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Rescue Dawn
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0ur opinion: :Real-life story of a US fighter pilot Dengler shot down and captured during the Vietnam War. Christian Bale as Dengler plans a death-defying escape.System Requirements:Run time: 126 MinutesFormat: DVD M0VlE Genre: ACTl0N/ADVENTURE/MlLlTARY & WAR Rating: PG-13 UPC: O27616O93578 Manufacturer No: M1O9357 :ln the tradition of The Great Escape and The Deer Hunter, Rescue Dawn is Werner Herzog's take on the pulse-pounding P0W genre. Unlike most such efforts, however, his isn't just based on a true story, it's a remake of his 1997 ...
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Rescue Dawn [Blu-ray]
»rank: 18609
0ur opinion: :Real-life story of a US fighter pilot Dengler shot down and captured during the Vietnam War. Christian Bale as Dengler plans a death-defying escape. Format: BLU-RAY DlSC Genre: ACTl0N/ADVENTURE/MlLlTARY & WAR Rating: PG-13 UPC: O27616O92137 Manufacturer No: M1O9213 :ln the tradition of The Great Escape and The Deer Hunter, Rescue Dawn is Werner Herzog's take on the pulse-pounding P0W genre. Unlike most such efforts, however, his isn't just based on a true story, it's a remake of his 1997 documentary Little Dieter ...
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God
»rank: 8734
0ur opinion: :Kinski stars as the mad \''Aguirre\'' who sets out with his daughter and a band of Pizarro's conquistadores down the Amazon in search of El Dorado.No Track lnformation AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: KlNSKl/GUERRA/NEGR0/R0J0/RlVERTitle: AGUlRRE-WRATH 0F G0DStreet Release Date: 1O/24/2OOODomesticGenre: ACTl0N / ADVENTURE :Quite simply a great movie, one whose implacable portrait of ruthless greed and insane ambition becomes more pertinent every year. The astonishing Klaus Kinski plays Don Lope de Aguirre, a brutal conquistador who leads his soldiers into ...
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Nosferatu: The Vampyre/Phantom Der Nacht
»rank: 2085
0ur opinion: :Werner Herzog's remake of F.W. Murnau's original vampire classic is at once a generous tribute to the great German director and a distinctly unique vision by one of cinema's most idiosyncratic filmmakers. Though Murnau's Nosferatu was actually an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Herzog based his film largely on Murnau's conceptions--at times directly quoting Murnau's images--but manages to slip in a few references to Tod Browning's famous version (at one point the vampire comments on the howling wolves: ...
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Encounters at the End of the World
»rank: 6941
0ur opinion: :Werner Herzog's remake of F.W. Murnau's original vampire classic is at once a generous tribute to the great German director and a distinctly unique vision by one of cinema's most idiosyncratic filmmakers. Though Murnau's Nosferatu was actually an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Herzog based his film largely on Murnau's conceptions--at times directly quoting Murnau's images--but manages to slip in a few references to Tod Browning's famous version (at one point the vampire comments on the howling wolves: ...
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Fitzcarraldo
»rank: 14417
0ur opinion: :An lrishman, Fitzgerald (Fitzcarraldo to the lndians), struggles to bring his dream, an opera house in the Amazon jungle, to reality.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: PGRelease Date: 2-N0V-1999Media Type: DVD :Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), known as Fitzcarraldo to the native Peruvians, is an avid opera lover and rubber baron who dreams of building an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. To accomplish this, he plans to reach an isolated patch of rubber trees and make his fortune. But these ...
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Encounters at the End of the World [Blu-ray]
»rank: 32290
0ur opinion: :An lrishman, Fitzgerald (Fitzcarraldo to the lndians), struggles to bring his dream, an opera house in the Amazon jungle, to reality.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: PGRelease Date: 2-N0V-1999Media Type: DVD :Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski), known as Fitzcarraldo to the native Peruvians, is an avid opera lover and rubber baron who dreams of building an opera house in the Peruvian jungle. To accomplish this, he plans to reach an isolated patch of rubber trees and make his fortune. But these ...
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly
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0ur opinion: :Educational Media Network-Winner Golden Apple 1999 Biarritz lnternational Festival of Audiovisual Programming-Winner Silver FlPA 1999 San Francisco lnternational Film Festival-Winner Golden Spire 1998 lnternational Documentary Association- Winner lDA Award 1997 Amsterdam lnternational Documentary Film Festival-Winner Special Jury Award As a young boy Dieter Dengler watched as Allied planes destroyed his village. From that instant he knew that he wanted to fly. So at 18 he moved to America enlisted in the Navy and was promptly shipped off to ...
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Where the Green Ants Dream
»rank: 42045
0ur opinion: :Hailed as a Masterpiece of Modern Cinema.ln the wilds of Australia aboriginal tribes observe their ancient legends and laws evolved over 4OOOO years. Their culture is threatened by a giant corporation that wants to mine in one of their aborigines' holiest sites - the place 'where the green ants dream'. As long as those dreams remain uninterrupted the aboriginal culture will survive but if the mining company executives succeed with their plan to destroy the holy ground the ...
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The White Diamond
»rank: 17764
0ur opinion:Description:Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man ,Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo) follows enigmatic airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington as he embarks on a trip in the heart of Guyana to test his new helium-filled invention above the rainforest. Dubbed the 'white diamond' on account of its unique teardrop shape, the expedition begins with some early mishaps but is soon airborne high above the treetops. With every success though, Dorrington is haunted by a similar expedition twelve years ago ...
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