DVD: Bruno Ganz

DVD: Bruno Ganz

DVD:

Bruno Ganz

Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier

Lions Gate, 1999

Nature or nurture?
This movie has probably ended up playing the role of a "predictor" of events. When it was made, probably one could not have imagined that cloning or genetic sequencing would advance so rapidly. The evil Dr. Josef Mengele gathers all his Nazi cronies with a view to ...

Vitus (Widescreen Edition)

Bruno Ganz, Teo Gheorghiu

Sony Pictures, 2007

Classic Cinema From Switzerland
This brilliant fable about a child prodigy struggling to take flight remains among the few masterpieces in recent years. Swiss director Fredi M. Murer elicits superb performances from Fabrizio Borsani and Teo Gheorghiu (who portray the boy pianist at ages 6 and 12, ...

Youth Without Youth

Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara

Sony Pictures, 2008

FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA, OPUS 23
****1/2 2007. Based on Mircea Eliade's Youth Without Youth, this film was written, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Struck by a lightning, a 70 years old Romanian teacher survives and is rewarded by the ability to live a second life that will allow him to ...

Downfall

Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara

Sony Pictures, 2005

Realistic portrayal of the final days in the bunker.
English subtitles with German language dialog give this film an audiophonic realism. Combined with the excellent acting by this German cast, and one gets the "feeling" of watching history play out before your eyes. I was torn between a superb and well acted glimpse ...

Luther

Joseph Fiennes, Jonathan Firth

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

Excellent Historically
A well presented (and acted) view of the issues at hand at the time of Luther with his discovery and stand for faith for justification versus indulgences and works of the law

Wings of Desire (Special Edition)

Curt Bois, Solveig Dommartin

MGM (Video & DVD), 2003

Living breathing poetry...
Like my title suggests, `Der Himmel uber Berlin' is a film of intensely angelic proportions; a film that is the visual equivalent of a thousand beautiful strokes of the pen. Watching `Der Himmel uber Berlin' is a treat for the eyes as well as the mind. It has been ...

Nosferatu: The Vampyre/Phantom Der Nacht

Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski

Starz / Anchor Bay, 2002

Outstanding
Werner Herzog is an artist out of his time....and that's a very good thing for lovers of great films. His own great 1979 film Nosferatu, Phantom Of The Night (Nosferatu, Phantom Der Nacht), which was released in America as Nosferatu, The Vampire, is less a classic ...

Bread and Tulips

Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz

Sony Pictures, 2002

Charming, funny, feel-good film...
Rosalba, played by Licia Maglietta, is a married, middle aged, Italian woman with two teenage sons. The family is on vacation and Rosalba gets left behind at a bus stop leaving her to think that something is missing in her life and that she is being taking for ...

Youth Without Youth [Blu-ray]

Faraway, So Close!

Otto Sander, Bruno Ganz

Sony Pictures, 2000

There is a time that is right for each and everything
In searching for the transcendent, and for a spiritual explanation of its material certainties and flaws, there are people who choose to believe in angels, those unmaterial beings that watch over mortals perennially, shedding light and preventing souls from falling ...

Great Directors: Volume 1 (Dersu Uzala / The Mirror / Les Bonnes Femmes / Il Grido / Circle of Deceit) (5D)
Stephane Audran, Hanna Schygulla

KINO INTERNATIONAL, 2008

AKIRA KUROSAWA ANDREI TARKOVSKY CLAUDE CHABROL MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI VOLKER SCHLONDORFF Akira Kurosawa s DERSU UZALA (1975, Color, 140 Minutes, Letterboxed) Winner of the 1975 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, this Kurosawa epic is a Siberian adventure that features stunningly photographed battles of man dueling nature. Andrei ...

The Architecture of Doom

Rolf Arsenius, Bruno Ganz

FIRST RUN FEATURES, 2000

Hitler's mission to "beautify" Germany through violence
Several key points underpin Hitler's "mission" for the German people in this documentary directed by Peter Cohen: the need to make Germany racially clean, the need to make the ethnically Aryan people realise that they were always meant to be the dominant race in the ...

Marquise of O

Edith Clever, Ruth Drexel

Fox Lorber, 2000

Gorgeous cinematography!
Eric Rohmer's 1976 take on Heinrich Von Kleist's story "The Marquise of O" is a movie right up my alley. While I'm not necessarily a fanatic about foreign films, I do love watching period piece pictures. Rohmer's picture may well be the best period film I have ever ...

Eternity and a Day

Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld

New Yorker Video, 2006

A visual poem
What is eternity for a life not shared? Is a day enough to capture all that has slipped away? This movie, with magnificent pictures and captivating music, made me rethink my own life and wonder, "what if this was my last day this time?" To find yourself asking this ...

Circle of Deceit

Bruno Ganz, Hanna Schygulla

Kino Video, 2004

Life in wartime . . .
Made by German director Volker Schlondorff shortly after his Academy Award winning "The Tin Drum," this film plunged his crew and cast into the middle of Beirut during the civil war that had been raging there for six years. In the film, he attempts to comprehend the ...