Only Joel and Ethan Coen, masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plotline of Homer's Odyssey for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, their comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in 1930s Mississippi. Our wandering hero in this case is one Ulysses Everett McGill, a slick-tongued wise guy with a thing for hair pomade (George Clooney, blithely ...
Manufacturer: Momentum PicturesStarring: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly HunterDirected By: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Set in 1936, the movie's about a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who find ...
Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UKStarring: Paul Newman, John Quade, James Sloyan, Brad Sullivan, Ray WalstonDirected By: George Roy Hill
Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who had previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969. Set in 1936, The Sting features a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and ...
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray WalstonDirected By: George Roy Hill
This gentle comedy almost seems like something out of Hollywood's Golden Age, a movie that might have been made by a talented contract director, perhaps featuring Don Ameche and Claudette Colbert. But in fact One Fine Day stars George Clooney as an investigative columnist for a New York newspaper and Michelle Pfeiffer as an architect. Both single parents, the two meet and bicker and develop ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles DurningDirected By: Michael Hoffman
German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff's 1985 production of Arthur Miller's most famous play Death of a Salesman appeared squarely and quite hauntingly in the middle of the go-go economy of the Reagan-Bush years. Miller's story, set during the post-war boom period of the late 1940s, concerns an ageing travelling salesman named Willy Loman (Dustin Hoffman), who despairs that his life his been ...
Manufacturer: Lighthouse DVD LtdStarring: Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang, Charles DurningDirected By: Volker Schlöndorff
This is an energetic, but ultimately mediocre adaptation of the play, directed on Broadway by Tommy Tune. Burt Reynolds is the town sheriff and a regular patron of a local bordello. He wages a public battle to keep it open after it is targeted as the devil's den by a television minister. Charles Durning won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and there are some lively song and dance numbers ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning, Jim NaborsDirected By: Colin Higgins
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Al Pacino, Charles Durning, James Broderick, John Cazale, Carol KaneDirected By: Sidney Lumet
Manufacturer: Uca CatalogueStarring: Dustin Hoffman, Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney ColemanDirected By: Sydney Pollack
Director Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers), also recruited by Stephen King to remake The Shining, knows how to capture King's horror aesthetic on film. Desperation, based on a more recent King novel, is a pastiche of earlier King novelties, such as the psycho in uniform, this time Sheriff Collie Entragian (Ron Perlman), and dogs summoned by the devil, this time by TAK, an ancient ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish, Charles DurningDirected By: Mick Garris
