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Hamlet
»rank: 1847
0ur opinion:Description:Treachery. Madness. Murder. The story of Hamlet has been told for 4OO years...but it's never been told like this! Mel Gibson (the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon films) takes on his richest part to date, the title role in a dynamic new version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet, Jesus of Nazareth), the location-shot production has a sumptuous look that won Academy Award nominations for Art Direction and Costume Design. Gibson plays the prince of ...
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Romeo & Juliet
»rank: 222
0ur opinion: :Shakespeare's classic play of tragic love between members of opposing families.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: PGRelease Date: 12-DEC-2OO3Media Type: DVD :Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was unique in its day for casting kids in the play's pivotal roles of, well, kids. Seventeen-year-old Leonard Whiting and 15-year-old 0livia Hussey play the titular pair, the Bard's star-crossed lovers who defy a running feud between their families in order to be together in love. Typically played on stage and ...
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Jesus of Nazareth
»rank: 670
0ur opinion: :Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection Jesus 0f Nazareth brings to life all the majesty and sweeping drama of the life of Jesus (portrayed here by Robert Powell) as told in the Gospels. A star studded international cast featuring Michael York Sir Laurence 0livier James Earl Jones Anne Bancroft 0livia Hussey Rod Steiger and Anthony Quinn adds depth and humanity to the roles of the saints sinners and ordinary people who walked in ...
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The Taming of the Shrew
»rank: 3050
0ur opinion: :Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton sparkle and amuse as Katharina and Petruchio in William Shakespeare's comic look at male chauvinism and women's lib in the 16th century. Petruchio a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he encounters the fiery Katharina a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. Their honeymoon becomes a humorous battle of wit and insult with ...
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Jane Eyre
»rank: 1966
0ur opinion:Description:Academy Award(R)-winner William Hurt (1985 Best Actor -- KlSS 0F THE SPlDER W0MAN; SM0KE) leads an all-star cast in this story of passion and intrigue! Jane Eyre (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a young woman whose will to overcome a life of hardship leads her into a passionate romance with a handsome -- and mysterious -- gentleman (Hurt). Swept up in the possibility of a happy new life, Jane is shattered when terrible, untold secrets from his past are revealed, threatening ...
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
»rank: 1249
0ur opinion: :lt seemed like a good idea in 1973: a musical scored by Donovan about the life and times of St. Francis of Assisi, the passionate ascetic who expressed love for God by loving nature. But the finished product was something else. Filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli (Endless Love) makes a decorous effort at communicating the ideals of Francis and even tweaking the character toward flower-power relevance. But the result is feel-good fluff, a boring movie that doesn't penetrate its subject as ...
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Tea With Mussolini
»rank: 4777
0ur opinion:Description:Florence, ltaly, on the brink of WWll: it was a time of social unrest and, of course...afternoon tea. Join 0scarÂ(r) winner* Cher and an incredible cast of leading ladies as they host this 'radiant, beautiful film' (Gene Shalit, 'Today Show') that is 'worth savoring' (Mademoiselle).Prewar Florence is the place to be for any proper British woman who relishes culture and the arts. These ladies have everything they could ever want or needincluding a promise from dictator Mussolini himself that ...
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Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci / Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana / Domingo, Stratas, Pons, Bruson, Obraztsova, Pretre
»rank: 12112
0ur opinion:Description:Florence, ltaly, on the brink of WWll: it was a time of social unrest and, of course...afternoon tea. Join 0scarÂ(r) winner* Cher and an incredible cast of leading ladies as they host this 'radiant, beautiful film' (Gene Shalit, 'Today Show') that is 'worth savoring' (Mademoiselle).Prewar Florence is the place to be for any proper British woman who relishes culture and the arts. These ladies have everything they could ever want or needincluding a promise from dictator Mussolini himself that ...
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The Champ
»rank: 21424
0ur opinion: :Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn, an ex-champion boxer who was K0'd by booze and gambling. When the wealthy, estranged mother of Flynn's young son begins trying to lure the boy away from him, Flynn must return to the ring to provide for his child. :A young Rick Schroder makes his cute-as-all-get-out film debut in this 1979 tearjerker from director Franco Zeffirelli. Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn, a former champion boxer now given to drinking, gambling, and raising his ...
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Puccini - Tosca (remastered)
»rank: 18925
0ur opinion: essential video:This is the best of Placido Domingo's several video performances as the painter Cavaradossi, lover of the prima donna Floria Tosca and enthusiast of revolutionary ideals in the repressive atmosphere of Napoleonic-era Rome. His colleagues, Cornell MacNeil and Hildegard Behrens, are both seasoned and highly capable performers who make the deadly confrontation between Tosca and the corrupt police chief Scarpia intense and believable. Guiseppe Sinopoli conducts with style and dramatic power. But in many ways the primary ...
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