I should have known better than to buy this "value" pack. 10 movies for 15 bucks..there's gotta be a catch. The catch is that these films have absolutly terrible picture quality. Usually I'm not too picky about picture quality. There are plenty of cheapy DVD company's out there such as Diamond Entertainment that release cheap DVD's with at least watchable picture quality, but Brentwood Entertainment (the creator of this monstrosity) is one company to run the other direction from! I guess what finally drove me to buy this is that it contains both Blind Dead 3 & 4 (Under the titles Zombie Flesh Eater and Night of the Death Cult). Brentwood got their hands on terrible negatives and seemed it necessary to release them onto the unsuspecting world. Most of these films look like they were... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): John Hurt DVD Release Date: Released the 15 April 2003 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
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Michael Radford's adaption of George Orwell's foreboding literary premonition casts John Hurt and Suzanna Hamilton as lovers who must keep their courtship secret. Aside from criminalizing sex and interpersonal relationships, the ruling party in their country Oceania both fabricates reality and reconstructs history for the sake of oppressing the masses. They brainwash their citizens via large, propaganda-spewing TV monitors installed in their living rooms, which also inspect everyone's activities. Hurt and Hamilton are among the few we see desperately trying to fight the system by keeping control of their thoughts and beliefs. While the atmosphere becomes a bit too stifling at times, the images are quite striking with their muted colors and dilapidated sets. In an interesting bit of... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): John Hurt - Richard Burton - Suzanna Hamilton Director(s): Michael Radford DVD Release Date: Released the 04 March 2003 This item is currently not available.
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Audiences overlooked this film, one of the better westerns in several years, featuring yet another terrific performance by Jeff Bridges, America's most underrated movie actor. As James Butler Hickock, he captures the sense of a man at the end of his career, one of the first media superstars who discovers that his legend is more burden than blessing. As he heads toward his final hand of poker in Deadwood, South Dakota, he flashes back to his younger days and the events that built his reputation, even as he copes with encroaching blindness caused by syphilis. Walter Hill blends action and elegy, utilizing a screenplay based both on Pete Dexter's novel Deadwood and on Thomas Babe's play Fathers and Sons. Wild Bill features strong supporting performances by John Hurt (as... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Jeff Bridges - Ellen Barkin - John Hurt - Diane Lane - Keith Carradine Director(s): Walter Hill DVD Release Date: Released the 02 April 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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After scoring an art-house hit and Oscar nominations for his previous film, My Left Foot, Irish director Jim Sheridan made this ambitious and hard-hitting drama, set in Ireland during the 1930s, about one man's obsession with a plot of land that his family has tended for generations. The results are decidedly mixed, and it's obvious that this kind of tragic allegory is better suited for the stage (where it originated as a play by John B. Keane). What makes the film worthwhile is the Oscar-nominated performance by Richard Harris as "Bull" McCabe, the fiercely stubborn man who's nurtured a prime field of rented land for decades, only to lose it when the owner auctions the land to an unwelcome American (Tom Berenger). Rather than sacrifice his life's work to this brazen invader,... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Richard Harris - John Hurt Director(s): Jim Sheridan DVD Release Date: Released the 26 February 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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You could only see his eyes behind the layers of makeup, but those expressive orbs earned John Hurt a well-deserved Oscar nomination for his moving portrayal of John Merrick, the grotesquely deformed Victorian-era man better known as The Elephant Man. Inarticulate and abused, Merrick is the virtual slave of a carnival barker (Freddie Jones) until dedicated London doctor Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins in a powerfully understated performance) rescues him from the life and offers him an existence with dignity. Anne Bancroft costars as the actress whose visit to Merrick makes him a social curiosity, with John Gielgud and Wendy Hiller as dubious hospital staffers won over by Merrick. David Lynch earned his only Oscar nominations as director and cowriter of this somber drama, which he shot... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Anthony Hopkins - John Hurt Director(s): David Lynch DVD Release Date: Released the 11 December 2001 Usually ships in 6 to 8 days
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An older artist, shunned by the white-hot media of the contemporary world, begins to glow again when he meets a handsome, not-altogether all-American boy. In 1998, two writer-directors brought extraordinary care to this subject, creating films that appeared on several top 10 lists. Gods and Monsters won an Oscar for Bill Condon's screenplay and a nomination for Ian McKellen's acting. Richard Kwietniowski's Love and Death on Long Island was forgotten during the award season. John Hurt has rarely been better as Giles De'Ath, a renowned British author of dry, laborious text. By sheer accident he sees a Porky's-type comedy at the theater: Hot Pants College II. About to leave, he spies on screen his very idea of beauty: a near-talentless American actor... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): John Hurt - Jason Priestley - Fiona Loewi Director(s): Richard Kwietniowski DVD Release Date: Released the 01 February 2000 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
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