Since its release in the early 1980s, Quartet hasn't been remembered as much as some of their other films. Thats a shame because Quartet is one of their finer works. A very engrossing drama about mind control and deceit. As one would expect from M & A, the attention to detail in recreating the roaring 20's is fabulous. Alan Bates does a wonderful job as H.B., the controlling maniac disguised as a gentleman. Maggie Smith is heartbreaking as the passive wife who tries desperately to cling to her husband despite his infidelities. But its Isabelle Adjani who steals the show. Her character's development from innocent, to arrogant, to ignorant makes Quartet memorable. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Isabelle Adjani Director(s): James Ivory DVD Release Date: Released the 24 February 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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PROS: This is a great film to watch on a rainy Sunday. The actors are all top rate and the story unfolds seamlessly. Perhaps not as "polished" as later Merchant-Ivory fare, but it certainly is more realistic and heart wrenching.
CONS: Some parts are a bit slow, the dialogue can be stilted at times, I wasn't thrilled with the ending. More Info about this DVD Director(s): James Ivory DVD Release Date: Released the 27 April 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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This is a great film from India about a newlywed husband being troubled by his independent wife who seeks advice from his overbearing mother and his American friend.It's a must see great film!! More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Shashi Kapoor Director(s): James Ivory DVD Release Date: Released the 27 April 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
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This 1966 masterpiece by Michelangelo Antonioni (The Passenger) is set in the heady atmosphere of Swinging London, and stars David Hemmings as an unsmiling fashion photographer hooked on ephemeral meaning attached to anything: art, sex, work, relationships, drugs, events. When a real mystery falls into his lap, he probes the evidence for some reliable truth, but finds it hard to reckon with. Vanessa Redgrave plays an enigmatic woman whose desperation to cover something up only seems like one more phenomenon in Hemmings's disinterested purview. This is one of the key films of the decade, and still an unsettling and lasting experience. --Tom KeoghMore Info about this DVD Actor(s): Vanessa Redgrave - David Hemmings Director(s): Michelangelo Antonioni DVD Release Date: Released the 17 February 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Considered by many to be Federico Fellini's most beautiful and powerful film, La Strada was the first film to reveal the range of Guilietta Masina, whose poignant performance as the childlike Gelsomina recalls Chaplin's Little Tramp. The bubbly, waiflike Gelsomina is a simpleton sold to the gruff, bullying circus strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn) as a servant and assistant. Treated no better than an animal, Gelsomina nonetheless falls in love with the brute Zampanò. When they join a small circus they meet Il Matto (Richard Basehart), a clown who enchants Gelsomina and relentlessly taunts Zampanò, whose inability to control his hatred of Il Matto (literally, "the Fool") leads to their expulsion from the circus and eventually to the film's fateful conclusion.... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Anthony Quinn - Giulietta Masina - Richard Basehart Director(s): Federico Fellini DVD Release Date: Released the 18 November 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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