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• Amazon Sales Rank: #10242 in Movie
• Released on: 2009-06-09
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Running time: 109 minutes

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Saw a review copy – loved this entertaining comedy drama
There is a point in “The Girl Next Door – Unrated Edition’ (which I received and promptly devoured, extra’s and all, in one sitting) where the movie is in danger of changing in tone and focus from American Pie to Showgirls, but luckily for the movie – and viewers it recovers itself and ends in a definite teen comedy spirit.

I never saw this movie in the theater so I cannot comment on what has been added to this “unrated edition” but there is certainly quite a lot of nudity, but nothing involving the main actors. There are some graphoc scenes at a strip club (including lap dancing) and we get shots of one of the main actors watching a porn video at home. There are some nude scenes from behind of both principal actors Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert, but as Hirsch points out on Side B of the disc (where most of the extras are located) the movie used a stand-in for those shots.

I have a word of caution regarding the list of extra’s on the Amazon page. One is titled a scebne specific commentary bu Hirsch and Cuthbert. What we have here though is not a commentary for the whole movie from the two stars, but rather several scenes on the flip side of the disc in which the two actors both give separate commentary.

Largely (and unjustly) ignored at the box office this teen comedy starts of really well and within the first few moments had me rolling with laughter. The movie starts with a montage of sorts, we see the jocks, brains and cheerleader-types all stating, for their entry in the yearbook, what they “will always remember.”

Then there is Matt (played by Hirsch) who is pondering this question. Sure, he has had a successful academic career – as illustrated by his acceptance to Georgetown – but he really hasn’t done anything memorable in his senior year of high school.

That’s about to change for Matt though with the arrival next door of Danielle (played by Cuthbert), who mplays a breathtaking beauty house sitting for his neighbors.

Entranced by her Matt is unable to stop himself from watching Danielle undress in the window opposite his bedroom – but he is spotted. From that moment he is on a rollercoaster ride. Danielle, amused and evidently attracted to Matt, shows him the excitement of living on the edge, from running naked through the streets to moonlight skinny dipping in his school principal’s pool.

Just as everything seems to be going so well between Matt and Danielle, Matt is shocked when one of his best friends Eli (who is a connoisseur of porn movies and full of in-experienced sex advice) shows one of his porn movies – in which Danielle is the main star.

Foolishly following some of his friends advice, the two part company and moments later the movie changes tack and takes on a decidedly darker and more serious tone as Matt becomes sucked into the shadowy world of the pornographic movie industry. Initially charming and friendly towards Matt, Danielle’s producer and one-time boyfriend Kelly (played well by Timothy Olyphant) turns violent and antagonistic towards the youth who has his mind set on getting Danielle out of the industry.

This all comes to boiling point when the sleazy producer drugs Matt and sets him up for a robbery.

What follows is both inventive and highly amusing. How will Matt afford to get into Georgetown? What will become of Danielle? These are just some of the questions in this entertaining movie that borrows heavily and liberally from a number of the John Hughes movies of the 1980s and the AMERICAN PIE movies of more recent years. The movie ends on a high note in a conclusion that is both satisfying and enjoyable.

Now onto the part that most readers of this review are more interested in – the extra’s. On Side A of the disc we have an okay director’s commentary from director Luke Greenfield and an at times amusing and at other times fascinating trivia track.

Then on Side B of the disc we have the aforementioned seven to eight scene specific commentaries from Hirsch and Cuthbert (Hirsch curiously has one more) and deleted and extended scenes with optional directors commentary. None of these scenes are of any particular value to anyone but completists or fans of the movie. They add nothing to the feature, but do have a curiosity factor to them. They also chose the better of the two endings also.

Of more interest is an amusing featurette in which actor Chris Marquette (who plays Eli in the movie) poses as a porn producer and lures in all too interested men (there’e a cute blonde on the bed afterall) who get decidedly less interested (for the most part) when the girl is replaced by a big burly guy.

We are also offered a stills gallery and a VERY short gag reel as well as trailers for a couple of other like minded movies in addition to one promotional trailer for several other Fox titles. There is also a trailer for THE GIRL NEXT DOOR with the subtitle `Dirrrty,’ which in reality isn’t really that much of a big deal.

All in all, this is a good and entertaining movie, it seems to lose its footing half way through but successfully and engagingly returns to top form before the final credits roll. This is a definite must-buy for fans of the movie and the genre and certainly great entertainment

So, is it better in Blu-ray?
The honest answer is no.
And that is extensive to the unrated version of the movie.
Why? Ok let me se…

For a movie that is only 5 or 6 years old, the transfer shouldn’t look older than it does. The transfer is just a modest upgrade of the less-than-reference quality picture included on the original DVD.

Too much noise/grain and inconsistent color levels are the main offenders here, with the occasional edge enhancement creeping in as well. Night time and indoor scenes have the most issues, but our first reveal of Cuthbert in a wet, white shirt looks near-perfect, picture-wise. Colors are mostly set to a permanent dull hue, and in some instances are muddy, which is surprising given the quality of most Fox offerings. Trust me, this isn’t blu-ray quality.

So if you have the DVD version of it, stick to it and don’t change it for the Blu-ray version, you can even find a DVD unrated adaptation of it, plus you won’t loose money on it!

As for the extras and unrated part:

The 16 Deleted or Extended Scenes are definitely worth watching. You have a play all option with commentary from director Greenfield. One scene featured actress Amanda Swinton losing it when she had to put a condom on Klitz, who wore a fencing mask to do the scene. She struggles to keep a straight face and loses it at the end. Most were cut for pacing purposes, which is a shame, because a lot of these scenes had moments of genuine emotion that really humanized the movie. We also get the original ending that – get this – Greenfield cut because people at the test screenings thought Matthew was in the White House when he’s standing in front of the Capitol Building…anyways…

The movie’s first trip on Blu comes with most of the bonus content present on the unrated SD release.

* Audio Commentary by Luke Greenfield
* Scene Specific Commentary by Emile Hirsch
* Scene Specific Commentary by Elisha Cuthbert
* “The Eli Experience” Featurette
* “A Look Next Door” Making-Of Featurette
* Gag Reel
* Deleted and Extended Scenes (Including the Original Ending)
* Theatrical Trailer, “Dirty” Edition

The only extra missing from the previous SD release is the Pop-Up trivia track, but viewers aren’t missing much. The stand-outs here are the director’s commentary and “The Eli Experience” featurette. The unrated version is nine minutes longer, but they are nine minutes that do nothing for the movie but increase its running time, and pad it out with an extra few seconds of nudity. So for you people, that means the disc gets the DVD equivalent to a Cable Ace award.

“The Eli Experience” is a riot. Chris Marquette, who plays Eli, goes to the Adult Industry Expo, held during CES, and mingles with the porn stars. In a Howard Stern moment, hulking ex-pro wrestler Matt ‘Horshu’ Wiese walks up to men at the expo asking them if they want to make out with him. Man this has to be seen!

As for “A Look Next Door” is a standard making-of EPK, and the Gag Reel runs three minutes long as features many on-set screw ups. It’s funnier than most gag reels, but it’s not worth a repeat viewing.

The movie isn’t awful, but you would think the Blu-ray version is better than it really is. The direction is component, but unremarkable, the performances are fun but not unified, and the Blu is one of the weakest catalog titles Fox has released on the format so far. Watch the movie; it’s acceptable rainy day entertainment. But don’t trade in your DVD for the supreme BD experience, because it is not there. Ironically, most of us wouldn’t have seen the movie in the first place if they didn’t agree to casting Elisha Cuthbert.

Not the typical girl next door…..
This movie is mindless fun. It’s not as good as your “American Pie” or early 80′s sex comedies (i.e. Porky’s, Last American Virigin), but it does have a little bit of heart to go with all the overblown fluff.

Matthew Kidman (Emile Hirsch) is just your everyday average nerdy senior- whose never even gotten close to getting laid. He’s terribly envious of all the popular kids in school who seem to be having the time of their lives. Howver, he’s so out of their league that he really is quite pathetic.

Enter Danielle (Elisha Cuthbert) the new girl next door. After Mathew lamely busts himself by getting caught watching Danielle change by the window, and a quick act of revenge by Danielle, the two become friends.

Mathew is too much of a wimp to make a move on Danielle, but she eventually eases him out of his shell more and more each day. When at a party and one of the jocks begins hitting on Danielle, Matt finally makes his move and kisses Danielle.
Looks like the kid has some balls after all! Good job Matt.

Matt eventually finds out that Danielle is a washed up porn star, and she has moved in next door to start a new life as a clean and wholesome girl. That is until her ex boyfriend and manager Kelly (Timothy Olyphant)strolls into town to haul her off to the annual Las Vegas porn connection.

After Matt blows Danielles cover and makes her feel like the tramp she once was, she decides to high tail it with Kelly. Matt is completely whipped over her by this point and begs her not to go -but alas, she bails anyways.

Matts balls have gotten pretty big by now, and he takes off to rescue her from the clutches of her evil pimp. Eventually after Danielle returns home- Kelly comes back with a vengeance for Matt – causing him to lose the school funding he has been working on to bring a foreign exchange student to his school. He also manages to slip him some Ecstatsy – on the very night he has to give a speech in an attempt to gain the scholarship to college that he has worked so hard for.

Nerds and porn stars eventually come together to hatch a plan to raise the money once again – this time by making their own porno right at their very own school.

“The Girl Next Door” is the kind of movie I would have enjoyed a lot more as a teenager than as an adult. Now grown up- you realize how far from reality this kind of stuff is–but as a kid- this would have been a fantasy flick that I would have killed to see come true in my own life.

Overall stupid but enjoyable.

Recommended for all you nerdy/horny teens with big dreams and not much else…….

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“The Nun’s Fable” is probably Audrey Hepburn’s best film and by far the one which shows to best carry out her stout acting talent. It is the autobiographical story of Sister Luke, a very young Belgian nun, who enters the convent at age 17 for specifically the despicable reason: her doctor father refuses to let her marry the young man she loves because there is insanity in his family background. She won’t admit to him, as she is too young to admit it to herself, that her underlying reason in entering the convent was to spite her father, who believes women have a duty to marry and have children, but he is powerless to oppose her in this; he can prevent her from marrying her fiance, but who is he to defy God? Sister Luke, as played by Hepburn, wins us over instantly: she’s genuine, open-hearted, all or nothing, trying and failing and trying again, expecting too grand of herself, wanting to fit in to the routine of her cloister, but feeling stifled by its constraints. The atmosphere of the convent is brought so vividly to life that we feel the conflicts pulling her in opposite directions: the peace and serenity that are embodied in the Reverend Mother Emmanuel (Edith Evans is so titanic in this role that she doesn’t seem to be acting at all), and the incessant weight of seemingly arbitrary and nonsensical rules and regulations that attempt to crush all individuality and spontaneity. The pivotal conflict arises in the first half of the movie, when Sister Luke is asked by her Mother Excellent to fail a qualifying examination for a nursing post in the Congo so that a less gifted nun can have her location, and Sister Luke has to form a choice: her failure will be a gift from God, but her success in the examination will get her a station in the Congolese hospital where her talents can be most fully utilized. And this is where Sister Luke has to face her inner dilemma: the convent, with all its rules and regulations, hasn’t managed to crush her individuality — she is too noteworthy her hold person to let go of herself.

It is in the Congo that Sister Luke comes into her believe. She falls in fancy with the country and its people as soon as she steps off the boat. She is sent to the European hospital to befriend Dr. Fortunati, a incandescent, cynical surgeon who immediately sees through Sister Luke and understands her better than she understands herself. The meeting of minds between these two is awesome to stare and in itself makes the movie worth seeing. Dr. Fortunati, brilliantly played by Peter Finch, tells Sister Luke time and again that she will never be the kind of nun her convent expects her to be. The sexual tension between the two is evident but downplayed; Dr. Fortunati knows it’s impossible and Sister Luke simply refuses to answer it. The climax comes when Sister Luke is ordered abet to the mother house in Belgium, and we suspect that Dr. Fortunati may have had a hand in it, to force her to face up to the fact that she is more nurse than nun.

The year is 1939 and World War II is about to open. Sister Luke, chafing at the constraints of the mother house, is drawn into the war in ways her convent never imagined or would sanction. She assists a young lay nurse, who looks up to her as a role model, to work for the Resistance. She is gratified when a German woman dies in the convent hospital. And she is finally forced to look inside herself and realize that while she may be able to salvage chastity and poverty, obedience is impossible. At this point Sister Luke realizes she can no longer go on living a lie. The scenes in which her confessor and Reverend Mother Emmanuel attempt to dissuade her from leaving the convent are the most worthy in the film. “You joined the convent to be a nun, not a nurse”, remonstrates Reverend Mother. But this is precisely where she’s wrong; Sister Luke is grand more a nurse than she will ever be a nun. After 17 years at war with herself, Sister Luke signs the papers severing her from her convent, and goes out into the world.

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Hepburn’s performance in a role which demands so grand from her is incredible; we not only feel but section all her conflict and inner hurt. There is no diagram she could approach across as a wearisome, mousy nun (Hepburn would be drop-dead ravishing even in a burlap sack) but her acting is so convincing that we forget she is the radiant Audrey Hepburn and recognize her only as a soul in torment. Peter Finch is satisfactory as Dr. Fortunati and all of the minor characters are very well portrayed, but the right soul of the movie is Edith Evans as Reverend Mother Emmanuel, concerned with the spiritual health of her flock, and despairing yet fatalistic as one of her flock inexorably slips away. The movie is long (two and a half hours) but it’s never boring; it grabs our interest from the opening frame and holds it to the final frame in which Hepburn turns a corner out of the convent grounds and out of our survey. The one jarring sign, especially after 40 years, is the patronizing paternalism of the Belgian colonization in the Congo; except for the education and medical care provided by the Church, the cruelty of Belgian colonial occupation was legendary and makes us wonder what Sister Luke’s fate would have been if she had returned to the Congo after she left the convent. At the kill of the film we are left with stout respect and admiration for an incredibly strong yet fallible young woman whose trot to self-knowledge is a life-long project.

Audrey Hepburn is best known for her light romantic comedies. Everybody loves them. She dresses up in some Givenchy outfits and blows the audience away with her beauty and charm. In “The Nun’s Narrative” she completly sheds that image and immerses herself in the role of the conflicted Sister Luke, a Belgian nun torn by her obligations to her church and order, her duty to her patients as a nurse, and her duty to her country during the Nazi occupation.

This a long and very introspective film that is not for everyone. It contains a detailed survey at life in a Belgian convent and a Congo hospital in the years before WWII which may bore some people. Also some of Audrey’s fans looking for her as Princess Anne or Sabrina Fairchild or Holly Golightly may be disappointed to score only the definite, reserved, and prideful Sister Luke. (Although Audrey does beget glorious looking nun.) The length, the slowly paced style, the subject matter, and the original role for its star have combined to sustain it off the list of Audrey Hepburn’s best known films.

Personally, I believe this Audrey’s greatest dramatic performance and maybe her best performance ever. She very ably conveys Sister Luke’s inner conflict between her oath as a nun and her duties as a nurse, daughter, and Belgian citizen. That she is able to do so in a film that has long stretches where there is no dialogue is much. She was nominated for Best Actress for this role, and she more than deserved to collect, but came up short. “The Nun’s Yarn” illustrates that Audrey Hepburn certainly had the ability to flesh out dramatic characters and that she was more than impartial a charming and fair woman in a Givenchy outfit. She was a large actor as well.
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Paris is a city of light, lovers, art and beauty. And “Paris, Je T’aime” explores all the sides of the city in in eighteen brief fiolms, all region in various arrondissements of Paris, and directed by some brilliantly underrated directors. And they seem to be about cherish — often it’s a person, but each one is also an ode to Paris itself.

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A somewhat lonely Denver mailwoman (Margo Martindale) makes her first plug to Paris, and recounts how “I fell in adore with Paris, and Paris fell in esteem with me.” A mime spreads colour and mischief on his design to cherish. Two strangers topple in like in a bar. A medic learns that a dying man is in appreciate with her, and seeking her out inadvertantly led to his death at the hands of a racist gang.

A young boy leaves his misogynistic pals leisurely, to discover esteem with a young Muslim girl. A pair of British people visit the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere-Lachaise, an American actress falls for her drug dealer, and a young nanny’s irascible living conditions are a stark disagreement to that of the people she works for. All these — and more — are intertwined gently in the finale.

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But two stand out especially. Tom Tykwer’s includes a young blind man (Melchior Beslon) receiving a call from his American actress girlfriend (Natalie Portman) . She tells him, “Our spring was unbelievable but summer is over now and we missed out on autumn… our admire fell asleep, and the snow took it by surprise.” In his sorrow, he thinks succor to how they met, and how their relationship continued… and gets a surprise.

And Vincenzo Natali turns in a bloody, gothic esteem anecdote. A young American tourist (Elijah Wood) is walking alone at night, when he steps in a pool of blood. He follows the blood to where a stunning vampire (Olga Kurylenko) is slurping someone to death — only to have a sudden attraction bloom up between them. When he has a plunge, what will happen?

“Paris Je T’aime” has it all — comedy, tragedy, romance, racial tension, religion, vampires, sunlit vacations, glamour and cliches. Okay, there’s the occasional dud — “Tuileries,” about an American tourist by the Coen Bros., is unbiased lame. But since all the directors are given only about five minutes, most of them are limited, polished gems without any extraneous material.

Natali’s is colourless (except for blood) and eerie, Gurinder Chadha’s is shyly sweet and sunny, Richard LaGravenese’s is adorable, Craven’s is syrupy, and Tykwer’s is a heavenly web of camera tricks and blurred glimpses. Sylvain Chomet even charms us with mimes zooming through the streets. And each brings another dimension of Paris to life, from lush green parks to bars to the Eiffel Tower itself.

And the acting is objective as mammoth — the immense Juliette Binoche, Seydou Boro, Catalina Moreno, Marianne Faithfull, Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, and the adorable Melchior Beslon. Martindale deserves special praise for her sweetly realistic portrayal of an American tourist, and Portman is brilliantly vibrant as a girl who yells a lot. And Elijah Wood turns out a smart performance in total silence, managing to verbalize apprehension, mischief, eroticism and savor.

“Paris Je T’aime” is a collection of petite gems, with the occasional wearisome pebble thrown in — shiny directors, emotionally charged stories, and gigantic acting. Enchanté!

Paris is a city of light, lovers, art and beauty. And “Paris, Je T’aime” explores all the sides of the city in in eighteen brief fiolms, all state in various arrondissements of Paris, and directed by some brilliantly underrated directors. And they seem to be about savor — often it’s a person, but each one is also an ode to Paris itself.

A somewhat lonely Denver mailwoman (Margo Martindale) makes her first swagger to Paris, and recounts how “I fell in care for with Paris, and Paris fell in appreciate with me.” A mime spreads colour and mischief on his method to care for. Two strangers topple in savor in a bar. A medic learns that a dying man is in cherish with her, and seeking her out inadvertantly led to his death at the hands of a racist gang.

A young boy leaves his misogynistic pals gradual, to peruse fancy with a young Muslim girl. A pair of British people visit the tomb of Oscar Wilde in Pere-Lachaise, an American actress falls for her drug dealer, and a young nanny’s nasty living conditions are a stark dissimilarity to that of the people she works for. All these — and more — are intertwined gently in the finale.

But two stand out especially. Tom Tykwer’s includes a young blind man (Melchior Beslon) receiving a call from his American actress girlfriend (Natalie Portman) . She tells him, “Our spring was astonishing but summer is over now and we missed out on autumn… our like fell asleep, and the snow took it by surprise.” In his sorrow, he thinks befriend to how they met, and how their relationship continued… and gets a surprise.

And Vincenzo Natali turns in a bloody, gothic adore memoir. A young American tourist (Elijah Wood) is walking alone at night, when he steps in a pool of blood. He follows the blood to where a graceful vampire (Olga Kurylenko) is slurping someone to death — only to have a sudden attraction bloom up between them. When he has a drop, what will happen?

“Paris Je T’aime” has it all — comedy, tragedy, romance, racial tension, religion, vampires, sunlit vacations, glamour and cliches. Okay, there’s the occasional dud — “Tuileries,” about an American tourist by the Coen Bros., is impartial lame. But since all the directors are given only about five minutes, most of them are limited, polished gems without any extraneous material.

Natali’s is colourless (except for blood) and eerie, Gurinder Chadha’s is shyly sweet and sunny, Richard LaGravenese’s is adorable, Craven’s is syrupy, and Tykwer’s is a pretty web of camera tricks and blurred glimpses. Sylvain Chomet even charms us with mimes zooming through the streets. And each brings another dimension of Paris to life, from lush green parks to bars to the Eiffel Tower itself.

And the acting is honest as vast — the tall Juliette Binoche, Seydou Boro, Catalina Moreno, Marianne Faithfull, Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu, and the adorable Melchior Beslon. Martindale deserves special praise for her sweetly realistic portrayal of an American tourist, and Portman is brilliantly vibrant as a girl who yells a lot. And Elijah Wood turns out a shimmering performance in total silence, managing to instruct awe, mischief, eroticism and appreciate.

“Paris Je T’aime” is a collection of cramped gems, with the occasional monotonous pebble thrown in — knowing directors, emotionally charged stories, and tremendous acting. Enchanté!
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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1435 in Movie
• Released on: 2008-12-01
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Running time: 120 minutes

Hanks and Ryan Shine in a Slick But Charming Internet-Based Romance Ten Years Later in a Deluxe Edition DVD
A 10th Anniversary DVD seems a bit vaunted for this familiar 1998 romantic comedy since it continues to play repeatedly on TBS and other cable outlets. It’s no wonder since Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan have the kind of ingratiating rapport that makes it easy to slip into one of their movies no matter what part you find yourself watching. Directed by the acerbic Nora Ephron, who helmed 1993′s Sleepless in Seattle with the same pair, this movie gleams with the same kind of good-natured, Hollywood-style gloss that made the previous outing a hit. However, the pieces fit a little too perfectly for me, so much so that it feels packaged for maximum audience appeal. It really takes the combined skills of Hanks and Ryan to make this palatable, even likable, but it’s not without its challenges.

As with Sleepless in Seattle, Ephron, along with her sister Delia as co-screenwriter, attempts to update a tried-and-true film classic, this time Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner (1940), about two people who are concurrently in an antagonistic professional relationship and also anonymous pen-pals fantasizing who the other may be in real life. The novelty this time is that the story takes place at the dawn of the Internet age when people automatically set up AOL accounts with incognito screen names. E-mail and instant messaging have replaced the need for the postal system to exchange anticipated love letters. The story focuses on Joe Fox, one of the wealthy owners of a mega-bookstore chain called Fox Books, a doppelganger for Borders or Barnes & Noble. On Manhattan’s Starbucks-saturated Upper West Side, he is opening one of his monstrous stores in the vicinity of The Shop Around the Corner, a specialty children’s bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly.

Much of the movie has to do with her attempts to defend her antiquated turf and ward off the inevitable cannibalization of her small business. I actually found this part of the movie entertaining with nice tweaks in the verbal interplay on corporate greed. I especially liked the sharply scripted scene in the coffeehouse when Kathleen succinctly puts down Joe’s business intentions. The other side of the film is the burgeoning love story between Joe and Kathleen on AOL where under their screen names `NYC152′ and `Shopgirl’, they find themselves bonding and falling in love. Similar to what occurs in the original movie and the Judy Garland musical remake, In the Good Old Summertime, Joe finds out who `Shopgirl’ is before Kathleen realizes that he is `NYC152′, allowing for an extended courting sequence from Kathleen’s sickbed through the Union Square Greenmarket and other locales.

Hanks is a more avuncular presence as Joe and not as manically funny as usual except for a funny scene where he attempts to hide his identity in her bookstore. As Kathleen, Ryan is sometimes on twinkle overdrive, but she manages to come back to her innate malleability as an actress, a quality not all that common among the subsequent generation of rom-com heroines (for example, Kate Hudson in How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days or Hilary Swank in P.S., I Love You). Most importantly, even when the material feels like retread, the pair has definite chemistry. The supporting cast is adept and filled with strong players – Parker Posey as Joe’s self-obsessed book editor girlfriend Patricia, Greg Kinnear as Kathleen’s intellectually pompous boyfriend Frank, a young Dave Chappelle as Joe’s colleague Keith, Jean Stapleton as Kathleen’s eccentric partner.

The 2008 Deluxe Edition DVD maintains all the features of the previous 1999 DVD, specifically an entertaining commentary track by Ephron and producer Lauren Shuler Donner, a brief HBO short with Ephron, a music video of Carole King’s “Anything at All”, a music-only audio track, and an interactive tour of the filming locations in New York’s Upper East Side. Unfortunately, there are no deleted or expanded scenes offered in either the old or new DVD releases. The print transfer on the new DVD is clean and vibrant, and there are two new featurettes offered as part of the package. The first is “Delivering You’ve Got Mail” where Hanks and Ryan – both looking good but not overly engaged – reminisce about the filmmaking experience a decade later. The second, “You’ve Got Chemistry”, is really more about romantic comedy as a genre rather than anything particular about this production.

Bouquets of sharpened pencils, indeed
Here’s the main and completely irrelevant reason to love this movie: New York City in the fall. Honestly, it should have no bearing whatsoever on the plot, but it does — and it’s impossible not to fall in love with the bright, sunshiny, orange-leaved sheer beauty of the city encapsulated in this movie. Without even resorting to shots of Central Park in all its glory (and really, who can resist that?), “You’ve Got Mail” takes you on a lovely scenic tour of the Upper West Side, Starbucks and all. Who can resist the street fairs, the parks, the stores, the dock? It’s picture-perfect, and if it’s a bit surreal, I won’t admit it: New York really is rather lovely in the fall.

Aside from making me want to run away to the Big Apple and work in the children’s section at Fox Books, “You’ve Got Mail” also features Meg Ryan at her most adorable (“Aren’t daisies just the friendliest flower?”), Tom Hanks at his most charming, and a terrific supporting cast (Greg Kinnear and those typewriters!). The story, a modernized little “remake” of “The Shop Around The Corner”, is more fairy tale than realism — two people fall in love over email, in war in real life, and however can such a thing be solved — but it’s an enchanting story nonetheless. In a time when romance on the web seems all-too-seedy and in reality, sometimes frankly dangerous, this little tale of two people sharing their most intimate thoughts long before they share a single glance is like a breath of fresh air. Sure, the technology’s a little faded, but the magic’s still there.

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Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks shine in this romantic comedy. This is the second time this duo have performed together (Sleepless in Seattle). Perhaps that helps create the smooth natural tone of the interactions between the two. Ryan plays a bookstore shop owner…a tiny little store first run by her mother. Hanks company is building a huge bookstore chain in the same neighborhood. The two cannot stand each other. Besides their business lives, the two are both chatting with an interesting person through the internet and believe they are falling in love with the person. Little do they know, it is really each other! Will they meet? And if they do, will they fall in love or be shocked and disturbed? Watch the movie to find out what happens!

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The last season of one of television’s funniest sitcoms aired from September 1991 to May 1992. The episodes include:

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Hey, Glance Me Over – Rose finds an customary camera with undeveloped film in it that belonged to her husband Charlie. When she develops the film, she is haunted to seek photos of Charlie in bed with Blanche.

The Case of the Libertine Belle – The girls pick fraction in a execute mystery weekend.

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Beauty and the Beast – Blanche wants her granddaughter to compete in a Tiny Miss Beauty Contest.

That’s For Me To Know – Dorothy finds a mysterious wedding photo in Sophia’s collection and demands to know who the groom is. Blanche must obtain expensive repairs to her home or loose a renter.

Where’s Charlie? – Rose is convinced that Charlie is sending her messages that he disapproves of her relationship with Miles. Blanche dates a baseball player.

Mother Load – Blanche dates a newscaster with a meddling mother. Stan wants Dorothy to grasp him succor.

Dateline: Miami – The girls reminisce about some of their worst dates.

The Monkey House (2 parts) – During a hurricane, Blanche and Rose fill a telethon to put a lighthouse. Dorothy discovers that Stan is dating her sister Gloria.

Rose Loves Mile – Rose gets tired of Mile’s penny-pinching and decides to date other men. Blanche looks after Sophia while Dorothy is away.

Room 7 – The girls accompany Blanche to Atlanta where she tries to set aside her grandmothers plantation. One of the funniest episodes ever!

From Here to the Pharmacy – A man returning from the Persian Gulf says Blanche made a promise to him but she doesn’t remember him. Rose helps Sophia prepare her will.

The Pope’s Ring – Sophia visits the Pope who has approach to Miami. Blanche hires a detective for Rose to contemplate on Miles.

Old Boyfriends – Rose meets an ancient boyfriend from St. Olaf but can’t remember him.

Goodbye Mr. Gordon – Dorothy starts dating an broken-down high school teacher. Rose starts a talk expose.

The Commitments – Blanche is terrified about her looks when she can’t earn a man to go to bed with her. Dorothy dates a Beatle impersonator.

Questions and Answers – Dorothy goes on Jeopardy and annoys everyone.

Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan – Dorothy and Stan are convicted of being negligent

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Journey to the Center of Attention – Blanche takes Dorothy to the Rusty Anchor and but becomes jealous when Dorothy starts singing and attracting the men’s attention.

A Midwinter Night’s Dream (2 parts) My personal popular episode! Blanche throws a Moonlight Madness party and Sophia tries to wreck a curse.

Rose: Portrait of a Woman – Blanche convinces Rose to select boudoir photos of herself to spice up her relationship with Miles.

Home Again Rose (2 parts) – The girls fracture a high school reunion where Rose ends up having a heart attack.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (2 parts) – Dorothy becomes engaged to Blanche’s uncle Lucas Hollingworth (Leslie Neilsen) .

At long last, the seventh and final season of “The Golden Girls” will finally be out on DVD. It’s been spacious watching the first six seasons of this truly incredible sitcom on DVD, shown honest like it did when it first aired on NBC. Upright, there are a couple of episodes from seasons four, five, and six that featured some brief editing while seasons one, two, and three were beautiful grand edit free. The brief editing was a petite disappointing, but nothing like the hack job that Lifetime has done to the episodes that have aired on the cable network for years.

SEASON SEVEN (1991-92)

Season Seven of “The Golden Girls” is unbiased a notch below Season Six. Season Six was a fair well-behaved season, though not quite as beneficial as the first five seasons. Season Seven was in my concept the weakest season of the show’s seven year race, but that doesn’t acquire it a completely poor season. There were episodes that made me laugh out loud; there were episodes that were marginally funny; and there were episodes that weren’t as comical as they should’ve been. But the present made a very strong comeback to raze the series with the last two episodes: the next-to-last episode (a two-parter) and of course the final one hour episode that ended the series’ seven year rush.

The best episodes of Season Seven include: the girls going on a assassinate mystery weekend and Dorothy becoming a detective when a actual slay occurs and Blanche is the prime suspect; Dorothy hiring a nurse to care for Sophia while Blanche enters her granddaughter into a kids beauty pageant; Stan going into therapy in trying to back him forget about Dorothy; a hurricane hitting Miami while Dorothy’s sister Gloria visits; the girls traveling to Atlanta so that Blanche can obtain an attempt to assign her grandmother’s plantation; Sophia starts to date a man she met through the personals column only to be distracted by his sister who goes with them everywhere on their dates; Dorothy starts dating one of her high school teachers, while she and Blanche go on a talk-show that Rose is working for to talk about what it’s like living together as roommates, only to pick up out at the beginning of the prove that they are inaccurate as lesbians, which infuriates them in the process; Dorothy trying to come by on the game prove “Jeopardy!”; and Blanche challenging Dorothy out for a night on the town at Blanche’s celebrated bar, and Dorothy becoming the center of attention with her terrific singing talent.

And of course there are those final two episodes, which work brilliantly not objective for the laughs, but for the drama too. The two-part next-to-last episode, titled “Home Again, Rose” is an episode that combines huge laughs with high drama. In this episode, Rose suffers a heart attack that requires serious initiate heart surgery. It’s one of the most seriously dramatic episodes of “The Golden Girls”, but it does acquire some upbeat hilarious moments. The high laughable point of the episode: Rose’s dream that she, Dorothy, and Blanche all have their heads frozen. This scene is a humorous masterpiece as the three ladies peek absolutely ridiculous with their heads sticking up through the kitchen table simultaneously. And then there’s the final episode: “One Flew Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest”, in which Dorothy finds accurate treasure with Blanche’s Uncle Lucas (played by Leslie Nielsen), and in the kill decides to marry him, which in the process breaks up the passe gang. The final scene of “The Golden Girls” is so touching that it brought a hump to my glimpse when it aired support on May 9, 1992. It was a incredible ending to a amazing prove.

Before the beginning of the seventh season of “The Golden Girls”, Beatrice Arthur announced that the seventh season would be her last. She apparently had had enough, and wanted to fade on to other things. One major change the expose had to endure for Season Seven was a recent time slot. For its first six seasons “The Golden Girls” aired on NBC in the same time slot: Saturday nights – 9 p.m. Eastern/8 p.m. Central, and all six seasons the exhibit finished each season in the Nielsen Top 10. For Season Seven, “The Golden Girls” continued to air on Saturday nights, but got moved up an hour to 8 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Central. This disappear backfired, and the display fell out of the Nielsen Top 10 for the first time in the show’s history. As a result, the display ended after its seventh season. But it didn’t raze for Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty. They went on to reprise their roles in the “Golden Girls” sequel point to “The Golden Palace.”

For its final season, “The Golden Girls” didn’t fare well at the Emmys. It only received three nominations for its last season, and for the first and only time it did not receive a nomination as Best Comedy Series. Betty White and Estelle Getty were nominated again as Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively. White and Getty were nominated for all seven seasons. The other nomination it got for Season Seven was for a technical category which it won. So for its seven seasons “The Golden Girls” finished with a total of 68 Emmy nominations and 11 Emmy wins. Very impressive.

“The Golden Girls” always has and always will be my current demonstrate. Some substantial shows have preceded it (“Soap”, “All in the Family”) ; other immense shows have followed it (“Desperate Housewives”, “House”) . But nothing will ever top “The Golden Girls”. It’s the best TV expose ever made.

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“So Proudly We Hail”, often comes in for more than it’s radiant fragment of criticism over it’s depiction of the qualified work carried out by nurses in the South Pacific during World War Two. Mention is made of the nurses looking like they have fair stepped out of the beauty parlour with makeup and hair all looking perfect. I’m always mystified by that reaction as I feel this production goes a long draw towards depicting the succor breaking and often extremely hazardous work that nurses carried out during the war in the Pacific. The film was made with the very best of intentions at a time when the outcome of the war was composed far from positive. Criticism has also been leveled at the propaganda inherent in parts of the script. Once again one has to plan this film in it’s time and situation and if it motivated people to feel patriotic about their country in time of war and at least partly informed the movie going public about some of the work of wartime nurses then that is a job well done in my thought.

“So Proudly We Hail”, traces the stories of 9 nurses from the time they leave San Francisco through the trials and tribulations of their service with the armed services in the South Pacific. Three in particular are focused on, team leader Lt. Janet Davidson (Claudette Colbert), vivacious Lt. Joan O’Doul (Paulette Goddard) and inwardly tormented Lt. Olivia D’Arcy ) Veronica Lake) . Their stories are interwoven through the valid life action of the group first being sent to Hawaii and then after a torpedo raid which sinks some of their companion vessels, being removed to the Bataan and Correigador regions where they care for and then attend evacuate the military and civilian wounded. The saga ends with the remains of their party being evacuated after worthy loss and suffering to Australia before embarking for home at the demolish of their tour of duty. The women experience all the deprivations of war and personal loss along the plan as Lt. Davidson falls in care for with Lt. John Summers (George Reeves) only to live in daily scare of him being killed while composed having a job to do as the team’s main source of strength. Lt. O’Doul (Paulette Goddard) experiences similiar feelings for “Kansas” (Sonny Tufts), the gangly soldier who wins her heart and in the most tragic spot Lt. D’Arcy who confronts customary demons and the loss of her fiance at the hands of the Japanese. Many hideous incidents darken the daily grind of the nurses work such as regular bombing of their medical camp by the enemy and having to experience all the distress and suffering of wartime casualties and death of loved ones. Each woman is touched in some plan by her involvement in the action and emerges the better for her experience. We watch the women work under not only unsafe conditions but in those that would test the sanity of the strongest person with daily shortages of supplies, shelter and food a constant feature in the daily work.

The film places large emphasis on the inner strength of the individual under fire whether it be soldier, nurse or wounded civilian. In this respect the film could never be judged superficial as many loyal life elements of this period are tied into the memoir. Much scenes abound in “So Proudly We Hail”, a standout is the scene during the evacuation of the camp when the nurses are stranded in one of the huts under fire and the true life treatment of war nurses in Nanking is mentioned as a telling reminder of the brutality of war. Lt. D’Arcy’s ultimate self sacrifice for the safe of the group tranquil is a scene that packs a precise punch with it’s graphic depiction of a suicide killing of enemy soldiers. All three lead actresses are standouts in their gain current design. Claudette Colbert delivers yet another mighty and totally convincing performance as the leader of the group. Long associated with extremely glamourous roles here she portrays a character forced under dreadful conditions to collected be strong for the sake of her nurses. Paulette Goddard in an Academy Award nominated performance is safe as the flighty mantrap with only men on her mind who develops into a responsible and dedicated nurse as her wartime experiences deepen her character. Veronica Lake also minus her o usual glamourous persona is effective in her role as the bitter nurse who is out to punish all Japanese because of the loss she has suffered. Despite the reported tension between Claudette Colbert and Paulette Goddard during filming none of that shows on veil as the main three actresses work very effectively together as the one team. One last standout in the cast is actress Mary Servoss who plays Capt. “Ma” McGregor the lead of the camp and in ultimate charge of all nursing staff. Her handsome scene where she faces the death of her wounded son is a stunner and the emotional highlight of the whole film.

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Passed off as Hollywood’s removed conception of what war is like, “So Proudly We Hail”, offers mighty more than that and contrary to well-liked opinion in a number of scenes where appropriate, the women do present what the wear and ride of war work does to the individuals. I pick up the film a noteworthy depiction of war and the dread it causes. Mixed with horrific scenes such as Lt. D’Arcy’s suicide are curious ones like the simple Christmas celebration on the boat and the scenes showing operations being conducted factual in the middle of air raids. These can’t wait on to recede the viewer and instill even in the most hardened cynic a thought in the basic worthy of man. A apt fable is how I would picture “So Proudly We Hail”, and a film I recommend to anyone who believes in the power of a person’s inner strength to beat outside adversity.

If they are bringing THE HIGH AND THE Noteworthy to DVD finally, then maybe it’s time to unravel the complications surrounding this film and feature it on DVD. SO PROUDLY WE HAIL is one of the greatest of all war movies, and because it is told from a woman’s point of belief (so to shriek, it composed had a male director in the person of Trace Sandrich) it is sometimes ridiculed and derided, usually by armchair critics who should wobble a mile in a nurse’s shoes before doughty to denigrate her bravery under fire.

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Claudette Colbert plays Janet Davidson. An fresh choice for a nurse, Colbert eschews most of her usual glamor (except for the San Francisco embarkation) and really gives herself to the share. Colbert is often generous when she has to play against strong women, and here Sandrich surrounds her with a gallery of independent types, the contrivance Francois Ozon made Catherine Deneueve shine in the original 8 1/2 WOMEN. Janet is a born leader even though she can only be photographed on one side of her face, which somewhat limits her utilitarian duty during battle scenes. Even covered with grime and jungle grease, Colbert collected can turn heads, and when she meets George Reeves, the sparks ignite, hot enough to burn Corregidor down to the ground.

Veronica Lake plays up her sunless side playing Lieutenant D’Arcy, a time bomb unbiased waiting to explode. Often seen as soignee and inviting, with that cute fringe of hair playing peekaboo with her eyes, Lake here is going for a Cornell Woolrich-style vengeance against the Japanese. If Tarantino had made Waste BILL in the 1940s Lake would have beat Uma Thurman in the role easily. She’s hotter than a pistol and she’s Ms. 45.

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Paulette Goddard has, I assume, the most bright role and I agree with other reviewers who say this is Goddard’s best allotment. While Colbert and Lake really unbiased bear the same acting state throughout the movie, Goddard’s character has to change, so that viewers peep her passe from a skim by night flapper with only men on her mind, to a woman with a heart who lives to support others, not unprejudiced trace them with her oomph. It’s harder than it looks to stride that line, but Goddard pulls it off without a whimper. Often cast as the sexpot pure and simple, or the gold-digging mantrap she apparently was in steady life, Goddard is entirely persuasive in her role, and like Lake, she’s a natural at action scenes. I want her to be my nurse. Her romance with “Kansas” is kind of cute too.

All in all, an underrated movie with the kind of site that screws in deeper and deeper, unbearably tight, like DAS BOOT, except area in the Pacific.
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I’ve been waiting to watch a decent print of FINIAN’S RAINBOW for sometime. Though not an all-time popular, I do like the rep, and I’m a great Petula Clark fan. Other video versions I’ve seen were abominable pan-scan versions with immoral color and dreadful sound. Warners has done the film justice. Widescreen, 5.1 Surround and a lunge down memory lane with Francis Ford Coppola, the director.

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An exciting stamp, this is the first time I am aware of where the lead actress in the film has dubbed the foreign language track. Petula Clark, being a ample singer in several languages, had a large French-language career going at this time, parallel to her English-language one. Also being an actress from childhood, she fits perfect as Sharon here. However, this is the first time I’ve heard her French vocals of the pick up, as well as the dialog. The male leads are other artists (one doing a unpleasant Chevalier for Astaire), but it is definitely Petula in French, as well as the unique English soundtrack. This is an absolute treat and collectible for all Petula fans around the world.

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Opening on Broadway in 1947 with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y. “Yip” Harburg (who wrote the lyrics for 1939′s THE WIZARD OF OZ), FINIAN’S RAINBOW was an unexpected break that generated one pop classic after another–”How Are Things In Glocca Morra?,” “Stale Devil Moon,” and “Contemplate To The Rainbow” to name but three. But when talk turned to a film version, not a single studio in Hollywood would touch it: although the anecdote was fantasy, it was also extremely satirical, contained elements that had a decidedly socialist edge, and made one of the most wickedly comical statements on racism seen up to that time. With Hollywood operating under the production code and the nation drifting into the communist paranoia of the 1950s, the whole thing was impossibly hot. And so FINIAN’S RAINBOW remained off the hide for over twenty years… until 1968, when a sudden splash of current shroud musicals prompted Warner Brothers to bankroll it.

The place is deliberately ridiculous, and finds Irishman Finian McLonergan (Fred Astaire) and his long suffering daughter Sharon in Tennessee, where Finian plans to bury a crock of gold stolen from a leprechan (Tommy Steele) on the theory that the land around Fort Knox will form the gold grow. But things retract an unexpected turn when they come in Rainbow Valley, where they encounter a commune-like community of sunless and white tobacco sharecroppers who are doing battle with a viciously bigoted Senator (Keenan Wynn.) And when daughter Sharon is outraged by the Senator’s racism and happens to be standing by the hidden crock of gold–she accidentally “wishes” the Senator murky!

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Unlike the 1947 stage display, the gigantic conceal version of FINIAN’S RAINBOW tanked at the box office, and it is cramped wonder: both producers and then-novice director Francis Ford Coppola made a host of very basic mistakes with the material, the first of which was not keeping the film consistently within its unusual 1940s context; they instead give it a ‘contemporary’ tone that not only undercuts the fanciful storyline but makes many of the story’s elements seem heavy-handed. In the process they manage to blunt the edge of the recent in a very considerable sort of device. There are also a number of cinematic problems with the movie, which feels awkwardly filmed and smooth more awkwardly edited, and the film visibly shifts between outdoor set-ups and studio soundstage sets in a very unfortunate sort of blueprint.

All of that said, there is detached a mountainous deal to indulge in in FINIAN’S RAINBOW–the aforementioned obtain for one and the truly memorable performances for another. Astaire is timeless, Tommy Steele almost walks away with the indicate, Keegan Wynn–in spite of some rather ill-advised make-up–gives a memorable performance as the bigoted Senator, and Al Freeman Jr. is absolutely hilarious in the sequence where he applies for the job of butler in the Senator’s home–I laugh honest thinking about it! But the trusty revelation here is Petula Clark. Best known as a pop singer, Clark is perfection as Sharon McLonergan; it is a spacious pity that she was never again so well-cast on hide. And together they manage to gloss over most of the film’s weaknesses; if you’re a musical fan, you’re likely to delight in it.

A word of warning, however. At exhibit, FINIAN’S RAINBOW exists only on videotape, and while the VHS release is not dreadful per se, it is also pan-and-scan. Admittedly, the cinematography wasn’t distinguished to commence with, but purists (of which I am one when it comes to ratios) will be frustrated.
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I am writing this review on Oscar Nomination morning (although due to the fact that I refuse to post a review until the DVD has dropped you will be reading this mighty later) mostly due to my elation that it has been nominated for not only the agreeable performance by Kate Winslet (in the good category mind you) but also for Best Characterize, Best Director and Adapted Screenplay. I’ve been chomping at the bit to write this review ever since I walked out of the theater a few weeks wait on, and since then I’ve seen the film a represent three times and I would notice it again apt now if I could. I’ve pondered this film, discussed this film, relived this film and can honestly designate it the best film of the year and quite possibly one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time.

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Sure, you can be rapidly to pinpoint it’s supposed faults, and you can try and sign it something that it is not, but if you allow your eyes to launch and your mind to enjoy you may be able to peek this for what it really is; a masterpiece.

When sitting down to write this review I asked my friend how I was going to be able to do so without being redundant or irritating. I mean, how many different ways can you say masterpiece before someone says “I fetch the point, now go on”? I’m going to try and catch all that out of the map upright now so that my review will be savory.

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`The Reader’ is a masterpiece.

Okay, I’m done now.

Having read Bernhard Schlink’s glowing recent I was really anticipating this film. I feel that Kate Winslet is the finest working actress today and this impartial seemed like such an ideal role for her (Oscar, if you pass her over this year I bid to never stare another telecast) . I of course try and shrug off all `high expectations’, and thankfully with `The Reader’ there was no hype. It hasn’t been hailed as the best of anything, and while it has landed on a few top ten lists it rarely breaks stop to the top. The reviews have been mixed, some raving it as a masterpiece, some labeling it a faux; an imitation of a more insightful film. The only awards the film has garnered up until the point have been for Winslet so walking into the film, I was not feeding into hype.

I was simply hoping to inspect a excellent movie.

The film tells the record of Michael Berg, a young fifteen year conventional boy living in Post-WWII Germany. One day while making his blueprint home he falls ill and is helped abet by an older woman named Hanna. After waiting out his illness he attempts to thank Hanna but he winds up falling into a steamy affair. The two bond over books, using reading as a manufacture of foreplay, and the two become almost inseparable. Then for no apparent reason Hanna leaves town without a word and Michael is left wondering why his only admire has left him. Years later while Michael is attending law school he gets the opportunity to sit in on a trial being held over war crimes and is skittish, and ultimately heartbroken, to watch Hanna is one of the accused.

First and foremost it should be addressed that this is not your typical Holocaust film, for quite frankly the Holocaust is the least impressionable portion of this film. The film, like the current, deals strongly with the feelings of guilt and redemption. There is a apt play that runs throughout each scene that begs the audience to cast judgment, but not in an absolute design but in a more complex and plan map. `The Reader’ has no easy answers, but it throws at the audience a bit of a conundrum. It reminds me very distinguished of `Dead Man Walking’, a film that appears to have such an easy reply yet causes you to rip apart your contain ideals.

I am keeping SPOILERS to a minimum here, but be forewarned that there may be a few.

When we meet Michael and Hanna they seem like an weird match. He is obviously better off financially than she is. He is attending school and is doing rather well. Hanna is working a humdrum ruin job and living in a miniature apartment. Her education is minute but her yearning for more is apparent. There is an attraction physically, which cannot be denied. While Hanna is rough due to the nature of her life she is a diamond in the rough, a pretty woman trapped within the shell of her archaic life. Michael is young and coming into his own; a sparkling boy with a head on his shoulders.

There’s innocence within him that Hanna desires.

Their relationship is very rapidly and very graphic, but there is a sincerity there that one needs to truly behold for. Some have complained that the relationship was pure surface; nothing but lust. They are missing something crucial. `The Reader’ is a film filled with detached moments that advise volumes about the characters. There is a deeper connection between these two souls, one that maybe they can’t even peruse. There is a moment where Hanna finds herself inside a itsy-bitsy church listening to a young choir and the tears are streaming down her face, and as Michael watches her from the doorway we can survey it; even if he or even she doesn’t truly understand it.

It is there.

As the film progresses and the two are separated we initiate to truly behold the deeper connection that they are feeling for the first time. As the trial proceeds Michael is caught between his fill feelings of moral and wrong; between what is ethical and what is not. He is timid by the revelations concerning his stale love; distraught over what this means for him and whether or not it had anything to do with his personal attachment to this woman.

Can he bring himself to despise her? Can he bring himself to forgive her? Does she deserve that hatred or that forgiveness?

There is a moment when Michael is attempting to visit Hanna in prison when everything makes sense; his eyes swelling with an emotion he has yet to fully realize. He struggles to convince himself that he hates this woman, because hating her would obtain it easier to forget her.

`The Reader’ is a masterfully crafted record of cherish and loss; of what we explain ourselves in order to better understand something we haven’t the capacity to capture. There is the shame in Hanna’s eyes as she hides her secret (one that you no doubt had guessed long before it was revealed, but the revealing of the secret is not really the point of the chronicle), willing to sacrifice her very life so as not to be downgraded or looked down on. There is the guilt in Michael’s eyes as he blames himself for Hanna’s fate, unable to step outside his skin long enough to choose the suitable course to case. This is a legend about mistakes and missteps and regrets and the ultimate loss that comes from not fully belief how to feel.

Technically, this is a flawless film. I remember reviewing `…Jesse James…’ last year (this spot unexcited won’t let me type in that chubby name) and going on and on about how technically perfect it was, from the cinematography to the bag to the lighting to the mood to fair about everything. `The Reader’ is the right opposite in scope yet honest as profound. It is a worthy subtler film, and so the find, the lighting, the cinematography and the place designs are smaller, yet honest as pristine. Everything is so crisp and delicate; adding layers to the mood perfectly presented by director Stephen Daldry. I was a cramped hesitant about Daldry’s ability to transfer Schlink’s recent to the spacious conceal. I loved `Billy Elliott’ and continue to appreciate it more and more every time I explore it, but Daldry’s latest exertion was that 2002 debacle `The Hours’ and so I was truly troubled that he was going to speed the same gamut and deny a similar part.

`The Reader’ is not only considerable more profound and poignant, but it is also executed better than `The Hours’ (to be comely, I need to stare this movie again, but I was not impressed the first or second go around) .

When it all boils down to it though, this movie is all about two things; Kate Winslet and David Kross. Both actors recount career highs (and to say that about Winslet is saying a lot since she is always top notch) . Their performances are truly organic. That has become my fresh common word this year, for I feel as though it truly taps into the depth of these performances. There is a naturalness that fortifies itself within these performances, deepening with each flicker in the eyes or twitch under the skin. Try your hardest to contemplate Winslet’s face (I know it’s hard, especially since she is without clothing for practically the whole first hour of the film) . There is a scene where she is lying in the bathtub and Kross comes in to hash out their argument. As he speaks you can peer for the first time her hard exterior melting away and revealing this woman that she doesn’t even know exists. It is so subtle yet so profound.

Winslet is convey perfection.

Kross is unprejudiced as first-rate, sinking into his character and delving deep into his emotional responses to his recent residence. The scene in the courtroom (all of the courtroom scenes are beyond breathtaking) when he notices Hanna for the first time is utterly immobilized. See as Kross exhibits such a natural gut reaction; as controlled as he can be yet giving intention to lapses of uncontrollability.

The supporting cast is also fine, from Fiennes’ dynamic idea of Michael’s emotional regression to Bruno Ganz’s bewitch of the proper set at hand. The one standout here is truly Olin, who proves to be one of the most famous facets of the film. Her final scene with Fiennes is what makes the movie work, dispelling any easy sympathies for Hanna’s atrocities with her wintry standing. For anyone who has complained (and there have been many) that this film tries to condone the actions taken by Hanna I run you to rewatch and explore this scene, for in a few short words Hanna’s actions are condemned wholeheartedly.

Remember, it is not her actions that we are sympathizing with, it is her inner person; icy and rigged yet incomplete, pleading for something or someone to do her feel whole.

Thanks in substantial section to David Hare’s satisfactory adaptation, `The Reader’ lives up to its source material and delivers a truly outstanding and utterly fantastic gape at this tragic yet gorgeous fancy anecdote. If you lumber away from `The Reader’ unmoved then maybe you are honest dumb unmovable.

I’ll discontinuance by saying that the Oscar’s have passed, Kate won the gold (YES!!!) and I mild agree wholeheartedly with every word in this review.

This wasn’t really on my radar, until I started reading valid reviews of it, and that, plus the fact of Kate Winslet, one of the few women I would unquestionably go straight for, conspired to send me off to the multiplex, where everyone else was billing and cooing over Marley & Me.

We have a brief snippet with Ralph Fiennes as this fellow Michael as an adult, then flash befriend to 1958 Germany, where he suddenly becomes sick in a street. Gruff woman Hanna, Winslet completely convincing as a German woman, comes and helps him and takes him home. Turns out he has scarlet fever, and is laid up in bed for three months. When he’s better, he returns to her apartment to thank her. He visits again, and eventually the 16-year-old boy and the woman in her thirties are in a sexual relationship.

She provides his sexual education, and soon she asks him to bring things and read them to her. They consume many nice hours with him reading to her before or after sex. Michael grows to esteem her and is thrilled to have such an lively secret, but soon he finds that it interferes with him having normal friendships and girlfriends with people his possess age, since he is always running off after school to be with Hanna.

Eventually the affair abruptly ends. Years pass, and Michael goes to law school. The class goes into the city to search for a war crimes trial as a lesson, and Michael is surprised to contemplate Hanna there–on trial. She joined the SS after their affair, as a nurse, and was in particular partially responsible for the burning deaths of a number of prisoners. Michael is very upset at the entire thing, but can’t really confide to his fellow students, and by this time has started to ogle that he has pains forming deep relationships anyway.

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Okay, serious spoilers, I’m not kidding! This part is better for people who have seen the movie. Michael tells his teacher that he has information that could affect the outcome of the trial… but he eventually declines to give it. Hanna is asked to provide a handwriting sample to present that she wrote a statement about the atrocity. Rather than submit, she admits to the crime, and thus receives a far worse sentence than the others. The reason for both Michael and Hanna’s actions? Hanna can neither read nor write. Therefore Michael could have had her exonerated, or at least significantly reduced her sentence, but he chose not to. She, too, could have exonerated herself, but she chose not to admit that she is unable to read. The film continues and throws out a few more good complications, but I judge this is the crux. < < < SPOILERS Demolish

It strikes me as being about guilt and complicity. Michael has his chance to relieve Hanna, but now he has seen that his affair perhaps wasn’t the best thing for him in the long rush, and left him with several emotional issues. So he takes his revenge–by refusing to back her, and helping her in only very runt, grudging ways later–and ways that could be considered as making her a sort of prisoner to him or someone deeply in his debt and control. Hanna seems for long periods to have no true sense–and to harshly dismiss anyone who makes claims to one–but there’s an element of her self-punishment that goes beyond superficial shame to a feeling of deeper guilt, almost as though, through whatever formed her, she believes herself to be outrageous and deserving of punishment.

So it all turns into a very literary just lesson on guilt and levels of complicity. One of those things that chooses a subject and examines it from all sides, providing several different examples and aspects toward creating a detailed whole characterize. In this map it’s a very literary film, as it’s about different aspects and shades of a belief, rather than an accumulation of events that eventually tell a lesson or provide an insight.

All the performances are very splendid. As I said, Winslet is completely convincing as a gruff German woman, and the role requires her to age to about seventy. She also makes a convincing former woman, although my only complaint is that, as an elderly woman, she mild moves impartial as snappy as her younger self. David Kross as young Michael conveys the innocent excitement and sense of specialness of being in this unconventional affair, and of course Ralph Fiennes is perfect as always. The direction [by Billy Eliot and The Hours director Stephen Daldry] is effective if undistinguished, using short puny shots at times to hiss a character’s panicked mind, without having to design another scene fair to display it.

Overall, an enthralling film with mountainous performances that offers a lot to judge about more than anything. An examination of the various aspects and shades of guilt and complicity as it relates to a obvious interrelated circles of lawful pickle. A thoughtful tiny movie you won’t regret seeing.
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There was nothing like sitting with my children, and now with my grandchildren, and watching them become enraptured by the wonders of what I reflect to be collectively “one” of the ten best films ever made. Yes, in terms of overall quality, the Anne of Green Gables Trilogy ranks up there with Ben Hur, Dances With Wolves, The Sound of Music, and the other classics. In fact, even at 69 years musty, whenever I feel as if I need some inspiration, or I feel others I savor do as well, into the DVD player goes Anne! As others have attested, one will never feel embarrassed by watching or having others gawk these unbelievable, wholly inspirational films.

I watched these on VHS with my family years ago. Serve then my daughter, about ten or so, same age as Anne when we first watch her, was reading the novels; renting the videos was a natural thing. I was reluctant to leer the first story–my tastes tend more toward gritty crime and action stuff–but I watched them with my wife, daughter, and 8-yr. former son. It did not purchase me long to earn caught up in the involving narrative. Canadian actress Megan Follows with her flaming red hair, which she is initially so ashamed of, is absolutely perfect as Anne Shirley. I would say she was born to play that role. All of the characters and portrayals are so unbelievable that you will be thoroughly entertained. The leisurely and indescribably titanic Richard Farnsworth is his typical camouflage self: stoic, level-headed, restrained, disturbed, unprejudiced, fun-loving, humble, self-sacrificing, hard-working, strong, conventional. And gents: isn’t that a list of very admirable traits? What man would not want to be remembered in such a contrivance? So there you have one reason why you, as a man and father, should behold this series: if you pattern yourself after Mr. Farnsworth in this film, you will be on the moral track. I absolutely defy anyone, even the most macho guy in the world, to not gush with tears upon viewing the scene where Farnworth’s character buys, and then presents the heavenly party dress to Anne.

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Another reason to gaze this: you and your children will be seeing a solid and dignified life being build together before your eyes. Anne is an knowing girl, but she understands the value of hard work. She loves to have fun, can be a bit contrary and capricious, but when the job needs to be done, she will do whatever it takes. She is an orphan who, through sheer determination and hard work, overcomes her meagre beginnings to really invent a name for herself in the world. She is delighted, and she takes life as it comes. Most importantly, she has a helpful heart and high fair standards. What parent would not want their child to be so described?

While it is very fair that nowadays it is difficult to gather edifying “family” viewing, if you perceive around, you will gather it. Initiate here, dads; hold this residence for your family and most importantly, exhaust some quality time with them watching the place. This is one of the best things you could do for them.

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I guarantee it: you will laugh, you will wail, you will be troubled, you will exult. You will experience every emotion life has to offer. There are no cardboard cutout characters here; no one is perfect. That’s another reason to watch: it’s like life, and through meeting these living and breathing characters with all of their frailties and foibles, your kids will glean a taste, albeit a vicarious one, of what the world is like. Perhaps they will commence to understand that life is not quite dazzling, that you have to work blooming hard, that people can be unkind even when you are kind to them, and most notable, to be yourself. Anne the unkempt orphan comes into the life of the dour conventional spinster and her hard-working farmer brother, and gradually over time she becomes their savior. She saves them from a life of monotony, self-involvement and predictability; she teaches them how to be patient, how to laugh, how to prioritize. Isn’t that what children do for their parents, if the parents will let them?

Anne is a girl who becomes a truly successful adult, if you measure success by how ecstatic, brilliant, self-assured, confident, caring and fulfilled she is. If your kids can assume up some of those traits by watching the series, and you can befriend them, how can you go heinous?
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“Because you are fond of fairy tales,” Beatrix Potter wrote to one of her celebrated children in 1901, “I have made you a account all for yourself, a recent one that nobody has read before.”

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Now, a century later, “Miss Potter” (directed by Chris Noonan, starring Rene Zellweger) has a unique yarn to snort, and quite a fairy sage it is, too, with all the delectable magic of one of Beatrix Potter’s beget stories: winsome characters, delicious settings, strong period details. I was charmed by this film (viewed on DVD, with all the extras), and spent an enchanted evening watching it. As a movie, it is aesthetic family entertainment–something that’s hard to approach by, these days.

But the film has been widely billed as a biopic, and if you were looking for a anecdote that’s good to Beatrix’s life, this one might mislead you. Richard Maltby (who wrote the script and spent some 10 years trying to acquire it produced) and Chris Noonan have teamed up to give us a attractive fairy narrative, but one that is based on some fairly fundamental misrepresentations of Beatrix’s valid life.

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Take that clarify Christmas party, for instance, in a festooned Potter mansion. This dramatically pivotal event could never have happened, for Rupert and Helen Potter were Dissenters who did not celebrate Christmas–much to Beatrix’s disappointment, as a child longing for a tree and the trimmings. (In life, both the Potters seem to have been worthy more dour people than their on-screen representations.)

Or lift those childhood visits to the Lake Districts, which never happened either. The Potters holidayed in Scotland until Beatrix was 16. Which means that she could not have met Willie Heelis, who was nearly five years younger than Beatrix, anyway (not older, as the film portrays him) . Oh, and Willie was the son of a rector and the Heelis family belonged to quite a different social class from the one in which Willie is placed in the film. More misrepresentation (although the on-screen Willie is a accurate charmer.)

But the most poor distortion of all is the decision to collapse the eight years it took for Beatrix to become independent enough to leave her parents. The film portrayed Norman’s death as the lever that pried her from the Potters’ pick. Not so. Beatrix bought Hill Top a few months after Norman died in 1905, but did not leave her parents until 1913, when she married Willie. For eight long, difficult years, Beatrix commuted from her parents’ home or holiday station to Sawrey. During that time, she could pick up away only five or six times a year, sometimes for a few days, sometimes for as distinguished as a fortnight. Norman’s death was indeed the prod she needed to originate a change, but it wasn’t until Willie offered her another choice that she was finally able to free herself. Compressing this long-running family conflict into a matter of months and hinging the whole thing on Norman’s death distorts Beatrix’s character and makes her seem more decisively “novel” than she was in valid life.

As a novelist engaged in creating historical fictions (some of them featuring Beatrix Potter), I am always aware of the challenges of representing genuine people in fictional contexts, and effort when trusty lives are seriously distorted to design a tale more racy. I enjoyed this film as a film, and give it five stars for its entertainment value. As a biopic, I’d give it a two, three to be top-notch. Putting the two together, a four-minus.

Oh, and for the dependable epic of Beatrix’s life, you’ll want to read Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear.

Susan Wittig Albert is the author of The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter: The Story of Hill Top Farm (The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter), The Myth of Holly How, The Yarn of Cuckoo Brow Wood (Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter Mysteries), The Story of Hawthorn House: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and four other forthcoming novels in the series.

I saw this graceful film this past week in Chicago at a preview showing and was simply gratified by it. Only five years ago this would have been a Miramax film, but following the messy departure of the Weinsteins from Miramax to accomplish their bear production company, they are distributing this joint production. Status in the early decades of the twentieth century, in a sort of extended Edwardian age, the film possesses a improbable period feel and peruse. Like the best of the Miramax films, it feels like a time capsule more than a contemporary production.

With only some shame I have to admit to shimmering very tiny about Beatrix Potter. To inject some autobiography, I was not read Potter as a child and though after my divorce I raised my daughter, reading to her constantly, there was an agreement that on her periodic visits to her mother she would be allowed to read her Beatrix Potter (because of a Potter obsession by her absorb godmother) and Laura Ingalls Wilder. I read my daughter every other children’s’ writer, but was forbidden to dip into either of those. So I saw this biopic bright next to nothing about her. The film seemed to me to give a profitable impression of who she was. She emerges in the film as a sort of horrified feminist, not a activist, but quietly insisting on taking her possess path. Though there are flashbacks to her childhood and the final quarter of the film focuses on her sharp to the Lake District, most of the film deals with the period of partnership and eventually romance between her and her publisher, Norman Warne. One suspects that of necessity a tremendous deal is left out, but as it exists it is compelling. I did a bit of checking on the Internet and discovered that she was not 32 in 1903, so the film obviously fudges some numbers, but as presented the film serene provided a exquisite portrait.

Renée Zellweger is improbable in the title role. I have seen photographs of Beatrix Potter and there does not seem to be powerful of a resemblance between the two. To the film’s credit, they do a large deal to de-emphasize Zellweger’s loveliness. She isn’t exactly insensible, but she isn’t as radiant as usual. But she brings a delectable simplicity to her role. Ewan McGregor is pleasing in his role, but unlike their melancholy film DOWN WITH Worship, his role is not equal to hers in this one. He manages to be everything he needs to be. Emily Watson plays his sister. There are movie stars and there are actresses, and she is an actress. I have always been amazed at mighty her various roles can differ from one another. A lot of actresses, unfortunately, as they approach the age of forty, have probably reached finish to the raze of their career. Watson is so sparkling, however, and those colossal eyes so expressive, that you sense that she probably hasn’t reached half of her eventual film resume. I’m definite we’ll be seeing her in roles thirty-five years from now. It was kindly to glance Bill Paterson as Beatrix’s father. He has always been one of my celebrated supporting actors and for my money we have always seen far too shrimp of him. Broken-down British actress Barbara Flynn is trustworthy as well as Beatrix’s mother.

Chris Noonan directed the film. The last time we encountered him as a director was in one of the most scrumptious films of the nineties, BABE. I have absolutely no thought what he has been up to the past decade, but this film has some of the same lush discover that BABE did. Interestingly, animals feature prominently in both films.

The last piece of the film, that centers on the beginning of the final chapter of Potter’s life as a farmer in the Lake District, features some of the most resplendent landscapes you can ever hope to seek in a movie. The demolish of the film indicates that Miss Potter left 4,000 acres of Lake District property to the National Trust. I hope that some of those scenes were filmed on some of that property.

Finally, I want to add that while I’ve never been one to be on the lookout for “family” (which to me usually are synonymous with “dreary” or “bland”), this film, which could easily receive a “G” rating, is a film that any parent could feel comfortable showing any child. Younger children might catch it a bit stupid, but any fan of Beatrix Potter, whether young or mature, will surely savor this film. Indeed, as someone who cannot count himself among her fans (entirely through a complete lack of acquaintance), I can attest that those unique with her work will like the film as well.
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