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Z
»rank: 5617
0ur opinion: :Costa-Gavras's Z, winner of the 197O Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, is a classic political thriller, combining intrigue with raw emotional power. The story turns on the investigation of the assassination of a left-wing Greek politician (Yves Montand), and his government's attempts to cover up the murky circumstances. Montand receives death threats as he prepares to give a speech condemning the government, and is then run down in front of numerous witnesses. Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist) plays the judge assigned to the investigation, who ...
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Goodbye Again
»rank: 12898
0ur opinion: :Costa-Gavras's Z, winner of the 197O Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, is a classic political thriller, combining intrigue with raw emotional power. The story turns on the investigation of the assassination of a left-wing Greek politician (Yves Montand), and his government's attempts to cover up the murky circumstances. Montand receives death threats as he prepares to give a speech condemning the government, and is then run down in front of numerous witnesses. Jean-Louis Trintignant (The Conformist) plays the judge assigned to the investigation, who ...
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The Wages of Fear
»rank: 3831
0ur opinion:Description:Clouzot's explosive, award-winning thriller is an exercise in pure terror. Yves Montand stars as one of four desperate drifters stranded in a squalid South American town where a U.S. oil company calls all the shots. For $2,OOO each, they'll risk their lives driving two truckloads of nitroglycerine 3OO miles over treacherous roads. essential video:Henri-Georges Clouzot's gripping 1953 thriller throws four men into a primal struggle against the jungle armed with modern machinery and their own nerves and endurance. The squalid, isolated South American town ...
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
»rank: 11416
0ur opinion: :When a psychiatrist (Yves Montand) begins talking to a young woman (Barbra Streisand), he realizes that she can recall a past life while under hypnosis. Although this brash New Yorker is thoroughly modern and somewhat abrasive, he becomes fascinated by the 19th-century English woman who speaks through her. This oddball musical flicks back and forth between period flashbacks and modern times, which may be one reason it never builds up much power in either realm. 0n a Clear Day You Can See Forever failed at ...
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State of Siege
»rank: 12235
0ur opinion: :When a psychiatrist (Yves Montand) begins talking to a young woman (Barbra Streisand), he realizes that she can recall a past life while under hypnosis. Although this brash New Yorker is thoroughly modern and somewhat abrasive, he becomes fascinated by the 19th-century English woman who speaks through her. This oddball musical flicks back and forth between period flashbacks and modern times, which may be one reason it never builds up much power in either realm. 0n a Clear Day You Can See Forever failed at ...
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Roads to the South
»rank: 8583
0ur opinion: :When a psychiatrist (Yves Montand) begins talking to a young woman (Barbra Streisand), he realizes that she can recall a past life while under hypnosis. Although this brash New Yorker is thoroughly modern and somewhat abrasive, he becomes fascinated by the 19th-century English woman who speaks through her. This oddball musical flicks back and forth between period flashbacks and modern times, which may be one reason it never builds up much power in either realm. 0n a Clear Day You Can See Forever failed at ...
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Grand Prix: Deluxe Letter - Box Edition
»rank: 6424
0ur opinion: essential video:Light on story, this 1966 spectacle directed by John Frankenheimer was shot in 7O millimeter, with a cinematically enthralling emphasis on unique, visceral new ways of capturing the sensations of a car race. James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, and Toshiro Mifune are part of the stellar, international cast whose characters plod through assorted relationship and business conflicts. But the film's real hook is the thrilling and inventive means by which Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) brings an urgency to the drama happening ...
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The Crucible
»rank: 20474
0ur opinion: essential video:Light on story, this 1966 spectacle directed by John Frankenheimer was shot in 7O millimeter, with a cinematically enthralling emphasis on unique, visceral new ways of capturing the sensations of a car race. James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Yves Montand, and Toshiro Mifune are part of the stellar, international cast whose characters plod through assorted relationship and business conflicts. But the film's real hook is the thrilling and inventive means by which Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate) brings an urgency to the drama happening ...
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Manon of the Spring
»rank: 15674
0ur opinion: :Less a sequel than a seamless continuation of its predecessor, Jean de Florette, Manon of the Spring brings with it a more epic scope as it depicts the growth to womanhood of the daughter (Emmanuelle Béart) of the doomed farmer of the first film. As she discovers the truth of what happened to her father as a result of the scheming of their neighbor (Yves Montand), who took the land for himself, she vows revenge, realizing that the neighbor's deeds have irrevocably shaped the course ...
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My Geisha
»rank: 8595
0ur opinion: :The charming Shirley MacLaine seems to be having a ball as Lucy Dell, a comic actress whose professional pride is wounded when her husband, film director Paul Robaix (Yves Montand), tells her that his next project, an adaptation of Madame Butterfly, is 'outside your range.' She secretly follows him to Japan, where, masquerading as a geisha named Yoko Mori, she lands the plum part. Further complicating matters is Lucy's costar (a miscast Bob Cummings), who falls in love with Yoko. Edward G. Robinson adds a ...
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