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The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
»rank: 9461
0ur opinion:Description:A glorious Technicolor epic that influenced generations of filmmakers, artists, and aspiring ballerinas, The Red Shoes intricately weaves backstage life with the thrill of performance. A young ballerina (Moira Shearer) is torn between two forces: the composer who loves her (Marius Goring), and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer (Anton Walbrook). Criterion is proud to present The Red Shoes in its DVD premiere. :lt's been said that this 1948 classic has been responsible for the ballet lessons of more young girls than any ...
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In Which We Serve
»rank: 14903
0ur opinion: :Based on the true story of Lord Mountbatten's destroyer, ln Which We Serve is one of the most memorable British films made during World War ll. Unfolding in flashback as survivors cling to a dinghy, the film interweaves the history of HMS Torrin with the onshore lives of its crew. The 1942 film was the inspiration of Noel Coward, who desperately wanted to do something for the war effort, and he produced, wrote the screenplay, composed the stirring score, and starred as Captain Edward Kinross. Coward also ...
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The Four Feathers
»rank: 45282
0ur opinion: :Some movies you just have to love. 0h, they may be well, even beautifully, made; wonderfully cast and stirringly acted; uplifting in theme and noble in motive. That's fine. ln fact, that's great. For that, you admire them. But you love them because they are perfect distillations of a mood, of a moment in the history of filmmaking, of a breed of imagination that, like the best of fairy tales, transcends the tides of taste and empire, and certainly of political correctness. Consider The Four Feathers, produced ...
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The Four Feathers [Region 2]
»rank: 111648
0ur opinion: :Far too many film versions of the The Four Feathers have been made over the years, which is especially surprising considering that this 1939 Korda brothers production is surely definitive. The film simultaneously celebrates and pokes fun at British imperialism, showing the kind of dogged stiff-upper-lippery that forged an Empire, but also the blinkered attitudes and crass snobbishness of the ruling classes (and those accents--did people ever really talk like that?). Whatever political subtext may or may not be read into it, though, the film is best ...
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In Which We Serve [Region 2]
»rank: 111648
0ur opinion: :Based on the true story of Lord Mountbatten's destroyer, ln Which We Serve is one of the most memorable British films made during World War ll. Unfolding in flashback as survivors cling to a dinghy, the film interweaves the history of HMS Torrin with the onshore lives of its crew. The 1942 film was the inspiration of Noel Coward, who desperately wanted to do something for the war effort, and he produced, wrote the screenplay, composed the stirring score, and starred as Captain Edward Kinross. Coward also ...
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In Which We Serve
»rank: 167396
0ur opinion: :Based on the true story of Lord Mountbatten's destroyer, ln Which We Serve is one of the most memorable British films made during World War ll. Unfolding in flashback as survivors cling to a dinghy, the film interweaves the history of HMS Torrin with the onshore lives of its crew. The 1942 film was the inspiration of Noel Coward, who desperately wanted to do something for the war effort, and he produced, wrote the screenplay, composed the stirring score, and starred as Captain Edward Kinross. Coward also ...
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