"Cinema Paradiso"
Making movies suggestions is a precarious business - one man's Hilton Hotel is another man's Doghouse Dive. And looking at the 100 choices listed below - a body could easily holler - where's Blade Runner or Close Encounters Of The Third Kind or Gladiator (and other obvious stuff like that). But I figure any true film buff will already own these.
Volume 1 in this series mixes familiar with off-the-beaten track and covers the letters A to G (with 2 more clusters of 100 to follow). All time frames are touched upon (1930 to 2013) - with quality restorations you may have missed highlighted too. I hope to have provided you with enough information to tempt - but not enough to spoil it. And I also make no bones about preferring a movie that lifts the spirits up - even if you have to get a bit bloodied en route.
Volume 1 in this series mixes familiar with off-the-beaten track and covers the letters A to G (with 2 more clusters of 100 to follow). All time frames are touched upon (1930 to 2013) - with quality restorations you may have missed highlighted too. I hope to have provided you with enough information to tempt - but not enough to spoil it. And I also make no bones about preferring a movie that lifts the spirits up - even if you have to get a bit bloodied en route.
Living in London - each four/five star review is based on the Region B BLU RAY release – and if the film is only available elsewhere – I’ve incorporated American and European versions where their Region Coding will allow play on our UK machines. US customers reading this book simply refer to/buy the Region-A releases of the same titles. Technical info also includes – Aspect Ratio, Audio Settings, Languages, Subtitles and Extras etc.
Hope you enjoy it…
INDEX:
1. 21 Grams ****
2. 360 *****
3. (500) Days Of Summer *****
4. About Time ****
5. Across The Universe *****
6. The Adjustment Bureau ****
7. Adventureland ****
8. The Adventures Of Robin Hood [1938] *****
9. The African Queen *****
10.The Air I Breathe ****
11.All About Eve *****
12.All Quiet On The Western Front *****
13.Almost Famous - Extended ****
14.Amelie *****
15.American Violet *****
16.Angel-A ****
17.Anonymous ****
18.Anuvahood ****
19.The Apartment *****
20.As Good As It Gets *****
21.Babel *****
22.Babette’s Feast *****
23.Barney’s Version *****
24.Beautiful Girls *****
25.Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead ****
26.The Big Picture ****
27.The Birdcage *****
28.Blackthorn ****
29.Blazing Saddles *****
30.The Blind Side *****
31.Blow *****
32.The Blues Brothers *****
33.Brassed Off *****
34.The Bridges Of Madison County *****
35.Brief Encounter *****
36.Bright Star *****
37.Bubba Ho-Tep *****
38.The Bucket List *****
39.Cadillac Records *****
40.Captain Phillips *****
41.Caramel *****
42.Centurion ****
43.Charlie Wilson’s War ****
44.Chocolat *****
45.The Cider House Rules ****
46.Cinema Paradiso [25th Anniversary Edition] *****
47.City Of Angels ****
48.Cloud Atlas ****
49.Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs *****
50.The Company Men ****
51.Cool Hand Luke *****
52.Copland [15th Anniversary Edition] *****
53.Corman’s World *****
54.Crash *****
55.Crazy Heart *****
56.A Dangerous Method ****
57.Dante’s Peak ****
58.Dead Fish ****
59.Dean Spanley ****
60.Deception ****
61.Deep Blue Sea ****
62.Definitely, Maybe ****
63.Deja Vu ****
64.Delicacy *****
65.Die Hard 4.0 ****
66.Dirty Rotten Scoundrels *****
67.Duets ****
68.Easy A ****
69.Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind *****
70.The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc-Sec ****
71.Fargo [2014 Remaster] *****
72.Fast & Furious 5 and 6 *****
73.The Fighter *****
74.Filth *****
75.Fly Away Home *****
76.Flypaper ****
77.Four Lions *****
78.Fracture ****
79.Frankie Go Boom *****
80.Frequency ****
81.Frida *****
82.The Front Page (Extrablatt on GERMAN BLU RAY) ****
83.Frost/Nixon *****
84.The Full Monty *****
85.Garden State ****
86.Get Shorty ****
87.The Ghost ****
88.The Giant Mechanical Man [aka “Love In Detroit”] *****
89.Girl Most Likely ****
90.Glory (Mastered In 4K) *****
91.Going The Distance ****
92.Goldfinger *****
93.Gone Baby Gone ****
94.Good Vibrations ****
95.Good Will Hunting [15th Anniversary Edition] *****
96.Gran Torino *****
97.The Grey ****
98.Grosse Pointe Blank *****
99.Groundhog Day *****
100. The Guard ****
MARK BARRY (June 2015)