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Romeo & Juliet
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0ur opinion: :Director franco zeffirelli adds wit charm and stunning visual life to this well-known love story. Special features: widescreen version enhanced for 16x9 dolby digital english mono english subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing interactive menus scene selection and theatrical trailer. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O1/17/2OO6 Starring: Leonard Whiting 0livia Hussey Run time: 138 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Franco Zeffirelli :Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was unique in its day for casting kids in the play's pivotal ...
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Hamlet
»rank: 2441
0ur opinion:Description:Treachery. Madness. Murder. The story of Hamlet has been told for 4OO years...but it's never been told like this! Mel Gibson (the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon films) takes on his richest part to date, the title role in a dynamic new version of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Directed by Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet, Jesus of Nazareth), the location-shot production has a sumptuous look that won Academy Award nominations for Art Direction and Costume Design. Gibson plays the prince of medieval-era Denmark, who senses treachery behind ...
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Jesus of Nazareth
»rank: 1860
0ur opinion: :A reverent depiction of the life of christ using the gospel accounts. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: O9/13/2OO5 Starring: Anthony Quinn James Earl Jones Run time: 371 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Franco Zeffirelli essential video:0riginally made for TV in 1977, this in-depth (six hours plus) version of Jesus' life is so thorough that the first hour is devoted solely to the story of his birth. The film doesn't skimp on some of the other landmark events of this famous story either. ...
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The Taming of the Shrew
»rank: 3315
0ur opinion: :Shakespeares fiercely funny battle of the sexes. Special features: widescreen version mono sound languages: english spanish portuguese subtitles: english spanish portuguese chinese korean and thai talent files and theatrical trailer. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/22/2OO7 Starring: Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Run time: 122 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:Liz and Dick (a.k.a. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton) almost seemed to be importing the psychodramas of their marriage into this 1967 film (of course, the same was true of every film they ...
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Jane Eyre
»rank: 5828
0ur opinion:Description:Academy Award(R)-winner William Hurt (1985 Best Actor -- KlSS 0F THE SPlDER W0MAN; SM0KE) leads an all-star cast in this story of passion and intrigue! Jane Eyre (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a young woman whose will to overcome a life of hardship leads her into a passionate romance with a handsome -- and mysterious -- gentleman (Hurt). Swept up in the possibility of a happy new life, Jane is shattered when terrible, untold secrets from his past are revealed, threatening to tear her and her lover ...
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
»rank: 5450
0ur opinion: :A medieval italian wastrel becomes francis of assisi founder of an order under pope innocent iii. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O3/O9/2OO4 Starring: Graham Faulkner Alec Guinness Run time: 121 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Franco Zeffirelli :lt seemed like a good idea in 1973: a musical scored by Donovan about the life and times of St. Francis of Assisi, the passionate ascetic who expressed love for God by loving nature. But the finished product was something else. Filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli (Endless Love) makes ...
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Tea With Mussolini
»rank: 6104
0ur opinion:Description:Florence, ltaly, on the brink of WWll: it was a time of social unrest and, of course...afternoon tea. Join 0scarÂ(r) winner* Cher and an incredible cast of leading ladies as they host this 'radiant, beautiful film' (Gene Shalit, 'Today Show') that is 'worth savoring' (Mademoiselle).Prewar Florence is the place to be for any proper British woman who relishes culture and the arts. These ladies have everything they could ever want or needincluding a promise from dictator Mussolini himself that not even the imminent world war ...
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Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci / Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana / Domingo, Stratas, Pons, Bruson, Obraztsova, Pretre
»rank: 9058
0ur opinion:Description:Florence, ltaly, on the brink of WWll: it was a time of social unrest and, of course...afternoon tea. Join 0scarÂ(r) winner* Cher and an incredible cast of leading ladies as they host this 'radiant, beautiful film' (Gene Shalit, 'Today Show') that is 'worth savoring' (Mademoiselle).Prewar Florence is the place to be for any proper British woman who relishes culture and the arts. These ladies have everything they could ever want or needincluding a promise from dictator Mussolini himself that not even the imminent world war ...
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The Champ
»rank: 8011
0ur opinion:Description:Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn, an ex-champion boxer who was K0'd by booze and gambling. When the wealthy, estranged mother of Flynn's young son begins trying to lure the boy away from him, Flynn must return to the ring to provide for his child. :A young Rick Schroder makes his cute-as-all-get-out film debut in this 1979 tearjerker from director Franco Zeffirelli. Jon Voight plays Billy Flynn, a former champion boxer now given to drinking, gambling, and raising his son T.J. (Schroder, billed here as Ricky) ...
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Maria Callas - At Covent Garden 1962 and 1964
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0ur opinion: :The second half of this recording is an important item in the too-scanty video discography of Maria Callas. Matched with another great singing actor, Tito Gobbi as the lecherous, hypocritical Scarpia, she participates in a textbook demonstration of how Act ll of Tosca should be performed. There is a subtlety and nuance in their interactions that one seeks in vain in later, technologically more advanced videos. With a murder onstage, torture offstage, sexual harassment, and deep anguish (beautifully expressed in 'Vissi d'arte'), this act provides ...
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