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Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Patrick McGoohan, Jenny Agutter, Louis Jourdan, Ian Holm
Directed By: Mike Newell

David Lean's wintry adaptation of Boris Pasternak's melodramatic Russian Revolution romance, Doctor Zhivago, is a masterpiece of epic filmmaking, but one that risks leaving the viewer cold. Though none of the film was shot in the then USSR, Lean's assured technique nevertheless illuminates the breathtaking backgrounds magnificently: from the snowy wastes of the Urals to the strife-torn ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Directed By: David Lean

Much like Richard Adams' wonderful novel this animated tale of wandering rabbits is not meant for small children. It is, however, rich storytelling, populated with very real individuals inhabiting a very real world. The animation is problematic, sometimes appearing out of proportion or just below par; but it seems to stem from an attempt at realism, something distinguishing the film's ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson, Michael Graham Cox, John Bennett
Directed By: Martin Rosen

In the breezy Maid in Manhattan, a maid in a top-flight hotel (Jennifer Lopez) chances to dress in a guest's clothes just when a handsome political candidate (Ralph Fiennes) walks in. Naturally, he's bowled over and pursues her; he's initially drawn to her gorgeous good looks but soon comes to appreciate her honesty and common sense. Of course, she can't let him know that she's only a maid, ...

Manufacturer: Uca Catalogue
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci, Tyler Posey
Directed By: Wayne Wang

From a script cowritten with his fellow Monty Python veteran Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam pulled out all the stops on his prodigious imagination for this comedy-fantasy from 1981. Film critic Pauline Kael was right when she wrote, "This may be one of those rare pictures that suffers from a surfeit of good ideas," because there's not enough plot to keep pace with the sheer inventiveness of ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm
Directed By: Terry Gilliam

An IRA film with a difference, Neil Jordan's The Crying Game takes the Anglo-Irish conflict as the starting point for a thoughtful, often poignant and sometimes humorous examination of gender and identity. Stephen Rea is the IRA volunteer who befriends a kidnapped British soldier (the gauche but likeable Forest Whitaker), then takes the questions of loyalty and instinct (the "frog and ...

Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Starring: Stephen Rea, Jaye Davidson, Forest Whitaker, Miranda Richardson, Adrian Dunbar
Directed By: Neil Jordan

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, James Fox
Directed By: Hugh Hudson

Manufacturer: Delta Visual Entertainment
Starring: Boris Karloff, Jack Raine, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson
Directed By: T. Hayes Hunter

Manufacturer: Pegasus Entertainment
Starring: Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Paul Nicholas, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Standing
Directed By: Joseph Brooks

In the breezy Maid in Manhattan, a maid in a top-flight hotel (Jennifer Lopez) chances to dress in a guest's clothes just when a handsome political candidate (Ralph Fiennes) walks in. Naturally, he's bowled over and pursues her; he's initially drawn to her gorgeous good looks but soon comes to appreciate her honesty and common sense. Of course, she can't let him know that she's only a maid, ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Stanley Tucci, Tyler Posey
Directed By: Wayne Wang