which are the real gem here, as with all Stone Special Editions, I've waited to hear this commentary and he doesn't disappoint. Stone's commentaries for me are the best, he's passionate about his films but also very well researched and his fiercely intelligent. 3 hours + with this man flew by. Their is a another track that goes into the more historically side as opposed to the technical and film side which I'm yet to savour.

This is one of the most impressive political movies of all time, it's not a history lesson and is clear about it's dramatizations and hypothesis's. The further 27 minutes reinserted go further to enhance this already epic study of Richard Nixon and make for one hell of a movie.

[Double-Oh-Zero]

The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: The 16-Ton Megaset

Sideways
-I had forgotten how great this film is ("No, if anyone orders Merlot, I'm leaving. I am NOT drinking any f****n' Merlot!").

[Professor Dent]

The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: The 16-Ton Megaset

This is some excellent stuff. Enjoy.

[Double-0-7]

Night at the Museum for my son's 10th birthday. I guess that will be the Friday night movie this week.

[Number 6]

BORAT


Revolting, bathroom humour in alot of sequences; I'm a little ashamed that I even chuckled at some of them. I found the more subtle injections more hilarious over the "go for the throat" gags.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Saw II

I saw Saw II too.

Messy. Very messy.

[YellowDetective]

Well the last MOVIE I bought was Casino Royale on UMD...

But, since it says DVD on the tin, A Very Long Engagement was my last DVD purchase.