FIDEL
FIDEL(2002) Directed by David Attwood. Starring Victor Huggo Martin as Fidel Castro and a cast of heavily accented Hispanic actors portraying various historical personages. A reasonble attempt at an...
View ArticleAPOCALYPSE NOW
APOCALYPSE NOW(1979) Produced and Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Score by Carmine Coppola. Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro. Based on the novel HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad. Script by...
View ArticleCASUALTIES OF WAR
CASUALTIES OF WAR (1989) Directed by Brian De Palma. Script by David Rabe. Score by Ennio Morricone. Starring Michael J. Fox, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Ving Rhames, Sherman Howard, Amy Irving,...
View ArticleTHE KILLING FIELDS
THE KILLING FIELDS(1984) Directed by Roland Joffe. Starring Sam Waterson, Haing S. Ngor, Craig T. Nelson, Spalding Gray and John Malkovich. Amid much liberal rejoicing, the Communists overran...
View ArticleDR. BETHUNE
DR BETHUNE(1990) Directed by Phillip Borsos. Starring Donald Sutherland( as Dr Norman Bethune), Helen Mirren, Anouk Aimee, James Hong and Ke-Yaw Zhang as Mao Ze Tung. This the epic style biography of...
View ArticleGARDENS OF STONE
GARDENS OF STONE (1987) Produced and Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Score by Carmine Coppola. Starring James Caan, Anjelica Huston, Dean Stockwell, Mary Stuart Masterson, Lonette McKee, Laurence...
View ArticleADVENTURES OF DON JUAN (1948)
Starring Errol Flynn, Viveca Lindfors, Robert Douglas, Alan Hale, Romney Brent, Ann Rutherford, Raymond Burr; directed by Vincent Sherman Flynn's last giant swashbuckler at Warners is far better than...
View ArticleFIRST BLOOD
While aware of the controversies inherent in this posting, the below was the only film among my recent modern movie viewing spree that was even remotely approriate to this weekend and I did wish to...
View ArticleTHE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS
THE NIGHT OF THE GENERALS(1967) Directed by Anatole Litvak. Produced by Sam Spiegel. Score by Maurice Jarre. Script by Paul Dehn. Starring Omar Sharif, Peter O'Toole, Donald Pleasence, Charles Gray,...
View ArticleSAMURAI ASSASSIN
SAMURAI ASSASSIN (1965) Directed by Kihachi Okamoto. Produced by Toshiro Mifune and Tomoyuki Tanaka. Cinematography by Hiroshi Murai. Starring Tishiro Mifune, Akihiko Hirata, Eisei Amamoto and Takashi...
View ArticleBand Of Brothers
If this mini-series is on tv, i'll watch it. HBO, AMC, History, it doesn't matter. I'll call in sick and watch it start to finish. I'm introducing the other half on DVD this week...just got through...
View ArticleQUO VADIS
QUO VADIS( 1951) Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Score by Miklos Rozsa. Art Direction by Cedric Gibbons. Second Unit Direction by Sergio Leone. Based on the novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz. Starring Robert...
View ArticleBAGDAD
BAGDAD(1949) A Univeral-International Production. Directed by Charles Lamont. Music by Charles Previn, Hans Salter and Frank Skinner. Makeup by Bud Westmore. Starring Maureen O'Hara, Paul Christian,...
View ArticleWAR HUNT
WAR HUNT(1962) Directed by Denis Sanders. Cinematography by Ted McCord. Starring John Saxon, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Gavin MacCleod, Tom Skerritt, Francis Ford Coppola and introducing Robert...
View ArticleROUGH RIDERS
ROUGH RIDERS (1997) Written and Directed by John Milius. Produced by Tom Berenger. Score by Elmer and Peter Bernstein. Cinematography by Anthony Richmond. Starring Tom Berenger(as Theodore Roosevelt),...
View ArticleGor, the Anti-Epic?
Cosmic Cinema asks the question Gor, Lost in Adaptation or merely Lost? in the part one of a two part article. We all know 90% of novel ...Read More
View ArticleKATYN
Apparently unable to get a theatrical release in this country, the Polish epic KATYN is coming out on DVD 8/11/09. It can be prebooked 7/14/09.
View ArticleImmortals (2011)
Looks impressive, but.... the predictable cgi and the grunge look... Read More
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Waterloo (1970) - Full Movie on YouTube
The mammoth 1970 Russo-Italian co-production WATERLOO, starring Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer, is available in its entirety on YouTube... Never released on North Ame...Read More
View ArticleMedieval Adventures from Warner Archive
Last week, Warner Archive released a batch of medieval adventure films, including: Swordsman of Siena (1962), The Secret of Monte Cristo (1961), The Scarlet Coat (1955), The King’s Thief (1955), and...
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