DVD: Juliette Binoche

DVD: Juliette Binoche

DVD:

Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot

Ifc, 2008

Cinema Verite, Sort Of
This is French cinema verite, only with Juliette Binoche, who is obviously a star and not an ordinary person / non-actor as would be the case in a film true to the original genre... except in this film she seems quite like an ordinary person. I agree that the wandering ...

Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, I Love You)

Natalie Portman, Elijah Wood

First Look Pictures, 2007

Product in great condition; on-time!
Coen Bros. vignette classic. Buscemi is custom made for their "victim" roles. The rest of the video was delightful. I love this type of film, vignettes. It was always engaging.

Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)

Ashton Smith, Archie Van Beuren

Miramax, 2001

Johnny Depp Dipped in Chocolat
There are so many good things about this movie I hardly know where to start. Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, and Chocolate. This is a movie anyone would enjoy and I could not find it anywhere but at Amazon. This is a real prize that I'm waiting to share ...

Dan in Real Life

Juliette Binoche, Steve Carell

Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone, 2008

Super Dad has a meltdown
Dan in Real Life by Richard D. Costa How does a single father of three young daughters save his children from the corruption of modern culture? He writes a column on how to do it right, politely rebukes male suitors at the doorstep and embraces the power of the ...

The English Patient (Miramax Collector's Edition)

Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche

Miramax Home Entertainment, 2004

Technically it is still a master piece.
It is an interesting film, but not more than that. What does it shows? That the English were particularly sectarian during WW2 on the African front. Nothing new under the sun. Anyone who had a slightly different name or a slightly surprising or uncommon attitude was at ...

Wuthering Heights (1992)

Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes

Paramount, 2003

Fiennes and Binoche, simply outstanding
The performance of Binoche and Finness in Wuthering Heights was amazingly powerful. People often criticize the movie, but, I believe, the director was extraordinarily faithful to the original story. All criticism was directed at how sadistic Heathcliff(Ralph Fiennes) ...

Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red)

Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent

Miramax, 2003

Engaging, Absorbing, Mesmerizing...and often dreamlike
Blue, White, Red were named after the colors of the French flag with the movie themes of liberty, equality and fraternity. The three films are largely unconnected in their story lines but have similar construction: * Terrific casting * Each move has a lead or ...

Damage

Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche

New Line Home Video, 1998

Emotionally captivating with brilliant performances by Irons, Binoche and Richardson
[BEWARE SPOILERS] I don't know whether I've ever watched a film in which I identified more with all the characters than I did in this emotionally wrenching masterwork from the late, great Louis Malle. It is part of the genius of Malle to, like Shakespeare, make ...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche

Warner Home Video, 2006

The best film nobody saw
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a masterpiece, the most underrated American film of the past 30 years. Poetic, haunting, subtle, and terribly sad, it says more about the crushing impact of repressive (i.e. communist) regimes than a thousand documanteries or ...

The Horseman on the Roof

Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez

Miramax, 2003

Don't Cough on Me!
We loved this movie. I loved Juliette Binoche in "Chocolat" and wanted to see her in a foreign film with subtitles. She was wonderful and I am now a new fan of Olivier Martinez also. Just close your eyes during the sick cholera vomiting scenes. Yuk! We are ...

Paris, je t'aime [Blu-ray]

Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche

First Look Pictures, 2008

Je t'aime
Paris is a city of light, lovers, art and beauty, and it's been immortalized in paintings, music and fantasy throughout the centuries. But you've probably never seen so many facets of this city before. "Paris, Je T'aime" explores all the sides of the city in in ...

Paris, Je T'Aime (Two Disc Limited Collector's Edition)

Fanny Ardant, Juliette Binoche

First Look Pictures, 2007

Product in great condition; on-time!
Coen Bros. vignette classic. Buscemi is custom made for their "victim" roles. The rest of the video was delightful. I love this type of film, vignettes. It was always engaging.

The Widow of Saint-Pierre

Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil

Lions Gate, 2001

Perfect love makes perfection in all.
I find it odd that when reviewing the reviews of this film that people seem to either give it perfect or abysmal scores. The dichotomy of opinion is probably a direct result of the skill and immense power of Leconte's images, (especially those that his chosen actress ...

Dan in Real Life [Blu-ray]

C.J. Adams, Marlene Lawston

WALT DISNEY VIDEO, 2008

Super Dad has a meltdown
Dan in Real Life by Richard D. Costa How does a single father of three young daughters save his children from the corruption of modern culture? He writes a column on how to do it right, politely rebukes male suitors at the doorstep and embraces the power of the ...

Breaking and Entering

Jude Law, Robin Wright Penn

Weinstein Company, 2007

Not a good ending
The beginning and middle of this movie was good but did not make up for the ending. I guess I was expecting some shocking or abrupt ending instead it ended happily everyone making up and moving on! Disgusting!