NB this is the shorter version. If picture quality is your main concern, then this is the edition for you, as the image is splendid, a restored version the sharpness of which adds considerab...
Absolutely Brilliant!!!!. When I obtained this version of King Lear, my expectations were very low. First of all, Shakespeare is an absolutely horrible playwright, completely missing the mar...
Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov is also the star of Burnt by the Sun, his tragic 1994 drama about the last happy season in the life of a Bolshevik hero's family. The year is 1936 and Stal...
Best movie ever. I saw Urga in 1997 and it changed my life. I have now the video and nearly every year I look at it again. This film was the reason I left to live in that region for 2 years....
Thanks, Stalin, for our "Happy Childhood"! Not!!. This film is almost unbearably sad and eventually tragic. It is about a young Russian war widow who, on a crowded train in the mid-to-late 1...
My favourit film of all time. Ever since falling into it on television I have been mesmerized by this film! The story is funny and tragic, and the music is magic. A must see for everybody!...
Love Conquers Social Barriers .... This film captures beautiful images as seen by the naked eye when the camera hones in on such natural wonders as a frog on a large green leaf, an ant carrr...
Great film but awful transfer. I remember this picture and its companion piece being screened by the BBC's Film Club in the late 1980s, and taping it so that I could re-watch it later. It wa...
Children of war. Ivan's Childhood often amazes with the fluidity of its camerawork, its wonderful use of sound and its matter of fact depiction of war - not the moments of combat that make u...
