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Seeing this movie for the first time when it came out back in 1982, I remember telling my friend, “This is the coolest movie ever!” Coming back to it, I can proudly say my feelings for it have not diminished one iota.Its detractors say, “It’s disgusting!” Yes, it is. An impossibly fat man explodes in a miasma of viscera and puke. But if you take note of the personality of the character in question, you could look at it as the Pythonian equivalent of Karma.It’s oppnents scream, “It’s filthy”. Bingo. A stuffy schoolmaster and his wife demonstrate coitus for a bored classroom of schoolboys during sex-education class. During the lesson, the teacher admonishes a student to pay attention. “After all, this is for your benefit,” he chides. A man so cut off from his own emotions, that not even sex interests him on a personal level.Its nay-sayers chant, “It’s blasphemous!” You betcha. In a production reminiscent of the ones in ‘Oliver’, a Catholic family, apparently numbering in the hundreds, sings “Every Sperm Is Sacred”. Maybe so, but why is papa so anxious to sell them all off for medical experiments?Fans say, “It’s clever”. I defy anyone to find a more clever song in a movie than “The Universe Song”, a hummable Cole-Porterish ditty containing a pocketful of useful factoids about this wonderful material plane which we call home.Python disciples say, “It rings true”. It does for me. That’s why I laugh so hard.The usual Python targets are all here, all to illustrate a very valuable point. I think it’s something like: Life is really short, the world is a confusing mess, hypocrites and scoundrels are plentiful, stupidity is more plentiful than any other substance in the universe. The meaning of life is to try your best to dodge all of this meaninglessness and do so with a measure of personal grace. The meaning of life is in how we face what is thrown at us. The Pythons do it by allowing themselves, and us, to laugh at it.

Up to their old tricks again, the Pythons finally brought their sketch comedy to the big screen. Putting together a series of unconnected skits with a common theme, they actually pulled it off, though most said it could never be done. As with all of their work, this movie contains several lines that fans will repeat over and over. “Every sperm is sacred!” Most of the skits went down as some of their greatest work, from Cleese teaching Sex in a private school by demonstrating it with his wife in front of the class, to the grossest scene ever performed in cinema, “Mr. Creosote.” Absolutely a must-see for anyone with even the faintest of senses of humor.

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This DVD presentation is also very solid, including a Making Of feature that lets the personalities of the individuals show through, including Cleese’s disdain for doing this film. Some of the extras can be ignored, but I still found myself sitting down for over two hours to check them all out, and I was not disappointed.
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I bought all of these 6 DVDs separately because I did not know that they came as a set, at a better price! I paid about $15 each, about $90 total, and I do not regret owning them all, but I would have jumped on this set if I had known about it!

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Most of these DVDs are very interesting and faithful to Scripture. SAMSON & DELILAH is the weakest of these 6 DVDs, as it spends too much time on non-scriptural characters. ABRAHAM covers many scenes of the 40 year wandering rarely seen on DVD. JACOB is pretty close to Scripture. JOSEPH is great, but it spends a bit too much time rewriting the narration to allow for Ben Kingsley’s Potiphar role to expand. I have not yet watched DAVID, but I look forward to Leonard Nimoy’s appearance in the film.

Most of these films are 3 hours long, presumably they were mostly all short mini-series when they originally ran on TV. I think only JACOB is about 90 minutes, of the 6 DVDs in this set. You can read about each DVD as they are all sold separately on amazon.com.

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All of these 6 DVDs have major TV network, made-for-TV quality, and I am quite surprised and pleased that these movies are so good. I do not know of any better series of Bible stories on DVD.

There is another Box Set available, THE BIBLE SERIES BOX SET, which has 3 other DVDs of this series of movies. JEREMIAH is my favorite of all 9 movies. ESTHER is great, and perhaps the most faithful to Scriptural accuracy and chronology of all 9 movies. SOLOMON is the only 3 hour DVD in this smaller Box Set. There is a GENESIS in this Box Set, but it is not a dramatized movie, just a narration of the book of Genesis, while modern day nomads are shown going about their daily routine. GENESIS is a disappointment and very UNLIKE the other 9 movies, so much so that it doesn’t even seem to be part of the same production series.

Bottom Line: I highly recommend that anybody buy both of these box sets, and they will save about 50% over buying each DVD separately! Praise the LORD!

This is a marvelous production, filmed in Morocco, with wonderful costumes, textiles, and rustic sets, making this telling of King David’s life visually believable. It has some standout performances, and Nathaniel Parker, always a favorite of mine, fares well as Israel’s second king. As Saul, the casting of Jonathan Pryce is an odd choice (Saul was “a head taller than his people” and there was “not a man more handsome than he”) but it works, and he is exceptional as the tormented and demented king.

Gideon Turner is very good as the young David, Dominic Rowan is a great bit of casting as Absalom, and as Joab, Maurice Roeves is terrific. Other notables play the two prophets, Leonard Nimoy, in an appealing and powerful portrayal of Samuel, and Franco Nero as a handsome Nathan.
Due to this being made for TV, some of the editing does not move smoothly (one assumes these are cuts for ads) but that aside, the photography is lovely (by Raffaele Mertes) and the melodic score by Carlo Siliotto enhances the mood (the final title music is by Ennio Morricone).

The story line picks up at 1 Samuel, Chapter 9, with Saul looking for his father’s mules, and proceeds through much of both books of Samuel, often being quite faithful to them. It is interspersed with the occasional Psalm, and writer Larry Gross has blended scripture and dialogue quite effectively. It is interesting to watch this with Bible in hand, to see just how cleverly this has been done.

There are some moving scenes, like David’s annointing, and his proposal to Abigail (played by the beautiful Lina Sastri). The only part that does not work for me is the story of Amnon; it is pieced together in an awkward and sluggish way, but fortunately does not last long, and the rest of the intricate story moves along at a quick pace, making this is a way above-average film for television.
There are a few gory battle scenes that would be too violent for the very young, but otherwise this is an excellent family film for older children, with the complexity of King David making it a fascinating story for discussion and repeated viewings.
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For once, they got it right, offering a glimpse into the drama/suspsense of the early days in heart surgery, as well as giving a revealing look at two pioneering figures in the field - one well-known (the white doctor) and the other an unsung hero (his afro-american lab assitant). Neither saccharine or unrealistic, the film offers an unflinching look at both the genius and unbridled ambition of Dr. Blaylock while countering it with the steadfast loyalty and dedication of his assistant, Vivien Taylor, destined to live in the doctor’s for much of his life. This is one I am adding to my personal collection. It is simply that good.

For me the worst bigots are not the ones who carry shotguns and engage in lynchings. Underneath their hatred is a fear born from knowing in the marrow of their bones that they are not as good as the people they are oppressing and that on an equal playing field they will be the ones who end up on the bottom. I am always outraged more by those bigots whose racism is embodied in what they say and how they say it, as well as by the gestures they demand to keep Jim Crow in place despite the evidence of their eyes and the assumption what they see actually gets into their brains. In “Something the Lord Made,” there is a moment where a white doctor at the most prestigious hospital in the country makes a point of leaving his office and go into a laboratory just to have a black man fetch food and drink. I look at such a man and wonder what he is thinking, knowing that whatever it is, it is just not right.

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Racism is the subtext of “Something the Lord Made,” an HBO movie that dramatizes the story first told in the “American Experience” documentary “Partners of the Heart.” This is the story of Dr. Alfred Blalock, who pioneered cardiac surgery in 1944 when he and Dr. Helen Taussig developed the Blalock-Taussig technique, a surgical procedure that repaired the faulty blood vessel in the hearts of babies that was causing a lack of oxygen. This fatal birth defect turned babies a light shade of blue, resulting in their being commonly called “blue babies” (Fallot’s tetralogy). The story of “Something the Lord Made” is about not only this pioneering medical work, but also the relationship between Blalock and Vivien Thomas, a lab technician. Blalock (Alan Rickman) is white and Thomas is black (Mos Def), which is why racism keeps rearing its head throughout the tale.

Blalock is a brilliant but brash physician doing pioneering work on the treatment of hemorrhagic and traumatic shock (Blalock demonstrated that surgical shock resulted primarily from the loss of blood, and therefore encouraged the use of plasma or whole-blood transfusions as treatment). Thomas has been saving his money to go to medical school but has been working as a carpenter’s assistant when he gets a job sweeping and cleaning Blalock’s laboratory and dog kennels (experimental techniques are developed working on dogs, once a condition comparable to what is found in humans is created). But the doctor quickly discovers that Thomas has a quick and inventive mind and the Great Depression ends Thomas’ dream of going to medical school. What starts off as a relationship between master and servant (or at least boss and employee), becomes that of teacher and student. By the time Blalock moves to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and takes Thomas with him, the two have become joined at the brain. There is a delightful scene where Blalock is kicking around ideas with his new colleagues and Thomas keeps making comments and bouncing ideas off the doctor until they are involved in an intense discussion and everybody is watching dumbfounded.

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Director Joseph Sargent (”Colossus: The Forbin Project,” “Miss Evers’ Boys”) has two major stories to tell here. One is the medical story of the invention of cardiac surgery and the other is the human story of whether Vivien Thomas would ever be recognized for his invaluable assistance in that effort. Thomas does the work of a lab technician, but is paid as a janitor. He has to use the back entrance at Johns Hopkins when he comes to work and students flock to see the great Dr. Blalock assisting Thomas when operating on a dog. Even after they achieve their greatest success, there are colleagues who laugh at Blalock because he needed Thomas’ help to do the impossible, their bigotry making it impossible for them to realize doing the impossible is no mean feat.

There are social victories along the way. Not so much that Blalock is finally persuaded to do something about his invaluable assistant’s salary as the young doctors who come up to Thomas and ask if they can work with him in their spare time (although their accents are invariably not of the south). But Blalock is getting his picture on the cover of “Life” and the only one in the operating theater not in the group photographs are Thomas and the nurse, and there is an element of sadness that it was over a decade after Blalock died that Thomas received his overdue recognition. Was Blalock’s problem that he was egotistical or that the man was so focused? The film suggests it was the latter and that the work was what mattered. Indeed, the most memorable scene in this 2004 film is when we see with our own eyes the miracle that Blalock, Thomas, Taussig, and these others wrought in 1944.

“Something the Lord Made” won the 2004 Emmy for outstanding made-for-TV movie, due in part to the marvelously understated performances by Rickman and Def. The DVD includes audio commentary by Sargent, writer Peter Silverman, and producers Robert W. Cort and Eric Hetzel. The featurette on the making of the film and historical slide show both get into some of the true story, which is worth pursuing on its own. The frail child on whom the operation was first performed died months later during a second operation. But the film does make it clear that she was very ill and a high-risk patient to begin with, who was doomed to die, and what happened at Johns Hopkins in 1944 did prove the surgical procedure worked well enough to end up saving the lives of tens of thousands of children. So there are more aspects of this fascinating story that have been left untold that you can certainly find out more about.
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Blax Films is a totally illegitimate bootlegging operation and their product is ‘mastered’ from inferior VHS tapes of films to which they have no legal rights to (for example, “Drum” is currently in the MGM library). Thus the bottom-of-the-barrel picture quality of their discs. Note, too, their laughably bad screen capture cover art. Puh-leaze! Could you be any more lame? Amazon should be ashamed for even carrying garbage like this, and the legitimate rights owners for the movies that Blax Films rips off should sic their lawyers on them, hunt them down and sue them into the poorhouse!

I enjoyed this film to an extent. Now, the only reason why I bought this disc was because my girl Pam Grier was in it. However, its not “Roots” but it’s actually decent flick. Although Warren Oates receives top billing, you may wonder where he is for the first half hour, as most of this is taken up with Drum’s unpleasant encounters with DeMarigny (Colicos way over the top and in possession of an offensive accent). When Drum wins the fight with Blaise he is awarded his own woman, but he shouldn’t get too comfortable because the aggressively homosexual DeMarigny has designs on him, and when spurned vows revenge. This means Drum, appropriately played by wooden boxer Norton as if he’d much rather be somewhere else, has to be relocated by Marianna to work for Oates’ plantation owner Hammond Maxwell, especially after Rachel has been murdered by the Frenchman.

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The highlight of the movie is the dialogue of Warren Oates who plays the Ignorant Country Hick Plantation Owner. He is hilarious and would say things like “I found you in a Ho house and you aint even a Hoe”. One thing about the film is that at least you couldn’t say it was exploiting the African Americans in the cast, who are portrayed as sympathetic in the main - a pity you couldn’t say the same for the women in the cast, who are treated as if the best they can offer the story is to take their clothes off. Over half the actresses disrobe for the camera, which exposes the true intentions of the filmmakers, and the most thankless role goes to Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith, as the daughter of Maxwell who is determined to get one of the slaves into bed. But even Fiona Lewis, as the prospective next Mrs Maxwell, has a gratuitous bath scene and of course the naked view of Pam Grier in her master’s bedroom.

So basically, if you’re looking for an examination of the last years of the slave trade in America, you will be disappointed, but if you’re after sexploitation, then that’s what Drum is really all about.

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Sarah Bailey (Robin Tunney) is the new kid in town, but even under the best of circumstances she has never been accepted by the popular crowd. At her new school, she falls in with a trio of other female misfits (Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True) who, it so happens, are trying to learn witchcraft and form their own little coven. When Sarah joins them to make it a quartet, they slowly develop multifold preternatural powers and learn how to focus and use them. With such abilities literally at their fingertips, it’s not too long until the little coven, initially formed for self-protection and companionship, becomes an instrument for personal gain and revenge. Sarah soon realizes that one of her friends is evil to the core, and fearful of what THAT one may do with the group’s newfound powers, she decides it’s best to resign from the coven and thereby weaken the magic abilities of the others. But the coven has different plans, particularly regarding Sarah….

The sleeper hit THE CRAFT (1996) could’ve easily been played for camp, but it is instead a story of modern urban witchcraft that is both literate and emotionally powerful. The success of the film is due to Peter Filardi and Andrew Fleming’s tight, well-written script, excellent direction from Fleming, and outstanding acting from principals Tunney, Balk, Campbell, and True. The supernatural elements of the story are handled carefully and earnestly, and witchcraft or the belief in it is never ridiculed or treated derisively. This keeps the tone of the film somewhat dark and edgy, which in turn creates an uneasy, spooky atmosphere that cues the audience to the fact that this is a serious horror film. Fleming wisely keeps the special FX to a minimum until the story’s climax on the final reel, and he instead emphasizes the relationships in this group of dysfunctional, angst-ridden girls, well knowing that the primary target audience–to wit, teenagers–will easily relate to these characters and their normal desires and fears.

The Special Edition DVD from Columbia/Tri-Star offers THE CRAFT in anamorphic widescreen at its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The digital transfer is very good, with minimal filmic or digital artifacts. The disc also features an informative commentary with director Andrew Fleming, 2 featurettes, deleted scenes, and more. THE CRAFT is a cool horror film that most fans of the genre will enjoy, and the very reasonable price makes it easy for fans to add this DVD to their collections.

With the incredible success of the television smash hit “Charmed” it seems only fair to remind people of that show’s absolute beginning. It was a 1996 film entitled “The Craft” starring Neve Campbell(of “Scream” fame), Rachel True, an utterly gorgeous Robin Tunney in the lead role, and a fantastic casting choice of Fairuza Balk as a witch who eventually embraces the darkside of her art. This film was a pleasant surprise with some good acting, a plausible yet magical storyline which focuses almost entirely on the lives of four outsiders who find each other through “The Craft” of illusion and glamour. This isn’t a scary film at all, unless you dislike snakes, bugs, worms, rats, etc. For that matter, a story like this, in retrospect, is an excellent idea for a television program. It works better in such a medium, but for the most part, it works here as well. This film is an essential pick-up for fans of the show “Charmed” and for anyone who celebrates “Girl Power.” (pun intended) This is an enjoyable yarn that is, thanks to “Charmed,” destined for Cult film status.
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Image Before My Eyes: A History of Jewish Life in Poland combines historical footage, still photographs, and live interviews for an in-depth reminiscence of Jewish life in Poland from the beginning of the 20th century until the Holocaust.

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It features a deeper look at the rise of many social and religious movements such as socialist groups and Zionism, rural and urban Polish Jewish life, and the flourishing of Yiddish culture through literature, theater and music.

The documentary was released over twenty years ago, so the video interviews are obviously dated (late 1970’s), and some of the archival footage is in poor condition, but Image Before My Eyes restores us to a vanished world — the vibrant cultural legacy of Poland’s 3.5 million Jews that was nearly wiped out by the Holocaust.

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The DVD includes a commentary with director Josh Waltzky, an illustrated study guide with discussion questions, and scene selection.

The images speak to one. This compilation of pre world war II Jewish Polish daily life is gripping. This is a DVD that we will watch over and over.
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The reasessment of Hitchcock’s 1960’s work continues, begun with the amazing Marnie. (Torn Curtain may be a lost cause, however.) It’s fair to say that Topaz benefits from this ongoing reconsideration. It’s just a very good movie.

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The plot follows an episodic but compelling arc along the trail of French cold-war spy leaks. A number of satisfying (and inter-twining) sub-stories among the large cast are well presented. The parallel infidelities of the Stafford/Robin husband and wife are interesting and key to ultimate plot resolution. Some very nice “set pieces” are included, the tent poles that support Hitchcock movies. I found the location photography to be both realistic and refreshing. The film’s main fault, of course, is the absence of a convincing ending. How Hitch believed that the “duel” ending would stand up is beyond me. I’m not sure how Uris ended his book.

Jarre’s music is almost laughable, certainly in comparison with the monumental Herrmann. Topaz is a serious movie about serious themes (betrayal, good versus evil) and Jarre’s music does nothing to advance these themes.

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Finally, Leonard Maltin’s commentary touches powerfully on Hitchcock’s directorial powers, the likes of which are few and far-between these days. Outside of maybe Soderberg and Tykwer, most modern-day directors have little idea of where to place the camera, how to sequence images through cutting, et al. (Poster child of directorial ineptitude is Ron Howard who absolutely doesn’t have a clue.) Suffice it to say that Topaz is a very well directed movie that delivers visual style and meaning in spades.

THE MOVIE:

Topaz is one of those movies that when I watch it I keep checking the time to figure out how much longer I have to watch it. The reason is simple. There are some great scenes and there is an okay story but it takes to long to actually get to the story. The movie picks up for me whem Frederick Stafford goes to New York. I think the movie could have included only a little bit of the things that happened before since we are told that there is a defecting russian (Credits). Then have the russian defector tell what he knows. Finally John Forsyth commissions Frederick Stafford in his hotel room and the movie starts like that. I would take other bits here and there out. It could have been a great hour and 45 minute movie! It would have had it’s problems but it would be enjoyable. (Many would disagree that so much could be taken out but this is my opinion.) This brings me to —-

THE DVD:

I like that there is an uncut version on the dvd- the problem is the SHORTER theatrical version should have also been included! It needed the trimming that was done for it’s theatrical release! Why didn’t they include both versions, or the theatrical version with a deleted scenes archive (prefferably both versions)? The fact that the un tightened version is all that is included adds to what was wrong with the film - even in it’s theatrical release. Once again I like the fact the uncut version is included but it shouldn’t be ALL that was included.

The documentary rocks. I enjoyed it. It isn’t the best documentary in the Universal Hitchcock dvd library but it rocks just the same.

I like that they included the three different endings as well…

The trailer isn’t his best but is worth a look as well.

The other extras are rather standard but it is nice to have them anyway.
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Loud, Brash, Noisy, Sexy, Morally Murky, Bursting with Energy and Guts, Justin Lin’s (the terrific “Better Luck Tomorrow”) take on episode 3 of the “Fast and Furious” franchise is a great way to spend a hot Summer afternoon along with a gallon size soft drink and a tub of Popcorn.

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Here Lin is in Tokyo with the stoic, deadpan line reading Lucas Black (as the booted out of the US to avoid Juvenile detention, Shane Boswell…a car nut addicted to driving fast and grinning like a Cheshire cat) who, of course finds the local car culture and its inhabitants by way of a school pal, Twinkie played by the appealing Bow-Wow. And he just as quickly falls in with the “wrong crowd” consisting of Han, a sort of Sensei to Shane (the enigmatic and excellent Sung Kang from “Face” and “Better Luck Tomorrow”), and the villain of the piece, Yamata played with his face crunched and a constant sneer by Sonny Chiba. Then there is the lovely Neela (Nathalie Kelley…a dead ringer for FFI’s Jordana Brewster): like Shane and Twinkie a High School (!)student with very, very permissive parents.

Lin directs this piece to within an inch of its life: your eyes and ears are never bored, never without something to feast your eyes upon or pop your fingers to.

Lin never judges his characters, we never feel that he is slumming…he always respects the material he is given to direct and he always puts his personal stamp on everything that he does.

I wish he were given something as meaningful and heartfelt as “Better Luck Tomorrow” to direct but he’s young and he has many many movies to make before he is through.

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Lucas Black (the kid from the “American Gothic” TV series and the “X-Files” movie) has matured into a charismatic young actor with a brooding screen presence. He does a terrific job picking up the franchise torch from Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in this killer sequel, a well crafted guilty pleasure that delivers the Fast and Furious goods.

Sexy, colorful, edgy, expertly paced, with a great opening sequence and a knockout ending, “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” is formula genre filmmaking at its absolute finest. The movie has a beautiful female lead (Nathalie Kelley), cool sidekicks, wonderfully over the top villains, and a great setting (the filmmakers do a great job utilizing the Tokyo locations).

This movie is a real rush of adrenaline. A wicked guilty pleasure that lives up to its title.

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The most amazing thing about the film version of “The Miracle Worker” is its absolutely timeless quality. It still holds up beautifully for a film that’s almost 40 years old.

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I’ve seen “The Miracle Worker” probably a dozen times. And it never gets tiring, boring, or unemotional. In fact, I dare say that after each viewing, I pick up more details and the tears still come neither cheaply yet more freely than they did when I first saw it years ago.

The Oscar-winning performances by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke are shattering, the grainy flashback and dream sequences involving Bancroft’s character, Annie Sullivan are wonderfully spooky — and the fabulously haunting score by Laurence Rosenthal adds a perfect counterbalance to “The Miracle Worker,” bringing emotional resonance to an otherwise purposely unsentimental telling of the Helen Keller story. Yet while I say it’s unsentimental, the ending is arguably sentimental, which is why the devastating last 10 minutes are so wonderful. The film covers only the short period leading up to Helen Keller’s breakthrough to others as a child of intelligence — instead of a child who’s incorrectly believed to be mentally handicapped.

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Director Arthur Penn, who later went onto to lens his classic, “Bonnie and Clyde (1967), did a wonderful thing translating William Gibson’s play to the visual language of cinema. There isn’t a flaw I can detect with this film, especially his pans, dissolves, double exposures and grainy images with the dream sequences. It’s a remarkable portend of things to come for this director, and frankly, I enjoy “The Miracle Worker” a lot more than “Bonnie and Clyde,” an acknowledged classic that for me, is more recognized for its counter-establishment storytelling style and the shocking violence depicted at the time. That “Bonnie and Clyde” made the American Film Institute’s “greatest 100 films ever made list” and the “Miracle Worker” did not is the greater shock. If you go over the list and see some of the junky films that made it on the basis of “name” instead of quality, you almost retch.

Sharing the New York stage with Patty Duke in 1960, and the producer’s insistence that Bancroft be kept as the lead for the film version of “The Miracle Worker” — over bankable names like Elizabeth Taylor or Audrey Hepburn — is the stuff Hollywood dreams are made of. Then of course, Bancroft gets her Oscar and five years later, she lands the role that’s as big to film history as Scarlett O’Hara….Mrs. Robinson in “The Graduate!”

One scene I must comment on…it’s the famously long sequence in the dining room where no more than perhaps five lines of dialogue are uttered by Bancroft. It is relentlessly physical, a dazzling and exhausting battle of wills, so entrancing a show by Bancroft and Duke as they run around the room, spoons thrown, with every object getting trashed. It is violence in a different form, one with an extremely productive purpose that makes it impossible to avert your eyes. It’s mesmerizing.

In sum, this film is a treasure that pops up on television from time to time, but it’s also a film that is worth owning in all of its widescreen glory and to view the trailer offered on the DVD. The reason many people rent movies instead of buying them — is because so few of them — are worth watching more than once.

Well, “The Miracle Worker” DVD is comparable to what it costs to see a film in a theater these days, and there’s no doubt in my mind that this is a film worth putting into your library.

Perhaps my only regret, as an Oscar buff, is that the film wasn’t nominated for Best Picture. I don’t mind that “Lawrence of Arabia” won that year (another classic), but to see it get bumped for a Best Pix nomination by the inferior Brando remake of “Mutiny on the Bounty” kind of makes you scratch your head.

The passage of time, and hindsight, will do that to ‘ya… Just ask people who wonder why Judy Garland lost an Oscar in 1954 for “A Star is Born” to the “dressed down” performance Grace Kelly gives in “The Country Girl.” There’s no rhyme or reason for such things. You simply have to be satisfied knowing that “The Miracle Worker” is one of the greatest American films ever made…

I’m usually very critical of movies. A movie that really blows me away is rare, but I have never been more blown away in my entire life than by this film - I am deaf, I say this because it is relevant to the subject. I grew up in the same school as deaf/blind children. I assure you, the performance of Patty Duke is INCREDIBLE - totally credulous. Anne Bancroft is overwhelming as Annie O’Sullivan, the schoolteacher. There is not a bad performance in this entire movie. It is emotional and gut-wrenching without the smallest drop of schmaltz or saccharine - something that is very rare in a movie with the subject matter of a disabled child. In fact, it is almost painful and brutal to watch at times, but I am grateful to the director for cutting no punches. The cinematography and black-and-white film are perfectly in tune with the performances and subject matter. So often the easy way is taken out when transferring a stage play to screen - just look at “And Then There Were None” aka “Ten Little Indians” for an example - but here, the ending is presented after a gruelling drama - I honestly think that the ending of this film is a true cinematic moment - it is unsentimental and yet… the emotions, the sheer power, the strength and climax of it all - the realisation. My entire nervous system vibrated for half a hour after watching this film, and still does so whenever I think of it - It is BRILLIANT. Disturbing, disquieting, ferocious, frightening, funny (yes, funny), tender, loving, HATING, calmness and storms. I could say so much about this film - write so many essays upon its different aspects - but I have neither time, nor you the patience, so I shall end with these words: Watch it!
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This is an unforgettable mix of history and the study of human nature with supernatural overtones. Peter Finch plays Nobile, the ill-fated Italian explorer who, years after a doomed 1928 expedition to overfly the North Pole in an airship, must confront the restless spirits of those whose lives were destroyed. With his Roman apartment turned into a court of inquiry, Finch faces not only those killed when arctic winds tore his airship in half and split his crew up, but others whose lives were ruined by their loss, suffered from botched rescue attempts or otherwise suffered the horror of survival. (The crew car of the dirigible “Roma” is torn clean from the main body of the airship, and those left in the now powerless gasbag on top can only look helplessly as they float away from their comrades.) Among the accusers stands Nobile’s fiercest rival, the legendary Roald Amundsen, (Sean Connery) and Claudia Cardinale as a crewmate’s lover. “Tent” excels because it rises above just telling the story of the expedition. Instead, the film delves deeper into human nature, and the drama that men try to create. (One unforgettable moment has Amundsen escaping the wreck of a plane in which he had planned to rescue his rival. In a twist of fate, and to underline his own doom, Amundsen emerges from the ruined plane to discover the wreck of the Roma’s main body and the now dead crewmembers who floated away with it. Inside, he finds a bible opened to an ominous verse. A fellow accuser chastises Amundsen - the found bible seems to have been a detail invented for dramatic purposes. But this seems acceptable, since man needs some drama to highlight his own pitiful existnce. Isn’t that why men take to exploration in the first place?)

Guilt isn’t so much the issue, decides a surprisingly sympathetic Amundsen who lost his life in one of the rescue attempts. Instead, Nobile cannot be punished for being no worse under the circumstances than his accusers who were, in turns, incompetent, greedy or unreasonably pious. The last of these earns one of Nobile’s ascetic accusers, Amundsen’s harshest rebuke. Piety, Connery says, is nice, but it’s human nature to think for one’s own pleasure. If a man can’t think for his own good he is less likely, not more, to think of the good of others. Foregoing pleasure isn’t pious, but sterile, and leaves only bitterness for the survivors. “You should have given her one last night of pleasure” Amundsen concludes. It is only after he discredits his fellow accusers that Amundsen offers what is both the most damning yet redeeming evidence: when boarding a rescue plane that can carry only him but not his crewmen off the ice-floe, the General thought not of his men’s welfare, but of the warm bath that awaited him back in civilization.

The “Red Tent” is in turns heart-breaking, incisive and also quite funny. Finch is fun, but Connery runs the show (it’s interesting to compare how he looks today and how he looks here, made up prematurely old). The other characters are more one-note, but, like good leaders, Nobile and Amundsen are more than capable of putting their qualities together to form a complex whole. A must-see.

For devotees of arctic exploration, this is one of the best movies ever made. Aside from the general excellence of acting and photography, and the fidelity to history, one cannot forget the haunting, wordless picture of Cardinale when she sees again the form of a man she might have loved. The whole film has that aura - dreamlike, memory-nudging, self-reproaching, the over riding sense of regret that a brilliant screen writer has fashioned in a wholly unexpected presentation. The story of Nobile is given a treatment that one wishes had been adapted by the film makers to the equally tragic story of Scott, his wife @ his stalwart comrades. This film is better than “The Last Place on Earth”, a famous Scott saga, because of its originality, poetry and profound sense of authentic tragedy. Not just another adventure film, its characters as ghosts prove to be the best way to tell it’s true story.
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