DVD: Ralph Cooper

DVD: Ralph Cooper

DVD:

Ralph Cooper

Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson

Warner Home Video, 2007

Classic
This is a classic movie that I saw in the theater, when it first came out. I just had to have a copy for my collection. The movie is just as good now as it was then.

Ball of Fire

Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck

MGM (Video & DVD), 2007

A sweet old comedy
Very corny but sweet black and white movie. A very enjoyable movie on a rainy afternoon.

Wuthering Heights (1992)

Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes

Paramount, 2003

Fiennes and Binoche, simply outstanding
The performance of Binoche and Finness in Wuthering Heights was amazingly powerful. People often criticize the movie, but, I believe, the director was extraordinarily faithful to the original story. All criticism was directed at how sadistic Heathcliff(Ralph Fiennes) ...

I'll Be There

Joseph Alessi, Ravi Aujla

Warner Home Video, 2004

Ferguson fans in for a treat
A film that's a lot of fun. If you're an admirer of Craig Ferguson, this will probably be one of your favorites. The story is good enough, the singing is fun and fine, Ferguson is a hoot and the ensemble cast brings it together well. Church's singing is beautiful. Not ...

The Duchess [Blu-ray]
Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes

Paramount, 2008

Dragonslayer

Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke

Paramount, 2003

If you loved 'The Lord of the Rings'.........
LOTR fans will plug right in to this 1981 film! Here we have sorcerers, dragons, rotten old kings, and VIRGINS (to be sacrificed!) *.* A very Dark Ages village must periodically sacrifice one of its beautiful young virgins to a local trouble-making dragon. The ...

The Duchess

Ralph Fiennes, Simon McBurney

Paramount, 2008

Lavish, Entertaining Period Drama
"The Duchess" is a wonderful costume drama based on the life of Princess Diana's ancestor Georgiana, the Duchess of Devonshire, who was celebrated and scandalous in her time, which was late 18th century England. Georgiana was given in an arranged marriage to the ...

The Funhouse

Elizabeth Berridge, Shawn Carson

Universal Studios, 2004

No one escapes the Funhouse!
This movie is awesome. This movie defines exactly what horror was during the late 70's and early 80's. Tobe Hooper directed an instant classic with this one. The movie follows a small group of teens who decide to camp out one night inside the local carnival's ...

The Dirty Dozen

Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine

Warner Home Video, 2005

Classic
This is a classic movie that I saw in the theater, when it first came out. I just had to have a copy for my collection. The movie is just as good now as it was then.

Kiss Me Deadly

Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker

MGM (Video & DVD), 2001

Kiss Me Deadly is Film Noir at Its Best.
American film director Robert Aldrich (1918-1983) is synonymous with great films like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), and The Dirty Dozen (1967). Based on the Mickey Spillane pulp mystery bestseller of the same name, ...

Intolerance

Mae Marsh, Robert Harron

Kino Video, 2002

INTOLERANCE
UN VERDADERO CLASICO DEL CINE UNA JOYA, OJALA LOS RALIZADORES DE ESTA EPOCA VIERAN ESTA PELICULA, QUE HECHA EN 1916 SUPERA A MUCHAS DE HOY CON TODA LA TECNOLOGIA QUE TIENEN PARA USAR, ESTO SI ERA CREACION....GRACIAS

The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell

Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford

Republic Pictures, 2003

A "heavy" film.
Although the family of the late General Mitchell did not approve the film, I think that gives a good example of the rigidness of the military mind - an attitude that has its pros and cons. In reality General Mitchell was more flamboyand and open-mouthed than the ...

Romeo and Juliet

Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard

Warner Home Video, 2007

pimple-free and genuinely moving
One of my favorite teaching units over the years has been comparing film versions of Shakespeare. My adult students preferred the "active gore" in Polanski's MACBETH over what I found to be the riches of the Densch/McKellan version, and similarly preferred the panting ...

David Copperfield (1935)

Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan

Warner Home Video, 2006

One of Those Great MGM Creations!
This is one of the best Dickens adaptations on film and is done in exquisite style by MGM, director George Cukor and producer David O. Selznick. MGM spared no expense on this one with actors Freddie Bartholomew, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edna May Oliver, W.C. Fields and ...

The Birth of a Nation

Spottiswoode Aitken, Mary Alden

Image Entertainment, 1998

Beware of those skeletons in your closet...
Throughout my cinematic life there has always been that one film that both critics and audiences have agreed, both time and again, to be one of the greatest films created. Upon watching sed film, I was unimpressed. It was grandiose alright, but a continued classic? ...