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Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
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Our review:Description: A critical masterpiece, GANDHI is an intriguing story about activism, politics, religious tolerance and freedom. But at the center of it all is an extraor- dinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence, and set an entire nation free. Winner of 8 Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Best Director (Lord Richard Attenborough) and Best Actor (Sir Ben Kingsley), GANDHI’s highly acclaimed cast also includes Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Sir John Gielgud, Roshan Seth and Martin Sheen. The extras include more than 90 minutes of new material, including interviews with director Lord Richard Attenborough; actors Geraldine James, Saeed Jaffrey, and ...
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The Man Who Would Be King
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»rank: 3354
Our review: :For queen country and one heckuva time. Sean connery and michael caine are soldiers of the empire who become fortune seeking adventurers in john hustons film based on rudyard kiplings yarn. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006 Starring: Sean Connery Christopher Plummer Run time: 129 minutes Rating: Pg Director: John Huston essential video:A grandly entertaining, old-fashioned adventure based on the Rudyard Kipling short story, The Man Who Would Be King is the kind of rousing epic about which people said, even in 1975, 'Wow! They don't make 'em like that anymore!' When director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, ...
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The Razor's Edge
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»rank: 7064
Our review: :Larry darrell returns from the battlefields of world war i to america a different person. His fiance isabel resigns herself to a delay in the wedding plans when larry heads off to paris. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Starring: Bill Murray Catherine Hicks Run time: 129 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: John Byrum
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A Passage to India [Blu-ray]
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»rank: 8137
Our review: :Set in 1928, this film portrays an indelibly sardonic picture of British life in territorial India. The story concerns Adela Quested, who is a free-spirited British woman, played by (Judy Davis), who has settled in India and is to marry Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers), a town magistrate. She is befriended by the charming Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee), but it's a friendship that ultimately leads to tragedy. :This adaptation of E.M. Forster's mysterious tale of British racism in colonial India turned out to be master director David Lean's final film. Subtle and grand at the same time, Lean's adaptation is faithful ...
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The Far Pavilions
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»rank: 8550
Our review: :From the snow-capped peaks of the himalayas to the fabled palaces of bhitor the india of the british raj provides the spectacular setting for this haunting love story. All the treachery passion and intrigue of m.M. Kayes epic novel sweep across the screen in this stunning and lavish production. Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 01/08/2002 Starring: Amy Irving Omar Sharif Run time: 320 minutes :The first happy day in the adult life of Anjuli (Amy Irving) is the day her husband's body is set on fire. Her rich and powerful husband, the Rana of Bhitor (Rossano Brazzi), is ritually immolated ...
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A Passage To India (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
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»rank: 7838
Our review: :Set in 1928, this film portrays an indelibly sardonic picture of British life in territorial India.The story concerns Adela Quested, who is a free-spirited British woman, played by (Judy Davis), who has settled in India and is to marry Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers), a town magistrate. She is befriended by the charming Dr. Aziz (Victor Banerjee), but it's a friendship that ultimately leads to tragedy. :This adaptation of E.M. Forster's mysterious tale of British racism in colonial India turned out to be master director David Lean's final film. Subtle and grand at the same time, Lean's adaptation is faithful to ...
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My Beautiful Laundrette
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»rank: 18811
Our review:Description:With its 'extraordinary cast' (Los Angeles Times)including OscarÂ(r) winner* Daniel Day Lewisand 'riveting visual style' (Newsweek), this 'warm, compassionate and feisty' film (The Hollywood Reporter) about a young Pakistani man coming of age in London is 'a fascinating, eccentric [and] very personal movie' (The New York Times)! Living on the dole with his alcoholic father in a shabby South London flat, Omar is a bright-eyed Pakistani teenager who wants to make something of himself. And as his papa drowns deeper in vodka and self-pity, Omar turns to his unscrupulous wheeling-and-dealing Uncle Nasser to show him the key to success. But when ...
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Staying On
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Our review:Description:Paul Scott's STAYING ON This delightful drama, based on the award-winning novel by Paul Scott (The Jewel in the Crown), reunites the magnificent Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson for the first time since their appearance in the classic 1947 romance, 'Brief Encounter.' Retired Indian Army colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife Lucy made the decision to stay on in India after the British withdrew in 1947. While most of their friends returned home, Tusker decided to continue in military service. Now retired, he and Lucy are the only remaining British residents in the once-busy hill station of Pankot. Residing peacefully in ...
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Beyond the Next Mountain
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Our review:Description:At the close of the 19th century, the British branded the Hmar people of northeast India as 'the worst headhunters.' It was a label well deserved at the time. But in 1910, a single copy of the New Testament Gospel of John came into this village and changed the course of history for the Hmar people. Through that single copy of John's Gospel, Chawnga, the father of Rochunga Pudaite, was introduced to a revolutionary 'new life in Christ.' He and a few tribesmen 'forsook all and followed Christ.' Chawnga believed that Rochunga was God's chosen instrument to bring the Scriptures to ...
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A Passage to India
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Our review: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 03/20/2001 Run time: 164 minutes Rating: Pg :This adaptation of E.M. Forster's mysterious tale of British racism in colonial India turned out to be master director David Lean's final film. Subtle and grand at the same time, Lean's adaptation is faithful to the book, rendering its blend of the mystical and the all-too human with exquisite precision. Judy Davis plays a young British woman traveling in India with her fiancé's mother. While visiting a tourist attraction, she has a frightening moment in a cave--one that she eventually spins from an instant of mental ...
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